1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1966th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 966th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1960s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1966 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1966
MCMLXVI
Ab urbe condita2719
Armenian calendar1415
ԹՎ ՌՆԺԵ
Assyrian calendar6716
Baháʼí calendar122–123
Balinese saka calendar1887–1888
Bengali calendar1373
Berber calendar2916
British Regnal year14 Eliz. 2 – 15 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2510
Burmese calendar1328
Byzantine calendar7474–7475
Chinese calendar乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
4663 or 4456
    — to —
丙午年 (Fire Horse)
4664 or 4457
Coptic calendar1682–1683
Discordian calendar3132
Ethiopian calendar1958–1959
Hebrew calendar5726–5727
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2022–2023
 - Shaka Samvat1887–1888
 - Kali Yuga5066–5067
Holocene calendar11966
Igbo calendar966–967
Iranian calendar1344–1345
Islamic calendar1385–1386
Japanese calendarShōwa 41
(昭和41年)
Javanese calendar1897–1898
Juche calendar55
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4299
Minguo calendarROC 55
民國55年
Nanakshahi calendar498
Thai solar calendar2509
Tibetan calendar阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
2092 or 1711 or 939
    — to —
阳火马年
(male Fire-Horse)
2093 or 1712 or 940

Events

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January

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February

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March

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April

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May 26: Guyana becomes independent

June

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July

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August

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September

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September 30: Botswana becomes independent

October

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October 4: Lesotho becomes independent

November

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November 30: Barbados becomes independent

December

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Date unknown

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Births

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Births
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January

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Ivica Dačić
 
Christian Kern
 
Nadia Maftouni
 
Lena Philipsson
 
Stefan Edberg
 
Rainn Wilson
 
Romário

February

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Cindy Crawford
 
Téa Leoni

March

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April

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Robin Wright
 
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
 
Charlie Schlatter
 
Greg Wise
 
Janet Jackson
 
Helena Bonham Carter

June

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Julianna Margulies
 
Emmanuelle Seigner
 
J. J. Abrams
 
John Cusack
 
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama
 
Mike Tyson

July

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Enrique Peña Nieto

August

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Jimmy Wales
 
Halle Berry
 
Rene Higuita
 
Enrico Letta

September

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Salma Hayek
 
Adam Sandler
 
Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan
 
Nechirvan Barzani
 
Maria Canals-Barrera

October

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David Cameron
 
Luke Perry
 
Jon Favreau
 
Roman Abramovich
 
Zahn McClarnon
 
Zoran Milanović

November

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David Schwimmer
 
Vincent Cassel

December

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Patricia Kaas
 
Kiefer Sutherland

Deaths

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Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

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Vincent Auriol
 
Georges Theunis

February

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Hedda Hopper
 
Buster Keaton

March

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Frits Zernike
 
Néstor Guillén

April

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Evelyn Waugh
 
Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez
 
Venceslau Brás

June

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Ed Wynn

July

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Montgomery Clift
 
Frank O'Hara

August

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Lenny Bruce

September

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Hendrik Verwoerd

October

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Elizabeth Arden

November

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Sean T. O'Kelly

December

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Walt Disney

Nobel Prizes

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