This is a list of deaths in July 1966:
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)
Frank Halloran, Australian rules footballer (b. 1912)
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)
André Gailhard, French composer (b. 1885)
Eleanor Margaret Green, Princess Viggo, Countess of Rosenborg, American-born Danish princess (b. 1895)
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)
Archie Latimer Hodgins, Canadian politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1876)
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)
Alberto Gout, Mexican screenwriter and film director (b. 1913)
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)
George Minter, English film producer (b. 1911)
July 9
Sir John Lindsay Dashwood, 10th Baronet, English aristocrat (b. 1896)
Walter Gerwig, German lutenist (b. 1899)
July 10
Raphaël Etifier, French politician, member of the French senate (b. 1889)
Gʻafur Gʻulom, Uzbek writer (b. 1903)
Charles Goethe, American eugenicist (b. 1875)
Malvina Hoffman, American sculptor (b. 1885)
Gussy Holl, German actress (b. 1888)
July 11
Billy Butler, English footballer (b. 1900)
Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b. 1913)
July 12
Vera Franceschi, American pianist (b. 1926)
Leicester Gilbert-Lodge, British philatelist (b. 1882)
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
William Hawksworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1911)
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)
Clarence Gamble, American birth control advocate (b. 1894)
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)
Tom Hammond, Australian rules footballer (b. 1896)
James Butler Hare, American politician, United States representative from South Carolina (b. 1918)
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)
Kurt Herlth, German set designer (b. 1896)
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)
Donald Gee, British theologian (b. 1891)
Pat Hanley, American football player and coach (b. 1896)
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)
Julian Hochfeld, Polish Marxist (b. 1911)
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)
Edward Gourdin, American long jumper, silver medalist at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1897)
Pavlos Gyparis, Greek army officer and politician, MP (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)
Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
Douglass Montgomery, American actor (b. 1907)
July 24
Aftimios Ofiesh, American Orthodox bishop (b. 1880)
George Brook, English cricketer (b. 1888)
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)
Red Green, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1899)
Rolf Henne, Swiss Nazi leader (b. 1901)
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)
Sir Norman Gregg, Australian ophthalmologist (b. 1892)
Hugo von Heidenstam, Swedish diplomat, ambassador to Iran and Iraq (b. 1884)
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)
Harry Hedgpeth, American baseball player (b. 1888)
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)
