Deaths in June 1966
The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 1966
1
- Herbert Bowmer, English cricketer (b. 1891)
- Cécile Butticaz, Swiss engineer (b. 1884)
- Dick Cox, American baseball player (b. 1897)
- Peter George, British author (b. 1924)
- Don Herold, American illustrator (b. 1889)
- Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (b. 1873)
2
- François Ayoub, Syrian Archbishop of Aleppo and Cyprus (b. 1899)
- Arthur P. Bedou, American photographer (b. 1882)
- Joe Casey, American baseball player (b. 1887)
- Évariste Kimba, Congolese politician, Prime Minister of Congo (later Zaire), executed (b. 1926)
- Stephen King-Hall, Baron King-Hall, British politician, writer, and nobleman, MP (b. 1893)
3
- Connie Brown, Canadian hockey player (b. 1917)
- Alice Calhoun, American actress (b. 1900)
- Dario Canas, Portuguese sports shooter, Olympic competitor at 1920 Summer Olympics and 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1884)
- Reuben Swinburne Clymer, American occultist (b. 1878)
- Stuart Levy, British film producer (b. 1907)
- Fionán Lynch, British and Irish politician, MP, TD, Irish Minister for Education and for Fisheries (b. 1889)
4
- Chang Myon, South Korean statesman, Vice President, Prime Minister (b. 1899)
- Arthur C. Cope, American organic chemist (b. 1909)
- Teddy Davis, American boxer (b. 1923)
- Blanche Knopf, American publisher (b. 1894)
- Frances Gertrude Kumm, Australian philanthropist (b. 1886)
5
- Edward Arthur Carr, British colonial administrator of Nigeria (b. 1903)
- Oakley G. Kelly, American aviator (b. 1891)
- Lee Choon Seng, Chinese-born Singaporean businessman (b. 1888)
- Alexander Brown Mackie, American academic (b. 1894)
6
- Sir Elias Wynne Cemlyn-Jones, Welsh politician (b. 1888)
- Ethel Clayton, American actress (b. 1882)
- Bernie Henderson, American baseball player (b. 1899)
- Edward Iwi, English lawyer (b. 1904)
- Wilhelm Jannasch, German clergyman and academic (b. 1888)
- Heinz Liepmann, German writer (b. 1905)
- Elizabeth Christ Trump, German–American businesswoman (b. 1880)
7
- Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1887)
- Norman Baillie-Stewart, British army officer known as "The Officer in the Tower" when he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for collaboration with Nazi Germany in World War II (b. 1909)
- John Adam Day, British politician (b. 1901)
- James Hickey, Irish politician, TD
- Otto Hoogesteyn, German-born Dutch swimmer, competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1903)
- Otto Karhi, Finnish politician, MP (b. 1876)
8
- Jim Dixon, American football player (b. 1904)
- Karl Hasselmann, German cinematographer (b. 1883)
- Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
9
- Max Friz, German design engineer (b. 1883)
- Sherry Edmundson Fry, American sculptor (b. 1879)
- Tage von Gerber, Swedish genealogist (b. 1885)
- Per Helmer, Norwegian businessman (b. 1897)
- St Barbe Holland, English clergyman, Anglican Bishop of Wellington New Zealand (b. 1882)
10
- Joseph Biondo, Italian-born American organized crime figure (b. 1897)
- Felice Carena, Italian painter (b. 1879)
- Gunnar Ekstrand, Swedish diver, competed in the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1892)
- Wally Fraser, Australian rules footballer (b. 1897)
11
- Alfred Berger, Austrian pair skater, Olympic gold medalist in 1924 (b. 1894)
- Thomas Hardie Chalmers, American opera singer and actor (b. 1884)
- Rube Currie, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- Timothy Curtis, English cricketer (b. 1882)
- Jimmy Davies, American race car driver (b. 1929)
- Wallace Ford, English-born American actor (b. 1898)
- Stewart Judah, American illusionist (b. 1893)
- Kumazawa Hiromichi, Japanese pretender to the imperial throne (b. 1889)
- Jud Larson, American racecar driver (b. 1923)
12
- Thomas Hardie Chalmers, American opera singer, actor, and filmmaker (b. 1884).[1]
- William Ernest Hocking, American philosopher (b. 1873)
- Hermann Scherchen, Austrian conductor (b. 1891), heart attack.[2]
13
- Pierre Chaumié, French politician, member of the French Senate (b. 1880)
- John K. Hodnette, American engineer (b. 1902)
- Henry Hogbin, British politician, MP (b. 1880)
14
- Walther Bacmeister, German jurist and ornithologist (b. 1873)
- Cub Buck, American football player and coach and college athletics administrator (b. 1892)
- Parnaoz Chikviladze, Soviet judoka, bronze medalist at the 1964 Summer Olympics (b. 1941)
- Henny Dons, Norwegian educator and missionary (b. 1874)
15
- Robert G. Fowler, American aviation pioneer (b. 1884)
- Israel Kleiner, American biochemist (b. 1885)
16
- Dantès Bellegarde, Haitian diplomat (b. 1877)
- Lew Brice, American dancer and comedian (b. 1893)
- Gen. Georg Keppler, German SS officer during World War II (b. 1894)
17
- Betty Baxter Anderson, American author (b. 1908)
- Hans Christern, German officer during World War II (b. 1900)
- Luby DiMeolo, American football player and coach (b. 1903)
- Fern Majeau, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
18
- German Galynin, Soviet composer (b. 1922)
- Konrad Heiden, German-born American journalist and historian (b. 1901)
19
- Sydney Allard, British racing motorist and founder of the Allard car company (b. 1910)
- Chalmers Clifton, American conductor and composer (b. 1889)
- Marjan Kozina, Slovene composer (b. 1907)
- Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)
20
- Capt. Sir Malcolm Bullock, 1st Baronet, British soldier, politician, and nobleman, MP (b. 1890)
- Wilhelm Busch, German pastor and anti-Nazi (b. 1897)
- Cheng Bugao, Chinese film director (b. 1898)
- Robert Hense, German footballer (b. 1885)
- John Hubbard, 3rd Baron Addington, British aristocrat (b. 1883)
- Paul Kuhn, German-born American opera singer (b. 1874)
- Louis-Joseph Lebret, French priest and ethicist (b. 1897)
- Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest and astrophysicist (b. 1894)
21
- Reginald Calvert, British pirate radio station operator (b. 1928)
- Ferdinando Innocenti, Italian businessman (b. 1891)
22
- Roger Blunt, English-born New Zealand cricketer (b. 1900)
- E. Yale Dawson, American botanist (b. 1918)
- Warren S. Eaton, American aviation pioneer (b. 1891)
- Victor Koumorico, Congolese politician, President of the Senate
23
- Paul Cain, American author (b. 1902)
- Ted Corday, Canadian-born American television executive (b. 1908)
- Louis C. Cramton, American politician, United States Representative from Michigan (b. 1875)
- Frank L. Hagaman, American politician, Governor of Kansas (b. 1894)
- Weli Hohenthal, Russian modern pentathlete, competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1880)
- Clara Jacobo, Italian opera singer (b. c. 1898)
24
- Edward Allworth, American officer in the United States Army during World War I (Medal of Honor) (b. 1895)
- Eric Crankshaw, English cricketer and later Secretary, Government Hospitality Fund (b. 1885)
- Mick Dunn, Australian rules footballer (b. 1898)
- Otto-Wilhelm Förster, German general during World War II (b. 1885)
- J.K. Kennedy, American basketball coach (b. 1907)
- Mathilde Ludendorff, German psychiatrist and conspiracy theorist (b. 1877)
25
- Ughetto Bertucci, Italian actor (b. 1907)
- F. Henri Klickmann, American composer (b. 1885)
- Hans Ferdinand Geisler, German Luftwaffe general during World War II (b. 1891)
- Busher Jackson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
- F. Henri Klickmann, American composer (b. 1885)
- Wilf Loughlin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1896)
- Muriel Lowe, English cricketer (b. 1914)
- Edmund Sebree, American army general (b. 1898)
26
- François Dupré, French hotelier, art collector, racehorse owner/breeder (b. 1888)
- George King, English film director (b. 1899)
27
- John Davenport, English book reviewer and critic (b. 1908)
- Marty Krug, German-born American baseball player (b. 1888)
28
- Kenneth Miller Adams, American artist (b. 1897)
- Gleason Archer, Sr., founder and first president of Suffolk University and Suffolk Law School in Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1880)
- Frances Maule Bjorkman, American suffragist (b. 1879)
- Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Turkish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1890)
29
- Lewis Bedford, English footballer (b. 1899)
- Gustav Kampendonk, German screenwriter (b. 1909)
- Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, Indian mathematician and historian (b. 1907)
30
- Margery Allingham, English writer of detective fiction (b. 1904)
- Loretta Bayliss, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1939)
- Mordaunt Doll, English cricketer (b. 1888)
- Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (b. 1906)
- Ernest Fawcus, English cricketer (b. 1895)
- E. B. C. Jones, British writer (b. 1893)
- Jake Josvanger, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (b. 1908)
- Donald Russell Long, American soldier, awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1939)
References
- "Thomas Hardie Chalmers - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB". ibdb.com. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
- "Hermann Scherchen". britannica.com. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
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