Deaths in December 1966
# Deaths in December 1966

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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

## December 1966

### 1

* Lewis Albanese, American soldier (Medal of Honor) (b. 1946)
* Peter P. Carr, Danish-born American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Senate (b. 1890)
* Bai Chongxi, Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China (b. 1893)
* Lewis Creber, British art director (b. 1901)
* Ernest Daunt, Irish Anglican Archdeacon of Cork (b. 1909)
* James Maguire, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1886)

### 2

* Ralph Allen, Canadian journalist, editor, and novelist (b. 1913)
* Luitzen Brouwer, Dutch mathematician and philosopher (b. 1881)
* Giles Cooper, Anglo-Irish playwright and radio dramatist (b. 1918)
* Conrad Wilhelm Eger, Norwegian businessman (b. 1880)

### 3

* Nikolai Kolli, Soviet architect (b. 1894)
* Byllee Lang, Canadian sculptor (b. 1908)
* Fritz Langford-Smith, Australian electrical engineer (b. 1904)
* Kui Lee, Chinese-born American singer (b. 1932)

### 4

* Nicholas Afanasiev, Russian-French Eastern Orthodox theologian (b. 1893)
* Thomas Carey, American-born Irish cricketer (b. 1903)
* Crahan Denton, American actor (b. 1914)
* Renate Ewert, German actress (b. 1933)

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* John Irving Bentley, American physician burned to death allegedly caused by spontaneous human combustion (b. 1874)
* Luciano Fernandes, Portuguese footballer (b. 1940)
* Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist, two-time winner of the 1936 and 1939 Tour de France (b. 1909)

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* Mario Alicata, Italian partisan, literary critic and politician; member of the Chamber of Deputies (b. 1918)
* Laurence F. Arnold, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois (b. 1891)
* James Paul Donahue, Jr., American heir and socialite (b. 1915)
* Juan Natalicio González, Paraguayan politician, President of Paraguay 1948-1949 (b. 1897)
* Hermann Heiss, German composer (b. 1897)

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* William Henry Hewitt, South African recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1884)
* Viola Jimulla, American chief of the Prescott Yavapai tribe (b. 1878)

### 8

* Bill Bolden, American baseball player (b. 1893)
* Capt. Richard Gustav Borgelin, Danish military officer (b. 1887)
* Maury Bray, American football player (b. 1909)
* Arthur Byron Coble, American mathematician (b. 1878)

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* Lazarus Aaronson, British poet and lecturer in economics (b. 1895)
* Paul G. Blazer, American oil company executive (b. 1890)
* Morris Fidanque de Castro, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1902)
* Brian Coleman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1932)
* Pelagie Doane, American children's books illustrator (b. 1906)
* Lloyd Klein, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1910).

### 10

* Zoltán Baló, Hungarian general (b. 1883)
* Hans Jørgen Hansen, Danish field hockey player, silver medalist at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1879)
* Boris Koutzen, Russian-born American violinist (b. 1901)
* Gregorio López, Mexican writer (b. 1897)

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* Carleton Allen, Australian professor and Warden of Rhodes House, University of Oxford (b. 1887)
* Cliff Fannin, American baseball player (b. 1924)
* Richard Himber, American entertainer (b. 1899)
* John Hines, American boxer, competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics (b. 1912)

### 12

* Dino Alfieri, Italian fascist politician and envoy to the Holy See and Nazi Germany (b. 1886)
* Nellie Briercliffe, English singer and actress (b. 1889)
* Bill Devan, Scottish footballer (b. 1909)

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* Jim Baker, English footballer (b. 1891)
* Nils Frykberg, Swedish runner, competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1888)
* William Henry Gummer, New Zealand architect (b. 1884)
* Frank C. High, American soldier (Medal of Honor) (b. 1875)
* Ingvald Jaklin, Norwegian politician, MP (b. 1896)

### 14

* John Atirau Asher, New Zealand tribal leader, hotelier, interpreter, racehorse owner (b. 1892)
* Víctor Andrés Belaúnde, Peruvian diplomat, President of the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1959 (b. 1883)
* Ronnie Byrne, Australian rules footballer (b. 1900)
* Emma Dunn, English actress (b. 1875)
* Verna Felton, American actress (b. 1890)
* Paul Galligan, Irish politician, TD (b. 1888)
* Carl Hermann Kraeling, American theologian and archaeologist (b. 1897)
* Alexander Lillico, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (b. 1872)
* Shailendra, Indian lyricist (b. 1923)
* Richard Whorf, American actor (b. 1906)

### 15

* Major General Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, British Army officer (b. 1897)
* Sammy Beswick, English footballer (b. 1903)
* Walt Disney, American animated film producer and founder of The Walt Disney Company and Disneyland Resort (b. 1901)

### 16

* Sven Bergqvist, Swedish sportsman, International Hockey Hall of Fame inductee (b. 1914)
* Charles Crawford Davis, American audio engineer (b. c. 1893)
* James Verne Dusenberry, American anthropologist (b. 1906)
* Alex Garrow, British politician, MP (b. 1923)
* André Herbelin, French fighter pilot during World War I (b. 1889)
* Ma Lianliang, Chinese opera singer (b. 1901)

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* Dan Heilman, American illustrator (b. 1922)

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* Hon. Tara Browne, British socialite and heir to the Guinness fortune; according to some sources, he was the inspiration for the Beatles song "A Day in the Life" (b. 1945)
* Joseph Cucchiara, Italian missionary priest (b. 1889)
* Gene Gauntier, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1885)

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* Jack Forsyth, American football coach (b. 1892)
* Carroll Gartin, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi (b. 1913)
* Ollie Kraehe, American football player (b. 1898)
* Betty Kuuskemaa, Estonian actress (b. 1879)
* Aslaug Låstad Lygre, Norwegian poet (b. 1910)

### 20

* Amram Aburbeh, Israeli rabbi; Chief Rabbi of the Sephardic congregation in Petah Tikva, Israel (b. 1894)
* Rupert Anson, English cricketer (b. 1889)
* Ali Asllani, Albanian poet, politician and activist (b. 1884)
* Doc Farrell, American baseball player (b. 1901)
* Albert Göring, German businessman and anti-Nazi activist (b. 1895)
* Oskar Lebeck, German-born American illustrator (b. 1903)

### 21

* Erich Haenisch, German sinologist (b. 1880)
* Jack Itzel, American football player (b. 1924)

### 22

* Pádraig Ághas, Irish independent politician and schoolteacher; member of Seanad Éireann
* Harry Beaumont, American film director (b. 1888)
* Lucy Burns, American suffragist (b. 1879)
* Sir Clarence Johnston Graham, 1st Baronet, British politician and nobleman (b. 1900)
* James Hill, British politician, MP (b. 1899)
* Robert Keith, American actor (b. 1898)
* Alice Holford, New Zealand nurse (b. 1867)
* Robert Hopkins, American screenwriter (b. 1886)
* Robert Keith, American actor (b. 1898)

### 23

* J. Dallett Byers, American jockey and horse trainer (b. 1898)
* Heimito von Doderer, Austrian Nazi author (b. 1896)
* William Rush Dunton, founder of the American Occupational Therapy Association (b. 1868)
* Adrianus de Jong, Dutch fencer, medals at the 1912, 1920, and 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1882)

### 24

* Ernest Blackham, English footballer (b. 1898)
* Gaspar Cassadó, Spanish cellist and composer (b. 1897)
* Thomas Vincent Grant, Canadian politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons from Prince Edward Island (b. 1876)
* Tommy Jackson, Australian rules footballer (b. 1885)
* Donald MacGillivray, British colonial administrator, British High Commissioner in Malaya (b. 1906)

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* St. Elmo Brady, American academic, first African American to obtain a PhD degree in chemistry in the United States (b. 1884)
* Nick Dandolos, Greek-born American gambler (b. 1883)
* Arnold Harvey, Irish sportsman and Anglican bishop of Cashel and Waterford (b. 1878)

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* Ina Boudier-Bakker, Dutch novelist (b. 1875)
* Christopher Dahl, Norwegian sailor, gold medalist at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1898)
* Noël Gallon, French composer (b. 1891)
* Herbert Gille, Waffen-SS commander (b. 1897)
* Boris Jacobsohn, American physicist (b. 1918)
* Husayn Al-Khalidi, Ottoman-born Jordanian politician, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1895)
* Kalervo Kurkiala, Finnish Waffen-SS officer (b. 1894)
* Tony Lekain, French film director (b. 1888)

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* Ernest K. Bramblett, American politician, United States Congressman from California (b. 1901)
* Ernest Burgess, Canadian-born American sociologist and academic (b. 1886)
* Frankie Genaro, American boxer (1920 Olympic gold medal winner) (b. 1901)
* Herbert Lewis Hardwick, Puerto Rican boxer (b. 1914)
* William James, Australian rules footballer (b. 1900)
* Willis Laurence James, American musician and composer (b. 1900)
* Wivi Lönn, Finnish architect (b. 1872)
* Guillermo Stábile, Argentine football player and manager (b. 1905)

### 28

* Victor Anfuso, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from New York (b. 1905)
* Frank Chodorov, American libertarian writer (b. 1887)
* Hjalmar Christoffersen, Danish footballer, Denmark national team, silver medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1889)
* Vincenc Makovský, Czech sculptor and industrial designer (b. 1900)

### 29

* Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain, British neurologist (b. 1895)
* Aaron H. Grout, American politician, Secretary of State of Vermont (b. 1879)

### 30

* Pietro Ciriaci, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1885)
* Chase A. Clark, American politician, Governor of Idaho (b. 1883)
* Guy Earle, English cricketer (b. 1891)
* Christian Herter, United States politician, Governor of Massachusetts and Secretary of State (b. 1895)
* Henryk Gotlib, Polish-British painter (b. 1890)
* Arthur Lochhead, Scottish footballer (b. 1897)

### 31

* H. Otley Beyer, American anthropologist (b. 1883)
* Pieter Geyl, Dutch historian (b. 1887)
* Charlie Hewitt, English footballer (b. 1884)
* Raoul Lévy, French film director (b. 1922)
* Walter Lingo, American businessman (b. 1890)
