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1966
1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar).
Events
January
February
Abelardo Targino MD is born in Fortaleza- Brasil
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Unknown dates
Year in topics
Births
January-April
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January 1 - Michael Imperioli, actor
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January 12 - Rob Zombie, musician, artist, writer
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January 13 - Patrick Dempsey, actor
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January 17 - Shabba Ranks, singer
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January 29 - Romário, Brazilian football (soccer) player
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February 1 - Michelle Akers, American soccer star
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February 9 - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
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February 11 - Anthony Parker, American football player
- February 11 - Patrick Kuhnen , West German tennis player
- February 11 - Stephen Gregory, actor
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February 20 - Cindy Crawford, model
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February 22 - Brian Andrew Greig , statesman
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February 24 - Billy Zane, actor
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February 25 - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete
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March 3 - Tone-Loc, musician
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March 4 - Kevin Johnson, basketball player
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March 10 - Edie Brickell, singer
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March 25 - Tom Glavine, baseball pitcher
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March 31 - Roger Black, British athlete
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April 14 - Greg Maddux, baseball pitcher
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April 18 - Trine Hattestad, Norwegian javelin thrower
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April 28 - John Daly, American golfer
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April 29 - Phil Tufnell, cricketer
May-August
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May 10 - Jonathan Edwards, British triple jumper
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May 12 - Stephen Baldwin, actor
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May 13 - Darius Rucker, musician, "Hootie & The Blowfish" frontman
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May 16 - Janet Jackson, singer
- May 16 - Thurman Thomas, American football player
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May 24 - Eric Cantona, French footballer
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May 26 - Helena Bonham Carter, actress
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May 26 - Zola Budd, athlete
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June 4 - Tiffany Million, pornographic actress
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June 8 - Julianna Margulies, actress
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June 18 - Kurt Browning, figure skater
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June 21 - Rudi Bakhtiar, journalist
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June 25 - Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player
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June 27 - J. J. Abrams, television writer and producer
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June 28 - John Cusack, actor
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June 30 - Mike Tyson, boxer
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July 3 - Moises Alou, Major League Baseball player
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July 7 - Gundula Krause, folk violinist
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July 14 - Matthew Fox, actor
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July 15 - Irčne Jacob, actress
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July 22 - Dominik Schweizer, paraglider and singer
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August 3 - Oliver Brown, ukulele performer and theorist
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August 7 - Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia
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August 11 - Juan Maria Solare, classical music composer
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August 14 - Halle Berry, actress
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August 19 - Lee Ann Womack, country music musician
September-December
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September 4 - Yanka Dyagileva, Russian punk-rock singer
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September 9 - Georg Hackl, German luger
- September 9 - Adam Sandler, actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live, Happy Gilmore, 50 First Dates)
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September 21 - Kiefer Sutherland, actor (24 (television))
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October 24 - Roman Abramovich, Russian oligarch and oil magnate
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October 27 - Matt Drudge, Internet journalist
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October 28 - Steve Atwater, American football player
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November 12 - David Schwimmer, American actor (Friends)
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November 14 - Curt Schilling, baseball pitcher
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November 17 - Sophie Marceau, actress
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November 17 - Jeff Buckley, singer (d. 1997)
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December 1 - Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player
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December 7 - C. Thomas Howell, actor
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Linn Ullmann, Norwegian journalist and author
Deaths
January-March
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January 1 - Vincent Auriol, French president
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January 11 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor
- January 11 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner
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January 14 - Barry Fitzgerald, actor
- January 14 - Bill Carr, American athlete
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January 15 - Sergei Korolev, space scientist
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January 18 - Kathleen Norris , writer
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February 1 - Buster Keaton, American actor and film director
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February 1 - Hedda Hopper, gossip columnist
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February 10 - Billy Rose, composer, band leader
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February 10 - Lal Bahadur Shastri, prime minister of India
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February 20 - Chester Nimitz, American admiral
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March 1 - Fritz Houtermans, physicist (b. 1903)
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March 3 - Maxfield Parrish, artist
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March 5 - Anna Ahmatova , poetess
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March 8 - William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, British parliamentarian
April-September
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April 2 - C.S. Forester, English author
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April 3 - Battista Pininfarina, car designer
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April 10 - Evelyn Waugh, author
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April 11 - Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, former military dictator of El Salvador (assassinated)
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April 13 - Georges Duhamel, author
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April 13 - Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi president
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May 22 - Tom Goddard, Gloucestershire off spinner and fifth highest first-class wicket-taker (b. 1900).
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June 1 - Papa Jack Laine, jazz musician (b. 1873)
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June 7 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1887)
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June 8 - Anton Melik, Slovene geographer
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June 12 - Hermann Scherchen, Austrian conductor (b. 1891)
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June 30 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian F1 race car driver
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July 2 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
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July 6 - Sad Sam Jones, Major League Baseball player (b. 1892)
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July 7 - George de Hevesy, chemist; Nobel-laureate
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July 24 - Montgomery Clift, actor
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August 3 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian
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August 6 - Cordwainer Smith, science fiction author
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September 5 - Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman
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September 6 - Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate
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September 6 - Hendrik Verwoerd, prime minister of South Africa
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September 11 - C. E. Woolman, founder of Delta Air Lines
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September 17 - Fritz Wunderlich, tenor
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September 28 - Andre Breton, French writer and founder of surrealism (b. 1896)
October-December
unknown dates
Last updated: 10-15-2005 04:38:06
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