List of Famous people who died in 1966

Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler was an American mathematician. She is best known for early work on linear algebra in infinite dimensions, which has later become a part of functional analysis.

Empress Sunjeonghyo,or literally known as Sunjeong, the Filial Piety Empress, of the Haepyeong Yun clan, was the second wife and first Empress Consort of Emperor Yunghui, the last ruler of the Korean Empire.

Paul Comtois, was a Canadian politician.

Manuel María Ponce Brousset who briefly served as the President of Peru in August 1930.

Francis Edward Faragoh was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 20 films between 1929 and 1947. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1931 for Best Writing, Adaptation for Little Caesar. He was born in Budapest, Hungary and died in Oakland, California from a heart attack.

Wilfrid Lawson was an English character actor of stage and screen.

Vittorio Giannini was a neoromantic American composer of operas, songs, symphonies, and band works.

Erhard Göpel was a German art historian and high level Nazi agent who acquired art, including looted art, for Hitler’s Führermuseum.