Deaths in April 1966

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1966.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

April 1966

Evelyn Waugh

1

• Karl Adam, German Catholic theologian (b. 1876)
• Arnold Franz Brasz, American artist (b. 1888)
• Sollie Cohen, American football player (b. 1907)
• Dimitar Dimov, Bulgarian writer (b. 1909)
• James G. Ellis, American musician and composer (b. 1880)
• Sister Ignatia, Irish-American nun noted for working with alcoholics (b. 1889)
• Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (b. 1911)

2

• Charles Brown, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1887)
• C. S. Forester, English author (b. 1899)
• Sverre Hope, Norwegian politician, MP (b. 1902)
• William King, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (b. 1893)
• Vladimir L'vovich Korvin-Piotrovskii, Russian poet and exile (b. 1891)

3

• Russel Crouse, American playwright and librettist (b. 1893)
• Rocco DiSiglio, American boxer and mobster (b. 1939)
• Battista Farina, Italian car designer (b. 1893)
• Stella Weiner Kriegshaber, American pianist (b. 1879)

4

• Bernard Adeney, English painter and textile designer (b. 1878)
• Georges de Crequi-Montfort, French sport shooter, competed in 1912 Olympics and 1924 Olympics (b. 1877)
• Jimmy Daywalt, American race car driver (b. 1924)
• Maurie De Araugo, Australian rules footballer (b. 1902)
• Karl Krook, Swedish tug-of-war competitor, competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics (b. 1887)
• Edmond Locard, French criminologist (b. 1877)

5

• Clarence Owen Cooper, Canadian politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1899)
• Harold Costley-White, English Anglican priest (b. 1878)
• Sam Dodge, American baseball player (b. 1889)
• Ragnar Ekberg, Swedish athlete, competed in the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1886)
• Slats Gill, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
• Caleb V. Haynes, American Air Force general (b. 1895)
• Tadeusz Kuchar, Polish footballer (b. 1891)

6

• Père Azaïs, French missionary and archeologist (b. 1870)
• Emil Brunner, Swiss Reformed theologian (b. 1889)
• Harold Cotton, Australian cricketer (b. 1914)
• Hans Engen, Norwegian diplomat (b. 1912)
• Julia Faye, American actress (b. 1893)
• Edna Flugrath, American actress (b. 1893)
• Norman Hobbs, English cricketer (b. 1900)

7

• Fred G. Aandahl, American politician, governor of North Dakota (1945–1951), member of U.S. House of Representative (1951–1953) (b. 1897)
• Harry Cator, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1894)
• George Cornelius, Australian rules footballer (b. 1874)
• Basil Davenport, American writer (b. 1905)
• Bert Dingley, American race car driver (b. 1885)
• Walt Hansgen, American race car driver (b. 1919)
• Ebenezer Kendell, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (b. 1886)

8

• John W. Gates, American politician, member of New York State Assembly and New York State Senate (b. 1872)
• Felicjan Kępiński, Polish astronomer (b. 1885)
• Elizabeth O. King, American biologist (b. 1912)
• Carl Schurz Vrooman, Assistant United States Secretary of Agriculture (b. 1872)

9

• Ralph M. Brown, American politician and judge, speaker of the California State Assembly (b. 1908)
• Barry Butler, English footballer (b. 1934)
• Ray Krouse, American football player (b. 1927)

10

• Heinz Barwich, German nuclear physicist, worked on the Soviet atom bomb program (b. 1911)
• Kawabata Ryūshi, Japanese painter (b. 1885)
• Clara Landsberg, American educator (b. 1873)
• Karl Magnussen, Danish cyclist, competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics (b. 1915)
• Evelyn Waugh, English author (b. 1903)

11

• A. B. Campbell, British naval officer and radio personality (b. 1881)
• Roman Dzeneladze, Soviet wrestler, competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics (b. 1933)
• Asmund Enger, Norwegian sports shooter, competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics (b. 1881)
• Rufus Fitzgerald, American academic administrator, Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (b. 1890)
• Paul Haugh, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (b. 1896)
• Ya'akov Klivnov, Russian-born Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (b. 1887)
• Avtandil Koridze, Georgian-Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler, gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics (b. 1935)

12

• Milislav Demerec, Austria-Hungary-born American scientist (b. 1895)
• Sir Waithilingam Duraiswamy, Ceylonese politician, speaker of the State Council of Ceylon (b. 1874)
• Joe Harris, American baseball player (b. 1882)
• Janez Jalen, Yugoslav writer and priest (b. 1891)
• Evgeny Maleev, Soviet paleontologist (b. 1915)

13

• Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi military office and statesman, President of the Republic (b. 1921)
• Bert Avery, New Zealand rugby league player (b. 1895)
• Clellan Card, American radio personality (b. 1903)
• Carlo Carrà, Italian painter (b. 1881)
• Georges Duhamel, French author (b. 1884).
• Lionel Edwards, British artist (b. 1878)
• Billy Fitchford, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1892)
• William S. Flynn, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1885)
• Gussie Gannon, American baseball player (b. 1873)
• Charles Heslop, British actor (b. 1883)
• Felix von Luckner, German naval commander during World War I (b. 1881)

14

• John L. Barkley, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient of World War I (b. 1895)
• Theodore William Chaundy, English mathematician (b. 1889)
• George A. Lundberg, American sociologist (b. 1895)

15

• Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury, Pakistani writer and politician, Health Minister of East Pakistan (b. 1906)
• Joseph Crehan, American actor (b. 1883)
• Lloyd Garrett, American vaudeville performer and composer (b. 1886)
• William C. Giese, American educator and politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (b. 1886)
• Robert Leslie Harrison, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (b. 1903)
• Fritz Jenssen, Norwegian politician, mayor of Oslo during Nazi occupation, convicted of treason (b. 1886)
• Elfric Wells Chalmers Kearney, Australian engineer and inventor (b. 1881)
• Rina De Liguoro, Italian actress (b. 1892)

16

• Nandalal Bose, Indian painter (b. 1882)
• Otto Buchinger, German physician (b. 1878)
• Stafford Cassell, American football coach (b. 1909)
• Sir Ernest Gowers, British writer (b. 1880)
• Willie Haupt, American race car driver (b. 1885)
• Sekō Higa, Okinawan martial arts teacher (b. 1898)
• Herschel Johnson, American diplomat, Ambassador to Sweden, the United Nations, and Brazil (b. 1894)
• Eric Lambert, English-born Australian politician (b. 1918)
• Roger Lapham, American politician, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1883)
• Gaspar Lefebvre, French religious (b. 1880)

17

• Christiane Delyne, American-born French actress (b. 1902)
• Petre V. Haneș, Romanian literary historian (b. 1879)
• John Jewell, English-born South African cricketer (b. 1891)

18

• Ernest Bacon, British wrestler, competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1893)
• Maginel Wright Enright, American children's book illustrator (b. 1881)
• Edward Fitzgerald, American ice hockey player, competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1891)
• Joseph E. Maddy, American music educator (b. 1891)

19

• Gösta Åsbrink, Swedish gymnast and modern pentathlete; Olympic athlete: gold medal in the 1908 Summer Olympics, silver medal in the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1881)
• Jack Cock, English footballer (b. 1893)
• Brigadier Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, Australian physician and army officer (b. 1891)
• E. Snapper Ingram, American politician (b. 1884)
• Maury Kent, American basketball, baseball, and football coach (b. 1885)
• Javier Solís, Mexican singer (b. 1931)

20

• Rufus Cole, American doctor (b. 1872)
• Earle Cook, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (b. 1881)
• Prince Frederick of Prussia, German-born British aristocrat, Grandson of the last Kaiser (b. 1911)
• Johnny Johnson, British philatelist (b. 1884)
• Jens Kirkegaard, Danish gymnast, silver medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1889)

21

• Sepp Dietrich, Nazi German military leader (b. 1892)
• Tray Grinter, English cricketer (b. 1885)
• Archibald Montgomerie, 17th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish nobleman (b. 1914)

22

• Aslaug Blytt, Norwegian art historian, museum manager, politician (b. 1899)
• Lou Finney, American baseball player (b. 1910)
• Enrico Glori, Italian actor (b. 1901)
• Rienk Kuiper, Dutch-born American theologian and academic (b. 1886)

23

• Naima Akef, Egyptian belly-dancer and actress (b. 1929)
• Heinrich Dollwetzel, East German Major General (b. 1912)
• George Ohsawa, Japanese diet founder (b. 1893)

24

• Melecio Arranz, Filipino politician; member of the Senate (b. 1888)
• Simon Chikovani, Georgian poet and Soviet politician, deputy to the Supreme Soviet (b. 1902)
• J. Morris Foster, American actor (b. 1881)
• Harry R. Jefferson, American football and basketball coach (b. c. 1896)
• Joasaph Leliukhin, Ukrainian cleric, Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia and Exarch of Ukraine (b. 1903)
• Louis A. Johnson, American politician, US Secretary of Defense (b. 1891)

25

• Art Decatur, American baseball player (b. 1894)
• Iorrie Isaacs, Welsh rugby player (b. 1911)
• Maria Nikolaevna Kuznetsova, Russian opera singer (b. 1880)

26

• Earnest Sevier Cox, American Methodist preacher and political activist (b. 1880)
• Bill Everson, Welsh rugby player (b. 1906)
• Roberto Faz, Cuban singer (b. 1914)
• Tom Florie, American soccer player (b. 1897)
• Samuel Kahanamoku, American swimmer, medalist at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1902)

27

• Kenzō Futaki, Japanese doctor (b. 1873)
• Walter P. Kuptz, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (b. 1898)

28

• Joseph Birds, English footballer (b. 1887)
• Gilberto Govi, Italian actor (b. 1885)

29

• Rolf Bergersen, Norwegian sport shooter, world champion and Olympic competitor (b. 1906)
• Earle D. Chesney, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
• William Eccles, British physicist and radio pioneer (b. 1875)
• Catherine Fonteney, French actress (b. 1879)
• Hugo Friend, Austro-Hungarian-born American jurist (b. 1882)
• Tom Hales, Irish republican and politician, TD (b. 1892)
• Sílvio Lagreca, Brazilian football manager (b. 1895)
• Terence MacDermot, Jamaican-born Canadian diplomat, High Commissioner to Australia and South Africa, Ambassador to Israel and Greece (b. 1896)
• Eugene O'Brien, American actor (b. 1880)

30

• Everett Case, American basketball coach (b. 1900)
• Richard Fariña, American writer and folksinger (b. 1937)
• Jan Cornelis Hofman, Dutch painter (b. 1889)
• Shunsuke Kondo, Japanese politician (b. 1890)
• Ernst Heinrich Landrock, German photographer (b. 1878)
• Nicolae Gh. Lupu, Romanian physician (b. 1884)
• Duane Lyman, American architect (b. 1886)