Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Famous Deaths on 23 Dec

Famous Deaths on 23 Dec

1230 - Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England
1556 - Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)
1568 - Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England
1575 - Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531)
1588 - Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (b. 1550)
1631 - Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)
1646 - François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)
1652 - John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1585)
1675 - Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)
1722 - Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)
1761 - Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy
1771 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)
1779 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)
1789 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712)
1793 - Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (b. 1697)
1793 - Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
1795 - Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)
1805 - Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)
1834 - Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)
1846 - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)
1902 - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)
1912 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850)
1931 - Wilson Bentley, American scientist (b. 1865)
1939 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer (b. 1890)
1946 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (b. 1873)
1948 - Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (hanged) (b. 1884)
1948 - Akira Muto, Japanese army commander (hanged) (b. 1883)
1953 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (b. 1899)
1954 - René Iché, French sculptor (b. 1897)
1961 - Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (b. 1910)
1970 - Charles Ruggles, American actor (b. 1886)
1972 - Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer (b. 1888)
1973 - Irna Phillips, American television writer, director, and producer (b. 1901)
1973 - Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (b. 1892)
1979 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b. 1898)
1982 - Jack Webb, American actor, producer, and director (b. 1920)
1983 - Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
1992 - Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (Funkadelic) (b. 1950)
1992 - Vincent Fourcade, French American interior designer and socialite (b. 1934)
1994 - Sebastian Shaw, English actor (b. 1905)
1997 - Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (b. 1908)
2000 - Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924)
2000 - Noor Jehan, Indian singer and actress (b. 1926)
2000 - Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (b. 1909)
2004 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (b. 1921)
2005 - Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and coach (b. 1914)
2005 - Norman D. Vaughan, polar explorer and dogsled driver (b. 1905)
2006 - Charlie Drake, English comedian (b. 1925)
2006 - Johnny Vincent, English footballer for Birmingham City and Middlesbrough (b. 1947)
2006 - Timothy J. Tobias, American composer and musician (b. 1952)
2006 - Marilyn Waltz, American actress and Playboy Playmate (b. 1931)
2007 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist and composer (b. 1925)
2007 - Michael Kidd, American film and stage choreographer (b. 1915)
2007 - William Francis Ganong, American physiologist (b. 1924)
679 - Dagobert II, King of Austrasia (b. c 650).(murdered)
910 - Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar
913 - Conrad of Franconia
918 - Conrad I of Germany

Monday, December 20, 2010

Famous Deaths on 21 Dec

Famous Deaths on 21 Dec

1295 - Marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (bc. 1221)
1308 - Henry I of Hesse (b. 1244)
1375 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (b. 1313)
1504 - Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
1549 - Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)
1579 - Vicente Masip, Spanish painter
1597 - Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (b. 1521)
1807 - John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (b. 1725)
1824 - James Parkinson, English physician, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist (b. 1755)
1873 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (b. 1839)
1889 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (b. 1809)
1900 - Roger Wolcott, American political figure, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1847)
1933 - Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, Greenlandic polar explorer and anthropologist (b. 1879)
1935 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist (b. 1890)
1937 - Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1856)
1940 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1896)
1945 - George S. Patton, U.S. general (b. 1885)
1957 - Eric Coates, English composer (b. 1886)
1958 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer (b. 1884)
1959 - Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, restaurateur and ceramicist (b. 1883)
1964 - Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (b. 1880)
1965 - Claude Champagne, Quebec composer (b. 1891)
1967 - Stuart Erwin, American actor (b. 1903)
1974 - James Henry Govier, British artist (b. 1910)
1974 - Richard Long, American actor (b. 1927)
1981 - Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American director and screenwriter (b. 1885)
1983 - Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)
1987 - John Spence, founding No Doubt member (b. 1969)
1988 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907)
1990 - Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aeronautical engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works; b. 1910)
1992 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1903)
1992 - Albert King, American blues musician (b. 1924)
1997 - Amie Comeaux, American country music singer (b. 1976)
1998 - Roger Avon, Durham actor (b. 1914)
1998 - Karl Denver, Scottish singer (b 1931)
1998 - Ernst Gunther Schenck, German doctor who joined the Sturmabteilung in 1933 {b. 1904)
2001 - Dick Schaap, American sports journalist (b. 1934)
2003 - Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Spanish playboy and businessman (b. 1924)
2004 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (b. 1925)
2005 - Elrod Hendricks, American baseball player and coach (b. 1940)
2006 - Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
2006 - Scobie Breasley, Australian jockey (b. 1914)
2007 - Ken Hendricks, American businessman (b. 1941)
72 - Thomas the Apostle

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Famous Deaths on 20 Dec

Famous Deaths on 20 Dec

1022 - Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996)
1355 - Stefan Dušan, Serb king and tsar (b. 1308)
1494 - Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
1524 - Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician
1539 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer
1590 - Ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510)
1722 - Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654)
1723 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (b. 1652)
1740 - Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (b. 1675)
1768 - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)
1783 - Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (b. 1729)
1812 - Sacagawea, American Shoshone explorer
1856 - Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820)
1862 - Robert Knox
1917 - Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (b. 1882)
1921 - Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (b. 1850)
1929 - Émile Loubet, 7th President of France (b.1838)
1935 - Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (b. 1882)
1937 - Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
1938 - Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (b. 1850)
1941 - Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887)
1954 - James Hilton, British author (b. 1900)
1956 - Ramon Carrillo, Argentine neuroscientist and Public Health minister (b. 1906)
1961 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
1961 - Moss Hart, American dramatist (b. 1904)
1968 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1973 - Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain (assassinated) (b. 1903)
1973 - Bobby Darin, American singer (b. 1936)
1974 - André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905)
1976 - Richard J. Daley, American politician (b. 1902)
1981 - Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (b. 1899)
1982 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist (b. 1887)
1984 - Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1946)
1986 - Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)
1988 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian television pioneer (b. 1908)
1989 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (b. 1908)
1991 - Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)
1991 - Simone Beck, French chef (b. 1904)
1994 - Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)
1996 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (b. 1934)
1997 - Dawn Steel, American film producer (b. 1946)
1997 - Denise Levertov, English-born poet (b. 1923)
1997 - Juzo Itami, Japanese actor and director (b. 1933)
1998 - Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1910)
1998 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)
1999 - Riccardo Freda, Italian film director (b. 1909)
1999 - Hank Snow, Canadian singer (b. 1914)
2000 - Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Bangladesh statesman, politician, and philanthropist (b. 1920)
2001 - Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (b. 1912)
2001 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, first President of Senegal (b. 1906)
2005 - Maniam Moorthy, Malaysian climber
2006 - Shi Yuejun, Chinese serial killer
2007 - Nataline Sarkisyan, American medical patient (b. 1990)
217 - Pope Zephyrinus
860 - King Ethelbald of Wessex
910 - Alfonso III of Leon

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Famous Deaths on 19 Dec

Famous Deaths on 19 Dec

1075 - Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England
1327 - Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
1370 - Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
1737 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)
1741 - Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (b. 1681)
1745 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)
1749 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
1751 - Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)
1807 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)
1813 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744)
1814 - Joseph Bramah, Inventor and Locksmith, notably invented the beer pump
1819 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer and politician (b. 1765)
1848 - Emily Brontë, English author (b. 1818)
1878 - Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
1915 - Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (b. 1864)
1932 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean activist (b. 1908)
1933 - George Jackson Churchward, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1857)
1938 - Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman (b. 1873)
1939 - Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (b. 1894)
1944 - Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
1944 - Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)
1946 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872)
1953 - Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1868)
1968 - Norman Thomas, American socialist (b. 1884)
1982 - Dwight Macdonald, American social critic (b. 1906)
1984 - Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)
1986 - V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923)
1989 - Stella Gibbons, English author (b. 1902)
1991 - Joe Cole, American rock music roadie (b. 1961)
1993 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds) (b. 1946)
1996 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
1997 - Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (Sony) (b. 1908)
1997 - Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (b. 1924)
1998 - Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1932)
1998 - Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922)
1999 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Pops Staples, American singer (The Staple Singers) (b. 1915)
2000 - John Lindsay, American politician (b. 1921)
2000 - Milt Hinton, American jazz double bassist (b. 1910)
2000 - Rob Buck, American guitarist (10,000 Maniacs) (b. 1958)
2001 - Marcel Mule, French saxophonist. (b. 1901)
2002 - Arthur Rowley, English footballer. (b. 1926)
2003 - Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer (b. 1914)
2003 - Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1933)
2003 - Les Tremayne, English-born American actor (b. 1913)
2004 - Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
2004 - Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)
2005 - Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth; b. 1933)
2005 - Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (b. 1927)
401 - Pope Anastasius I

Friday, December 17, 2010

Famous Deaths on 18 Dec

Famous Deaths on 18 Dec

1133 - Hildebert, French writer
1290 - King Magnus I of Sweden (b. 1240)
1442 - Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b. 1371)
1495 - King Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
1692 - Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (b. 1626)
1737 - Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker (b. 1644)
1787 - Francis William Drake, British Admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1724)
1787 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704)
1799 - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (b. 1725)
1803 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (b. 1744)
1829 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (b. 1744)
1843 - Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Viceroy of India (b. 1748)
1848 - Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1781)
1869 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist (b. 1829)
1880 - Michel Chasles, French mathematician (b. 1793)
1936 - Andrija Mohorovičić, Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav seismologist (b. 1857)
1971 - Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)
1971 - Bobby Jones, American golfer (b. 1902)
1973 - Allama Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani scholar, orator and philosopher (b. 1908)
1974 - Harry Hooper, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1975 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist (b. 1900)
1980 - Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the USSR (b. 1904)
1982 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German pilot (b. 1916)
1985 - Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1916)
1987 - Conny Plank, German record producer and musician (b. 1940)
1990 - Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (b. 1914)
1990 - Anne Revere, American actress (b. 1903)
1991 - George Abecassis, English Formula 1 driver (b. 1913)
1992 - Mark Goodson, American game show producer (b. 1915)
1993 - Charizma, American rapper (b. 1973)
1993 - Sam Wanamaker, American actor (b. 1919)
1994 - Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician (b. 1916)
1995 - Brian Brockless, English organist ([[b. 1926)
1995 - Konrad Zuse, German engineer and computing pioneer (b. 1910)
1996 - Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (b. 1904)
1997 - Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
1998 - Lev Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926)
1999 - Robert Bresson, French film director (b. 1907)
2000 - Kirsty MacColl, English singer and songwriter (b. 1959)
2000 - Randolph Apperson Hearst, son of W. Randolph Hearst and father of Patty (b. 1915)
2000 - Stan Fox, American race car driver (b. 1952)
2001 - Gilbert Bécaud, French singer (b. 1927)
2001 - Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (b. 1914)
2002 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1934)
2002 - Wayne Owens, former U.S. Congressman (D-Utah) (b. 1937)
2004 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (b. 1926)
2005 - Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (b. 1922)
2006 - Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
2006 - Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (1905)
2006 - Mike Dickin, British radio broadcaster (b. 1943)
2006 - Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author, journalist and political activist (b. 1923)
2007 - Jack Linkletter, American television host, son of Art Linkletter (b. 1937)
2007 - Gerald Le Dain, Canadian Supreme Court judge (b. 1924)
2007 - Bill Strauss, American writer on generations, satirist, and founder of the Capitol Steps (b. 1947)
821 - Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Famous Deaths on 17 Dec

Famous Deaths on 17 Dec

1187 - Pope Gregory VIII
1195 - Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
1273 - Rumi (b.1207)
1663 - Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
1721 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640)
1830 - Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan-born libertator, six nations (b. 1783)
1833 - Kaspar Hauser, German foundling (b. 1812)
1847 - Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (b. 1791)
1860 - Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1777)
1907 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (b. 1824)
1909 - Léopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
1917 - Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler (b. 1878)
1917 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (b. 1836)
1929 - Manuel Gomes da Costa, 96th Prime Minister of Portugal and 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)
1933 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
1940 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860)
1957 - Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer (b. 1893)
1962 - Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892)
1964 - Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)
1967 - Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (b. 1908)
1967 - Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896)
1978 - Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934)
1982 - Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (b. 1889)
1987 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903)
1987 - Linda Wong, American porn star (b. 1951)
1992 - Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
1999 - Rex Allen, American actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1920)
1999 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
2002 - James Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947)
2003 - Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925)
2003 - Otto Graham, American football player (b. 1921)
2004 - Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (b. 1931)
2005 - Jack Anderson, American journalist (b. 1922)
2005 - Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (Sol) (b. 1929)
2006 - Larry Sherry, American baseball player (b. 1935)
535 - Emperor Ankan of Japan (b. 466)
942 - William Longsword

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Famous Deaths on 16 Dec

Famous Deaths on 16 Dec

1325 - Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (b. 1270)
1378 - Otto III of Montferrat
1379 - John Fitzalan, Marshal of England
1470 - John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)
1515 - Afonso de Albuquerque Portuguese naval general (b. 1453)
1598 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (b. 1545)
1669 - Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician (b. circa 1608)
1687 - William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (b. 1623)
1751 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (b. 1700)
1765 - Peter Frederick Haldimand, Swiss military officer and surveyor
1774 - François Quesnay, French economist (b. 1694)
1783 - Johann A. Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
1783 - Sir William James, British naval commander (b. 1720)
1809 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (b. 1755)
1859 - Wilhelm Grimm, German writer and folklorist (b. 1786)
1897 - Alphonse Daudet, French novelist and short story writer (b. 1840)
1898 - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)
1914 - Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (b. 1832)
1921 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)
1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz, first President of Poland (b. 1865)
1928 - Elinor Wylie, American poet and writer (b. 1885)
1935 - Thelma Todd, American actress (b. 1905)
1940 - Billy Hamilton, American baseball player (b. 1866)
1945 - Fumimaro Konoye, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1891)
1945 - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1866)
1949 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (b. 1873)
1956 - Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (b. 1890)
1965 - W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (b. 1874)
1976 - Réal Caouette, French Canadian politician (Social Credit Party of Canada) (b. 1917)
1977 - Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (b. 1934)
1980 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
1980 - Colonel Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1890)
1982 - Colin Chapman, English engineer and automobile manufacturer, founder of Lotus Cars (b. 1928)
1984 - Debs Garms, American baseball player (b. 1907)
1985 - Thomas Bilotti, American mafioso (b. 1940)
1985 - Paul Castellano, American mafioso (b. 1915)
1988 - Sylvester, American singer (b. 1948)
1989 - Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentine racing driver (b. 1913)
1989 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930)
1989 - Aileen Pringle, American actress (b. 1895)
1989 - Lee Van Cleef, American actor (b. 1925)
1990 - Douglas Campbell, American pilot (b. 1896)
1993 - Charizma, American Hip-Hop MC (b. 1973)
1993 - Moses Gunn, American actor (b. 1929)
1993 - Tanaka Kakuei, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)
1995 - Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (b. 1939)
1995 - Johnny Moss, American poker player (b. 1907)
1996 - Quentin Bell, English art historian (b. 1910)
1997 - Nicolette Larson, American singer (b. 1952)
1998 - William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
2001 - Stuart Adamson, English-born Scottish musician (The Skids, Big Country) (b. 1958)
2001 - Stefan Heym, German author (b. 1913)
2003 - Gary Stewart, American musician and songwriter (b. 1945)
2003 - Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1914)
2004 - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2005 - Kenneth Bulmer, English author (b. 1921)
2005 - Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (b. 1937)
2005 - John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)
2006 - Pnina Salzman, Israeli pianist (b. 1922)
2006 - Taliep Petersen, South African singer and composer (b. 1950)
2006 - Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1940)
2007 - Dan Fogelberg, American singer/songwriter (b. 1951)
705 - Empress Wu of Zhou (b. 625)
714 - Pippin of Herstal, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
867 - Eberhard of Friuli
999 - Saint Adelaide of Italy (b. 931)

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Famous Deaths on 15 Dec

Famous Deaths on 15 Dec

1025 - Basil II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 958)
1072 - Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan in Persia (b. 1029)
1230 - King Otakar I of Bohemia
1263 - King Haakon IV of Norway (b. 1204)
1598 - Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman (b. 1538)
1621 - Charles de Luynes, Constable of France (b. 1578)
1673 - Margaret Cavendish, English writer (b. 1623)
1675 - Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (b. 1632)
1683 - Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593)
1688 - Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (b. 1634)
1715 - George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642)
1753 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (b. 1694)
1792 - Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (b. 1756)
1855 - Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803)
1890 - Sitting Bull, Sioux nation leader (b. circa 1831)
1943 - Fats Waller, American musician (b. 1904)
1944 - Glenn Miller, American musician (later declared dead on this date, exact date of death unknown) (b. 1904)
1947 - Arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863)
1950 - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader, Iron Man of India (b. 1875)
1958 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1962 - Charles Laughton, English actor (b. 1899)
1966 - Walt Disney, American animator (b. 1901)
1968 - Jess Willard, American boxer (b. 1881)
1968 - Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1899)
1971 - Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886)
1974 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born screenwriter and film producer (b. 1902)
1977 - Wilfred Kitching, the 7th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893)
1978 - Chill Wills, American actor (b. 1903)
1984 - Jan Peerce, American tenor (b. 1904)
1984 - Lennard Pearce, English actor (b. 1915)
1989 - Arnold Moss, American actor (b. 1910)
1989 - Edward Underdown, English actor (b. 1908)
1991 - Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev, Soviet sniper (b. 1915)
2001 - Rufus Thomas, American musician (b. 1917)
2001 - Russ Haas, American professional wrestler (b. 1974)
2003 - George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b. 1923)
2003 - Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1947)
2004 - Pauline Gore, mother of Al Gore (b. 1912)
2005 - Darrell Russell, American football player (b. 1976)
2005 - William Proxmire, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1915)
2005 - Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (b. 1915)
2005 - Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician (b. 1914)
2006 - Clay Regazzoni, Swiss Formula One driver (b. 1939)
2007 - John Berg (actor), American actor (b. 1949)
2007 - Julia Carson, U.S. Congresswoman from Indiana (b. 1938)

Monday, December 13, 2010

Famous Deaths on 14 Dec

Famous Deaths on 14 Dec

1460 - Guarino da Verona(b. 1370)
1476 - Vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431)
1510 - Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
1542 - King James V of Scotland (b. 1512)
1553 - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485)
1591 - Saint John of the Cross, Spanish friar and poet (b. 1542)
1624 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)
1651 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)
1713 - Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)
1715 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)
1735 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)
1741 - Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)
1788 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (b. 1714)
1788 - King Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)
1799 - George Washington, first President of the United States (b. 1732)
1838 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (b. 1806)
1860 - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
1861 - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, consort of Queen Victoria (b. 1819)
1865 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)
1873 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
1902 - Julia Grant, wife of President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant (b. 1826)
1912 - Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, British Army lieutenant (b. 1887)
1920 - George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
1927 - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)
1935 - Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (b. 1902)
1947 - Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
1947 - Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
1956 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president of Finland (b. 1870)
1963 - Dinah Washington, American singer (b. 1924)
1964 - William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)
1970 - Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (b. 1876)
1971 - Dick Tiger, Nigerian-born boxer (b. 1929)
1974 - Walter Lippman, American writer, journalist, and political commentator (b. 1889)
1975 - Arthur Treacher, English actor (b. 1894)
1978 - Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist (b. 1886)
1984 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel laureate (b. 1898)
1985 - Roger Maris, American baseball player (b. 1934)
1985 - Catherine Doherty, social justice activist (b. 1896)
1989 - Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (b. 1919)
1989 - Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1921)
1990 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
1993 - Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968)
1993 - Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
1994 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910)
1996 - Gaston Miron, French Canadian poet and editor (b. 1928)
1997 - Stubby Kaye, American actor (b. 1918)
1997 - Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (The Guess Who) (b. 1946)
1998 - Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
1998 - Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights activist and author (b. 1928)
1998 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist (b. 1924)
2001 - W. G. Sebald, German writer (b. 1944)
2003 - Blas Ople, foreign minister of the Philippines (b. 1927)
2003 - Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
2004 - Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2004 - Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate (b. 1939)
2005 - Trevanian, American author (b. 1931)
2006 - Anton Balasingham, chief political strategist of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1938)
2006 - Ahmet Ertegün, co-founder of Atlantic Records (b. 1923)
2006 - Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Famous Deaths on 13 Dec

Famous Deaths on 13 Dec

1048 - Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (b. 973)
1124 - Pope Callixtus II
1126 - Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria
1204 - Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135)
1250 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1194)
1404 - Albert, Count of Holland (b. 1336)
1466 - Donatello, Florentine artist and sculptor (b. 1386)
1516 - Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (b. 1462)
1521 - Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1469)
1557 - Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician
1565 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (b. 1516)
1603 - François Viète, French mathematician (b. 1540)
1621 - Katarina Stenbock, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535)
1716 - Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)
1721 - Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway (b. 1676)
1729 - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (b. 1676)
1754 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1696)
1769 - Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (b. 1715)
1783 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717)
1784 - Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709)
1814 - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, Belgian-born Austrian field marshal (b. 1735)
1835 - John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1760)
1837 - Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (b. 1756)
1863 - Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer (b. 1813)
1868 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (b. 1794)
1881 - August Senoa, Croatian writer (b. 1838)
1883 - Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812)
1895 - Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (b. 1800)
1919 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850)
1922 - Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic politician and poet (b. 1861)
1924 - Samuel Gompers, American labor and political leader, founder of AFL (b. 1850)
1930 - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian/Austrian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
1931 - Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840)
1932 - Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (b. 1853)
1934 - Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (b. 1854)
1935 - Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1871)
1940 - George Regas, Greek actor (b. 1890)
1940 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (b. 1851)
1942 - Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)
1944 - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French artist (b. 1866)
1944 - Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (b. 1908)
1945 - Irma Grese, Nazi war criminal (b. 1923)
1945 - Josef Kramer, commandant of Bergen Belsen concentration camp (b. 1906)
1945 - Elisabeth Volkenrath, supervisor at concentration camps (b. 1919)
1947 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian-born painter (b. 1874)
1950 - Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1902)
1954 - John Raymond Hubbell, American writer (b. 1879)
1955 - Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1958 - Tim Moore, American actor (b. 1887)
1961 - Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860)
1962 - Harry Barris, American popular singer (b. 1905)
1969 - Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral (b. 1886)
1969 - Spencer Williams, Jr., American actor (b. 1893)
1973 - Henry Green, English author (b. 1905)
1979 - Jon Hall, American actor (b. 1915)
1981 - Pigmeat Markham, American entertainer (b. 1904)
1983 - Alexander Schmemann, Orthodox Christian priest and theologian (b. 1921)
1983 - Nichita Stanescu, Romanian poet (b. 1933
1992 - K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (b. 1899)
1992 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and heir (b. 1899)
1993 - Vanessa Duriès, French novelist (b. 1972)
1994 - Norman Beaton, Guyanese actor (b. 1934)
2001 - Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death) (b. 1967)
2002 - Zal Yanovsky, Canadian musician (The Lovin' Spoonful) (b. 1945)
2003 - William V. Roth, Jr., U.S. Senator (b. 1921)
2004 - Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball player (b. 1934)
2004 - David Wheeler, English computer scientist (b. 1927)
2005 - Timothy Jordan II, American musician (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta) (b. 1981)
2005 - Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the Crips and children's author (b. 1953)
2006 - Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (b. 1932)
2007 - Floyd Red Crow Westerman, American actor (b. 1936)
2007 - Mark Partridge, Rhodesian politician

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Famous Deaths on 12 Dec

Famous Deaths on 12 Dec

1212 - Geoffrey, Archbishop of York
1569 - Metropolitan Philip of Moscow (b. 1507)
1574 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524)
1586 - Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533)
1685 - John Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)
1751 - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678)
1754 - Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701)
1766 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700)
1789 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713)
1790 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733)
1817 - Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751)
1843 - King William I of the Netherlands, (b. 1772)
1858 - Jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal (b. 1787)
1889 - Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1804)
1889 - Robert Browning, English poet (b. 1812)
1894 - Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
1913 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
1923 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (b. 1903)
1926 - Jean Richepin, French poet (b. 1849)
1929 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (b. 1836)
1934 - Thorleif Haug, Norwegian Nordic skier (b. 1894)
1939 - Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (b. 1883)
1941 - Cesar Basa, Philippine Air Force and World War II hero (b. 1915)
1951 - Mildred Bailey, American jazz singer (b. 1907)
1952 - Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (b. 1879)
1963 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (b. 1903)
1968 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (b. 1902)
1970 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
1971 - David Sarnoff, Russian-born American General Manager of RCA (b. 1891)
1976 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890)
1976 - Jack Cassidy, American actor (b. 1927)
1977 - Lady Spencer Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (b. 1885)
1980 - Jean Lesage, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1912)
1985 - Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
1985 - Ian Stewart, Scottish musician (b. 1938)
1987 - Enrique Jorrín, Cuban musician and composer (b. 1926)
1988 - Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, American Mafia figure (b. 1917)
1992 - Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (b. 1901)
1993 - József Antall, Hungarian politician (b. 1932)
1994 - Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (b. 1933)
1996 - Vance Packard, American author (b. 1914)
1997 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
1998 - Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (b. 1930)
1998 - Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (b. 1922)
1998 - Mo Udall, American politician (b. 1922)
1999 - Paul Cadmus, American artist (b. 1904)
1999 - Joseph Heller, American author (b. 1923)
2000 - George Montgomery, American actor (b. 1916)
2001 - Jean Richard, French actor (b. 1921)
2002 - Dee Brown, American author (b. 1908)
2002 - Brad Dexter, American actor (b. 1917)
2002 - Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (b. 1965)
2003 - Keiko, orca, star of Free Willy (b. 1977)
2003 - Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (b. 1926)
2003 - Heydər Əliyev, President of Azerbaijan (b. 1923)
2003 - Keiko , Killer Whale (b. 1976)
2005 - Gebran Tueni, Lebanese politician (b. 1957)
2005 - Annette Vadim, Danish actress (b. 1936)
2005 - Robert F. Newmyer, American film producer (b. 1946)
2006 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1935)
2006 - Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)
2006 - Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)
2006 - Al Shugart, pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology (b. 1930)
2006 - Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1917)
2007 - Ike Turner, American singer, former husband of Tina Turner (b. 1931)
884 - Carloman, King of the West Franks

Friday, December 10, 2010

Famous Deaths on 11 Dec

Famous Deaths on 11 Dec

1121 - Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066)
1226 - Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177)
1282 - Llywelyn the Last, Prince of Gwynedd
1282 - Michael VIII Palaiologos, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 1225)
1532 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)
1582 - Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1508)
1688 - James II of England, King of England, King of Scotland, King of Ireland and Duke of York
1694 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
1737 - John Strype, English historian (b. 1643)
1747 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller (b. ca. 1675)
1797 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
1840 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)
1872 - Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (b. 1830)
1880 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician (b. 1810)
1892 - William Milligan, Scottish theologian (b. 1821)
1909 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)
1918 - Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (b. 1876)
1920 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b. 1855)
1938 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1869)
1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922)
1941 - Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856)
1945 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)
1950 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
1957 - Musidora (Jeanne Roques), French actress (b. 1889)
1959 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1964 - Sam Cooke, American singer (b. 1931)
1964 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)
1971 - Maurice "Mac" McDonald, American fast-food pioneer (b. 1902)
1975 - Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (b. 1908)
1978 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
1978 - Paul O'Dea, American baseball player (b. 1920)
1979 - James J. Gibson, American perceptual psychologist (b. 1904)
1983 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British General (b. 1897)
1984 - Oskar Seidlin, German-born American scholar (b. 1911)
1987 - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (b. 1923)
1989 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
1991 - Robert Q. Lewis, American game show host and actor (b. 1921)
1991 - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (b. 1906)
1992 - Michael Robbins, English actor (b. 1930)
1993 - Elvira Popescu, Romanian-born French actress (b. 1894)
1994 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
1995 - Arthur Mullard, English comedy actor (b. 1910)
1996 - Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor, performer and co-founder of the Private Eye satirical magazine. (b. 1937)
1998 - André Lichnerowicz, Polish-French physicist (b. 1915)
1998 - Lynn Strait, American singer (Snot) (b. 1968)
2000 - David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916)
2000 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author (b. 1915)
2003 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (b. 1927)
2004 - José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1962)
2004 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (b. 1917)
2004 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916)
2006 - Elizabeth Bolden, American, oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death (b. 1890)
2007 - Grace Paley, American writer (b. 1922)
2007 - Christie Hennessy, Irish singer (b. 1945)
2007 - Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian Actress (b. 1981)
384 - Pope Damasus I

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Famous Deaths on 10 Dec

Famous Deaths on 10 Dec

1041 - Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010)
1198 - Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)
1508 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
1603 - William Gilbert, English scientist (b. 1544)
1618 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer
1626 - Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
1665 - Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer
1736 - António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta (b. 1663)
1831 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
1850 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
1865 - King Léopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
1911 - Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817)
1917 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
1920 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturing pioneer (b. 1868)
1926 - Nikola Pašić, Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes prime minister (b. 1845)
1928 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (b. 1868)
1936 - Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
1936 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
1941 - Colin Kelly, American pilot (b. 1915)
1944 - John Henry Cound Brunt, Victoria Cross holder (b. 1922)
1945 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (b. 1913)
1946 - Walter Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1946 - Damon Runyon, American writer (b. 1884)
1951 - Algernon Blackwood, English writer (b. 1869)
1953 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)
1958 - Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder (b.1864)
1967 - Otis Redding, American soul singer (b. 1941)
1968 - Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)
1968 - George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (b. 1921)
1968 - Karl Barth, Swiss theologian (b. 1886)
1973 - Wolf Vishniac, American microbiologist (b. 1922)
1977 - Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
1978 - Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (b. 1924)
1979 - Ann Dvorak, American film actress (b. 1912)
1982 - Freeman Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)
1986 - Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
1986 - Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927)
1987 - Jascha Heifetz, Russian-born violinist (b. 1901)
1988 - Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933)
1990 - Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector (b. 1898)
1991 - Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
1991 - Headman Shabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (b. 1945)
1992 - Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (b. 1908)
1994 - Keith Joseph, English politician (b. 1918)
1994 - Alexander Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905)
1995 - Darren Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (b. 1967)
1996 - Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932)
1999 - Franjo TuÄ'man, President of Croatia (b. 1922)
1999 - Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947)
1999 - Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (b. 1942)
2000 - Marie Windsor, American film actress (b. 1919)
2001 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)
2002 - Andres Küng, Swedish-Estonian politician, journalist (b. 1945)
2005 - Eugene McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1916)
2005 - Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940)
2006 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean President (b. 1915)
2007 - Aqsa Parvez, Canadian victim of an honor crime (b. 1991)
949 - Herman I, Duke of Swabia

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Famous Deaths on 9 Dec

Famous Deaths on 9 Dec

1165 - King Malcolm IV of Scotland
1437 - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
1544 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491)
1565 - Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
1603 - William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)
1625 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
1636 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)
1641 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599)
1669 - Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)
1674 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. 1609)
1692 - William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist
1706 - King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
1718 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopaedist (b. 1650)
1793 - Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (b. 1749)
1798 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)
1830 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy (b. 1757)
1854 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)
1858 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
1887 - Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader
1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
1916 - Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
1930 - Andrew "Rube" Foster, American baseball player and founder of the Negro National League (b. 1879)
1935 - Walter Liggett, American crusading newspaper editor and muckraker (b. 1886)
1937 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
1941 - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865)
1955 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885)
1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (b. 1887)
1965 - Branch Rickey, American baseball executive (b. 1884)
1967 - Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1898)
1970 - Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
1970 - Artem Mikoyan, Soviet aircraft designer (b. 1905)
1971 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
1971 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874)
1972 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)
1975 - William A. Wellman, American movie director (b. 1896)
1979 - Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop and television preacher (Life is Worth Living) (b. 1895)
1981 - Daniel Faulkner, Philadelphia police officer (b. 1955)
1982 - Leon Jaworski, Watergate scandal special prosecutor (b. 1905)
1984 - Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
1992 - Vincent Gardenia, American stage, film and television actor (b. 1922)
1993 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926)
1994 - Garnett Silk, Jamaican reggae singer (b. 1966)
1995 - Toni Cade Bambara, American author (b. 1939)
1995 - Douglas Corrigan, American aviator (b. 1907)
1996 - Alain Poher, French politician (b. 1909)
1996 - Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
1996 - Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (b. 1956)
1998 - Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
1998 - Archie Moore, American boxer (b. 1913)
2001 - Michael Carver, British soldier (b. 1915)
2002 - Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (b. 1966)
2002 - Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (b. 1944)
2002 - Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. 1942)
2003 - Norm Sloan, American basketball coach (b. 1926)
2003 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)
2004 - David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)
2004 - Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
2005 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)
2005 - Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)
2007 - Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (b. 1931)

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Famous Deaths on 8 Dec

Famous Deaths on 8 Dec

1626 - John Davies, English poet (b. 1569)
1632 - Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561)
1638 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (b. 1589)
1643 - John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583)
899 - Arnulf of Carinthia (b. 850)

Monday, December 6, 2010

Famous Deaths on 7 Dec

Famous Deaths on 7 Dec

1254 - Pope Innocent IV
1279 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226)
1295 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1243)
1498 - Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist
1562 - Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer
1649 - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606)
1672 - Richard Bellingham, English-born Massachusetts colonial magistrate (b. 1592)
1683 - Algernon Sydney, English politician (b. 1623)
1683 - John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653)
1723 - Jan Santini Aichel, Bohemian architect (b. 1677)
1725 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (b. 1661)
1775 - Charles Saunders, British admiral
1793 - Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780)
1815 - Michel Ney, French marshall (executed) (b. 1769)
1817 - William Bligh, British naval officer (b. 1745)
1842 - Thomas Hamilton, Scottish writer (b. 1789)
1874 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (b. 1815)
1894 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur (Suez Canal) (b. 1805)
1902 - Thomas Nast, German-born American cartoonist (b. 1840)
1906 - Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)
1913 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX (b. 1828)
1917 - Léon Minkus, German/Czech Composer and violinist (b. March 23, 1826)
1941 - Notable casualties of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
283 - Pope Eutychian
43 BC - Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC)
983 - Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Famous Deaths on 6 Dec

Famous Deaths on 6 Dec

1185 - King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
1352 - Pope Clement VI (b. 1291)
1562 - Jan van Scorel Dutch painter and architect
1618 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)
1658 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (b. 1601)
1672 - King John II Casimir of Poland (b. 1609)
1675 - John Lightfoot, English churchman (b. 1602)
1716 - Benedictus Buns, Dutch Carmelite and composer (b. 1642)
1718 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)
1746 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)
1771 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)
1779 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
1788 - Jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714)
1855 - William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (b. 1789)
1867 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician (b. 1794)
1868 - August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
1879 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814)
1882 - Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)
1882 - Anthony Trollope, British author (b. 1815)
1889 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
1892 - Ernst Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist (b. 1816)
1924 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)
1934 - Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1863)
1949 - Leadbelly, American musician (b. 1888)
1951 - Harold Ross, American magazine editor (b. 1892)
1955 - Honus Wagner, baseball player (b. 1874)
1956 - Dr. Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar, Indian Minister of Law and architect of The Constitution of India (b. 1891)
1961 - Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (b. 1925)
1964 - Consuelo Vanderbilt (b. 1877)
1972 - Janet Munro, British actress (b. 1934)
1976 - João Goulart, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
1983 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
1985 - Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (b. 1917)
1988 - Roy Orbison, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter (b. 1936)
1989 - Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902)
1989 - Sammy Fain, American popular music composer (b. 1902)
1989 - John Payne, American movie actor (b. 1912)
1990 - Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
1991 - Sir Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
1992 - Mimi Smith, maternal aunt and guardian of John Lennon (b. 1914)
1993 - Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
1996 - Pete Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League (b. 1926)
1997 - Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (b. 1942)
2000 - Werner Klemperer, German-born actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948)
2001 - Charles McClendon, Hall of Fame college football coach (b. 1923)
2002 - Philip Berrigan, American civil rights activist (b. 1923)
2003 - Jerry Tuite, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2003 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (b. 1918)
2003 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (b. 1909)
2004 - Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (b. 1921)
2005 - Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
2005 - Charly Gaul, Luxembourg cyclist (b. 1932)
2005 - Danny Williams, South African-born singer (b. 1942)
2006 - John Feeney, Documentary film-director (b. 1922)
2007 - Katy French, Irish Supermodel and Socialite (b. 1983)
343 - Saint Nicholas

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Famous Deaths on 5 Dec

Famous Deaths on 5 Dec

1082 - Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona
1355 - John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300)
1560 - King Francis II of France (b. 1544)
1570 - Johan Friis, Danish statesman (b. 1494)
1624 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)
1654 - Jean François Sarrazin, French writer
1663 - Severo Bonini, Italian composer (b. 1582)
1749 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, New French explorer and trader (b. 1685)
1758 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688)
1770 - James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (b. 1692)
1784 - Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet (b. 1753)
1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1756)
1819 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750)
1870 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (b. 1802)
1887 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)
1891 - Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
1895 - Chief Gall, Sioux chief (b. 1840)
1925 - Władysław Reymont, Polish writer and Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
1926 - Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (b. 1840)
1931 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
1940 - Mordechai Frizis, Jewish Greek military officer (b. 1893)
1940 - Jan Kubelík, Austro-Hungarian-born Czechoslovak violinist (b. 1880)
1950 - Shri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872)
1951 - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1889)
1951 - Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (b. 1871)
1953 - Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1911)
1955 - Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (b. 1886)
1963 - Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892)
1963 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905)
1965 - Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1966 - Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1909)
1968 - Fred Clark, American actor (b. 1914)
1969 - Claudius Dornier, German aircraft designer (b. 1884)
1973 - Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, inventor of radar (b. 1892)
1977 - Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet military commander (b. 1895)
1983 - Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
1984 - Adam Malik, Third Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
1986 - Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
1989 - Sir John Pritchard, English conductor (b. 1921)
1991 - Richard Speck, American mass murderer (b. 1941)
1991 - Robert Karvelas, American actor (b. 1921)
1993 - Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms) (b. 1961)
1994 - Harry Horner, American art director (b. 1910)
1995 - Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (b. 1920)
1995 - Lisa McPherson, former Scientologist (b. 1959)
1998 - Al Gore, Sr., American politician (b. 1907)
2001 - Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (b. 1901)
2002 - Ne Win, Burmese leader (b. 1911)
2002 - Roone Arledge, American sports broadcasting pioneer (b. 1931)
2005 - Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (b. 1905)
2005 - Ed Masry, American lawyer (b. 1932)
2005 - Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, Australian businessman (b. 1949)
2006 - David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster (b. 1924)
2007 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
2007 - Andrew Imbrie, American composer (b. 1921)
749 - Saint John of Damascus, theologian

Friday, December 3, 2010

Famous Deaths on 4 Dec

Famous Deaths on 4 Dec

1075 - Archbishop Anno II of Cologne
1123 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)
1214 - William I of Scotland
1270 - Theobald V of Champagne, King of Navarre
1334 - Pope John XXII (b. 1249)
1340 - Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292)
1459 - Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)
1576 - Rheticus, Austrian mathematician (b. 1514)
1585 - John Willock, Scottish reformer
1609 - Alexander Hume, Scottish poet
1642 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (b. 1585)
1649 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (b. 1585)
1679 - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)
1680 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)
1696 - Empress Meishō, Japan (b. 1624)
1732 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist (b. 1685)
1798 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (b. 1737)
1828 - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
1902 - Charles Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company - Wall Street Journal) (b. 1851)
1926 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian-born painter (b. 1861)
1933 - Stefan George, German poet (b. 1868)
1935 - Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1850)
1935 - Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (b. 1864)
1944 - Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player (b. 1879)
1945 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
1956 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (b. 1891)
1967 - Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1895)
1969 - Fred Hampton, American activist (b. 1948)
1975 - Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b. 1906)
1976 - W. F. McCoy, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)
1976 - Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (b. 1951)
1976 - Benjamin Britten, English composer (b. 1913)
1980 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
1980 - Stanisława Walasiewicz (Stella Walsh), Polish-born athlete (b. 1911)
1987 - Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director (b. 1897)
1988 - Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (b. 1899)
1993 - Frank Zappa, American musician and composer (b. 1940)
1995 - Lionel Giroux (Little Beaver), Canadian midget wrestler (b. 1935)
1997 - Richard Vernon, English actor (b. 1925)
1999 - Rose Bird, American judge (b. 1936)
2003 - Iggy Katona, American race car driver (b. 1916)
2004 - Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (b. 1943)
2005 - Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (b. 1922)
2005 - Gregg Hoffman, American film producer (b.1963)
2005 - Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (b. 1924)
2006 - James Kim, American television personality (b. 1971)
2007 - Norval Morrisseau, Canadian artist (b. 1932)
2007 - Chip Reese, American professional poker player (b. 1951)
2007 - Pimp C, American Rapper (b. 1973)
765 - Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702)
771 - Carloman, King of the Franks (b. 751)

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Famous Deaths on 3 Dec

Famous Deaths on 3 Dec

1154 - Pope Anastasius IV
1265 - Odofredus, Italian jurist
1533 - Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1479)
1552 - St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the East (b. 1506)
1610 - Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548)
1706 - Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and hymn writer (b. 1637)
1765 - Lord John Philip Sackville, British cricketer (b. 1713)
1789 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)
1815 - John Carroll (priest), first Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. (b. 1735)
1845 - Gregor MacGregor, Scottish con-man (b. 1786)
1882 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
1888 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)
1890 - Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
1892 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)
1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (b. 1850)
1902 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
1910 - Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist (b. 1821)
1912 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1919 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (b. 1841)
1934 - Charles James O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. 1849)
1941 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883)
1949 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born American actress (b. 1876)
1955 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (b. 1894)
1967 - Harry Wismer, American original owner of the New York Jets (b. 1913)
1969 - Mathias Wieman, German actor (b. 1902)
1972 - Bill Johnson, American musician (b. 1872)
1973 - Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895)
1979 - Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (b. 1905)
1980 - Oswald Mosley, British politician (b. 1896)
1981 - Walter Knott, American farmer (b. 1889)
1984 - Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (b. 1919)
1993 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (b. 1913)
1994 - Elizabeth Glaser, AIDS activist (b. 1947)
1995 - Jimmy Jewel, English actor (b. 1909)
1995 - Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (b. 1946)
1996 - Georges Duby, French historian (b. 1919)
1998 - Pierre Hétu, Quebec conductor and pianist (b. 1936)
1999 - Scatman John, American singer (b. 1942)
1999 - Madeline Kahn, American actress (b. 1942)
1999 - Jarl Wahlström, 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918)
2000 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (b. 1917)
2000 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (b. 1922)
2002 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)
2003 - David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
2004 - Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911)
2005 - Herb Moford, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2006 - Logan Whitehurst, American musician (b. 1977)
2007 - James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948)

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Famous Deaths on 2 Dec

Famous Deaths on 2 Dec

1348 - Emperor Hanazono of Japan (b. 1297)
1381 - John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic
1463 - Archduke Albert VI of Austria (b. 1418)
1469 - Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416)
1515 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (b. 1453)
1547 - Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror (b. 1485)
1552 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Catholic missionary (b. 1506)
1615 - Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, French general
1665 - Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (b. 1588)
1694 - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (b. 1622)
1719 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (b. 1634)
1726 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (b. 1665)
1747 - Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695)
1748 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1662)
1774 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist (b. 1720)
1814 - Marquis de Sade, French writer (b. 1740)
1844 - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
1849 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
1859 - John Brown, American abolitionist (hanged) (b. 1800)
1860 - Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (b. 1796)
1892 - Jay Gould, American entrepreneur (b. 1836)
1899 - Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (killed at Battle of Tirad Pass) (b. 1875)
1918 - Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (b. 1868)
1924 - Kazimieras BÅ«ga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879)
1931 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851)
1936 - John Ringling, American circus owner (b. 1866)
1943 - Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian author and journalist (b. 1902)
1944 - Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (b. 1874)
1944 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer (b. 1876)
1950 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (b. 1917)
1957 - Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (b. 1902)
1963 - Sabu Dastagir, Indian-born American actor (b. 1924)
1963 - Thomas J. Hicks, British-born runner (b. 1875)
1968 - Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson), Estonian painter (b. 1902)
1969 - Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Russian politician (b. 1881)
1974 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897)
1976 - Danny Murtaugh, baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
1980 - Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1905)
1980 - Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (b. 1914)
1982 - Marty Feldman, British comedian, writer and actor (b. 1933)
1983 - Fifi d'Orsay, Canadian actress (b. 1904)
1985 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (b. 1914)
1985 - Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic (b. 1922)
1986 - Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer (b. 1917)
1986 - John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (b. 1912)
1987 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1987 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914)
1988 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
1990 - Robert Cummings, American film and television actor (b. 1908)
1990 - Aaron Copland, American composer (b. 1900)
1993 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug dealer (b. 1949)
1995 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b. 1913)
1995 - Roxie Roker, American actress/news personality (b. 1929)
1997 - Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler (b. 1930)
1997 - Michael Hedges, American guitarist known for originality (b. 1953)
2002 - Arno Peters, German historian (b. 1916)
2002 - Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926)
2003 - Alan Davidson, British author (b. 1924)
2004 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
2004 - Alicia Markova, British ballerina (b. 1910)
2005 - Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (b. 1919)
2005 - Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian drug smuggler (hanged) (b. 1980)
2005 - Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1948)
2006 - Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (b. 1947)

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Famous Deaths on 1 Dec

Famous Deaths on 1 Dec

1135 - Henry I of England
1241 - Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1214)
1377 - King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316)
1433 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
1455 - Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith (b. 1378)
1521 - Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
1530 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (b. 1480)
1580 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
1581 - Alexander Briant, English saint (b. around 1556)
1581 - Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (b. 1550)
1581 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (martyred) (b. 1540)
1602 - Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1582)
1633 - Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (b. 1566)
1660 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1592)
1707 - Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (b. 1674)
1709 - Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (b. 1644)
1723 - Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress
1729 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (b. 1665)
1750 - Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
1755 - Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696)
1767 - Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (b. 1710)
1825 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
1830 - Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
1865 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (b. 1796)
1866 - George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (d. 1790)
1884 - William Swainson (lawyer), second, and last, Attorney-General (New Zealand) of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)
1916 - Charles de Foucauld, French religious leader (b. 1858)
1923 - Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1836)
1928 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
1934 - Sergei Kirov, Russian revolutionary (b. 1886)
1943 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (b. 1862)
1947 - G. H. Hardy, English mathematician (b. 1877)
1947 - Aleister Crowley, English occultist (b. 1875)
1950 - E. J. Moeran, English composer (b. 1894)
1954 - Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive (b. 1897)
1964 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (b. 1892)
1968 - Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer (baryton) and composer born in Transylvania (b. 1887)
1968 - Dario Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (b. 1921)
1969 - Magic Sam, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
1973 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
1975 - Nellie Fox, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1975 - Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (b. 1906)
1984 - Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b. 1911)
1986 - Lee Dorsey, American R&B singer (b. 1924)
1987 - James Baldwin, American writer (b. 1924)
1987 - Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager (b. 1918)
1989 - Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1931)
1991 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1911)
1996 - Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928)
1997 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (b. 1908)
1997 - Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker (b. 1929)
1997 - Endicott Peabody, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1920)
1998 - Freddie Young, British cinematographer (b. 1902)
2001 - Ellis R Dungan, American born Indian film director (b. 1909)
2002 - Dave McNally, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2003 - Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder (b. 1928)
2003 - Clark Kerr, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (b. 1911)
2004 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
2005 - Gust Avrakotos, American intelligence case officer (b. 1938)
2006 - Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
2006 - Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist (McGill University) (b. 1937)
2007 - Anton Rodgers, British actor (b. 1933)

Monday, November 29, 2010

Famous Deaths on 30 Nov

Famous Deaths on 30 Nov

1016 - Edmund II of England
1580 - Richard Farrant, English composer
1626 - Thomas Weelkes, English composer
1654 - John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (b. 1584)
1675 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)
1703 - Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (b. 1672)
1705 - Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
1718 - King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
1761 - John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706)
1765 - George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
1900 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
1901 - Edward John Eyre, British explorer (b. 1815)
1920 - Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
1933 - Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian general (b. 1875)
1934 - Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (b. 1908)
1935 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (b. 1888)
1943 - Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist (executed) (b. 1914)
1953 - Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1857)
1954 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)
1955 - Josip Å tolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer (b. 1896)
1957 - Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
1958 - Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (b. 1888)
1967 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (b. 1904)
1977 - Terrence Rattigan, British writer and playwright (b. 1911)
1987 - Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1913)
1989 - Alfred Herrhausen, German banker, murdered (Deutsche Bank) (b. 1930)]
1993 - Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (b. 1924)
1993 - David Houston, American country music singer (b. 1938)
1994 - Harry Saltzman, American film producer (b. 1915)
1994 - Guy Debord, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1931)
1994 - Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)
1995 - Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)
1996 - Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)
1997 - Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)
1999 - Charlie Byrd, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
2002 - Tim Woods, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
2003 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
2004 - Pierre Berton, Canadian author (b. 1920)
2005 - Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)
2006 - Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and lyricist (b. 1927)
2006 - Rafael Buenaventura, Former BSP Governor (b. 1938)
2007 - Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (b. 1938)
2007 - Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (b. 1948)
30 BC - Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (b. 69 BC)

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Famous Deaths on 29 Nov

Famous Deaths on 29 Nov

1253 - Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1206)
1268 - Pope Clement IV
1314 - Philip IV of France (b. 1268)
1330 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (b. 1287)
1342 - Michael of Cesena, Italian Franciscan leader (b. 1270)
1378 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1316)
1530 - Thomas Wolsey, adviser to King Henry VIII of England
1577 - Cuthbert Mayne, English saint (b. 1543)
1590 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547)
1595 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533)
1626 - Ernst, Graf von Mansfield, German soldier (c. 1580)
1632 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (b. 1596)
1643 - William Cartwright, English dramatist (b. 1611)
1643 - Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b. 1567)
1646 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (b. 1565)
1661 - Brian Walton, English clergyman and scholar (b. 1600)
1694 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (b. 1628)
1695 - James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (b. 1619)
1699 - Patrick Gordon, Scottish general (b. 1635)
1759 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687)
1780 - Maria Theresa of Austria (b. 1717)
1797 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (b. 1723)
1847 - Marcus Whitman, Washington state pioneer (b. 1802)
1924 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (b. 1858)
1927 - George Giffen, Australian cricketer (b. 1859)
1939 - Philipp Scheidemann, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1865)
1953 - Alfons Fryland, Austrian actor (b. 1888)
1953 - Sam De Grasse, American actor (b. 1875)
1953 - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895)
1954 - Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892)
1957 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (b. 1897)
1972 - Carl Stalling, American composer (b. 1888)
1974 - James J. Braddock, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1905)
1975 - Graham Hill, English race car driver and two-time F1 World Champion (b. 1929)
1979 - Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
1980 - Dorothy Day, American journalist, turned social activist, and devout member of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1897).
1981 - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (b. 1895)
1981 - Natalie Wood, American actress (b. 1938)
1982 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (b. 1908)
1984 - Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (b. 1900)
1986 - Cary Grant, British-born American actor (b. 1904)
1987 - Irene Handl, English actress (b. 1901)
1991 - Ralph Bellamy, American actor (b. 1904)
1992 - Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (b. 1906)
1996 - Dan Flavin, American artist (b. 1933)
1998 - Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (b. 1947)
1998 - Frank Latimore, American actor (b. 1925)
1999 - Gene Rayburn, American game show host (b. 1917)
2001 - John Knowles, American author (b. 1926)
2001 - George Harrison, English singer, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1943)
2001 - Mic Christopher, Irish singer and songwriter (b. 1969)
2002 - Daniel Gélin, French actor (b. 1921)
2002 - George "Two Ton" Harris, American professional wrestler (b. 1927)
2003 - Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
2004 - Harry Danning, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2004 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (b. 1929)
2004 - Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (b. 1891)
2005 - Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (b. 1958)
2005 - David di Tommaso, French footballer (b. 1979)
2006 - Allen Carr, English anti-smoking campaigner (b. 1934)
2007 - Roger Bonham Smith, Former chairman and CEO of General Motors (b. 1925)
2007 - Ralph Beard, American basketball player (b. 1927)
2007 - James Barber, Canadian chef and writer (b. 1923)
2007 - Henry Hyde, American politician (b. 1924)
2007 - Tom Terrell, musicologist, NPR reviewer, deejay (b. 1950)
741 - Pope Gregory III

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Famous Deaths on 28 Nov

Famous Deaths on 28 Nov

1170 - Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd (c. 1100)
1262 - Shinran, Japanese religious leader (b. 1173)
1290 - Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I of England (b. 1241)
1574 - Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (b. 1502)
1585 - Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)
1667 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633)
1675 - Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
1675 - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (c. 1608)
1680 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian baroque sculptor (b. 1598)
1680 - Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)
1694 - Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet (b. 1644)
1695 - Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Italian composer (c. 1637)
1695 - Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)
1698 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
1794 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730)
1801 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (b. 1750)
1815 - Johann Peter Salomon, German violinist, impresario, and composer (b. 1745)
1852 - Ludger Duvernay, French printer and newspaper publisher (b. 1799)
1859 - Washington Irving, American writer (b. 1783)
1870 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
1872 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
1878 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
1880 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837)
1907 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
1912 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870)
1915 - Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
1921 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844)
1935 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)
1939 - James Naismith, Canadian creator of basketball (b. 1861)
1945 - Dwight F. Davis, U.S. Secretary of War and donor of the Davis cup (b. 1879)
1947 - Philippe Leclerc, French general (b. 1902)
1954 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
1960 - Richard Wright, American author (b. 1908)
1962 - Queen Mother Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (b. 1880)
1963 - Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (b. 1941)
1968 - Enid Blyton, British children's author (b. 1897)
1971 - Wasfi Tel, Jordanian Prime Minister (b. 1920)
1972 - Havergal Brian, British composer (b. 1875)
1973 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886)
1976 - Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907)
1977 - Trevor Bardette, American actor (b. 1902)
1977 - Bob Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1896)
1978 - Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Argentine football executive (b. 1902)
1983 - Christopher George, American actor (b. 1929)
1986 - Herb Vigran, American actor (b. 1910)
1987 - Choh Hao Li, Chinese biochemist (b. 1913)
1992 - Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (b. 1917)
1993 - Garry Moore, American entertainer (b. 1915)
1993 - Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf) (b. 1946)
1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)
1994 - Buster Edwards, English train robber (b. 1932)
1994 - Jerry Rubin, American activist (b. 1938)
1997 - Georges Marchal, French actor (b. 1920)
1998 - Kerry Wendell Thornley, co-founder of Discordianism (b. 1938)
2000 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)
2001 - William Reid, British aviator awarded the Victoria Cross (b. 1921)
2001 - Kal Mann, American lyricist (b. 1917)
2001 - William Kienzle, American author (b. 1928)
2002 - Dave "Snaker" Ray, American blues musician (b. 1943)
2003 - Ted Bates, English footballer (b. 1918)
2003 - Antonia Forest, British children's author (b. 1915)
2005 - Marc Lawrence, American actor (b. 1910)
2006 - Robert Volpe, Artist ,Art Theft Detective (b.1942)
2006 - Lyubov Polishchuk, Russian actress (b. 1949)
2007 - Gudrun Wagner, co-director of the Bayreuth Festival (b. 1944)
741 - St. Gregory III

Friday, November 26, 2010

Famous Deaths on 27 Nov

Famous Deaths on 27 Nov

1198 - Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
1474 - Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer
1570 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
1592 - King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1592 - Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)
1632 - John Eliot, English statesman (b. 1592)
1680 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601)
1754 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
1811 - Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
1852 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
1894 - Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
1895 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (b. 1824)
1901 - Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
1908 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)
1931 - Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
1932 - Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
1934 - Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b. 1908)
1940 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer and politician (b. 1871)
1943 - Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian communist and partisan (b. 1916)
1944 - Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
1953 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1955 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)
1958 - Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (b. 1892)
1973 - Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
1975 - Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
1978 - George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (assassinated) (b. 1929)
1978 - Harvey Milk, American politician (assassinated) (b. 1930)
1980 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
1981 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
1988 - John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
1990 - David White, American actor (b. 1916)
1992 - Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
1994 - Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
1998 - Barbara Acklin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
1999 - Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (b. 1925)
1999 - Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (b. 1937)
2000 - Len Shackleton, English former footballer (b. 1922)
2005 - Joe Jones, American R&B singer (b. 1926)
2005 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
2006 - Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)
2006 - Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
2006 - Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)
2006 - Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (b. 1951)
2007 - Bernie Banton, Australian asbestos campaigner (b. 1946)
2007 - Robert Cade, American doctor and inventor of Gatorade (b. 1927)
2007 - Bill Willis, American football player (b. 1921)
2007 - Sean Taylor, American football player (b. 1983)
450 - Galla Placidia, daughter of Roman Emperor Theodosius I and his second wife Galla (b. 392)
511 - Clovis I, King of the Franks (c. 466)
8 BC - Horace, Roman poet (b. 65 BC)
835 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (b. 811)

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Famous Deaths on 26 Nov

Famous Deaths on 26 Nov

1252 - Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (b. 1188)
1326 - Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (b. 1286)
1504 - Queen Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
1621 - Radulph Agas, English surveyor (C. 1540)
1639 - John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (b. 1565)
1651 - Henry Ireton, English Civil War general (b. 1611)
1688 - Philippe Quinault, French writer (b. 1635)
1689 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (b. February 1, 1635)
1717 - Daniel Purcell, British composer (b. 1664)
1719 - John Hudson, British classical scholar (b. 1662)
1780 - James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist (b. 1712)
1836 - John MacAdam, British road builder (b. 1756)
1851 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (b. 1769)
1855 - Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (b. 1798)
1857 - Joseph von Eichendorff, German poet (b. 1788)
1876 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (b. 1792)
1883 - Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist (b. 1797)
1885 - Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (b.1813)
1892 - Charles Lavigerie, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1825)
1896 - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (b. 1818)
1896 - Coventry Patmore, British poet (b. 1823)
1928 - Reinhard Scheer, German naval officer (b. 1863)
1934 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b.1866)
1941 - Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (b. 1876)
1941 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (b. 1861)
1943 - Edward O'Hare, American ace pilot (b. 1914)
1952 - Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b. 1865)
1954 - Bill Doak, former Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1891)
1956 - Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (b. 1905)
1959 - Albert Ketèlbey, British composer (b. 1875)
1962 - Albert Sarraut, French politician (b. 1872)
1963 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (b. 1882)
1974 - Cyril Connolly, English intellectual (b. September 10, 1903)
1981 - Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (b. 1901)
1987 - Thomas G. Lanphier, American aviator (b. 1915)
1991 - Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft; b. 1908)
1991 - Bob Johnson, American hockey coach (b. 1931)
1994 - David Bache, British car designer (b. 1925)
1994 - Joey Stefano, American actor (b. 1968)
1996 - Michael Bentine, British comedian (b. 1922)
1996 - Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b. 1914)
1998 - Jonathan Kwitny, American reporter (b. 1941)
2001 - Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (b. 1943)
2002 - Polo Montañez, Cuban singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
2002 - Verne Winchell, American doughnut entrepreneur (b. 1915)
2003 - Stefan Wul, French writer (b. 1922)
2003 - Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1978)
2004 - Philippe de Broca, French film director (b. 1933)
2005 - Stan Berenstain, children's author (b. 1923)
2006 - Mário Cesariny, Portuguese painter and writer (b. 1923)
2006 - Raúl Velasco, Mexican television host (b. 1933)
2006 - Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b. 1943)
2006 - Casey Coleman, American television personality (b. 1951)
2006 - Stephen Heywood, American builder (b. 1969)
2006 - Isaac Gálvez, Spanish procyclist (b. 1975)
2007 - Steve Fossett, American Aviator (b. 1944)
2007 - Mel Tolkin, television comedy writer (b. 1913)
2007 - Silvestre Herrera, Mexican-born American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. (b. 1917)
2007 - Sean Taylor, American Football Player (b. 1983
399 - Pope Siricius
666 - Yeon Gaesomun dictator of Goguryeo (other sources indicate death date as 664 or 665)

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Famous Deaths on 25 Nov

Famous Deaths on 25 Nov

1034 - King Malcolm II of Scotland
1120 - William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (b. 1104)
1185 - Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
1326 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)
1374 - Philip II of Taranto, Titular emperor of Costantinople (b. 1329)
1456 - Jacques CÅ"ur, French merchant
1560 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b. 1466)
1626 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566)
1686 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (b. 1638)
1694 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)
1700 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (b. 1643)
1748 - Isaac Watts, British hymnwriter (b. 1674)
1755 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (b. 1687)
1785 - Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712)
1865 - Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b. 1821)
1881 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (b. 1794)
1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
1885 - King Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
1885 - Thomas Hendricks, Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, French-born American race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1892)
1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American baseball commissioner (b. 1866)
1947 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)
1948 - Kanbun Uechi, karate master (b. 1877)
1949 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African American entertainer (b. 1878)
1950 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
1950 - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
1959 - Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)
1961 - Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (b. 1866)
1963 - Alexander Marinesko,captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff, when 10,000 died while the ship sank.
1965 - Dame Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)
1968 - Paul Siple, American explorer of the Antarctic. (b. 1908)
1968 - Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer (b. 1878)
1970 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b. 1925)
1972 - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. 1886)
1973 - Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (b. 1928)
1974 - Nick Drake, British singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
1974 - U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)
1978 - Elaine Esposito, American woman who hold the record for longest coma (b. 1934)
1981 - Jack Albertson, American actor (b. 1907)
1985 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
1985 - Franz Hildebrandt, German Theologian(b. 1909)
1987 - Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)
1989 - Alva R. Fitch, American World War II and Korean soldier (b. 1907)
1995 - Léon Zitrone, French journalist and television host (b. 1914)
1995 - Alan Nicholls, English footballer (b. 1973)
1997 - Kamuzu Banda, President of Malawi (b. ca. 1898)
1997 - Barbara, French singer (b. 1930)
1998 - Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
1998 - Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
2000 - Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1917)
2001 - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Muslim Sufi, author, spiritual leader (b. 1941)
2002 - Karel Reisz, Czech theater director (b. 1926)
2005 - George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
2005 - Richard Burns, English WRC champion (b. 1971)
2006 - Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
2006 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (b. 1920)
2006 - Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (b. 1931)
2006 - Sean Bell, American shooting victim (b. 1983)
2006 - Phyllis Fraser, American actress and children's book publisher (b. 1916)
2006 - Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (b. 1919)
2007 - Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
311 - Peter of Alexandria, Christian martyr

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Famous Deaths on 24 Nov

Famous Deaths on 24 Nov

1468 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
1531 - Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (b. 1482)
1541 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (b. 1489)
1572 - John Knox, Scottish reformer (b. 1510)
1583 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
1615 - Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556)
1650 - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (b. 1566)
1722 - Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (b. 1623)
1741 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b. 1688)
1770 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b. 1685)
1775 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703)
1781 - James Caldwell, American revolutionary (b. 1734)
1793 - Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)
1801 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
1807 - Joseph Brant, Mohawk leader (b. 1742)
1848 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
1870 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (b. 1846)
1890 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816)
1916 - Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840)
1920 - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (b. 1854)
1922 - Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (executed) (b. 1870)
1929 - Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (b. 1841)
1943 - Doris Miller, American navy cook (b. 1919)
1956 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
1957 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
1958 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British politician, Nobel laureate (b. 1864)
1959 - Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (b. 1883)
1960 - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
1965 - Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
1967 - Louis Fratto, American gangster (b. 1908)
1973 - John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881)
1980 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
1980 - George Raft, American actor (b. 1895)
1985 - Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)
1987 - Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)
1990 - Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)
1990 - Fred Shero, National Hockey League player and coach (b. 1925)
1990 - Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
1991 - Eric Carr, American drummer (KISS) (b. 1950)
1991 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (b. 1946)
1993 - Albert Collins, American blues guitarist (b. 1932)
1996 - Sorley MacLean, British poet (b. 1911)
2001 - Melanie Thornton, American dance/pop singer (b. 1967)
2002 - John Rawls, political philosopher (b. 1921)
2003 - Floquet de Neu, Ecuato Guinean albino gorilla (b. 1964)
2003 - Warren Spahn, Major League Baseball player (b. 1921)
2004 - Arthur Hailey, British-born author (b. 1920)
2004 - Wong Jim, Hong Kong songwriter (b. 1940)
2005 - Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
2006 - George W. S. Trow, American writer (b. 1943)
2006 - Juice Leskinen, Finnish rock singer (b. 1950)
2006 - Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist (b. 1938)
654 - Emperor Kōtoku of Japan (b. 596)

Monday, November 22, 2010

Famous Deaths on 23 Nov

Famous Deaths on 23 Nov

1407 - Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (murdered) (b. 1372)
1457 - King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1440)
1499 - Perkin Warbeck, Flemish imposter (b. 1474)
1503 - Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1446)
1503 - Bona of Savoy, Italian noblewoman (b. 1449)
1572 - Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (b. 1503)
1585 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. 1505)
1616 - Richard Hakluyt, English writer (b. 1552)
1682 - Claude Lorrain, French painter (b. 1604)
1763 - Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf, German soldier (b. 1673)
1769 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (b. 1711)
1783 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)
1803 - Roger Newdigate, British politician (b. 1719)
1804 - Richard Graves, British writer (b. 1715)
1807 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (b. 1747)
1814 - Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States of America (b. 1744)
1833 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (b. 1762)
1890 - King William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
1902 - Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (b. 1851)
1923 - Urmuz, Romanian writer (b. 1883)
1934 - Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
1937 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
1937 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)
1948 - Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1966 - Seán T. O'Kelly, President of Ireland (b. 1882)
1970 - Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (b. 1910)
1972 - Marie Wilson, American actress (b. 1916)
1973 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (b. 1889)
1974 - Cornelius Ryan, Irish-born author (b. 1920)
1976 - André Malraux, French author (b. 1901)
1979 - Merle Oberon, British actress (b. 1911)
1979 - Judee Sill, American musician and songwriter (b. 1944)
1983 - Juhan Muks, Estonian artist (b. 1899)
1990 - Bo Diaz, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1953)
1990 - Roald Dahl, British author (b. 1916)
1991 - Klaus Kinski, German actor (b. 1926)
1992 - Roy Acuff, American country musician (b. 1903)
1992 - Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)
1994 - Art Barr, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
1994 - Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (b. 1939)
1995 - Jr. Walker, American musician (b. 1931)
1995 - Louis Malle, French film director (b. 1932)
1996 - Art Porter, Jr., American jazz musician (b. 1961)
1996 - Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist (b. 1943)
1997 - Jorge Más Canosa, anti-Castro activist (b. 1939)
2001 - Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)
2001 - O.C. Smith, American singer (b. 1932)
2001 - Mary Whitehouse,'Clean up TV' campaigner
2002 - Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911)
2004 - Pete Franklin, American talk radio host (b. 1928)
2005 - Frank Gatski, American football player (b. 1919)
2005 - Constance Cummings, American-born British actress (b. 1910)
2006 - Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
2006 - Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
2006 - Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
2006 - Betty Comden, American lyricist (b. 1917)
2006 - Nick Clarke, English radio presenter (b. 1948)
2006 - Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
2007 - Joe Kennedy, American baseball player (b. 1979)
2007 - Ã"scar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer (b. 1971)
2007 - Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby union footballer (b. 1936)
947 - Berthold, Duke of Bavaria
955 - Edred, King of England (b. c. 923)