List of Famous people who died at 66

Vytautas Žalakevičius was a Lithuanian film director and writer. His 1973 film That Sweet Word: Liberty! won the Golden Prize at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.

Elias (Elie) Skaff, in Arabic الياس سكاف, was a Lebanese politician and leader of the "Popular Bloc".

Yuen Siu-tien was a Hong Kong martial arts film actor in the late 1970s. Yuen is perhaps best known as Beggar So in three films: Drunken Master, Story of Drunken Master and his final film Dance of the Drunk Mantis. He starred in several films with film actors like Jackie Chan and under the direction of his real life son Yuen Woo-ping.

Hans Bayer, known by the pseudonym Thaddäus Troll, was a German journalist and writer and one of the most prominent modern poets in the Swabian German dialect. In his later years, he was also an active campaigner for libraries and for support, pension rights, and fair publishing contracts for writers. He was born in Cannstatt, a suburb of Stuttgart, and committed suicide there at the age of 66. The literary award Thaddäus-Troll-Preis is named in his honour.

Hermann Gmeiner was an Austrian philanthropist and the founder of SOS Children's Villages.

Werner Lindemann was a German writer and poet. He was the father of Till Lindemann, the lead vocalist of German industrial metal band Rammstein.

Simon Charles Dickie was a New Zealand rowing cox who won three Olympic medals.

Hermann Lause was a German film actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1966 to 2005.

Michel Mitrani was a French film director and screenwriter. He was the founder of the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels in 1987. His 1974 film Les Guichets du Louvre was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.

Zyta Janina Gilowska (listen) was a Polish economist, academic, and politician.