page_title: 1966
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1966 / Deaths / October
caption_attribution_description: Elizabeth Arden (ne&#233; Florence Nightingale Graham), three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front / photo by Alan Fisher.
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: October 7
  Smiley Lewis, American urban musician (b. 1913)
  Johnny Kidd, English singer (b. 1935)
  October 10
  Charlotte Cooper, English tennis champion (b. 1870)
  Wilfrid Lawson, English actor (b. 1900)
  October 12 – Sergio Bernardini, Italian Roman Catholic layman and venerable (b. 1882)
  October 13 – Clifton Webb, American actor,  dancer, and singer (b. 1889)
  October 16 – George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)
  October 17 – Cléo de Mérode, French dancer (b. 1875)
  October 18 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-born American beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1878)
  October 23 – Claire McDowell, American silent screen actress (b. 1877)
  October 24 – Hans Dreier, German art director (b. 1885)
  October 26
  Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
  Charles Morton, American actor (b. 1908)
  Serjius, French actor (b. 1878)
  October 28 – Robert Charpentier, French Olympic cyclist (b. 1916)
caption: Elizabeth Arden
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