* 1875 – William Eccles, English physicist ( d. 1966 )

During the 1960s, De Palma began making a living producing documentary films, notably The Responsive Eye, a 1966 movie about The Responsive Eye op-art exhibit curated by William Seitz for Museum of Modern Art in 1965.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U. S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243, 000 more men by the end of 1966.

* 1887 – William Frawley, American actor ( d. 1966 )

* Incubus ( 1966 film ), a film in Esperanto starring William Shatner

* 1977 – Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.

Other examples are the Peter Marlow series, beginning with The Private Sector ( 1971 ) by Joseph Hone, which is set during Israel's Six Day War ( 1967 ) against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and William Garner's secret agents, the fantastic Michael Jagger, in Overkill ( 1966 ), The Deep, Deep Freeze ( 1968 ), The Us or Them War ( 1969 ) and A Big Enough Wreath ( 1974 ) and the realistic John Morpurgo in Think Big, Think Dirty ( 1983 ), Rats ' Alley ( 1984 ), and Zones of Silence ( 1986 ).

* The Thin Blue Line, a 1966 documentary film by William Friedkin about the police and the problems they encounter

The first motion picture adaptation of The Hobbit, a 12-minute film of cartoon stills, was commissioned from Gene Deitch by William L. Snyder in 1966, as related by Deitch himself.

The Dartmoor Worker is a collection, first assembled in 1966, of newspaper articles originally written for The Western Morning News by the principal authority on Dartmoor and its history, William Crossing, in the early 1900s.

* William Jardine and other Jardine tai-pans are fictionally portrayed in author James Clavell's popular fiction novels Tai-Pan ( 1966 ), Gai-Jin ( 1993 ), Noble House ( 1981 ) and Whirlwind ( 1987 ).

* August 13 – Viscount William Waldorf Astor, British politician ( d. 1966 )

* William Ernest Hocking, American philosopher ( d. 1966 )

** William Frawley, American actor ( d. 1966 )

* April 4 – William R. Munroe, American admiral ( d. 1966 )

Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas pointed out as late as 1966, " The very word ' Yankee ' still wakens in Southern minds historical memories of defeat and humiliation, of the burning of Atlanta and Sherman's march to the sea, or of an ancestral farmhouse burned by Cantrill's raiders.

It was the work of William Theed ( after Chantrey ) and is dated 1855 ( it was in Piccadilly until 1966 ).

1966 ); Crapsey, Adelaide: " Pierrot " ( c. 1914 ); Faulkner, William: Vision in Spring ( 1921 ); Ficke, Arthur Davison: " A Watteau Melody " ( 1913 ); Garrison, Theodosia: " Good-Bye, Pierrette " ( 1906 ), " When Pierrot Passes " ( before 1917 ); Griffith, William: Loves and Losses of Pierrot ( 1916 ), Three Poems: Pierrot, the Conjurer, Pierrot Dispossesed, The Stricken Pierrot ( 1923 ); Hughes, Langston: " A Black Pierrot " ( 1923 ), " Pierrot " ( 1926 ), " For Dead Mimes " ( 1926 ), " Heart " ( 1932 )— see " Goldweber " under External links below ; Loveman, Samuel: " In Pierrot's Garden " ( 1911 ; five poems ); Lowell, Amy: " Stravinsky's Three Pieces " ( 1915 ); Masters, Edgar Lee: " Poor Pierrot " ( 1918 ); Moore, Marianne: " To Pierrot Returning to His Orchid " ( c. 1910 ); Shelley, Melvin Geer: " Pierrot " ( 1940 ); Stevens, Wallace: " Pierrot " ( 1909, first pub.

In 1966, Doctor Who producer Innes Lloyd decided to replace William Hartnell in the series ' lead role.

The character's first broadcast appearance is in " The Man Trap " ( 1966 ), which introduces him as the ship's science officer and first officer under Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ).

* The ' I Didn ’ t Know The Way To Kings Cross When I First Came Here But Look At Me Now ' Book By William Rushton, Author, Artist And Beer-Drinker Extrodinary William Rushton ( New England Library, 1966 )

* William Harjo LoneFight ( b. 1966 ), author, president of Native American Services, languages and cultural activist

# William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor ( 1907 – 1966 )

* Sen, R. K., Aesthetic Enjoyment: Its Background in Philosophy and Medicine, Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1966

* 1966 Porter R. Chandler

The conjecture was disproven by L. J. Lander and T. R. Parkin in 1966 when they found the following counterexample for k

In 1966, L. J. Lander, T. R. Parkin, and John Selfridge conjectured that if, where a < sub > i </ sub > ≠ b < sub > j </ sub > are positive integers for all 1 ≤ i ≤ n and 1 ≤ j ≤ m, then m + n ≥ k.

* Raffaele Spongano, Nozioni ed esempi di metrica italiana, Bologna, R. Pàtron, 1966

Later in 1965, King released the uptempo rock ' n ' roll song, " I Got You ( I Feel Good )", which reached # 11 on the R & B chart in late 1965 and again reached the Top 10 on the pop chart in early 1966 peaking at # 3.

* 1966 – Lisa Lisa, American R & B singer

* 1966 – A. R. Rahman, Indian composer

Moon was credited as composer of " I Need You ", which he also sang, and the instrumental " Cobwebs and Strange " ( from the album A Quick One, 1966 ), the single B-sides " In The City " ( co-written by Moon and Entwistle ), " Dogs Part Two " ( 1969 ) ( sharing credits with Townshend's and Entwistle's dogs, Towser and Jason ), " Tommy's Holiday Camp " ( 1969 ), " Waspman " ( 1972 ), and " Girl's Eyes " ( from The Who Sell Out sessions ; featured on Thirty Years of Maximum R & B and a 1995 re-release of The Who Sell Out ).

In 1917, Albert Einstein established the theoretical foundations for the laser and the maser in the paper Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung ( On the Quantum Theory of Radiation ); via a re-derivation of Max Planck ’ s law of radiation, conceptually based upon probability coefficients ( Einstein coefficients ) for the absorption, spontaneous emission, and stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation ; in 1928, Rudolf W. Ladenburg confirmed the existences of the phenomena of stimulated emission and negative absorption ; in 1939, Valentin A. Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify “ short ” waves ; in 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R. C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission ; in 1950, Alfred Kastler ( Nobel Prize for Physics 1966 ) proposed the method of optical pumping, experimentally confirmed, two years later, by Brossel, Kastler, and Winter.

In 1939, Valentin A. Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify " short " waves ; In 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R. C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission ; in 1950, Alfred Kastler ( Nobel Prize for Physics 1966 ) proposed the method of optical pumping, experimentally confirmed, two years later, by Brossel, Kastler, and Winter.

* 1966 – Roger R. Cross, Jamaican-born actor

* J. R. McNally, " Dux illa Directrixque artium: Rudolph Agricola's Dialectical System ," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 52. 4 ( 1966 ): 337-47.

The Who's early promotional material tagged them as producing " maximum rhythm and blues ", but by about 1966 they moved from attempting to emulate American R & B to producing songs that reflected the Mod lifestyle.

In 1966 C. A. R. Hoare introduced the concept of record class construct, which Dahl and Nygaard extended with the concept of prefixing and other features to meet their requirements for a generalized process concept.

* 1966 Hanky Panky -- Roulette R ( Mono )/ SR ( Stereo )-25336

* 1966 It's Only Love -- Roulette R / SR-25344

On September 19, 1966, the conglomerate W. R. Grace and Company agreed to buy 53 % of Miller from Mrs. Lorraine John Mulberger ( Frederick Miller's granddaughter, who objected to alcohol ) and her family.

* Williams, N., & Storey, R. L. ( 1966 ).

* Berger, R. ( 1966 ).

* Wolf, Eric R. Peasants ( Prentice-Hall, 1966 ).

The School of Nursing was established in September 1966 under the leadership of the first Dean, Eloise R. Lewis.

Babel-17 is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany in which the Sapir – Whorf Hypothesis ( that language strongly influences thought and perceived reality ) plays an important part.

* Alvin R. Dyer, Who Am I, 1966, Chapter 40.