Deaths in February 1966

This is a list of deaths in February 1966:

• February 1

Hedda Hopper

Buster Keaton

• • Roswell M. Austin, American politician and attorney; Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives (b. 1887)
  • Charles Belden, American photographer (b. 1887)
  • Stuart Campbell, British journalist and editor (b. 1908)
  • Arthur Curle, British cricketer (b. 1895)
  • Gen. John D'Arcy, British Army officer (b. 1894)
  • William Harrigan, American actor (b. 1894)
  • Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (b. 1885)
  • Buster Keaton, American actor and film director (b. 1895)
  • Joseph R. Knowland, American politician and newspaper publisher (b. 1873)
• February 3
  • Gianni Di Venanzo, Italian cinematographer (b. 1920)
  • Cowboy Hill, American football player (b. 1899)
  • Jack Keily, Australian rules footballer (b. 1898)
  • Kamil Abdul Rahim, Egyptian diplomat (b. 1897)
  • June Walker, American actress (b. 1900)
• February 4
  • Lucius Beebe, American author and syndicated columnist (b. 1902)
  • Ady Berber, Austrian film actor (b. 1913)
  • Sir Lance Brisbane, Australian businessman (b. 1893)
  • Irvin Brooks, American baseball player (b. 1891)
  • Charles Comber, Australian rules footballer (b. 1891)
  • Howard Dea, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1891)
  • Robert Graf, German actor (b. 1923)
  • Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, Ottoman Empire-born American and Canadian journalist (editor of National Geographic Magazine) (b. 1875)
  • Harold Hayman, British politician, MP (b. 1894)
• February 5
  • Ludwig Binswanger, Swiss psychiatrist, pioneer in existential psychology (b. 1881)
  • John Breen, Australian politician, Member of the Australian House of Representatives (b. 1898)
• February 6

Vilis Lācis

• • Paul Bardal, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (b. 1889)
  • Wayne G. Borah, United States federal judge (b. 1891)
  • Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
  • Abdurrahman Nafiz Gürman, Turkish general (b. 1882)
  • Algot Haquinius, Swedish pianist and composer (b. 1886)
  • Vilis Lācis, Latvian writer and Soviet politician (b. 1904)
  • Narcisa de León, Filipino film producer (b. 1877)
• February 7
  • Bill Dole, American football coach (b. 1909)
  • James A. Gardner, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1943)
  • Leopold van der Pals, Russian-born Dutch composer (b. 1884)
• February 8
  • Vernon Andrade, American jazz bandleader active primarily in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s (b. 1902)
  • William L. Clayton, American Under Secretary of State (b. 1880)
  • James Creese, American academic administrator (b. 1896)
  • Paul Sophus Epstein, Polish-born Russian-American mathematical physicist (b. 1883)
  • Karl Kangas, Finnish wrestler, competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1886)
  • Juho Karvonen, Finnish politician, MP (b. 1888)
• February 9
  • Bruno Ahlberg, Finnish boxer, Olympic athlete (1932 and 1936) (b. 1911)
  • Giovanni Benfratello, Italian fencer, competitor at the 1912 Summer Olympics (b. 1888)
  • Budd Fine, American actor (b. 1894)
  • Ignacio Hidalgo de Cisneros, Spanish aviator during the Spanish Civil War (b. 1896)
  • Sophie Tucker, American singer (b. 1884)
• February 10
  • Theodor Beckmann, German Luftwaffe officer during World War II (b. 1897)
  • Bruno Bitkowski, Canadian all-star football centre (Ottawa Rough Riders) (b. 1929)
  • Ryan DeGraffenried, Sr., American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (b. 1925)
  • William Dillon, American songwriter (b. 1877)
  • Adm. Sir John Edelsten, British Royal Navy admiral (b. 1891)
  • Gen. J. F. C. Fuller, British Army general during World War I (b. 1878)
  • Mary Agnes Hamilton, British politician, MP (b. 1884)
  • Osie Johnson, American musician (b. 1923)
  • Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
• February 11
  • Reginald Boden, English cricketer (b. 1884)
  • Fred E. Busbey, American politician, U.S. Representative from Illinois (b. 1895)
  • Victor-Stanislas Chartrand, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (b. 1887)
• February 12
  • Leon Beer, Australian rules footballer (b. 1903)
  • Oswald Lewis, British politician, MP (b. 1887)
• February 13

Marguerite Long ca. 1900

• • Roy Crisp, Australian rules footballer (b. 1890)
  • Calle Jularbo, Swedish accordionist (b. 1893)
  • Marguerite Long, French pianist (b. 1874)
• February 14
  • Hugo Björne, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
  • Germain Caron, Canadian politician, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (b. 1910)
  • Charles Chellapah, Singaporean photojournalist (b. 1939)
  • Jack Coffey, American baseball player (b. 1887)
  • Adrian Cole, Australian Air Vice Marshal (b. 1895)
  • François Demol, Belgian footballer (b. 1895)
  • Ernest Albert Egerton, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1897)
  • Charles Elsey, British race horse trainer (b. 1882)
  • Jørgen Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish sculptor (b. 1895)
  • Walter Layton, 1st Baron Layton, British economist, newspaperman, and politician (b. 1884)
• February 15
  • James B. Allardice, American television comedy writer of the 1950s and 1960s (b. 1919)
  • Spence Burton, American-born Anglican bishop of Nassau, Bahamas (b. 1881)
  • Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect and historian of gardens (b. 1909)
  • Hedwig Conrad-Martius, German phenomenologist and mystic (b. 1888)
  • Armando Fizzarotti, Italian screenwriter and film director (b. 1892)
  • Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian priest and guerrilla leader (b. 1929)
• February 16
  • Georgi Belev, Bulgarian opera singer (b. 1908)
  • Paul Henri Bouffard, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (b. 1895)
  • John Thomas Davies, English Anglican priest (b. 1881)
  • Károly Escher, Hungarian photographer (b. 1890)
  • Gwendolen Guinness, Countess of Iveagh, Anglo-Irish aristocrat and politician, MP (b. 1881)
• February 17
  • Archibald Acheson, 6th Earl of Gosford, British nobleman (b. 1911)
  • Siegmund Beutum, Austrian chess master (b. 1890)
  • Syd Carman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1901)
  • Chen Shutong, Chinese politician (b. 1876)
  • Mike Chornohus, Austria-Hungary-born Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (b. 1888)
  • Charles Hobson, Baron Hobson, British politician, MP (b. 1904)
  • Hans Hofmann, German-born American painter (b. 1880)
  • Frank Joy, English cricketer (b. 1880)
  • Gail Kane, American actress (b. 1885)
• February 18
  • Mary Patricia Anderson, New Zealand politician, one of the first two women appointed to the New Zealand Legislative Council (b. 1887)
  • Heinz Baader, German Luftwaffe officer during World War II (b. 1916)
  • James Harry Beatty, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (b. 1890)
  • Rick Bockelie, Norwegian sailor, gold medalist at the 1924 Summer Olympics (b. 1902)
  • Carol Ann Drazba, American military nurse killed in Vietnam War (b. 1943)
  • Daniel D. Fernández, American soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor (b. 1944)
  • Frank Lukis, Australian air force commodore (b. 1896)
  • Stanisław Mackiewicz, Russian-born Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland (government in exile) (b. 1896)
  • Robert Rossen, American film director (b. 1908)
• February 19
  • Harry Geisel, American baseball umpire (b. 1888)
  • James Edward Grant, American writer (b. 1905)
  • Gilder D. Jackson Jr., American Marine Corps general (b. 1893)
  • Max Leslie, Australian rules footballer (b. 1922)
  • Arthur Lockwood, British politician (b. 1883)
• February 20
  • Solomon Asch, Polish gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology in the United States (b. 1907)
  • Fernand Francell, French opera singer and actor (b. 1880)
  • Chester Gore, American art director (b. 1893)
  • Louise Guthrie, South African botanist (b. 1879)
  • Johnny Hart, Australian rules footballer (b. 1888)
  • Pop Laval, American photographer (b. 1882)
  • Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
• February 21
  • Harold Glanville (junior), British politician (b. 1884)
  • Guy Jackson, English cricketer (b. 1896)
• February 22
  • Everitt P. Blizard, Canadian-born American nuclear physicist and engineer (b. 1916)
  • Bernard Braskamp, American Presbyterian minister, Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1887)
  • Georg Erdmann, Norwegian sports shooter, competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics (b. 1875)
  • Melchor Fernández Almagro, Spanish writer, historian and journalist (b. 1893)
  • Joseph Kiwánuka, Ugandan Roman Catholic Archbishop of Rubaga (b. 1899)
• February 23 – Billy Kyle, American pianist (b. 1914)
• February 24
  • Jean d'Esme, French writer (b. 1894)
  • Frederick Gentle, British judge (b. 1892)
  • Billy Hampson, British football player and manager (b. 1882)
  • William Major, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1896)
• February 25
  • Garland Braxton, American baseball player (b. 1900)
  • Ira Delbert Cotnam, Canadian politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1883)
  • Melchor Fernández Almagro, Spanish writer (b. 1893)
  • G. C. Foster, Jamaican sportsman (b. 1885)
  • Victor Kravchenko, Russian-born American writer (b. 1905)
• February 26
  • José María Albareda, Spanish scientist, Secretary General and head of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC) (b. 1902)
  • Emiliano Chamorro Vargas, President of Nicaragua (b. 1871)
  • Sir Guy Dain, English physician (b. 1870)
  • Adm. Richard Bell Davies, British Royal Navy officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1886)
  • Les Davis, American football coach (b. 1900)
  • Karl Jørgensen, Danish actor (b. 1890)
  • Mientje Kling, Dutch actress (b. 1894)
  • Walter König, Polish industrialist (b. 1903)
  • Reg Mackey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1899)
  • Gino Severini, Italian painter (b. 1883)
• February 27 – Curt Badinski, German Wehrmacht general during World War II (b. 1890)
• February 28
  • Charles Bassett, American test pilot and NASA astronaut (b. 1931)
  • Schamyl Bauman, Swedish film director (b. 1893)
  • George Harrison Dunbar, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (b. 1878)
  • Jonathan Hale, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1891)
  • Léonie Keingiaert de Gheluvelt, Belgian feminist, first female mayor of a town in Belgium (b. 1885)