page_title: 1966
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1966 / Deaths / December
caption_attribution_description: English: Husayn Al-Khalidi portrait
context_page_description: 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1966th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 966th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1960s decade.
  In February, Luna 9 made the first controlled landing of a spacecraft on the Moon. The Cultural Revolution began in China in May.
context_section_description: December 2 – Luitzen Brouwer, Dutch mathematician and philosopher (b. 1881)
  December 3 – Abd al-Rahman al-Rafai, Egyptian historian (b.  1889)
  December 4 – Maria Donati, Italian actress (b. 1898)
  December 6 – Juan Natalicio González, Paraguayan poet, 37th President of Paraguay (b. 1897)
  December 11 – Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist (b. 1881)
  December 14
  Verna Felton, American actress (b. 1890)
  Richard Whorf, American actor (b. 1906)
  December 15 – Walt Disney, American animated film producer and founder of The Walt Disney Company and Disneyland Resort (b. 1901)
  December 19 – Betty Kuuskemaa, Estonian actress (b. 1879)
  December 20 – Arturo Riccardi, Italian general (b. 1878)
  December 22
  Harry Beaumont, American film director (b. 1888)
  Lucy Burns, American women's rights campaigner (b. 1879)
  Robert Keith, American actor (b. 1898)
  December 23 – David J. Stewart, American actor (b. 1915)
  December 26 – Husayn Al-Khalidi, Jordanian statesman, 29th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1895)
  December 27 – Guillermo Stábile, Argentine football player and manager (b. 1905)
  December 30 – Christian Herter, United States Secretary of State (b. 1895)
caption: Hussein Khalidi
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