Deaths in October 1966
# Deaths in October 1966

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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

### 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), cancer.

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* 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)

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* 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)

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* 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)
* 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)
