List of Famous people who died in 1966

Ferdinando Innocenti was an Italian businessman who founded the machinery-works company Innocenti and was the creator of the Lambretta motorscooter.

Hans (Johannes) Finohr was a German actor.

Rudolf Herrnstadt was a German journalist and communist politician – most notable for his anti-fascist activity as an exile from the Nazi German regime in the Soviet Union during the war and as a journalist in East Germany until his death, where he and Wilhelm Zaisser represented the anti-Ulbricht wing of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) in the 1950s.

Alexis Roland-Manuel was a French composer and critic, remembered mainly for his criticism.

Vladimir Iosifovich Veksler – September 22, 1966 in Moscow, USSR) was a prominent Soviet experimental physicist.

Daniel "Dan" Edwin Rutherford FRSE was a Scottish mathematician, known for his work on the representation theory of symmetric groups.

Väinö Alfred Tanner was a leading figure in the Social Democratic Party of Finland, and a pioneer and leader of the cooperative movement in Finland. He was Prime Minister of Finland in 1926–1927.