List of Famous people who died in 1966

Charlotte "Chattie" Cooper Sterry was an English female tennis player who won five singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships and in 1900 became Olympic champion. In winning in Paris on 11 July 1900, she became the first female Olympic tennis champion as well as the first individual female Olympic champion.

Marguerite Marie-Charlotte Long was a French pianist, pedagogue, lecturer, and an ambassador of French music.

Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was a member of the British royal family, a male-line granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She later married into the Spanish royal family, and was the wife of Prince Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón, Infante of Spain, a first cousin of Alfonso XIII of Spain.

Howard Oreon Kinsey was an American tennis player in the 1920s. He was originally from California.

Georges Salles was a 20th-century French art historian and curator.

James V. Kern was an American singer, songwriter, screenwriter, actor, and director.

Christian Archibald Herter was an American Republican politician who was the 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961. His moderate tone of negotiations was confronted by the intensity of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in a series of unpleasant episodes that turned the Cold War even colder in 1960–61.

June Walker was an American stage and film actress.