1966

«	1966	»

The year 1966 (MCMLXVI) predates the launch of the Transformers brand by eighteen years.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Fiction

Rescue Bots cartoon

In late May, the S.S. Isolde was carrying inventions to Griffin Rock when one of them activated, encasing the ship in an iceberg, though fortunately the crew were able to abandon ship in time. Tip of the Iceberg

Non-Fiction

Births

??? — Markus Bäckman, Christoph Banken, Heide Domanowski

January

• January 13 — Patrick Dempsey
• January 20 — Rainn Wilson
• January 22 — Mantarō Iwao
• January 26 — Tsuyoshi Nonaka

February

• February 2 — Rolando de Castro
• February 4 — Kōji Ochiai

March

• March 1 — Tsutomu Kashiwakura
• March 10 — Anders Öjebo
• March 13 — Mario Filio
• March 14 — Gary Anthony Williams

April

• April 26 — Satoshi Hashimoto

May

• May 1 — Charlie Schlatter
• May 11 — Antonella Baldini

June

• June 22 — Tomoko Maruo

July

• July 6 — Brian Posehn
• July 21 — Hiroaki Kagoshima
• July 25 — Wataru Takagi

August

• August 6 — Terry Pallot
• August 10 — André Sogliuzzo
• August 12 — Michael Dobson
• August 17 — Hinako Yoshino

October

• October 24 — Niseem Onorato

December

• December 20 — Yumi Tōma
• December 25 — Artur Święs