Deaths in June 1966

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 1966.

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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

• William Ernest Hocking, American philosopher (b. 1873)
• Hermann Scherchen, Austrian conductor (b. 1891)

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)

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