This is a list of deaths in May 1966:
May 1
Albert Arnal, Valencian pilotari (b. 1913)
Lee Tung Foo, American actor (b. 1875)
Harold A. Henry, American newspaper publisher and politician (b. 1895)
May 2
Bill Amery, Australian rules footballer (b. 1894)
Bernice Fisher, American civil rights activist (b. 1916)
Agostinho Fortes Filho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1901)
Egbert Cornelis Nicolaas van Hoepen, Dutch paleontologist (b. 1884)
May 3
Alan Don, English Anglican priest, Dean of Westminster during Elizabeth II's coronation (b. 1885)
John Gaddy, American baseball player (b. 1914)
May 4
Mick Anthony, Australian rules footballer (b. 1894)
Timothy Bevington, English and Canadian cricketer (b. 1881)
Wojciech Brydziński, Polish actor (b. 1877)
Bob Elliott, American baseball player (b. 1916)
Atulkrishna Ghosh, Indian revolutionary (b. 1890)
May 5 – S. K. Gurunathan, Indian sports journalist (b. 1908)
May 7
Lucy Grant Cannon, American religious leader (b. 1880)
Hamilton Corbett, American football player (b. 1888)
Leonard Deadwyler, American killed by police (b. c. 1941)
Carlos Luis Fallas, Costa Rican writer (b. 1909)
Walter Sherman Gifford, American corporate executive (AT&T) and diplomat (ambassador to the United Kingdom) (b. 1885)
May 8
Stefan Anderson, Swedish industrialist, journalist and watchmaker (b. 1878)
Elisha T. Barrett, American politician from New York, member of the New York State Assembly and New York State Senate (b. 1902)
Harry Anson Finney, American professor of accounting (b. 1886)
Joseph Anthony Gray, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (b. 1884)
Erich Pommer, German film producer (b. 1889)
May 9
Joseph Sterling Bridwell, American oilman (b. 1885)
Flame Delhi, American baseball player (b. 1892)
Daniel O. Hastings, American politician, U.S. Senator from Delaware (b. 1874)
May 10 – Erich Engel, German film and theatre director (b. 1891)
May 11
Hilary A. Bush, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (b. 1905)
Sir Herbert Butcher, 1st Baronet, English politician, MP (b. 1901)
John James Carrick, American-born Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons (b. 1873)
Henry S. Caulfield, American politician, Governor of Missouri (b. 1873)
Rolf Hofmo, Norwegian politician (b. 1898)
Alfred Wintle, British army officer and eccentric (b. 1897)
May 12
Stephen Campbell, Guyanese politician, MP (b. 1897)
Bruce Eddis, English cricketer (b. 1883)
May 13 – Henrik Adam Due, American-born Norwegian violinist (b. 1891)
May 14
Joseph Williams Armstrong, English footballer (b. 1892)
Tom Connolly, American baseball player (b. 1892)
Irv Constantine, American football player (b. 1907)
May 15
Kathryn Forbes, American writer (b. 1908)
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, President of El Salvador (assassinated) (b. 1882)
Titien Sumarni, Indonesian actress (b. 1932)
May 16
Adm. William Carr, English-born Australian admiral (b. 1883)
Eddie Casey, American football player and coach (b. 1894)
Gen. Merritt B. Curtis, American brigadier general and politician (b. 1892)
Robert Willard Hodgson, American academic (b. 1893)
May 17
Vahram Alazan, Soviet Armenian poet, writer and public activist, the First Secretary of the Writers Union of Armenia from 1933 to 1936 (b. 1903)
Deng Tuo, Chinese writer (b. c. 1911)
Thomas Harper Goodspeed, American botanist (b. 1887)
May 18
Paul Althaus, German Lutheran theologian (b. 1888)
Punk Berryman, American football player and coach (b. 1892)
Paul Joseph Chartier, Canadian would-be bomber of the House of Commons (b. 1921)
Lee Gooch, American baseball player (b. 1890)
May 19 – Theodore F. Green, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island and United States Senator (b. 1867)
May 20
Hester Adrian, Baroness Adrian, British mental health worker (b. 1899)
Carlos Arruza, nicknamed "El Ciclón" ("the cyclone"), Mexican bullfighter (b. 1920)
Ermin Garcia, Filipino journalist (b. 1921)
May 21 – Pat O'Malley, American actor (b. 1890)
May 22
John Byers, American architect (b. 1875)
William Dickson, English-born Australian politician (b. 1893)
Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
Arnold Hauser, American baseball player (b. 1888)
May 23
Charles Brand, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (b. 1871)
Sam Cooke, Australian rules footballer (b. 1883)
Hubert Creekmore, American poet and author (b. 1907)
Louis-Charles Damais, French Orientalist (b. 1911)
Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902)
Dimitrios Geraniotis, Greek artist (b. 1871)
Jacko Heaslip, Irish cricketer (b. 1899)
May 24
Henri Barbé, French Communist and collaborator with Nazi Germany (b. 1902)
Jim Barnes, English golf champion (b. 1886)
Pierre de Lagarde Boal, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua and to Bolivia (b. 1895)
Alexandru Cazaban, Romanian writer (b. 1872)
Sir Herbert Dowbiggin, British Inspector General of Police of Ceylon (b. 1880)
Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (b. 1885)
Niaz Fatehpuri, Indian-born Pakistani writer (b. 1884)
Ove Frederiksen, Danish tennis player, competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1884)
Theresa Garnett, British suffragist (b. 1888)
Hans Hansen, German architect (b. 1889)
May 25
William Acorn, Canadian automobile dealer and politician; member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island (b. 1915)
André Baugé, French opera and operetta singer and film actor (b. 1893)
Vernon Sturdee, Australian general (b. 1890)
May 26
Don Castle, American actor (b. 1917)
Elizabeth Dilling, American anti-communist and antisemitic activist (b. 1894)
Edmond T. Gréville, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
May 27 – Vic Buchanan, Australian rules footballer (b. 1899)
May 28
Simon Ericsson, Swedish rower, competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1886)
George Garrett, British labour activist (b. 1896)
Harry Haraldsen, Norwegian cyclist and speed skater, competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Winter Olympics (b. 1911)
Edward Harrington, Australian poet (b. 1895)
May 29 – James Woolf, British film producer (b. 1919)
May 30
Wäinö Aaltonen, Finnish artist and sculptor (b. 1894)
Vladimir Alafuzov, Soviet admiral (b. 1901)
Oscar Walter Cisek, Romanian writer (b. 1897)
May 31 – Gen. William H. Blanchard, United States Air Force general (b. 1916)
