# 1966 in China

Events from the year 1966 in China.

## Incumbents

* Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party — Mao Zedong
* President of the People's Republic of China — Liu Shaoqi
* Premier of the People's Republic of China — Zhou Enlai
* Chairman of the National People's Congress — Zhu De
* Vice President of the People's Republic of China — Soong Ching-ling and Dong Biwu
* Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China — Lin Biao

### Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province — Huang Yan
* Governor of Fujian Province — Wei Jinshui
* Governor of Gansu Province — Deng Baoshan
* Governor of Guangdong Province — Chen Yu
* Governor of Guizhou Province — Li Li
* Governor of Hebei Province — Liu Zihou
* Governor of Heilongjiang Province — Li Fanwu
* Governor of Henan Province — Wen Minsheng
* Governor of Hubei Province — Zhang Tixue
* Governor of Hunan Province — Cheng Qian
* Governor of Jiangsu Province — Hui Yuyu
* Governor of Jiangxi Province — Fang Zhichun
* Governor of Jilin Province — Li Youwen
* Governor of Liaoning Province — Huang Oudong
* Governor of Qinghai Province — Wang Zhao
* Governor of Shaanxi Province — Li Qiming (until April), Li Ruishan (starting April)
* Governor of Shandong Province — Bai Rubing
* Governor of Shanxi Province — Wang Qian
* Governor of Sichuan Province — Li Dazhang
* Governor of Yunnan Province — Zhou Xing
* Governor of Zhejiang Province — Zhou Jianren

## Events

* 16 May Notification launches the Cultural Revolution
* Beginning of the Red Guards movement
* Third five-year plan

## Births

* January 25 — Gao Hongbo, football manager
* March 16 — Deng Qingming, taikonaut
* March 19 — Qin Gang, 12th Minister of Foreign Affairs
* May 22 — Wang Xiaoshuai, film director, screenwriter and occasional actor
* July 10 — Amy Yip, Hong Kong actress
* September 17 — Liu Boming, fighter pilot
* October 10 — Bai Ling, American actress and musician
* October 11 — Zhai Zhigang, taikonaut
* October 24 — Jing Haipeng, fighter pilot
* December 11 — Leon Lai, actor, film director, businessman and Cantopop singer

## Deaths

* February 17 — Chen Shutong, politician, scholar and administrator who served in governments of the Qing dynasty, Republic of China and the People's Republic of China (b. 1876)
* March 22 — Ai Siqi, philosopher and author (b. 1910)
* May 18 — Deng Tuo, poet, intellectual and journalist (b. 1912)
* May 23
** Demchugdongrub, Mongol prince (b. 1902)
** Tian Jiaying, personal secretary of Mao Zedong (b. 1922)
* July 12 — Liangqing, monk (b. 1895)
* August 4 — Cao Rulin, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Beiyang government (b. 1877)
* August 24
** Lao She, writer (b. 1899)
** Li Da, Chinese Marxist philosopher (b. 1890)
* August 31 — Huang Shaohong, general (b. 1895)
* September 3
** Fu Lei, translator and critic (b. 1908)
** Chen Mengjia, scholar, poet, paleographer and archaeologist (b. 1911)
* September 10 — Yan Huizhu, opera singer (b. 1919)
* September 19 — Wan Xiaotang, politician (b. 1916)
* October 1 — Zhao Chengshou, nationalist general (b. 1891)
* October 11 — Sun Zhiyuan, politician (b. 1911)
* October 22 — Li Ming, banking and investing pioneer (b. 1887)
* November 11 — Yu Hongzheng, chemist (b. 1897)
* December 2 — Bai Chongxi, nationalist general (b. 1893)
* December 12 — Wu Yuzhang, politician and educator (b. 1878)
* December 16 — Ma Lianliang, Peking opera singer (b. 1901)
* December 26 — Zhou Xiaozhou, politician and communist revolutionary (b. 1912)