Deaths in April 1966
# Deaths in April 1966

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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

## April 1966

### 1

* Karl Adam, German Catholic theologian (b. 1876)
* Arnold Franz Brasz, American artist (b. 1888)
* Sollie Cohen, American football player (b. 1907)
* Dimitar Dimov, Bulgarian writer (b. 1909)
* James G. Ellis, American musician and composer (b. 1880)
* Sister Ignatia, Irish-American nun noted for working with alcoholics (b. 1889)
* Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (b. 1911)

### 2

* Charles Brown, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1887)
* C. S. Forester, English author (b. 1899)
* Sverre Hope, Norwegian politician, MP (b. 1902)
* William King, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (b. 1893)
* Vladimir L'vovich Korvin-Piotrovskii, Russian poet and exile (b. 1891)

### 3

* Russel Crouse, American playwright and librettist (b. 1893)
* Rocco DiSiglio, American boxer and mobster (b. 1939)
* Battista Farina, Italian car designer (b. 1893)
* Stella Weiner Kriegshaber, American pianist (b. 1879)

### 4

* Bernard Adeney, English painter and textile designer (b. 1878)
* Georges de Crequi-Montfort, French sport shooter, competed in 1912 Olympics and 1924 Olympics (b. 1877)
* Jimmy Daywalt, American race car driver (b. 1924)
* Maurie De Araugo, Australian rules footballer (b. 1902)
* Karl Krook, Swedish tug-of-war competitor, competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics (b. 1887)
* Edmond Locard, French criminologist (b. 1877)

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* Clarence Owen Cooper, Canadian politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1899)
* Harold Costley-White, English Anglican priest (b. 1878)
* Sam Dodge, American baseball player (b. 1889)
* Ragnar Ekberg, Swedish athlete, competed in the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1886)
* Slats Gill, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
* Caleb V. Haynes, American Air Force general (b. 1895)
* Tadeusz Kuchar, Polish footballer (b. 1891)

### 6

* Père Azaïs, French missionary and archeologist (b. 1870)
* Emil Brunner, Swiss Reformed theologian (b. 1889)
* Harold Cotton, Australian cricketer (b. 1914)
* Hans Engen, Norwegian diplomat (b. 1912)
* Julia Faye, American actress (b. 1893)
* Edna Flugrath, American actress (b. 1893)
* Norman Hobbs, English cricketer (b. 1900)

### 7

* Fred G. Aandahl, American politician, governor of North Dakota (1945–1951), member of U.S. House of Representative (1951–1953) (b. 1897)
* Harry Cator, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1894)
* George Cornelius, Australian rules footballer (b. 1874)
* Basil Davenport, American writer (b. 1905)
* Bert Dingley, American race car driver (b. 1885)
* Walt Hansgen, American race car driver (b. 1919)
* Ebenezer Kendell, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (b. 1886)

### 8

* John W. Gates, American politician, member of New York State Assembly and New York State Senate (b. 1872)
* Felicjan Kępiński, Polish astronomer (b. 1885)
* Elizabeth O. King, American biologist (b. 1912)
* Carl Schurz Vrooman, Assistant United States Secretary of Agriculture (b. 1872)

### 9

* Ralph M. Brown, American politician and judge, speaker of the California State Assembly (b. 1908)
* Barry Butler, English footballer (b. 1934)
* Ray Krouse, American football player (b. 1927)

### 10

* Heinz Barwich, German nuclear physicist, worked on the Soviet atom bomb program (b. 1911)
* Kawabata Ryūshi, Japanese painter (b. 1885)
* Clara Landsberg, American educator (b. 1873)
* Karl Magnussen, Danish cyclist, competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics (b. 1915)
* Evelyn Waugh, English author (b. 1903)

### 11

* A. B. Campbell, British naval officer and radio personality (b. 1881)
* Roman Dzeneladze, Soviet wrestler, competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics (b. 1933)
* Asmund Enger, Norwegian sports shooter, competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics (b. 1881)
* Rufus Fitzgerald, American academic administrator, Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (b. 1890)
* Paul Haugh, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (b. 1896)
* Ya'akov Klivnov, Russian-born Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (b. 1887)
* Avtandil Koridze, Georgian-Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler, gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics (b. 1935)

### 12

* Milislav Demerec, Austria-Hungary-born American scientist (b. 1895)
* Sir Waithilingam Duraiswamy, Ceylonese politician, speaker of the State Council of Ceylon (b. 1874)
* Joe Harris, American baseball player (b. 1882)
* Janez Jalen, Yugoslav writer and priest (b. 1891)
* Evgeny Maleev, Soviet paleontologist (b. 1915)

### 13

* Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi military office and statesman, President of the Republic (b. 1921)
* Bert Avery, New Zealand rugby league player (b. 1895)
* Clellan Card, American radio personality (b. 1903)
* Carlo Carrà, Italian painter (b. 1881)
* Georges Duhamel, French author (b. 1884).
* Lionel Edwards, British artist (b. 1878)
* Billy Fitchford, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1892)
* William S. Flynn, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1885)
* Gussie Gannon, American baseball player (b. 1873)
* Charles Heslop, British actor (b. 1883)
* Felix von Luckner, German naval commander during World War I (b. 1881)

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* John L. Barkley, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient of World War I (b. 1895)
* Theodore William Chaundy, English mathematician (b. 1889)
* George A. Lundberg, American sociologist (b. 1895)

### 15

* Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury, Pakistani writer and politician, Health Minister of East Pakistan (b. 1906)
* Joseph Crehan, American actor (b. 1883)
* Lloyd Garrett, American vaudeville performer and composer (b. 1886)
* William C. Giese, American educator and politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (b. 1886)
* Robert Leslie Harrison, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (b. 1903)
* Fritz Jenssen, Norwegian politician, mayor of Oslo during Nazi occupation, convicted of treason (b. 1886)
* Elfric Wells Chalmers Kearney, Australian engineer and inventor (b. 1881)
* Rina De Liguoro, Italian actress (b. 1892)

### 16

* Nandalal Bose, Indian painter (b. 1882)
* Otto Buchinger, German physician (b. 1878)
* Stafford Cassell, American football coach (b. 1909)
* Sir Ernest Gowers, British writer (b. 1880)
* Willie Haupt, American race car driver (b. 1885)
* Sekō Higa, Okinawan martial arts teacher (b. 1898)
* Herschel Johnson, American diplomat, Ambassador to Sweden, the United Nations, and Brazil (b. 1894)
* Eric Lambert, English-born Australian politician (b. 1918)
* Roger Lapham, American politician, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1883)
* Gaspar Lefebvre, French religious (b. 1880)

### 17

* Christiane Delyne, American-born French actress (b. 1902)
* Petre V. Haneș, Romanian literary historian (b. 1879)
* John Jewell, English-born South African cricketer (b. 1891)

### 18

* Ernest Bacon, British wrestler, competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1893)
* Maginel Wright Enright, American children's book illustrator (b. 1881)
* Edward Fitzgerald, American ice hockey player, competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1891)
* Joseph E. Maddy, American music educator (b. 1891)

### 19

* Gösta Åsbrink, Swedish gymnast and modern pentathlete; Olympic athlete: gold medal in the 1908 Summer Olympics, silver medal in the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1881)
* Jack Cock, English footballer (b. 1893)
* Brigadier Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, Australian physician and army officer (b. 1891)
* E. Snapper Ingram, American politician (b. 1884)
* Maury Kent, American basketball, baseball, and football coach (b. 1885)
* Javier Solís, Mexican singer (b. 1931)

### 20

* Rufus Cole, American doctor (b. 1872)
* Earle Cook, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (b. 1881)
* Prince Frederick of Prussia, German-born British aristocrat, Grandson of the last Kaiser (b. 1911)
* Johnny Johnson, British philatelist (b. 1884)
* Jens Kirkegaard, Danish gymnast, silver medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1889)

### 21

* Sepp Dietrich, Nazi German military leader (b. 1892)
* Tray Grinter, English cricketer (b. 1885)
* Archibald Montgomerie, 17th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish nobleman (b. 1914)

### 22

* Aslaug Blytt, Norwegian art historian, museum manager, politician (b. 1899)
* Lou Finney, American baseball player (b. 1910)
* Enrico Glori, Italian actor (b. 1901)
* Rienk Kuiper, Dutch-born American theologian and academic (b. 1886)

### 23

* Naima Akef, Egyptian belly-dancer and actress (b. 1929)
* Heinrich Dollwetzel, East German Major General (b. 1912)
* George Ohsawa, Japanese diet founder (b. 1893)

### 24

* Melecio Arranz, Filipino politician; member of the Senate (b. 1888)
* Simon Chikovani, Georgian poet and Soviet politician, deputy to the Supreme Soviet (b. 1902)
* J. Morris Foster, American actor (b. 1881)
* Harry R. Jefferson, American football and basketball coach (b. c. 1896)
* Joasaph Leliukhin, Ukrainian cleric, Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia and Exarch of Ukraine (b. 1903)
* Louis A. Johnson, American politician, US Secretary of Defense (b. 1891)

### 25

* Art Decatur, American baseball player (b. 1894)
* Iorrie Isaacs, Welsh rugby player (b. 1911)
* Maria Nikolaevna Kuznetsova, Russian opera singer (b. 1880)

### 26

* Earnest Sevier Cox, American Methodist preacher and political activist (b. 1880)
* Bill Everson, Welsh rugby player (b. 1906)
* Roberto Faz, Cuban singer (b. 1914)
* Tom Florie, American soccer player (b. 1897)
* Samuel Kahanamoku, American swimmer, medalist at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1902)

### 27

* Kenzō Futaki, Japanese doctor (b. 1873)
* Walter P. Kuptz, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (b. 1898)

### 28

* Joseph Birds, English footballer (b. 1887)
* Gilberto Govi, Italian actor (b. 1885)

### 29

* Rolf Bergersen, Norwegian sport shooter, world champion and Olympic competitor (b. 1906)
* Earle D. Chesney, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
* William Eccles, British physicist and radio pioneer (b. 1875)
* Catherine Fonteney, French actress (b. 1879)
* Hugo Friend, Austro-Hungarian-born American jurist (b. 1882)
* Tom Hales, Irish republican and politician, TD (b. 1892)
* Sílvio Lagreca, Brazilian football manager (b. 1895)
* Terence MacDermot, Jamaican-born Canadian diplomat, High Commissioner to Australia and South Africa, Ambassador to Israel and Greece (b. 1896)
* Eugene O'Brien, American actor (b. 1880)

### 30

* Everett Case, American basketball coach (b. 1900)
* Richard Fariña, American writer and folksinger (b. 1937)
* Jan Cornelis Hofman, Dutch painter (b. 1889)
* Shunsuke Kondo, Japanese politician (b. 1890)
* Ernst Heinrich Landrock, German photographer (b. 1878)
* Nicolae Gh. Lupu, Romanian physician (b. 1884)
* Duane Lyman, American architect (b. 1886)
