Saturday, December 31, 2011

Famous Deaths on 1 Jan

Famous Deaths on 1 Jan

1204 - King Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170)
1387 - King Charles II of Navarre (b. 1332)
1515 - King Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
1554 - Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500)
1559 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (b. 1503)
1560 - Joachim du Bellay, French poet (b. 1522)
1617 - Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (b. 1558)
1631 - Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544)
1697 - Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624)
1716 - William Wycherley, English dramatist (b. 1640)
1730 - Samuel Sewall, English judge (b. 1652)
1742 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686)
1748 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
1759 - Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705)
1766 - James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (b. 1688)
1782 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
1789 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b. 1716)
1793 - Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter (b. 1712)
1796 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (b. 1735)
1800 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (b. 1716)
1817 - Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (b. 1743)
1853 - Gregory Blaxland, Australian explorer (b. 1778)
1862 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)
1869 - Martin W. Bates, American politician (b. 1786)
1881 - Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805)
1892 - Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
1894 - Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
1896 - Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (b. 1826)
1906 - Sir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
1919 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (b. 1881)
1921 - Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
1931 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
1932 - C P Scott, British journalist, publisher and politician (b. 1846)
1940 - Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865)
1943 - Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, U.S. military officer who gave "a message to Garcia" (b. 1857)
1944 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
1944 - Sir Edward Lutyens, British architect who designed New Delhi (b. 1869)
1953 - Hank Williams, American singer (b. 1923)
1954 - Duff Cooper, British diplomat and writer (b. 1890)
1957 - Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid.
1958 - Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
1960 - Margaret Sullavan, American actress (b. 1909)
1964 - Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (b. 1890)
1966 - Vincent Auriol, French politician (b. 1884)
1969 - Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (b. 1888)
1969 - Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902)
1971 - Saint Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint (b. 1894)
1972 - Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (b. 1888)
1980 - Adolph Deutsch, American composer and arranger (b. 1897)
1980 - Pietro Nenni, Italian socialist politician (b. 1891)
1981 - Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Jewish concert pianist (b. 1920)
1982 - Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
1984 - Alexis Korner, British blues musician (b. 1928)
1985 - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
1986 - Bruce Norris, American hockey executive (Detroit Red Wings) (b. 1924)
1986 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
1991 - Buck Ram, American songwriter and businessman (The Platters) (b. 1907)
1992 - Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (b. 1906)
1994 - Lord Arthur Porritt, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900)
1994 - Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907)
1995 - Fred West, British serial killer (suicide) (b. 1941)
1995 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1996 - Arleigh Burke, American admiral (b. 1901)
1996 - Arthur Rudolph, German engineer (b. 1906)
1997 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician (b. 1944)
1997 - Hagood Hardy, Canadian composer and musician (b. 1937)
1998 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (b. 1905)
2000 - Colin Vaughan, Australian political journalist (b. 1931)
2001 - Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
2002 - Julia Phillips, American film producer (b. 1944)
2003 - Joe Foss, American politician, fighter pilot and AFL Commissioner (b. 1915)
2003 - Cyril Shaps, English actor (b. 1923)
2003 - F. William Free, American advertising executive (b. 1928)
2005 - Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, British newspaperman (b. 1931)
2005 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician (b. 1924)
2005 - Bob Matsui, American politician (b. 1941)
2005 - Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist (b. 1938)
2006 - Dawn Lake, Australian TV comedienne (b. 1927)
2006 - Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (b. 1913)
2006 - Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher and inventor (b. 1918)
2006 - Bryan Harvey, American musician (House of Freaks) (b. 1956)
2007 - Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982)
2007 - Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (b. 1943)
2007 - Del Reeves, American country singer (b. 1932)
2007 - Julius Hegyi, American conductor (b. 1923)
2007 - Leon Davidson, American scientist known for studying UFOs (b. 1922)
2007 - Tillie Olsen, American writer (b. 1912)
2007 - Ernie Koy, American baseball player (b. 1909)
2007 - A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1908)
2007 - Tad Jones, American jazz music historian (b. 1952)
2007 - Leonard Fraser, Australian serial killer (b. 1951)
2008 - Pratap Chandra Chunder, union minister of India (b. 1919)
2008 - Peter Caffrey, Irish actor (b. 1949)
2008 - Salvatore Bonanno, son of Joseph Bonnano (b. 1932)
2008 - Harold Corsini, American photographer (b. 1919)
379 - Saint Basil of Caesarea (b. 330)
404 - Saint Telemachus
874 - Hasan al-Askari, eleventh Shia Imam (b. 846)
898 - Odo, Count of Paris (b. 860)
962 - Baldwin III, Count of Flanders (c. 940)

Friday, December 30, 2011

Famous Deaths on 31 Dec

Famous Deaths on 31 Dec

1164 - Margrave Ottokar III of Styria (b. 1124)
1194 - Duke Leopold V of Austria (killed at a tournament) (b. 1157)
1297 - Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1249)
1302 - Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238)
1384 - John Wycliffe, English theologian and Bible translator
1424 - Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, English military leader
1460 - Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed) (b. 1443)
1460 - Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician (b. 1400)
1510 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1472)
1535 - William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465)
1568 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1493)
1575 - Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (b. 1502)
1583 - Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (b. 1524)
1610 - Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (b. 1540)
1650 - Dorgon, Chinese emperor (b. 1612)
1673 - Oliver St John, English statesman and judge
1679 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)
1691 - Dudley North, English economist (b. 1641)
1719 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (b. 1646)
1742 - Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661)
1799 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (b. 1723)
1872 - Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (b. 1834)
1877 - Gustave Courbet, French painter (b. 1819)
1888 - Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (b. 1808)
1889 - Ion Creangă, Romanian writer (b. 1837 or 1839)
1890 - Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (b. 1826)
1894 - Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician (b. 1856)
1905 - Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)
1910 - Arch Hoxsey, American aviator (b. 1884)
1910 - John Moisant, American aviator (b. 1868)
192 - Commodus, Roman Emperor (b. 161)
1921 - Boies Penrose, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (b. 1860)
1936 - Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (b. 1864)
1948 - Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver (b. 1885)
1952 - Hank Williams, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter (b.1923)
1953 - Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer (b. 1889)
1964 - Ã"lafur Thors, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1892)
1964 - Bobby Byrne, baseball player (b. 1884)
1969 - George Lewis, American clarinetist (b. 1900)
1971 - Pete Duel American actor (b. 1940)
1971 - Marin Sais, American actress (b. 1890)
1971 - Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (b. 1919)
1972 - Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1934)
1977 - Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, ruler of Kuwait (b. 1924)
1980 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer (b. 1911)
1980 - Raoul Walsh, American film director (b. 1887)
1985 - Rick Nelson, American singer (b. 1940)
1986 - Lloyd Haynes, American actor (b. 1934)
1987 - Jerry Turner, Baltimore Anchorman (b. 1929)
1990 - Vasili Lazarev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1928)
1990 - George Allen, American football coach
1993 - Maj-Gen John Frost, British para commander, Operation Market-Garden (b. 1912)
1993 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first President of Georgia (b. 1939)
1993 - Brandon Teena, Transsexual, murdered (b. 1972)
1994 - Leigh Bowery, Australian-born English fashion performance artist (b. 1961)
1994 - Woody Strode, American actor and decathlete (b. 1914)
1997 - Michael Kennedy, American politician (b. 1958)
1997 - Floyd Cramer, American musician (b. 1933)
1997 - Billie Dove, American actress (b. 1903)
1999 - Elliot Richardson, American politician (b. 1920)
2000 - Alan Cranston, American politician (b. 1914)
2000 - José Greco, Italian-born American flamenco dancer and choreographer (b. 1918)
2001 - Eileen Heckart, American actress (b. 1919)
2002 - Kevin MacMichael, American guitarist (Cutting Crew) (b. 1951)
2003 - Arthur R. von Hippel German-born physicist (b. 1898)
2004 - Gerard Debreu, French-born economist, Bank of Sweden Prize laureate (b. 1921)
2005 - Phillip Whitehead, British politician (b. 1937)
2005 - Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor (b. 1932)
2006 - George Sisler, Jr., baseball executive (b. 1917)
2007 - Kathryn Ish, American actress (b. 1936)
2007 - Milton L. Klein, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
2007 - Markku Peltola, Finnish actor and musician (b. 1956)
2007 - Bill Idelson, American actor (b. 1919)
2007 - Michael Goldberg, American painter (b. 1924)
2007 - Tony Elliott, American football player (b. 1959)
2007 - Tommy Dickson, British footballer (b. 1929)
2007 - Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect and designer (b. 1917)
335 - St. Silvester, Pope

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Famous Deaths on 30 Dec

Famous Deaths on 30 Dec

1218 - Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162)
1460 - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (killed in battle) (b. 1411)
1525 - Jacob Fugger, German banker (b. 1459)
1572 - Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (b. 1512)
1573 - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer (b. 1504)
1591 - Pope Innocent IX (b. 1519)
1621 - Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint (b. 1550)
1640 - John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
1644 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (b. 1577)
1662 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria (b. 1628)
1691 - Robert Boyle, Irish scientist (b. 1627)
1769 - Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (b. 1685)
1803 - Francis Lewis, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (b. 1713)
1896 - José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines (b. 1861) (executed)
1908 - Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator (b. 1844)
1941 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890)
1944 - Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
1947 - Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
1947 - Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forgers (b. 1889)
1954 - Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1863)
1955 - Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (b. 1913)
1967 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1887)
1968 - Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General (b. 1896)
1970 - Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)
1971 - Melba Rae, American actress (Search for Tomorrow) (b. 1922)
1979 - Richard Rodgers, American composer (b. 1902)
1981 - Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (b. 1959)
1984 - Massa, oldest gorilla on record (b. 1930)
1986 - Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
1988 - Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (b. 1925)
1989 - Lenore Lemmon, wife of George Reeves (b. 1923)
1992 - Ling-Ling, panda given to the USA by China (b. 1969)
1993 - Mack David, American lyricist and songwriter (b. 1912)
1993 - Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American Hollywood talent agent (b. 1907)
1993 - Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (b. 1907)
1994 - Maureen Starkey, wife of Ringo Starr (b. 1946)
1994 - Dmitri Ivanenko, Russian physicist (b. 1904)
1995 - Ralph Flanagan - American band leader (b. 1914)
1995 - Doris Grau, American actress (b. 1924)
1996 - Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)
1996 - Jack Nance, American actor (b. 1943)
1997 - Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist (b. 1926)
1998 - George Webb, English actor (b. 1911)
1998 - Johnny Moore, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1934)
1999 - Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (b. 1909)
1999 - Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person (b. 1880)
2000 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
2002 - Mary Brian, American actress (b. 1906)
2002 - Mary Wesley, English novelist (b. 1912)
2003 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (b. 1963)
2003 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer (b. 1932)
2003 - David Bale, South African-born activist (b. 1941)
2004 - Artie Shaw, American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910)
2005 - Rona Jaffe, American author (b. 1932)
2006 - Terry Peck, Falkland Islander (b. 1938) who acted as a scout for 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War
2006 - Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
2006 - Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi President (b. 1937) (executed)

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Famous Deaths on 29 Dec

Famous Deaths on 29 Dec

1170 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. 1118)
1563 - Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515)
1634 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612)
1661 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
1689 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624)
1731 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685)
1737 - Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659)
1785 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742)
1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748)
1891 - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (b. 1823)
1894 - Christina Rossetti, English poet (b. 1830)
1897 - William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812)
1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
1924 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer (b. 1875)
1929 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)
1937 - Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878)
1953 - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress(b. 1887)
1960 - Eden Phillpotts, British writer (b. 1862)
1960 - Philippe Panneton, Quebec physician, diplomat and writer (b. 1895)
1967 - Paul Whiteman, American musician and conductor (b. 1890)
1968 - Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
1970 - Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909)
1975 - Euell Gibbons, American outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets (b. 1911).
1976 - Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete (b. 1954)
1980 - Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
1980 - Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899)
1981 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (b. 1893)
1986 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
1988 - Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (b. 1940)
1993 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor (b. 1930)
1995 - Lita Grey, American actress (b. 1908)
1996 - Mireille Hartuch, French singer and actress (b. 1906)
1998 - Jean-Claude Forest, writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella) (b. 1930)
1999 - Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist (b. 1906)
2001 - Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b. 1908)
2003 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (b. 1928)
2003 - Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942)
2003 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (b. 1932)
2004 - Ken Burkhart, American baseball player (b. 1915)
2004 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
2004 - Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947)
2005 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. 1922)
2007 - Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
2007 - Kevin Greening, British radio presenter (b. 1962)
721 - Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661)

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Famous Deaths on 28 Dec

Famous Deaths on 28 Dec

1367 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330)
1446 - Antipope Clement VIII
1503 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1471)
1558 - Hermann Finck, German composer (b. 1527)
1622 - Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (b. 1567)
1663 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)
1671 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611)
1694 - Queen Mary II of England (b. 1662), of the famed joint monarchy William and Mary.
1703 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664)
1706 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (b. 1647)
1708 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (b. 1656)
1715 - William Carstares, Scottish minister (b. 1649)
1734 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (b. 1671)
1736 - Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (b. 1670)
1795 - Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (b. 1747)
1859 - Thomas Macaulay, British poet (b. 1800)
1872 - James Van Ness, Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856) (b. 1808)
1877 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1897 - Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (b. 1833)
1900 - Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer (b. 1846)
1916 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (b. 1835)
1917 - Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892)
1918 - Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (b. 1865)
1919 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854)
1924 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)
1932 - Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
1937 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (b. 1875)
1938 - Florence Lawrence, American actress (b. 1886)
1943 - Steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1945 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (b. 1871)
1947 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)
1949 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (b. 1910)
1952 - Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897)
1959 - Ante Pavelić, leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (b. 1889)
1962 - Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887)
1963 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895)
1967 - Otis Redding, Black American soul singer (b. 1941)
1967 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (b. 1875)
1971 - Max Steiner, Austrian-born American film music composer (b. 1888)
1976 - Katharine Byron, American politician (b. 1903)
1976 - Freddie King, American musician (b. 1934)
1981 - Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885)
1983 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1944)
1983 - Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (b. 1910)
1983 - William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)
1984 - Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1925)
1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (b. 1932)
1989 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist (b. 1894)
1991 - Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (b. 1952)
1992 - Sal Maglie, American baseball player (b. 1917)
1993 - William L. Shirer, American journalist (b. 1904)
1994 - Jean-Louis Lévesque, French Canadian entrepreneur (b. 1911)
1999 - Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
2001 - Samuel A. Goldblith, American food scientist (b. 1919)
2001 - William X. Kienzle, American novelist (b. 1928)
2003 - Benjamin Hacker, American admiral (b. 1935)
2004 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (b. 1935)
2004 - Susan Sontag, American writer (b. 1933)
2006 - Jamal Karimi-Rad, Iranian Minister of Justice (b. 1956)
2007 - Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani Prime Minister (b. 1953)
300 - Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria

Monday, December 26, 2011

Famous Deaths on 27 Dec

Famous Deaths on 27 Dec

1076 - Prince Svyatoslav II of Kiev (b. 1027)
1381 - Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician
1548 - Francesco Spiera, Italian Protestant jurist (b. 1502)
1603 - Thomas Cartwright, English Puritan clergyman
1707 - Jean Mabillon, French palaeograopher and diplomat (b. 1632)
1737 - William Bowyer, English printer (b. 1663)
1743 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (b. 1659)
1771 - Henri Pitot, French engineer (b. 1695)
1782 - Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish philosopher (b. 1697)
1800 - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (b. 1718)
1812 - Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Chabad Hasidism (b. 1745)
1812 - Joanna Southcott, an English self-described religious prophetess.
1834 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (b. 1775)
1836 - Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (b. 1793)
1858 - Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (b. 1785)
1896 - John Brown, British manufacturer (b. 1816)
1900 - William George Armstrong, English inventor, industrialist, and engineer (b. 1810)
1914 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and inventor (b. 1863)
1923 - Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (b. 1832)
1925 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (b. 1895)
1938 - Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (b. 1889)
1938 - Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (b. 1891)
1950 - Max Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884)
1952 - Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1878)
1953 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)
1955 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (b. 1881)
1956 - Lambert McKenna, Irish editor and lexicographer. (b. 1870)
1965 - Edgar Ende, German painter (b. 1901)
1966 - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (b. 1906)
1972 - Lester B. Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1897)
1974 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (b. 1898)
1978 - Houari Boumédienne, President of Algeria (b. 1932)
1978 - Bob Luman, American country and rockabilly singer (b. 1937)
1979 - Hafizullah Amin, second President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)
1981 - Hoagy Carmichael, American composer and singer (b. 1899)
1982 - John Swigert, American astronaut (b. 1931)
1987 - Geoffrey D Lloyd, Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors (b. 1933)
1988 - Hal Ashby, American film director (b. 1929)
1992 - Kay Boyle, American writer (b. 1902)
1993 - André Pilette, Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)
1994 - Fanny Cradock, English food writer and broadcaster (b. 1909)
1994 - J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (b. 1902)
1995 - Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (b. 1909)
1997 - Billy Wright, Irish Protestant paramilitary leader (b. 1960)
1997 - Brendan Gill, American columnist and humorist (b. 1914)
2002 - George Roy Hill, American film director (b. 1922)
2003 - Alan Bates, English actor (b. 1934)
2003 - Iván Calderón, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1962)
2004 - Hank Garland, American musician (b. 1930)
2005 - William Doody, Canadian politician (b. 1931)
2007 - Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish film director (b. 1922)
2007 - Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (assassinated) (b. 1953)
2007 - Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (b. 1920)
418 - Zosimus, Greek pope

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Famous Deaths on 26 Dec

Famous Deaths on 26 Dec

1350 - Jean de Marigny, French bishop
1458 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1393)
1476 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1444)
1530 - Babur, Emperor of the Mogul empire (b. 1483)
1574 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1524)
1624 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (b. 1573)
1731 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (b. 1672)
1771 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (b. 1715)
1780 - John Fothergill, English physician (b. 1712)
1784 - Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743)
1786 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (b. 1713)
1869 - Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, French physiologist (b. 1797)
1890 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (b. 1822)
1909 - Frederic Remington, American artist (b. 1861)
1923 - Dietrich Eckart, German Nazi politician (b. 1868)
1931 - Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal classification (b. 1851)
1933 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (b. 1875)
1957 - Charles Pathé, French film and recording industries pioneer (b. 1863)
1960 - Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)
1963 - George Wagner (Gorgeous George), American professional wrestler and television personality (b. 1915)
1966 - Herbert Otto Gille, German SS officer (b. 1897)
1970 - Lillian Board, British athlete (b. 1948)
1972 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884)
1973 - Harold B. Lee, 11th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
1974 - Farid al-Atrash, Arab composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor (b. 1915)
1974 - Jack Benny, American comedian (b. 1894)
1977 - Howard Hawks, American film director and writer (b. 1896)
1980 - Tony Smith, American sculptor (b. 1912)
1981 - Amber Reeves, feminist writer (b. 1887)
1981 - Savithri, Indian actress (b. 1937)
1983 - Violet Carson, British actress (b. 1898)
1985 - Dian Fossey, American gorilla specialist (b. 1932)
1985 - Harold P. Warren, American movie director (d. 1928)
1986 - Elsa Lanchester, British-born actress (b. 1902)
1988 - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (b. 1907)
1989 - Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
1992 - Nikita Magaloff, Russian pianist (b. 1912)
1996 - JonBenét Ramsey, noted murder victim (b. 1990)
1997 - Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist (b. 1922)
1999 - Curtis Mayfield, American musician (b. 1942)
1999 - Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (b. 1918)
2000 - Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
2001 - Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929)
2002 - Herb Ritts, American photographer (b. 1952)
2002 - Armand Zildjian, American cymbal manufacturer (b. 1921)
2004 - Troy Broadbridge, Australian rules footballer, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1980)
2004 - Mieszko Talarczyk, Lead singer/Guitarist of grindcore band, Nasum, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1974)
2004 - Aki Sirkesalo, Finnish musician, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1962)
2004 - Reggie White, American football player (b. 1961)
2004 - Sigurd Køhn, Norwegian jazz musician, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1959)
2004 - Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African pediatric heart surgeon (b. 1959)
2004 - Marianne Heiberg, Norwegian mediator (b. 1945)
2004 - Sir Angus Ogilvy, British businessman, husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent (b. 1928)
2005 - Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b. 1948)
2005 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (b. 1937)
2005 - Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1937)
2005 - Erich Topp, German submarine commander (b. 1914)
2006 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
2006 - Ivar Formo, Norwegian skier (b. 1951)
2007 - Stu Nahan, American Sportscaster (b. 1926)
2007 - John A. Garraty, 87, American biographer (b. 1920)
2007 - Joe Dolan, 64, Irish singer and entertainer (b. 1943)
268 - Pope Dionysius
418 - Pope Zosimus

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Famous Deaths on 25 Dec

Famous Deaths on 25 Dec

1156 - Peter the Venerable, Benedictine abbot of Cluny (b. c. 1092)
1635 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec City (b. 1567)
1676 - Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609)
1676 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier (b. 1592)
1683 - Kara Mustafa, Ottoman general (b. 1634)
1758 - James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714)
1765 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (b. 1698)
1784 - Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716)
1824 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer (b. 1764)
1868 - Linus Yale, Jr., American mechanical engineer and inventor (b. 1821)
1875 - Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1851)
1880 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1828)
1916 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic saint (b. 1845)
1921 - Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (b. 1853)
1925 - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877)
1926 - Emperor Taishō of Japan (b. 1879)
1933 - Francesc Macià , Catalonian statesman (b. 1859)
1935 - Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (b. 1852)
1938 - Karel ÄŒapek, Czech author (b. 1890)
1940 - Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898)
1944 - George Steer, British Journalist (b. 1909)
1946 - W. C. Fields, American comedian (b. 1880)
1947 - Gaspar G. Bacon, was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886)
1950 - Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (b. 1903)
1953 - Patsy Donovan, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1865)
1954 - Johnny Ace, American singer (b. 1929)
1961 - Otto Loewi, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
1961 - Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine (b. 1888)
1963 - Tristan Tzara, Romanian-born writer (b. 1896)
1973 - İsmet İnönü, Turkish statesman (b. 1884)
1973 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (b. 1880)
1975 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (b. 1881)
1977 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor (b. 1889)
1979 - Joan Blondell, American actress (b. 1906)
1979 - Jordi Bonet, Quebec muralist and sculptor (b. 1932)
1983 - Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893)
1988 - Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (b. 1920)
1988 - Ooka Shohei, Japanese novelist (b. 1909)
1989 - Billy Martin, American baseball manager (b. 1928)
1989 - Elena CeauÅŸescu, Romanian politician (executed) (b. 1916)
1989 - Nicolae CeauÅŸescu, Romanian dictator (executed) (b. 1918)
1992 - Monica Dickens, British writer (b. 1915)
1993 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
1994 - Zail Singh, President of India (b. 1916)
1995 - Dean Martin, American singer (b. 1917)
1995 - Emmanuel Levinas, French Philosopher (b. 1906)
1996 - JonBenet Ramsey, American beauty queen (b. 1990)
1997 - Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920)
1998 - Bryan MacLean, American singer, musician and songwriter (Love) (b. 1946)
1998 - John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1926)
1999 - Peter Jeffrey, English actor (b. 1929)
2000 - Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1939
2000 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (b. 1908)
2002 - William T. Orr, American television producer (b. 1917)
2003 - Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (b. 1929)
2004 - Gennady Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1940)
2005 - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (b. 1930)
2005 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish singer (b. 1918)
2005 - Robert Barbers, Philippine senator (b. 1944)
2006 - James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
2006 - Hiroaki Hidaka, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
2007 - Desmond Barrick, English Cricketer (b. 1927)
2007 - Mighty King Kong, Kenyan reggae musician. (b. 1973)
795 - Pope Adrian I

Friday, December 23, 2011

Famous Deaths on 24 Dec

Famous Deaths on 24 Dec

1257 - John I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1218)
1453 - John Dunstaple, English composer (bc. 1390)
1524 - Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (bc. 1469)
1660 - Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1631)
1707 - Noël Coypel, French painter (b. 1628)
1813 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740)
1863 - William Makepeace Thackeray, British writer (b. 1811)
1865 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter and writer (b. 1793)
1868 - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
1872 - William John Macquorn Rankine, British physician and engenier (b. 1820)
1873 - Johns Hopkins, Baltimore philanthropist and businessman (b. 1795)
1889 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (b. 1819)
1898 - Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (b. 1828)
1914 - John Muir, British naturalist (b. 1838)
1935 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer (b. 1885)
1938 - Bruno Taut, German architect (b. 1880)
1941 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858)
1942 - François Darlan, vice-premier of Vichy France (b. 1881)
1957 - Norma Talmadge, American actress (b. 1893)
1965 - William M. Branham, Christian minister (b. 1906)
1971 - Maria Koepcke, ornithologist (b. 1924)
1972 - Gisela Richter, British art historian (b. 1882)
1972 - Melville Ruick, American actor (b. 1898)
1975 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (b. 1911)
1976 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (b. 1907)
1977 - Samael Aun Weor, Columbian writer (b. 1917)
1980 - Siggie Nordstrom, model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The Nordstrom Sisters (b. 1893)
1980 - Karl Dönitz, German naval admiral, and last leader of Nazi Germany (b. 1891)
1982 - Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897)
1984 - Peter Lawford, British actor (b. 1923)
1985 - Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Last Lincoln descendant (b. 1904)
1986 - Gardner Fox, American writer (b. 1911)
1987 - M. G. Ramachandran, Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu (b. 1917)
1987 - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)
1990 - Thorbjørn Egner, Norwegian author (b. 1922)
1992 - Bobby LaKind, American musician and singer (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1945)
1992 - Peyo, Belgian comics artist, and creator of The Smurfs (b. 1928)
1993 - Norman Vincent Peale, American writer (b. 1898)
1994 - Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor and singer (b. 1916)
1994 - John Boswell, American historian (b. 1947)
1997 - Toshirō Mifune, Japanese actor (b. 1920)
1997 - Pierre Péladeau, Quebec businessman, founder of Quebecor (b. 1925)
1999 - João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
1999 - Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician, Prime minister of France (b. 1907)
1999 - Bill Bowerman, American track and field coach
2000 - Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (b. 1935)
2000 - John Cooper, English race car designer (b. 1923)
2002 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
2002 - Laci Peterson, American murder victim (b. 1975)
2004 - Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
2005 - Michael Vale, American commercial actor (b. 1922)
2006 - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (b. 1907)
2006 - Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian singer, poet and comedian (b. 1961)
2006 - Frank Stanton, American television executive (b. 1908)
2007 - Nicholas Pumfrey, British judge (b. 1951)
2007 - Akbar Radi, Iranian dramatist and playwright (b. 1939)
427 - Archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople
820 - Leo V, Byzantine Emperor (assassinated) (b. 775)

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Famous Deaths on 23 Dec

Famous Deaths on 23 Dec

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

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Famous Deaths on 22 Dec

Famous Deaths on 22 Dec

1100 - Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia
1550 - Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III
1603 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (b. 1566)
1646 - Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)
1660 - André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)
1681 - Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)
1708 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681)
1738 - Constantia Jones, British prostitute (executed)
1767 - John Newbery, English publisher (b. 1713)
1788 - Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)
1806 - William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)
1828 - William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (b. 1766)
1867 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (b. 1788)
1870 - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1836)
1880 - George Eliot, English writer (b. 1819)
1899 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (b. 1837)
1902 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychiatrist (b. 1840)
1917 - Mother Cabrini, first American citizen canonized by the Catholic Church (b. 1850)
1939 - Ma Rainey, American singer (b. 1886)
1940 - Nathanael West, American writer (b. 1903)
1942 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist (b. 1858)
1943 - Beatrix Potter, English writer (b. 1866)
1944 - Harry Langdon, American silent film actor (b. 1884)
1947 - Hans Aumeier, German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
1947 - Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (b. 1902)
1959 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American dancer and actress (b. 1901)
1965 - Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1913)
1971 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch author and television personality (b. 1913)
1979 - Darryl F. Zanuck, American producer (b. 1902)
1985 - D. Boon, American singer and guitarist (The Minutemen) (b. 1958)
1988 - Chico Mendes, Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist, and environmental activist (assassinated) (b. 1944)
1989 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1992 - Frederick Franz, Watchtower president (b. 1893)
1993 - Don DeFore, American actor (b. 1913)
1995 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (b. 1911)
1995 - James Meade, English economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1907)
1998 - Michelle Thomas, American actress (b. 1969)
2002 - Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana (b. 1929)
2002 - Joe Strummer, English musician (The Clash) (b. 1952)
2003 - Dave Dudley, American singer (b. 1928)
2004 - Doug Ault, American baseball player (b. 1950)
2006 - Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer (b. 1919)
2006 - Dennis Linde, American songwriter (b. 1943)
2007 - Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (b. 1932)

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Famous Deaths on 21 Dec

Famous Deaths on 21 Dec

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

Monday, December 19, 2011

Famous Deaths on 20 Dec

Famous Deaths on 20 Dec

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

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Famous Deaths on 19 Dec

Famous Deaths on 19 Dec

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

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Famous Deaths on 18 Dec

Famous Deaths on 18 Dec

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

Friday, December 16, 2011

Famous Deaths on 17 Dec

Famous Deaths on 17 Dec

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

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Famous Deaths on 16 Dec

Famous Deaths on 16 Dec

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

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Famous Deaths on 15 Dec

Famous Deaths on 15 Dec

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

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Famous Deaths on 14 Dec

Famous Deaths on 14 Dec

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

Monday, December 12, 2011

Famous Deaths on 13 Dec

Famous Deaths on 13 Dec

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

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Famous Deaths on 12 Dec

Famous Deaths on 12 Dec

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

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Famous Deaths on 11 Dec

Famous Deaths on 11 Dec

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

Friday, December 9, 2011

Famous Deaths on 10 Dec

Famous Deaths on 10 Dec

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

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Famous Deaths on 9 Dec

Famous Deaths on 9 Dec

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

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Famous Deaths on 8 Dec

Famous Deaths on 8 Dec

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

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Famous Deaths on 7 Dec

Famous Deaths on 7 Dec

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

Monday, December 5, 2011

Famous Deaths on 6 Dec

Famous Deaths on 6 Dec

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

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Famous Deaths on 5 Dec

Famous Deaths on 5 Dec

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

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Famous Deaths on 4 Dec

Famous Deaths on 4 Dec

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