List of Famous people who died in 1966

Henry Sharp was an American cinematographer who worked in Hollywood from the 1920s through the 1950s. He was known for his work with actor Douglas Fairbanks.

Víctor Andrés Belaúnde Diez Canseco was a Peruvian diplomat who chaired the fourteenth session and the fourth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly (1959–1960).

Marcel Perrière was a Swiss racing cyclist. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1911. He also rode in the 1914 Tour de France.

Robert Douglass Montgomery was an American film actor.

Pierre Mercure was a Québécois composer, TV producer, bassoonist, and administrator.

Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall was an English stage, screen and radio actor who starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. After a successful theatrical career in the United Kingdom and North America, he became an in-demand Hollywood leading man, frequently appearing in romantic melodramas and occasional comedies. In his later years, he turned to character acting.

Frederick Albert Heath, known professionally as Johnny Kidd, was an English singer-songwriter, best remembered as the lead vocalist for the rock and roll band Johnny Kidd & the Pirates. He was one of the few pre-Beatles British rockers to achieve worldwide fame, mainly for his 1960 hit, "Shakin' All Over".

Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych was a linguist and accentologist. He was a founding father of comparative Nostratic linguistics and the Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics.

Robert H. Friedrich, better known by the ring name Ed "Strangler" Lewis, was an American professional wrestler and trainer. During his wrestling career, which spanned four decades, Lewis was a four-time World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion and overall recognised officially as a five-time world champion. Considered to be one of the most iconic and recognizable sports stars of the 1920s, often alongside boxer Jack Dempsey and baseball player Babe Ruth, Lewis notably wrestled in over 6,000 matches and lost only 32 of them.