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Events

=January=

{{main|January 1966}}

  • January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko.{{cite book |author=United States. Central Intelligence Agency |title=Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IjESQTqIWWkC&pg=PA1 |year=1966 |pages=1}}
  • January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso).{{cite book |author1=Charles F. Darlington |author2=Alice B. Darlington |title=African Betrayal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mGohAAAAMAAJ |year=1968 |publisher=D. McKay Company |page=178}}
  • January 10
  • Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.{{Cite news |url=https://www.rbth.com/arts/history/2016/01/12/at-tashkent-soviet-peace-over-india-and-pakistan_558665 |title=At Tashkent, Soviet peace over India and Pakistan |last=Bratersky |first=Alexander |date=12 January 2016 |access-date=24 July 2020 |language=en-US |website=Russia Beyond website}}
  • The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance.{{cite book |first=Laughlin |last=McDonald |title=A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IseKjqX5Dj4C&pg=PA137 |date=27 March 2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-01179-2 |pages=137}}
  • January 15 – 1966 Nigerian coup d'état: A bloody military coup is staged in Nigeria, deposing the civilian government and resulting in the death of Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.{{cite book |last1=Siollun |first1=Max |title=Oil, Politics and Violence: Nigeria's Military Coup Culture (1966–1976) |year=2009 |publisher=Algora Publishing |isbn=9780875867106 |page=237}}
  • January 17
  • The Nigerian coup is overturned by another faction of the military, led by Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, leaving a military government in power and beginning a long period of military rule.{{cite web |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200807290251.html |title=Nigeria: The Forgotten Interim President |work=AllAfrica |via=Daily Trust |first=Abubakar |last=Ibrahim |date=29 July 2008 |publisher=AllAfrica Global Media |editor1-first=Esther |editor1-last=Rose |editor2-first=Emmanuel |editor2-last=Aziken |editor3-first=Amadou Mahtar |editor3-last=Ba |editor3-link=Amadou Mahtar Ba |publication-place=Lagos, Nigeria |access-date=2010-02-28}}
  • 1966 Palomares B-52 crash: A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares, and one into the sea. Carl Brashear, the first African-American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident during the recovery of the latter, which results in the amputation of his leg.
  • January 19 – Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India; she is sworn in on January 24.
  • January 21 – Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro resigns due to a power struggle in his party.
  • January 22 – The military government of Nigeria announces that ex-prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was killed during the coup a week previously.
  • January 24 – Air India Flight 101 crashes into Mont Blanc, killing all 117 people on board, including Homi J. Bhabha, chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission.
  • January 26 – Disappearance of the Beaumont children: Three children disappear on their way to Glenelg, South Australia, never to be seen again. Their fate remains unknown.{{Cite news |last=Sutton |first=Candace |url=http://www.news.com.au/national/crime/parents-of-beaumont-childrens-tortured-wait-goes-on/news-story/fb533bc2a34d59bacea04713d1b03732 |title=Tortured wait continues for parents of Beaumont children |work=News.com.au |date=2 February 2018 |access-date=14 February 2018}},1966 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election: Harold Holt is elected leader of the Liberal Party of Australia unopposed when Sir Robert Menzies retires after an unprecedented 16 years in office; consequently Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia six days later.
  • January 27
  • The British government promises the U.S. that British troops in Malaysia will stay until more peaceful conditions occur in the region.
  • Britain's Labour Party unexpectedly retains the parliamentary seat of Hull North in a by-election, with a swing of 4.5% to their candidate from the opposition Conservatives, and a majority up from 1,181 at the 1964 General Election to 5,351.{{cite journal |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13619462.2018.1503958 |doi=10.1080/13619462.2018.1503958 |title=The campaign of the 'red-bearded radical': Richard Gott and the Hull North by-election, 1966 |date=2018 |last1=Roberts |first1=Sophie |journal=Contemporary British History |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=336–358 |s2cid=149714126|url-access=subscription }}
  • January 31 – The United Kingdom ceases all trade with Rhodesia.

=February=

{{main|February 1966}}

  • February 1 – Around 2,600 political prisoners are released by East Germany, in return for "donations" worth approximately $10,000 a head from West Germany.{{cite book |title=U.S. News & World Report |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=47tVAAAAYAAJ |year=1966 |publisher=U.S. News Publishing Corporation |page=19}}
  • February 3 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
  • February 4 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay; 133 people are killed.
  • February 7
  • The Great Fire of Iloilo, Philippines, breaks out in a lumber yard and burns for almost half a day, destroying nearly three-quarters of the City Proper area and causing 50 million pesos in total property damage.{{Cite journal |title=Heritage Community Resilience: The Experience of Stakeholders in Calle Real, Iloilo City, Philippines |doi=10.1088/1755-1315/1091/1/012011 |date=2022 |last1=Ibabao |first1=Rhodella A. |last2=Balinas |first2=Vicente |last3=Camena |first3=Jerilee |last4=Trance |first4=Rene |last5=Defiesta |first5=Gay |last6=Grio |first6=Mary Earl |last7=Oreta |first7=Andres Winston |last8=Penaredondo |first8=Suzette |journal=IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |volume=1091 |issue=1 |page=012011 |bibcode=2022E&ES.1091a2011I |doi-access=free}}{{Cite web |date=April 18, 1966 |title=Official Week in Review: February 16 ─ March 29, 1966 |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1966/04/18/official-week-in-review-february-16-march-29-1966/ |access-date=February 7, 2024 |website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines}}{{Cite web |last=Team |first=Editorial |date=2023-02-01 |title=Sta. Teresita del Niño Church in Iloilo City |url=https://www.theoldchurches.com/philippines/iloilo/iloilo-city/sta-teresita-del-nino-church-iloilo-city/ |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=THEOLDCHURCHES |language=en-US}}
  • Lyndon B. Johnson of the United States and Nguyễn Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam convene with other officials in a summit in Honolulu, Hawaii to discuss the course of the Vietnam War.David C. Humphrey & David S. Patterson (eds), [https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v04/ch2 "January 31–March 8: The Honolulu Conference; Congressional Hearings on the War] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216202803/https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v04/ch2 |date=February 16, 2015 }}", Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume IV, Vietnam, 1966, 1998.
  • February 14 – The Australian dollar is introduced at a rate of 2 dollars per pound, or 10 shillings per dollar.
  • February 19 – The naval minister of the United Kingdom, Christopher Mayhew, resigns over defence policy.
  • February 20 – While Soviet author and translator Valery Tarsis is abroad, the Soviet Union negates his citizenship.
  • February 23 – 1966 Syrian coup d'état: An intra-party military coup in Syria replaces the previous government of Amin al-Hafiz by one led by Salah Jadid.
  • February 24 – A coup led by the police and military of Ghana raises the National Liberation Council to power while president Kwame Nkrumah is abroad.
  • February 28 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson calls a general election in the United Kingdom, to be held on March 31.

=March=

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=April=

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=May=

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=June=

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=July=

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=August=

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=September=

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=October=

{{main|October 1966}}

File:Flag of Lesotho (1966–1987).svg becomes independent]]

  • October 1 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with 18 fatal injuries and no survivors {{convert|5.5|mi|km}} south of Wemme, Oregon, the first loss of a DC-9.[http://amelia.db.erau.edu/reports/ntsb/aar/AAR67-AF.pdf Aircraft Accident Report. West Coast Airlines, Inc DC-9 N9101. Near Wemme, Oregon] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216033755/http://amelia.db.erau.edu/reports/ntsb/aar/AAR67-AF.pdf |date=February 16, 2008 }}, Adopted:December 11, 1967.
  • October 3 – Tunisia severs diplomatic relations with the United Arab Republic.
  • October 4
  • Israel applies for membership in the European Economic Community, which is never granted.
  • Basutoland becomes independent of the United Kingdom and takes the name Lesotho.
  • October 5
  • UNESCO signs the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. This event is to be celebrated as World Teachers' Day.
  • Spain closes its Gibraltar border to vehicular traffic.{{cite book |first=Judith |last=Bell |title=Border and Territorial Disputes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3om5AAAAIAAJ |year=1987 |publisher=Longman |isbn=978-0-8103-2543-2 |pages=94–95}}
  • An experimental breeder reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan suffers a partial meltdown when its cooling system fails.
  • October 6
  • LSD is made illegal in the United States and controlled so strictly that not only are possession and recreational use criminalized, but all legal scientific research programs on the drug in the country are shut down as well.
  • The Love Pageant Rally takes place in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park (a narrow section that projects into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district).
  • October 7 – The Soviet Union declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October.
  • October 9 – Vietnam War: Binh Tai Massacre.
  • October 11 – France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty for cooperation in nuclear research.
  • October 14
  • Closure of Intra Bank begins a crisis in the Lebanese banking system.
  • The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro system.
  • October 15 – Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton found the Black Panther Party in the United States.
  • October 17 – Lesotho and Botswana are admitted to the United Nations.
  • October 21 – Aberfan disaster in South Wales (U.K.): 144 (including 116 children) are killed by a collapsing coal spoil tip.{{cite book |last1=Austin |first1=Tony |title=Aberfan: The Story of a Disaster (passim) |date=1967 |publisher=Hutchinson & Co |location=London |oclc=751632264}}
  • October 26
  • NATO decides to move its headquarters from Paris to Brussels.{{cite book |first=Walter John |last=Raymond |title=Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1dtn0olA8PcC&pg=PA649 |year=1992 |publisher=Brunswick Publishing Corp |isbn=978-1-55618-008-8 |pages=649}}
  • A fire aboard the US aircraft carrier {{USS|Oriskany|CV-34|6}} in the Gulf of Tonkin kills 44 crewmen.
  • October 27
  • The United Nations terminates the mandate given by the League of Nations and proclaims that South West Africa will be administrated by the United Nations. This is rejected by South Africa.
  • Walt Disney records his final filmed appearance prior to his death, detailing his plans for EPCOT, a utopian planned city to be built in Florida.

=November=

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=December=

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Births

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=January=

File:Ivica Dačić (cropped).jpg]]

File:Christian Kern 2016 (portrait).jpg]]

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  • January 1 – Ivica Dačić, Serbian politician, Prime Minister of Serbia 2012–2014{{cite book |author=United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe |title=Serbia's Leadership of the OSCE: Hearing Before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe... February 25, 2015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xapn6foIA0IC&pg=PT1 |year=2015 |publisher=U.S. Government Publishing Office |pages=1}}
  • January 4 – Christian Kern, Austrian politician, 24th Chancellor of Austria(2019) Kern, Christian (Austria). In: The Statesman's Yearbook Companion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95839-9_395
  • January 6 – Sharon Cuneta, Filipino actress, host and singer{{cite episode |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeIh27YrW_c |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/SeIh27YrW_c |archive-date=December 19, 2021 |url-status=live |title=Sharon Cuneta |series=Magandang Gabi, Bayan |network=ABS-CBN |last=de Castro |first=Noli |year=1997 |access-date=March 22, 2016}}{{cbignore}}
  • January 7 – Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (d. 2012)
  • January 8
  • Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2009)
  • Andrew Wood, American musician (d. 1990){{cite book |first=Nick|last=Talevski |title=The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries |publisher=Omnibus |year=1999 |isbn=9780711975484 |page=481}}
  • January 13 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor and race car driver{{cite book |author=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. |title=Encyclopaedia Britannica Almanac 2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kd2bAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 |date=1 January 2010 |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. |isbn=978-1-61535-329-3 |pages=44}}
  • January 14
  • Nadia Maftouni, Iranian philosopher{{cite web |url=https://sooremehr.ir/author/2935 |publisher=Soore Mehr Publications |title=Nadia Maftouni |language=fa |access-date=Oct 19, 2021 |archive-date=October 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019054509/https://sooremehr.ir/author/2935 |url-status=dead}}
  • Dan Schneider, American television producer, screenwriter and actor
  • January 17
  • Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer{{cite book |first=Joel |last=Whitburn |title=Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=99fXAAAAMAAJ |year=2007 |publisher=Record Research |isbn=978-0-89820-172-7 |page=690}}
  • Nobuyuki Kojima, Korean footballer
  • January 19
  • Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field-hockey player{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/floris-jan-bovelander |title=Floris Jan Bovelander |website=IOC |access-date=March 15, 2021}}
  • Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player{{cite book |author=Salem Press |title=Great Athletes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbNZAAAAYAAJ |year=2009 |publisher=Salem Press |isbn=978-1-58765-480-0 |page=267}}
  • Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer and media personality
  • January 20 – Rainn Wilson, American actor, writer and producer
  • January 22 – Jegath Gaspar Raj, Tamil Maiyam founder
  • January 27 – Tamlyn Tomita, Japanese–born American actress
  • January 28 – Andrea Berg, German singer
  • January 29 – Romário, Brazilian footballer and politician{{cite book |first=Peter|last=Arnold |title=World Cup USA 94: The Official FIFA Book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RQFqSDPqpZUC |year=1994 |publisher=Collins Publishers |isbn=978-0-00-255231-8 |page=32}}

=February=

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=March=

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=April=

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File:Jeffrey Dean Morgan by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg]]

=May=

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=June=

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File:J. J. Abrams by Gage Skidmore.jpg]]

File:John Cusack Cannes 2014.jpg]]

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=July=

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File:Enrique Peña Nieto 2017 (cropped).jpg]]

{{cite web |url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/9841/Enrique%20Pena%20Nieto |publisher=Busca Biografias |title=Enrique Peña Nieto |language=es |access-date=May 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531000722/https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/9841/Enrique%20Pena%20Nieto |archive-date=May 31, 2019 |url-status=live}}

=August=

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File:Halle Berry by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg]]

File:René Higuita, 2007.jpg]]

File:Enrico Letta 2013.jpg]]

=September=

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=October=

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  • October 1
  • Ashab Uddin, Indian politician{{cite web |url=https://myneta.info/manipur2017/candidate.php?candidate_id=159 |website=My Neta |title=Ashab Uddin |access-date=12 December 2020}}
  • George Weah, Liberian politician and football player{{cite book |author1=Emmanuel Akyeampong |author2=Henry Louis Gates |title=Dictionary of African Biography |publisher=OUP USA |year=2012 |page=159}}
  • October 2 – Rodney Anoa'i, Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2000)
  • October 5 – Inessa Kravets, Ukrainian athlete
  • October 6 – Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
  • October 7 – Sherman Alexie, Native American author{{cite book |last=Johansen |first=Bruce E. |title=Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary |url=https://archive.org/details/nativeamericanst00joha |url-access=limited |year=2010 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Santa Barbara, Calif. |isbn=978-0-313-35554-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/nativeamericanst00joha/page/n31 7]–10}}
  • October 9 – David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2010-2016{{cite book |title=Dod's Parliamentary Companion |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b30NAQAAMAAJ |year=2007 |publisher=Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited |isbn=978-0-905702-66-7 |page=96}}
  • October 10
  • Tony Adams, English footballer
  • Carolyn Bertozzi, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate{{cite press release |title=Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 |date=2022-10-05 |publisher=The Nobel Prize |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2022/press-release/ |accessdate=2022-10-06}}
  • Bai Ling, Chinese actress
  • Elana Meyer, South African athlete{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/elana-meyer |title=Elana Meyer |website=IOC |access-date=February 23, 2021}}
  • October 11 – Luke Perry, American actor (d. 2019){{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=March 5, 2019 |date=March 4, 2019 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/arts/luke-perry-dead.html |title=Luke Perry, 'Beverly Hills, 90210' Star, Is Dead at 52 |first1=Neil |last1=Genzlinger |first2=Elizabeth A. |last2=Harris}}
  • October 15 – Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer and coach
  • October 18 – Angela Visser, Dutch winner of Miss Universe 1989
  • October 19 – Jon Favreau, American actor and director{{cite book |author1=Gale Group |author2=Julie Keppen |title=Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=suTpBP53JfEC |date=October 2004 |publisher=Cengage Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-6706-1 |page=84}}
  • October 20 – Stefan Raab, German entertainer, television host, comedian and musician
  • October 22 – Valeria Golino, Italian-Greek film and television actress
  • October 24
  • Roman Abramovich, UK-based Russian billionaire businessman{{cite book |author1=William D. Rubinstein |author2=Michael Jolles |author3=Hilary L. Rubinstein |title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJc8afOZV0QC&pg=PA11 |date=22 February 2011 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-4039-3910-4 |pages=11}}
  • Zahn McClarnon, American actor
  • October 25 – Wendel Clark, Canadian hockey player
  • October 28 – Andy Richter, American actor, writer, comedian and late-night talk show announcer
  • October 30 – Zoran Milanović, Croatian politician, President of Croatia
  • October 31
  • Adam Horovitz, American rapper
  • Mike O'Malley, American actor and playwright

=November=

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  • November 2
  • David Schwimmer, American actor
  • November 3 – Joe Hachem, Lebanese-born Australian poker player
  • November 8 – Gordon Ramsay, British chef, restaurateur and television personality
  • November 11
  • Benedicta Boccoli, Italian model and actress
  • Peaches, Canadian musician
  • November 15 – Rachel True, American actress
  • November 17
  • Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1997)Browne, David. Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley. HarperEntertainment. 2001, 2002. {{ISBN|0-380-80624-X}} page 58
  • Daisy Fuentes, Cuban-born American model and television personality
  • Sophie Marceau, French actress{{cite book |author=((Editors of Chase's)) |title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA559 |date=24 September 2019 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-64143-316-7 |pages=559}}
  • November 19
  • Gail Devers, American track and field athlete{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/gail-devers |title=Gail Devers |website=IOC |access-date=February 21, 2021}}
  • Jason Scott Lee, American actor and martial artist{{cite book |first=Amy L. |last=Unterburger |title=Who's who Among Asian Americans, 1994-95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=266P13_j77EC |year=1994 |publisher=Gale Research |isbn=978-0-8103-9433-9 |page=334}}
  • November 22
  • Orlando Jorge Mera, Dominican politician (d. 2022){{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-61712872 |title=Dominican Republic minister shot dead in office |work=BBC News |date=June 6, 2022}}
  • Michael K. Williams, American actor (d. 2021){{Cite news |last1=Jacobs |first1=Julia |last2=Correal |first2=Annie |last3=Haag |first3=Matthew |last4=Egner |first4=Jeremy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/arts/michael-k-williams-dead.html |date=September 6, 2021 |title=Michael K. Williams, Omar From 'The Wire,' Is Dead at 54 |work=The New York Times |access-date=September 7, 2021 |issn=0362-4331}}
  • November 23
  • Vincent Cassel, French actor
  • Michelle Gomez, Scottish actress
  • November 25
  • Billy Burke, American actor
  • Roberto Rojas, Bolivian politician (d. 2022){{Cite web |url=https://www.paginasiete.bo/sociedad/fallece-el-exdiputado-del-mas-roberto-rojas-XD4665101 |title=Fallece el exdiputado del MAS Roberto Rojas |first=Redacción Diario Página Siete Autor marcado para |last=seguir |website=www.paginasiete.bo}}
  • November 26 – Garcelle Beauvais, Haitian-American actress, singer and fashion model{{cite web |url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/garcelle-beauvais/189958/ |title=Garcelle Beauvais |publisher=TVGuide.com |access-date=July 24, 2016 |archive-date=May 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509174859/https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/garcelle-beauvais/bio/189958/ |url-status=dead}}
  • November 28 – Narumi Yasuda, Japanese actress
  • November 29 – John Bradshaw Layfield, American professional wrestler

=December=

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Deaths

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File:Venceslau Brás.jpg]]

=June=

{{main|Deaths in June 1966}}

File:Ed Wynn All Star Revue.JPG]]

=July=

{{main|Deaths in July 1966}}

File:Frank O'Hara (photo portrait).jpg]]

=August=

{{main|Deaths in August 1966}}

File:Lenny Bruce 1961.jpg]]

=September=

{{main|Deaths in September 1966}}

File:Zuid Afrikaanse premier dr. H. Verwoerd, Bestanddeelnr 911-1297 (cropped).jpg]]

=October=

{{main|Deaths in October 1966}}

File:Elizabeth Arden NYWTS.jpg]]

=November=

{{main|Deaths in November 1966}}

File:O Ceallaigh.jpg]]

=December=

{{main|Deaths in December 1966}}

File:Walt Disney 1946.JPG]]

Nobel Prizes

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References

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