List of Famous people who died at 66
Johnny Clegg
Jonathan Paul Clegg, OBE, OIS was a South African musician, singer-songwriter, dancer, anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist, some of whose work was in musicology focused on the music of indigenous South African peoples. His band Juluka began as a duo with Sipho Mchunu, and was the first group in the South African apartheid-era with a white man and a black man. The pair performed and recorded, later with an expanded lineup.
John Callahan
John Kevin Callahan was an American actor, known for his work as Edmund Grey on the daytime soap opera All My Children.
Gregory Scarpa
Gregory Scarpa Sr. nicknamed The Grim Reaper and also The Mad Hatter, was an American capo and hitman for the Colombo crime family and an informant for the FBI. During the 1970s and 1980s, Scarpa was the chief enforcer and a veteran hitman for Colombo boss Carmine Persico. Scarpa committed three murders in 1991 and is suspected to have committed a minimum of 80 murders from the early 1950s to 1992. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1993 for murder, and died in prison on June 4, 1994. Scarpa is believed by the FBI to have murdered 100 to 120 people.
Dilip Sardesai
Dilip Narayan Sardesai was an Indian international cricketer. He played Tests for the Indian national team as a batsman, the only Goa-born cricketer to play for India, and was often regarded as one of India's best batsmen against spin, although Indian batsmen have been known to play better against spin.
Curd Jürgens
Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was well known for playing Ernst Udet in Des Teufels General. His best known English-language roles were as Wehrmacht general Günther Blumentritt in The Longest Day and as James Bond villain Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me.
Gert Krawinkel
Gert Krawinkel was a German musician and guitarist. He was better known as "Kralle".
Crazy Mohan
Mohan Rangachari known professionally as Crazy Mohan, was an Indian actor, comedian, screenwriter and playwright. An engineer by profession, Mohan started writing plays and established his own drama troupe called "Crazy Creations" in 1979. In addition to dramas and tele-serials, Mohan worked as a dialogue writer on a number of comedy films. Mohan had written over 30 plays, worked on over 40 films, having cameo roles in each film, and written 100 short stories. He died on 10 June 2019 due to a cardiac arrest.
Raman Raghav
Raman Raghav, also known as Sindhi Talwai, Anna, Thambi, and Veluswami, was a serial killer from Khstra active during the mid-1960s.
Vinícius de Moraes
Marcus Vinícius da Cruz e Mello Moraes, also known as Vinícius de Moraes and nicknamed O Poetinha, was a Brazilian poet, lyricist, essayist, and playwright. Along with frequent collaborator Antônio Carlos Jobim, his lyrics and compositions were part of the birth of bossa nova music. He recorded several albums and also served as a diplomat.
Ricardo Boechat
Ricardo Eugênio Boechat was an Argentine-born Brazilian news anchor. He worked for newspapers such as O Globo, O Dia, O Estado de São Paulo and Jornal do Brasil. Before his death, he was active as a news director and radio anchor at BandNews FM and held a position as television anchor at Jornal da Band. Boechat won three Esso Journalism Awards. He entertained a weekly column at news magazine IstoÉ, and in 2002 authored the book Copacabana Palace.