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Jesse Zousmer was the vice president and director of television news for ABC at the time of his death in the crash of a Canadian Pacific airliner at the Tokyo airport in 1966. He had been credited in his three years with ABC with innovating the network's news division, following a distinguished career at CBS. He had a long association with Edward R. Murrow, first as news writer for the first six years of Murrow's nightly radio newscast, and as a producer on "Hear It Now" and its television successor, "See It Now." Zousmer, with John Aaron, created and produced "Person to Person" for CBS, but left in a dispute with the network in 1959. He then co-produced several news specials for NBC before joining ABC in 1963.

American novelist George Agnew Chamberlain was born in Brazil to American missionary parents from New Jersey. He was brought back to the US to be educated, attending the prestigious Lawrenceville Preparatory School and enrolling in world-famous "Ivy League" Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1901. In 1904 he was appointed by the US government to be deputy consul in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After he completed his posting there, he spent several years traveling around the world before finally coming back to the US and settling in Salem, NJ.

Not long after he returned he began writing professionally, including several articles and books on Mexico and South America, in which he held a particular interest. Several of his fictional works were made into films (Taxi (1919), White Man (1924)) and his stories and novels became quite popular, many of them set in his home area of rural New Jersey. Two of his most successful novels were turned into films in the 1940s: "The Phantom Filly" was filmed as Home in Indiana (1944) and the dark crime thriller "The Red House" was brought to the screen in 1947 as The Red House (1947).

He turned out more than 30 novels, but by the 1960s his writing career had begun to wane. "Home in Indiana" was remade into a Pat Boone film, April Love (1957) in 1957, but that was the last time Hollywood used one of his works. He died in New Jersey in 1966.

Janis Medins was born on 27 September 1890 in Riga, Russian Empire [now Latvia]. He was a composer, known for Zvejnieka dels (1939) and Towards the Sun (1941). He died on 4 March 1966 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Maurice Auzat was born in 1890 in Lorient, Morbihan, France. He was an actor, known for Prisoners of Honour - We Lived Through Buchenwald (1946), Soldats sans uniforme (1944) and War Is Hell (1914). He died on 4 March 1966 in Brussels, Belgium.

Neal Harbarger was born on 13 March 1897 in La Grange, Missouri, USA. Neal died on 4 March 1966 in Kasilof, Alaska, USA.