List of Famous people who died at 66

Heidi Genée was a German film editor, director and screenwriter. She worked on 46 films between 1958 and 1984. Her 1977 film Grete Minde was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. Five years later, her film Kraftprobe was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival.

Gwen Watford was an English actress. She twice won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress and the 1981 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for Noël Coward's play Present Laughter. Her film appearances included Cleopatra (1963), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969) and Cry Freedom (1987). She was married to actor Richard Bebb from 1952 until her death in 1994.

Bryan Edgar Wallace (1904–1971) was a British writer. The son of the writer Edgar Wallace, Bryan was also a writer of crime and mystery novels which were very similar in style to those of his father. Some of his better known novels are Death Packs a Suitcase, Strangler of Blackmoor Castle, Murder is Not Enough, The Device, The Man Who Would Not Swim, Murder in Touraine, The White Carpet, The Phantom of Soho and The World is at Stake, among others. During the 1930s, he worked as a screenwriter in the British film industry, mostly co-writing scripts with other writers.