Deaths in November 1966

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.

November 1966

1

• Charles Catterall, South African boxer, silver medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics (b. 1914)
• Eva Garza, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
• Abraham Jacob Hollandersky, Russian-born American boxer (b. 1887)
• Teotan Lebedev, Russian sports shooter, competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1871)
• Sara W. Mahan, American politician, Secretary of State of Kentucky (b. 1870)
• Liam Ó Buachalla, Irish historian

2

• Sadao Araki, Japanese Army general during World War II (b. 1877)
• Domenico Cavagnari, Italian admiral, chief of staff of the Italian Royal Navy (b. 1876)
• Peter Debye, Dutch-American chemist working in Nazi Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• Mississippi John Hurt, American singer and guitarist (b. 1893)
• Culver Hastedt, American sprinter, gold medal at the 1904 Summer Olympics (b. 1884)
• Gen. Ben Lear, Canadian-born American equestrian (bronze medal during the 1912 Summer Olympics), and general during World War II (b. 1879)

3

• Byron Barr, American actor (b. 1917)
• Fritz Baumgarten, German book illustrator (b. 1883)
• Streeter Blair, American painter (b. 1888)
• John T. Cahill, American lawyer (b. 1903)

4

• Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Barratt, British RAF officer, (b. 1891)
• Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz, Nazi German military governor of Paris in World War II (b. 1894)

5

1839293929394 jfjfjfs many deaths so many that everyone died aaa!!!

6

• Germaine Dermoz, French actress (b. 1888)
• Ernst Fabri, Austrian-born Soviet journalist (b. 1891)
• Hugh Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of Allander, British nobleman and retailer (b. 1903)

7

• Rube Bressler, American baseball player (b. 1894)
• George Way Harley, American Methodist missionary (b.1894)
• Gen. Kurt Jahn, German general during World War II (b. 1892)
• Murray Lincoln, American businessman (b. 1892)

8

• Frank B. Anderson, American college football, and baseball coach as well as athletic director (b. 1882)
• Shorty Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1914)
• André Bloc, French sculptor (b. 1896)
• Sir Philip Colfox, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician, MP (b. 1888)
• Hans Finohr, German actor (b. 1891)
• Ronald Holyoake, English cricketer (b. 1894)
• Norm Jordan, Australian rules footballer (b. 1888)
• Henry B. Krajewski, American politician (b. 1912)
• Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist, developer of first reliable pregnancy test (b. 1891)

9

• Richard Benz, German historian and writer (b. 1884)
• Brady P. Gentry, American politician, U.S. Representative from Texas (b. 1896)
• Peter Hillwood, British test pilot (b. 1920)
• Andy Iona, American musician (b. 1902)
• James V. Kern, American singer, songwriter, and actor (b. 1909)
• Jisaburō Ozawa, Japanese admiral (b. 1886)

10

• Sir Henry Dalton, English police executive (b. 1891)
• Eddie Erdelatz, American football player and coach (b. 1913)
• Luther Magby, American singer (b. 1896)

11

• Carl Jonsson, Swedish Olympian, gold medalist in the tug of war competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1885)
• Helen Hull Law, American academic (b. 1890)

12

• Zeenat Begum, Pakistani singer
• Donald L. Branson, American racecar driver (b. 1920)
• Chic Calderwood, Scottish boxer (b. 1937)
• Bob Gardner, Australian politician (b. 1890)
• Shakeb Jalali, Pakistani poet (b. 1934)
• Mike Loan, American baseball player (b. 1894)

13

• Dick Atkins, American race car driver (b. 1936)
• Mario Chamlee, American opera singer (b. 1892)
• Joseph Xavier Grant, American Army officer, recipient of the Medal of Honor (b. 1940)
• Bamm David Hogarth, Canadian politician and judge, member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (b. 1887)
• Apache, Viet Cong sniper (b. 1936)

14

• Peter Baker, British politician, last MP expelled from the House of Commons (b. 1921)
• Nikolai Ignatov, Russian-born Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (b. 1901)
• Zengo Yoshida, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)

15

• Billy Dougall, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1895)
• Aymar Embury II, American architect (b. 1880)
• George Gund II, American businessman (b. 1888)
• William Haade, American actor (b. 1903)
• Herbert Kessler, Swiss ice hockey player, competed at the 1936 Winter Olympics (b. 1912)

16

• Eric Arbuthnot, South African cricketer (b. 1888)
• Gord Hannigan, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• Cluny Macpherson, Newfoundland and Canadian physician (b. 1879)

17

• Wally Chalmers, Australian rules footballer (b. 1890)
• Émile Colinus, French artist (b. 1884)
• James "Jabby" Jabara, American aviator, the first American jet fighter ace (b. 1923)
• Wal Hannington, British Communist leader (b. 1896)
• Olaf Knudsen, Norwegian wrestler, competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics (b. 1911)

18

• Mike Connolly, American reporter and columnist (b. 1914)
• Vincenzo Di Francesca, Italian Latter-Day Saint leader (b. 1888)
• Kawai Kanjirō, Japanese potter (b. 1890)

19

• Mendel Balberyszski, Lithuanian & Polish politician and author on the Holocaust in Lithuania (b. 1894)
• Ted Belcher, United States Army soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor (b. 1924)
• Terezie Brzková, Czechoslovak film actress (b. 1875)
• Francis Craig, American songwriter and bandleader (b. 1900)
• Émmanuel d'Anjou, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1884)
• Hens Dekkers, Dutch boxer, competed at the 1936 Olympics (b. 1915)
• Margarete Haagen, German actress (b. 1889)
• Arthur Haynes, English comedian (b. 1914)
• Marcel Lecomte, Belgian writer (b. 1900)

21

• Władysław Bortnowski, Polish general in World War II (b. 1891)
• Sir Thomas MacFarland Cherry, Australian mathematician (b. 1898)
• Jesse Whitfield Covington, United States Navy recipient of the Medal of Honor (b. 1889)
• Josef Haszpra, Czechoslovak artist (b. 1882)
• Pat Hogan, American actor (b. 1920)
• David L. Lawrence, American politician, Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1889)

22

• James E. Berry, American politician, four-term Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma (b. 1881)
• Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez, first Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles (b. 1907)
• Émile Drain, French actor (b. 1890)

23

• Alvin Langdon Coburn, American photographer (b. 1882)
• Adolph Knopf, American geologist (b. 1882)
• Seán T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland (b. 1882)

24

• Ramón Amaya Amador, Honduran author (b. 1916)
• Pat Cahill, Australian rules footballer (b. 1919)
• Enrique Conill, Cuban sailor, competed at the 1924 Olympics (b. 1878)
• Tom Gulley, American baseball player (b. 1899)
• Kanken Tōyama, Japanese karate master (b. 1888)
• Li Shu Fan, Hong Kong doctor (b. 1887)

25

• Fernande Albany, French actress (b. 1889)
• Norval Baptie, Canadian speed skater, former world record holder (b. 1879)
• Jacobus Cornelis Wyand Cossaar, Dutch painter (b. 1874).
• István Donogán, Hungarian discus thrower, competed in the Summer Olympic Games in 1928 and 1932 (b. 1897).
• Ralph Gerganoff, Bulgarian-born American architect (b. 1887)
• Sir William Reginald Halliday, English historian and academic (b. 1886)
• Thomas L. Holling, American politician, mayor of Buffalo, New York (b. 1889)
• Hans Reidar Holtermann, Norwegian army officer (b. 1895)
• Richard Kräusel, German botanist (b. 1890)
• George Lawson, Australian politician, Minister of Transport (b. 1880)

26

• Harold Burrage, American musician (b. 1931)
• Oliver Morton Dickerson, American historian, author, and educator (b. 1875)
• Hamastegh, Ottoman-born American poet and writer (b. 1895)
• Siegfried Kracauer, German-born American writer (b. 1889)

27

• Wenzel Jaksch, Bohemian-born German politician, member of Czechoslovak parliament and of German Bundestag (b. 1896)

28

• Billy Engle, Austrian-born American actor (b. 1889)
• Vittorio Giannini, American composer (b. 1903)
• José Isbert, Spanish actor (b. 1886)
• Friedrich Karrenberg, German social ethicist (b. 1904)

29

• Faras Hamdan, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (b. 1910)
• Oluf Gabriel Lund, Norwegian military officer (b. 1873)

30

• Ippolito Ippoliti, Italian footballer (b. 1921)