Deaths in March 1966
# Deaths in March 1966

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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

## March 1966

### 1

* Hugh Baillie, American journalist, head of UP (b. 1890)
* George William Chafer, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1894)
* Károly Csapkay, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1894)
* Arthur Henry Davey, New Zealand master mariner (b. 1878)
* Rick Decker, American race car driver (b. 1903)
* Karel Dostal, Czech actor (b. 1884)
* Adm. Sir John Eccles, English Royal Navy admiral (b. 1898)
* Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
* William R. Munroe, American admiral (b. 1886)
* Donald Stewart, American-born English actor (b. 1910)

### 2

* Vincent Fanelli, American musician (b. 1881)

### 3

* Alfonso Castaldo, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Naples (b. 1890)
* Peter S. Connor, American marine, received the Medal of Honor (b. 1932)
* Bernard Charles Cotton, English-born Australian malacologist (b. 1905)
* Joseph Fields, American playwright (b. 1895)
* Jack Fier, American film producer (b. 1896)
* William Frawley, American actor (I Love Lucy) (b. 1887)
* William Dickson Lang, British geologist (b. 1878)
* Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b. 1870)
* Alice Pearce, American actress (b. 1917)

### 4

* Stanley Anderson, English artist (b. 1884)
* Joseph Fields, American playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film producer (b. 1895)
* Bernhard Grant, British philatelist (b. 1887)
* Thomas Loveday, British university administrator (b. 1875)

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* Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
* Robert John Hibbs, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1943)
* Sir Claude Liardet, British general during World War II (b. 1881)
* Charles Lomberg, Swedish decathlete, silver medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1886)

### 6

* Louis-Mathias Auger, Canadian teacher and Liberal Party politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1902)
* Charles F. Buddy, American Roman Catholic Bishop of San Diego (b. 1887)
* Giorgio Bulgari, Italian businessman (Bulgari) (b. 1890)
* Christian Günther, Swedish diplomat and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs during World War II (b. 1886)
* Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez, Guatemalan labor leader (b. 1922)
* Richard Hageman, Dutch-born American pianist and composer (b. 1881)
* Gen. Leland Hobbs, American general during World War II (b. 1892)
* Spiridon Kacarosi, Albanian politician, head of the Albanian Secret Service (b. 1891)
* Enrique López Albújar, Peruvian writer (b. 1872)
* Michitaro Totsuka, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)

### 7

* William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, English businessman and Conservative Party politician (b. 1907)
* Donald B. Beary, American admiral (b. 1888)
* Bill Cahill, Australian rules footballer (b. 1911)
* George Camsell, English footballer (b. 1902)
* Sir Nigel Colman, 1st Baronet, British politician, MP (b. 1886)
* Hilding Ekman, Swedish runner, competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1893)
* Georg Faber, German mathematician (b. 1877)
* Spider Johnson, American football player (b. 1907)
* Yosef Leifer, Austro-Hungarian-born American rabbi (b. 1891)

### 8

* Sir John Blake-Reed, British judge (b. 1882)
* Roger L. Dell, American jurist, Chief Justice of Minnesota (b. 1897)
* Roderick Falconer, English cricketer (b. 1886)
* Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar, Egyptian painter (b. 1925)
* Adán Gordón, Panamanian swimmer at the 1928 Olympics (b. 1906)
* Sir Norman Kendal, British barrister and police administrator (b. 1880)

### 9

* John F. Baldwin, Jr., American politician, U.S. Representative from California (b. 1915)
* René Barbier, French fencer, silver medalist at the 1928 Summer Olympics (b. 1891)
* Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (b. 1924)
* George Cornell, English criminal (b. c. 1928)
* Gen. Sir Lewis Halliday, English Royal Marines general, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1870)

### 10

* Walter Heywood Bryan, Australian geologist (b. 1891)
* Émile Coulonvaux, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
* Sophie Harris, English theatre and opera costume and scenic designer (b. 1900)
* Hubertus Hitschhold, German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II (b. 1912)
* Frank O'Connor, Irish writer (b. 1903)
* Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

### 11

* James Barnhill, American football official (b. 1921)
* James E. Fitzsimmons, American racehorse trainer (b. 1874)
* Ivan Greenberg, English journalist (b. 1896)
* Frank Hodgins, Australian rules footballer (b. 1888)
* W. M. Holland, American politician, mayor of Dallas (b. 1875)
* Willis Kent, American film producer (b. 1878)
* Jean Laigret, French biologist (b. 1893)

### 12

* Victor Brauner, Romanian artist (b. 1903)
* George Caldwell, American builder (b. 1892)
* Sir Sydney Camm, English aeronautical engineer (b. 1893)
* Néstor Guillén, Bolivian politician, President of Bolivia (b. 1890)

### 13

* Guido Bruck, Austrian numismatist (b. 1920)
* Max Clara, Italian-born German anatomist (b. 1899)
* Johnny Duncan, Scottish footballer (b. 1896)
* Henry R. Harmer, British philatelist (b. 1870)
* Frederick Lister, British Legionnaire (b. 1886 or 1887)
* Verner Magnusson, Swedish long-distance runner, competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1890)

### 14

* Leon Isserlis, Russian-born British statistician (b. 1881)
* Lee Magee, American baseball player and manager (b. 1889)

### 15

* Osendé Afana, Cameroonian guerrilla (b. 1930)
* Ruth Dalton, British politician, MP (b. 1890)
* Yenovk Der Hagopian, Turkish-born American artist (b. 1900)
* James Donahue, American pentathlete, silver medalist at 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1885).
* Norman Augustus Finch, English sergeant in the Royal Marines, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1890)
* Chappie Geygan, American baseball player (b. 1903)
* Henry D. Larcade Jr., American politician, U.S. Representative from Louisiana (b. 1890)

### 16

* Joseph-Odilon Duval, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (b. 1895)
* Gavriil Gorelov, Russian painter (b. 1880)
* Lê Văn Đệ, Vietnamese painter (b. 1906)

### 17

* Don Eagle, Canadian wrestler (b. 1925)
* Lindsay Merritt Inglis, New Zealand general and chief judge of the Allied Control Commission's Supreme Court in Germany after World War II (b. 1894)
* Santiago Lovell, Argentine boxer, gold medalist at the 1932 Summer Olympics (b. 1912)

### 18

* Frank Bennett, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) (b. 1904)
* Frank Gaha, Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives (b. 1894)
* Arthur T. Hannett, American politician, Governor of New Mexico (b. 1884)
* Osvald Helmuth, Danish actor (b. 1894)
* Robert F. Hill, Canadian film director (b. 1886)

### 19

* Erik Aaes, Danish set designer and art director (b. 1899)
* Josué Jéhouda, Russian-born Swiss writer and Zionist (b. 1892)

### 20

* Laurence Abrams, English professional footballer (b. 1889)
* Demetrios Galanis, Greek artist (b. 1879)
* Anne Hocking, British writer (b. 1890)
* Johnny Morrison, professional baseball player (b. 1895)

### 21

* Norman Coates, British army officer and politician, MP (b. 1890)
* Tom Fern, English footballer (b. 1886)
* Frank Finnan, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (B. 1897)
* Ronald Acott Hall, British diplomat and politician (b. 1892)
* Sam Honaker, American football player (b. 1887)
* Solomon Clifford Joseph, British flying ace during World War I (b. 1893)

### 22

* Bruno Bieler, German general during World War II (b. 1888)
* Horrie Brain, Australian rules footballer (b. 1885)
* Henry Bray, Australian rules footballer (b. 1891)
* Gen. Sir Dallas Brooks, British military commander, Governor of Victoria, Australia (b. 1896)
* Everett Glass, American actor (b. 1891)
* John Harlin, American mountaineer (b. 1935)
* Jacob Lestschinsky, Ukrainian-born American-Israeli statistician (b. 1876)

### 23

* Peggy Allenby, American silent film, television, and radio actress (b. 1901)
* August Bach, East German politician (b. 1897)
* Bertil Bothén, Swedish sailor, competitor at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1892)
* Fred T. Long, American baseball player and football coach (b. 1896)
* Marie Elisabeth Lüders, German politician, member of the Reichstag and of the Bundestag (b. 1878)

### 24

* Carl Becker, German Wehrmacht general during World War II (b. 1895)
* Joseph Leonard Burley, Australian rules football executive (b. 1878)
* Albert Evans, English footballer and manager (b. 1874)
* Frederic Foley, American urologist (b. 1891)
* Virginia Hill, American organized crime figure (b. 1916)
* Morten Ansgar Kveim, Norwegian pathologist (b. 1892)
* Walter Lawrence, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (b. 1895)
* Muhammad Ali Luqman, Yemeni writer and journalist (b. 1898)

### 25

* G.R. Blanco White, English judge (b. 1883)
* Pravir Chandra Bhanj Deo, Maharajah of Bastar state (b. 1929)
* Venelin Ganev, Bulgarian politician and regent for tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria (b. 1880)
* Serafima Hopner, Soviet politician (b. 1880)

### 26

* Wilhelm Engel Bredal, Norwegian politician, Member of Parliament (b. 1907)
* Morris Doob, American sports shooter, competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics (b. 1907)
* Robert Gibson, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (b. 1932)
* Victor Hochepied, French swimmer, competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics (b. 1883)

### 27

* Sir Archer Baldwin, British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (b. 1883)
* Pannalal Bhattacharya, Bengali singer
* Jan Čarek, Czech writer (b. 1898)
* Hermann Garrn, German footballer (b. 1888)
* Hermann Harrendorf, German general during World War II (b. 1896)
* Ragnar Josephson, Swedish art historian (b. 1891)
* Karl König, Austrian paediatrician (b. 1902)
* Helen Menken, American actress (b. 1901)

### 28

* Roy Bell, New Zealand-Australian ornithologist (b. 1882)
* William W. Church, American football coach (b. 1874)
* Toni Edgar-Bruce, British actress (b. 1892)
* Buntarō Futagawa, Japanese film director (b. 1899)
* Max Ilgner, German industrialist, board member of IG Farben and convicted of spoliation and plunder after World War II (b. 1899)
* George Ward Linn, American philatelist (b. 1884)

### 29

* Alfred Edwin Brain Jr., English-born American musician (b. 1885)
* Knut Gard, Norwegian resistance leader (b. 1905)
* Jazz Gillum, American harmonica player (b. 1902 or 1904)
* Stylianos Gonatas, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece 1922-1924 (b. 1876)
* Dessaline Harris, Liberian jurist, member of the Supreme Court of Liberia (b. 1895)
* Albert-Édouard Janssen, Belgian banker and politician, Minister of Finance (b. 1883)
* Leon Lumsdaine, Chinese-born British athlete, competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics (b. 1923)

### 30

* Frederick Gordon Bradley, Canadian and Newfoundland politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons and Canadian Senate, Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1886)
* Jelly d'Arányi, Hungarian violinist (b. 1893)
* Kim Jong-oh, South Korean soldier, president of the South Korean Military Academy (b. 1921)
* Sir Clutha Mackenzie, New Zealand politician, MP (b. 1895)
* Erwin Piscator, German theater director (b. 1893)

### 31

* Grady Adkins, nicknamed "Butcher Boy", American professional baseball player (Chicago White Sox) (b. 1897)
* Fortunato Calcagno, Italian politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies (b. 1900)
* William David Doherty, English rugby player and hospital administrator (b. 1893)
* Arthur Robert Hogg, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1903)
* Samuel A. Levine, Polish-born American cardiologist (b. 1891)
