List of Famous people who died in 1966

Noël Gallon was a French composer and music educator. His compositional output includes several choral works and vocal art songs, 10 preludes, a Toccata for piano, a Sonata for flute and bassoon, a Fantasy for piano and orchestra, an Orchestral Suite, and the lyrical drama Paysans et Soldats (1911).

Norair Martirosovich Sisakian (Sissakian) was a Soviet Armenian biochemist, academic, one of the founders of space biology, an outstanding organizer of science, a member of the Pugwash movement.

Arthur Patrick William Seely, 3rd Baron Mottistone TD DL, was a family Land Agent on the Isle of Wight and a British Liberal Party politician.

Ruth Landshoff-Yorck was a German-American actress and writer.

Alessandro Marchettí was an Italian engineer and airplane designer. Marchetti was born in Sesto Calende, Italy, and died in Rome. He was best known for having created the Savoia-Marchetti SM.79, a World War II bomber aircraft.

Henri Vanlerberghe was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. In 1919, he won the third edition of the Tour of Flanders.

Duncan Alexander Eliott Mackintosh of Mackintosh-Torcastle and Clan Chattan was the 31st Chief of Clan Chattan, a confederation of Scottish Highland Clans. As a result of the 29th Chief's preferment of a more distant cousin and Arbell Mackintosh becoming the 30th Chief until her marriage to Anthony Warre it devolved on the 29th Chief's next heir in line, Duncan Alexander Eliott Mackintosh by the order of Lord Lyon King of Arms issued on 27 March 1947 who became 31st Chief and matriculated ‘as of right and without brisur or mark of cadency Ensigns armorial of and appropriate to Mackintosh of Mackintosh-Torcastle and Clan Chattan, marshalled as effeirs for the Inheritor of the Honourable the Clan Chattan… as Head of the ‘‘haill kin of Clan Chattan’’’. At this juncture the chieftainship of Mackintosh and Clan Chattan split.