Famous Deaths for January 1966
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Months in 1966: February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 20 of 20
1st - Vincent Auriol, President of France (1947-53), dies at 82
3rd - Rex Lease, actor (Perils of Pauline, Dakota, California), dies at 62
5th - George Duckworth, cricketer (24 Tests for England, ct 45 stp 15), dies
9th - Haro Levoni Step'anyan, composer, dies at 68
10th - George Cresswell, cricketer (Took 13 wkts in 3 Tests for NZ), suicide
10th - Hermann Kasack, writer, dies at 69
11th - Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor, dies at 64
11th - Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian premier (1964-66), dies at 61
11th - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
14th - Sergei Korolev, Russian space station constructor, dies
14th - Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
15th - Betsy Mitchell, US 100m backstroke swimmer, dies at 25
16th - Margarete Susman, writer, dies at 91
17th - Vincent J Donehue, director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50
18th - Kathleen Norris, US author, dies at 85
22nd - Herbert Marshall, actor (Dark Angel, Duel in the Sun), dies at 75
24th - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (b. 1909)
29th - Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Tolle Bomberg), dies at 84
29th - Pierre Mercure, composer, dies at 38
31st - Elizabeth Patterson, actress (Tall Story), dies at 90
