Deaths in July 1966

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1966

Montgomery Clift

1

• Wiri Baker, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1892)
• Pauline Boty, British artist (b. 1938)
• Johnny Bryan, American football player and coach (b. 1897)
• Georg Ehrlich, Austrian-born British sculptor (b. 1897)
• Bill Galvin, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (b. 1903)
• Frank Halloran, Australian rules footballer (b. 1912)

2

• Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
• Minnie D. Craig, American politician, Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives (b. 1883)
• St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Russian Orthodox hierarch and saint (b. 1896)
• Holger Lindberg, Swedish wrestler, competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1894)

3

• Kees Boeke, Dutch pacifist and tax resister (b. 1884)
• Robert Cochrane, English occultist (b. 1931)
• André Gailhard, French composer (b. 1885)
• Eleanor Margaret Green, Princess Viggo, Countess of Rosenborg, American-born Danish princess (b. 1895)
• Paul Conway Leahy, American federal judge (b. 1904)
• Deems Taylor, American composer (b. 1885)

4

• Dorothy Aldis, American children's author and poet (b. 1896)
• Louis Couffignal, French mathematician (b. 1902)
• Georges Dumont, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick (b. 1898)
• Archie Latimer Hodgins, Canadian politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1876)
• Otto Lindig, German potter (b. 1895)

5

• Robin Sutcliffe Allan, New Zealand geologist and university professor (b. 1900)
• Edward Pierrepont Beckwith, American scientist (b. 1877)
• Vinson Allen Collins, American politician, member of the Texas Senate (b. 1867)
• Pete Fox, American baseball player (b. 1909)
• George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• Ole Jørgensen, Norwegian politician, MP (b. 1897)

6

• Harold Breen, Australian public servant (b. 1893)
• Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
• Anne Nagel, American actress (b. 1915)
• Benjamin Horsley Littleton, American federal judge (b. 1889)

7

• Yoshishige Abe, Japanese philosopher, educator, and statesman in Shōwa period Japan; Minister of Education (b. 1883)
• Carmelita Geraghty, American actress (b. 1901)
• Alberto Gout, Mexican screenwriter and film director (b. 1913)

8

• Dick Christy, American football player (b. 1935)
• Herbert Elphinstone, Australian cricket umpire (b. 1905)
• Horst Fischer, German war criminal, last person guillotined in Germany (b. 1912)
• James Ernest Karnes, American soldier awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1889)
• Clyde Lamb, American illustrator and convicted robber (b. 1913)
• William Alexander McKenzie, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (b. 1874)
• George Minter, English film producer (b. 1911)

9

• Sir John Lindsay Dashwood, 10th Baronet, English aristocrat (b. 1896)
• Walter Gerwig, German lutenist (b. 1899)

10

• Raphaël Etifier, French politician, member of the French senate (b. 1889)
• Gʻafur Gʻulom, Uzbek writer (b. 1903)
• Charles Goethe, American eugenicist (b. 1875)
• Malvina Hoffman, American sculptor (b. 1885)
• Gussy Holl, German actress (b. 1888)

11

• Billy Butler, English footballer (b. 1900)
• Barney Lutz, American baseball player (b. 1915)
• Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b. 1913)

12

• Vera Franceschi, American pianist (b. 1926)
• Leicester Gilbert-Lodge, British philatelist (b. 1882)
• Liangqing, Chinese monk (b. 1896)
• D. T. Suzuki, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870)

13

• Genica Athanasiou, Romanian-French actress (b. 1897)
• Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, member of the British Royal Family, granddaughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1884)
• Harald Jensen, Danish-born Australian geologist (b. 1879)
• David H. Keller, American writer (b. 1880)
• Reino Ragnar Lehto, Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1898)
• Eric Macfadyen, British politician, MP (b. 1879)
• Victorio Macho, Spanish sculptor (b. 1887)

14

• William Hawksworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1911)
• Nicolaas de Jong, Dutch cyclist, competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1887)
• Nils Lavik, Norwegian politician, Member of the Storting (parliament) (b. 1884)
• Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
• Sigfred Madsen, Danish boxer, competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics (b. 1915)

15

• Seyfi Arkan, Turkish architect (b. 1903)
• Francis Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, British politician (b. 1883)
• Wilhelm Cornides, Wehrmacht sergeant in World War II, diarist (b. 1920)
• Clarence Gamble, American birth control advocate (b. 1894)
• August Lindberg, Swedish trade unionist (b. 1885)

16

• Arthur Adamson, Australian rules football player (b. 1882)
• Richard Craig, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (b. 1877)
• Agnes Dollan, Scottish suffragist and politician (b. 1887)
• Tom Hammond, Australian rules footballer (b. 1896)
• James Butler Hare, American politician, United States representative from South Carolina (b. 1918)
• Bernhard Schweitzer, German archaeologist (b. 1892)

17

• August Baeyens, Belgian violist and composer (b. 1895)
• Charles Creed, French-born British fashion designer (b. 1909)
• Nils Dahl, Norwegian runner, competed at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics (b. 1882)
• Albert Freethy, Welsh rugby referee and cricketer (b. 1885)
• Kurt Herlth, German set designer (b. 1896)

18

• Bobby Fuller, American musician (b. 1942)
• Russell Madden, Australian rules footballer (b. 1910)

19

• Walter Aitkenhead, Scottish footballer (b. 1887)
• Mary Jobe Akeley, American explorer and author (b. 1878)
• Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda, Spanish Roman Catholic Cardinal (b. 1892)
• Maxine Albro, American painter, muralist, lithographer, mosaic artist, and sculptor (b. 1903)
• Franz Lahner, Austro-Hungarian flying ace in World War I (b. 1893)
• Hans Ji Maharaj, Indian religious leader (b. 1900)

20

• Elizabeth Amsden, American operatic soprano and actress (b. 1881)
• Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan, Soviet artist, graphic designer and sculptor (b. 1891)
• Anne Beffort, Luxembourg educator and author (b. 1880)
• Julien Carette, French actor (b. 1897)
• Donald Gee, British theologian (b. 1891)
• Pat Hanley, American football player and coach (b. 1896)
• Józef Kisielewski, Polish politician and writer (b. 1905)

21

• Francis Stewart Briggs, Australian aviator (b. 1897)
• Francesco Paolo Cantelli, Italian mathematician (b. 1875)
• Philipp Frank, Austrian-born American scientist and philosopher (b. 1884)
• John French, English photographer (b. 1907)
• Julian Hochfeld, Polish Marxist (b. 1911)

22

• Vladimir Abrikosov, Russian Catholic priest of the Byzantine rite (b. 1880)
• Lauro Ayestarán, Uruguayan musicologist (b. 1913)
• Berend Carp, Dutch sailor, competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1901)
• Harriet Daggett, American law professor (b. 1891)
• Frank Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1882)
• Edward Gourdin, American long jumper, silver medalist at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1897)
• Pavlos Gyparis, Greek army officer and politician, MP (b. 1882)

23

• Kurt Albrecht, German military officer during World War II (b. 1895)
• Margaret Bennell, English educator (b. 1893)
• Vito R. Bertoldo, United States Army soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1916)
• Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
• Lo La Chapelle, Dutch footballer, medalist at the 1908 Summer Olympics (b. 1888)
• Douglass Montgomery, American actor (b. 1907)

24

• Aftimios Ofiesh, American Orthodox bishop (b. 1880)
• George Brook, English cricketer (b. 1888)
• Harry Cobe, American racecar driver (b. 1885)
• Holger J. Jensen, Danish painter (b. 1900)
• Arthur B. Langlie, American politician, Governor of Washington (b. 1900)
• Tony Lema, American golfer (b. 1934)
• José Magnani, Brazilian cyclist, competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics (b. 1913)

25

• Harold Conradi, Australian rules footballer (b. 1894)
• Francis Edward Faragoh, Austria-Hungary-born American screenwriter (b. 1898)
• Red Green, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1899)
• Rolf Henne, Swiss Nazi leader (b. 1901)
• Paul Le Drogo, French cyclist (b. 1905)
• Frank O'Hara, American poet (b. 1926)

26

• Gladstone Adams, British politician; Chairman of Whitley Bay Urban District Council (b. 1880)
• Brenda Sue Brown, American murder victim (b. 1955)
• Jean-Edouard de Castella, Australian-born Swiss artist (b. 1881)
• Augustine Duffy, Canadian politician, member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly (b. 1905)
• Howard Kinsey, American tennis player (b. 1899)
• Maura Laverty, Irish writer (b. 1907)
• Lee Lescaze, American journalist (b. 1909)

27

• Edward Carey Francis, English mathematician and Christian missionary to Kenya (b. 1897)
• Sir Norman Gregg, Australian ophthalmologist (b. 1892)
• Hugo von Heidenstam, Swedish diplomat, ambassador to Iran and Iraq (b. 1884)
• Sir Reginald Kennedy-Cox, English dramatist and social reformer (b. 1881)

28

• Josef von Báky, Hungarian filmmaker (b. 1902)
• Judd Conlon, American vocal arranger and conductor (b. 1910)
• Hal Dixon, American baseball umpire (b. 1920)
• David Jones, American businessman, owner of the Chicago Cardinals (b. 1884)
• Liem Bwan Tjie, Indonesian architect (b. 1891)

29

• Maj. Gen. Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian military figure and Head of State of Nigeria (b. 1924)
• Russell Clark, New Zealand artist (b. 1905)
• Edward Gordon Craig, English theatre practitioner (b. 1872)
• Jerry Dennerlein, American football player (b. 1915)
• Harold Egan, Australian rules footballer (b. 1884)
• Adekunle Fajuyi, Nigerian soldier, first military governor of the Western Region, Nigeria (b. 1926)
• Billy Fogg, English footballer (b. 1903)
• Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, Indian poet and writer (b. 1928)
• John Lemmon, British logician (b. 1930)
• Ian Gordon Lindsay, Scottish architect (b. 1906)

30

• Hazel Abel, American teacher and politician; United States Senator (b. 1888)
• George Ford, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (b. 1907)
• Gen. Otto Fretter-Pico, German general during World War II (b. 1893)
• Sir Donald Gainer, British diplomat, Ambassador to Venezuela, Brazil, and Poland (b. 1891)
• Harry Hedgpeth, American baseball player (b. 1888)
• František Kříž, Czech fencer, competed at the 1912 and 1928 Summer Olympics (b. 1884)
• Marcella Lindh, American opera singer (b. 1867)

31

• Andrej Bagar, Slovak film actor (b. 1900)
• Chester R. Davis, American businessman, Assistant Secretary of the Army (b. 1896)
• Alexander von Falkenhausen, German general (b. 1878)
• Lydia Locke, American opera singer (b. 1884)
• Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (b. 1924)