* 1966 – Young Man Kang, Korean director

* 1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California.

* 1966 – Jeff Brown, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1966 – Dave Meggett, American football player

* 1884 – Vincent Auriol, French politician, 16th President of the French Republic ( d. 1966 )

* 1899 – C. S. Forester, English author ( d. 1966 )

* 1909 – Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – Jeroen Duyster, Dutch rower

* 1966 – Juhan Parts, Estonian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Estonia

* 1966 – Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska killing all 42 on board.

* 1918 – Giles Cooper Irish playwright ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – Vinny Del Negro, American basketball player and coach

* 1966 – Shayne Corson, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1966 – Sean Hood, American screenwriter

* 1966 – Takayuki Iizuka, Japanese wrestler

* 1966 – M. V. Sridhar, Indian cricketer

* 1966 – Tim Wakefield, American baseball player

* 1966 – Flann O ' Brien, Irish humorist ( b. 1911 )

* 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.

* 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

* 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – James St. James, American club promoter and author

* 1966 – Brent Butt, Canadian actor

* 1966 – Eric Esch, American boxer

* 1966 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian ( b. 1925 )

* 1966 – Sherman Douglas, American basketball player

* Raj Sherman ( born 1966 ), Canadian politician

* Sherman Alexie ( born 1966 ), American writer, poet, filmmaker and comedian

* Sherman Billingsley ( 1900 – 1966 ), American former bootlegger and founder and owner of New York's Stork Club nightclub

* Sherman Douglas ( born 1966 ), retired National Basketball Association player

* Walter Sherman Gifford ( 1885 – 1966 ), American president of the AT & T Corporation

* Sherman Billingsley ( 1900 – 1966 ), American nightclub owner and bootlegger

* Sherman Billingsley ( 1900 – 1966 ), restaurateur, owner of Stork Club

Notable Hamilton alumni include US Secretary of State Elihu Root ( 1864 ), US Vice President James S. Sherman ( 1878 ), poet Ezra Pound ( 1905 ), theatre critic Alexander Woollcott ( 1909 ), jurist and diplomat Philip Jessup ( 1919 ), psychologist B. F. Skinner ( 1926 ), Nobel Prize Winner Paul Greengard ( 1948 ), civil rights leader Bob Moses ( 1956 ), novelist Terry Brooks ( 1966 ), playwright Richard Nelson ( 1971 ), US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack ( 1972 ), composer Jay Reise ( 1972 ), Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner ( 1979 ), novelist Peter Cameron ( 1982 ), actor Tony Goldwyn ( 1982 ), author Garret Kramer ( 1984 ), novelist Kamila Shamsie, actor and writer for The Office Paul Lieberstein ( 1989 ), actor Grayson McCouch ( 1991 ), Academy Award-winning screenwriter Nat Faxon ( 1997 ), and politician and author Matthew Zeller ( 2004 ).

These were followed in 1966 with the construction of four administration and class buildings ( Mills Dining Hall, Schumacher, Netzer and Hodgdon Instructional Resource Center ), five dormitories ( Ford, Grant, Hays, Huntington and Sherman halls ) and the health center.

In 1966, Howard Hughes attempted to buy the Stardust for $ 30. 5 million but was thwarted by government officials on the grounds that his acquisition of any more gambling resorts might violate the Sherman Antitrust Act.

He died at his residence in Sherman Oaks in 1966.

* CAT I, 15 Aug – 15 Dec 1966, Roger A. Blum ( Stillwell, KS ), Robert C. Knight ( Newark, NJ ), Ronald E. Pepin ( East Hartford, CT ), Paul Rickert ( Philadelphia, PA ), Felix R. Sanchez ( Fort Madison, IA ), John O. Wehrle ( Dallas, TX ), and supervisor, Frank M. Sherman

* Walter Sherman Gifford ( 1885 – 1966 ), American businessman and president of the AT & TCorporation

In 1966 Bullock's opened at a small open-air shopping center it had developed across Carson Street called Fashion Square ( Bullock's developed several similarly named Fashion Squares, including ones in Sherman Oaks, La Habra and Santa Ana ).

Roger Sherman Loomis ( October 31, 1887 – October 11, 1966 ) was an American scholar and one of the foremost authorities on medieval and Arthurian literature.