August 01 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283)


• 527 - Emperor Justin I (b. c. 450)


• 1137 - King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)


• 1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)


• 1402 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)


• 1457 - Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (bc. 1406)


• 1464 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)


• 1541 - Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)


• 1546 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)


• 1557 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)


• 1580 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)


• 1589 - Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)


• 1675 - Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts, a band of the Wampanoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip's War


• 1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)


• 1787 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)


• 1796 - Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)


• 1798 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)


• 1812 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)


• 1851 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)


• 1866 - John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)


• 1903 - Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (b. 1853)


• 1917 - Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)


• 1918 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)


• 1920 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)


• 1929 - Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)


• 1964 - Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)


• 1966 - Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. 1941)


• 1967 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)


• 1970 - Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)


• 1970 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883)


• 1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)


• 1973 - Walter Ulbricht, German communist statesman (b. 1893)


• 1974 - Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)


• 1977 - Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)


• 1980 - Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)


• 1980 - Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)


• 1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)


• 1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)


• 1990 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)


• 1990 - Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)


• 1996 - Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)


• 1996 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)


• 1996 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)


• 1997 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)


• 1998 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)


• 1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)


• 2001 - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)


• 2003 - Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)


• 2003 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)


• 2004 - Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)


• 2005 - Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)


• 2005 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)


• 2005 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)


• 2005 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)


• 2006 - Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)


• 2006 - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)


• 2006 - Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)


• 2007 - Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)


• 2008 - Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)