Famous Deaths for February 1966
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◀ 1965 1966 1967 ▶ | ||||||
Months in 1966: January March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 30 of 30
1st - Buster Keaton, [Joseph Francis], US comic (General), dies at 69
1st - Hedda Hopper, [Elda Furry], US gossip columnist, dies at 75
1st - Nicholas Piantanida, sets balloon flight record & dies in descent
1st - William Harrigan, actor (Invisible Man, Girl in 419), dies at 71
3rd - June Walker, actress (War Nurses), dies at 65
4th - Gilbert H Grosvenor, president Natl Geographic Society, dies at 90
6th - Johan Algot Haquinius, composer, dies at 79
6th - Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
9th - Sophie Tucker, Russ/US singer/actress (My Yiddish Mama), dies at 79
10th - Billy Rose, US theater producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66
13th - Elio Vittorini, writer, dies
15th - Camillo Torres, Colombian priest/guerrilla fighter, dies
15th - Gerard CioĊek, Polish architect (b. 1909)
16th - Hendrik W Tilanus, artillery officer/leader (CHU 1939-63), dies at 81
17th - Frank Pettingell, actor (Becket, Up the Creek), dies at 75
17th - Gail Kane, actress (White Sister, Arizona), dies at 81
17th - Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real), dies at 85
18th - Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP), dies at 94
18th - Casimir von Paszthory, composer, dies at 79
18th - Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 31
18th - Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1908)
US Admiral Chester Nimitz (20th)
20th - Chester W Nimitz, US admiral (WW II), dies at 80
21st - Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (b. 1895)
22nd - Paul de Keyser, Flemish philologist/folklorist, dies at 74
25th - James D. Norris, American sports businessman (b. 1906)
26th - Minerva Urecal, actress (Peter Gunn, Adv of Tugboat Annie), dies at 71
26th - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter and writer (b. 1883)
27th - Minerva Urecal, actress (Apache Rose, Ghost Crazy), dies at 81
28th - Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, dies at 34, in a crash of T-38 jet
28th - Elliot McKay See Jr, astronaut, dies at 38 in T-38 jet crash
