Deaths in June 1966
# Deaths in June 1966

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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

## June 1966

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* Herbert Bowmer, English cricketer (b. 1891)
* Cécile Butticaz, Swiss engineer (b. 1884)
* Dick Cox, American baseball player (b. 1897)
* Peter George, British author (b. 1924)
* Don Herold, American illustrator (b. 1889)
* Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (b. 1873)

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* François Ayoub, Syrian Archbishop of Aleppo and Cyprus (b. 1899)
* Arthur P. Bedou, American photographer (b. 1882)
* Joe Casey, American baseball player (b. 1887)
* Évariste Kimba, Congolese politician, Prime Minister of Congo (later Zaire), executed (b. 1926)
* Stephen King-Hall, Baron King-Hall, British politician, writer, and nobleman, MP (b. 1893)

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* Connie Brown, Canadian hockey player (b. 1917)
* Alice Calhoun, American actress (b. 1900)
* Dario Canas, Portuguese sports shooter, Olympic competitor at 1920 Summer Olympics and 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1884)
* Reuben Swinburne Clymer, American occultist (b. 1878)
* Stuart Levy, British film producer (b. 1907)
* Fionán Lynch, British and Irish politician, MP, TD, Irish Minister for Education and for Fisheries (b. 1889)

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* Chang Myon, South Korean statesman, Vice President, Prime Minister (b. 1899)
* Arthur C. Cope, American organic chemist (b. 1909)
* Teddy Davis, American boxer (b. 1923)
* Blanche Knopf, American publisher (b. 1894)
* Frances Gertrude Kumm, Australian philanthropist (b. 1886)

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* Edward Arthur Carr, British colonial administrator of Nigeria (b. 1903)
* Oakley G. Kelly, American aviator (b. 1891)
* Lee Choon Seng, Chinese-born Singaporean businessman (b. 1888)
* Alexander Brown Mackie, American academic (b. 1894)

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* Sir Elias Wynne Cemlyn-Jones, Welsh politician (b. 1888)
* Ethel Clayton, American actress (b. 1882)
* Bernie Henderson, American baseball player (b. 1899)
* Edward Iwi, English lawyer (b. 1904)
* Wilhelm Jannasch, German clergyman and academic (b. 1888)
* Heinz Liepmann, German writer (b. 1905)
* Elizabeth Christ Trump, German–American businesswoman (b. 1880)

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* Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1887)
* Norman Baillie-Stewart, British army officer known as "The Officer in the Tower" when he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for collaboration with Nazi Germany in World War II (b. 1909)
* John Adam Day, British politician (b. 1901)
* James Hickey, Irish politician, TD
* Otto Hoogesteyn, German-born Dutch swimmer, competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1903)
* Otto Karhi, Finnish politician, MP (b. 1876)

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* Jim Dixon, American football player (b. 1904)
* Karl Hasselmann, German cinematographer (b. 1883)
* Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)

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* Max Friz, German design engineer (b. 1883)
* Sherry Edmundson Fry, American sculptor (b. 1879)
* Tage von Gerber, Swedish genealogist (b. 1885)
* Per Helmer, Norwegian businessman (b. 1897)
* St Barbe Holland, English clergyman, Anglican Bishop of Wellington New Zealand (b. 1882)

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* Joseph Biondo, Italian-born American organized crime figure (b. 1897)
* Felice Carena, Italian painter (b. 1879)
* Gunnar Ekstrand, Swedish diver, competed in the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1892)
* Wally Fraser, Australian rules footballer (b. 1897)

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* Alfred Berger, Austrian pair skater, Olympic gold medalist in 1924 (b. 1894)
* Thomas Hardie Chalmers, American opera singer and actor (b. 1884)
* Rube Currie, American baseball player (b. 1898)
* Timothy Curtis, English cricketer (b. 1882)
* Jimmy Davies, American race car driver (b. 1929)
* Wallace Ford, English-born American actor (b. 1898)
* Stewart Judah, American illusionist (b. 1893)
* Kumazawa Hiromichi, Japanese pretender to the imperial throne (b. 1889)
* Jud Larson, American racecar driver (b. 1923)

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* Thomas Hardie Chalmers, American opera singer, actor, and filmmaker (b. 1884).
* William Ernest Hocking, American philosopher (b. 1873)
* Hermann Scherchen, Austrian conductor (b. 1891), heart attack.

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* Pierre Chaumié, French politician, member of the French Senate (b. 1880)
* John K. Hodnette, American engineer (b. 1902)
* Henry Hogbin, British politician, MP (b. 1880)

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* Walther Bacmeister, German jurist and ornithologist (b. 1873)
* Cub Buck, American football player and coach and college athletics administrator (b. 1892)
* Parnaoz Chikviladze, Soviet judoka, bronze medalist at the 1964 Summer Olympics (b. 1941)
* Henny Dons, Norwegian educator and missionary (b. 1874)

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* Robert G. Fowler, American aviation pioneer (b. 1884)
* Israel Kleiner, American biochemist (b. 1885)

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* Dantès Bellegarde, Haitian diplomat (b. 1877)
* Lew Brice, American dancer and comedian (b. 1893)
* Gen. Georg Keppler, German SS officer during World War II (b. 1894)

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* Betty Baxter Anderson, American author (b. 1908)
* Hans Christern, German officer during World War II (b. 1900)
* Luby DiMeolo, American football player and coach (b. 1903)
* Fern Majeau, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)

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* German Galynin, Soviet composer (b. 1922)
* Konrad Heiden, German-born American journalist and historian (b. 1901)

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* Sydney Allard, British racing motorist and founder of the Allard car company (b. 1910)
* Chalmers Clifton, American conductor and composer (b. 1889)
* Marjan Kozina, Slovene composer (b. 1907)
* Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)

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* Capt. Sir Malcolm Bullock, 1st Baronet, British soldier, politician, and nobleman, MP (b. 1890)
* Wilhelm Busch, German pastor and anti-Nazi (b. 1897)
* Cheng Bugao, Chinese film director (b. 1898)
* Robert Hense, German footballer (b. 1885)
* John Hubbard, 3rd Baron Addington, British aristocrat (b. 1883)
* Paul Kuhn, German-born American opera singer (b. 1874)
* Louis-Joseph Lebret, French priest and ethicist (b. 1897)
* Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest and astrophysicist (b. 1894)

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* Reginald Calvert, British pirate radio station operator (b. 1928)
* Ferdinando Innocenti, Italian businessman (b. 1891)

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* Roger Blunt, English-born New Zealand cricketer (b. 1900)
* E. Yale Dawson, American botanist (b. 1918)
* Warren S. Eaton, American aviation pioneer (b. 1891)
* Victor Koumorico, Congolese politician, President of the Senate

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* Paul Cain, American author (b. 1902)
* Ted Corday, Canadian-born American television executive (b. 1908)
* Louis C. Cramton, American politician, United States Representative from Michigan (b. 1875)
* Frank L. Hagaman, American politician, Governor of Kansas (b. 1894)
* Weli Hohenthal, Russian modern pentathlete, competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1880)
* Clara Jacobo, Italian opera singer (b. c. 1898)

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* Edward Allworth, American officer in the United States Army during World War I (Medal of Honor) (b. 1895)
* Eric Crankshaw, English cricketer and later Secretary, Government Hospitality Fund (b. 1885)
* Mick Dunn, Australian rules footballer (b. 1898)
* Otto-Wilhelm Förster, German general during World War II (b. 1885)
* J.K. Kennedy, American basketball coach (b. 1907)
* Mathilde Ludendorff, German psychiatrist and conspiracy theorist (b. 1877)

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* Ughetto Bertucci, Italian actor (b. 1907)
* F. Henri Klickmann, American composer (b. 1885)
* Hans Ferdinand Geisler, German Luftwaffe general during World War II (b. 1891)
* Busher Jackson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
* F. Henri Klickmann, American composer (b. 1885)
* Wilf Loughlin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1896)
* Muriel Lowe, English cricketer (b. 1914)
* Edmund Sebree, American army general (b. 1898)

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* François Dupré, French hotelier, art collector, racehorse owner/breeder (b. 1888)
* George King, English film director (b. 1899)

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* John Davenport, English book reviewer and critic (b. 1908)
* Marty Krug, German-born American baseball player (b. 1888)

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* Kenneth Miller Adams, American artist (b. 1897)
* Gleason Archer, Sr., founder and first president of Suffolk University and Suffolk Law School in Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1880)
* Frances Maule Bjorkman, American suffragist (b. 1879)
* Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Turkish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1890)

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* Lewis Bedford, English footballer (b. 1899)
* Gustav Kampendonk, German screenwriter (b. 1909)
* Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, Indian mathematician and historian (b. 1907)

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* Margery Allingham, English writer of detective fiction (b. 1904)
* Loretta Bayliss, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1939)
* Mordaunt Doll, English cricketer (b. 1888)
* Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (b. 1906)
* Ernest Fawcus, English cricketer (b. 1895)
* E. B. C. Jones, British writer (b. 1893)
* Jake Josvanger, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (b. 1908)
* Donald Russell Long, American soldier, awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1939)
