1966 was the 7th year of the 1960's.
Theatrical releases[]
Feature films[]
- February 17 - Inside Daisy Clover
- February 23 - Harper
- May 11 - Stop the World - I Want to Get Off
- June 8 - A Big Hand for the Little Lady
- June 22 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- June 29 - A Fine Madness
- August 3 - The Man Called Flintstone (Columbia Pictures)
- August 31 - An American Dream
- September 22 - Kaleidoscope
- October 13 - Any Wednesday
- October 19 - Chamber of Horrors
- November 2 - Not with My Wife, You Don't!
- December 2 - Once Before I Die
- December 9 - You're a Big Boy Now
Shorts[]
- January 1 - The Astroduck
- January 8 - Shot and Bothered
- January 29 - Out and Out Rout
- February 5 - Mucho Locos
- February 19 - The Solid Tin Coyote
- February 26 - Mexican Mousepiece
- March 12 - Clippety Clobbered
- March 26 - Daffy Rents
- April 26 - A-Haunting We Will Go
- May 21 - Snow Excuse
- July 19 - A Squeak in the Deep
- August 20 - Feather Finger
- September 17 - Swing Ding Amigo
- November 5 - Sugar and Spies
- December 3 - A Taste of Catnip
Television[]
Theme park happenings[]
People[]
Births[]
- July 13 - Walker Brandt (actress and producer)
- September 28 - Leilani Sarelle (actress)
- November 2 - David Schwimmer (actor, director, comedian and producer)
- December 21 - Kiefer Sutherland (actor, director, producer and singer)
Deaths[]
- January 3 - Harry Welchman (actor)
- January 9 - Hugh Sanders (actor)
- January 13 - Douglas Wood (actor)
- January 20 - George Devine (theatrical manager, director, producer, teacher and actor)
- January 22 - Herbert Marshall (actor)
- January 27 - Betty Stockfeld (actress)
- January 31 - Elizabeth Patterson (actress)
- February 1
- Hedda Hopper (gossip columnist and actress)
- William Harrigan (actor)
- February 9 - Sophie Tucker (singer, comedian, actress and radio personality)
- February 26 - Minerva Urecal (stage and radio performer and actress)
- February 28 - Jonathan Hale (actor)
- March 1 - Donald Stewart (actor and singer)
- March 3 - William Frawley (vaudevillian and actor)
- March 10 - Clinton Rosemond (singer and actor)
- April 13 - Charles Heslop (actor)
- April 15 - Joseph Crehan (actor)
- April 21 - Harry Hilliard (actor)
- May 21 - Pat O'Malley (actor)
- May 26 - Don Castle (actor)
- June 3 - Alice Calhoun (actress)
- June 11 - Wallace Ford (vaudevillian, stage performer and actor)
- June 19 - Ed Wynn (actor, voice actor and comedian)
- June 29 - Ronald Shiner (stand-up comedian and actor)
- July 6 - Anne Nagel (actress)
- August 4 - Howard Jackson (film composer)
- August 5 - Helen MacKellar (actress)
- August 7 - Charles Thorson (political cartoonist, character designer, children's book author and illustrator)
- August 23 - Francis X. Bushman (actor, director and writer)
- August 26 - Art Baker (actor)
- September 9 - Nestor Paiva (actor)
- September 10 - Sol Gorss (actor and stuntman)
- September 18 - Judith Vosselli (actress)
- October 12 - William H. Spaulding (football player and coach)
- October 16 - George O'Hara (actor and screenwriter)
- October 23 - Claire McDowell (actress)
- October 29 - Peter Illing (actor)
- November 15 - William Haade (actor)
- December 14
- Emma Dunn (actress)
- Verna Felton (actress)
- Richard Whorf (actor, writer and film director)
- December 22 - Oliver Johnston (actor)
- December 23 - Volney White (animator)
Character debuts[]
- June - Poison Ivy
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