Sunday, July 31, 2011

Famous Deaths on 1 Aug

Famous Deaths on 1 Aug

1137 - King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
1402 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
1457 - Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (bc. 1406)
1464 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
1541 - Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
1546 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
1557 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
1580 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
1589 - Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
1675 - Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts, a band of the Wampanoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip's War
1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
1787 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
1796 - Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
1798 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
1812 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
1851 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
1866 - John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
1903 - Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (b. 1853)
1917 - Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
1918 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
1920 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
1929 - Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
1964 - Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)
1966 - Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. 1941)
1967 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
1970 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883)
1970 - Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
1973 - Walter Ulbricht, German communist statesman (b. 1893)
1974 - Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
1977 - Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
1980 - Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
1980 - Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
1990 - Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
1990 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
1996 - Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
1996 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
1996 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
1997 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
1998 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)
1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
2001 - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
2003 - Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
2003 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
2004 - Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)
2005 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
2005 - Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
2005 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
2005 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
2006 - Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
2006 - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
2006 - Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
2007 - Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)
2008 - Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283)
527 - Emperor Justin I (b. c. 450)

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Famous Deaths on 31 Jul

Famous Deaths on 31 Jul

1396 - William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1342)
1508 - Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1494)
1556 - Ignatius Loyola, Spanish priest and founder of the Jesuits
1653 - Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
1726 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
1750 - King John V of Portugal (b. 1689)
1784 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (b. 1713)
1864 - Louis Hachette, French publisher (b. 1800)
1875 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
1886 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (b. 1811)
1914 - Jean Jaurès, French politician (d. 1859)
1917 - Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
1917 - Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (b. 1887)
1943 - Hedley Verity, English Test cricketer (b. 1905)
1944 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (b. 1900)
1953 - Robert Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate (b. 1889)
1954 - Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
1964 - Jim Reeves, American singer (b. 1923)
1966 - Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (b. 1924)
1970 - Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (b. 1912)
1972 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1899)
1980 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
1980 - Mohd. Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
1986 - Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
1986 - Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (b. 1912)
1988 - Trinidad Silva, American actor (b. 1950)
1990 - Albert Leduc, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1993 - King Baudouin I of Belgium (b. 1930)
1996 - Seagram Miller, American rapper (b. 1970)
2001 - Poul Anderson, American author (b. 1926)
2001 - Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
2001 - Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
2003 - Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (b. 1933)
2004 - Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917)
2004 - Laura Betti, Italian actress (b. 1927)
2005 - Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker (b. 1935)
2006 - Paul Eells, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
855 - Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim Jurisprudent (b. 780)

Friday, July 29, 2011

Famous Deaths on 30 Jul

Famous Deaths on 30 Jul

1540 - Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
1540 - Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
1550 - Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
1652 - Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
1680 - Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
1683 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1691 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
1718 - William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)
1811 - Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
1875 - George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1889 - Charlie Absolom, Former England cricketer (b. 1846)
1898 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1815)
1900 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
1912 - Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)
1918 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
1930 - Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
1947 - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
1965 - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author (b. 1886)
1970 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
1971 - Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
1982 - Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (b. 1954)
1983 - Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1983 - Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887)
1985 - Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
1989 - Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)
1992 - Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)
1992 - Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist (b. 1914)
1996 - Claudette Colbert, American actress (b. 1903)
1997 - Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
1998 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (b. 1917)
2003 - Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
2004 - Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
2005 - Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
2005 - John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
2005 - Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
2006 - Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
2006 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
2006 - Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
2007 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
2007 - Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
2007 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)
2007 - Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)
2008 - Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain (b. 1927)
578 - Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa
579 - Pope Benedict I

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Famous Deaths on 29 Jul

Famous Deaths on 29 Jul

1030 - Olaf II of Norway (b. 995)
1099 - Pope Urban II (b. 1042)
1108 - Philip I of France (b. 1052)
1507 - Martin Behaim, German-born navigator and geographer (b. 1459)
1612 - Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
1644 - Pope Urban VIII (b. 1568)
1752 - Peter Warren, British admiral
1781 - Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
1792 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
1813 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
1833 - William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (b. 1759)
1839 - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1844 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
1856 - Robert Schumann, German composer (b. 1810)
1857 - Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774)
1887 - Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
1890 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
1900 - King Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844)
1913 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1838)
1918 - Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863)
1934 - Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
1938 - Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
1950 - Joe Fry, British racing driver (b. 1915)
1954 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
1964 - Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1970 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (b. 1899)
1973 - Norm Smith, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
1973 - Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
1974 - Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
1974 - Cass Elliot, American musician (b. 1941)
1976 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
1979 - Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher (b. 1898)
1979 - Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
1981 - Robert Moses, American urban planner (b. 1888)
1982 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist and inventor (b. 1889)
1982 - Harold Sakata, Japanese-American actor (b. 1920)
1983 - David Niven, English actor (b. 1910)
1983 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish director (b. 1900)
1983 - Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
1984 - Fred Waring, American band leader and inventor (b. 1900)
1987 - Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (b. 1894)
1990 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
1992 - Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
1994 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1995 - Les Elgart, American jazz musician and bandleader (b. 1917)
1996 - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (b. 1920)
1996 - Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
1996 - Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
1998 - Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (b. 1918)
2001 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
2001 - Wau Holland, German computer hacker (b. 1951)
2003 - Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
2004 - Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)
2007 - Mike Reid, English comedian and actor (b. 1940)
2007 - Marvin Zindler, American television reporter (b. 1921)
2007 - Tom Snyder, American television personality (b. 1936)
2007 - Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928)
2008 - Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (b. 1989)
238 - Balbinus, Roman Emperor
238 - Pupienus, Roman Emperor

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Famous Deaths on 28 Jul

Famous Deaths on 28 Jul

1057 - Pope Victor II
1128 - William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102)
1230 - Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
1285 - Queen Keran of Armenia, consort of Leo III of Armenia
1527 - Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador
1540 - Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1495)
1631 - Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619)
1667 - Abraham Cowley, English poet (b. 1618)
1675 - Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
1685 - Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
1718 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
1741 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
1762 - George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
1794 - Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1758)
1794 - Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1767)
1818 - Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
1835 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
1842 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
1844 - Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
1849 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
1869 - Jan Evangelista PurkynÄ›, Czech anatomist (b. 1787)
1878 - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820)
1895 - Edward Beecher, American theologian (b. 1803)
1930 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1934 - Louis Tancred, Former South African cricketer (b. 1876)
1934 - Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (b. 1868)
1942 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
1957 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
1965 - Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (b. 1894)
1967 - Karl W. Richter, Lieutenant, USAF, American aviator (b. 1942)
1968 - Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
1969 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (b. 1882)
1971 - Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
1971 - Charles E. Pont, American artist (b. 1898)
1972 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
1972 - Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
1979 - Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
1981 - Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (b. 1935)
1982 - Keith Green, American gospel singer and pianist (b. 1953)
1990 - Jill Esmond, British actress (b. 1908)
1996 - Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and educator (b. 1908)
1997 - Seni Pramoj, Thai politician (b. 1905)
1998 - Lenny McLean, English bareknuckle fighter (b. 1949)
1999 - Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
2000 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
2002 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
2003 - Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish politician and activist (b. 1918)
2004 - Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
2004 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004 - Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
2004 - Eugene Roche, American actor (b. 1928)
2006 - David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
2007 - Jim LeRoy, Airshow pilot
2007 - Karl Gotch, Belgian professional wrestler (b. 1924)
450 - Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (b. 401)

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Famous Deaths on 27 Jul

Famous Deaths on 27 Jul

1101 - Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (b. 1074)
1276 - King James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
1365 - Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (b. 1339)
1656 - Salomo Glassius, German theologian (b. 1593)
1675 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (b. 1611)
1759 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (b. 1698)
1770 - Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
1841 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author (b. 1814)
1844 - John Dalton, English physicist and chemist (b. 1776)
1863 - William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
1876 - Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American religious leader (b. 1811)
1883 - Montgomery Blair, American politician (b. 1813)
1917 - Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, Nobel laureate (b. 1841)
1924 - Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist (b. 1866)
1931 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
1934 - Hubert Lyautey, Frency army general and marshal (b. 1854)
1941 - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (b. 1858)
1946 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874)
1948 - Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (b. 1898)
1958 - Claire Chennault, American military leader (b. 1893)
1962 - James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (b. 1895)
1962 - Richard Aldington, English poet (b. 1892)
1965 - Henri Daniel-Rops, French writer and historian (b. 1901)
1968 - Babe Adams, baseball player (b. 1882)
1970 - António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese statesman (b. 1889)
1971 - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924)
1978 - Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (b. 1907)
1980 - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)
1981 - William Wyler, French-born film director (b. 1902)
1984 - James Mason, English actor (b. 1909)
1985 - Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher (b. 1889)
1987 - Travis Jackson, baseball player (b. 1903)
1988 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
1990 - Bobby Day, American singer (b. 1928)
1992 - Max Dupain, Australian photographer (b. 1911)
1993 - Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1965)
1995 - Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1907)
1998 - Binnie Barnes, British actress (b. 1903)
1999 - Sweets Edison, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1915)
1999 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1912)
2000 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (b. 1929)
2001 - Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
2001 - Rhonda Singh, professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2003 - Vance Hartke, American politician (b. 1919)
2003 - Bob Hope, English-born entertainer (b. 1903)
2005 - Marten Toonder, Dutch comic writer (b. 1912)
2005 - Swami Shantanand, Mahasamadhi Day, Indian Saint, Philosopher (b. 1934)
2006 - Maryann Mahaffey, American politician (b. 1925)
2007 - Lucky Grills, Australian actor (b. 1928)
2008 - Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director (b. 1926)
2008 - Horst Stein, German conductor (b. 1928)
2008 - Isaac Saba Raffoul, Mexican Businessman (b. 1923)

Monday, July 25, 2011

Famous Deaths on 26 Jul

Famous Deaths on 26 Jul

1380 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)
1471 - Pope Paul II (b. 1417)
1592 - Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
1611 - Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
1680 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer (b. 1647)
1684 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)
1712 - Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (b. 1631)
1723 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
1863 - Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1793)
1867 - King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
1919 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
1925 - Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b. 1888)
1925 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (b. 1848)
1925 - William Jennings Bryan, American politician (b. 1860)
1932 - Frederick S. Duesenberg automotive pioneer (b. 1876)
1935 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)
1941 - Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. 1875)
1942 - Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900)
1952 - Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina and wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (b. 1919)
1953 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
1960 - Cedric Gibbons, American art director (b. 1893)
1960 - Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (b. 1879)
1964 - Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (b. 1884)
1969 - Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910)
1970 - Robert Taschereau, French Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896)
1971 - Diane Arbus, American photographer (b. 1923)
1980 - Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928)
1984 - George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (b. 1901)
1984 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
1986 - Averell Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1891)
1988 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919)
1990 - Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1952)
1992 - Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943)
1993 - Matthew Ridgeway, American army general (b. 1895)
1995 - George Romney, American businessman and politician (b. 1907)
1995 - Raymond Mailloux, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
1995 - Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1917)
2000 - John Tukey, American statistician (b. 1915)
2001 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
2001 - Rex Barber, American WWII aviator (b. 1917)
2005 - Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
2005 - Alexander Golitzen, American art director (b. 1908)
2005 - Betty Astell, British actress (b. 1912)
2005 - Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
2007 - John Normington, English actor (b. 1937)
2007 - Lars Forssell, Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy (b. 1928)
2007 - Skip Prosser, American basketball coach (b. 1950)
796 - Offa, King of Mercia
811 - Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle)

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Famous Deaths on 25 Jul

Famous Deaths on 25 Jul

1409 - King Martin I of Sicily
1471 - Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic (b. 1380)
1492 - Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)
1616 - Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
1643 - Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
1676 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
1681 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
1790 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
1790 - William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
1791 - Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
1794 - André Chénier, French writer (b. 1762)
1826 - Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
1834 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)
1842 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
1843 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
1853 - Joaquin Murieta, California outlaw
1861 - Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)
1865 - "James Barry", military surgeon, first female Briton to become a qualified medical doctor
1887 - John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
1934 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
1934 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1892)
1934 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889)
1952 - Herbert Murrill, English composer (b. 1909)
1962 - Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (b. 1879)
1963 - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
1971 - Leroy Robertson, American composer (b. 1896)
1973 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
1980 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
1982 - Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valiant) (b. 1892)
1984 - Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1984 - Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
1986 - Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b. 1903)
1988 - Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
1989 - Steve Rubell, American night club owner (b. 1943)
1992 - Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1995 - Charlie Rich, American rock/soul/country musician (b. 1932)
1996 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (b. 1914)
1997 - Ben Hogan, American golfer (b. 1912)
1998 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
2002 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)
2003 - Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
2003 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
2003 - John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)
2005 - Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
2006 - Carl Brashear, First African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931)
2007 - Bernd Jakubowski, German goal keeper (b. 1952)
2007 - Jesse Marunde, American strongman competitor (b. 1979)
2008 - Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his "Last Lecture" (b. 1960)
2008 - Tracy Hall, American inventor (b. 1919)
306 - Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (b. 250)

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Famous Deaths on 24 Jul

Famous Deaths on 24 Jul

1115 - Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)
1129 - Shirakawa, Emperor of Japan (b. 1053)
1240 - Konrad von Thüringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
1568 - Prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545)
1594 - John Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1544)
1739 - Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1686)
1768 - Nathanial Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)
1862 - Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782)
1908 - Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (b. the same day 1867)
1910 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)
1927 - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
1957 - Sacha Guitry, French actor, director, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1885)
1965 - Constance Bennett, American actress (b. 1904)
1966 - Tony Lema, American golfer (b. 1934)
1969 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904)
1970 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897)
1974 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1980 - Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)
1980 - Uttam Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1926)
1986 - Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1991 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1992 - Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898)
1992 - Sam Berger, Canadian football owner (b. 1900)
1993 - Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (b. 1957)
1995 - Jerry Lordan, English composer and singer (b. 1934)
1995 - George Rodger, British photojournalist (b. 1908)
1996 - Alphonso Roberts, West Indian cricketer and politician (b. 1937)
1997 - William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1906)
1997 - Saw Maung, Burmese dictator (b. 1928)
2000 - Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (b. 1925)
2001 - Georges Dor, Canadian author, composer, singer and playwright (b. 1931)
2005 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (b. 1912)
2007 - Albert Ellis, American psychologist (b. 1913)
2007 - Chaney Kley, American Actor (b. 1972)
2008 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer (b. 1913)

Friday, July 22, 2011

Famous Deaths on 23 Jul

Famous Deaths on 23 Jul

1227 - Qiu Chuji, Chinese Taoist (b. 1148)
1373 - Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)
1403 - Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (b. 1343)
1531 - Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers
1584 - John Day, English printer (b. 1522)
1692 - Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
1727 - Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
1757 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685)
1764 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (b. 1703)
1773 - George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)
1781 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1793 - Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1721)
1853 - Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (b. 1798)
1875 - Isaac Singer, American inventor and entrepreneur (b. 1811)
1878 - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (b. 1804)
1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)
1916 - Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1920 - Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (b. 1835)
1923 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
1924 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850)
1930 - Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (b. 1878)
1932 - Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (b. 1884)
1942 - Andy Ducat, Former England cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
1942 - Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
1948 - D. W. Griffith, American film director (b. 1875)
1951 - Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France (b. 1856)
1951 - Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (b. 1884)
1955 - Cordell Hull, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
1966 - Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
1968 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
1971 - Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)
1979 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (b. 1898)
1980 - Mollie Steimer, anarchist agitator and American political prisoner (b. 1897)
1980 - Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
1980 - Keith Godchaux, American pianist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1948)
1982 - Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)
1983 - Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
1985 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
1989 - Donald Barthelme, American author (b. 1931)
1990 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (b. 1899)
1993 - James R. Jordan, Sr., father of Michael Jordan (b. 1936)
1996 - Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (b. 1934)
1997 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
1999 - King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
2001 - Eudora Welty, American author (b. 1909)
2002 - Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)
2002 - William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (b. 1933)
2002 - Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (b. 1929)
2003 - James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) (b. 1962)
2004 - Serge Reggiani, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
2004 - Piero Piccioni, Italian musician, conductor and composer (b. 1921)
2004 - Carlos Paredes, Portuguese musician and composer (b. 1925)
2004 - Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932)
2005 - Ted Greene, American jazz guitarist and teacher (b. 1946)
2006 - Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1927)
2007 - Tor Kamata, American/Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1937)
2007 - Ron Miller, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1933)
2007 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
2008 - Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1924)

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Famous Deaths on 22 Jul

Famous Deaths on 22 Jul

1362 - Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (b. 1324)
1387 - Franz Ackerman, Flemish statesman (b. 1330)
1461 - Charles VII of France (b. 1403)
1525 - Richard Wingfield, English diplomat
1540 - John Zápolya, King of Hungary
1619 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)
1645 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (b. 1587)
1676 - Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
1726 - Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia
1734 - Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England
1789 - Joseph-François Foulon, French administrator (b. 1715)
1802 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist (b. 1771)
1826 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746)
1832 - Napoleon II of France (b. 1811)
1852 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)
1864 - James B. McPherson, American army general, in the Battle of Atlanta (b. 1828)
1869 - John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge), (b. 1806)
1902 - Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (b. 1822)
1903 - Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
1904 - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
1908 - William Randal Cremer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1828)
1915 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
1916 - James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849)
1918 - Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (b. 1898)
1920 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
1922 - Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
1932 - Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer (b. 1867)
1932 - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
1934 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (b. 1903)
1950 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
1958 - Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895)
1967 - Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)
1968 - Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (b. 1908)
1974 - Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (b. 1900)
1979 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
1988 - Duane Jones starred as Ben in The 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead
1989 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
1990 - Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (b. 1932)
1992 - Wayne McLaren, portrayed the Marlboro Man (b. 1940)
1995 - Harold Larwood, Former England cricketer (b. 1904)
1996 - Rob Collins, English musician (The Charlatans) (b. 1956)
1998 - Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
1999 - Gar Samuelson, American musician (Megadeth) (b. 1958)
2000 - Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916)
2000 - Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (b. 1925)
2000 - Claude Sautet, French film director (b. 1924)
2001 - Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
2003 - Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954)
2003 - Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
2003 - Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
2004 - Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
2004 - George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
2004 - Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1922)
2005 - Eugene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
2005 - Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician killed by Scotland Yard (b. 1978)
2006 - James E. West, mayor of Spokane, Washington (b. 1950)
2006 - José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965)
2007 - Jarrod Cunningham New Zealand rugby player (b. 1968)
2007 - Mike Coolbaugh former baseball player and coach (b.1972)
2007 - Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
2007 - Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (b. 1906)
2007 - Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian-born cinematographer (b. 1933)
2008 - Estelle Getty American comedic actress (b. 1923)

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Famous Deaths on 21 Jul

Famous Deaths on 21 Jul

1403 - Henry Percy, English nobleman and soldier (b. ca.1364)
1425 - Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)
1688 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (b. 1610)
1793 - Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
1796 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
1798 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
1880 - Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
1889 - Nelson Dewey, American politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
1899 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
1932 - Bill Gleason, late 19th century baseball player
1938 - Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
1941 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
1943 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900)
1944 - Claus von Stauffenberg, German, leader of failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, by execution (b. 1907)
1944 - Ludwig Beck, German Chief of Staff (b. 1880)
1946 - Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
1948 - Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born American artist (b. 1904)
1967 - Basil Rathbone, English actor (b. 1892)
1967 - Albert Lutuli, South African politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1967 - Jimmie Foxx, baseball player (b. 1907)
1968 - Ruth St. Denis, dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
1970 - Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
1970 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
1972 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
1982 - Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913)
1986 - Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
1991 - Paul Warwick, English racing driver (b. 1969)
1998 - Alan Shepard, astronaut (b. 1923)
1998 - Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
2001 - Sivaji Ganesan, South Indian Tamil actor (b. 1927)
2001 - Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
2003 - John Davies, New Zealand Olympic Committee president (b. 1938)
2003 - Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
2004 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
2004 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918)
2005 - Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
2005 - Lord Alfred Hayes, British Wrestling Announcer for WWE (b. 1928)
2006 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
2006 - Ta Mok, "The Khmer Rouge Butcher", war criminal in Democratic Kampuchea (b. 1926)

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Famous Deaths on 20 Jul

Famous Deaths on 20 Jul

1031 - King Robert II of France (b. 972)
1156 - Emperor Toba of Japan (b. 1103)
1160 - Peter Lombard, French theologian
1320 - King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)
1351 - Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (b. 1291)
1387 - Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b. 1356)
1398 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374)
1453 - Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler
1454 - King John II of Castile (b. 1405)
1524 - Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (b. 1499)
1616 - Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier
1704 - Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1620)
1752 - Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (b. 1667)
1816 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743)
1866 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826)
1897 - Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820)
1901 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
1903 - Pope Leo XIII (b. 1810)
1908 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author, president of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1835)
1922 - Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
1926 - Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, head of the Soviet secret police (b. 1877)
1927 - King Ferdinand of Romania (b. 1865)
1928 - Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (b. 1896)
1932 - René Bazin, French novelist (b. 1853)
1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1874)
1941 - Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
1944 - Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
1945 - Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882)
1951 - Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (b. 1882)
1953 - Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900)
1953 - Jan Struther, British author (b. 1901)
1956 - James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1868)
1959 - William D. Leahy, American admiral (b. 1875)
1969 - Roy Hamilton, American singer (b. 1929)
1970 - Iain Macleod, Conservative Party Politician and Chancellor of Exchequer at time of his death (b. 1913)
1973 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
1973 - Robert Smithson, American land artist (b. 1938)
1977 - Gary Kellgren, American music producer (b. 1939)
1982 - Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931)
1983 - Frank Reynolds, American television news anchor (b. 1923)
1987 - Richard Egan, American actor (b. 1921)
1990 - Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving police chief (b. 1907)
1993 - Vincent Foster Jr., White House deputy counsel (b. 1945)
1998 - June Byers, American professional wrestler (b. 1922)
1999 - Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 - Gregory Hill (also known as Malaclypse the Younger,) American writer (b. 1941)
2003 - Nicolas Freeling, English writer (b. 1927)
2004 - Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fiji chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara (b. 1931)
2005 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (b. 1920)
2005 - Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1926)
2005 - Kayo Hatta, American film director (b. 1958)
2006 - Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (b. 1913)
2006 - Gérard Oury, French filmmaker (b. 1919)
2007 - Tammy Faye Messner (Bakker), American televangelist (b. 1942)
2008 - Artie Traum, American guitarist (b. 1943)
985 - Pope Boniface VII

Monday, July 18, 2011

Famous Deaths on 19 Jul

Famous Deaths on 19 Jul

1374 - Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)
1415 - Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)
1543 - Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England
1631 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
1687 - Laura Martinozzi, Duchess of Modena (b. 1637)
1692 - Sarah Good, Puritan accused of being witch during Salem Witch Trials (b. 1653)
1742 - William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
1810 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen of Prussia (b. 1776)
1814 - Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of Australia (b. 1774)
1838 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (b. 1785)
1850 - Margaret Fuller, American writer (b. 1810)
1857 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
1868 - Soji Okita, Japanese samurai (b. 1842 or 1844)
1896 - Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
1906 - Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (b. 1849)
1913 - Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
1939 - Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850)
1947 - U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
1947 - Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
1965 - Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (b. 1875)
1972 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (b. 1884)
1974 - Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (b. 1904)
1974 - Joe Flynn, American actor (b. 1924)
1975 - Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1980 - Nihat Erim, Prime Minister of Turkey (assassinated) (b. 1912)
1981 - Roger Doucet, French Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
1982 - John Harvey, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
1984 - Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1985 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
1989 - Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913)
1990 - Eddie Quillan, American actor (b. 1907)
1992 - Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate, martyr of mafia (b. 1940)
1998 - Elmer Valo, baseball player (b. 1921)
2002 - Alan Lomax, American folksong collector (b. 1915)
2003 - Bill Bright, American evangelist (b. 1921)
2003 - Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1908)
2004 - Reverend Francis Marzen, American Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
2004 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
2005 - Edward Bunker, American writer (b. 1933)
2005 - John Tyndall, British politician (b. 1934)
2006 - Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 - Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1944)
2007 - A. K. Faezul Huq, Lawyer, politician, and freelance journalist (b. 1945)
2008 - Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (b. 1907)
514 - Pope Symmachus, Italian clergy
931 - Uda, Emperor of Japan (b. 867)

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Famous Deaths on 18 Jul

Famous Deaths on 18 Jul

1100 - Godfrey of Bouillon, Protector of the Holy Sepulcher
1488 - Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
1591 - Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (b. 1550)
1608 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)
1610 - Michelangelo Merisi, Italian artist (b. 1573)
1639 - Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (b. 1604)
1695 - Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)
1698 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
1721 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)
1730 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
1792 - John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747)
1817 - Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
1863 - Robert Gould Shaw, American military officer (b. 1837)
1872 - Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (b. 1806)
1884 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)
1892 - Thomas Cook, English travel agent (b. 1808)
1899 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American writer (b. 1832)
1916 - Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author
1918 - Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (b. 1864)
1925 - Louis Nazaire Bégin, Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1840)
1937 - Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)
1944 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet and author (b. 1870)
1948 - Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian and politician (b. 1877)
1949 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
1952 - Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (b. 1906)
1952 - Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
1953 - Lucy Booth, Daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
1954 - Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)
1966 - Bobby Fuller, American rock singer (b. 1942)
1968 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne, American Robert F. Kennedy campaign worker (b. 1940)
1973 - Jack Hawkins, English film actor (b. 1910)
1982 - Lionel Daunais, French-Canadian singer and composer (b. 1902)
1985 - Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
1988 - Nico, German model and singer (b. 1938)
1989 - Donnie Moore, American baseball player (b. 1954)
1989 - Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (b. 1967)
1990 - Gerry Boulet, Quebec rock singer (b. 1946)
1990 - Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (b. 1896)
1990 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
1990 - Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (b. 1918)
1995 - Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
1995 - Srinagarindra, Mother of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (b. 1900)
1997 - Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)
2001 - James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)
2001 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1920)
2002 - Victor Emery, British theoretical physicist (b. 1933)
2004 - Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (b. 1912)
2004 - Paul Foot, British journalist (b. 1937)
2005 - William Westmoreland, American military officer (b. 1914)
2005 - Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2007 - George Caiazzo, American professional wrestler
2007 - Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)
2007 - Jerry Hadley, American opera singer, (b. 1952)
2008 - Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (b. 1944)
715 - Muhammad bin Qasim (b. 695)

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Famous Deaths on 17 Jul

Famous Deaths on 17 Jul

1070 - Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)
1453 - John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader
1531 - Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
1566 - Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)
1571 - Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
1588 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)
1645 - Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician
1704 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer
1709 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
1790 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
1791 - Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
1793 - Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat and murderer (b. 1768)
1794 - John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
1845 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
1878 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812)
1879 - Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (b. 1856)
1881 - Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804)
1885 - Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
1887 - Dorothea Dix, french social activist (b. 1802)
1893 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
1894 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
1894 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (b. 1818)
1907 - Hector Malot, French writer (b. 1830)
1912 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)
521 - Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
656 - Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated.
924 - King Edward the Elder of England

Friday, July 15, 2011

Famous Deaths on 16 Jul

Famous Deaths on 16 Jul

1324 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
1342 - King Charles I of Hungary
1546 - Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
1557 - Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
1594 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)
1647 - Masaniello, Neapolitan rebel (b. 1622)
1664 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616)
1686 - John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
1691 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (b. 1641)
1729 - Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683)
1747 - Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter (b. 1665)
1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
1796 - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
1831 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
1871 - Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln
1879 - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (b. 1800)
1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
1886 - Ned Buntline, American pulp novelist (b. 1823)
1896 - Edmond Goncourt, French writer and critic (b. 1822)
1915 - Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
1916 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
1917 - Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (b. 1847)
1947 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian (exact date of death uncertain) (b. 1912)
1949 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
1953 - Hilaire Belloc, English writer (b. 1870)
1960 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1960 - John P. Marquand, American novelist (b. 1893)
1976 - Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA
1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
1981 - Harry Chapin, American musician (b. 1942)
1982 - C.R. Swart, South African politician (b. 1894)
1982 - Patrick Dewaere, French actor (b. 1947)
1985 - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1985 - Wayne King, American musician, songwriter and bandleader (b. 1901)
1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
1990 - Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (b. 1927)
1990 - Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and organist (b. 1908)
1991 - Frank Rizzo, American politician (b. 1920
1991 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
1992 - Buck Buchanan, American football player (b. 1940)
1994 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
1994 - Marcel-Marie Desmarais, French Canadian priest, writer, preacher and broadcaster (b. 1908)
1995 - May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet (b. 1912)
1995 - Stephen Spender, English poet (b. 1909)
1996 - John Panozzo, American musician (Styx) (b. 1948)
1996 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician, (b. 1921)
1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
1999 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (b. 1966)
1999 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (b. 1960)
1999 - Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (b. 1979)
2001 - Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
2001 - Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2002 - John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
2003 - Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935)
2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
2004 - George Busbee, Governor of Georgia (b. 1927)
2005 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
2005 - Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
2005 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, and entertainer (b. 1920)
2006 - Bob Orton, Sr., American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
2006 - Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (b. 1948)
2008 - Jo Stafford, American singer of traditional pop music (b. 1917)

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Famous Deaths on 15 Jul

Famous Deaths on 15 Jul

1085 - Robert Guiscard, duke of Apulia (b. c.1015)
1262 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1222)
1274 - Bonaventure, Italian theologian and saint (b. 1221)
1291 - Rudolph I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1218)
1381 - John Ball, English priest
1406 - Duke William of Austria (b. c.1370)
1410 - Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (killed in battle) (b. 1360)
1521 - Juan Ponce de León, Spanish Explorer (b. 1458)
1544 - René of Châlon, Prince of the House of Orange (b. 1519)
1571 - Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
1609 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1560)
1614 - Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer (b. c.1540)
1655 - Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
1685 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
1750 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
1765 - Charles-André van Loo, French painter (b. 1705)
1767 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746)
1789 - Jacques Duphly, French composer (b. 1715)
1828 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
1839 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet (b. 1802)
1844 - Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
1857 - Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
1885 - Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer and poet (b. 1837)
1890 - Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
1898 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1825)
1904 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
1919 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1929 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b. 1874)
1930 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1845)
1931 - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868)
1932 - Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African politician and writer (b. 1873)
1933 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b. 1865)
1933 - Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890)
1940 - Robert Pershing Wadlow, American--at 8 ft. 11.1 in, the tallest human ever known (b. 1918)
1942 - Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader (bayoneted to death) (b. 1910)
1944 - Marie-Victorin, French Canadian Christian Brother and botanist (b. 1885)
1946 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1947 - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
1948 - John J. Pershing, U.S. general (b. 1860)
1953 - Servant of God Archbishop Mar Ivanios (b.1882)
1957 - James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
1957 - Vasily Maklakov, Russian orator and liberal politician (b. 1869)
1958 - Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)
1959 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
1960 - Lawrence Tibbett, American opera singer and actor (b. 1896)
1960 - Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (b. 1897)
1961 - John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
1965 - Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908)
1974 - Christine Chubbuck, television news reporter (b.1944)
1979 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico (b. 1911)
1982 - Bill Justis, American musician and producer (b. 1926)
1986 - Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (b. 1923)
1989 - Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
1990 - Margaret Lockwood, British actress (b. 1916)
1991 - Bert Convy, American actor (b. 1933)
1992 - Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijan's most noted journalist (b. 1960)
1992 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
1993 - Bobby Kent, alleged Florida bully murdered by his friends (b. 1973)
1993 - David Brian, American actor (b. 1914)
1996 - Dana Hill, American actress (b. 1964)
1997 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
2000 - Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone (b. 1925)
2003 - Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
2003 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (b. 1920)
2006 - Robert H. Brooks, founder of Hooters of America (b. 1937)
2008 - Gyorgy Kolonics, Hungarian canoeist, Olympics medalist. (b. 1972)

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Famous Deaths on 14 Jul

Famous Deaths on 14 Jul

1223 - King Philip II of France (b. 1165)
1575 - Richard Taverner, English Bible translator
1614 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550)
1671 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (b. 1599)
1723 - Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
1742 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
1766 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (b. 1674)
1774 - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (b. 1682)
1780 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b. 1713)
1789 - Bernard-René de Launay, governor of the Bastille, murdered during the Storming of the Bastille (b.1740)
1789 - Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b. 1721)
1790 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717)
1817 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author (b. 1766)
1827 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1834 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)
1850 - August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789)
1876 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (b. 1816)
1881 - Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1859?)
1904 - Paul Kruger, Boer resistance leader (b. 1824)
1907 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)
1910 - Marius Petipa, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1818)
1917 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887)
1918 - Quentin Roosevelt, American Aviator, son of Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1897)
1925 - Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (b. 1901)
1939 - Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter, decorative artist (b. 1860)
1954 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1965 - Adlai Stevenson, United States Presidential candidate (b. 1900)
1966 - Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
1967 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
1968 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1968 - Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek Prime Minister (b. 1907)
1974 - Carl Spaatz, American Air Force general (b. 1891)
1975 - Madan Mohan, Hindi Film's Melodious Music director (b. 1924)
1984 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b. 1928)
1989 - Frank Bell, British educator (b. 1916)
1993 - Léo Ferré, French singer and songwriter (b. 1916)
1994 - César Tovar, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1940)
1996 - Jeff Krosnoff, CART driver (b. 1964)
1998 - Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (b. 1909)
2000 - René Ríos Boettiger, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1911)
2000 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
2000 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (b. 1944)
2002 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
2003 - François-Albert Angers, French Canadian economist (b. 1909)
2003 - Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist (b. 1926)
2005 - Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger (b. 1924)
2005 - Cicely Saunders, English Nurse, physician and writer (b. 1918)
2007 - John Ferguson Sr, former professional hockey player (b. 1938)
2008 - Henki Kolstad, Norwegian actor (b. 1915)
664 - Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
937 - Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Famous Deaths on 13 Jul

Famous Deaths on 13 Jul

1189 - Matilda of England, daughter of Henry II of England (b. 1156)
1205 - Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England
1357 - Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian jurist (b. 1313)
1399 - Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330)
1402 - Jianwen Emperor of China (b. 1377)
1551 - John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
1621 - Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (b. 1559)
1626 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563)
1628 - Robert Shirley, English adventurer (b. 1581)
1629 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
1645 - Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)
1683 - Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
1693 - Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1636)
1705 - Titus Oates, English Protestant conspirator (b. 1649)
1755 - Edward Braddock, British general
1760 - Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (b. 1696)
1761 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)
1762 - James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1693)
1789 - Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)
1793 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (b. 1743)
1807 - Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)
1882 - Johnny Ringo, American Gunfighter (b. 1850)
1889 - Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830)
1890 - John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (b. 1813)
1896 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)
1921 - Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg scientist (b. 1845)
1922 - Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1870)
1946 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
1951 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
1954 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
1955 - Ruth Ellis, last woman to get the death sentence in Britain (b. 1926)
1960 - Joy Gresham, American writer (b. 1915)
1967 - Tom Simpson, British cyclist (b. 1937)
1973 - Willy Fritsch, German film actor (b. 1901)
1974 - Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1976 - Joachim Peiper, German military leader (SS, by assassination; b. 1915)
1976 - Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1884)
1979 - Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (1913)
1980 - Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana (b. 1921)
1983 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)
1993 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (b. 1961)
1995 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish toy manufacturer (Lego Group) (b. 1920)
1996 - Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (b. 1905)
1997 - Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)
2002 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born Armenian photographer (b. 1908)
2003 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (b. 1907)
2004 - Arthur Kane, American musician (b. 1949)
2004 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
2006 - Red Buttons, American comedian (b. 1919)
2008 - Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (b. 1932)
939 - Pope Leo VII

Monday, July 11, 2011

Famous Deaths on 12 Jul

Famous Deaths on 12 Jul

1441 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (b. 1394)
1536 - Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher
1584 - Steven Borough, English explorer (b. 1525)
1664 - Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (b. 1610)
1682 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
1693 - John Ashby, English admiral
1712 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1626)
1742 - Evaristo Abaco, Italian composer (b. 1675)
1749 - Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of New France
1773 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist and composer (b. 1697)
1804 - Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1755)
1845 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (b. 1808)
1849 - Dolley Madison, 4th First Lady Of The United States (b. 1768)
1910 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator (b. 1887)
1918 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864)
1926 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (b. 1868)
1931 - Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1866)
1934 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and industrialist (b. 1877)
1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (b. 1859)
1944 - Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general, received Medal of Honor (b. 1887)
1945 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871)
1945 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (b. 1895)
1947 - Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
1949 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
1950 - Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865)
1961 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (b. 1879)
1962 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
1971 - Yvon Robert, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1914)
1973 - Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (b. 1906)
1979 - Minnie Riperton, American soul singer (b. 1947)
1983 - Chris Wood, British musician, played with Traffic, (b. 1944)
1990 - João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (b. 1917)
1993 - Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (b. 1970)
1996 - Jonathan Melvoin, American musician and keyboardist (The Smashing Pumpkins) (b. 1961)
1996 - John Chancellor, American television journalist (b. 1927)
1997 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian musician (b. 1959)
1998 - Serge Lemoyne, French Canadian artist (b. 1941)
1998 - Jimmy Driftwood, American folk songwriter and musician (b. 1907)
1999 - Bill Owen, British actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II (b. 1908)
2003 - Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
2004 - Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1918)
2005 - John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, Chief executive of British Airways since its privitisation (b. 1917)
2007 - Mr. Butch, Iconic Boston street figure (b. 1951)
2007 - Stan Zemanek, Australian radio personality (b.1947)
2007 - Robert Burås, Norwegian guitar player (b. 1975)
2008 - Tony Snow, former speechwriter for Presidents George H.W. Bush and press secretary for George W. Bush (b. 1955)
2008 - Bobby Murcer, center fielder for the New York Yankees,San Francisco Giants, and Chicago Cubs from 1965-1983(b. 1946)
783 - Bertrada of Laon, wife of Pippin III (b. 720)

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Famous Deaths on 11 Jul

Famous Deaths on 11 Jul

1174 - King Amalric I of Jerusalem (b. 1136)
1183 - Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
1302 - Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250)
1535 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
1581 - Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero
1679 - William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
1688 - King Narai of Siam (b. 1629)
1766 - Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
1774 - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer
1775 - Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1797 - Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
1806 - James Smith, American signer of the Declaration of Independence
1825 - Thomas P. Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War soldier (b. 1744)
1844 - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
472 - Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
937 - King Rudolph II of Burgundy
969 - Olga of Kiev

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Famous Deaths on 10 Jul

Famous Deaths on 10 Jul

1099 - El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
1103 - King Eric I of Denmark
1290 - King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
138 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
1460 - Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
1480 - King René I of Naples (b. 1410)
1559 - King Henry II of France (b. 1519)
1584 - William I of Orange (b. 1533)
1590 - Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
1594 - Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)
1621 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571)
1653 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
1680 - Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
1683 - François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
1686 - John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
1776 - Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
1806 - George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
1851 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)
1881 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)
1884 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
1908 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
1920 - Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
1941 - Jelly Roll Morton, American musician (b. 1890)
1954 - Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1877)
1956 - Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1963 - Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
1970 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. 1908)
1972 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
1978 - John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
1978 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
1979 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
1981 - Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b. 1936)
1987 - John H. Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
1989 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
1993 - Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
2000 - Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
2000 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
2002 - Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
2003 - Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician
2003 - Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
2003 - Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
2005 - Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin, airshow performers
2005 - A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
2005 - Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
2005 - Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
2006 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
2007 - Doug Marlette, American cartoonist (b. 1949)
2007 - Abdul Rashid Ghazi, radical Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
2007 - Zheng Xiaoyu, director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China (b. 1944)
2008 - Hiroaki Aoki, founder of Benihana (b. 1938)
2008 - Mike Souchak, professional golfer (b. 1927)
649 - Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b.599)

Friday, July 8, 2011

Famous Deaths on 9 Jul

Famous Deaths on 9 Jul

1228 - Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
1386 - Leopold III of Austria (b. 1351)
1553 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
1654 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (b. 1633)
1706 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French Canadian sailor and explorer (b. 1661)
1737 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671)
1742 - John Oldmixon, English historian (b. 1673)
1746 - Philip V of Spain (b. 1683)
1747 - Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (b. 1670)
1755 - General Edward Braddock British Commander-in-chief of military forces in North America (b. 1695?)
1766 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (b. 1720)
1795 - Henry Seymour Conway, British general and statesman (b. 1721)
1797 - Edmund Burke, British philosopher and statesman (b. 1729)
1850 - Báb, Persian founder of the Bábi Faith (b. 1819)
1850 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784)
1852 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (b. 1794)
1855 - Lord Raglan Commander of the British forces during the Crimean War
1856 - James Strang, Mormon splinter group leader (b. 1813)
1856 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (b. 1776)
1880 - Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
1882 - Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero(b. 1848)
1903 - Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist (b. 1842)
1927 - John Drew Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
1932 - King C. Gillette, American inventor (b. 1885)
1937 - Oliver Law, first African-American commander of U.S. troops (b. 1899)
1938 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (b. 1870)
1947 - Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish general (b. 1865)
1949 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born Australian composer (b. 1874)
1951 - Harry Heilmann, American Baseball player (b. 1894)
1955 - Don Beauman, British racing driver (b. 1928)
1967 - Eugen Fischer, Nazi physician (b. 1874)
1972 - Robert Weede, American baritone (b. 1903)
1974 - Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1891)
1979 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author (b. 1899)
1980 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist (b. 1913)
1985 - Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
1985 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
1992 - Eric Sevareid, American reporter (b. 1912)
1994 - Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
1996 - Melvin Belli, American attorney (b. 1907)
1999 - Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician (b. 1944)
2000 - Doug Fisher, English actor (b. 1941)
2002 - Laurence Janifer, American writer (b. 1933)
2002 - Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
2004 - Paul Klebnikov, American journalist (b. 1963)
2004 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917)
2004 - Chuck Cadman, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
2005 - Kevin Hagen, American actor (b.1928)
2005 - Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (b. 1931)
2005 - Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
2006 - Milan Williams, American musician (The Commodores) (b. 1948)
2007 - Charles Lane, American actor (b. 1905)
2008 - Séamus Brennan, Irish politicain (b. 1948)
518 - Anastasius I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 430)

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Famous Deaths on 8 Jul

Famous Deaths on 8 Jul

1153 - Pope Eugene III
1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1623 - Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
1689 - Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622)
1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (b. 1629)
1716 - Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
1721 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)
1726 - John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
1784 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735)
1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
1826 - Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
1850 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
1855 - Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (b. 1790)
1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799)
1895 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
1898 - Soapy Smith, American con artist (b. 1860)
1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834)
1913 - Louis Hémon, French-born writer (b. 1880)
1917 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
1930 - Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
1933 - Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863)
1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
1939 - Havelock Ellis, British physician (b. 1859)
1941 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (b. 1874)
1943 - Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)
1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)
1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist (b. 1881)
1957 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879)
1962 - Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897)
1967 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913)
1967 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani political figure (b. 1893)
1971 - Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920)
1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1979 - Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1979 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1981 - Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902)
1986 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (b. 1909)
1987 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
1987 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
1990 - Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)
1991 - James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
1994 - Kim Il-sung, North Korean leader (b. 1912)
1994 - Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)
1994 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (b. 1927)
1994 - Christian-Jaque, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
1999 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
2001 - John O'Shea, New Zealand film director (b. 1920)
2002 - Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)
2004 - Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944)
2004 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (b. 1922)
2006 - June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
2006 - Peter Hawkins, British actor/voice actor (b. 1924)
810 - Pepin, King of Italy (b. 773)
975 - King Edgar of England

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Famous Deaths on 7 Jul

Famous Deaths on 7 Jul

1304 - Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
1307 - King Edward I of England (b. 1239)
1537 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
1572 - King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (b. 1520)
1573 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)
1647 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (b. 1586)
1663 - Thomas Baltzar, German violinist
1701 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
1713 - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
1764 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
1776 - Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)
1790 - François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)
1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)
1855 - Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
1865 - George Atzerodt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1833)
1865 - David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842)
1865 - Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844)
1865 - Mary Surratt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1823)
1878 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
1890 - Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. (b. 1814)
1901 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
1913 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b.1841)
1922 - Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
1925 - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b.. 1871)
1927 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (b. 1859)
1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
1949 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
1956 - Gottfried Benn, German poet (b. 1886)
1964 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (b. 1904)
1965 - Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
1967 - Jo Schlesser, French Formula One racing driver (b. 1928)
1971 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
1971 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)
1972 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1886)
1972 - King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
1973 - Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1919)
1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
1975 - Ruffian, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972)
1976 - Walter Giesler, American soccer coach (b. 1910)
1980 - Dore Schary, American film producer and writer (b. 1905)
1981 - Mildred Lisette Norman a.k.a. Peace Pilgrim, American pacifist and activist
1984 - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (b. 1941)
1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958)
1990 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)
1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)
1994 - Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (b. 1924)
1994 - Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (b. 1907)
1999 - Captain Vikram Batra, Indian Army officer, awarded Param Vir Chakra (September 9,1974)
2000 - Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
2001 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
2002 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian business tycoon (b. 1933)
2002 - Bison Dele, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)
2006 - Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
2006 - Syd Barrett, original guitarist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd (b. 1946)
2006 - John Money, Sexologist (b. 1921)
2008 - Bruce Conner, American artist (b. 1933)
2008 - Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (b. 1917)

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Famous Deaths on 6 Jul

Famous Deaths on 6 Jul

1189 - King Henry II of England (b. 1133)
1218 - Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
1249 - King Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198)
1415 - Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (b. 1369)
1476 - Regiomantus, German astronomer (b. 1436)
1480 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)
1533 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)
1535 - Sir Thomas More, English philosopher (b. 1478)
1553 - King Edward VI of England (b. 1537)
1583 - Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury
1585 - Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (b. 1552)
1684 - Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
1758 - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general
1762 - Tsar Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)
1768 - Conrad Beissel, German-born religious leader (b. 1690)
1802 - Daniel Morgan, American Revolutionary general and politician (b. ~1735)
1809 - Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)
1813 - Granville Sharp, British abolitionist (b. 1735)
1835 - John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1755)
1854 - Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
1868 - Sanosuke Harada, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840)
1893 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
1901 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
1902 - St. Maria Goretti, Italian saint (b. 1890)
1907 - August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German Linguist, Theologian (b. 1826)
1916 - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
1922 - Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (b. 1863)
1932 - Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
1950 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1923)
1952 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French Canadian politician (b. 1867)
1960 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897)
1961 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (b. 1936)
1961 - Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890)
1962 - Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1899)
1962 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1872)
1962 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
1966 - Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
1971 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (b. 1901)
1972 - Brandon De Wilde, American actor (b. 1942)
1973 - Otto Klemperer, German conductor (b. 1885)
1975 - Otto Skorzeny, WWII German SS commando (b. 1908)
1975 - Ruffian, American racehorse (b. 1972)
1976 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (b. 1887)
1976 - Zhu De, Chinese Communist military leader and statesman (b. 1886)
1979 - Van McCoy, American music producer, musician, songwriter and orchestra leader (b. 1940)
1982 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
1986 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
1989 - János Kádár, Hungarian politician (b. 1912)
1991 - Muda Lawal, Nigerian footballer (b. 1954)
1994 - Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
1995 - Aziz Nesin, Turkish humorist and author (b. 1915)
1996 - Kathy Ahern, American golfer (b. 1949)
1998 - Roy Rogers, American actor (b. 1911)
1999 - Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)
1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
1999 - Barry Winchell, American soldier (b. 1977)
2002 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932)
2002 - John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)
2003 - Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)
2004 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)
2004 - Syreeta Wright, American singer (b. 1946)
2005 - Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
2005 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
2005 - Evan Hunter, American novelist (b. 1926)
2005 - L. Patrick Gray III, American FBI director (b. 1916)
2005 - Bruno Augenstein, German-born mathematician (b. 1923)
2006 - Kasey Rogers, American actress (b. 1926)
2006 - Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (b. 1914)
2008 - Bobby Durham, American jazz drummer (b. 1937)

Monday, July 4, 2011

Famous Deaths on 5 Jul

Famous Deaths on 5 Jul

1316 - Infante Ferdinand of Majorca (b. 1278)
1375 - Charles III of Alençon, French archbishop (b. 1337)
1472 - Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)
1539 - St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)
1666 - Albert VI of Bavaria (b. 1584)
1676 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (b. 1613)
1715 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1659)
1719 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (b. 1641)
1773 - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
1833 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (b. 1765)
1859 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (b. 1777)
1862 - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (b. 1800)
1904 - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
1908 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833)
1920 - Max Klinger, German artist (b. 1857)
1927 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
1929 - Henry Lincoln Johnson, Member of 369th regiment (aka Harlem Hell Fighters), first American to receive the Croix de guerre (b. 1897)
1932 - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (b. 1880)
1945 - John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
1948 - Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)
1948 - Carole Landis, American actress (b. 1919)
1957 - Charles Sherwood Noble, American-born inventor
1965 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (b. 1909)
1966 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
1969 - Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
1969 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (b. 1884)
1969 - Leo McCarey, American film director (b. 1898)
1969 - Tom Mboya, Kenyan politician (b. 1930)
1975 - Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (b. 1892)
1983 - Harry James, American musician (b. 1916)
1991 - Howard Nemerov, American poet (b. 1920)
1996 - Erik Wickberg, The Salvation Army general (b. 1904)
1997 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (b. 1907)
1998 - Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
2001 - Ernie K-Doe, American singer (b. 1936)
2002 - Ted Williams, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2002 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
2003 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1979)
2004 - Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
2004 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (b. 1921)
2005 - Shirley Goodman, American singer (b. 1936)
2005 - James Stockdale, U.S. Navy vice admiral (b. 1923)
2006 - Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
2007 - Régine Crespin, French operatic soprano (b. 1927)
2007 - Kerwin Mathews, American actor (b. 1926)
2007 - George Melly, British jazz & blues musician (b. 1926)
2008 - Hasan DoÄŸan, 37th president of the Turkish Football Federation (b. 1956)

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Famous Deaths on 4 Jul

Famous Deaths on 4 Jul

1187 - Raynald of Chatillon, Prince of Antioch
1541 - Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish explorer (b. 1495)
1546 - Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy (b. 1478)
1603 - Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (b. 1521)
1623 - William Byrd, English composer
1648 - Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1601)
1742 - Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
1754 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author (b. 1680)
1761 - Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
1780 - Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (b. 1712)
1787 - Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715)
1821 - Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
1826 - Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
1826 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
1831 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758)
1848 - François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer (b. 1768)
1850 - William Kirby, English entomologist (b. 1759)
1854 - Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (b. 1781)
1857 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (b. 1786)
1881 - Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (b. 1806)
1882 - Joseph Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
1891 - Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
1901 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b. 1843)
1902 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1863)
1905 - Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
1910 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833)
1910 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)
1916 - Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
1922 - Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1894)
1926 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (b. 1901)
1931 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1869)
1931 - Buddie Petit, American jazz musician (b. 1895)
1934 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics (b. 1867)
1938 - Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
1938 - Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician (b. 1881)
1941 - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
1946 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
1948 - Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
1963 - Bernard Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
1970 - Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
1970 - Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1884)
1971 - August Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
1975 - Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902)
1976 - Antoni SÅ‚onimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
1977 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
1979 - Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (b. 1905)
1980 - Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
1982 - Terry Higgins, early British AIDS death (b. 1945)
1984 - Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
1986 - Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899)
1986 - Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist, and teacher (b. 1903)
1988 - Adrian Adonis, American professional wrestler (b. 1954)
1991 - Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
1992 - Ástor Piazzolla, Argentinian composer (b. 1921)
1993 - Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician and historian (b. 1903)
1994 - Joey Marella, American professional wrestling referee (b. 1964)
1995 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (b. 1919)
1995 - Bob Ross, American artist and television host (b. 1942)
1997 - Charles Kuralt, American television presenter (b. 1934)
1997 - John Zachary Young, English zoologist (b. 1907)
1999 - Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b.1917)
2000 - Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Polish writer (b. 1919)
2001 - Keenan Milton, Professional Skater (b. 1974)
2002 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American general (b. 1912)
2002 - Winnifred Quick, American Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
2002 - Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
2003 - André Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
2003 - Barry White, American singer (b. 1944)
2004 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (b. 1920)
2004 - Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), an eccentric street entertainer in Nottingham, England (b. 1932)
2005 - Hank Stram, American football coach (b. 1923)
2007 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish rock musician (b. 1979)
2007 - Bill Pinkney, American singer and performer (b. 1925)
2008 - Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
2008 - Terrence Kiel, American Football Player (b. 1980)
2008 - Charles Wheeler, British journalist (b. 1923)
2008 - Thomas M. Disch, American science fiction author (b. 1940)
2008 - Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
907 - Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria
943 - Taejo of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (b. 877)
965 - Pope Benedict V, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (b. unknown)
973 - Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890)

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Famous Deaths on 3 Jul

Famous Deaths on 3 Jul

1570 - Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist
1642 - Maria de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
1672 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
1704 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
1749 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
1778 - Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
1790 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (b. 1736)
1795 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
1795 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
1809 - Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
1858 - Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
1863 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
1904 - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
1916 - Hetty Green, American businesswoman (b. 1834)
1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
1933 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
1935 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
1942 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)
1954 - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (b. 1895)
1957 - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
1969 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
1971 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
1977 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (b. 1891)
1978 - James Daly, American actor (b. 1918)
1979 - Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
1981 - Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (b. 1920)
1985 - Frank Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (b. 1893)
1986 - Rudy Vallee, American singer (b. 1901)
1989 - Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
1993 - Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
1993 - Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
1994 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
1995 - Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
1995 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1998 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
1999 - Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952)
2000 - Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
2001 - Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
2001 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
2003 - Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)
2004 - Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1929)
2005 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
2005 - Gaylord Nelson, American politician (b. 1916)
2006 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
2006 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
2007 - Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)
2007 - Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
2008 - Ernie Cooksey, English Footballer (b. 1980)
2008 - Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (b. 1925)
2008 - Clive Hornby, English soap actor - Emmerdale (b. 1944)
2008 - Oliver Schroer, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1956)

Friday, July 1, 2011

Famous Deaths on 2 Jul

Famous Deaths on 2 Jul

1298 - Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, King of the Romans(b. 1220)
1504 - Åžtefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)
1566 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)
1582 - Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528)
1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
1621 - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer
1656 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611)
1674 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
1684 - John Rogers, president of Harvard University (b. 1630)
1743 - Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, second Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1746 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656)
1778 - Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer
1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712)
1822 - Denmark Vesey, American who planned slave revolt, hanged (b. ca. 1767)
1833 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757)
1843 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755)
1850 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788)
1857 - Carlo Pisacane, Italian patriot (b. 1818)
1903 - Ed Delahanty, American Hall of Fame baseball player (b. 1867)
1912 - Tom Richardson, English cricket player (b. 1870)
1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, Mayor of Birmingham and Father of Neville (b. 1836)
1915 - Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830)
1920 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
1926 - Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857)
1929 - Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1893)
1932 - Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
1934 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (b. 1887)
1955 - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
1961 - Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1964 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1929)
1966 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
1969 - Michael DiBiase, wrestler (b. 1923)
1972 - Joseph Fielding Smith, tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876)
1973 - Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1973 - Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
1973 - Chick Hafey, baseball player (b. 1903)
1973 - George McBride, baseball player (b. 1880)
1975 - James Robertson Justice, British actor (b. 1907)
1977 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (b. 1899)
1978 - Aris Alexandrou, Greek novelist, poet and translator (b. 1922)
1984 - Paul Dozois, Quebec politician (b. 1908)
1985 - David Purley, British Formula 1 driver (b. 1945)
1986 - Peanuts Lowrey, baseball player (b. 1917)
1989 - Franklin Schaffner, American film director (b. 1920)
1989 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (b. 1909)
1991 - Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
1992 - Camarón de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1950)
1993 - Fred Gwynne, American actor (b. 1926)
1993 - Sir Edward Dunlop, Australian war hero (b. 1907)
1994 - Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (b. 1967)
1995 - Krissy Taylor, American model (b. 1978)
1997 - Jimmy Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
1999 - Mario Puzo, American author (b. 1920)
2000 - Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
2002 - Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2004 - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese writer (b. 1919)
2004 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (b. 1919)
2005 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2006 - Jan Murray, American comedian (b. 1916)
2007 - Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (b. 1929)
2008 - Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician (b. 1956)
2008 - Elizabeth Spriggs, English-Born Actress (b. 1929)
862 - St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester(b. 789)