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1966
Calendar year
1966 (MCMLXVI ) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1966th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 966th year of the 2nd millennium , the 66th year of the 20th century , and the 7th year of the 1960s decade.
Calendar year
Events
January
January 1 - In a coup , Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic , ousting President David Dacko .[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).[2]
January 4 - The prime ministers of India and Pakistan meet in Tashkent .[3]
January 10
January 12 - United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
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 .
January 17
January 19 - Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India ; she is sworn in January 24 .
January 20
January 21 - Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro resigns due to a power struggle in his party.
January 22
January 24 - Air India Flight 101 crashes into Mont Blanc , killing all 117 people on board, including Dr. Homi J. Bhabha , chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission .
January 26 - Beaumont children disappearance : Three children disappear on their way to Glenelg, South Australia , never to be seen again.
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.
January 31 - The United Kingdom ceases all trade with Rhodesia .
February
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 .[5]
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 - Lyndon Johnson of the United States and Nguy?n Cao K? of South Vietnam convene with other officials in a summit in Honolulu, Hawaii to discuss the course of the Vietnam War .[6]
February 10 - Soviet fiction writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to five and seven years, respectively, for "anti-Soviet" writings.
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.
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
March
March - The DKW automobile ceases production in Germany.[7]
March 1
March 2 - Kwame Nkrumah arrives in Guinea and is granted asylum .
March 4
March 5
March 7 - Charles de Gaulle asks U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson for negotiations about the state of NATO equipment in France.
March 8
March 9 - Ronnie, one of the Kray twins , shoots George Cornell (an associate of rivals The Richardson Gang ) at The Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel , east London. Cornell dies later in hospital, and Kray is finally convicted in 1969 .[8]
March 10
March 11
March 16
March 17 - Palomares incident : Off the Mediterranean coast of Spain, the United States Navy submersible DSV Alvin finds a missing U.S. hydrogen bomb .
March 19 - The Texas Western Miners defeat the Kentucky Wildcats with five African American starters, ushering in desegregation in athletic recruiting.
March 20 - Football's FIFA World Cup Trophy is stolen while on exhibition in London; it is found seven days later by a mongrel dog named "Pickles " and his owner David Corbett, wrapped in newspaper in a south London garden.
March 22 - In Washington, D.C., General Motors President James M. Roche appears before a Senate subcommittee and apologizes to consumer advocate Ralph Nader for the company's intimidation and harassment campaign against him.
March 24 - Pope Paul VI meets Michael Ramsey , the Archbishop of Canterbury , in Rome, and gives him an episcopal ring.[10]
March 26 - Demonstrations are held across the United States against the Vietnam War .[11]
March 27 - In South Vietnam , 20,000 Buddhists march in demonstrations against the policies of the military government.
March 28
March 29 - The 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held: Leonid Brezhnev demands that U.S. troops leave Vietnam, and announces that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfactory.[13]
March 31
April
May
June
July
July 1 - Joaquín Balaguer becomes president of the Dominican Republic .[23]
July 3
July 4
July 6 - Malawi becomes a republic.
July 7 - A Warsaw Pact conference ends with a promise to support North Vietnam.
July 8 - King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Ntare V , who is in turn deposed by prime minister Michel Micombero .
July 11 - The 1966 FIFA World Cup begins in England.
July 12
July 13 - The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is founded in New York City by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada .
July 14
Israeli and Syrian jet fighters clash over the Jordan River .
Richard Speck murders 8 student nurses in their Chicago dormitory. He is arrested on July 17 .
Gwynfor Evans , President of Plaid Cymru , the Welsh nationalist party, becomes Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for Carmarthen , taking the previously Labour-held Welsh seat at a by-election with a majority of 2,435 on an 18% swing and giving his party its first representation at Westminster in its forty-one year history.
July 18
July 22 - Following the death of Hsu Tsu-tsai , an engineer, in The Hague, the Chinese government declares Dutch delegate G. J. Jongejans persona non grata , but tells him not to leave the country before other Chinese engineers have left the Netherlands.
July 23 - Katangese troops in Stanleyville , Congo , revolt for several weeks in support of the exiled minister Moise Tshombe .
July 24 - U.N. Secretary General U Thant visits Moscow.
July 24 - A USAF F-4C Phantom #63-7599 is shot down by a North Vietnamese SAM-2 45 miles (72 km) northeast of Hanoi , the first loss of a U.S. aircraft to a Vietnamese surface-to-air missile in the Vietnam War.[24]
July 26 - Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent .
July 28 - The U.S. announces that a Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba.
July 29
July 30 - England beats West Germany 4-2 to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley after extra time .
August
August 1
August 2 - The Spanish government forbids overflights by British military aircraft.
August 5
August 6
August 7 - Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan .
August 10
An East German court sentences Günter Laudahn to life imprisonment for spying for the United States.
Lunar Orbiter 1 , the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the moon, is launched.
August 11
August 12 - Massacre of Braybrook Street : Harry Roberts, John Duddy and Jack Witney shoot dead 3 plainclothes policemen in London; they are later sentenced to life imprisonment.
August 15 - Syrian and Israeli troops clash over Lake Kinneret (also known as the Sea of Galilee ) for 3 hours.
August 17 - Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic begin negotiations in Kuwait to end the war in Yemen .
August 18 - Vietnam War - Battle of Long Tan : D Company, 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment , meets and defeats a Viet Cong force estimated to be four times larger, in Phuoc Tuy Province, Republic of Vietnam .
August 19 - The 6.8 Varto earthquake affects the town of Varto in eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ), killing at least 2,394-3,000 and injuring at least 1,420.
August 21 - Seven men are sentenced to death in Egypt for anti-Nasser agitation.
August 22
August 26 - The first battle of the South African Air Force and the South African Police with PLAN , the armed wing of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), takes place at Ongulumbashe during Operation Blue Wildebeest, triggering the South African Border War which continues until 1989 .
August 29 - The Beatles end their U.S. tour with a concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco . It is their last performance as a live touring band.
August 30 - France offers independence to French Somaliland (Djibouti from 1977).
September
October
November
December
December 1
December 2 - U Thant agrees to serve a second term as United Nations Secretary General.
December 3 - Anti-Portuguese demonstrations occur in Macau ; a curfew is declared the next day.
December 5 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bond v. Floyd that the Georgia House of Representatives must seat Julian Bond, having violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
December 6 - Vietnam War : Bình Hòa massacre .
December 7
December 8 - The Typaldos Line's ferry SS Heraklion sinks in rough seas in the Aegean Sea near Crete , leaving 217 dead.
December 12 - Harry Roberts , John Whitney and John Duddy are sentenced to life imprisonment (each with a recommended minimum of 30 years) for the Shepherd's Bush murders of three London policemen on August 12. Roberts, arrested on November 15 north of London, will eventually spend nearly 48 years in prison.
December 16
December 17 - South Africa does not join the trade embargo against Rhodesia .
December 18 - Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas , narrated by Boris Karloff , premieres on the CBS network, beginning an annual Christmas tradition in the United States.
December 19 - The Asian Development Bank begins operations.
December 20 - U.K. Prime Minister Harold Wilson withdraws all his previous offers to the Rhodesian government and announces that he will agree to independence for the country only after the establishment of a Black majority government there.
December 22 - Prime Minister Ian Smith declares that Rhodesia is already a republic.
December 24 - New York television station WPIX broadcasts The Yule Log for the first time; it becomes a Christmas tradition.
December 25 - Marionette sci-fi series Thunderbirds airs its final episode on ITV in the United Kingdom with a Christmas special.
December 26 - The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga , founder of Organization US (a black nationalist group) and chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach , from 1989 to 2002.[31]
December 31
Date unknown
Konstantin Chernenko , later leader of the Soviet Union , becomes a candidate member of the Central Committee .
Paramount Pictures Corporation becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Gulf+Western Industries, Inc.
Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn are awarded the Fermi Prize .
The Congress of the United States creates the National Council for Marine Resources and Engineering Development.
Martin Richards designs the programming language BCPL .
The World Buddhist Sangha Council is convened by Theravadins in Sri Lanka , with the hope of bridging differences and working together.
The Jerusalem Bible , a Roman Catholic translation, is published in English.
Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann publish The Social Construction of Reality .
Long-term potentiation (LTP), the putative cellular mechanism of learning and memory , is first observed by Terje Lømo in Oslo , Norway.
In or about this year, one person returning to Haiti from the Congo is thought to have first brought HIV to the Americas .[32]
Births
January
January 1 - Ivica Da?i? , Serbian politician, Prime Minister of Serbia 2012-2014[33]
January 4 - Christian Kern , Austrian politician, 24th Chancellor of Austria [34]
January 6 - Sharon Cuneta , Filipino actress, host and singer[35]
January 7 - Corrie Sanders , South African boxer (d. 2012 )
January 8
January 13 - Patrick Dempsey , American actor and race car driver[36]
January 14
January 17
January 19
January 20 - Rainn Wilson , American actor, writer and producer
January 22 - Jegath Gaspar Raj , Tamil Maiyam founder
January 28 - Andrea Berg , German singer
January 29 - Romário , Brazilian footballer and politician[41]
February
February 1 - Michelle Akers , American footballer
February 3 - Jimmy Thunder , Samoan boxer
February 5 - José María Olazábal , Spanish golfer[42]
February 6 - Rick Astley , British pop musician
February 7 - Kristin Otto , German swimmer
February 8 - Hristo Stoichkov , Bulgarian footballer
February 9 - Ellen van Langen , Dutch athlete
February 11 - Cristina Elena Grigora? , Romanian artistic gymnast
February 13 - Neal McDonough , American actor
February 17 - Quorthon , Swedish singer, songwriter, musician and record producer (d. 2004 )
February 20 - Cindy Crawford , American model and actress
February 22 - Rachel Dratch , American actress and comedian
February 23
February 24 - Billy Zane , American actor
February 25
February 26
February 27 - Alison Gertz , American AIDS activist (d. 1992 )
February 28
March
March 1
Don Lemon , American journalist
Zack Snyder , American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer
March 2 - Sheren Tang , Hong Kong actress
March 3
March 4
March 6 - Maurice Ashley , American chess grandmaster
March 7
March 9 - Tony Lockett , Australian rules footballer
March 10
March 13 - Chico Science , Brazilian musician (d. 1997 )
March 14 - Elise Neal , American actress
March 16 - Rodney Peete , African American football quarterback
March 17 - Espen Hammer , Norwegian philosopher
March 18 - Jerry Cantrell , American guitarist and singer
March 21 - Roy Niederhoffer , American hedge fund manager and philanthropist
March 22 - Antonio Pinto , Portuguese long-distance runner
March 25
March 26 - Michael Imperioli , American actor
March 28
March 29 - Krasimir Balakov , Bulgarian footballer
April
April 2 - Teddy Sheringham , British footballer[43]
April 3 - Miina Tominaga , Japanese voice actress
April 8
April 11 - Lisa Stansfield , British soul singer
April 13 - Ali Boumnijel , Tunisian footballer
April 15 - Samantha Fox , British model and singer[44]
April 17 - Vikram , Indian actor
April 18 - Trine Hattestad , Norwegian athlete
April 20 - David Chalmers , Australian philosopher[45]
April 22 - Jeffrey Dean Morgan , American actor
April 25 - Man Arenas , Spanish comic creator
April 26 - Natasha Trethewey , Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
April 27
April 28 - Ali-Reza Pahlavi , titular prince of Iran (d. 2011 )
April 29 - Vincent Ventresca , American actor
May
May 1 - Charlie Schlatter , American actor and voice actor
May 3 - Firdous Bamji , Indian-American actor
May 5 - Lyubov Yegorova , Russian cross-country skier
May 6
May 7
May 8
May 10
May 12
May 13
Cheryl Dunye , Liberian-born film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress
Darius Rucker , African American country singer
May 16
May 17
May 19 - Polly Walker , English actress
May 21
May 22 - Siri Eftedal , Norwegian team handball player and Olympic medalist
May 23
May 24
May 25 - Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh , Iranian goalkeeper
May 26
May 27
May 30 - Thomas Häßler , German football player
June
June 3 - Wasim Akram , Pakistani cricketer
June 4 - Cecilia Bartoli , Italian mezzo-soprano
June 6 - Faure Gnassingbé , President of Togo
June 7 - Tom McCarthy , American film director and actor
June 8
June 13 - Grigori Perelman , Russian mathematician
June 14 - Eduardo Waghorn , Chilean musician
June 15 - Roberto Carnevale , Italian musician
June 16 - Jan ?elezný , Czech javelin thrower
June 18 - Kurt Browning , Canadian figure skater
June 19 - Samuel West , British actor
June 22
June 23 - Richie Jen , Taiwanese musician
June 24 - Adrienne Shelly , American actress, film director and screenwriter (d. 2006 )
June 25 - Dikembe Mutombo , Congolese basketball player
June 26 - Dany Boon , French comedian and filmmaker
June 27 - J. J. Abrams , American television writer and producer
June 28
June 29 - Basuki Tjahaja Purnama , Indonesian politician, governor of Jakarta
June 30
July
July 1
July 3 - Franti?ek ?torm , Czech musician (Master's Hammer ) and typographer
July 5 - Gianfranco Zola , Italian footballer
July 8 - Shadlog Bernicke , Nauruan politician
July 9 - Pamela Adlon , American actress, voice actress, screenwriter, producer and director
July 10 - Gina Bellman , New Zealand-British actress
July 11 - Kentaro Miura , Japanese author and illustrator
July 14 - Matthew Fox , American actor[50]
July 15
July 16
July 18
July 20 - Enrique Peña Nieto , President of Mexico (2012-2018), Governor of the State of Mexico (2005-2011)[52]
July 21 - Sarah Waters , British novelist
July 25 - Wataru Takagi , Japanese voice actor
July 26 - Angelo Di Livio , Italian footballer
July 28
July 29 - Richard Steven Horvitz , American actor and voice actor
July 30
July 31 - Dean Cain , American actor
August
September
September 1 - Tim Hardaway , American basketball player
September 2 - Salma Hayek , Mexican-American actress
September 4 - Yanka Dyagileva , Russian singer (d. 1991 )
September 6
September 7
September 8 - Carola Häggkvist , Swedish pop singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1991 winner
September 9
September 12
September 16 - Sean Frye , American child actor
September 19 - Soledad O'Brien , American television journalist and news anchor
September 20 - Nuno Bettencourt , Portuguese-American guitarist and singer-songwriter
September 21 - Nechirvan Barzani , President of Iraqi Kurdistan
September 22
September 25 - Jason Flemyng , English actor
September 28 - Maria Canals-Barrera , American actress
October
October 1 - George Weah , Liberian politician and football player
October 2 - Rodney Anoa'i , Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2000 )
October 3 - Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane , Israeli settler leader (d. 2000 )
October 5 - Inessa Kravets , Ukrainian athlete
October 6
October 7 - Sherman Alexie , Native American author
October 8 - Aaron Callaghan , Irish football club executive
October 9 - David Cameron , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom [57]
October 10
October 11 - Luke Perry , American actor (d. 2019 )
October 15
October 18 - Angela Visser , Dutch winner of Miss Universe 1989
October 19 - Jon Favreau , American actor and director[59]
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[60]
October 25 - Wendel Clark , Canadian hockey player
October 28
October 30 - Zoran Milanovi? , Croatian politician, President of Croatia
October 31
November
November 1 - Ashab Uddin , Indian-Bengali politician[61]
November 2
November 3 - Joe Hachem , Lebanese-born Australian poker player
November 8 - Gordon Ramsay , Scottish-born chef, restaurateur and television personality
November 9 - Lori Lively , American actress
November 11
November 13 - Susanna Haapoja , Finnish politician (d. 2009 )
November 14 - Curt Schilling , American baseball player
November 15 - Rachel True , American actress
November 17
November 19
November 23
November 24 - Juan Pablo Gamboa , Colombian actor
November 25 - Billy Burke , American actor
November 26 - Garcelle Beauvais , Haitian-American actress, singer and fashion model[66]
November 28 - Narumi Yasuda , Japanese actress
November 29 - John Bradshaw Layfield , American professional wrestler
December
December 3 - Adam Berry , American composer
December 4
December 5 - Patricia Kaas , French singer and actress
December 7
December 8
December 9
December 10
December 12
December 14
December 15 - Katja von Garnier , German film director
December 17 - Milo? Tichý , Czech astronomer
December 19
December 20 - Ed de Goeij , Dutch footballer
December 21 - Kiefer Sutherland , Canadian actor and film director[68]
December 22
December 23 - Cláudia Raia , Brazilian actress, dancer and singer
December 24 - Diedrich Bader , American actor and voice artist
December 27 - Bill Goldberg , American professional wrestler
December 28 - Kaliopi , Macedonian singer-songwriter
December 31 - Maddie Taylor , American actress and comedian
Date unknown
Deaths
January
February
February 1
February 3 - June Walker , American actress (b. 1900 )
February 5 - Louisa Martindale , British physician, writer, magistrate and prison commissioner (b. 1872 )
February 6 - Narcisa de Leon , Filipino film producer (b. 1877 )
February 9 - Sophie Tucker , American singer (b. 1886 )
February 10
February 12 - Wilhelm Röpke , German economist (b. 1899 )
February 15
February 17
February 18 - Robert Rossen , American film director (b. 1908 )[71]
February 20 - Chester W. Nimitz , American Navy admiral (b. 1885 )
February 25 - Victor Kravchenko , Soviet writer (b. 1905 )
February 26 - Gino Severini , Italian painter (b. 1883 )
February 28
March
April
April 1 - Brian O'Nolan , Irish humorist (b. 1911 )[74]
April 2 - C. S. Forester , English author (b. 1899 )[75]
April 3 - Battista Farina , Italian car designer (b. 1893 )
April 6 - Julia Faye , American actress (b. 1893)
April 10 - Evelyn Waugh , English author (b. 1903 )
April 11 - William H. Pitsenbarger , United States Air Force Medal of Honour recipient (b. 1944 )
April 13
April 17 - Mario Serandrei , Italian editor and screenwriter (b. 1907 )
April 19 - Javier Solís , Mexican singer and actor (b. 1931 )
April 20 - Prince Frederick of Prussia (b. 1911 )
April 21 - Sepp Dietrich , Nazi German military leader and SS commander (b. 1892 )
April 23 - George Ohsawa , Japanese dietist, founder of Macrobiotics (b. 1893 )
April 24 - Tino Pattiera , Yugoslav-born Italian tenor (b. 1890 )
April 29 - Eugene O'Brien , American actor (b. 1880 )
May
May 4 - Amédée Ozenfant , French painter (b. 1886 )
May 8 - Erich Pommer , German film producer (b. 1889 )
May 11 - Alfred Wintle , British army officer and eccentric (b. 1897 )
May 14 - Ludwig Meidner , German painter (b. 1884 )
May 15
May 20 - Carlos Arruza , Mexican bullfighter (b. 1920 )
May 21 - Lady Dorothy Macmillan , spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1900 )
May 22 - Tom Goddard , English cricketer (b. 1900 )
May 23 - Demchugdongrub , Mongolian politician (b. 1902 )
May 24 - Jim Barnes , English golf champion (b. 1886 )
May 25 - Vernon Sturdee , Australian general (b. 1890 )
May 26 - Don Castle , American actor (b. 1917 )
May 29 - James Woolf , British film producer (b. 1919 )
June
June 1 - Papa Jack Laine , American jazz musician (b. 1873 )
June 3 - Nicholas Straussler , Hungarian engineer (b. 1891 )
June 6 - Ethel Clayton , American actress (b. 1882 )
June 7 - Jean Arp , Alsatian sculptor, painter and poet (b. 1886 )
June 8 - Anton Melik , Slovenian geographer (b. 1890 )
June 11 - Wallace Ford , English-born American actor (b. 1898 )
June 12
June 15 - Sankichi Takahashi , Japanese admiral (b. 1882 )
June 19 - Ed Wynn , American actor and comedian (b. 1886 )
June 20 - Georges Lemaître , Belgian priest and astrophysicist (b. 1894 )
June 30
July
July 2
July 3 - Deems Taylor , American composer (b. 1885 )
July 5 - George de Hevesy , Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885 )
July 7 - Carmelita Geraghty , American actress (b. 1901 )
July 9 - Venerable Marija Petkovi? , Yugoslav Roman Catholic foundress and Servant of God (b. 1892 )
July 11 - Delmore Schwartz , American poet (b. 1913 )
July 12 - D. T. Suzuki , Japanese scholar and essayist (b. 1870 )
July 14 - Julie Manet , French painter (b. 1878 )
July 18 - Bobby Fuller , American rock and roll musician (b. 1942 )
July 21
July 23
July 25 - Frank O'Hara , American poet (b. 1926 )
July 31
August
September
October
October 7 - Johnny Kidd , English singer (b. 1935 )
October 10
October 13 - Clifton Webb , American actor, dancer and singer (b. 1889 )
October 16 - George O'Hara , American actor (b. 1899 )
October 17 - Cléo de Mérode , French dancer (b. 1875 )
October 18 - Elizabeth Arden , Canadian-born American beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1878 )
October 23 - Claire McDowell , American silent screen actress (b. 1877 )
October 24 - Hans Dreier , German art director (b. 1885 )
October 26 - Alma Cogan , English singer (b. 1932 )
October 28 - Robert Charpentier , French Olympic cyclist (b. 1916 )
November
November 2
November 4 - Dietrich von Choltitz , Nazi German military governor of Paris in World War II (b. 1894 )
November 8 - Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist, developer of first reliable pregnancy test (b. 1891 )
November 9 - Jisabur? Ozawa , Japanese admiral (b. 1886 )
November 10 - Evelyn Sears , American tennis player (b. 1875 )
November 13 - Esna Boyd , Australian tennis player (b. 1899 )
November 14 - Steingrímur Steinþórsson , 11th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1893 )
November 21 - W?adys?aw Bortnowski , Polish historian and military commander (b. 1891 )
November 23 - Seán T. O'Kelly , 2nd President of Ireland (b. 1882 )
November 26 - Siegfried Kracauer , German writer, sociologist and critic (b. 1889 )
November 28 - Boris Podolsky , Russian-American physicist (b. 1896 )
December
Nobel Prizes
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