Deaths in July 1966

This is a list of deaths in July 1966:

Montgomery Clift

• July 1
  • Wiri Baker, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1892)
  • Pauline Boty, British artist (b. 1938)
  • Johnny Bryan, American football player and coach (b. 1897)
  • Georg Ehrlich, Austrian-born British sculptor (b. 1897)
  • Bill Galvin, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (b. 1903)
• July 2
  • Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
  • Minnie D. Craig, American politician, Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives (b. 1883)
• July 3
  • Kees Boeke, Dutch pacifist and tax resister (b. 1884)
  • Robert Cochrane, English occultist (b. 1931)
  • Deems Taylor, American composer (b. 1885)
• July 4
  • Dorothy Aldis, American children's author and poet (b. 1896)
  • Louis Couffignal, French mathematician (b. 1902)
  • Georges Dumont, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick (b. 1898)
• July 5
  • Robin Sutcliffe Allan, New Zealand geologist and university professor (b. 1900)
  • Edward Pierrepont Beckwith, American scientist (b. 1877)
  • Vinson Allen Collins, American politician, member of the Texas Senate (b. 1867)
  • Pete Fox, American baseball player (b. 1909)
  • George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• July 6
  • Harold Breen, Australian public servant (b. 1893)
  • Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
  • Anne Nagel, American actress (b. 1915)
• July 7
  • Yoshishige Abe, Japanese philosopher, educator, and statesman in Shōwa period Japan; Minister of Education (b. 1883)
  • Carmelita Geraghty, American actress (b. 1901)
• July 8
  • Dick Christy, American football player (b. 1935)
  • Herbert Elphinstone, Australian cricket umpire (b. 1905)
  • Horst Fischer, German war criminal, last person guillotined in Germany (b. 1912)
• July 9 – Sir John Lindsay Dashwood, 10th Baronet, English aristocrat (b. 1896)
• July 10
  • Raphaël Etifier, French politician, member of the French senate (b. 1889)
  • Gʻafur Gʻulom, Uzbek writer (b. 1903)
• July 11
  • Billy Butler, English footballer (b. 1900)
  • Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b. 1913)
• July 12
  • Vera Franceschi, American pianist (b. 1926)
  • D. T. Suzuki, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870)
• July 13
  • Genica Athanasiou, Romanian-French actress (b. 1897)
  • Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, member of the British Royal Family, granddaughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1884)
• July 14 – Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
• July 15
  • Seyfi Arkan, Turkish architect (b. 1903)
  • Francis Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, British politician (b. 1883)
  • Wilhelm Cornides, Wehrmacht sergeant in World War II, diarist (b. 1920)
• July 16
  • Arthur Adamson, Australian rules football player (b. 1882)
  • Richard Craig, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (b. 1877)
  • Agnes Dollan, Scottish suffragist and politician (b. 1887)
  • Bernhard Schweitzer, German archaeologist (b. 1892)
• July 17
  • August Baeyens, Belgian violist and composer (b. 1895)
  • Charles Creed, French-born British fashion designer (b. 1909)
  • Nils Dahl, Norwegian runner, competed at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics (b. 1882)
  • Albert Freethy, Welsh rugby referee and cricketer (b. 1885)
• July 18 – Bobby Fuller, American musician (b. 1942)
• July 19
  • Walter Aitkenhead, Scottish footballer (b. 1887)
  • Mary Jobe Akeley, American explorer and author (b. 1878)
  • Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda, Spanish Roman Catholic Cardinal (b. 1892)
  • Maxine Albro, American painter, muralist, lithographer, mosaic artist, and sculptor (b. 1903)
• July 20
  • Elizabeth Amsden, American operatic soprano and actress (b. 1881)
  • Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan, Soviet artist, graphic designer and sculptor (b. 1891)
  • Anne Beffort, Luxembourg educator and author (b. 1880)
  • Julien Carette, French actor (b. 1897)
• July 21
  • Francis Stewart Briggs, Australian aviator (b. 1897)
  • Francesco Paolo Cantelli, Italian mathematician (b. 1875)
  • Philipp Frank, Austrian-born American scientist and philosopher (b. 1884)
  • John French, English photographer (b. 1907)
• July 22
  • Vladimir Abrikosov, Russian Catholic priest of the Byzantine rite (b. 1880)
  • Lauro Ayestarán, Uruguayan musicologist (b. 1913)
  • Berend Carp, Dutch sailor, competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1901)
  • Harriet Daggett, American law professor (b. 1891)
  • Frank Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1882)
• July 23
  • Kurt Albrecht, German military officer during World War II (b. 1895)
  • Margaret Bennell, English educator (b. 1893)
  • Vito R. Bertoldo, United States Army soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1916)
  • Douglass Montgomery, American actor (b. 1907)
• July 24
  • Aftimios Ofiesh, American Orthodox bishop (b. 1880)
  • George Brook, English cricketer (b. 1888)
  • Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
  • Harry Cobe, American racecar driver (b. 1885)
• July 25
  • Harold Conradi, Australian rules footballer (b. 1894)
  • Francis Edward Faragoh, Austria-Hungary-born American screenwriter (b. 1898)
  • Frank O'Hara, American poet (b. 1926)
• July 26
  • Gladstone Adams, British politician; Chairman of Whitley Bay Urban District Council (b. 1880)
  • Brenda Sue Brown, American murder victim (b. 1955)
  • Jean-Edouard de Castella, Australian-born Swiss artist (b. 1881)
  • Augustine Duffy, Canadian politician, member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly (b. 1905)
• July 27 – Edward Carey Francis, English mathematician and Christian missionary to Kenya (b. 1897)
• July 28
  • Josef von Báky, Hungarian filmmaker (b. 1902)
  • Judd Conlon, American vocal arranger and conductor (b. 1910)
  • Hal Dixon, American baseball umpire (b. 1920)
• July 29
  • Maj. Gen. Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian military figure and Head of State of Nigeria (b. 1924)
  • Russell Clark, New Zealand artist (b. 1905)
  • Edward Gordon Craig, English theatre practitioner (b. 1872)
  • Jerry Dennerlein, American football player (b. 1915)
  • Harold Egan, Australian rules footballer (b. 1884)
  • Adekunle Fajuyi, Nigerian soldier, first military governor of the Western Region, Nigeria (b. 1926)
  • Billy Fogg, English footballer (b. 1903)
• July 30
  • Hazel Abel, American teacher and politician; United States Senator (b. 1888)
  • George Ford, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (b. 1907)
  • Gen. Otto Fretter-Pico, German general during World War II (b. 1893)
  • Sir Donald Gainer, British diplomat, Ambassador to Venezuela, Brazil, and Poland (b. 1891)
• July 31
  • Andrej Bagar, Slovak film actor (b. 1900)
  • Chester R. Davis, American businessman, Assistant Secretary of the Army (b. 1896)
  • Alexander von Falkenhausen, German general (b. 1878)
  • Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (b. 1924)