Deaths in March 1966

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

March 1966

1

• Hugh Baillie, American journalist, head of UP (b. 1890)
• George William Chafer, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1894)
• Károly Csapkay, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1894)
• Arthur Henry Davey, New Zealand master mariner (b. 1878)
• Rick Decker, American race car driver (b. 1903)
• Karel Dostal, Czech actor (b. 1884)
• Adm. Sir John Eccles, English Royal Navy admiral (b. 1898)
• Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
• William R. Munroe, American admiral (b. 1886)
• Donald Stewart, American-born English actor (b. 1910)

2

• Vincent Fanelli, American musician (b. 1881)

3

• Alfonso Castaldo, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Naples (b. 1890)
• Peter S. Connor, American marine, received the Medal of Honor (b. 1932)
• Bernard Charles Cotton, English-born Australian malacologist (b. 1905)
• Joseph Fields, American playwright (b. 1895)
• Jack Fier, American film producer (b. 1896)
• William Frawley, American actor (I Love Lucy) (b. 1887)
• William Dickson Lang, British geologist (b. 1878)
• Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b. 1870)
• Alice Pearce, American actress (b. 1917)

4

• Stanley Anderson, English artist (b. 1884)
• Joseph Fields, American playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film producer (b. 1895)
• Bernhard Grant, British philatelist (b. 1887)
• Thomas Loveday, British university administrator (b. 1875)

5

• Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
• Robert John Hibbs, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1943)
• Sir Claude Liardet, British general during World War II (b. 1881)
• Charles Lomberg, Swedish decathlete, silver medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1886)

6

• Louis-Mathias Auger, Canadian teacher and Liberal Party politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1902)
• Charles F. Buddy, American Roman Catholic Bishop of San Diego (b. 1887)
• Giorgio Bulgari, Italian businessman (Bulgari) (b. 1890)
• Christian Günther, Swedish diplomat and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs during World War II (b. 1886)
• Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez, Guatemalan labor leader (b. 1922)
• Richard Hageman, Dutch-born American pianist and composer (b. 1881)
• Gen. Leland Hobbs, American general during World War II (b. 1892)
• Spiridon Kacarosi, Albanian politician, head of the Albanian Secret Service (b. 1891)
• Enrique López Albújar, Peruvian writer (b. 1872)
• Michitaro Totsuka, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)

7

• William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, English businessman and Conservative Party politician (b. 1907)
• Donald B. Beary, American admiral (b. 1888)
• Bill Cahill, Australian rules footballer (b. 1911)
• George Camsell, English footballer (b. 1902)
• Sir Nigel Colman, 1st Baronet, British politician, MP (b. 1886)
• Hilding Ekman, Swedish runner, competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1893)
• Georg Faber, German mathematician (b. 1877)
• Spider Johnson, American football player (b. 1907)
• Yosef Leifer, Austro-Hungarian-born American rabbi (b. 1891)

8

• Sir John Blake-Reed, British judge (b. 1882)
• Roger L. Dell, American jurist, Chief Justice of Minnesota (b. 1897)
• Roderick Falconer, English cricketer (b. 1886)
• Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar, Egyptian painter (b. 1925)
• Adán Gordón, Panamanian swimmer at the 1928 Olympics (b. 1906)
• Sir Norman Kendal, British barrister and police administrator (b. 1880)

9

• John F. Baldwin, Jr., American politician, U.S. Representative from California (b. 1915)
• René Barbier, French fencer, silver medalist at the 1928 Summer Olympics (b. 1891)
• Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (b. 1924)
• George Cornell, English criminal (b. c. 1928)
• Gen. Sir Lewis Halliday, English Royal Marines general, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1870)

10

• Walter Heywood Bryan, Australian geologist (b. 1891)
• Émile Coulonvaux, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
• Sophie Harris, English theatre and opera costume and scenic designer (b. 1900)
• Hubertus Hitschhold, German Luftwaffe pilot during World War II (b. 1912)
• Frank O'Connor, Irish writer (b. 1903)
• Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

11

• James Barnhill, American football official (b. 1921)
• James E. Fitzsimmons, American racehorse trainer (b. 1874)
• Ivan Greenberg, English journalist (b. 1896)
• Frank Hodgins, Australian rules footballer (b. 1888)
• W. M. Holland, American politician, mayor of Dallas (b. 1875)
• Willis Kent, American film producer (b. 1878)
• Jean Laigret, French biologist (b. 1893)

12

• Victor Brauner, Romanian artist (b. 1903)
• George Caldwell, American builder (b. 1892)
• Sir Sydney Camm, English aeronautical engineer (b. 1893)
• Néstor Guillén, Bolivian politician, President of Bolivia (b. 1890)

13

• Guido Bruck, Austrian numismatist (b. 1920)
• Max Clara, Italian-born German anatomist (b. 1899)
• Johnny Duncan, Scottish footballer (b. 1896)
• Henry R. Harmer, British philatelist (b. 1870)
• Frederick Lister, British Legionnaire (b. 1886 or 1887)
• Verner Magnusson, Swedish long-distance runner, competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1890)

14

• Leon Isserlis, Russian-born British statistician (b. 1881)
• Lee Magee, American baseball player and manager (b. 1889)

15

• Osendé Afana, Cameroonian guerrilla (b. 1930)
• Ruth Dalton, British politician, MP (b. 1890)
• Yenovk Der Hagopian, Turkish-born American artist (b. 1900)
• James Donahue, American pentathlete, silver medalist at 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1885)
• Norman Augustus Finch, English sergeant in the Royal Marines, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1890)
• Chappie Geygan, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• Henry D. Larcade Jr., American politician, U.S. Representative from Louisiana (b. 1890)

16

• Joseph-Odilon Duval, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (b. 1895)
• Gavriil Gorelov, Russian painter (b. 1880)
• Lê Văn Đệ, Vietnamese painter (b. 1906)

17

• Don Eagle, Canadian wrestler (b. 1925)
• Lindsay Merritt Inglis, New Zealand general and chief judge of the Allied Control Commission's Supreme Court in Germany after World War II (b. 1894)
• Santiago Lovell, Argentine boxer, gold medalist at the 1932 Summer Olympics (b. 1912)

18

• Frank Bennett, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) (b. 1904)
• Frank Gaha, Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives (b. 1894)
• Arthur T. Hannett, American politician, Governor of New Mexico (b. 1884)
• Osvald Helmuth, Danish actor (b. 1894)
• Robert F. Hill, Canadian film director (b. 1886)

19

• Erik Aaes, Danish set designer and art director (b. 1899)
• Josué Jéhouda, Russian-born Swiss writer and Zionist (b. 1892)

20

• Laurence Abrams, English professional footballer (b. 1889)
• Demetrios Galanis, Greek artist (b. 1879)
• Anne Hocking, British writer (b. 1890)
• Johnny Morrison, professional baseball player (b. 1895)

21

• Norman Coates, British army officer and politician, MP (b. 1890)
• Tom Fern, English footballer (b. 1886)
• Frank Finnan, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (B. 1897)
• Ronald Acott Hall, British diplomat and politician (b. 1892)
• Sam Honaker, American football player (b. 1887)
• Solomon Clifford Joseph, British flying ace during World War I (b. 1893)

22

• Bruno Bieler, German general during World War II (b. 1888)
• Horrie Brain, Australian rules footballer (b. 1885)
• Henry Bray, Australian rules footballer (b. 1891)
• Gen. Sir Dallas Brooks, British military commander, Governor of Victoria, Australia (b. 1896)
• Everett Glass, American actor (b. 1891)
• John Harlin, American mountaineer (b. 1935)
• Jacob Lestschinsky, Ukrainian-born American-Israeli statistician (b. 1876)

23

• Peggy Allenby, American silent film, television, and radio actress (b. 1901)
• August Bach, East German politician (b. 1897)
• Bertil Bothén, Swedish sailor, competitor at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1892)
• Fred T. Long, American baseball player and football coach (b. 1896)
• Marie Elisabeth Lüders, German politician, member of the Reichstag and of the Bundestag (b. 1878)

24

• Carl Becker, German Wehrmacht general during World War II (b. 1895)
• Joseph Leonard Burley, Australian rules football executive (b. 1878)
• Albert Evans, English footballer and manager (b. 1874)
• Frederic Foley, American urologist (b. 1891)
• Virginia Hill, American organized crime figure (b. 1916)
• Morten Ansgar Kveim, Norwegian pathologist (b. 1892)
• Walter Lawrence, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (b. 1895)
• Muhammad Ali Luqman, Yemeni writer and journalist (b. 1898)

25

• G.R. Blanco White, English judge (b. 1883)
• Pravir Chandra Bhanj Deo, Maharajah of Bastar state (b. 1929)
• Venelin Ganev, Bulgarian politician and regent for tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria (b. 1880)
• Serafima Hopner, Soviet politician (b. 1880)

26

• Wilhelm Engel Bredal, Norwegian politician, Member of Parliament (b. 1907)
• Morris Doob, American sports shooter, competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics (b. 1907)
• Robert Gibson, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (b. 1932)
• Victor Hochepied, French swimmer, competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics (b. 1883)

27

• Sir Archer Baldwin, British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (b. 1883)
• Pannalal Bhattacharya, Bengali singer
• Jan Čarek, Czech writer (b. 1898)
• Hermann Garrn, German footballer (b. 1888)
• Hermann Harrendorf, German general during World War II (b. 1896)
• Ragnar Josephson, Swedish art historian (b. 1891)
• Karl König, Austrian paediatrician (b. 1902)
• Helen Menken, American actress (b. 1901)

28

• Roy Bell, New Zealand-Australian ornithologist (b. 1882)
• William W. Church, American football coach (b. 1874)
• Toni Edgar-Bruce, British actress (b. 1892)
• Buntarō Futagawa, Japanese film director (b. 1899)
• Max Ilgner, German industrialist, board member of IG Farben and convicted of spoliation and plunder after World War II (b. 1899)
• George Ward Linn, American philatelist (b. 1884)

29

• Alfred Edwin Brain Jr., English-born American musician (b. 1885)
• Knut Gard, Norwegian resistance leader (b. 1905)
• Jazz Gillum, American harmonica player (b. 1902 or 1904)
• Stylianos Gonatas, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece 1922-1924 (b. 1876)
• Dessaline Harris, Liberian jurist, member of the Supreme Court of Liberia (b. 1895)
• Albert-Édouard Janssen, Belgian banker and politician, Minister of Finance (b. 1883)
• Leon Lumsdaine, Chinese-born British athlete, competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics (b. 1923)

30

• Frederick Gordon Bradley, Canadian and Newfoundland politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons and Canadian Senate, Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1886)
• Jelly d'Arányi, Hungarian violinist (b. 1893)
• Kim Jong-oh, South Korean soldier, president of the South Korean Military Academy (b. 1921)
• Sir Clutha Mackenzie, New Zealand politician, MP (b. 1895)
• Erwin Piscator, German theater director (b. 1893)

31

• Grady Adkins, nicknamed "Butcher Boy", American professional baseball player (Chicago White Sox) (b. 1897)
• Fortunato Calcagno, Italian politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies (b. 1900)
• William David Doherty, English rugby player and hospital administrator (b. 1893)
• Arthur Robert Hogg, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1903)
• Samuel A. Levine, Polish-born American cardiologist (b. 1891)

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