Deaths in August 1966
# Deaths in August 1966

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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

## August 1966

### 1

* Hank Gowdy, American baseball player (b. 1889)
* Robey Leibbrandt, South African boxer, competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics, and convicted traitor for acts during World War II (b. 1913)
* Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (b. 1941)
* Jeremiah Mahoney, Australian and New Zealand cricketer (b. 1880)

### 2

* Rudolf Antonín Dvorský, Czech bandleader (b. 1899)
* Jacques Fouques-Duparc, French diplomat (b. 1897)

### 3

* Earl Blackburn, American baseball player (b. 1892)
* Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
* John Cockle, English-born Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives (b. 1908)
* Caroline Ganley, British politician, MP (b. 1879)
* Syd James, Australian rules footballer (b. 1895)
* Jackson Keefer, American football player (b. 1900)
* Tristan Klingsor, French poet and musician (b. 1874)

### 4

* Betty Arlen, American actress (b. 1909)
* Pug Cavet, American baseball player (b. 1889)
* Howard Jackson, American composer (b. 1900)
* Régis Jolivet, French philosopher (b. 1891)
* William Kovach, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (b. 1909)

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* Bian Zhongyun, Chinese educator, first victim of the Cultural Revolution (b. 1916)
* John Cairney, New Zealand anatomist (b. 1898)
* Nobby Clark, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1897)
* Austin Diamond, English-born Australian cricketer (b. 1874)
* Rufus Goldney, Australian politician, member of the South Australian House of Assembly (b. 1883)
* Richard Hingston, British naturalist (b. 1887)
* Joseph R. Knowland, American politician, US Representative from California (b. 1873)

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* Edmond L. DePatie, American film industry executive (b. 1900)
* Cordwainer Smith, American author (b. 1913)

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* Samuel J. Battle, American police officer, first African-American police officer in New York City (b. 1883)
* George Graham, Irish-Canadian soccer player (b. 1902)

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* Herman Bartlett, Australian rules footballer (b. 1892)
* Teddy Billington, American racing cyclist, multiple medalist at the 1904 Olympic games (b. 1882)
* Richmond P. Hobson, Jr., American-Canadian writer (b. 1907)
* George Ludlow Lee Sr., American businessman (b. 1901)
* Ed "Strangler" Lewis, professional wrestler (b. 1891)
* Jack Lynch, Australian rugby player (b. 1910)

### 9

* Axel Alfredsson, Swedish footballer, Olympic competitor (1924) (b. 1902)
* Lee Bowers, American witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy (b. 1925)
* Henri Fescourt, French film director (b. 1880)
* Alexander Gitovich, Soviet poet and translator (b. 1909)
* William Woodbury Hicks, American philatelist (b. 1896)
* Giorgi Leonidze, Georgian writer (b. 1899)

### 10

* J. C. Bloem, Dutch poet and writer (b. 1887)
* Arthur Creber, British cricketer (b. 1909)
* Chuck Dressen, American baseball player and manager (b. 1894)
* James French, American murderer (b. c. 1936)
* Maj. Alfred Cecil Herring, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1888)
* Thomas Andrew Murray Kirk, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1906)

### 11

* Ettore Bellotto, Italian gymnast, member of the gold medal-winning team at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1895)

### 12

* Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet (b. 1923)
* J. H. Conradie, South African politician and judge, Speaker of the National Assembly (b. 1897)
* Thomas Johnson, English cyclist, medalist at the 1908 and 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1886)

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* Frank Chester, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (b. 1901)
* Laura Gardin Fraser, American sculptor (b. 1889)
* Poul Hansen, Danish politician, Defence Minister of Denmark and Danish Minister of Finance (b. 1913)

### 14

* Cora Sutton Castle, American educator (b. 1880)
* Raymond Duncan, American writer and philosopher (b. 1874)
* Alfred Kreymborg, American writer (b. 1883)

### 15

* George Burns, American baseball player (b. 1889)
* Chris Cameron, Australian rules footballer (b. 1894)
* Jules Dubois, American reporter (b. 1910)
* Rafael Frontaura, Chilean actor (b. 1896)
* Jan Kiepura, Polish-born American tenor and actor (b. 1902)
* Seena Owen, American actress (b. 1894)

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* Carl Klæth, Norwegian gymnast, silver medalist at the 1908 Summer Olympics (b. 1887)

### 17

* Bill Allington, American minor league baseball player and manager (b. 1903)
* Jean-Yves Bigras, Canadian film director and editor (b. 1919)
* Rolf Billberg, Swedish alto saxophone player (b. 1930)
* Michael Garrison, American television producer (The Wild Wild West) (b. 1922)
* Moses Hadas, American classical scholar (b. 1900)
* Kong Duen-yee, Hong Kong actor (b. 1923)
* André Lefebvre de La Boulaye, French diplomat, ambassador to the United States (b. 1876)
* Frank Livingstone, New Zealand lawn bowls player (b. 1886)
* Ken Miles, British sports car racing engineer and driver (b. 1918)

### 18

* D. C. Jarvis, American physician (b. 1881)

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* Fritz Bleyl, German painter (b. 1880)
* Carlo Capra, Italian footballer (b. 1889)
* Roy Crick, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (b. 1904)
* Jeanne de Casalis, Basutoland-born British actress (b. 1897)
* Tajar Zavalani, Albanian historian and journalist (b. 1903)

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* Arthur Colvin, Australian doctor and politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (b. 1884)
* Austin Diamond, American politician (b. 1874)
* Urban Huttleston Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven, American-born British nobleman (b. 1896)
* Fulton Lewis Jr., American broadcaster (b. 1903)

### 21

* Terry Beddard, British fencer; Olympic competitor (1936 and 1948) (b. 1901)
* Jack Bisset, Australian rules footballer (b. 1900)
* Martin Dooling, American soccer player, bronze medalist at the 1904 Summer Olympics (b. 1886)
* Constance D'Arcy Mackay, American playwright (b. 1887)
* Kuttur Mallappa, Indian politician, home minister of Coorg State

### 22

* Gunnar Aaby, Danish soccer player (b. 1895)
* Benjamin C. Dawkins, Sr., American judge (b. 1881)
* Vladislav Illich-Svitych, Soviet linguist (b. 1934)
* Wade H. Kitchens, American politician, U.S. Representative from Arkansas (b. 1878)
* Erwin Komenda, Austrian automobile designer (b. 1904)

### 23

* Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)
* Guillermo Gorostiza, Spanish footballer (b. 1909)
* Mere Haana Hall, New Zealand educator (b. c. 1881)
* John C. Knox, American federal judge (b. 1881)

### 24

* Malfred Bergseth, Norwegian trade unionist (b. 1895)
* Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Polish general and statesman (b. 1895)
* Wheezer Dell, American baseball player (b. 1886)
* Sam Faubus, American politician (b. 1887)
* Jan van der Laan, Dutch architect (b. 1896)
* Lao She, Chinese writer (b. 1899)

### 25

* James Bagshaw, English football player (Derby County) (b. 1885)
* Lance Comfort, English film director (b. 1908)
* Sir John Dwyer, Australian jurist, Chief Justice and Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia (b. 1879)

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* Nils Asheim, Norwegian Liberal Party politician (b. 1895)
* Art Baker, American actor (b. 1898)
* Edmund Blampied, Jersey artist (b. 1886)
* Norm Davis, Australian rules footballer (b. 1904)
* Robert Dehler, Canadian-born Bermudan Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1889)
* Hermann Geiger, Swiss pilot (b. 1914)
* Wolfgang Langhoff, German actor and director (b. 1901)
* Joanna MacKinnon, Scottish-born New Zealand nurse (b. 1878)
* Alexander Hugh Macmillan, Canadian religious leader (b. 1877)

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* Mads Clausen, Danish industrialist (b. 1905)
* John Cournos, Russian-born American and British writer (b. 1881)

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* Waldemar Carlsen, Norwegian writer, newspaper editor, and politician (b. 1880)
* Andrew Edmiston, Jr., American politician, United States Representative from West Virginia (b. 1892)
* Rudolf Herrnstadt, East German politician and journalist (b. 1903)*Rudolf Herrnstadt, East German politician and journalist (b. 1903).

### 29

* Princess Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, German princess (b. 1890)
* Emil Burri, German playwright and screenwriter (b. 1902)
* Fritz Max Cahén, German anti-Nazi (b. 1891)
* Al DeVormer, American baseball player (b. 1891)
* Joseph Egger, Austrian actor (b. 1889)
* Romy Gosz, American Polka musician (b. 1910)

### 30

* John Campbell, Australian rugby player (b. 1889)
* Martin W. Clement, American railroad executive (b. 1881)
* Elise Hambro, Norwegian educator (b. 1881)
* Gus Kuhn, British motorcyclist (b. 1898)

### 31

* Joyce Allan, Australian conchologist (b. 1896)
* Alexis Caron, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons (b. 1899)
* Denzil Dean Harber, British ornithologist (b. 1909)
* Jaroslav Jirkovský, Czechoslovak ice hockey player, competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics (b. 1891)
* Armand Machabey, French musicologist (b. 1886)
