This is a list of deaths in August 1966:
August 1
Hank Gowdy, American baseball player (b. 1889)
Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (b. 1941)
August 2
Rudolf Antonín Dvorský, Czech bandleader (b. 1899)
Jacques Fouques-Duparc, French diplomat (b. 1897)
August 3
Earl Blackburn, American baseball player (b. 1892)
Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
John Cockle, English-born Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives (b. 1908)
Caroline Ganley, British politician, MP (b. 1879)
August 4
Betty Arlen, American actress (b. 1909)
Pug Cavet, American baseball player (b. 1889)
August 5
Bian Zhongyun, Chinese educator, first victim of the Cultural Revolution (b. 1916)
John Cairney, New Zealand anatomist (b. 1898)
Nobby Clark, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1897)
Austin Diamond, English-born Australian cricketer (b. 1874)
Rufus Goldney, Australian politician, member of the South Australian House of Assembly (b. 1883)
Richard Hingston, British naturalist (b. 1887)
August 6
Edmond L. DePatie, American film industry executive (b. 1900)
Cordwainer Smith, American author (b. 1913)
August 7
Samuel J. Battle, American police officer, first African-American police officer in New York City (b. 1883)
George Graham, Irish-Canadian soccer player (b. 1902)
August 8
Herman Bartlett, Australian rules footballer (b. 1892)
Teddy Billington, American racing cyclist, multiple medalist at the 1904 Olympic games (b. 1882)
Richmond P. Hobson, Jr., American-Canadian writer (b. 1907)
Ed "Strangler" Lewis, professional wrestler (b. 1891)
August 9
Axel Alfredsson, Swedish footballer, Olympic competitor (1924) (b. 1902)
Lee Bowers, American witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy (b. 1925)
Henri Fescourt, French film director (b. 1880)
Alexander Gitovich, Soviet poet and translator (b. 1909)
William Woodbury Hicks, American philatelist (b. 1896)
August 10
J. C. Bloem, Dutch poet and writer (b. 1887)
Arthur Creber, British cricketer (b. 1909)
Chuck Dressen, American baseball player and manager (b. 1894)
James French, American murderer (b. c. 1936)
Maj. Alfred Cecil Herring, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1888)
August 11 – Ettore Bellotto, Italian gymnast, member of the gold-medal winning team at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1895)
August 12
Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet (b. 1923)
J. H. Conradie, South African politician and judge, Speaker of the National Assembly (b. 1897)
August 13
Frank Chester, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (b. 1901)
Laura Gardin Fraser, American sculptor (b. 1889)
Poul Hansen, Danish politician, Defence Minister of Denmark and Danish Minister of Finance (b. 1913)
August 14
Cora Sutton Castle, American educator (b. 1880)
Raymond Duncan, American writer and philosopher (b. 1874)
August 15
George Burns, American baseball player (b. 1889)
Chris Cameron, Australian rules footballer (b. 1894)
Jules Dubois, American reporter (b. 1910)
Rafael Frontaura, Chilean actor (b. 1896)
Jan Kiepura, Polish tenor and actor (b. 1902)
Seena Owen, American actress (b. 1894)
August 17
Bill Allington, American minor league baseball player and manager (b. 1903)
Jean-Yves Bigras, Canadian film director and editor (b. 1919)
Rolf Billberg, Swedish alto saxophone player (b. 1930)
Michael Garrison, American television producer (The Wild Wild West) (b. 1922)
Moses Hadas, American classical scholar (b. 1900)
August 19
Fritz Bleyl, German painter (b. 1880)
Carlo Capra, Italian footballer (b. 1889)
Roy Crick, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (b. 1904)
Jeanne de Casalis, Basutoland-born British actress (b. 1897)
August 20
Arthur Colvin, Australian doctor and politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (b. 1884)
Austin Diamond, American politician (b. 1874)
Urban Huttleston Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven, American-born British nobleman (b. 1896)
August 21
Terry Beddard, British fencer; Olympic competitor (1936 and 1948) (b. 1901)
Jack Bisset, Australian rules footballer (b. 1900)
Martin Dooling, American soccer player, bronze medalist at the 1904 Summer Olympics (b. 1886)
August 22
Gunnar Aaby, Danish soccer player (b. 1895)
Benjamin C. Dawkins, Sr., American judge (b. 1881)
August 23
Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)
Guillermo Gorostiza, Spanish footballer (b. 1909)
Mere Haana Hall, New Zealand educator (b. c. 1881)
August 24
Malfred Bergseth, Norwegian trade unionist (b. 1895)
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Polish general and statesman (b. 1895)
Wheezer Dell, American baseball player (b. 1886)
Sam Faubus, American politician (b. 1887)
August 25
James Bagshaw, English football player (Derby County) (b. 1885)
Lance Comfort, English film director (b. 1908)
Sir John Dwyer, Australian jurist, Chief Justice and Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia (b. 1879)
August 26
Nils Asheim, Norwegian Liberal Party politician (b. 1895)
Art Baker, American actor (b. 1898)
Edmund Blampied, Jersey artist (b. 1886)
Norm Davis, Australian rules footballer (b. 1904)
Robert Dehler, Canadian-born Bermudan Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1889)
Hermann Geiger, Swiss pilot (b. 1914)
August 27
Mads Clausen, Danish industrialist (b. 1905)
John Cournos, Russian-born American and British writer (b. 1881)
August 28
Waldemar Carlsen, Norwegian writer, newspaper editor, and politician (b. 1880)
Andrew Edmiston, Jr., American politician, United States Representative from West Virginia (b. 1892)
Rudolf Herrnstadt, East German politician and journalist (b. 1903)
August 29
Princess Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, German princess (b. 1890)
Emil Burri, German playwright and screenwriter (b. 1902)
Fritz Max Cahén, German anti-Nazi (b. 1891)
Elmer Talmadge Clark, American writer and church executive (b. 1886)
Al DeVormer, American baseball player (b. 1891)
Joseph Egger, Austrian actor (b. 1889)
Romy Gosz, American Polka musician (b. 1910)
August 30
John Campbell, Australian rugby player (b. 1889)
Martin W. Clement, American railroad executive (b. 1881)
Elise Hambro, Norwegian educator (b. 1881)
August 31
Joyce Allan, Australian conchologist (b. 1896)
Alexis Caron, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons (b. 1899)
Denzil Dean Harber, British ornithologist (b. 1909)
