Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Famous Deaths on 1 Sep

Famous Deaths on 1 Sep

1067 - Baldwin V of Flanders
1159 - Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100)
1256 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
1414 - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
1581 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
1600 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)
1615 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)
1648 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
1685 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)
1687 - Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
1715 - King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1715 - François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
1818 - Robert Calder, British naval officer (b. 1745)
1943 - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
1947 - Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)
1953 - Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)
1957 - Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)
1967 - Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (b. 1906)
1967 - Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (b. 1886)
1969 - Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)
1970 - François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
1977 - Ethel Waters, American singer (b. 1896)
1981 - Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1901)
1981 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)
1982 - Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)
1982 - Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish communist leader (b. 1905)
1983 - Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b. 1912)
1983 - Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)
1985 - Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (b. 1955)
1985 - Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
1986 - Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
1988 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
1989 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894)
1994 - Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1998 - Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
1998 - Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (b. 1930)
1999 - W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)
2001 - Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)
2003 - Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
2004 - Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
2005 - Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)
2005 - R. L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)
2006 - Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
2006 - Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)
2006 - Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
2006 - Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
2007 - Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)

Monday, August 30, 2010

Famous Deaths on 31 Aug

Famous Deaths on 31 Aug

1056 - Theodora, Byzantine Empress (b. 981)
1234 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (b. 1212)
1372 - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)
1422 - King Henry V of England (b. 1387)
1645 - Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566)
1654 - Ole Worm, Danish physician (b. 1588)
1688 - John Bunyan, English writer (b. 1628)
1730 - Gottfried Finger, Czech composer (b. 1660?)
1741 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
1772 - William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
1795 - François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (b. 1726)
1799 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720)
1814 - Arthur Phillip, British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738)
1867 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet (b. 1821)
1869 - Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim (b. 1827)
1888 - Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845)
1920 - Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (b. 1832)
1940 - Georges Gauthier, French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1871)
1941 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)
1948 - Billy Laughlin, American actor (b. 1932)
1952 - Henri Bourassa, French Canadian political leader (b. 1868)
1963 - Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
1967 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891)
1969 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
1973 - John Ford, American film director (b. 1894)
1974 - Norman Kirk, New Zealand prime minister (b. 1923)
1974 - William Pershing Benedict, American pilot
1978 - John Wrathall, President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
1979 - Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (b. 1904)
1985 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
1986 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (b. 1898)
1986 - Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900)
1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)
1997 - Dodi Al-Fayed, film producer (b. 1955)
2000 - Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (b. 1925)
2002 - Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player (b. 1908)
2002 - George Porter, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
2004 - Carl Wayne, English singer (b. 1943)
2005 - Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908)
2005 - Michael Sheard, British actor (b. 1940)
2006 - Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
2006 - Tom Delaney, British racing driver (b. 1911)
2007 - Gay Brewer, American golfer (b. 1932)
651 - Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary
683 - Pacal II ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Famous Deaths on 30 Aug

Famous Deaths on 30 Aug

1158 - King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
1428 - Emperor Shōkō (b. 1401)
1483 - King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
1580 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
1617 - Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)
1751 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)
1879 - John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b. 1831)
1886 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)
1896 - Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
1906 - Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)
1907 - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
1928 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
1935 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
1938 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest (b. 1890)
1946 - Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907)
1946 - Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
1949 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1961 - Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
1963 - Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
1968 - William Talman, American actor (b. 1915)
1970 - Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916)
1971 - Nathan Leopold, American murderer (b. 1904)
1981 - Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian statesman (b. 1933)
1981 - Vera-Ellen, American actress (b. 1921)
1985 - Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900)
1989 - Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922)
1991 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
1993 - Richard Jordan, American actor, (b. 1938)
1994 - Lindsay Anderson, English film director (b. 1923)
1995 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
1995 - Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938)
1996 - Christine Pascal, French actress and director (b. 1953)
1999 - Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910)
2001 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1907)
2002 - J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)
2003 - Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
2003 - Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
2004 - Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)
2006 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2006 - Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916)
2006 - Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
2007 - Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942)
2007 - Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
526 - Theodoric the Great (b. 454)

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Famous Deaths on 29 Aug

Famous Deaths on 29 Aug

1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
1123 - King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)
1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
1442 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
1526 - King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (b. 1526)
1542 - Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)
1657 - John Lilburne, English dissenter
1712 - Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)
1769 - Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)
1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
1799 - Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
1844 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
1856 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)
1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)
1889 - Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)
1891 - Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)
1904 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)
1930 - William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
1931 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder
1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)
1966 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)
1968 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)
1972 - Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)
1975 - Eamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (b. 1882)
1976 - Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (b. 1925)
1976 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899)
1977 - Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (b. 1945)
1981 - Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)
1982 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
1984 - Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)
1987 - Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
1987 - Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)
1989 - Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
1992 - Teddy Turner, comedian (b. 1917)
1995 - Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)
2000 - Willie Maddren, English former footballer (b. 1951)
2001 - Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
2002 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
2003 - Michel Constantin, French film actor (b. 1924)
2003 - Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)
2004 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
2007 - Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
2007 - Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)
2007 - Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (b. 1962)
2007 - James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)
886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)

Friday, August 27, 2010

Famous Deaths on 28 Aug

Famous Deaths on 28 Aug

1341 - King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309)
1481 - King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)
1645 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)
1654 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
1678 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
1757 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
1784 - Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)
1785 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
1793 - Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)
1805 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, founder of Chicago
1820 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
1839 - William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)
1900 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)
1903 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
1933 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
1943 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
1947 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
1955 - Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon (b. 1941)
1959 - Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
1965 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
1975 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
1976 - Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
1978 - Robert Shaw, English actor and writer (b. 1927)
1981 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
1985 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)
1987 - John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)
1988 - Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
1990 - Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913)
1993 - William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914)
1995 - Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)
2003 - Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956)
2005 - George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)
2005 - Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
2005 - Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
2006 - Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
2006 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
2007 - Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
2007 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929)
2007 - Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
2007 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (b. 1925)
2007 - Hilly Kristal, American Founder of CBGB/Punk rock legend (b. 1932)
2007 - Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926)
2007 - Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913)
388 - Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper
430 - Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Famous Deaths on 27 Aug

Famous Deaths on 27 Aug

1312 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)
1394 - Chokei, Emperor of Japan (b. 1343)
1450 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
1521 - Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer
1545 - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
1572 - Claude Goudimel, French composer
1577 - Titian, Italian artist
1590 - Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
1635 - Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
1664 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)
1748 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)
1773 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
1871 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)
1875 - William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)
1909 - Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)
1929 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
1931 - Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)
1931 - Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
1944 - Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)
1948 - Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
1958 - Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
1963 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)
1963 - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
1963 - Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)
1964 - Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (b. 1895)
1965 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
1967 - Brian Epstein, English manager of The Beatles (b. 1934)
1968 - Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906)
1969 - Erika Mann, German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann (b. 1905)
1969 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)
1971 - Margaret Bourke-White, American photo-journalist (b. 1906)
1971 - Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television personality (b. 1898)
1975 - Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
1976 - Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)
1979 - Earl Mountbatten, British admiral and statesman (assassinated) (b. 1900)
1980 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)
1981 - Valery Kharlamov, Soviet Union ice hockey player (b. 1948)
1984 - Bernard Youens, English actor (b. 1914)
1987 - Scott La Rock, American hip-hop artist Boogie Down Productions (b. 1962)
1988 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)
1988 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954)
1996 - Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)
1999 - Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1909)
2001 - Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938)
2001 - Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (b. 1936)
2003 - Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)
2004 - Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)
2005 - Seán Purcell, Gaelic footballer (b. 1929)
2006 - Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
2006 - Maria Capovilla, oldest woman alive from 2004-2006 (b. 1889)
2006 - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)
2007 - Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
542 - Saint Caesarius of Arles
827 - Pope Eugene II

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Famous Deaths on 26 Aug

Famous Deaths on 26 Aug

1278 - King Otakar II of Bohemia
1346 - Killed in the Battle of Crécy:

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Famous Deaths on 25 Aug

Famous Deaths on 25 Aug

1192 - Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
1270 - King Louis IX of France (b. 1214)
1282 - Thomas Cantilupe, English saint
1330 - Sir James Douglas, Scottish soldier (b. 1286)
1482 - Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (b. 1429)
1554 - Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1473)
1632 - Thomas Dekker, English dramatist
1650 - Richard Crashaw, English poet
1688 - Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer
1699 - King Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)
1711 - Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician
1742 - Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (b. 1704)
1774 - Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (b. 1714)
1776 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
1792 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
1822 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)
1867 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
1900 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
1904 - William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)
1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1852)
1924 - Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)
1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1852)
1938 - Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer (b. 1870)
1939 - Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
1945 - John Birch, American intelligence officer and missionary (b. 1918)
1950 - Earl Caddock, professional wrestler (b. 1888)
1956 - Alfred Kinsey, American research biologist (b. 1894)
1965 - Moonlight Graham, American baseball player
1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b. 1918)
1967 - Paul Muni, Polish actor (b. 1895)
1967 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
1971 - Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b. 1890)
1976 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1979 - Stan Kenton, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)
1980 - Gower Champion, American dancer, actor, and choreographer (b. 1919)
1984 - Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (b. 1921)
1984 - Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (b. 1899)
1984 - Truman Capote, American author (b. 1924)
1985 - Samantha Smith, American social activist (b. 1972)
1990 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (b. 1903)
1999 - Rob Fisher, English musician (b. 1956)
2000 - Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
2000 - Jack Nitzsche, American record producer (b. 1937)
2001 - Ken Tyrrell, former race driver and founder of Tyrrell Racing (b. 1924)
2001 - Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2001 - Aaliyah, American singer and actress (b. 1979)
2001 - Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (b. 1940)
2002 - Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b. 1923)
2005 - Peter Glotz, German politician (b. 1939)
2007 - Ray Jones, English professional footballer (b. 1988)
383 - Gratian, Roman Emperor
471 - Gennadius I, Patriarch of Constantinople

Monday, August 23, 2010

Famous Deaths on 24 Aug

Famous Deaths on 24 Aug

1042 - Michael V, Byzantine Emperor) (b. 1015)
1103 - King Magnus III of Norway (b. 1073)
1217 - Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate (bc. 1170)
1540 - Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)
1542 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)
1572 - Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515)
1572 - Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (b. 1519)
1572 - Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:
1572 - Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier (bc. 1535)
79 - Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Famous Deaths on 23 Aug

Famous Deaths on 23 Aug

1106 - Magnus, Duke of Saxony
1176 - Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)
1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot
1387 - King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)
1507 - Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
1519 - Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot
1540 - Guillaume Budé, French scholar
1591 - Luis Ponce de León, Spanish poet and mystic (b. 1527)
1618 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
1628 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
1652 - John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
1706 - Colonel Edward Nott, Esq., British Crown Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
1723 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639)
1806 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736)
1813 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
1819 - Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)
1853 - Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (b. 1806)
1867 - Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
1892 - Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
1926 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
1927 - Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (b. 1891)
1927 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (b. 1888)
1937 - Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)
1955 - Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)
1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (b. 1895)
1962 - Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892)
1962 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885)
1963 - Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (b. 1900)
1966 - Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)
1967 - Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)
1971 - The original Shamu, Sea World orca
1974 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)
1982 - Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
1987 - Didier Pironi, French racing car driver (b. 1952)
1989 - R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1927)
1989 - Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (b. 1944)
1990 - David Rose, American composer and orchestra leader (b. 1910)
1995 - Dwayne Goettel, Canadian musician (Skinny Puppy)(b. 1964)
1997 - John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
1999 - Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b.1926)
1999 - James White, Northern Irish writer (b. 1928)
2000 - John Anthony Kaiser, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1932)
2001 - Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
2001 - Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
2002 - Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2003 - John Geoghan, American Catholic priest (b. 1935)
2003 - Jack Dyer, Australian rules footballer (b. 1913)
2003 - Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
2005 - Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)
2005 - Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (b. 1973)
2006 - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1928)
2007 - Robert Symonds, American actor (b. 1926)
634 - Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph
93 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Famous Deaths on 22 Aug

Famous Deaths on 22 Aug

1155 - Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139)
1188 - Ferdinand II, King of Leon (b. 1137)
1241 - Gregory IX, Italian religious leader, 178th Pope (b. c. 1143)
1280 - Nicholas III, Italian religious leader, 188th Pope (b. c. 1216)
1304 - John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
1350 - Philip VI, King of France (b. 1293)
1358 - Isabella, Queen of England (b. circa 1295)
1485 - Richard III, King of England (b. 1452)
1553 - John Dudley, English admiral and politician (b. 1501)
1572 - Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
1584 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577)
1599 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. c. 1553)
1607 - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
1609 - Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
1652 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
1680 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
1701 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
1711 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
1752 - William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
1773 - George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)
1793 - Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (b. 1713)
1797 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
1818 - Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
1828 - Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (b. 1758)
1850 - Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802)
1861 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
1891 - Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
1903 - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
1914 - Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi bishop of Bergamo
1918 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
1922 - Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (b. 1890)
1926 - Charles W. Eliot, American President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
1940 - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist, spiritualist, pioneer in wireless telegraphy (b. 1851)
1942 - Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (b. 1880)
1950 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
1953 - Jim Tabor, baseball player (b. 1916)
1958 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
1960 - Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler and Olympic medalist (b. 1898)
1965 - Ellen Church, First American airline stewardess (b. 1904)
1967 - Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
1970 - Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
1973 - Louise Huff, American actress (b. 1895)
1974 - Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. 1908)
1976 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
1976 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (b. 1902)
1977 - Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (b. 1918)
1978 - Jomo Kenyatta, first President of Kenya (b. c. 1892)
1979 - James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
1980 - James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)
1980 - Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Mercedes Benz) (b. 1891)
1989 - Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
1991 - Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (b. 1924)
1994 - Gilles Groulx, French Canadian film director (b. 1931)
2003 - Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss-born figure skating trainer (b. 1914)
2003 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
2003 - Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
2004 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (b. 1920)
2004 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
2004 - Al Dvorin, American announcer on Elvis Presley's shows (b. c.1923)
2005 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
2006 - Bruce Gary, American rock drummer, producer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
408 - Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)

Friday, August 20, 2010

Famous Deaths on 21 Aug

Famous Deaths on 21 Aug

1153 - Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090)
1157 - King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)
1271 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
1581 - Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)
1627 - Jacques Mauduit, French composer (b. 1557)
1673 - Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier
1689 - William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier
1762 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
1763 - Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
1796 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
1814 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
1836 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)
1838 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
1870 - Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821)
1935 - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)
1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
1940 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
1940 - Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882)
1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize (b. 1857)
1947 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)
1951 - Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (b. 1905)
1957 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
1957 - Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1960 - David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886)
1964 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (b. 1893)
1971 - George Jackson, American prisoner, Soledad Brother, Black Panther (b. 1941)
1978 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect (b. 1907)
1979 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
1981 - Michael Devine, the last man to die in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b. 1954)
1982 - Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
1983 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader (b. 1932)
1988 - Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)
1989 - Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1992 - Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (b. 1894)
1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1997 - Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (b. 1921)
2000 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2001 - Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2003 - Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and aid worker (b. 1946)
2003 - Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)
2005 - Martin Dillon, tenor, American opera singer (b. 1957)
2005 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
2005 - Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
2005 - Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2006 - Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)
2006 - Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
2007 - Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)
2007 - Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (b. 1918)
2007 - Haley Paige, American pornographic actress (b. 1981)

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Famous Deaths on 20 Aug

Famous Deaths on 20 Aug

1384 - Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)
1572 - Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502)
1580 - Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
1611 - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 1548)
1639 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (b. 1597)
1643 - Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)
1648 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (b. 1583)
1672 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)
1672 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)
1680 - William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
1701 - Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639)
1707 - Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627)
1773 - Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)
1811 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729)
1823 - Pope Pius VII (b. 1740)
1825 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753)
1887 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
1904 - René Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (b. 1846)
1912 - William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829)
1914 - Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
1915 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1854)
1917 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1835)
1930 - Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
1959 - William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (b. 1882)
1961 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1965 - Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Civil Rights Martyr (b. 1939)
1971 - Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (b. 1951)
1980 - Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
1982 - Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)
1986 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)
1989 - George Adamson, India-born English game warden and lion expert (b. 1906)
1993 - Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1912)
1997 - Léon Dion, French-Canadian political scientist (b. 1922)
1997 - Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909)
1998 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)
2001 - Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925)
2001 - Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915)
2005 - Thomas Herrion, American football player (b. 1981)
2005 - Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970)
2006 - Cpl Bryan Budd VC, British soldier (Afghanistan) (b. 1977)
2006 - Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (b. 1932)
2006 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
2007 - Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (b. 1920)
2007 - Larry Hartsell, American martial artist, bodyguard, trainer, student of Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto (b. 1942)
535 - Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick
984 - Pope John XIV

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Famous Deaths on 19 Aug

Famous Deaths on 19 Aug

1186 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
1245 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
1284 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)
1297 - Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274)
14 - Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)
1493 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
1580 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (b. 1508)
1646 - Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
1680 - Jean Eudes, French catholic priest, founder of the Eudists (b. 1601)
1753 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect (b. 1687)
1819 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
1822 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (b. 1749)
1883 - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (b. 1810)
1889 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (b. 1838)
1895 - John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
1900 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833)
1914 - Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
1923 - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
1929 - Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872)
1936 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish author (b. 1898)
1944 - Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (b. 1882)
1945 - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b.1875)
1950 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871)
1954 - Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881)
1957 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)
1957 - David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
1959 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (b. 1880)
1959 - Blind Willie McTell, American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1901)
1963 - Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist (b. 1890)
1967 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
1968 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
1969 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (b. 1886)
1970 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
1975 - Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (b.1937)
1975 - Jim Londos, wrestler (b. 1897)
1976 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900)
1977 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
1979 - Dorsey Burnette, American singer (b. 1932)
1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
1981 - Jessie Matthews, English actress (b. 1907)
1982 - August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
1986 - Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906)
1994 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (b. 1901)
1995 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)
2000 - Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo literateur and religious figure (birth date unknown)
2000 - Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941)
2001 - Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933)
2001 - Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
2003 - Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2003 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
2005 - Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (b. 1918)

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Famous Deaths on 18 Aug

Famous Deaths on 18 Aug

1227 - Genghis Khan, Khagan of Mongol Empire
1258 - Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea
1276 - Pope Adrian V
1318 - Clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (born c. 1268)
1430 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406)
1503 - Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
1559 - Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)
1563 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
1613 - Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer
1620 - Wanli, Emperor of China (b. 1563)
1634 - Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
1642 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575)
1645 - Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (b. 1608)
1683 - Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
1707 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (b. 1640)
1712 - Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
1765 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
1809 - Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer (b. 1728)
1815 - Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759)
1842 - Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
1850 - Honoré de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799)
1919 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (b. 1841)
1940 - Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
1942 - Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (b. 1888)
1943 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
1949 - Paul Mares, American musician (b. 1900)
1952 - Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Chilean Jesuit saint (b. 1901)
1963 - Clifford Odets, American playwright (b. 1906)
1981 - Anita Loos, American screenwriter (b. 1889)
1983 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)
1990 - B.F. Skinner, American psychological theorist (b. 1904)
1990 - Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
1992 - John Sturges, American film director (b. 1911)
1994 - Martin Cahill, The General, infamous Dublin criminal (b. 1949)
1998 - Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (b. 1950)
2001 - David Peakall, British scientist (b. 1931)
2002 - Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (b. 1918)
2003 - Tony Jackson, English musician (The Searchers) (b. 1938)
2004 - Hiram Fong, former U.S. Senator from Hawaii (b. 1906)
2004 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
2005 - Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
2005 - Gao Xiumin, Chinese comedy actress (b. 1959)
2006 - Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (b. 1946)
2006 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
2007 - Michael Deaver, Reagan Administration Deputy White House Chief of Staff (b. 1938)
353 - Decentius, Roman usurper
472 - Ricimer, Roman general
849 - Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian

Monday, August 16, 2010

Famous Deaths on 17 Aug

Famous Deaths on 17 Aug

1153 - Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. 1130)
1304 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
1510 - Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. 1462)
1657 - Robert Blake, British admiral (b. 1599)
1673 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
1676 - Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (b. 1621)
1720 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
1723 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
1785 - Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
1786 - King Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1712)
1834 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802)
1850 - Don José de San Martín, Argentine general (b. 1778)
1861 - Alcée Louis la Branche, American Politician (b. 1806)
1875 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827)
1880 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)
1896 - Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality
1901 - Edmond Audran, French composer (b. 1842)
1903 - Hans Gude, Norwegian romanticist landscape painter (b. 1825)
1918 - Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1873)
1920 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1925 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (b. 1848)
1940 - Billy Fiske, American aviator and Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
1949 - Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (b. 1891)
1954 - Billy Murray, American recording artist (b. 1877)
1962 - Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall (b. 1944)
1969 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1970 - Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (b. 1908)
1971 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
1973 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
1973 - Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
1973 - Conrad Aiken, American author (b. 1889)
1979 - Vivian Vance, American actress (b. 1909)
1983 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1987 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy (b. 1894)
1987 - Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (b. 1929)
1988 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
1988 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1914)
1988 - Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (b. 1935)
1990 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (b. 1918)
1992 - Al Parker, American adult film actor (b. 1952)
1993 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (b. 1920)
1994 - Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and team owner (NART; b. 1901)
1994 - Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902)
1995 - Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (b. 1933)
1995 - Howard Koch, American screenwriter (b. 1902)
2004 - Thea Astley, Australian writer (b. 1925)
2004 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)
2005 - John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (b. 1934)
2007 - Bill Deedes, British journalist and politician (b. 1913)
2007 - Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Famous Deaths on 16 Aug

Famous Deaths on 16 Aug

1027 - Giorgi I, King of Georgia (b. 998)
1297 - John II of Trebizond (b. 1262)
1327 - Roch, French saint (b. 1295)
1358 - Duke Albert II of Austria (b. 1298)
1419 - Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, King of Bohemia (b. 1361)
1443 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1434)
1445 - Margaret of Scotland (Dauphine of France), wife of the future King Louis XI (b. 1424)
1518 - Loyset Compère, French composer
1532 - John, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)
1661 - Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (b. 1608)
1678 - Andrew Marvell, English poet (b. 1621)
1705 - Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and scientist (b. 1654)
1733 - Matthew Tindal, English deist (b. 1657)
1791 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719)
1836 - Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1855 - Henry Colburn, British publisher (b. ?)
1886 - Sri Ramakrishna, Bengali saint, guru of Swami Vivekananda (b. 1836)
1888 - John Pemberton, American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
1893 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (b. 1825)
1899 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811)
1900 - Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese writer (b. 1845)
1907 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
1921 - King Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)
1938 - Robert Johnson, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1911)
1938 - Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and priest (b. 1864)
1948 - Babe Ruth, American baseball player (b. 1895)
1949 - Margaret Mitchell, American novelist (b. 1900)
1951 - Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (b. 1887)
1952 - Lydia Field Emmet, American painter (b. 1866)
1956 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor (b. 1882)
1957 - Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1881)
1959 - Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879)
1961 - Maulvi Abdul Haq, Father of Modern Urdu (b. 1870)
1971 - Spyros Skouras, Greek-American movie executive, chairman of the Twentieth Century Fox (b. 1893)
1972 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b. 1905)
1973 - Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1888)
1975 - Vladimir Kuts, Ukrainian-born runner (b. 1927)
1977 - Elvis Presley, American singer and actor (b. 1935)
1978 - Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (b. 1888)
1979 - John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1895)
1983 - Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902)
1986 - Jaime Saenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1921)
1989 - Amanda Blake, American actress (b. 1929)
1990 - Pat O'Connor, New Zealand professional wrestler (b. 1925)
1991 - Luigi Zampa, Italian film director (b. 1905)
1991 - Shamu, One of the famous whales that star at SeaWorld (b. 1975)
1993 - Stewart Granger, British film actor (b. 1913)
1995 - J.P. McCarthy, American radio personality (b. 1933)
1997 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (b. 1948)
1997 - Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright and actor (b. 1915)
1999 - Pee Wee King, American country musician and songwriter (b. 1914)
2002 - John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
2002 - Abu Nidal, Palestinian political leader (b. 1937)
2002 - Jeff Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
2003 - Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator (b. 1928)
2004 - Ivan Hlinka, Czech ice hockey coach (b. 1950)
2004 - Carl Mydans, American photographer (b. 1907)
2004 - Robert Quiroga, American boxer (b. 1969)
2005 - Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (b. 1943)
2005 - William Corlett, English children's writer(b. 1938)
2005 - Vassar Clements, American musician (b. 1928)
2005 - Frère Roger, Swiss monk and mystic (b. 1915)
2005 - Joe Ranft, American animator (b. 1960)
2006 - Alex Buzo, Australian playwright and author (b. 1944)
2006 - Herschel Green, American pilot (b. 1920)
2006 - Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician (b. 1975)
2006 - Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
2007 - Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. 1924)
2007 - Bahaedin Adab, Iranian MP (b. 1945)
2007 - The Missing Link, professional wrestler (b. 1939)

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Famous Deaths on 15 Aug

Famous Deaths on 15 Aug

1038 - King Stephen I of Hungary
1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland
1057 - King Macbeth of Scotland
1118 - Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1048)
1196 - Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)
1274 - Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (b. 1201)
1369 - Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of Edward III of England
1528 - Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485)
1552 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)
1621 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582)
1666 - Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1714 - Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1654)
1728 - Marin Marais, French composer and viol player (b. 1656)
1758 - Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (b. 1698)
1799 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (b. 1729)
1852 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (b. 1760)
1880 - Adelaide Neilson, English Actress (b. 1848)
1907 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)
1909 - Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. 1866)
1917 - Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (b. 1831)
1925 - Konrad Mägi, Estonian artist (b. 1878)
1935 - Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (airplane crash) (b. 1879)
1935 - Wiley Post, American pilot (airplane crash) (b. 1898)
1936 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1871)
1945 - Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (b. 1887)
1951 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (b. 1882)
1953 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
1959 - Blind Willie McTell, American singer (b. 1901)
1962 - Lei Feng, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1940)
1967 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
1971 - Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1887)
1975 - Clay Shaw, alleged John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracist & businessman (b. 1913)
1975 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
1982 - Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)
1990 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (b. 1962)
1995 - John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (b. 1906)
1999 - Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and artist (b. 1910)
2001 - Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (b. 1972)
2003 - Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (b. 1957)
2004 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
2004 - Semiha Berksoy, first Turkish opera singer (b. 1910)
2004 - Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (b. 1941)
2006 - Te Atairangi Kaahu, Māori queen (b. 1931)
2007 - John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (b. 1918)
2007 - Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand bush walker (b. 1908)
423 - Flavius Honorius, Western Roman Emperor (b. 384)
778 - Roland, Frankish commander

Friday, August 13, 2010

Famous Deaths on 14 Aug

Famous Deaths on 14 Aug

1167 - Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne
1204 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)
1390 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
1430 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
1433 - King John I of Portugal (b. 1357)
1464 - Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
1573 - Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)
1691 - Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630)
1704 - Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675)
1727 - William Croft, English composer (b. 1678)
1774 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (b. 1716)
1784 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
1856 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)
1860 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)
1870 - David Farragut, American officer of the U.S. Navy (b. 1801)
1874 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (b. 1821)
1905 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
1926 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
1928 - Alfred Henschke, ps. Klabund, German writer, poet (b. 1890)
1938 - Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (b. 1876)
1941 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1854)
1941 - Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (b. 1894)
1943 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (b. 1871)
1951 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate (b. 1863)
1955 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
1956 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898)
1958 - Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (b.1873)
1958 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
1964 - Johnny Burnette, American Rockabilly singer (b. 1934)
1967 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver (b. 1931)
1972 - Jules Romains, French author (b. 1885)
1972 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b. 1905)
1972 - Oscar Levant, American actor (b. 1906)
1978 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer (b. 1907)
1980 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960)
1981 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)
1984 - Spud Davis, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1984 - J. B. Priestley, English playwright (b. 1894)
1985 - Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
1988 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
1988 - Robert Calvert, South African singer (Hawkwind) (b. 1945)
1988 - Roy Buchanan, blues guitarist
1991 - Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (b. 1920)
1992 - John Sirica, American judge (b. 1904)
1992 - Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) (b. 1928)
1994 - Elias Canetti, British-Austrian novelist (b. 1905)
1996 - Tom Mees, American sportscaster (b. 1949)
1999 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2000 - Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher (b. 1943)
2002 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)
2003 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
2004 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
2004 - Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (b. 1918)
2005 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932)
2006 - Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
2007 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (b. 1913)
582 - Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Famous Deaths on 13 Aug

Famous Deaths on 13 Aug

1134 - Piroska of Hungary, Empress consort of John II Comnenus
1382 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)
1523 - Gerard David, Flemish painter
1617 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1540)
1667 - Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop (b. 1613)
1686 - Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (b. 1610)
1721 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b. 1665)
1744 - John Cruger, Dutch-born Mayor of New York (b. 1678)
1749 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (b. 1719)
1755 - Francesco Durante, Italian composer (b. 1684)
1826 - René Laënnec, French physician (b. 1781)
1863 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)
1865 - Ignaz Semmelweis, Austro-Hungarian physician (b. 1818)
1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (b. 1820)
1912 - Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
1917 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1860)
1937 - Arthur Plunkett, Australian civil engineer (b. unknown)
1946 - H. G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866)
1948 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (b. 1897)
1958 - Otto Witte, acrobat and King of Albania (b. 1868)
1965 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
1982 - Joe Tex, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
1984 - Tigran Petrosian, Soviet/Armenian chess player (b. 1929)
1989 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b. 1955)
1989 - Larkin Smith, U.S. Representative from Mississippi (b. 1944)
1991 - Jack Ryan, American designer (Barbie) (b. 1926)
1995 - Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (b. 1931)
1995 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech-born writer (b. 1926)
1996 - António de Spínola, Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (b. 1910)
1996 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b. 1926)
1998 - Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer and composer (b. 1934)
1998 - Julien Green, American novelist ((b. 1900)
1999 - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian, murdered (b. 1960)
2000 - Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer (b. 1965)
2001 - Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (b. 1947)
2003 - Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
2004 - Julia Child, American chef and television personality (b. 1912)
2005 - David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)
2006 - Payao Poontarat, Thai Olympic boxer (b. 1957)
2006 - Tony Jay, English actor (b. 1933)
2007 - Yone Minagawa, Japanese woman, oldest person (114) (b. 1893)
2007 - Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (b. 1902)
2007 - Brian Adams, aka Demolition Crush, American professional wrestler (b. 1964)
2007 - Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1917)
586 - Radegund, wife of Clotaire I
900 - Zwentibold, last King of Lotharingia (b. 870)

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Famous Deaths on 12 Aug

Famous Deaths on 12 Aug

1424 - Yongle, Emperor of China (b. 1460)
1484 - George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (b. 1395)
1484 - Pope Sixtus IV (b. 1414)
1512 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
1577 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513)
1588 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (b. 1543)
1612 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer
1633 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (b. 1561)
1638 - Johannes Althusius, German writer (b. 1557)
1648 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1615)
1674 - Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (b. 1602)
1689 - Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611)
1778 - Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714)
1809 - Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (b. 1738)
1810 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
1822 - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, English politician and statesman (b. 1769)
1827 - William Blake, English poet and artist (b. 1757)
1848 - George Stephenson, British locomotive designer (b. 1781)
1861 - Eliphalet Remington, American inventor, designer of the Remington rifle (b. 1793)
1864 - Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
1865 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (b. 1785)
1891 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (b. 1819)
1896 - Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg
1900 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836)
1901 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. 1832)
1914 - John Philip Holland, Irish submarine designer (b. 1840)
1918 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872)
1922 - Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (b. 1871)
1928 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854)
1934 - Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (b. 1856)
1935 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851)
1943 - Bobby Peel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
1944 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., brother of President John F. Kennedy (b. 1915)
1948 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (b. 1871)
1952 - David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (b. 1884)
1955 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1955 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1875)
1959 - Mike O'Neill, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1877)
1964 - Ian Fleming, English novelist (James Bond) (b. 1908)
1968 - Esther Forbes, American novelist (b. 1891)
1973 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
1973 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1898)
1979 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1982 - Salvador Sanchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
1982 - Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
1982 - Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (b. 1907)
1985 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (plane crash) (b. 1941)
1985 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
1988 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haitian-American artist (b. 1960)
1989 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1989 - Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian footballer (b. 1964)
1990 - Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
1990 - B. Kliban, American cartoonist (b. 1935)
1992 - John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
1996 - Mark Gruenwald, American comic book writer and editor (b. 1953)
1996 - Robert Gravel, French Canadian actor and theatrical director (b. 1945)
1997 - Luther Allison, American musician (b. 1939)
1999 - Jean Drapeau, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1916)
2000 - Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
2002 - Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (b. 1916)
2004 - Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
2004 - Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (b. 1931)
2005 - John Loder, co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (b. 1946)
2007 - Merv Griffin, American television host and game show creator (b. 1925)
2007 - Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b. 1963)
30 BC - Cleopatra (b. 69 BC)
875 - Louis II Holy Roman Emperor (b. 825)

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Famous Deaths on 11 Aug

Famous Deaths on 11 Aug

1204 - King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)
1253 - Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194)
1456 - John Hunyadi, regent of Hungary (b. 1387)
1464 - Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1401)
1494 - Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. circa 1430)
1519 - Johann Tetzel, German opponent of the Reformation (b. 1465)
1563 - Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. circa 1500)
1578 - Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502)
1596 - Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
1614 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
1656 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (b. 1599)
1774 - Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722)
1813 - Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)
1851 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779)
1854 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798)
1886 - Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)
1890 - John Henry Cardinal Newman, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1801)
1892 - Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
1903 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839)
1919 - Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1835)
1936 - Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1885)
1937 - Edith Wharton, American author (b. 1862)
1939 - Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909)
1953 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892)
1954 - Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (b. 1886)
1956 - Jackson Pollock, American artist (b. 1912)
1961 - Antanas Å kÄ—ma, Lithuanian writer actor and director (b. 1910)
1972 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)
1974 - Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan musician.
1974 - Jan Tschichold, German typographer (b. 1902)
1980 - Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
1982 - Tom Drake, American actor (b. 1918)
1984 - Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (b. 1892)
1984 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player (b. 1916)
1988 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
1991 - J. D. McDuffie, American NASCAR driver (b. 1939)
1994 - Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913)
1995 - Phil Harris, American singer and comedian (b. 1904)
1996 - Mel Taylor, American drummer (The Ventures) (b. 1933)
1996 - Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor and composer (b. 1914)
2000 - Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (b. 1916)
2001 - Percy Stallard, English racing cyclist (b. 1909)
2002 - Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountain climber (b. 1940)
2003 - Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (b. 1937)
2003 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)
2005 - James Booth, English actor (b. 1927)
2006 - Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1925)
353 - Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)
449 - Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople
480 BC - Leonidas, King of Sparta (b. circa 540 BC)
897 - Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona

Monday, August 9, 2010

Famous Deaths on 10 Aug

Famous Deaths on 10 Aug

1535 - Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)
1637 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
1653 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1598)
1655 - Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat (b. 1572)
1723 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656)
1759 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (b. 1713)
1784 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (b. 1713)
1802 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (b. 1724)
1806 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)
1839 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
1862 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
1875 - Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)
1896 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848)
1915 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
1918 - Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897)
1920 - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (b. 1835)
1928 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897)
1929 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
1932 - Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (b. 1918)
1945 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)
1948 - Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880)
1948 - Andrew Brown, Scottish soccer coach (b. 1870)
1948 - Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian(b. 1873)
1958 - Frank Demaree, baseball player (b. 1910)
1963 - Estes Kefauver, American politician, United States Congressman & Senator from Tennessee (b. 1903)
1963 - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1877)
1969 - Leno LaBianca, American businessman (murdered) (b. 1925)
1969 - Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (murdered) (b. 1930)
1976 - Bert Oldfield, Former Australian cricketer (b. 1894)
1979 - Dick Foran, American actor (b. 1910)
1979 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889)
1980 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
1993 - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
1997 - Jean-Claude Lauzon, Quebec film director (b. 1953)
1997 - Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912)
1999 - Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Eminent Sanskrit Scholar in India (b. 1899)
2000 - Gilbert Parkhouse, Former England cricketer (b. 1925)
2001 - Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
2002 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962)
2002 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926)
2003 - Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer
2007 - Tony Wilson, British music personality and broadcaster (b. 1950)
2007 - James E. Faust, Second Councilor of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (b. 1920)
2007 - Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American member of Tuskegee Airmen and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
2008 - Isaac Hayes, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
258 - Saint Lawrence, martyr
612 BC - Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Famous Deaths on 9 Aug

Famous Deaths on 9 Aug

1048 - Pope Damasus II
1107 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
117 - Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53)
1173 - Najm ad-Din Ayyub, father of Saladin
1250 - King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
1534 - Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470)
1601 - Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
1634 - William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
1720 - Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
1744 - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
1816 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771)
1837 - Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
1886 - Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
1919 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
1942 - Edith Stein, (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) (executed) (b. 1891)
1945 - Robert Hampton Gray, last Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
1945 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881)
1946 - Bert Vogler, Former South African cricketer (b. 1876)
1957 - Carl Clauberg, Nazi doctor (b. 1898)
1962 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1877)
1967 - Joe Orton, English writer (b. 1933)
1969 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)
1969 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (murdered) (b. 1936)
1969 - Abigail Folger, American heiress (murdered) (b. 1943)
1969 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)
1969 - Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (b. 1951)
1969 - Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (b. 1943)
1974 - Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
1975 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
1979 - Walter O'Malley, baseball executive (b. 1903)
1979 - Raymond Washington, founder of Los Angeles, California gang, the Crips
1980 - Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (b. 1906)
1985 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1927)
1988 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
1990 - Joe Mercer, English footballer (b. 1914)
1995 - Jerry Garcia, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
1996 - Sir Frank Whittle, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)
1999 - Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (b. 1910)
2000 - Nicholas Markowitz-kidnapped and murdered by Jesse James Hollywood (b. 1984)
2000 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1920)
2002 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953)
2002 - Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist
2003 - Chester Ludgin, American baritone (b. 1925)
2003 - Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)
2003 - Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946)
2003 - Jacques Deray, French film director (b. 1929)
2004 - David Raksin, American film director (b. 1912)
2004 - Tony Mottola, American guitarist (b. 1918)
2004 - Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (b. 1908)
2005 - Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)
2005 - Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
2006 - James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
2006 - Philip E. High, science fiction author (b. 1914)
2007 - Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (b. 1922)
2008 - Bernie Mac, American comedian, actor.(b. 1957)
2008 - Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose.(b. 1941)
378 - Valens, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 328)
803 - Byzantine Empress Irene (b. 752)

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Famous Deaths on 8 Aug

Famous Deaths on 8 Aug

1445 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
1553 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
1555 - Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)
1588 - Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter
1604 - Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
1631 - Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)
1684 - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)
1747 - Madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678)
1759 - Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (b. 1704)
1827 - George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
1828 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
1863 - Angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b.1825)
1879 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
1887 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
1897 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (b. 1818)
1898 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
1902 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
1911 - William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
1928 - Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (b. 1871)
1933 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (b. 1870)
1934 - Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player and hall-of-famer (b. 1863)
1940 - Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892)
1944 - Michael Wittmann, German Tank ace and Knight's Cross holder, killed in action, Normandy. (b. 1914)
1944 - Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1944 - Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
1947 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
1950 - Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (b. 1879)
1961 - Méi Lánfāng, Chinese opera performer (b. 1894)
1965 - Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)
1969 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (b. 1896)
1972 - Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948)
1973 - Dean Corll, American serial killer (b. 1939)
1973 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (b. 1898)
1974 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi youth leader (b. 1907)
1975 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
1977 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1889)
1979 - Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (b. 1910)
1980 - Paul Triquet, French Canadian army officer (b. 1910)
1982 - Eric Brandon, British racing driver (b. 1920)
1984 - Ellen Raskin, American author(b.1928)
1985 - Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
1987 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
1988 - Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
1988 - Félix Leclerc, Quebec singer and songwriter (b. 1914)
1988 - Alan Napier, English actor (b. 1903)
1991 - James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930)
1992 - John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
1992 - Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qasim Khoei, considered to be the Supreme Shi'ite authority at the time of his death
1996 - Nevill Mott, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1905)
1998 - Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist
2004 - Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
2004 - Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor (b. 1934)
2005 - Ahmed Deedat, Islamic scholar (b. 1918)
2005 - Monica Sjöö, Swedish artist (b. 1938)
2005 - Gene Mauch, American baseball player (b. 1925)
2005 - John H. Johnson, African-American publisher (b. 1918)
2005 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)
2005 - Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)
2007 - Joybubbles, A notable phone phreak. (b. 1949)
2007 - Melville Shavelson, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
2007 - Ma Lik, Chinese politician (b. 1952)
2008 - Orville Moody, American golfer (b. 1933)
869 - Lothair II of Lotharingia (b. 825)

Friday, August 6, 2010

Famous Deaths on 7 Aug

Famous Deaths on 7 Aug

1106 - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
1485 - Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince
1613 - Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
1616 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (b. 1548)
1635 - Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
1639 - Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist (b. 1605)
1661 - Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608)
1817 - Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739)
1834 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
1848 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)
1855 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802)
1912 - François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)
1917 - Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. 1891)
1938 - Constantin Stanislavski, Russian/Soviet theatre practitioner (b. 1863)
1941 - Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1861)
1957 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892)
1969 - Joseph Kosma, French composer (Autumn Leaves) (b. 1905)
1970 - Jonathan Jackson, Brother of George Jackson, Black Panther (b. 1953)
1972 - Joi Lansing, American model and actress (b. 1929)
1973 - Jack Gregory, Former Australian cricketer (b. 1895)
1974 - Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (b. 1925)
1974 - Sylvio Mantha, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1984 - Esther Phillips, American singer (b. 1935)
1985 - Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1923)
1987 - Camille Chamoun, Lebanese President (b. 1900)
1989 - Mickey Leland, American politician, United States Congressman from Texas (b. 1944)
1992 - John Anderson, American actor (b. 1922)
1994 - Larry Martyn, comedy actor (b. 1934)
1995 - Brigid Brophy, British author (b. 1929)
1999 - Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
2003 - Mickey McDermott, baseball player (b. 1929)
2004 - Red Adair, American oil field firefighter (b. 1915)
2004 - Colin Bibby, English ornithologist (b. 1948)
2005 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938)
2006 - Mary Anderson Bain, American New Deal politician (b. 1911)
2007 - Angus Tait, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman (b. 1919)
2007 - Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director and producer. (b. 1917)
2007 - Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (b. 1931)
2008 - Andrea Pininfarina, CEO of Pininfarina S.p.A.
461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)
479 - Emperor YÅ«ryaku of Japan

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Famous Deaths on 6 Aug

Famous Deaths on 6 Aug

1162 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
1195 - Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)
1221 - Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominicans (b. 1170)
1272 - King Stephen V of Hungary
1414 - King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)
1458 - Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
1623 - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) (b. 1556)
1628 - Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)
1637 - Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
1645 - Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575)
1657 - Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble
1660 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
1679 - John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
1694 - Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
1695 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
1759 - Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
1794 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
1815 - James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)
1828 - Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman
1850 - Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805)
1866 - John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
1881 - James White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
1884 - Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812)
1893 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
1904 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
1914 - Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860)
1920 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (b. 1890)
1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903)
1945 - Prince Wu of Korea (b. 1912)
1945 - Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866)
1945 - Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920)
1946 - Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1959 - Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter, and director (b. 1898)
1964 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893)
1966 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
1969 - Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
1973 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban president and de facto leader (b. 1901)
1973 - Memphis Minnie, American blues singer (b. 1897)
1974 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)
1978 - Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
1979 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
1983 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
1986 - Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (b. 1904)
1987 - Ira Eaker, American Air Force leader (b. 1896)
1990 - Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (b. 1912)
1991 - Roland Michener, Canadian politician and governor general (b. 1900)
1991 - Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian prime minister, assassinated in Paris (b. 1915)
1991 - Harry Reasoner, American television reporter (b. 1923)
1993 - Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)
1994 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1998 - Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
2001 - Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
2001 - Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
2001 - Wilhelm Mohnke, one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard (b. 1911)
2002 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
2004 - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)
2005 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
2005 - Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
2007 - Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (Bikini, Omen, Carpathia Project Tirana Rockers, solo) (b. 1969)
2007 - Heinz Barth, German convicted war criminal (SS) (b. 1920)
258 - Saint Pope Sixtus II
523 - Saint Pope Hormisdas

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Famous Deaths on 5 Aug

Famous Deaths on 5 Aug

1063 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
1364 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313)
1572 - Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534)
1579 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504)
1610 - Alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile
1633 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)
1678 - Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619)
1743 - John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696)
1778 - Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)
1792 - Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1732)
1799 - Richard Howe, British admiral (b. 1726)
1868 - Jacques Boucher de CrèvecÅ"ur de Perthes, French archaeologist (b. 1788)
1880 - Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816)
1895 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
1911 - Bob Caruthers, baseball player (b. 1864)
1923 - Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian slavist (b. 1835)
1925 - Jennie Lee (actor), American actress (b. 1848)
1929 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (b. 1847)
1944 - Maurice Turnbull, Former England cricketer (b. 1906)
1946 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
1952 - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917)
1955 - Carmen Miranda, Portuguese actress and singer (b. 1909)
1957 - Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1877)
1959 - Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881)
1960 - Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
1962 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926)
1963 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
1964 - Art Ross, professional ice hockey player and executive (b. 1886) (Art Ross Trophy)
1968 - Luther Perkins American guitarrist, member of the Tennessee Three, backing band for Johnny Cash.
1972 - Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1905)
1978 - Jesse Haines, baseball player (b. 1893)
1980 - Harold Runnels, United States Congressman (b. 1924)
1984 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (b. 1925)
1991 - Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)
1991 - Soichiro Honda, founder of the Honda Motor Company (b. 1906)
1992 - Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (b. 1954)
1994 - Alain de Changy, Belgian racing driver (b. 1922)
1998 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist dictator from 1956 to 1989 (b. 1911)
1998 - Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander (b. 1912)
2000 - Sir Alec Guinness, British actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (b. 1920)
2001 - Otema Allimadi, Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1929)
2002 - Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (b. 1920)
2002 - Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916)
2002 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
2005 - Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast (b. 1936)
2005 - Jim O'Hora, American football coach (b. 1915)
2005 - Raul Roco, Philippine senator (b. 1941)
2006 - Susan Butcher, American Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion (b. 1954)
2007 - Jean-Marie Lustiger, Cardinal of France
2007 - Florian PittiÅŸ, Romanian artist (b. 1943)
2008 - Reg Lindsay, Australian country and western singer/songwriter (b. 1929)
882 - King Louis III of France (b. 863)

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Famous Deaths on 4 Aug

Famous Deaths on 4 Aug

1060 - Henry I of France (b. 1008)
1113 - Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)
1265 - Killed in the Battle of Evesham:

Monday, August 2, 2010

Famous Deaths on 3 Aug

Famous Deaths on 3 Aug

1460 - King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
1527 - Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
1546 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)
1546 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)
1604 - Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
1621 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556)
1667 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (b. 1599)
1712 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
1720 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
1721 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)
1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
1773 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700)
1780 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (b. 1715)
1792 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)
1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
1805 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)
1839 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)
1857 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
1867 - Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1877 - William Butler Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged) (b. 1864)
1917 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857)
1925 - William Bruce, Former Australian cricketer (b. 1864)
1929 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
1929 - Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
1942 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1872)
1954 - Colette, French writer (b. 1873)
1958 - Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931)
1964 - Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925)
1966 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
1973 - Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)
1977 - Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (b. 1913)
1977 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892)
1979 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)
1983 - Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
1990 - Betty Amann, German-American actress
1993 - Swami Chinmayananda, spread the teachings of Vedanta (b. 1916)
1995 - Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)
1995 - Ida Lupino, English actress and director (b. 1914)
1997 - Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
1998 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)
2001 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (b. 1922)
2002 - Carmen Silvera, British actress (b. 1922)
2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954)
2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
2005 - Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920)
2006 - Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945)
2006 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, singer (b. 1915)
2007 - John Gardner, British author (b. 1926)
2008 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (b. 1918)
2008 - Skip Caray, American TV and radio broadcaster (b. 1939)

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Famous Deaths on 2 Aug

Famous Deaths on 2 Aug

1100 - King William II of England
1222 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)
1511 - Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader
1589 - King Henry III of France (b. 1551)
1611 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
1696 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander (b. 1630)
1769 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (b. 1689)
1776 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (b. 1717)
1788 - Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (b. 1727)
1799 - Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1745)
1815 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (b. 1763)
1823 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753)
1849 - Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769)
1859 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
1889 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851)
1890 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (b. 1813)
1903 - Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850)
1920 - Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891)
1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor, invented the telephone(b. 1847)
1923 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
1929 - Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and President of Germany (b. 1847)
1936 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872)
1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian mystic (b. 1883)
1945 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863)
1955 - Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
1972 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (b. 1887)
1972 - Brian Cole, American bass player (The Association) (b. 1942)
1973 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director (b. 1917)
1974 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (b. 1893)
1976 - Fritz Lang, Austrian film director (b. 1890)
1978 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (b. 1899)
1979 - Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
1986 - Roy Cohn, American politician (b. 1927)
1988 - Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (b. 1914)
1988 - Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)
1990 - Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
1990 - Edwin Richfield, British actor (b. 1921)
1992 - Michel Berger, French singer and songwriter (b. 1947)
1996 - Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian Warlord (b. 1934)
1996 - Michel Debré, French politician (b. 1912)
1997 - William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)
1997 - Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian musician (b. 1938)
1998 - Shari Lewis, American puppeteer (b. 1933)
2001 - Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (b. 1933)
2003 - Peter Safar, Austrian physician (b. 1924)
2003 - Mike Levey, American television personality (b. 1948)
2003 - Don Estelle, British actor (b. 1933)
2004 - François Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (b. 1926)
2004 - Don Tosti, American musician (b. 1923)
2005 - Steven Vincent, American journalist and writer (b. 1955)
2007 - Holden Roberto, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (b. 1923)
2007 - Kay Dotrice, English repertory actress (b. 1929)
2007 - Chauncey Bailey, American journalist and editor (b. 1950)
2008 - Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1935)
686 - Pope John V
924 - Ælfweard of Wessex