List of Famous people who died in 1966

Georg Ehrlich was an Austrian sculptor. He lived in London from 1938 and became a British citizen in 1947.

Hugh Sanders was an American actor, probably best known as Dr. Reynolds in the movie To Kill a Mockingbird.

Georges (George) Emile Léonard Theunis was the prime minister of Belgium from 16 December 1921 to 13 May 1925 and again from 20 November 1934 to 25 March 1935. He was governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) from 1941 until 1944. He was the minister of Finance from 1920 to 1925.

Georg Faber was a German mathematician who introduced Faber polynomials, Faber series, the Lévy C curve, and Faber–Schauder systems.

Gianni Di Venanzo, was an Italian cinematographer.

Giovanni Vitrotti (1874–1966) was an Italian cinematographer and film director who worked prolifically in Italian films from the silent era onwards. He made films in a number of other countries like Germany, Russia and Poland.

(Klas) Robert Elias Fries, the youngest son of Theodor Magnus Fries (1832–1913) and grandson of Elias Magnus Fries(1794–1878) and an expert on mushrooms. A Swedish botanist who was a member of the British Mycological Society and involved with The Botanical Museum (UPS), Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Natural History Museum (BM), the National Botanic Garden of Belgium (BR), Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève (G), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K),the Swedish Museum of Natural History Department of Phanerogamic Botany (S) and the United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution (US).

François Ayoub was a Syrian Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo and the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Cyprus.

Guido Sutermeister was an Italian engineer and archaeologist.

Auguste Marie "Gussy" Holl was a German actress and singer. Holl was briefly a silent film star during the early Weimar Republic, appearing in productions such as F. W. Murnau's Desire (1921). As of 2021, only one of her films survive.