Deaths in February 1966

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 1966

1

Hedda Hopper

Buster Keaton

• Roswell M. Austin, American politician and attorney; Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives (b. 1887)
• Charles Belden, American photographer (b. 1887)
• Stuart Campbell, British journalist and editor (b. 1908)
• Arthur Curle, British cricketer (b. 1895)
• Gen. John D'Arcy, British Army officer (b. 1894)
• William Harrigan, American actor (b. 1894)
• Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (b. 1885)
• Buster Keaton, American actor and film director (b. 1895)
• Joseph R. Knowland, American politician and newspaper publisher (b. 1873)

3

• Gianni Di Venanzo, Italian cinematographer (b. 1920)
• Cowboy Hill, American football player (b. 1899)
• Jack Keily, Australian rules footballer (b. 1898)
• Kamil Abdul Rahim, Egyptian diplomat (b. 1897)
• June Walker, American actress (b. 1900)

4

• Lucius Beebe, American author and syndicated columnist (b. 1902)
• Ady Berber, Austrian film actor (b. 1913)
• Sir Lance Brisbane, Australian businessman (b. 1893)
• Irvin Brooks, American baseball player (b. 1891)
• Charles Comber, Australian rules footballer (b. 1891)
• Howard Dea, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1891)
• Robert Graf, German actor (b. 1923)
• Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, Ottoman Empire-born American and Canadian journalist (editor of National Geographic Magazine) (b. 1875).
• Harold Hayman, British politician, MP (b. 1894)

5

• Ludwig Binswanger, Swiss psychiatrist, pioneer in existential psychology (b. 1881)
• John Breen, Australian politician, Member of the Australian House of Representatives (b. 1898)

6

• Paul Bardal, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (b. 1889)
• Wayne G. Borah, United States federal judge (b. 1891)
• Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
• Abdurrahman Nafiz Gürman, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• Algot Haquinius, Swedish pianist and composer (b. 1886)
• Vilis Lācis, Latvian writer and Soviet politician (b. 1904)
• Narcisa de León, Filipino film producer (b. 1877)

7

• Bill Dole, American football coach (b. 1909)
• James A. Gardner, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1943)
• Leopold van der Pals, Russian-born Dutch composer (b. 1884)

8

• Vernon Andrade, American jazz bandleader active primarily in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s (b. 1902)
• William L. Clayton, American Under Secretary of State (b. 1880)
• James Creese, American academic administrator (b. 1896)
• Paul Sophus Epstein, Polish-born Russian-American mathematical physicist (b. 1883)
• Karl Kangas, Finnish wrestler, competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1886)
• Juho Karvonen, Finnish politician, MP (b. 1888)

9

• Bruno Ahlberg, Finnish boxer, Olympic athlete (1932 and 1936) (b. 1911)
• Giovanni Benfratello, Italian fencer, competitor at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1888)
• Budd Fine, American actor (b. 1894)
• Ignacio Hidalgo de Cisneros, Spanish aviator during the Spanish Civil War (b. 1896)
• Sophie Tucker, American singer (b. 1884)

10

• Theodor Beckmann, German Luftwaffe officer during World War II (b. 1897)
• Bruno Bitkowski, Canadian all-star football centre (Ottawa Rough Riders) (b. 1929)
• Ryan DeGraffenried, Sr., American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (b. 1925)
• William Dillon, American songwriter (b. 1877)
• Adm. Sir John Edelsten, British Royal Navy admiral (b. 1891)
• Gen. J. F. C. Fuller, British Army general during World War I (b. 1878)
• Mary Agnes Hamilton, British politician, MP (b. 1884)
• Osie Johnson, American musician (b. 1923)
• Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)

11

• Reginald Boden, English cricketer (b. 1884)
• Fred E. Busbey, American politician, U.S. Representative from Illinois (b. 1895)
• Victor-Stanislas Chartrand, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (b. 1887)

12

• Leon Beer, Australian rules footballer (b. 1903)
• Oswald Lewis, British politician, MP (b. 1887)

13

Marguerite Long ca. 1900

• Roy Crisp, Australian rules footballer (b. 1890)
• Calle Jularbo, Swedish accordionist (b. 1893)
• Marguerite Long, French pianist (b. 1874)

14

• Hugo Björne, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• Germain Caron, Canadian politician, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (b. 1910)
• Charles Chellapah, Singaporean photojournalist (b. 1939)
• Jack Coffey, American baseball player (b. 1887)
• Adrian Cole, Australian Air Vice Marshal (b. 1895)
• François Demol, Belgian footballer (b. 1895)
• Ernest Albert Egerton, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1897)
• Charles Elsey, British race horse trainer (b. 1882)
• Jørgen Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish sculptor (b. 1895)
• Walter Layton, 1st Baron Layton, British economist, newspaperman, and politician (b. 1884)

15

• James B. Allardice, American television comedy writer of the 1950s and 1960s (b. 1919)
• Spence Burton, American-born Anglican bishop of Nassau, Bahamas (b. 1881)
• Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect and historian of gardens (b. 1909)
• Hedwig Conrad-Martius, German phenomenologist and mystic (b. 1888)
• Armando Fizzarotti, Italian screenwriter and film director (b. 1892)
• Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian priest and guerrilla leader (b. 1929)

16

• Georgi Belev, Bulgarian opera singer (b. 1908)
• Paul Henri Bouffard, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (b. 1895)
• John Thomas Davies, English Anglican priest (b. 1881)
• Károly Escher, Hungarian photographer (b. 1890)
• Gwendolen Guinness, Countess of Iveagh, Anglo-Irish aristocrat and politician, MP (b. 1881)

17

• Archibald Acheson, 6th Earl of Gosford, British nobleman (b. 1911)
• Siegmund Beutum, Austrian chess master (b. 1890)
• Syd Carman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1901)
• Chen Shutong, Chinese politician (b. 1876)
• Mike Chornohus, Austria-Hungary-born Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (b. 1888)
• Charles Hobson, Baron Hobson, British politician, MP (b. 1904)
• Hans Hofmann, German-born American painter (b. 1880)
• Frank Joy, English cricketer (b. 1880)
• Gail Kane, American actress (b. 1885)

18

• Mary Patricia Anderson, New Zealand politician, one of the first two women appointed to the New Zealand Legislative Council (b. 1887)
• Heinz Baader, German Luftwaffe officer during World War II (b. 1916)
• James Harry Beatty, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (b. 1890)
• Rick Bockelie, Norwegian sailor, gold medalist at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1902)
• Carol Ann Drazba, American military nurse killed in Vietnam War (b. 1943)
• Daniel D. Fernández, American soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor (b. 1944)
• Frank Lukis, Australian air force commodore (b. 1896)
• Stanisław Mackiewicz, Russian-born Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland (government in exile) (b. 1896)
• Robert Rossen, American film director (b. 1908)

19

• Harry Geisel, American baseball umpire (b. 1888)
• James Edward Grant, American writer (b. 1905)
• Gilder D. Jackson Jr., American Marine Corps general (b. 1893)
• Max Leslie, Australian rules footballer (b. 1922)
• Arthur Lockwood, British politician (b. 1883)

20

• Solomon Asch, Polish gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology in the United States (b. 1907)
• Fernand Francell, French opera singer and actor (b. 1880)
• Chester Gore, American art director (b. 1893)
• Louise Guthrie, South African botanist (b. 1879)
• Johnny Hart, Australian rules footballer (b. 1888)
• Pop Laval, American photographer (b. 1882)
• Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)

21

• Harold Glanville (junior), British politician (b. 1884)
• Guy Jackson, English cricketer (b. 1896)

22

• Everitt P. Blizard, Canadian-born American nuclear physicist and engineer (b. 1916)
• Bernard Braskamp, American Presbyterian minister, Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1887)
• Georg Erdmann, Norwegian sports shooter, competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics (b. 1875)
• Melchor Fernández Almagro, Spanish writer, historian and journalist (b. 1893)
• Joseph Kiwánuka, Ugandan Roman Catholic Archbishop of Rubaga (b. 1899)

23

• Billy Kyle, American pianist (b. 1914)

24

• Jean d'Esme, French writer (b. 1894)
• Frederick Gentle, British judge (b. 1892)
• Billy Hampson, British football player and manager (b. 1882)
• William Major, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1896)

25

• Garland Braxton, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• Ira Delbert Cotnam, Canadian politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1883)
• Melchor Fernández Almagro, Spanish writer (b. 1893)
• G. C. Foster, Jamaican sportsman (b. 1885)
• Victor Kravchenko, Russian-born American writer (b. 1905)

26

• José María Albareda, Spanish scientist, Secretary General and head of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC) (b. 1902)
• Emiliano Chamorro Vargas, President of Nicaragua (b. 1871)
• Sir Guy Dain, English physician (b. 1870)
• Adm. Richard Bell Davies, British Royal Navy officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1886)
• Les Davis, American football coach (b. 1900)
• Karl Jørgensen, Danish actor (b. 1890)
• Mientje Kling, Dutch actress (b. 1894)
• Walter König, Polish industrialist (b. 1903)
• Reg Mackey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1899)
• Gino Severini, Italian painter (b. 1883)

27

• Curt Badinski, German Wehrmacht general during World War II (b. 1890)

28

• Elliot See, American test pilot and NASA astronaut (b. 1927)
• Charles Bassett, American test pilot and NASA astronaut (b. 1931)
• Schamyl Bauman, Swedish film director (b. 1893)
• George Harrison Dunbar, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (b. 1878)
• Jonathan Hale, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1891)
• Léonie Keingiaert de Gheluvelt, Belgian feminist, first female mayor of a town in Belgium (b. 1885)