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

* 1966 – Véronique Gens, French soprano

His home, garden and waterlily pond were bequeathed by his son Michel, his only heir, to the French Academy of Fine Arts ( part of the Institut de France ) in 1966.

* 1966 – Patricia Kaas, French singer

The war comedy La Grande Vadrouille ( 1966 ), from Gérard Oury with Bourvil, was the most successful film in French theaters for more than 30 years.

* 1896 – André Breton, French poet ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – Dieudonné M ' bala M ' bala, French comedian, actor and political activist

This led directly, and was used as a point, to the French withdrawal from the integrated military command of NATO in 1966.

* 1966 – Dany Boon, French director, actor, and writer

* 1966 – Pierre Mercure, French Canadian composer ( b. 1927 )

* 1966 – The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.

* 1966 – Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress

* 1966 – Julie Manet, French painter ( b. 1878 )

* 1966 – Sophie Marceau, French actress

* 1966 – Vincent Cassel, French actor

* 1883 – Victor Hochepied, French swimmer ( d. 1966 )

* 1878 – Paul Reynaud, French politician ( d. 1966 )

Geneva: Droz, 1950-58 ( reissued by Minard, Paris, & French & European Publications, New York, 1966 )

* 1966 – Olivier Panis, French race car driver

* 1966 – Paul Reynaud, French politician, 118th Prime Minister of France ( b. 1878 )

* February 18 – André Breton, French writer ( d. 1966 )

** Julie Manet, French painter ( d. 1966 )

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

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

* 1894 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – Julia Neigel, German singer-songwriter, producer, author, and actor

** Ai Siqi ( 1910 – 1966 ), philosopher and author

Cordwainer Smith – pronounced CORDwainer – was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger ( July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966 ) for his science fiction works.

One Canadian author, economist and demographer David Foot, divides the generation born after the baby boomers into two groups in his book Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift: Generation X, born between 1960 and 1966 ; and the " Bust Generation ", born between 1967 and 1979.

* Giovanni Arduino ( author ) ( born 1966 ), Italian writer

* John Brown ( American author ) ( born 1966 ), novelist and short story writer

* 1966 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist ( b. 1894 )

* 1909 – Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish author ( d. 1966 )

* 1895 – Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – Sherman Alexie, Native American author and comedian

New Worlds author Thomas Disch would not earn better quotes from Budrys in the December 1966 review for his " ineptly written " The Genocide, a work of " unrelieved trash " which was filled with a horde of " dumb, resigned victims.

* 1897 – Alfred Wintle, Russian-English military officer and author ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – Michael J. Varhola, American author

The SCA's roots can be traced to a backyard graduation party of a UC Berkeley medieval studies graduate, the author Diana Paxson, in Berkeley, California, on May Day in 1966.

* 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 ).

Sophie Marceau (; born 17 November 1966 ) is a French actress, director, screenwriter, and author.

* Richard Langton Gregory, Experimental Psychologist ( neuropsychology, visual perception ), author of Eye and Brain ( 1966 )

* Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg-( 1884 – 1966 ), Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva of the Hildesheimer Seminary in Berlin and author of the four-volume responsa Sridei Aish

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

The author first wrote of it in The Lord of the Rings, and it is retrospectively mentioned in the third, revised edition of The Hobbit in 1966.