1966 in China

Events from the year 1966 in China.

← 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1966 in China → 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	Other events of 1966 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

• Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party — Mao Zedong
• President of China — Liu Shaoqi
• Premier of China — Zhou Enlai
• Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress — Zhu De
• Vice President of China — Soong Ching-ling and Dong Biwu
• Vice Premier of China — Lin Biao

Governors

• Governor of Anhui Province — Huang Yan
• Governor of Fujian Province — Wei Jinshui
• Governor of Gansu Province — Deng Baoshan
• Governor of Guangdong Province — Chen Yu
• Governor of Guizhou Province — Li Li
• Governor of Hebei Province — Liu Zihou
• Governor of Heilongjiang Province — Li Fanwu
• Governor of Henan Province — Wen Minsheng
• Governor of Hubei Province — Zhang Tixue
• Governor of Hunan Province — Cheng Qian
• Governor of Jiangsu Province — Hui Yuyu
• Governor of Jiangxi Province — Fang Zhichun
• Governor of Jilin Province — Li Youwen
• Governor of Liaoning Province — Huang Oudong
• Governor of Qinghai Province — Wang Zhao
• Governor of Shaanxi Province — Li Qiming (until April), Li Ruishan (starting April)
• Governor of Shandong Province — Bai Rubing
• Governor of Shanxi Province — Wang Qian
• Governor of Sichuan Province — Li Dazhang
• Governor of Yunnan Province — Zhou Xing
• Governor of Zhejiang Province — Zhou Jianren

Events

• 16 May Notification launches the Cultural Revolution
• Beginning of the Red Guards movement
• Third five-year plan

Births

• January 25 — Gao Hongbo, football manager
• March 16 — Deng Qingming, taikonaut
• March 19 — Qin Gang, 12th Minister of Foreign Affairs
• May 22 — Wang Xiaoshuai, film director, screenwriter and occasional actor
• July 10 — Amy Yip, Hong Kong actress
• September 17 — Liu Boming, fighter pilot
• October 10 — Bai Ling, American actress and musician
• October 11 — Zhai Zhigang, taikonaut
• October 24 — Jing Haipeng, fighter pilot
• December 11 — Leon Lai, actor, film director, businessman and Cantopop singer

Deaths

• February 17 — Chen Shutong, politician, scholar and administrator who served in governments of the Qing dynasty, Republic of China and the People's Republic of China (b. 1876)
• March 22 — Ai Siqi, philosopher and author (b. 1910)
• May 18 — Deng Tuo, poet, intellectual and journalist (b. 1912)
• May 23
  • Demchugdongrub, Mongol prince (b. 1902)
  • Tian Jiaying, personal secretary of Mao Zedong (b. 1922)
• July 12 — Liangqing, monk (b. 1895)
• August 4 — Cao Rulin, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Beiyang government (b. 1877)
• August 24
  • Lao She, writer (b. 1899)
  • Li Da, Chinese Marxist philosopher (b. 1890)
• August 31 — Huang Shaohong, general (b. 1895)
• September 3
  • Fu Lei, translator and critic (b. 1908)
  • Chen Mengjia, scholar, poet, paleographer and archaeologist (b. 1911)
• September 10 — Yan Huizhu, opera singer (b. 1919)
• September 19 — Wan Xiaotang, politician (b. 1916)
• October 1 — Zhao Chengshou, nationalist general (b. 1891)
• October 11 — Sun Zhiyuan, politician (b. 1911)
• October 22 — Li Ming, banking and investing pioneer (b. 1887)
• November 11 — Yu Hongzheng, chemist (b. 1897)
• December 2 — Bai Chongxi, nationalist general (b. 1893)
• December 12 — Wu Yuzhang, politician and educator (b. 1878)
• December 16 — Ma Lianliang, Peking opera singer (b. 1901)
• December 26 — Zhou Xiaozhou, politician and communist revolutionary (b. 1912)

See also

• 1966 in Chinese film