List of Famous people who died in 1966

Birger Braadland was a Norwegian politician for the Agrarian Party. He served as foreign minister from 1931 to 1933.

Karl-Otto Saur was State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production in Germany during the Nazi era and de jure last defence minister of the Third Reich.

Peter Illing was an Austrian-born British film and television actor.

Daniel James Moody Jr., was a Democratic politician. Originally from Taylor, Texas, he served as the 30th governor of Texas between 1927 and 1931. At the age of 33, he was elected and took office as the youngest governor in Texas history. After his two terms as governor, he returned to private law practice and continued to prosecute and represent various functions of the US government in his later life.

Blanche Wolf Knopf was the president of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and wife of publisher Alfred A. Knopf Sr., with whom she established the firm in 1915. Blanche traveled the world seeking new authors and was especially influential in the publication of European and Latin American literature in the United States.

Fred George Aandahl was an American Republican politician from North Dakota. He served as the 23rd Governor of North Dakota from 1945 to 1951 and as a U.S. Representative from 1951 to 1953.