Deaths in July 1966
# Deaths in July 1966

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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

## July 1966

### 1

* Wiri Baker, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1892)
* Pauline Boty, British artist (b. 1938)
* Johnny Bryan, American football player and coach (b. 1897)
* Georg Ehrlich, Austrian-born British sculptor (b. 1897)
* Bill Galvin, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (b. 1903)
* Frank Halloran, Australian rules footballer (b. 1912)

### 2

* Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
* Minnie D. Craig, American politician, Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives (b. 1883)
* St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Russian Orthodox hierarch and saint (b. 1896)
* Holger Lindberg, Swedish wrestler, competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1894)

### 3

* Kees Boeke, Dutch pacifist and tax resister (b. 1884)
* Robert Cochrane, English occultist (b. 1931)
* André Gailhard, French composer (b. 1885)
* Eleanor Margaret Green, Princess Viggo, Countess of Rosenborg, American-born Danish princess (b. 1895)
* Paul Conway Leahy, American federal judge (b. 1904)
* Deems Taylor, American composer (b. 1885)

### 4

* Dorothy Aldis, American children's author and poet (b. 1896)
* Louis Couffignal, French mathematician (b. 1902)
* Georges Dumont, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick (b. 1898)
* Archie Latimer Hodgins, Canadian politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1876)
* Otto Lindig, German potter (b. 1895)

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* Robin Sutcliffe Allan, New Zealand geologist and university professor (b. 1900)
* Edward Pierrepont Beckwith, American scientist (b. 1877)
* Vinson Allen Collins, American politician, member of the Texas Senate (b. 1867)
* Pete Fox, American baseball player (b. 1909)
* George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
* Ole Jørgensen, Norwegian politician, MP (b. 1897)

### 6

* Harold Breen, Australian public servant (b. 1893)
* Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
* Anne Nagel, American actress (b. 1915)
* Benjamin Horsley Littleton, American federal judge (b. 1889)

### 7

* Yoshishige Abe, Japanese philosopher, educator, and statesman in Shōwa period Japan; Minister of Education (b. 1883)
* Carmelita Geraghty, American actress (b. 1901)
* Alberto Gout, Mexican screenwriter and film director (b. 1913)

### 8

* Dick Christy, American football player (b. 1935)
* Herbert Elphinstone, Australian cricket umpire (b. 1905)
* Horst Fischer, German war criminal, last person guillotined in Germany (b. 1912)
* James Ernest Karnes, American soldier awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1889)
* Clyde Lamb, American illustrator and convicted robber (b. 1913)
* William Alexander McKenzie, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (b. 1874)
* George Minter, English film producer (b. 1911)

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* Sir John Lindsay Dashwood, 10th Baronet, English aristocrat (b. 1896)
* Walter Gerwig, German lutenist (b. 1899)

### 10

* Raphaël Etifier, French politician, member of the French senate (b. 1889)
* Gʻafur Gʻulom, Uzbek writer (b. 1903)
* Charles Goethe, American eugenicist (b. 1875)
* Malvina Hoffman, American sculptor (b. 1885)
* Gussy Holl, German actress (b. 1888)

### 11

* Billy Butler, English footballer (b. 1900)
* Barney Lutz, American baseball player (b. 1915)
* Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b. 1913)

### 12

* Vera Franceschi, American pianist (b. 1926)
* Leicester Gilbert-Lodge, British philatelist (b. 1882)
* Liangqing, Chinese monk (b. 1896)
* D. T. Suzuki, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870)

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* Genica Athanasiou, Romanian-French actress (b. 1897)
* Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, member of the British Royal Family, granddaughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1884)
* Harald Jensen, Danish-born Australian geologist (b. 1879)
* David H. Keller, American writer (b. 1880)
* Reino Ragnar Lehto, Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1898)
* Eric Macfadyen, British politician, MP (b. 1879)
* Victorio Macho, Spanish sculptor (b. 1887)

### 14

* William Hawksworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1911)
* Nicolaas de Jong, Dutch cyclist, competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1887)
* Nils Lavik, Norwegian politician, Member of the Storting (parliament) (b. 1884)
* Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
* Sigfred Madsen, Danish boxer, competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics (b. 1915)

### 15

* Seyfi Arkan, Turkish architect (b. 1903)
* Francis Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, British politician (b. 1883)
* Wilhelm Cornides, Wehrmacht sergeant in World War II, diarist (b. 1920)
* Clarence Gamble, American birth control advocate (b. 1894)
* August Lindberg, Swedish trade unionist (b. 1885)

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* Arthur Adamson, Australian rules football player (b. 1882)
* Richard Craig, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (b. 1877)
* Agnes Dollan, Scottish suffragist and politician (b. 1887)
* Tom Hammond, Australian rules footballer (b. 1896)
* James Butler Hare, American politician, United States representative from South Carolina (b. 1918)
* Bernhard Schweitzer, German archaeologist (b. 1892)

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* August Baeyens, Belgian violist and composer (b. 1895)
* Charles Creed, French-born British fashion designer (b. 1909)
* Nils Dahl, Norwegian runner, competed at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics (b. 1882)
* Albert Freethy, Welsh rugby referee and cricketer (b. 1885)
* Kurt Herlth, German set designer (b. 1896)

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* Bobby Fuller, American musician (b. 1942)
* Russell Madden, Australian rules footballer (b. 1910)

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* Walter Aitkenhead, Scottish footballer (b. 1887)
* Mary Jobe Akeley, American explorer and author (b. 1878)
* Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda, Spanish Roman Catholic Cardinal (b. 1892)
* Maxine Albro, American painter, muralist, lithographer, mosaic artist, and sculptor (b. 1903)
* Franz Lahner, Austro-Hungarian flying ace in World War I (b. 1893)
* Hans Ji Maharaj, Indian religious leader (b. 1900)

### 20

* Elizabeth Amsden, American operatic soprano and actress (b. 1881)
* Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan, Soviet artist, graphic designer and sculptor (b. 1891)
* Anne Beffort, Luxembourg educator and author (b. 1880)
* Julien Carette, French actor (b. 1897)
* Donald Gee, British theologian (b. 1891)
* Pat Hanley, American football player and coach (b. 1896)
* Józef Kisielewski, Polish politician and writer (b. 1905)

### 21

* Francis Stewart Briggs, Australian aviator (b. 1897)
* Francesco Paolo Cantelli, Italian mathematician (b. 1875)
* Philipp Frank, Austrian-born American scientist and philosopher (b. 1884)
* John French, English photographer (b. 1907)
* Julian Hochfeld, Polish Marxist (b. 1911)
* A G Street, English farmer, author and broadcaster (b. 1892)

### 22

* Vladimir Abrikosov, Russian Catholic priest of the Byzantine rite (b. 1880)
* Lauro Ayestarán, Uruguayan musicologist (b. 1913)
* Berend Carp, Dutch sailor, competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1901)
* Harriet Daggett, American law professor (b. 1891)
* Frank Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1882)
* Edward Gourdin, American long jumper, silver medalist at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1897)
* Pavlos Gyparis, Greek army officer and politician, MP (b. 1882)

### 23

* Kurt Albrecht, German military officer during World War II (b. 1895)
* Margaret Bennell, English educator (b. 1893)
* Vito R. Bertoldo, United States Army soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1916)
* Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
* Lo La Chapelle, Dutch footballer, medalist at the 1908 Summer Olympics (b. 1888)
* Douglass Montgomery, American actor (b. 1907)

### 24

* Aftimios Ofiesh, American Orthodox bishop (b. 1880)
* George Brook, English cricketer (b. 1888)
* Harry Cobe, American racecar driver (b. 1885)
* Holger J. Jensen, Danish painter (b. 1900)
* Arthur B. Langlie, American politician, Governor of Washington (b. 1900)
* Tony Lema, American golfer (b. 1934)
* José Magnani, Brazilian cyclist, competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics (b. 1913)

### 25

* Harold Conradi, Australian rules footballer (b. 1894)
* Francis Edward Faragoh, Austria-Hungary-born American screenwriter (b. 1898)
* Red Green, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1899)
* Rolf Henne, Swiss Nazi leader (b. 1901)
* Paul Le Drogo, French cyclist (b. 1905)
* Frank O'Hara, American poet (b. 1926)

### 26

* Gladstone Adams, British politician; Chairman of Whitley Bay Urban District Council (b. 1880)
* Brenda Sue Brown, American murder victim (b. 1955)
* Jean-Edouard de Castella, Australian-born Swiss artist (b. 1881)
* Augustine Duffy, Canadian politician, member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly (b. 1905)
* Howard Kinsey, American tennis player (b. 1899)
* Maura Laverty, Irish writer (b. 1907)
* Lee Lescaze, American journalist (b. 1909)

### 27

* Edward Carey Francis, English mathematician and Christian missionary to Kenya (b. 1897)
* Sir Norman Gregg, Australian ophthalmologist (b. 1892)
* Hugo von Heidenstam, Swedish diplomat, ambassador to Iran and Iraq (b. 1884)
* Sir Reginald Kennedy-Cox, English dramatist and social reformer (b. 1881)

### 28

* Josef von Báky, Hungarian filmmaker (b. 1902)
* Judd Conlon, American vocal arranger and conductor (b. 1910)
* Hal Dixon, American baseball umpire (b. 1920)
* David Jones, American businessman, owner of the Chicago Cardinals (b. 1884)
* Liem Bwan Tjie, Indonesian architect (b. 1891)

### 29

* Maj. Gen. Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian military figure and Head of State of Nigeria (b. 1924)
* Russell Clark, New Zealand artist (b. 1905)
* Edward Gordon Craig, English theatre practitioner (b. 1872).
* Jerry Dennerlein, American football player (b. 1915).
* Harold Egan, Australian rules footballer (b. 1884)
* Adekunle Fajuyi, Nigerian soldier, first military governor of the Western Region, Nigeria (b. 1926)
* Billy Fogg, English footballer (b. 1903).
* Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, Indian poet and writer (b. 1928)
* John Lemmon, British logician (b. 1930)
* Ian Gordon Lindsay, Scottish architect (b. 1906)

### 30

* Hazel Abel, American teacher and politician; United States Senator (b. 1888)
* George Ford, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (b. 1907)
* Gen. Otto Fretter-Pico, German general during World War II (b. 1893)
* Sir Donald Gainer, British diplomat, Ambassador to Venezuela, Brazil, and Poland (b. 1891)
* Harry Hedgpeth, American baseball player (b. 1888)
* František Kříž, Czech fencer, competed at the 1912 and 1928 Summer Olympics (b. 1884)
* Marcella Lindh, American opera singer (b. 1867)

### 31

* Andrej Bagar, Slovak film actor (b. 1900)
* Chester R. Davis, American businessman, Assistant Secretary of the Army (b. 1896)
* Alexander von Falkenhausen, German general (b. 1878)
* Lydia Locke, American opera singer (b. 1884)
* Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (b. 1924)
