Deaths in December 1966
This is a list of deaths in December 1966:
- December 1
- Lewis Albanese, American soldier (Medal of Honor) (b. 1946)
- Peter P. Carr, Danish-born American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Senate (b. 1890)
- Bai Chongxi, Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China (b. 1893)
- Lewis Creber, British art director (b. 1901)
- Ernest Daunt, Irish Anglican Archdeacon of Cork (b. 1909)
- December 2
- Ralph Allen, Canadian journalist, editor, and novelist (b. 1913)
- Luitzen Brouwer, Dutch mathematician and philosopher (b. 1881)
- Giles Cooper, Anglo-Irish playwright and radio dramatist (b. 1918)
- Conrad Wilhelm Eger, Norwegian businessman (b. 1880)
- December 4
- Nicholas Afanasiev, Russian-French Eastern Orthodox theologian (b. 1893)
- Thomas Carey, American-born Irish cricketer (b. 1903)
- Crahan Denton, American actor (b. 1914)
- Renate Ewert, German actress (b. 1933)
- December 5
- John Irving Bentley, American physician burned to death allegedly caused by spontaneous human combustion (b. 1874)
- Luciano Fernandes, Portuguese footballer (b. 1940)
- December 6
- Mario Alicata, Italian partisan, literary critic and politician; member of the Chamber of Deputies (b. 1918)
- Laurence F. Arnold, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois (b. 1891)
- James Paul Donahue, Jr., American heir and socialite (b. 1915)
- December 8
- Bill Bolden, American baseball player (b. 1893)
- Capt. Richard Gustav Borgelin, Danish military officer (b. 1887)
- Maury Bray, American football player (b. 1909)
- Arthur Byron Coble, American mathematician (b. 1878)
- December 9
- Lazarus Aaronson, British poet and lecturer in economics (b. 1895)
- Paul G. Blazer, American oil company executive (b. 1890)
- Morris Fidanque de Castro, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1902)
- Brian Coleman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1932)
- Pelagie Doane, American children's books illustrator (b. 1906)
- December 10 – Zoltán Baló, Hungarian general (b. 1883)
- December 11
- Carleton Allen, Australian professor and Warden of Rhodes House, University of Oxford (b. 1887)
- Cliff Fannin, American baseball player (b. 1924)
- December 12
- Dino Alfieri, Italian fascist politician and envoy to the Holy See and Nazi Germany (b. 1886)
- Nellie Briercliffe, English singer and actress (b. 1889)
- Bill Devan, Scottish footballer (b. 1909)
- December 13
- Jim Baker, English footballer (b. 1891)
- Nils Frykberg, Swedish runner, competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1888)
- December 14
- John Atirau Asher, New Zealand tribal leader, hotelier, interpreter, racehorse owner (b. 1892)
- Víctor Andrés Belaúnde, Peruvian diplomat, President of the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1959 (b. 1883)
- Ronnie Byrne, Australian rules footballer (b. 1900)
- Emma Dunn, English actress (b. 1875)
- Verna Felton, American actress (b. 1890)
- J. Howell Flournoy, American lawman (b. 1891)
- Paul Galligan, Irish politician, TD (b. 1888)
- Richard Whorf, American actor (b. 1906)
- December 15
- Major General Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, British Army officer (b. 1897)
- Sammy Beswick, English footballer (b. 1903)
- Walt Disney, American animated film producer and founder of The Walt Disney Company and Disneyland Resort (b. 1901)
- December 16
- Sven Bergqvist, Swedish sportsman, International Hockey Hall of Fame inductee (b. 1914)
- Charles Crawford Davis, American audio engineer (b. c. 1893)
- James Verne Dusenberry, American anthropologist (b. 1906)
- December 18
- Hon. Tara Browne, British socialite and heir to the Guinness fortune; according to some sources, he was the inspiration for the Beatles song "A Day in the Life" (b. 1945)
- Joseph Cucchiara, Italian missionary priest (b. 1889)
- December 19 – Jack Forsyth, American football coach (b. 1892)
- December 20
- Amram Aburbeh, Israeli rabbi; Chief Rabbi of the Sephardic congregation in Petah Tikva, Israel (b. 1894)
- Rupert Anson, English cricketer (b. 1889)
- Ali Asllani, Albanian poet, politician and activist (b. 1884)
- Doc Farrell, American baseball player (b. 1901)
- December 22
- Pádraig Ághas, Irish independent politician and schoolteacher; member of Seanad Éireann
- Harry Beaumont, American film director (b. 1888)
- Lucy Burns, American suffragist (b. 1879)
- Robert Keith, American actor (b. 1898)
- December 23
- Heimito von Doderer, Austrian Nazi author (b. 1896)
- William Rush Dunton, founder of the American Occupational Therapy Association (b. 1868)
- December 24
- Ernest Blackham, English footballer (b. 1898)
- Gaspar Cassadó, Spanish cellist and composer (b. 1897)
- December 25
- St. Elmo Brady, American academic, first African American to obtain a PhD degree in chemistry in the United States (b. 1884)
- Nick Dandolos, Greek-born American gambler (b. 1883)
- December 26
- Ina Boudier-Bakker, Dutch novelist (b. 1875)
- Christopher Dahl, Norwegian sailor, gold medalist at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1898)
- Noël Gallon, French composer (b. 1891)
- December 27
- Ernest K. Bramblett, American politician, United States Congressman from California (b. 1901)
- Ernest Burgess, Canadian-born American sociologist and academic (b. 1886)
- Guillermo Stábile, Argentine football player and manager (b. 1905)
- December 28
- Victor Anfuso, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from New York (b. 1905)
- Frank Chodorov, American libertarian writer (b. 1887)
- Hjalmar Christoffersen, Danish footballer, Denmark national team, silver medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1889)
- December 29 – Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain, British neurologist (b. 1895)
- December 30
- Pietro Ciriaci, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1885)
- Chase A. Clark, American politician, Governor of Idaho (b. 1883)
- Guy Earle, English cricketer (b. 1891)
- Christian Herter, United States Secretary of State (b. 1895)
- December 31 – H. Otley Beyer, American anthropologist (b. 1883)