In the year 1966, Chicago Bulls is officially founded (Jan 16), Indira Gandhi is sworn in as Prime Minister of India (Jan 24), the Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet’s surface (Mar 1), Leonid Brezhnev becomes the new Soviet leader (Apr 8), Guyana achieves independence (May 26), groundbreaking takes place for the World Trace Center (Aug 5), Star Trek debuts on NBC (Sep 8), LSD is made illegal in the United States (Oct 6), Ronald Reagan becomes Governor of California (Nov 8), the Vietnam War rages on - and all these fine people were born:

1966-0101 Veeti Kallio* (b Seliverstow) singer/actor/masseur - Rovaniemi, Finland 1966-0107 Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy* publicist/wife of JFK Jr. - White Plains, NY USA (1999/33) 1966-0110 1966-0113 Patrick Dempsey* actor - Lewiston, ME USA 1966-0114 Marko Hietala* heavy metal vocalist/bassist/songwriter (Nightwish) - Kuopio, Finland 1966-0117 Joshua Malina* actor - New York City, NY USA 1966-0119 Stefan Edberg* tennis player - Västervik, Sweden 1966-0119 Lena Philipsson* singer/songwriter - Vetlanda, Sweden 1966-0120 Jon Hare* computer game designer/musician - Ilford, Essex, England 1966-0120 Rainn Wilson* actor/ director/producer - Seattle, WA USA 1966-0131 Jyrki “JJ Lehto” Järvilehto* racing driver - Espoo, Finland 1966-0201 Michelle Akers* football player/animal welfare worker - Santa Clara, CA USA 1966-0205 Vivian Wu* 邬君梅 Chinese-American actress - Shanghai, China 1966-0210 1966-0211 Reuben Sallmander* actor/singer - Stockholm, Sweden 1966-0213 Neal McDonough* actor - Dorchester, MA USA 1966-0217 Luc Robitaille* hockey player (NHL 100)/executive - Montreal, QC Canada 1966-0220 Cindy Crawford* model/actress - DeKalb, IL USA 1966-0221 Petri Kokko* ice dancer/EG/business director - Helsinki, Finland 1966-0223 Didier Queloz* astronomer/N - Switzerland 1966-0224 Risa Hontiveros* journalist/ community leader/politician - Manila, Philippines 1966-0224 Billy Zane* actor - Chicago, IL USA 1966-0227 Baltasar Kormákur* actor/ director/producer - Reykjavik, Iceland 1966-0227 Donal Logue* actor/ writer/producer - Ottawa, ON Canada 1966-0228 Robert Rowland* politician - Bowdon, Greater Manchester, England (2021/54) 1966-0301 Zack Snyder* filmmaker/producer - Green Bay, WI USA 1966-0303 Mikhail Mishustin* economist/politician/PM - Lobnya, Russia, Soviet Union 1966-0305 Aasif Mandvi* India-British actor/to Britain at age 1 - Bombay, India 1966-0311 Timothy Ray Brown* considered to be the first person cured of HIV/AIDS - Seattle, WA USA (2020/54) 1966-0315 Cas Anvar* actor/ writer/Iranian background - Regina, SK Canada 1966-0318 Peter Jones* entrepreneur/ businessman/television personality - Langley, Berkshire, England 1966-0322 Max Richter* British pianist/composer - Hamelin, West Germany 1966-0325 1966-0326 Michael Imperioli* actor/ novelist/musician - Mount Vernon, NY USA 1966-0329 Anne Lundberg* journalist/television hostess - Skurup, Sweden 1966-0330 Vincenzo Amato* sculptor/ actor - Palermo, Italy 1966-0401 1966-0406 Lia Boysen* Swedish actress - Copenhagen, Denmark 1966-0408 Harri Rovanperä* rally driver - Jyväskylä, Finland 1966-0408 Robin Wright* actress - Dallas, TX USA 1966-0410 Mark Bolland* British PR executive - Toronto, ON Canada 1966-0414 Jan Boklöv* skijumper/pioneer of the V-style - Koskullskulle, Gällivare, Sweden 1966-0418 Trine Hattestad* athlete (javelin/OG) - Lörenskog, Norway 1966-0418 Valeri Kamensky* hockey player/3GC - Voskresensk, Russia, Soviet Union 1966-0420 1966-0422 Jeffrey Dean Morgan* actor - Seattle, WA USA 1966-0423 David Tutera* bridal fashion designer/wedding planner/author - Port Chester, NY USA 1966-0425 Francis Fulton-Smith* actor/w British father - Munich, West Germany 1966-0425 Erik Hauri* geochemist - Waukegan, IL USA (2018/52) 1966-0426 1966-0427 Siobhan Finneran* actress/w Irish parents - Oldham, Lancashire, England 1966-0427 Matt Reeves* screenwriter/director/producer - Rockville Centre, NY USA 1966 0428 John Daly* golfer - Carmichael, CA USA 1966-0430 1966-0501 1966-0504 John Stevens* hockey coach - Campbellton, NB Canada 1966-0510 Jonathan Edwards* athlete (triple jump) - Westminster, London, England 1966-0511 Christoph Schneider* drummer/ Rammstein - East Berlin, East Germany 1966-0512 Stephen Baldwin* actor/producer/author - Massapequa, Long Island, NY USA 1966-0512 Deborah Kara Unger* actress - Vancouver, BC Canada 1966-0513 **Darius Rucke**r* country singer/songwriter - Charleston, SC USA 1966-0517 Hill Harper* actor - Iowa City, IA USA 1966-0518 Maki Kolehmainen* musician/ composer/producer - Helsinki, Finland (2024/58) 1966-0518 Guillermo Söhnlein* Argentine-American social entrepreneur/co-founder of OceanGate /to U.S. at age 6 - Buenos Aires, Argentina 1966-0525 Tatjana Patitz* model/ actress/avid horsewoman - Hamburg, West Germany (2023/56) 1966-0526 Zola Budd* middle distance runner - Bloemfontein, South Africa 1966-0526 Helena Bonham Carter* actress - Islington, London, England 1966-0528 Arto Nyberg* journalist/ talk show host - Viiala, Finland 1966-0529 Nándor Tánczos* New Zealand social ecologist/educator/political commentator - Ilford, Essex, England 1966-0531 Marco Bjurström* dancer/TV-personality - Helsinki, Finland 1966-0531 Jessica Monroe* Canadian rower/OG - Palo Alto, CA USA 1966-0603 Wasim Akram* cricket player - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan 1966-0605 Karen Strassman* voice actress - Washington, D.C. USA 1966-0608 Julianna Margulies* actress/producer - Spring Valley, NY USA 1966-0616 Randy Barnes* athlete (shotput)/OG - Charleston, WV USA 1966-0616 Maxim Udalov* drummer (Aria) - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union 1966-0616 Jan Zelezny* athlete (javelin)/OG/coach - Mladá Boleslav, Czechoslovakia 1966-0619 Samuel West* actor/voice actor/theater director - London, England 1966-0624 Nicke Lignell* actor/television personality - Bromarv, Finland 1966-0624 Adrienne Shelly* (b Levine) actress/ screenwriter/director - Queens, NY USA (2006/40) 1966-0627 J. J. Abrams* film director/ screenwriter/producer - New York, NY USA 1966-0628 John Cusack* actor - Evanston, IL USA 1966-0628 Åsa Larsson* crime-fiction writer - Uppsala, Sweden 1966-0629 Basuki Tjahaja Purnama* businessman/ politician/governor - Manggar, Indonesia 1966-0630 Peter Outerbridge* actor - Canada 1966-0630 Mike Tyson* athlete/boxer - Brooklyn, NY USA 1966-0703 Jarmo Kekäläinen* hockey player/NHL GM - Tampere, Finland 1966-0705 Jim Himes* American businessman/politician - Lima, Peru 1966-0710 1966-0711 Greg Grunberg* actor (Heroes) - Los Angeles, CA USA 1966-0711 Kentaro Miura* manga artist (Berserk) - Chiba, Japan (2021/54) 1966-0714 Matthew Fox* actor - Abington, PA USA 1966-0716 Jyrki Lumme* hockey player/OS - Tampere, Finland 1966-0717 Michael Bradley* professional golfer - Largo, FL USA 1966-0727 Margus Schults* CEO of Silja Line - Estonia 1966-0730 Kerry Fox* actress - Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand 1966-0731 Dean Cain* actor - Mount Clemens, MI USA 1966-0801 1966-0803 Brent Butt* stand-up comedian/actor/screenwriter - Tisdale, SK Canada 1966-0805 Jonathan Silverman* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA 1966-0806 1966-0808 Chris Eubank* boxer/television personality - Dulwich, London, England 1966-0809 Linn Ullmann* journalist/author - Oslo, Norway 1966-0814 Halle Berry* actress - Cleveland, OH USA 1966-0816 Eddie Olczyk* hockey player/coach/analyst - Chicago, IL USA 1966-0818 Sarita Choudbury* actress - Blackheath, London, England 1966-0827 René “El Loco” Higuita* football goalie - Medellin, Colombia 1966-0901 Tracee Talavera* gymnast/OS/ coach - Santa Clara, CA USA 1966-0907 Toby Jones* actor - Hammersmith, London, England 1966-0909 Adam Sandler* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA 1966-0910 Joe Nieuwendyk* hockey player (NHL 100)/OG - Oshawa, ON Canada 1966-0912 Anousheh Ansari* (b Raissyan) Iranian-American engineer/ businesswoman/space tourist - Mashhad, Iran 1966-0919 Eric Rudolph* serial bomber - Merritt Island, FL USA 1966-0922 Mike Richter* hockey goalie/OS - Abington, PA USA 1966-0927 Peter Nyman* journalist/television reporter/game show host - Helsinki, Finland 1966-1001 George Weah* football player/politician/P - Monrovia, Liberia 1966-1006 Jacqueline Obradors* actress - San Fernando Valley, CA USA 1966-1007 Marco Beltrami* film and television composer - Long Island, NY USA 1966-1009 David Cameron* politician/PM - Marylebone, London, England 1966-1010 Carolyn Bertozzi* chemist/N - Boston, MA USA 1966-1011 Volker “Hauschka” Bertelmann* pianist/ rapper/composer - Kreuztal, West Germany 1966-1011 Pau Donés* songwriter/ guitarist/singer - Barcelona, Spain (2020/53) 1966-1012 Rupert Gregson-Williams* composer of motion picture and television scores - Chichester, West Sussex, England 1966-1019 Tim Garland* jazz saxophonist/composer/bandleader - Ilford, Essex, England 1966-1020 1966-1024 Roman Abramovich* businessman - Saratov, Russia, Soviet Union 1966-1024 Zahn McClarnon* Native American actor - Denver, CO USA 1966-1026 Zlatko Dalic* Croatian football player/manager - Livno, Yugoslavia 1966-1027 Laura Niemi* actress/daughter of Vicki Niemi - Los Angeles, CA USA - IMDb 1966-1030 K. V. Anand* photojournalist/ cinematographer/film director - Madras, Madras State, India (2021/54) 1966-1102 Kal Naga* actor/director/producer - Cairo, Egypt 1966-1102 Douglas Pitt* businessman/investor/ philanthropist - St. Louis, MO USA 1966-1102 David Schwimmer* actor - Queens, NY USA 1966-1103 Louis Herrey* singer/priest - Gothenburg, Sweden 1966-1115 Liane Moriarty* author - Sydney, NSW Australia 1966-1116 Christian Lorenz* musician (Rammstein) - East Berlin, East Germany 1966-1119 Jason Scott Lee* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA 1966-1120 1966-1122 Orlando Jorge Mera* lawyer/ television host/politician - Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic (2022/55) 1966-1122 Richard Stanley* filmmaker - Cape Town, South Arica 1966-1122 Michael K. Williams* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA (2021/54) 1966-1123 Vincent Cassel* actor - Paris, France 1966-1123 Michelle Gomez* actress - Glasgow, Scotland 1966-1123 Markku Uusipaavalniemi* curler - Karkkila, Finland 1966-1124 Robert Brakovsky* hockey player - Malmö, Sweden 1966-1125 Billy Burke* actor - Bellingham, WA USA 1966-1130 Mika Salo* racing driver - Helsinki, Finland 1966-1130 Johan Martin Vie* convicted child offender  - Gjøvik, Norway 1966-1205 Jyrki Ponsiluoma* Finnish-Swedish cross-country skier - Kurikka, Finland 1966-1207 Jeffrey Wright* actor - Washington D.C. USA 1966-1208 Les Ferdinand* football player/coach - Paddington, London, England 1966-1208 Matthew Labyorteaux* actor/voice actor - Los Angeles, CA USA 1966-1208 Sinéad O’Connor* singer/ musician - Glenageary, County Dublin, Ireland (2023/56) 1966-1209 Toby Huss* actor - Marshalltown, IA USA 1966-1211 Gary Dourdan* actor - Philadelphia, PA USA 1966-1213 Raakel Lignell* violinist/ producer - Mikkeli, Finland 1966-1213 Don Roff* writer/ filmmaker - Walla Walla, WA USA 1966-1218 Mika Anttonen* businessman (St1) - Helsinki, Finland 1966-1216 Clifford Robinson* basketball player - Buffalo, NY USA (2020/53) 1966-1220 Paul Ritter* (b Adams) actor (Vera) - Gravesend, Kent, England (2021/54) 1966-1221 William Ruto* politician/P - Kamagut, Kenya 1966-1221 Kiefer Sutherland* actor - Paddington, London, England 1966-1226 Baba Lybeck* journalist/television anchor - Parainen, Finland 1966-1229 Jason Gould* actor/writer/singer - New York, NY USA 1966-0 1966-0 1966-0 Updated 2025-0423 Helsinki-Vienna Search for another year here