Deaths in October 1966

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1966

Elizabeth Arden

1

• Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola, American mobster (b. 1900)
• Donald S. Day, American reporter and collaborator with Nazi Germany (b. 1895)
• Cyril Dumpleton, British politician, MP (b. 1897)
• Germaine Lecomte, French fashion designer (b. 1889)
• Kenneth Mackenzie, British cleric, Bishop of Brechin (b. 1876)

2

• Egmont Arens, American publisher of literature and art, industrial designer, and commercial artist (b. 1889)
• Jules Boedt, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1884)
• Jumbo Brown, American baseball player (b. 1907)
• Anna Lesznai, Hungarian-born American artist and writer (b. 1995)

3

• George van den Bergh, Dutch law professor and amateur astronomer (b. 1890)
• Teodors Bergs, Latvian chess master (b. 1902)
• Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed, English judge (b. 1899)
• Ivy Gibbs, English-born Australian and New Zealand writer (b. c. 1886)
• Charles Hand, Hong Kong-born Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (b. 1900)
• George Heinz, Australian rules footballer (b. 1891)
• Dave Lambert, American jazz singer (b. 1917)

4

• Sherman Billingsley, American nightclub owner (the Stork Club) (b. 1896)
• Oscar Cox, American lawyer and judge (b. 1905)
• Pierre Dufaur de Gavardie, French flying ace of World War I (b. 1890)
• Herbert Henley, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (b. 1889)
• Frederick Jamieson, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (b. 1875)
• Mike Tresh, American baseball player (b. 1914)

5

• Korbinian Aigner, known as Apfelpfarrer ("apple pastor"), German Catholic priest and pomologist (b. 1885)
• Hilda Sofie Kindt, Norwegian politician (b. 1881)

6

• Sir George Abbiss OBE, British Chief Constable in the London Metropolitan Police (b. 1884)
• Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders, English academic, Director of the London School of Economics (b. 1886)
• Pierre Couderc, French screenwriter and actor (b. 1896)
• Mitchell Fields, Romanian-born American sculptor (b. 1901)
• Harry Hanson, American baseball player (b. 1896)
• Eddie Harris, Australian rules footballer (b. 1879)
• Bill Henderson, American baseball player (b. 1901)

7

• Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer and songwriter of urban Greek music (b. 1890)
• John Haire, Baron Haire of Whiteabbey, British politician, MP (b. 1908)
• Mauritz Johansson, Swedish sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1881)
• Johnny Kidd, English singer (b. 1935)
• Smiley Lewis, African-American R&B musician (b. 1913)
• George Magerkurth, American baseball umpire (b. 1888)

8

• Juan Batlle Planas, Spanish-born Argentine painter (b. 1911)
• Célestin Freinet, French educational reformer (b. 1896)

9

• Fedor Astakhov, Soviet Marshal of the aviation (b. 1892)
• William Gage Brady, Jr., American banker, chairman of the National City Bank of New York (b. 1887)
• Leslie Irvin, American parachutist and stuntman (b. 1895)
• Franz Xaver Kappus, Austrian-German writer (b. 1883)
• Artturi Lehtinen, Finnish diplomat, ambassador to Canada (b. 1896)

10

• Melville E. Abrams, American lawyer and politician from New York; member of the NY State Assembly (b. 1912)
• Abraham Binder, American composer (b. 1895)
• Kurt Bolender, German SS-man, operated the gas chambers at Sobibór(b. 1912)
• Colette Bonheur, née Colette Chailler, Canadian singer (b. 1927)
• Charlotte Cooper, English tennis champion (b. 1870)
• Robert Desoille, French psychotherapist (b. 1890)
• Vladimir Dyomin, Soviet footballer and coach (b. 1921)
• Jack Ferguson, Australian rules footballer (b. 1901)
• Wilfrid Lawson, English actor (b. 1900)
• Patsy Gharrity, American baseball player (b. 1892)
• William Wells Hewitt, English-Canadian organist and composer (b. 1898)
• Wilfrid Lawson, English actor (b. 1900)
• Slip Madigan, American football player and coach (b. 1896)

11

• Mabel Conkling, American sculptor (b. 1871)
• Wunibald Kamm, Swiss-born German automobile designer (b. 1893)
• Roger Sherman Loomis, American academic (b. 1887)
• Jack Loutet, Scottish-born Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (b. 1885)
• Filipe Samuel Magaia, Mozambican politician and guerrilla leader (b. 1937)
• Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby, British Conservative Party politician (b. 1897)

12

• Venerable Sergio Bernardini, Italian layman beatified by Pope Francis (b. 1882)
• Arthur Lourié, Russian composer (b. 1892)

13

• Muhammad Ibrahim, Pakistani academic, judge, and Minister of Law (b. 1894)
• Thom de Klerk, Dutch musician (b. 1912)
• Gijs Lamoree, Dutch athlete, competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics (b. 1903)
• Maj. Gen. Walter E. Lauer, American commander during World War II (b. 1893)
• Clifton Webb, American actor (b. 1889)

14

• George Carstairs, Australian rugby player (b. 1900)
• Arthur Folwell, English-born Australian rugby player (b. 1904)
• Roswell Clifton Gibbs, American physicist and academic (b. 1878)

15

• Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell CBE, British Labour Party politician (b. 1876)
• Jon Andrå, Norwegian Labour Party politician (b. 1888)
• Lee Blair, American jazz musician (b. 1903)
• Adam Falkenstein, German Assyriologist (b. 1906)
• Ross Gunn, American physicist (b. 1897)
• Jean Lauk, French cyclist (b. 1918)

16

• Arturo Dazzi, Italian artist (b. 1881)
• George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)

17

• Dalziel Hammick, British chemist (b. 1887)
• Sidney Hatch, American athlete, silver medalist at the 1904 Summer Olympics (b. 1883)
• Dhammalok Mahasthavir, Nepalese Buddhist monk (b. 1890)
• Vladislav Korchits, Polish-Soviet general and politician (b. 1893)
• Alexander Kulik, Russian cleric (b. 1911)

18

• Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-born beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1878)
• Cyril Briggs, Nevis-born American Communist Party leader (b. 1888)
• Joe Chandler, Australian rules footballer (b. 1877)
• Honor Crowley, Irish politician, TD (b. 1903)
• S. S. Kresge, American businessman, founder of Kmart (b. 1867)

19

• Scott Leavitt, American politician, U.S. Representative from Montana (b. 1879)
• Waldo Gifford Leland, American historian and archivist (b. 1879)
• Russell Lewis American football coach (b. 1895)

20

• Harry F. Byrd, American politician, Senator from Virginia (b. 1887)
• Sir Roy Cameron, Australian pathologist, President of the Royal College of Pathologists (b. 1899)
• Charles Catteau, French industrial designer (b. 1880)
• Walter Chadwick, English footballer (b. 1903)
• Mohamed Fawzi, Egyptian composer and singer (b. 1918)

21

• Alfred Cockayne, New Zealand botanist (b. 1880)
• Lewis Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton, British politician (b. 1897)
• Gen. Otto von Knobelsdorff, German general during World War II (b. 1886)
• Agnes Syme Macdonald, Scottish suffragist (b. 1882)

22

• George E. Drach, American lawyer and politician (b. 1906)
• Jack Evans, Australian rules footballer (b. 1891)
• John Garrick, British actor (b. 1902)
• P. S. Harrison, Ottoman-born American journalist (b. 1880)

23

• Eugenio Bava, Italian cinematographer (b. 1886)
• George Bell, Australian painter (b. 1878)
• Fred Fussell, American baseball player (b. 1895)
• Rafael Larco Hoyle, Peruvian archaeologist (b. 1901)
• Claire McDowell, silent screen actress (b. 1877)

24

• Joe Bach, American football player (Notre Dame) and coach (Pittsburgh Steelers) (b. 1901)
• Hans Dreier, German-born American art director (b. 1885)
• Leo Friedlander, American sculptor (b. 1888)
• Sam Hardy, English footballer (b. 1882)
• Norman R. Klug, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (b. 1905)

25

• Reginald Crummack, British field hockey player, competed at 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1887)
• Floyd MacMillan Davis, American artist (b. 1896)
• Col. William O. Eareckson, American Air Force officer (b. 1900)
• Johan Helo, Finnish politician and diplomat, Minister of Finance and ambassador to France (b. 1889)
• Thaddeus Lynch, Irish politician, TD (b. 1901)

26

• Katyayanidas Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher (b. 1917)
• Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
• Sir James Coats, 3rd Baronet, British skeleton racer, competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics (b. 1894)
• Bill Cronin, American baseball player (b. 1902)

27

• Mush Crawford, American football player (b. 1898)
• Malcolm Dobie, American-born Canadian politician, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (b. 1885)
• Barry Faulkner, American artist (b. 1881)
• Nigel Haig, English cricketer (b. 1887)
• Peter Harvey, English cricketer (b. 1926)
• Hewlett Johnson, English Anglican priest, Dean of Canterbury (b. 1874)
• Edith Kiss, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1905)

28

• Nikolai Belyaev, Soviet politician, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1903)
• Robert Charpentier, French Olympic cyclist (b. 1916)
• Eugène Hénaff, French trade union leader and member of the French Resistance (b. 1904)
• Franz Herterich, German actor (b. 1877)

29

• Wellman Braud, American jazz musician (b. 1891)
• Thomas Brennan, Australian politician, Victorian MLC (b. 1900)
• Jocelyn Brooke, English author (b. 1908)
• Anthony Cavalcante, American politician, United States Representative for Pennsylvania (b. 1897)
• Al Grabowski, American baseball player (b. 1901)
• Peter Illing, Austrian-born British actor (b. 1899)

30

• Dick Barrett, American baseball MLB pitcher (b. 1906)
• John Butt, English cricketer (b. 1892)
• Rex Cecil, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• John Drainie, Canadian actor and television presenter (b. 1916)
• Bill Farnsworth, Australian rugby player (b. 1887)
• Elmer Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1884)

31

• Elsie Leslie (b. 1881)