Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Famous Deaths on 1 Dec

Famous Deaths on 1 Dec

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

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Famous Deaths on 30 Nov

Famous Deaths on 30 Nov

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

Monday, November 28, 2011

Famous Deaths on 29 Nov

Famous Deaths on 29 Nov

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

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Famous Deaths on 28 Nov

Famous Deaths on 28 Nov

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

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Famous Deaths on 27 Nov

Famous Deaths on 27 Nov

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

Friday, November 25, 2011

Famous Deaths on 26 Nov

Famous Deaths on 26 Nov

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

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Famous Deaths on 25 Nov

Famous Deaths on 25 Nov

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

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Famous Deaths on 24 Nov

Famous Deaths on 24 Nov

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

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Famous Deaths on 23 Nov

Famous Deaths on 23 Nov

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

Monday, November 21, 2011

Famous Deaths on 22 Nov

Famous Deaths on 22 Nov

1286 - Eric V of Denmark, Danish King (b. 1249)
1318 - Mikhail Yaroslavich, Russian prince (b. 1271)
1594 - Martin Frobisher, English explorer
1617 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1590)
1694 - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
1697 - Libéral Bruant, French architect (b. 1635)
1710 - Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (b. 1637)
1718 - Blackbeard (Edward Teach), British pirate (b. 1680)
1758 - Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
1774 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general (b. 1725)
1783 - John Hanson, American Continental Congressman (b. 1715)
1794 - John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1875 - Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
1886 - William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
1893 - James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826)
1900 - Arthur S. Sullivan, British composer (b. 1842)
1916 - Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)
1917 - Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
1919 - Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (b. 1852)
1920 - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
1926 - Darvish Khan, Iranian musician (b. 1872)
1932 - William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
1941 - Werner Mölders, German ace fighter pilot (b. 1915)
1943 - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (b. 1895)
1944 - Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astrophysicist (b. 1882)
1946 - Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist (b. 1889)
1953 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (b. 1884)
1954 - Roderick McMahon, Professional Wrestling/Boxing Booker (b. 1882)
1955 - Shemp Howard, American actor (b. 1895)
1956 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born choreographer (b. 1882)
1963 - Aldous Huxley, English author (b. 1894)
1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
1963 - C. S. Lewis, Irish author (b. 1898)
1963 - Wilhelm Beiglböck, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
1963 - J. D. Tippit, Dallas Police Officer (b. 1924)
1967 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
1980 - Jules Léger, Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)
1980 - Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
1980 - Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
1981 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1986 - Scatman Crothers, American actor (b. 1910)
1986 - William Bradford Huie, American writer (b. 1910)
1988 - Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1908)
1988 - Paul Vario, U.S. Italian Mafia of the Lucchese Family (b. 1914)
1989 - C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
1989 - Rene Moawad, President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
1992 - Sterling Holloway, American voice actor (b. 1905)
1993 - Anthony Burgess, British author (b. 1917)
1996 - Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
1996 - María Casares, Spanish-born French actress (b. 1922)
1997 - Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (b. 1960)
1998 - Stu Unger, American poker player (b. 1953)
2000 - Christian Marquand, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2000 - Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (b. 1922)
2001 - Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (b. 1915)
2001 - Norman Granz, American jazz impresario and producer (b. 1918)
2005 - Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (b. 1920)
2006 - Pat Dobson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2007 - Maurice Béjart, Father of the Ballet Renewal(b. 1929)
2007 - Verity Lambert, first producer of British SF series Doctor Who (b. 1935)
950 - King Lothair II of Italy

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Famous Deaths on 21 Nov

Famous Deaths on 21 Nov

1361 - Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)
1555 - Georg Agricola, German scientist (b. 1490)
1566 - Annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507)
1579 - Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier
1652 - Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)
1695 - Henry Purcell, English composer
1730 - François de Troy, French portrait artist
1775 - John Hill, British writer
1811 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (b. 1777)
1844 - Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (b. 1769)
1881 - Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (b. 1794)
1899 - Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)
1916 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (b. 1830)
1922 - Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican anarchist (b. 1874).
1924 - Florence Harding, American First Lady (b. 1860)
1941 - Henrietta Vinton Davis American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker (b. 1860)
1942 - Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863)
1945 - Robert Benchley, American writer and actor (b. 1889)
1953 - Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1893)
1957 - Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)
1958 - Mel Ott, American baseball player (b. 1909)
1959 - Max Baer, American boxer (b. 1909)
1963 - Robert Stroud (The Birdman of Alcatraz), American prisoner (b. 1890)
1967 - C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (b. 1896)
1969 - Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (1924)
1970 - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1970 - Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
1973 - Thomas Pelly, American politician (b. 1902)
1974 - John B. Gambling, American radio talk show host (b. 1897)
1974 - Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b. 1890)
1980 - Sara García, Mexican actress (b. 1895)
1981 - Harry Von Zell, American announcer (b. 1906)
1982 - John Hargrave, British Social Credit advocate (b. 1894)
1986 - Marcelino Sanchez, American actor (b. 1957)
1986 - Jerry Colonna, American comic (b. 1904)
1986 - Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b. 1947)
1988 - Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1990 - Dean Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1954)
1991 - Sonny Werblin, former owner of the New York Jets (b. 1907)
1993 - Bill Bixby, American actor and director (b. 1934)
1995 - Peter Grant, British rock manager, actor (Led Zeppelin, Bad Company) (b. 1935)
1995 - Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)
1996 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1926)
1999 - Quentin Crisp, British writer, raconteur and actor (b. 1908)
2001 - Salahuddin of Malaysia, King of Malaysia (b. 1926)
2002 - Hadda Brooks, American jazz singer, pianist, and composer (b. 1916)
2005 - Alfred Anderson, last Scottish World War I (and Christmas Truce) veteran (b. 1896)
2005 - Hugh Sidey, American journalist (b. 1927)
2006 - Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese Cabinet minister (assassinated) (b. 1972)
2006 - Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist (b. 1915)
2007 - Tom Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
2007 - Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (b. 1921)
2007 - Noel McGregor, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1931)
496 - Pope Gelasius I

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Famous Deaths on 20 Nov

Famous Deaths on 20 Nov

1316 - King John I of France (d. 1316)
1437 - Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, cardinal and lord chancellor (b. 1363)
1518 - Marmaduke Constable, English soldier
1518 - Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer
1529 - Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio
1591 - Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540)
1612 - John Harington, English writer (b. 1561)
1651 - Mikołaj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595)
1662 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1614)
1695 - Zumbi, Brazilian runaway slave
1704 - Charles Plumier, French botanist (b. 1646)
1737 - Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
1742 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (b. 1661)
1758 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)
1764 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (b. 1690)
1778 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726)
1856 - Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1775)
1894 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
1908 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)
1910 - Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)
1925 - Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)
1934 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (b. 1872)
1936 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (b. 1896)
1936 - Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Founder of the Falange. Executed by firing squad. (b. 1903)
1938 - Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer (b. 1895)
1945 - Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1877)
1950 - Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866)
1954 - Clyde Vernon Cessna, aviation pioneer (Cessna) (b. 1879)
1957 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist (d. 1875)
1973 - Allan Sherman, American comedian (b. 1924)
1975 - Francisco Franco, Head of State of Spain (1936-1975) (b. 1892)
1976 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (b. 1898)
1978 - Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890)
1980 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
1983 - Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)
1994 - John Lucarotti, TV writer (b. 1926)
1995 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion (b. 1967)
1997 - Dick Littlefield, baseball player (b. 1926)
1998 - Galina Starovoitova, Russian politician (b. 1946)
1999 - Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician and prime minister (b. 1908)
2000 - Mike Muuss, American computer programmer (b. 1958)
2000 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish writer (b. 1919)
2003 - Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)
2003 - Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (b. 1945)
2003 - David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)
2003 - Roger Short, British Consulate General (b. 1944)
2003 - Eugene Kleiner, American entrepreneur (b. 1923)
2003 - Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (b. 1933)
2003 - Robert Addie, British actor (cancer) (b. 1960)
2004 - David Grierson, Canadian radio host (b. 1955)
2004 - Jenny Ross, English musician (Section 25) (b. 1962)
2005 - Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (b. 1931)
2005 - Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist (b. 1934)
2005 - James King, American singer (b. 1925)
2005 - Chris Whitley, American musician (b. 1960)
2006 - Robert Altman, American film director (b. 1925)
2006 - Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962)
2006 - Zoia CeauÅŸescu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1950)
2007 - Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
870 - King Edmund of East Anglia

Friday, November 18, 2011

Famous Deaths on 19 Nov

Famous Deaths on 19 Nov

1478 - Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)
1492 - Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
1557 - Bona Sforza, Queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494)
1577 - Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
1630 - Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)
1649 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
1665 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b. 1594)
1672 - John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
1682 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619)
1692 - Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright
1723 - Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
1772 - William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
1773 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b. 1722)
1785 - Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
1798 - Wolfe Tone, Irish republican (b. 1763)
1804 - Pietro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728)
1810 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and ballet master (b. 1725)
1822 - Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
1828 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797)
1850 - Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (b. 1780)
1868 - Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
1883 - William Siemens, German engineer (b. 1823)
1887 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
1897 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
1915 - Joe Hill, American labor activist (executed) (b. 1879)
1924 - Thomas Ince, American film director (b. 1882)
1931 - Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
1938 - Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)
1942 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892)
1954 - Walter Bartley Wilson, founding member of Cardiff City F.C. (b. 1870)
1959 - Joseph Charbonneau, archbishop of Montreal (b. 1892)
1960 - Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899)
1967 - Charles J. Watters, US Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
1974 - George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
1975 - Roger D. Branigin, American politician (b. 1902)
1976 - Sir Basil Spence, British architect (b. 1907)
1983 - Tom Evans, English bass guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
1985 - Stepin Fetchit, American actor and dancer (b. 1907)
1987 - Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
1988 - Christina Onassis, daughter of billionaire Aristotle Onassis (b. 1950)
1990 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
1992 - Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
1992 - Bobby Russell, American songwriter (b. 1941)
1998 - Ted Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist (b. 1920)
1998 - Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)
2001 - Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
2003 - Ian Geoghegan, Australian racing driver (b. 1940)
2004 - John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1927)
2004 - Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)
2004 - Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
2004 - Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer (b. 1942)
2005 - Erik Balling, Danish TV and film director (b. 1924)
2007 - Mike Gregory, English rugby league footballer (b. 1964)
2007 - Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
2007 - Dick Wilson, American actor (b. 1916)
498 - Pope Anastasius II

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Famous Deaths on 17 Nov

Famous Deaths on 17 Nov

1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)
1302 - St. Gertrude the Great (b. 1256)
1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
1558 - Mary I of England (b. 1516)
1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer
1665 - John Earle, English bishop
1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634)
1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate (b. 1682)
1747 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)
1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
1780 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
1796 - Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (b. 1729)
1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
1818 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen consort of King George III (b. 1744)
1835 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1758)
1849 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest and miracle-worker (b. 1794)
1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
1865 - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (b. 1813)
1897 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
1910 - Ralph Johnstone, pioneer pilot, 1st 'American' pilot killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver, Colorado.
1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
1921 - Pa Chay Vue, Hmong Nationalist
1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865)
1929 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860)
1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
1937 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860)
1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
1942 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
1947 - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
1955 - James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)
1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
1973 - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878)
1979 - John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull)
1980 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st Sufi master of Oveyssi order (b. 1916)
1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)
1986 - Georges Besse, French automobile executive (b. 1927)
1987 - Paul Derringer, baseball player (b. 1906)
1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1993 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
1995 - Alan Hull, English Rock Musician (Lindisfarne)
1998 - Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)
2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
2006 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
2006 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
2006 - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
2006 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)
375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)
594 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (b. c.539)
641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)
885 - Queen Liutgard

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Famous Deaths on 16 Nov

Famous Deaths on 16 Nov

1093 - Saint Margaret of Scotland, wife of Malcolm III of Scotland
1240 - Edmund Rich, St. Edmund of Canterbury
1272 - King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
1328 - Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1276)
1613 - Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)
1628 - Paolo Quagliati, Italian composer
1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (killed in battle) (b. 1594)
1695 - Pierre Nicole, French philosopher (b. 1625)
1724 - Jack Sheppard, English burglar (hanged) (b. 1702)
1745 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1665)
1773 - John Hawkesworth, English writer
1779 - Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716)
1790 - Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1797 - Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744)
1802 - André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)
1806 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754)
1836 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (b. 1761)
1884 - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (b. 1835)
1885 - Louis Riel, Canadian politician (b. 1844)
1907 - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
1908 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-born Canadian politician (b. 1829)
1911 - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (b. 1842)
1922 - Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
1939 - Pierce Butler, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1866)
1950 - Bob Smith, American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879)
1960 - Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)
1961 - Sam Rayburn, U.S. Speaker of the House (b. 1882)
1971 - Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and heiress (b. 1940)
1972 - Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1889)
1973 - Alan Watts, English writer/philosopher (b. 1915)
1981 - William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
1982 - Arthur Askey, British comedian (b. 1900)
1982 - Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
1982 - Lenny Murphy, Leader of Belfast's notorious Shankill Butchers (b. 1952)
1984 - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906)
1986 - Siobhán McKenna, Irish stage and screen actress, Gok (b. 1923)
1987 - Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (b. 1907)
1987 - Jim Brewer, Major League Baseball relief pitcher (b. 1937)
1989 - Jean-Claude Malépart, Quebec politician (b. 1938)
1993 - Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (b. 1939)
1993 - Achille Zavatta, French clown (b. 1915)
1994 - Doris Speed, British actress (b. 1899)
1994 - Dino Valente, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b.1943)
1995 - Jack Finney, American author (b. 1911)
1999 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928)
2000 - DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (b. 1971)
2000 - Joe C., American rapper (b. 1974)
2001 - Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (b. 1930)
2003 - Bettina Goislard, French relief worker (b. 1974)
2004 - Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (b. 1945)
2005 - Donald Watson, English founder of the Vegan Society (b. 1910)
2005 - Robert Tisch, American football team owner (b. 1926)
2005 - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
2006 - Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
2006 - Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist (b. 1930)
2007 - Harold Alfond, American businessman (b. 1914)
2007 - Grethe Kausland, Norwegian actress and singer (b. 1947)
2007 - Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author (b. 1946)

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Famous Deaths on 14 Nov

Famous Deaths on 14 Nov

1226 - Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193)
1263 - Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir
1359 - Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (b. 1296)
1391 - Nikola Tavelić, First Croatian saint (b. 1340)
1522 - Anne of France, Princess and Regent of France (b. 1461)
1556 - Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (b. 1504)
1633 - William Ames, English philosopher (b. 1576)
1687 - Nell Gwynne, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1650)
1691 - Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)
1716 - Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1646)
1734 - Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French-born mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
1746 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)
1817 - Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian revolutionary (b. 1795)
1825 - Jean Paul, German writer (b. 1763)
1829 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (b. 1763)
1831 - Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-born French composer, music publisher and piano manufacturer (b. 1757)
1831 - Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)
1832 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American statesman (b. 1737)
1844 - John Abercrombie, British physician (b. 1780)
1866 - King Miguel of Portugal (b. 1802)
1872 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)
1907 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician (b. 1848)
1908 - The Guangxu Emperor of China, (b. 1871)
1914 - Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Malayalin journalist (b. 1861)
1915 - Booker T. Washington, American inventor (b. 1856)
1916 - Henry George, Jr., American politician (b. 1862)
1916 - Saki, British writer (b. 1870)
1937 - Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (b. 1869)
1944 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (b. 1873)
1946 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
1947 - Joseph Allard, French Canadian fiddler (b. 1873)
1971 - William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (b. 1934)
1972 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (b. 1900)
1974 - Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (b. 1904)
1977 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON (b. 1896)
1981 - Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1941)
1984 - Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician (b. 1916)
1991 - Tony Richardson, English film director (b. 1928)
1992 - Ernst Happel, Austrian football coach (b. 1925)
1994 - Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
1996 - John A. Cade, American politician (b. 1929)
1997 - Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (b. 1916)
1997 - Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (b. 1905)
2000 - Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908)
2001 - Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (b. 1922)
2001 - Charlotte Coleman, British actress (b. 1968)
2002 - Eddie Bracken, American film actor (b. 1915)
2003 - Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (b. 1962)
2004 - Michel Colombier, French composer (b. 1939)
565 - Justinian the Great, Byzantine Emperor (b. 483)

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Famous Deaths on 13 Nov

Famous Deaths on 13 Nov

1004 - Abbon of Fleury
1093 - King Malcolm III of Scotland (b. 1031)
1143 - King Fulk of Jerusalem
1170 - Albert I of Brandenburg
1314 - Albert II, Margrave of Meissen
1345 - Constance of Penafiel, wife of Pedro I of Portugal (b. 1323)
1359 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1326)
1460 - Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (b. 1394)
1606 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
1619 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)
1650 - Thomas May, English poet and historian (b. 1595)
1770 - George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1712)
1771 - Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (b. 1712)
1862 - Ludwig Uhland, German poet (b. 1787)
1867 - Adolphe Napoleon Didron, French archaeologist (b. 1806)
1868 - Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (b. 1792)
1903 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)
1952 - Margaret Wise Brown, American children's author (b. 1910)
1954 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1961 - Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., American diplomat (b. 1897)
1963 - Margaret Murray, English anthropologist and Egyptologist (b. 1863)
1967 - Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)
1973 - Lila Lee, American actress (b. 1901)
1973 - Bruno Maderna, Italian/German conductor and composer (b. 1920)
1974 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b. 1901)
1974 - Karen Silkwood, American activist (b. 1946)
1975 - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (b. 1910)
1977 - Ingrid Schubert, German terrorist (b. 1944)
1979 - Dimitris Psathas, Greek playwright (b. 1907)
1982 - Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Quebec (b. 1911)
1983 - Junior Samples, American comedian (Hee Haw) (b. 1926)
1985 - George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (b. 1898)
1986 - Thierry Le Luron, French humourist (b. 1952)
1988 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
1988 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (b. 1902)
1989 - Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (b. 1964)
1991 - Paul-Émile Cardinal Léger, archbishop of Montreal (b. 1904)
1993 - Carey Lloyd (Rufus R. Jones), American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1994 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
1996 - Bill Doggett, American pianist and organist (b. 1916)
1996 - Swami Rama, Himalayan yoga master (b. 1925)
1997 - André Boucourechliev, French composer (b. 1925)
1997 - Dawud M. Mu'Min, American murderer (b. 1953)
1998 - Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman, son of Pierre Trudeau (b. 1975)
1998 - Valerie Hobson, British actress (b. 1917)
1998 - Red Holzman, American basketball coach (b. 1920)
1998 - Edwige Feuillère, French actress (b. 1907)
1999 - Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers) (b. 1915)
2001 - Peggy Mount, English actress (b. 1915)
2002 - Rishikesh Shaha, Nepalese politician and writer (b. 1925)
2003 - Kellie Waymire, American actress (b. 1967)
2004 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan) (b. 1968)
2004 - Thomas Foglietta, American politician (b. 1928)
2004 - John Balance, English musician and artist (b. 1962)
2005 - Vine Deloria, Jr., Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist (b. 1933)
2005 - Eddie Guerrero, American/Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1967)
2007 - Kazuhisa Inao, Japanese baseball player (b. 1937)
2007 - John Doherty, English footballer (b. 1935)
2007 - Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician and Congressman (b. 1960)
2007 - Monty Westmore, American make-up artist. (b. 1923)
867 - Pope Nicholas I

Friday, November 11, 2011

Famous Deaths on 12 Nov

Famous Deaths on 12 Nov

1035 - Canute the Great
1094 - King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
1434 - King Louis III of Naples
1555 - Stephen Gardiner, English statesman
1567 - Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (b. 1493)
1595 - John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532)
1606 - St. Nicholas Owen (martyr), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
1667 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b. 1598)
1671 - Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (b. 1612)
1742 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1757 - Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
1836 - Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
1916 - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855)
1939 - Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
1941 - Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, American mobster (b. 1907)
1944 - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
1948 - Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
1955 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
1965 - Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888)
1972 - Rudolf Friml, Czech composer of operettas (b. 1879)
1976 - Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
1976 - Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)
1981 - William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
1984 - Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909)
1990 - Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
1993 - H. R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff (b. 1926)
1994 - Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)
1997 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
2000 - Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913)
2000 - Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, (b. 1928)
2001 - Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955)
2003 - Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (b. 1986)
2003 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (b. 1925)
2003 - Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
2003 - Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (b. 1954)
2003 - Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
2004 - John Peel, English DJ and Broadcaster (b. 1939)
2005 - William G. Adams, former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada (b. 1923)
2006 - General Jacob E. Smart, US Air Force leader World War II (b. 1909)
2007 - Khanmohammed Ibrahim, Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
2007 - Ira Levin, American novelist (b. 1929)
607 - Pope Boniface III

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Famous Deaths on 11 Nov

Famous Deaths on 11 Nov

1623 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)
1638 - Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)
1686 - Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602)
1686 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b. 1621)
1724 - Joseph Blake (alias Blueskin), English highwayman (executed) (b. c. 1700)
1812 - Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)
1831 - Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)
1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
1862 - James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged) (b. c. 1855)
1880 - Lucretia Mott, American feminist and abolitionist (b. 1793)
1884 - Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
1887 - Haymarket defendants:
397 - Martin of Tours, French saint
405 - Arsacius, intruding archbishop of Constantinople
537 - Pope Silverius, saint
826 - Theodore the Studite, saint
865 - Petronas the Patrician, Byzantine General

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Famous Deaths on 10 Nov

Famous Deaths on 10 Nov

1241 - Pope Celestine IV
1444 - King Vladislaus III of Varna is killed in battle (b. 1424)
1549 - Pope Paul III (b. 1468)
1556 - Richard Chancellor, English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland
1596 - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
1605 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522)
1617 - Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
1624 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
1644 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
1673 - Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (b. 1640)
1727 - Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
1728 - Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admirals (b. 1661)
1772 - Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
1777 - Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
1808 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
1848 - Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (b. 1786)
1865 - Henry Wirz, Swiss-American Confederate commandant of POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia, by hanging (b. 1822)
1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, (b. 1854)
1909 - Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
1909 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
1912 - Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
1917 - Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (b. 1866)
1936 - Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881)
1964 - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (b. 1910)
1973 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American country music banjo player (b. 1915)
1975 - Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
1981 - Abel Gance, French film director, producer, and actor (b. 1889)
1982 - Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
1985 - Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959)
1986 - Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
1986 - King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (b. 1903)
1990 - Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban baseball player (b. 1943)
1990 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
1991 - William Afflis, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1992 - Chuck Connors, American actor, baseball and basketball player (b. 1921)
1994 - Carmen McRae, American singer (b. 1920)
1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist (b. 1941)
1997 - Tommy Tedesco, American musician (b. 1930)
1998 - Mary Millar, English actress (b. 1936)
2000 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
2001 - Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
2002 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (b. 1921)
2003 - Irv "Kup" Kupcinet, American columnist and television personality (b. 1912)
2003 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
2004 - Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (b. 1907)
2006 - Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
2006 - Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
2006 - Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
2006 - Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
2006 - Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
2007 - Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
2007 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. 1907)
2007 - Norman Mailer, American author (b. 1923)
627 - Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
901 - Adelaide of Paris, Queen of Western Francia

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Famous Deaths on 9 Nov

Famous Deaths on 9 Nov

1187 - Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1208 - Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
1504 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1623 - William Camden, English historian (b. 1551)
1641 - Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
1699 - Hortense Mancini, mistress of Charles II, King of England (b. 1646)
1766 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
1770 - John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
1778 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
1809 - Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
1848 - Robert Blum, German politician (b. 1810)
1881 - Edwin Drake, Father of the oil industry, drilled the first oil well.
1888 - Mary Jane Kelly, last known Jack the Ripper victim.
1911 - Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
1919 - Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
1924 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
1937 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
1938 - Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Muslim poet (b.1877)
1938 - Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.1889)
1940 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
1940 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
1942 - Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
1944 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
1951 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887)
1952 - Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
1952 - Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
1953 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
1953 - Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
1957 - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
1968 - Jan Johansson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1931)
1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
1971 - Maude Fealy, American actor (b. 1881)
1977 - Fred Haney, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1980 - Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
1988 - Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
1988 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
1991 - Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
1997 - Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
1998 - Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
2000 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
2001 - Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
2002 - Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
2002 - William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
2003 - Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
2003 - Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
2003 - Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937)
2004 - Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
2005 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921)
2006 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 - Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director (b. 1923)
959 - Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)

Monday, November 7, 2011

Famous Deaths on 8 Nov

Famous Deaths on 8 Nov

1171 - Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
1195 - Conrad of Hohenstaufen
1226 - King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
1246 - Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180)
1308 - Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher
1517 - Francisco Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish statesman (b. 1436)
1527 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
1599 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
1600 - Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
1605 - Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
1658 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (b. 1599)
1674 - John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
1719 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
1817 - Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754)
1830 - King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
1887 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
1890 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)
1905 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
1917 - Colin Blythe, English cricketer (b. 1879)
1921 - Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
1934 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
1944 - Walter Nowotny, Austrian/German fighter pilot (b. 1920)
1945 - August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)
1949 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian clergyman (b. 1874)
1953 - John van Melle, South African author (b. 1887)
1953 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
1959 - Frank Sherman Land, founder of DeMolay International (b. 1890)
1965 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
1968 - Wendell Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
1970 - Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
1974 - Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter (b. 1914)
1977 - Bucky Harris, baseball player (b. 1896)
1978 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)
1979 - Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
1983 - Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881)
1985 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)
1986 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)
1993 - Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1994 - Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (b. 1940)
1998 - Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941)
1999 - Leon Å tukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
2002 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (b. 1931)
2003 - Guy Speranza, American singer, original Riot frontman (b. 1956)
2003 - Bob Grant, English actor (b. 1932)
2003 - C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920)
2005 - David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917)
2005 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
2006 - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945)
2007 - Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (b. 1943)
2007 - Chad Varah founder of charity The Samaritans (b. 1911)
911 - Louis the Child, last Carolingian ruler of the East Franks (b. 893)
955 - Pope Agapetus II

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Famous Deaths on 7 Nov

Famous Deaths on 7 Nov

1225 - Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
1550 - Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland prior to the reformation, beheaded in Skalholt with his two sons Are and Bjorn. (b. 1484)
1574 - Solomon Luria, Maharshal (b. 1510)
1581 - Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
1620 - Hetman Stanisław Żólkiewski polish commander in the Battle of Ţuţora (1620) (b. 1547)
1633 - Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
1639 - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
1642 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
1713 - Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
1872 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
1881 - John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791)
1906 - Heinrich Seidel, German engineer, poet and writer (b. 1842)
1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
1919 - Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
1922 - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
1943 - Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)
1944 - Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
1944 - Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
1959 - Victor McLaglen, British-born actor (b. 1883
1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
1966 - Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
1967 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Congressman and Vice President (b. 1868)
1968 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1974 - Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
1978 - Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion (b. 1897)
1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
1983 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
1986 - Tracy Pew, Australian musician (The Birthday Party) (b. 1957)
1991 - Carter Cornelius, American R&B musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (b. 1948)
1991 - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
1992 - Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
1992 - Alexander Dubček, Slovakian politician (b. 1921)
1994 - Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician (b. 1924)
1996 - Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist
1996 - Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)
2000 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
2000 - Queen Ingrid, Queen Dowager of Denmark (b. 1910)
2001 - Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
2002 - Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)
2004 - Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 - Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
2005 - Harry Thompson, English-born comedian and novelist (b. 1960)
2006 - Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1981)
2006 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
2006 - Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
2007 - Earl Dodge, American politician (Prohibition Party) (b. 1932)
644 - Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Famous Deaths on 6 Nov

Famous Deaths on 6 Nov

1231 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
1406 - Pope Innocent VII
1492 - Antoine Busnois, French composer
1550 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1487)
1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (b. 1594)
1656 - King John IV of Portugal (b. 1603)
1656 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (b. 1583)
1692 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (b. 1619)
1752 - Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1685)
1771 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
1790 - James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (b. 1726)
1796 - Catherine II of Russia (b. 1729)
1816 - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
1822 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
1836 - King Charles X of France (b. 1757)
1846 - Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general
1846 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (b. 1800)
1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
1910 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b. 1838)
1925 - Khải Đá»&lsqauo;nh, Emperor of Vietnam
1929 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1867)
1936 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (b. 1864)
1941 - Maurice Leblanc, French novelist (b. 1864)
1960 - Erich Raeder, German grand admiral (b. 1876)
1964 - Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (b. 1925)
1964 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
1965 - Edgard Varèse, French composer (b. 1883)
1965 - Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1898)
1968 - Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)
1968 - Charles B. McVay III, Ex-U.S. Navy Captain (b. 1898)
1970 - Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1900)
1978 - Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (b. 1899)
1978 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (b. 1915)
1984 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
1985 - Joel Crothers, Soap Opera Actor (b. 1941)
1986 - Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911)
1987 - Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955)
1989 - Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (b. 1949)
1989 - Dickie Goodman, creator of "break-in" records (b. 1934)
1991 - Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
1995 - Aneta Corsaut, American actress (b. 1933)
1998 - Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (b. 1928)
2000 - David R. Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)
2000 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
2001 - Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (b. 1926)
2002 - Sid Sackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
2003 - Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962)
2003 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (b. 1919)
2003 - Crash Holly, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
2004 - Fred Dibnah, English television personality (b. 1938)
2004 - Johnny Warren, Australian soccer player (b. 1943)
2005 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
2005 - Rod Donald, New Zealand Politician, Green Party Co-leader (b. 1957)
2005 - Miguel Aceves Mejía, Mexican actor, composer and singer (b. 1915)
2006 - Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (b. 1950)
2006 - Federico (Fico) López, Puerto Rican basketball player (b. 1962)
2007 - Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
2007 - Hilda Braid, English actress (b. 1929)
2007 - George Grljusich, Australian sports broadcaster (b. c1939)
2007 - Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, Afghan politician (b. c1962)
2007 - George Osmond, Osmond family patriarch (b. 1917)
2007 - Hank Thompson, American singer (b. 1925)

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Famous Deaths on 4 Nov

Famous Deaths on 4 Nov

1254 - John III Ducas Vatatzes, Emperor of the Nicaea (b. circa 1192).
1411 - Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (b. 1384)
1652 - Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)
1658 - Antoine Le Maistre, French Jansenist (b. 1608)
1669 - Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
1702 - John Benbow, English admiral (b. 1653)
1704 - Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)
1781 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721)
1801 - William Shippen, American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1712)
1847 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
1856 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (b. 1797)
1893 - Pierre Tirard, French politician (b. 1827)
1906 - John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
1918 - Wilfred Owen, English poet (b. 1893)
1924 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
1924 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
1928 - Arnold Rothstein, American gambler (b. 1882)
1930 - Buddy Bolden, American musician (b. 1877)
1950 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1955 - Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
1957 - Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1897)
1968 - Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892)
1969 - Carlos Marighella, Brazilian politician (b. 1911)
1974 - Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (b. 1909)
1980 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1905)
1980 - Robert Nesta Marley, Jamaican reggae musician
1982 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (b. 1959)
1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
1994 - Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitar player MC5 (b. 1949)
1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1922)
1995 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
1997 - H. Richard Hornberger, American writer (b. 1924)
1999 - Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1958)
2003 - Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (b. 1923)
2003 - Ken Gampu, South African actor (b. 1929)
2003 - Charles Causley, Cornish writer and poet (b. 1917)
2005 - Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist (b. 1980)
2005 - Sheree North, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
2006 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen) (b. 1908)
2006 - Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
2007 - Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Famous Deaths on 3 Nov

Famous Deaths on 3 Nov

1254 - John III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1193)
1428 - Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1388)
1580 - Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (b. 1512)
1584 - Charles Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1538)
1600 - Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)
1643 - John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
1643 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
1711 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (b. 1666)
1787 - Robert Lowth, British bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
1793 - Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)
1794 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
1869 - Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet (b. 1792)
1890 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1811)
1891 - Louis Lucien Bonaparte, French politician and linguist (b. 1813)
1917 - Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist (b. 1846)
1918 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857)
1926 - Annie Oakley, American sharp-shooter (b. 1860)
1927 - Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
1929 - Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
1933 - Emile Roux, French scientist (b. 1853)
1939 - Charles Tournemire, French composer and organist (b. 1870)
1949 - Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (b. 1861)
1954 - Henri Matisse, French artist (b. 1869)
1957 - Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychotherapist (b. 1897)
1964 - John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (b. 1905)
1970 - Peter II of Yugoslavia (b. 1923)
1973 - Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
361 - Constantius II, Roman Emperor (b. 317)
753 - Pirminius, German saint (b. 753)

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Famous Deaths on 2 Nov

Famous Deaths on 2 Nov

1083 - Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort (b. 1031)
1285 - King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
1327 - King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
1483 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1454)
1610 - Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)
1618 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)
1716 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651)
1807 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)
1852 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
1863 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)
1877 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
1887 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
1898 - George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)
1905 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)
1935 - Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
1944 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
1945 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)
1949 - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
1950 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1856)
1960 - Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
1961 - James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)
1963 - Ngô Đình Diệm, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901)
1966 - Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (b. 1892)
1966 - Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)
1970 - Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (b. 1895)
1975 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
1979 - Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (b. 1936)
1982 - Lester Roloff, Man of God, preacher.
1984 - Velma Barfield, American murderer (b. 1932)
1986 - Paul Frees, American voice actor (b. 1920)
1991 - Irwin Allen, American film producer (b. 1916)
1992 - Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)
1996 - Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
1998 - Vincent Winter, British actor (b. 1957)
2002 - Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)
2002 - Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896)
2003 - Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)
2004 - Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)
2004 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957)
2004 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (b. 1951)
2005 - Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and coach.
2007 - Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
2007 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
2007 - Witold Kiełtyka, Polish metal drummer (Decapitated) (b. 1984)
2007 - Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (b. 1978)
2007 - Henry Cele, South African Actor; best known for his onscreen portrayal of the legendary Shaka Zulu
943 - Queen Emma of France, (b. 894)