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)