Deaths in September 1966

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 1966

1

• Karl Bergelt, German Navy officer during World War II (b. 1902)
• Mabel Capper, British suffragist (b. 1888)

2

• George Bolt, Australian rules footballer (b. 1899)
• Isaya Mukirania, King of Rwenzururu

3

• Constantin Bakaleinikoff, Russian-born American composer (b. 1896)
• Dick Barwegan, American professional football player (b. 1921)
• Sir Robert Bristow, English engineer (b. 1880)
• Chen Mengjia, Chinese archaeologist (b. 1911)
• Wesley Dennis, American illustrator (b. 1903)
• Fu Lei, Chinese translator and art critic (b. 1908)
• Frank Golding, Australian rules footballer (b. 1890)
• Irving Klaw, American pornographer (b. 1910)

4

• Bernard Atkinson, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• August Aimé Balkema, Dutch book trader (b. 1906)
• Herbert Beyer, German paratrooper officer during World War II (b. 1913)

5

• William Murdoch Buchanan, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1897)
• Edward Denman Clarke, Finnish-born British flying ace of World War I (b. 1898)
• Edward English, English cricketer (b. 1864)
• George Koch, American football player (b. 1919)
• Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, and architect (b. 1879)

6

• Elmer Blaney Harris, American author (b. 1878)
• Einar W. Juva, Finnish historian and professor (b. 1892)
• Margaret Sanger, American birth control advocate (b. 1879)
• Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-born Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901)
• Gen. Leon Kromer, American Army general (b. 1876)
• Reuben Levy, British academic (b. 1891)

7

• Viktor Ader, Estonian footballer (b. 1910)
• Al Kelly, Russian-born American comedian (b. 1896)

8

• Walter Friedländer, German-American art historian (b. 1873)
• W. A. Hewitt, Canadian sportsman and journalist (b. 1875)

9

• Jack Cobb, American basketball player (b. 1904)
• Bob Kelley, American sportscaster (b. 1917)

10

• Blair Cherry, American baseball and football coach (b. 1901)
• Arthur Cock, Australian rules footballer (b. 1900)
• Saul Gorss, American actor (b. 1908)
• Emil Julius Gumbel, German-born American mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
• Piero Jahier, Italian poet, translator, and journalist (b. 1884)
• Vere Johns, Jamaican impresario (b. 1893)
• Francis Kendall, English cricketer (b. 1908)
• James Langridge, English cricketer (b. 1906)

11

• Arthur Affleck, Australian pilot (b. 1903)
• Hans von Ahlfen, German General in the Second World War (b. 1897)
• Charley Aylett, Australian politician (b. 1913)
• Charlie Cantor, American radio actor (b. 1898)
• Bill Cramer, American baseball player (b. 1891)
• Eva Justin, German Holocaust perpetrator (b. 1909)
• C. E. Woolman, American Airlines founder (b. 1889)

12

• Florence Ellinwood Allen, American judge; the first woman to serve on a state supreme court (Ohio), and one of the first two women to serve as a United States federal judge (b. 1884)
• Francis Sheed Anderson CB, Scottish businessman, civil servant and Liberal Party politician (b. 1897)
• Iosif Czako, Romanian footballer (b. 1906)
• Earl J. Glade, American politician, mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah (b. 1885)
• Norman Kendrew, English cricketer (b. 1908)
• Aketo Nakamura, Japanese general (b. 1889)
• Louis Wilkinson, British writer (b. 1881)

13

• Wiktor Andersson, Swedish film actor (b. 1887)
• Dora Barton, English actress (b. 1884)
• Major General Francis William Billado, American military officer and politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives, Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard (b. 1907)
• Clemente Canepari, Italian racing cyclist (b. 1886)
• John Christoffersen, Danish wrestler, competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1898)
• Ralph Comstock, American baseball player (b. 1890)
• Alfred Engelsen, Norwegian gymnast and diver, gold medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1893)
• Alfred A. Gilman, American Anglican missionary to China (b. 1878)
• Tomoshige Samejima, Japanese admiral (b. 1889)

14

• Gertrude Berg, American actress (b. 1899)
• Alexandre Bioussa, French rugby union player, member of the silver medal-winning French team at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 190])
• Nikolay Cherkasov, Soviet actor (b. 1903)
• Arthur Davies, English Anglican priest (b. 1878)
• Hiram Wesley Evans, American leader of the Ku Klux Klan (b. 1881)
• Cemal Gürsel, Turkish general and statesman, 4th President of Turkey (b. 1895)
• Geoffrey MacLaren, English cricketer (b. 1883)

15

• Frank G. Ashbrook, American mammalogist (b. 1892)
• Leonard Brockington, Welsh-born Canadian civil servant, first president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (b. 1888)
• Adm. Herbert G. Hopwood, American admiral (b. 1898)

16

• Anandashram Swami, Indian ninth guru and the Head of the community of the Chitrapur Saraswats (b. 1902)
• Lawrence Joseph Bader, American whose disappearance and later reappearance caused controversy (b. 1926)
• Judah A. Joffe, Ukrainian-born American philologist (b. 1873)
• Carlos Kluwe, Brazilian footballer (b. 1890)

17

• Selmer Berg, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (b. 1886)
• Mário Filho, Brazilian journalist and writer (b. 1908)
• Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)

18

• Ian Bedford, English cricketer (b. 1930)
• Gen. Horace H. Fuller, American general during World War II (b. 1886)
• Albert Johnson, American jockey (b. 1900)
• Dinny Lanigan, Irish hurler (b. 1891)

19

• José de Jesús Angulo del Valle y Navarro, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1888)
• Adrien Borel, French psychiatrist (b. 1886)
• Albert van der Sandt Centlivres, South African jurist, Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1887)
• Albert Divo, French race car driver (b. 1895)
• Gen. Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Soviet weapons designer and general during World War II (b. 1874)
• Otto Kinkeldey, American musicologist (b. 1878)
• Bob Lang, American football player (b. 1892)
• Einar Langfeldt, Norwegian physician and professor (b. 1884)

20

• William Baragwanath, Australian surveyor and geologist (b. 1878)
• Pierre E. Belliveau, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (b. 1896)
• Fritz Delius, German actor (b. 1890)
• Hubert L. Eaton, American businessman (b. 1881)
• James Gunn, American screenwriter (b. 1920)
• Mary Mackenzie, British actress (b. 1922)

21

• James Jamieson, Scottish dentist (b. 1875)
• Billy Lane Lauffer, American soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor (b. 1945)
• Paul Reynaud, French politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1878)

22

• Valentin Bulgakov, Russian biographer (b. 1886)
• James A. Chapman, American oilman (b. 1881)
• Jules Furthman, American screenwriter (b. 1888)
• Aaron Grant, American football player (b. 1908)
• Hans Halberstadt, German-born American fencer, competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics (b. 1885)
• Ninon Hesse, Austro-Hungarian born wife of Herman Hesse (b. 1895)
• Edward Francis Hoban, American Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1878)
• George Holloway, English cricketer (b. 1884)
• Frank Lentini, Italian-born American showman (b. 1889)
• Patrick Linstead, British chemist (b. 1902)
• Ray Maher, Australian politician, Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (b. 1911)

23

• William Beesley VC, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1895)
• Herbert J. Herring, American academic, dean of Duke University (b. 1899)

24

• Kálmán Blahó, Hungarian sprint canoer, competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics (b. 1920)

25

• Clifton Cushman, American athlete, silver medalist at the 1960 Summer Olympics (b. 1938)
• Sir Benjamin Dawson, 1st Baronet, British aristocrat (b. 1878)
• William Elsey, Australian Anglican priest, Bishop of Kalgoorlie (b. 1880)
• Jim Holder, American football player (b. 1940)
• Mina Loy, British writer (b. 1882)

26

• Aleksandr Anufriyev, Soviet athlete, competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics (b.1926)
• Bill Atkinson, Australian rules footballer (b. 1876)
• Jimmy Bridges, English cricketer (b. 1887)
• Gus Edson, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
• Andrew Keith Jack, Australian physicist and explorer of Antarctica (b. 1885)
• Helen Kane, American singer (b. 1904)
• Phil Hopkins, Welsh rugby player (b. 1880)
• Victor LaMer, American chemist (b. 1895)

27

28

• André Breton, French poet and writer (b. 1896)
• Charles Lawrence Bishop, Canadian journalist and politician, member of the Canadian Senate (b. 1876)
• Eric Fleming, American actor (b. 1925)
• Chester A. Kowal, American politician, Mayor of Buffalo, New York (b. 1904)
• Erik Lindberg, Swedish sculptor, designed the Nobel Prize medals (b. 1873)

29

• Zoilo Canavery, Uruguayan-born Argentine footballer (b. 1893)

30

• John Barrett, American football player (b. 1899)
• Lt. Gen. Iven Mackay, Australian soldier and diplomat, general during World War II, and Australian High Commissioner to India (b. 1882)

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