List of Famous people who died at 66

Oskar Hermann Artur Schlitter was a German diplomat. He was a Nazi Party member between 1934 and 1945 and excluded from the diplomatic service between 1945 and 1952, the year in which he returned to government service for what was now West Germany.

William Herbrand Sackville, 10th Earl De La Warr was a British peer. He inherited the earldom on 28 January 1976 on the death of his father Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr.

Hertha Pauli was an Austrian journalist, author and actress.

Drs. H. Abubakar, M.Si was an Indonesian politician and regent of West Bandung.

Alain Casabona was a French novelist and short story writer. He won the Prix Alphonse-Allais from the Académie Alphonse Allais in 1994. He became a great chancellor of the Académie in 1996.

Pál Turán also known as Paul Turán, was a Hungarian mathematician who worked primarily in extremal combinatorics. He had a long collaboration with fellow Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, lasting 46 years and resulting in 28 joint papers.

Thomas "Tom" Wilhelmsen was a Norwegian shipping magnate and the main owner of Norway's largest shipping company, Wilh. Wilhelmsen. He was also a noted philanthropist.