Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths on 29 Jan

2012-01-29T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 29 Jan

1119 - Pope Gelasius II
1240 - Pelagio Galvani, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (b. va. 1165)
1342 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
1597 - Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
1608 - Frederick I, Duke of WÃ¼rttemberg (b. 1557)
1647 - Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
1678 - Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
1696 - Ivan V, Russian tsar (b. 1666)
1706 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
1737 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)
1743 - AndrÃ©-Hercule de Fleury, chief minister under Louis XV of France (b. 1653)
1763 - Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
1829 - Paul FranÃ§ois Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755)
1870 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
1871 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de GaspÃ©, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786)
1899 - Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (b. 1839)
1901 - Milan I, King of Serbia (b. 1855)
1906 - King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
1918 - Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian-counter revolutionary (b. 1861)
1928 - Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
1933 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
1934 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1868)
1941 - Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (b. 1871)
1946 - Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)
1948 - Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900)
1950 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)
1951 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
1956 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)
1962 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875)
1963 - Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
1964 - Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)
1966 - Pierre Mercure, French Canadian composer (b. 1927)
1969 - Allen Dulles, American CIA director (b. 1893)
1970 - Basil Liddell Hart, British historian (b. 1895)
1977 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)
1977 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)
1980 - Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893)
1986 - Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)
1989 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900)
1991 - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
1992 - Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)
1993 - Ron Kostelnik, American football player (b. 1940)
1994 - Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1967)
1998 - Joseph Alioto, mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)
1999 - Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918)
2002 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)
2002 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b. 1914)
2003 - Frank Moss, American politician (b. 1911)
2004 - Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (b. 1924)
2004 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (b. 1908)
2005 - Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)
2005 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirst (b. 1924)
2007 - Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003)
2007 - Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi extremist leader (b. 1970)
2008 - Raymond Jacobs, American soldier (b. 1925)
2008 - Philippe Khorsand, French actor (b. 1948)

Famous Deaths on 28 Jan

2012-01-28T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 28 Jan

1061 - Duke SpytihnÄ›v II of Bohemia (b. 1031)
1271 - Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)
1443 - Robert le MaÃ§on, Chancellor of France
1547 - King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
1596 - Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier
1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
1613 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545)
1621 - Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
1672 - Pierre SÃ©guier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
1681 - Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619)
1687 - Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611)
1697 - John Fenwick, English conspirator
1754 - Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (b. 1684)
1832 - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)
1859 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
1864 - Ã‰mile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)
1903 - Augusta HolmÃ¨s, French composer (b. 1847)
1912 - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)
1915 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)
1918 - John McCrae, Canadian poet (b. 1872)
1935 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859)
1937 - Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (b. 1862)
1938 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (b. 1909)
1939 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1865)
1947 - Reynaldo Hahn, French composer (b. 1875)
1949 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
1950 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)
1951 - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of Finland (b.1867)
1953 - James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
1953 - Derek Bentley (b. 1933) (executed)
1959 - Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)
1960 - Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891)
1963 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)
1965 - Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b. 1867)
1965 - Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
1971 - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
1973 - John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910)
1975 - Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
1979 - Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (b. 1901)
1983 - Billy Fury, British singer (b. 1940)
1983 - Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
1986 - Michael J. Smith - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1945)
1986 - Francis R. Scobee - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1939)
1986 - Judith Resnik - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1949)
1986 - Ellison Onizuka - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1946)
1986 - Ronald McNair - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1950)
1986 - Christa McAuliffe - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1948)
1986 - Greg Jarvis - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1944)
1988 - Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (b. 1911)
1994 - Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)
1996 - Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Laureate (b. 1940)
1996 - Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
1996 - Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
1999 - Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918)
1999 - Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (b. 1908)
2001 - Curt Blefary, American baseball player (b. 1943)
2002 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)
2004 - Don Stansauk, American professional wrestler (b. 1936)
2004 - Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (b. 1927)
2004 - Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (b. 1923)
2004 - Elroy Hirsch, American football player (b. 1923)
2004 - Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)
2005 - Karen Lancaume, French actress (suicide) (b. 1973)
2005 - Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
2005 - Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)
2006 - Henry McGee, English comedian (b. 1929)
2006 - Yitzchak Kaduri, rabbi (b. around 1900)
2007 - Carlo Clerici, Swiss professional road racing cyclist (b. 1929)
2007 - Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic Priest and American politician (b. 1920)
2007 - Karel Svoboda, Czech composer of popular music (b. 1938)
2007 - Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
2007 - Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (b. 1963)
2007 - Emma Tillman, the world's oldest living person from January 24-28, 2007 (b. 1892)
2008 - Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece (b. 1939)
2008 - Bengt LindstrÃ¶m, Swedish artist (b. 1925)
814 - Charlemagne (b. 742)

Famous Deaths on 27 Jan

2012-01-27T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 27 Jan

1490 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)
1595 - Sir Francis Drake, European explorer (b. c.1540)
1629 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)
1638 - Gonzalo de CÃ©spedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist
1731 - Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian musical instrument maker (b. 1655)
1740 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692)
1814 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1762)
1816 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (b. 1724)
1851 - John James Audubon, French-born naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1789)
1857 - Dorothea Lieven, Russian noblewoman (b. 1785)
1860 - JÃ¡nos Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1802)
1880 - Edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b. 1830)
1901 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
1910 - Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b. 1836)
1919 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877)
1921 - Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian soldier (b. 1891)
1927 - Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army
1927 - Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-MatuleviÄius (Matulewicz), Lithuanian bishop
1940 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (b. 1894)
1942 - Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1888)
1956 - Erich Kleiber, Argentine conductor (b. 1890)
1967 - Roger Chaffee - Crew of Apollo 1 (b. 1935)
1967 - Virgil "Gus" Grissom - Crew of Apollo 1 (b. 1926)
1967 - Edward White - Crew of Apollo 1 (b. 1930)
1967 - Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888)
1970 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
1971 - Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
1972 - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (b. 1888)
1972 - Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
1973 - William Nolde, last American combat casualty of Vietnam War (b. 1929)
1975 - Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (b. 1913)
1979 - Qalander Ba Ba Auliya, Sufi master (b. 1898)
1983 - Louis de FunÃ¨s, French actor (b. 1914)
1986 - Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (b. 1914)
1988 - Massa Makan DiabatÃ©, Malian author (b. 1938)
1989 - Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
1989 - Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (b. 1918)
1993 - AndrÃ© the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)
1994 - Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1918)
1996 - Ralph Yarborough, American politician (b. 1903)
1997 - Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (b. 1900)
2000 - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (b. 1930)
2001 - Stavros Damianides, Greek musician (b. 1941)
2003 - Henryk JabÅ‚oÅ„ski, President of Poland (b. 1909)
2003 - Louis Archambault, Quebec sculptor (b. 1915)
2004 - Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)
2004 - Salvador Laurel, Vice President of the Philippines (b. 1928)
2006 - Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (disappeared) (b. 1965)
2006 - Gene McFadden, American singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
2006 - Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
2007 - Tige Andrews, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 - Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese athlete (b. 1933)
2008 - Louie Welch, mayor of Houston (b. 1918)
2008 - Suharto, President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
2008 - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1910)
2008 - Gordon B. Hinckley, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
98 - Nerva, Roman Emperor (b. 35)

Famous Deaths on 26 Jan

2012-01-26T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 26 Jan

1567 - Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
1630 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
1636 - Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)
1697 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)
1744 - Ludwig Andreas Graf KhevenhÃ¼ller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)
1750 - Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
1795 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (b. 1732)
1799 - Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)
1823 - Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749)
1824 - ThÃ©odore GÃ©ricault, French painter (b. 1791)
1855 - GÃ©rard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
1869 - Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)
1870 - Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785)
1885 - Charles George Gordon, British general (b. 1833)
1885 - Edward Davy, English inventor (b. 1806)
1886 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
1891 - Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor (b. 1833)
1893 - Abner Doubleday, credited inventor of baseball (b. 1819)
1904 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)
1926 - John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University
1932 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (b. 1861)
1933 - Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)
1942 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (b. 1868)
1943 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880)
1943 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist (b. 1887)
1946 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1884)
1947 - Grace Moore, American soprano (b. 1898)
1947 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of VÃ¤sterbotten, (b. 1906)
1952 - Khorloogiin Choibalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895)
1953 - Athanase David, French Canadian politician and businessman (b. 1882)
1961 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900)
1962 - Lucky Luciano, American mobster (b. 1897)
1968 - Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900)
1968 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883)
1973 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893)
1973 - Jay C. Higginbotham, American musician (b. 1906)
1976 - JoÃ£o Branco NÃºncio, Portuguese Bullfighter (b. 1901)
1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)
1983 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (b. 1913)
1990 - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (b. 1914)
1990 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895)
1992 - JosÃ© Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912)
1993 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (b. 1905)
1993 - Jeanne SauvÃ©, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1922)
1993 - Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (b. 1912)
1996 - Stevie Plunder, Australian musician (b. 1963)
1996 - Dave Schultz, American wrestler (b. 1959)
1996 - Henry Lewis, American musician and conductor (b. 1932)
1996 - Harold Brodkey, American author (b. 1930)
1996 - Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1921)
1997 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)
1998 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (b. 1898)
2000 - Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915)
2000 - Kathleen Hale, British author (b. 1898)
2000 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (b. 1912)
2001 - Al McGuire, American basketball coach (b. 1928)
2003 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet Olympic athlete (b. 1942)
2003 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)
2003 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (b. 1931)
2004 - Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)
2006 - Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist (b. 1917)
2006 - Len Carlson, Canadian actor (b. 1937)
2006 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)
2007 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
2007 - Hans J. Wegner, Danish furniture designer (b. 1914)
2008 - Christian Brando, actor and son of Marlon Brando (b 1958)
946 - Eadgyth, German Queen

Famous Deaths on 25 Jan

2012-01-25T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 25 Jan

1067 - Emperor Yingzong of China (b. 1032)
1366 - Henry Suso, German mystic
1431 - Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
1494 - King Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
1559 - King Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (b. 1481)
1573 - Hirate Hirohide, Japanese samurai (b. 1553)
1586 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)
1640 - Robert Burton, English scholar (b. 1577)
1670 - Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
1726 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
1733 - Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London (b. 1652)
1751 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (b. 1675)
1852 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)
1881 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)
1907 - RenÃ© Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
1908 - Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
1908 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
1912 - Dmitry Milyutin, Russian Field Marshal (b. 1816)
1925 - Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (b. 1858)
1940 - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)
1947 - Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
1949 - Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesmanã(b. 1861)
1957 - Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist and Minister of Commerce and Industry (b. 1873)
1957 - Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
1963 - Wilson Kettle, Guinness World Record holder for most living descendants (b. 1860)
1969 - Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1887)
1970 - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1877)
1970 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese television writer and producer (Ultraman) (b. 1901)
1972 - Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1975 - Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896)
1976 - Chris Kenner, American singer and songwriter (b. 1929)
1980 - Queenie Watts, English actress (b. 1926)
1981 - Adele Astaire, American dancer (b. 1897)
1982 - Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (b. 1902)
1990 - Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
1994 - Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
1995 - Cal Jammer, American actor (b. 1960)
1996 - Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)
1999 - Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (b. 1924)
1999 - Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
1999 - Sarah "Sadie" Delany, American author (b. 1889)
2003 - Samuel Weems, Arkansas judge (b. 1936)
2004 - MiklÃ³s FehÃ©r, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
2004 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)
2005 - Nettie Witziers-Timmer, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2005 - StanisÅ‚aw Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
2005 - William Augustus Bootle, American judge (b. 1902)
2005 - Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)
2005 - Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (b. 1907)
2005 - Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
2006 - Anna Malle, adult film star (b. 1967)
2008 - Christopher Allport, American actor (b. 1947)
2008 - Evelyn Barbirolli,English musician (b. 1911)
389 - Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)
477 - Geiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans
844 - Pope Gregory IV

Famous Deaths on 24 Jan

2012-01-24T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 24 Jan

1002 - Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
1125 - David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
1366 - Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)
1376 - Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
1473 - Conrad Paumann, German composer
1595 - Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)
1626 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (b. 1580)
1639 - Georg Jenatsch, Swiss politician (b. 1596)
1666 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (b. 1588)
1709 - George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)
1769 - FranÃ§ois de Chevert, French general (b. 1695)
1856 - Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775)
1877 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
1882 - Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)
1883 - Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812)
1895 - Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)
1911 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
1918 - George Arthur Crump, Founder of the Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon NJ (b. 1871)
1920 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
1924 - Marie-AdÃ©laÃ¯de, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
1932 - Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)
1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (b. 1867)
1943 - John Burns, English politician (b. 1858)
1948 - Maria Mandel, Camp Leader at Auschwitz (b. 1912)
1948 - Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1901)
1955 - Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)
1960 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
1961 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884)
1962 - Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (b. 1877)
1962 - AndrÃ© Lhote, french painter.
1965 - Winston Churchill, soldier, politician, historian, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1966 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (b. 1909)
1970 - Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)
1971 - Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
1973 - Masao Ohba, world champion Japanese boxer (b. 1949)
1973 - J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1897)
1975 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)
1978 - Herta Oberheuser, German doctor (b. 1911)
1980 - Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress, (b. 1887)
1982 - Alfredo Ovando CandÃa, Bolivian president and dictator (b. 1918)
1983 - George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
1986 - Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
1986 - Flo Hyman, American volleyball player (b. 1954)
1988 - Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (b. 1905)
1989 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)
1989 - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (b. 1937)
1990 - Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899)
1991 - John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)
1992 - Ken Darby, American composer, arranger and conductor (b. 1909)
1992 - Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (b. 1950)
1993 - Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1908)
1993 - UÄŸur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1942)
1994 - Yves Navarre, French writer (b. 1940)
41 - Caligula, Emperor of Rome (b. 12)
772 - Pope Stephen III (b. 720)

Famous Deaths on 23 Jan

2012-01-23T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 23 Jan

1199 - Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (b. 1160)
1548 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490)
1549 - Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498)
1567 - Jiajing, Emperor of China (b. 1507)
1570 - James Stewart, Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated)
1622 - William Baffin, English explorer (b. 1584)
1744 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
1785 - Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
1789 - John Cleland, English novelist (b. 1709)
1789 - Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724)
1800 - Edward Rutledge, American statesman (b. 1749)
1803 - Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)
1805 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763)
1806 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
1812 - Robert Craufurd, British general (b. 1764)
1820 - Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
1833 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b. 1757)
1837 - John Field, Irish composer (b. 1782)
1866 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b. 1785)
1875 - Charles Kingsley English writer (b. 1819)
1883 - Gustave DorÃ©, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
1893 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1825)
1922 - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
1923 - Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
1931 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
1937 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (b. 1876)
1939 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (b. 1903)
1943 - Alexander Woollcott, American actor, author, and bon vivant (b. 1887)
1944 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
1944 - Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909)
1956 - Alexander Korda, Hungarian/British film director (b. 1893)
1958 - Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)
1971 - Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (b. 1871)
1973 - Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
1973 - Alexander Onassis, Greek heir of the Onassis family (b. 1948)
1976 - Paul Dupuis, French Canadian film and television actor (b. 1913)
1976 - Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and social activist (b. 1898)
1977 - Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (b. 1903)
1978 - Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (b. 1946)
1978 - Jack Oakie, American actor (b. 1903)
1978 - Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers) (b. 1925)
1981 - Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910)
1983 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1984 - Mu'in Bseiso, Palestinian poet (b. 1926)
1986 - Joseph Beuys, German artist (b. 1921)
1988 - Charles Glen King, American biochemist (b. 1896)
1989 - Salvador DalÃ, Catalan artist (b. 1904)
1990 - Allen Collins, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
1991 - Northrop Frye, Canadian writer and critic (b. 1912)
1992 - Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (b. 1924)
1993 - Thomas A. Dorsey, American singer (b. 1899)
1994 - Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
1994 - Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (b. 1917)
1997 - Richard Berry, American composer and musician (b. 1935)
1999 - Jay Pritzker, American businessman (b. 1922)
1999 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (b. 1949)
2002 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
2002 - Paul Aars, American racecar driver (b. 1934)
2002 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
2003 - Nell Carter, American singer and actress (b. 1948)
2004 - Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (b. 1920)
2004 - Bob Keeshan, American actor (b. 1927)
2005 - Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (b. 1921)
2005 - Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
2006 - Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967)
2007 - E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (b. 1918)
2007 - Ryszard KapuÅ›ciÅ„ski, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1932)
2007 - Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian Politician (b. 1928)

Famous Deaths on 22 Jan

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Famous Deaths on 22 Jan

1536 - Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495)
1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
1666 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1592)
1750 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
1763 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
1767 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719)
1779 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
1779 - Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)
1840 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
1892 - Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)
1900 - David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831)
1901 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
1921 - Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
1922 - Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1837)
1922 - Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
1922 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838)
1931 - Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
1945 - Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
1949 - William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
1950 - Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
1950 - Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892)
1951 - Karl Nessler, inventor of the perm (b. 1872)
1959 - Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1929)
1966 - Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
1967 - Robert Henriques, English writer (b. 1905)
1968 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b. 1890)
1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
1975 - Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873)
1978 - Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)
1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
1981 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (b. 1903)
1982 - Tommy Tucker, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
1985 - Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (b. 1899)
1987 - Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939)
1988 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
1991 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
1993 - Abe Kobo, Japanese writer (b. 1924)
1994 - Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
1994 - Rhett Forrester, American singer (Riot) (b. 1956)
1994 - Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, matriarch of the Kennedy family (b. 1890)
1995 - Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (b. 1949)
1997 - Ron Holden, American singer (b. 1939)
1997 - Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (b. 1957)
1997 - Wally Whyton, English musician (b. 1929)
1999 - Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
2000 - Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (b. 1920)
2000 - Anne HÃ©bert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916)
2001 - Roy Brown, American clown (b. 1932)
2001 - Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2002 - Stanley Marcus, American business executive (b. 1905)
2003 - Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (b. 1921)
2004 - Billy May, American composer and musician (b. 1916)
2004 - Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918)
2004 - Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
2005 - Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917)
2005 - Consuelo VelÃ¡zquez, Mexican songwriter (b. 1924)
2005 - Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)
2005 - CÃ©sar GutiÃ©rrez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1943)
2007 - Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer
2007 - NgÃ´ Quang TrÆ°á»Ÿng, South Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
2007 - AbbÃ© Pierre, French priest (b. 1912)
2008 - Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)
2008 - Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
2008 - Miles Lerman, Polish-American activist (b. 1920)

Famous Deaths on 21 Jan

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Famous Deaths on 21 Jan

1118 - Pope Paschal II
1519 - Vasco NÃºÃ±ez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1527 - Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (c. 1489)
1546 - Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)
1609 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar (b. 1540)
1638 - Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570)
1683 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician (b. 1621)
1699 - Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
1706 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)
1710 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)
1722 - Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661)
1731 - Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)
1766 - James Quin, English actor (b. 1693)
1773 - Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)
1774 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717)
1775 - Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel (b. 1740 or 1742)
1793 - King Louis XVI of France (executed) (b. 1754)
1795 - Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)
1809 - Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729)
1814 - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)
1823 - Cayetano JosÃ© RodrÃguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761)
1831 - Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781)
1851 - Albert Lortzing, German composer (b. 1801)
1870 - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)
1872 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (b. 1791)
1881 - Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)
1891 - Calixa LavallÃ©e, Canadian composer (b. 1842)
1901 - Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)
1914 - Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (b. 1857)
1919 - Gojong of Joseon, Emperor of Korea (b. 1852)
1924 - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (b. 1870)
1926 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel laureate (b. 1843)
1928 - George Goethals, American army engineer (b. 1858)
1931 - Felix Blumenfeld, Russian composer (b. 1863)
1932 - Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer (b. 1880)
1933 - George A. Moore, Irish novelist (b. 1852)
1937 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898)
1948 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876)
1950 - George Orwell, British writer (b. 1903)
1955 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
1956 - Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883)
1959 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (b. 1881)
1959 - Carl Switzer, American actor (b. 1927)
1961 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1887)
1967 - Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915)
1968 - Will Lang Jr., American magazine executive (b. 1914)
304 - Saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291)
917 - Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (c. 880)

Famous Deaths on 20 Jan

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Famous Deaths on 20 Jan

1156 - Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland
1191 - Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)
1479 - King John II of Aragon (b. 1397)
1568 - Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator
1612 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552)
1666 - Anna of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France and regent (b. 1601)
1707 - Humphrey Hody, English theologian (b. 1659)
1709 - FranÃ§ois de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (b. 1624)
1739 - Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (b. 1659)
1751 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665)
1770 - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)
1779 - David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717)
1810 - Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (b. 1722)
1819 - King Charles IV of Spain (b. 1748)
1848 - Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)
1850 - Adam OehlenschlÃ¤ger, Danish poet (b. 1779)
1873 - The Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
1875 - Jean-FranÃ§ois Millet, French painter (b. 1814)
1891 - David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii (b. 1836)
1900 - John Ruskin, art critic (b. 1819)
1901 - ZÃ©nobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (b. 1826)
1920 - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (b. 1876)
1936 - King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
1940 - Omar Bundy, U.S. army general (b. 1861)
1944 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
1947 - Josh Gibson, African-American baseball player (b. 1911)
1954 - Fred Root, English cricketer (b. 1890)
1962 - Robinson Jeffers, American poet (b. 1887)
1965 - Alan Freed, American disk jockey (b. 1922)
1971 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor, director, writer, and producer (b. 1880)
1973 - Lorenz BÃ¶hler, Austrian physician (b. 1885)
1979 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (b. 1925)
1983 - Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
1984 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
1988 - Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pashtun Nationalist & non-violent freedom fighter (b. 1890)
1988 - Dora Stratou, Greek choreographer and folklorist (b. 1903)
1989 - Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director (b. 1938)
1990 - Hayedeh, Persian singer (b. 1942)
1990 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)
1993 - Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (b. 1929)

Famous Deaths on 19 Jan

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Famous Deaths on 19 Jan

1526 - Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517)
1576 - Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (b. 1494)
1661 - Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed) (b. 1799)
1729 - William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
1757 - Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1674)
1766 - Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian-born French architect and painter (b. 1695)
1785 - Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
1833 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b. 1791)
1847 - Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer (assassinated)
1851 - Esteban EcheverrÃa, Argentine writer (b. 1805)
1865 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
1869 - Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788)
1874 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
1878 - Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
1905 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
1927 - Empress Carlotta of Mexico (b. 1840)
1929 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
1939 - Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1948 - Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869)
1954 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (b. 1885)
1957 - JÃ³zsef DudÃ¡s, Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (b. 1912)
1964 - Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
1968 - Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879)
1969 - Jan Palach, Czech student and political activist (suicide) (b. 1948)
1971 - Harry Shields, American musician (b. 1899)
1972 - Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
1973 - Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (b. 1903)
1975 - Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b. 1889)
1980 - William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1898)
1982 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1983 - Ham the Chimp, First hominid launched into outer space (b. 1956)
1984 - Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
1990 - Rajneesh, Indian religious leader (b. 1931)
1990 - Semprini, English musician (b. 1908)
1990 - Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
1991 - Marcel Chaput, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
1991 - John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
1995 - Gene MacLellan, Canadian composer and singer (b. 1938)
1996 - Don Simpson, American film producer (b. 1943)
1997 - James Dickey, American writer (b. 1923)
1997 - Adriana Caselotti, American actress (b 1916)
1998 - Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
1999 - Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby union footballer (b. 1967)
2000 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
2000 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress (b. 1913)
2001 - Dario Vittori, Argentinean actor (b. 1921)
2003 - FranÃ§oise Giroud, French writer and journalist (b. 1916)
2004 - Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (suicide) (b. 1917)
2004 - David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
2005 - Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)
2005 - K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
2006 - Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1921)
2006 - Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1933)
2006 - Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
2006 - Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
2007 - Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2007 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (b. 1954)
2007 - Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1940)
2007 - Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer and composer (b. 1969)
2008 - John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)
2008 - Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
2008 - Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster for CBC (b. 1936)
639 - Dagobert I, King of the Franks (c. 603)

Famous Deaths on 18 Jan

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Famous Deaths on 18 Jan

1367 - King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
1425 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
1471 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
1586 - Margaret of Austria, regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522)
1664 - Moses Amyraut, French theologian (b. 1596)
1677 - Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (b. 1619)
1803 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
1862 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
1873 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
1878 - Antoine CÃ©sar Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1886 - Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
1892 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
1896 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
1923 - Wallace Reid, Actor (b. 1891)
1936 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1865)
1940 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (b. 1865)
1952 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
1954 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
1963 - Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labour Party (b. 1906)
1966 - Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
1967 - Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)
1969 - Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
1970 - David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
1975 - Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
1978 - Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective, bodyguard of Winston Churchill (b. 1890)
1978 - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (b. 1919)
1978 - Carl Betz, American film and television actor (b. 1921)
1980 - Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
1984 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
1985 - Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)
1989 - Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
1990 - Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
1993 - Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906)
1995 - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
1995 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1996 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor (b. 1923)
1997 - Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1941)
2000 - Margarete SchÃ¼tte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
2001 - Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
2003 - Edward "The Sheik" Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2005 - Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
2006 - Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
2007 - Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
2008 - Frank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (b. 1925)
2008 - Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)
2008 - John Stroger, first African-American Cook County Board President (b. 1929)
474 - Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
52 BC - Publius Clodius Pulcher (murdered)

Famous Deaths on 17 Jan

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Famous Deaths on 17 Jan

1229 - Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier
1369 - King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
1468 - Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405)
1598 - Fyodor I Tsar of Russia (b. 1557)
1617 - Faust VranÄiÄ‡, Croatian inventor (b. 1551)
1654 - Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (b. 1625)
1705 - John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
1718 - Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader
1737 - MatthÃ¤us Daniel PÃ¶ppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
1738 - Jean-FranÃ§ois Dandrieu, French composer (b. 1682)
1751 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (b. 1671)
1826 - Juan CrisÃ³stomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
1834 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
1861 - Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
1863 - Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
1869 - Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)
1874 - Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins (b. 1811)
1884 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)
1887 - William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
1891 - George Bancroft, U.S. historian (b. 1800)
1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
1903 - Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
1908 - Ferdinand IV Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835)
1909 - Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819
1911 - Sir Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist (b. 1822)
1927 - Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
1931 - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (b. 1864)
1932 - Albert Jacka, VC, Australian soldier (b. 1893)
1933 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
1936 - Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885)
1942 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)
1947 - Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)
1947 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883)
1952 - Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (b. 1877)
1961 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
1964 - T.H. White, English author (b. 1906)
1967 - Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (b. 1884)
1970 - Billy Stewart, American singer (b. 1937)
1970 - Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890)
1972 - Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896)
1977 - Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)
1981 - Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (b. 1899)
1983 - Doodles Weaver, American actor (b. 1911)
1987 - Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (b. 1908)
1991 - King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
1992 - Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (b. 1915)
1993 - Albert Hourani, English historian (b. 1915)
1994 - Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918)
1994 - Yevgeny Ivanov, Soviet spy involved in the Profumo affair (b. 1926)
1996 - Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system (b. 1986)
1996 - Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
1996 - Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
1997 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)
1997 - Bert Kelly, Australian politician (b. 1912)
1998 - Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (b. 1930)
1999 - Robert Eads, American transsexual (b. 1945)
2000 - Philip Jones, British trumpeter (b. 1928)
2001 - Gregory Corso, American poet (b. 1930)
2002 - Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905)
2002 - Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Bishop Karas, Sudanese-born American religious leader (b. 1955)
2003 - Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
2003 - Balint Vazsonyi, Hingarian pianist (b. 1936)
2004 - Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931)
2004 - Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (b. 1914)
2004 - Czeslaw Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939)
2004 - Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (b. 1915)
2005 - Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)
2005 - Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920)
2005 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
2005 - Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive (b. 1960)
2006 - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
2006 - Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925)
2007 - Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
2007 - Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
2008 - Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948)
2008 - Bobby Fischer, American chess player (b. 1943)
2008 - Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923)
395 - Theodosius I, Roman Emperor

Famous Deaths on 16 Jan

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Famous Deaths on 16 Jan

1400 - John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed) (b. 1352)
1545 - George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
1547 - Johannes SchÃ¶ner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
1554 - Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)
1585 - Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)
1659 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
1710 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
1711 - Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651)
1747 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
1748 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
1750 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshall (b. 1667)
1752 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
1794 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)
1809 - John Moore, British general (b. 1761)
1817 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman (b. 1759)
1834 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
1856 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)
1864 - Anton Schindler, Austrian biographer of Beethoven (b. 1795)
1865 - Edmond FranÃ§ois Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828)
1879 - Octave CrÃ©mazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)
1886 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian opera composer (b. 1834)
1891 - LÃ©o Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
1898 - Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802)
1901 - Hiram Revels, U.S. Senator, first African-American to serve in the United States Congress (b. 1822)
1901 - Jules Barbier, French opera librettist (b. 1825)
1901 - Arnold BÃ¶cklin, Swiss painter (b. 1827)
1906 - Marshall Field, founder of Marshall Field and Company (b. 1834)
1917 - George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)
1919 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848)
1920 - Reginald De Koven, American music critic and composer of operettas (b. 1859)
1924 - Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, philanthropist (b. 1859)
1935 - Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
1936 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
1942 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, son of Queen Victoria, Governor General of Canada (b. 1850)
1942 - Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
1957 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
1957 - 1st Earl of Athlone, British royal, Governor-General of South Africa and Canada (b. 1874)
1962 - Frank Hurley, Australian photographer (b. 1885)
1962 - Ivan MeÅ¡troviÄ‡, Croatian sculptor (b. 1883)
1963 - Ike Quebec, American tenor-saxophone player (b. 1918)
1967 - Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (b. 1901)
1969 - Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)
1969 - Jan Palach, Czech protester against the Soviet led invasion.(b. 1948)
1971 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
1972 - Teller Ammons, American politician (b. 1895)
1972 - Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American actor and creator of The Chipmunks (b. 1919)
1979 - August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
1979 - Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
1981 - Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
1982 - Red Smith, American sports columnist (b. 1905)
1985 - Robert Fitzgerald, U.S. poet and translator (b. 1910)
1986 - Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
1987 - Bertram Wainer, Australian pro-abortion campaigner (b. 1928)
1988 - Ballard Berkeley, English actor (b. 1904)
1988 - Andrija ArtukoviÄ‡, Croatian war criminal (b. 1899)
1993 - JÃ³n PÃ¡ll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960)
1995 - Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor (b. 1924)
1996 - Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic (b. 1903)
1997 - Ennis Cosby, son of entertainer Bill Cosby (b. 1969)
1998 - Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (b. 1921)
1999 - Jim McClelland, Australian solicitor, politician, Minister, Royal Commissioner, judge (b. 1915)
2000 - John Morris Rankin, musical entertainer (b. 1959)
2000 - Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1928)
2001 - Laurent-DÃ©sirÃ© Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
2001 - Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist (b. 1939)
2002 - Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
2002 - Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948)
2002 - Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
2002 - Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
2002 - Robert Hanbury Brown, British-Australian astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
2003 - Richard Wainwright, English politician (b. 1918)
2004 - Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
2005 - Marjorie Williams, American journalist (b. 1958)
2006 - Stanley Biber, American physician, pioneer of transgender surgery, (b. 1923)
2007 - Ron Carey, American actor (b. 1935)
2007 - Benny Parsons, American racecar driver and commentator (b. 1941)
960 - Polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople

Famous Deaths on 15 Jan

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Famous Deaths on 15 Jan

1345 - Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler
1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
1623 - Fra Paolo Sarpi, Italian patriot, scholar, scientist and church reformer (b. 1552)
1672 - John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
1775 - Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Italian composer (b. 1700 or 1701)
1781 - Marianne Victoria of BorbÃ³n, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718)
1790 - John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)
1804 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)
1815 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Lord Nelson (b. 1761
1864 - Isaac Nathan, UK-Australian composer (b. 1792)
1876 - Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (b. 1810)
1885 - Leopold Damrosch, German-American orchestral conductor (b. 1832)
1893 - Fanny Kemble, British actress and author (b. 1809)
1896 - Mathew Brady, U.S. photographer (b. 1822)
1909 - Arnold Janssen missionary (b. 1837)
1916 - Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850)
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (b. 1870)
1919 - Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
1926 - Enrico Toselli, Italian composer (b. 1883)
1936 - Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866)
1945 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (b. 1865)
1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924)
1950 - Gen Henry "Hap" Arnold, U.S. General of the Air Force (b. 1886)
1952 - Ned Hanlon, Premier of Queensland (b. 1887)
1955 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)
1964 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (b. 1905)
1967 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)
1968 - Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
1970 - William T. Piper, American aircraft designer (b. 1881)
1972 - Daisy Ashford, English child writer (The Young Visiters) (b. 1881)
1973 - Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
1973 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1983 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster (b. 1902)
1983 - Shepperd Strudwick, American actor (b. 1907)
1987 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
1988 - SeÃ¡n MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
1990 - Dame Peggy van Praagh, British ballet dancer, choreographer, director (b. 1910)
1992 - Dee Murray, English bassist (b. 1946)
1993 - Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
1994 - Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
1994 - Georges Cziffra, Hungarian-French pianist (b. 1921
1995 - Vera Maxwell, American fashion designer (b. 1901)
1996 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)
1996 - Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b. 1922)
1996 - Minnesota Fats, American billiards player (b. 1913)
1998 - Junior Wells, American musician (b. 1934)
1999 - Betty Box, British film producer (b. 1915)
2000 - Georges-Henri LÃ©vesque, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
2000 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 - Å½eljko RaÅ¾natoviÄ‡, aka Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
2001 - Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)
2002 - Steve Gromek, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2003 - Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
2005 - Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)
2005 - Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)
2005 - Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor (b. 1947)
2005 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
2005 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (b. 1915)
2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
2006 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
2007 - Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
2007 - James Hillier, Canadian inventor of electron microscope (b. 1915)
2007 - Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945) (executed)
2007 - Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (b. 1905)
2007 - David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein (b. 1951) (executed)
2008 - Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, Game Designer (b. 1964)
2008 - Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
570 - Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
69 - Galba, Roman Emperor (b. 3 BC)
936 - King Rudolph of France

Famous Deaths on 14 Jan

2012-01-14T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 14 Jan

1163 - Ladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1131)
1235 - Saint Sava, Serbian saint (b. 1175)
1301 - King Andrew III of Hungary (b. 1265)
1331 - Odoric, Italian explorer (b. 1286)
1640 - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
1676 - Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)
1679 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1701 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (b. 1628)
1742 - Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)
1753 - George Berkeley, Irish theologian (b. 1685)
1786 - Michael Arne, English composer (b. 1740 or 1741)
1786 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
1788 - FranÃ§ois Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
1819 - Peter Pindar, English satirist (b. 1738)
1825 - George Dance the Younger, English architect (b. 1741)
1833 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1759)
1867 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
1888 - Stephen Heller, Hungarian composer (b. 1813)
1889 - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)
1892 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, British prince (b. 1864)
1898 - Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)
1901 - Bishop Mandell Creighton, English historian and ecclesiastic (b. 1843)
1901 - Charles Hermite, French mathematician (b. 1822)
1905 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
1907 - Sir James Fergusson, British politician, and governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay (b. 1832)
1908 - Holger Drachmann, Danish poet and dramatist (b. 1846)
1915 - Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
1920 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
1923 - ZÃ¼beyde HanÄ±m, Mother of Mustafa Kemal AtatÃ¼rk (b. 1857)
1937 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889)
1942 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (b. 1883)
1949 - JoaquÃn Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
1952 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
1957 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
1961 - Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)
1965 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)
1966 - Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
1966 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1906)
1968 - Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet (My Country) (b. 1885)
1970 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906)
1972 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899)
1976 - Tun Abdul Razak, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922)
1977 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
1977 - Peter Finch, English-born actor (b. 1916)
1977 - AnaÃ¯s Nin, French author (b. 1903)
1978 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899)
1978 - Kurt GÃ¶del, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)
1978 - Robert Heger, German conductor and composer (b. 1886)
1978 - Blossom Rock, American actress (b. 1895)
1979 - Thomas DeSimone, gangster associate of the Lucchese crime family (b. 1950)
1980 - Robert Ardrey, American author (b. 1908)
1981 - John O'Grady, Australian writer (Nino Culotta) (b. 1907)
1984 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902)
1986 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer (b. 1952)
1986 - Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
1987 - Douglas Sirk, German-U.S. film director (b. 1900)
1988 - Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902)
1990 - Mani Madhava Chakyar, [Koodiyattam]] artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
1991 - Gordon Bryant, Australian politician (b. 1914)
1995 - Sir Alexander Gibson, Scottish conductor (b. 1926)
1997 - Dollard MÃ©nard, French Canadian general (b. 1913)
1999 - Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
2001 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist (b. 1925)
2003 - Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (b. 1902)
2004 - Uta Hagen, American actress (b. 1919)
2004 - Ron O'Neal, American actor (b. 1937)
2004 - Valfar, Norwegian musician (Windir) (b. 1978)
2005 - JesÃºs-Rafael Soto, Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923)
2005 - Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)
2005 - Conroy Maddox, English painter (b. 1912)
2005 - Charlotte MacLeod, American writer (b. 1922)
2006 - Henri Colpi, French film editor and director (b. 1921)
2006 - Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)
2006 - Mark Philo, English footballer (b. 1984)
2006 - Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
2007 - Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
2007 - Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (b. 1924)
2008 - Judah Folkman, Surgeon that developed Angiogenesis (b. 1933)

Famous Deaths on 13 Jan

2012-01-13T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 13 Jan

86 BC - Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)

Famous Deaths on 12 Jan

2012-01-12T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 12 Jan

1321 - Maria of Brabant, wife of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
1519 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
1665 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
1674 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (b. 1605)
1700 - Marguerite Bourgeoys, saint (b. 1620)
1705 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
1732 - John Horsley, British archaeologist (b. 1685)
1735 - John Eccles, English composer (b. 1668)
1759 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1709)
1765 - Johann Melchior Molter, German composer (b. 1696)
1777 - Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1726)
1781 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (b. 1691)
1817 - Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1740)
1829 - Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (b. 1772)
1833 - Marie-Antoine CarÃªme, French chef (b. 1784)
1834 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
1856 - Ä½udovÃt Å tÃºr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language, (b. 1815)
1897 - Isaac Pitman, British inventor (Pitman Shorthand) (b. 1813)
1899 - Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816)
1909 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)
1921 - Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
1926 - Sir Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
1934 - Pawel Kochanski, Polish violinist, composer and arranger (b. 1887)
1938 - GÃ¶sta Ekman (senior), Swedish actor (b. 1890)
1940 - Edward Smith, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1899)
1943 - Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1902)
1944 - Lance C. Wade, American pilot (b. 1915)
1956 - Norman Kerry, American actor (b. 1894)
1958 - Charles Mallory Hatfield, U.S. rainmaker (b. 1875)
1960 - Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
1962 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian writer and feminist (b. 1869)
1965 - Lorraine Hansberry, American writer (b. 1936)
1976 - Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
1977 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
1983 - Rebop Kwaku Baah, Nigerian percussionist (b. 1944)
1983 - Nikolai Podgorny, President of the USSR (b. 1903)
1988 - Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925)
1990 - Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-born educator et writer (b. 1919)
1991 - Keye Luke, Chinese-American actor (b. 1904)
1996 - Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician (b. 1926)
1997 - Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (b. 1936)
1997 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1901)
1999 - Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (b. 1914)
1999 - Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1961)
2000 - Marc Davis, American animator (b. 1913)
2000 - Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2001 - William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (b. 1913)
2001 - Luiz BonfÃ¡, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
2001 - Affirmed, American racehorse (b. 1975)
2002 - Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911)
2002 - Cyrus Vance, 57th U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1917)
2003 - Allan Nunn May, English physicist and Soviet spy (b. 1911)
2003 - Maurice Gibb, British singer, songwriter, and musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
2003 - Leopoldo Galtieri, dictator of Argentina (b. 1926)
2003 - Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese director (b. 1930)
2003 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (b. 1912)
2004 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
2004 - Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
2005 - Alessia di Matteo, first survivor of eight transplants in one operation (b. 2003)
2005 - Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
2005 - Edmund S. Valtman, Estonian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
2007 - Sir James Killen, Australian politician (b. 1925)
2007 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)

Famous Deaths on 12 Jan

2012-01-11T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 12 Jan

Famous Deaths on 11 Jan

2012-01-10T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 11 Jan

1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1000)
1083 - Otto of Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria (c. 1020)
1494 - Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)
1495 - Pedro GonzÃ¡lez de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
1547 - Pietro Bembo, Italian author, literary theorist, and Catholic cardinal (b. 1470)
1641 - Juan MartÃnez de JÃ¡uregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b. 1583)
1696 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
1703 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (b. 1632)
1713 - Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (b. 1637)
1735 - Danilo I , Vladika of Montenegro (b. c. 1670)
1753 - Sir Hans Sloane, Ulster-Scot physician and collector (b. 1660)
1762 - Louis-FranÃ§ois Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)
1763 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (b. 1676)
1771 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (b. 1704)
1775 - Prithvi Narayan Shah, began the unification of modern Nepal (b. 1723)
1791 - William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)
1801 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (b. 1749)
1836 - John Molson, Canadian brewer (b. 1763)
1843 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and writer of the American national anthem (b. 1779)
1867 - Sir Stuart Donaldson, first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales (b. 1812)
1882 - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810)
1891 - Baron Georges Haussmann, French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris (b. 1809)
1901 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)
1902 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)
1905 - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)
1914 - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (b. 1842)
1923 - King Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868)
1928 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
1931 - James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)
1941 - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)
1944 - Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law (b. 1903)
1947 - Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
1952 - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (b. 1889)
1952 - Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (b. 1885)
1954 - Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
1957 - Sir Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and early leading expert in Australian constitutional law (b. 1867)
1958 - Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
1958 - Alec Rowley, English composer (b. 1892)
1961 - Elena Gerhardt, German mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1883)
1966 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
1966 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)
1966 - Lal Bahadur Shastri, third Prime Minister of independent India (b. 1904)
1968 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
1969 - Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890)
1972 - Padraic Colum, Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore (b. 1881)
1975 - Max Lorenz, German heldentenor famous for Wagner roles (b. 1901)
1978 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (b. 1927)
1979 - Jack Soo, American actor (b. 1917)
1980 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
1981 - Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1888)
1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
1985 - Sir William McKell, Premier of New South Wales, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
1986 - Sid Chaplin, UK novelist (b. 1916)
1987 - Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist (b. 1911)
1988 - Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, American WW II Marine aviator (b. 1912)
1988 - Florence Knapp, American, one-time oldest person in the world (b. 1873)
1991 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1994 - Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (b. 1902)
1995 - Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (b. 1909)
1998 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
1999 - Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (b. 1897)
1999 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (b. 1921)
1999 - Fabrizio de AndrÃ©, Italian singer (b. 1940)
2000 - Betty Archdale, Anglo-Australian educationalist and cricketer (b. 1907)
2000 - Bob Lemon, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2000 - Ivan Combe, American inventor (b. 1911)
2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914)
2001 - Michael Williams, British actor, husband of Judi Dench (b. 1935)
2002 - Struan Sutherland, Australian medical researcher (b. 1936)
2002 - Henri Verneuil, French playwright and film director (b. 1920)
2003 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925)
2003 - Richard Simmons, American actor (b. 1913)
2003 - Mickey Finn, English drummer (T. Rex) (b. 1947)
2005 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (b. 1913)
2005 - Fabrizio Meoni, Italian motorcyclist (b. 1957)
2005 - James Griffin, American musician (Bread) (b. 1943)
2005 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1938)
2006 - Markus LÃ¶ffel (Mark Spoon), German DJ (b. 1966)
2006 - Nixzmary Brown, American child abuse victim (b. 1998)
2007 - Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)
2007 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author (b. 1932)
2007 - Puchi Balseiro, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter (b. 1926)
2008 - Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (b. 1917)
2008 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, the 1st person to climb Mt Everest in 1953 (b. 1919)
314 - St. Miltiades
705 - Pope John VI
802 - St. Paulinus II of Aquileia
812 - Staurakios, Byzantine Emperor
844 - Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor

Famous Deaths on 10 Jan

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Famous Deaths on 10 Jan

1094 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029)
1276 - Pope Gregory X (bc. 1210)
1645 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)
1654 - Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)
1662 - Prince HonorÃ© II of Monaco (b. 1597)
1698 - Louis-SÃ©bastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637)
1707 - Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (b. 1621)
1754 - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (b. 1691)
1761 - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b. 1711)
1777 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
1794 - Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754)
1811 - Marie-Joseph ChÃ©nier, French poet (b. 1764)
1824 - King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (b. 1759)
1828 - FranÃ§ois de NeufchÃ¢teau, French statesman and intellectual figure (b. 1750)
1833 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)
1851 - Karl Freiherr von MÃ¼ffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)
1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)
1863 - Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775)
1866 - Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet (b. 1792)
1883 - Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b. 1833)
1895 - Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849)
1901 - Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1832)
1904 - Jean-LÃ©on GÃ©rÃ´me, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
1905 - KÄrlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
1917 - William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846)
1922 - Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader (b. 1866)
1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting the Reichstag fire (b. 1909)
1935 - Edwin Flack, Australian athlete, first Olympic champion (b. 1873)
1941 - Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b. 1904)
1941 - Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (b. 1856)
1941 - Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)
1949 - Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)
1951 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
1951 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890)
1957 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1889)
1960 - Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1879)
1961 - Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)
1968 - Basil Sydney, English actor (b. 1894)
1969 - John Brownlee, Australian tenor (b. 1900)
1970 - Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)
1971 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883)
1972 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897)
1976 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910)
1978 - Pedro JoaquÃn Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist (b. 1924)
1978 - Don Gillis, American composer (b. 1912)
1980 - Bo Rein, American college football coach (b. 1945)
1980 - George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)
1980 - Hughie Critz, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1981 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (b. 1898)
1981 - Fawn M. Brodie, American historian (b. 1915)
1981 - Richard Boone, American actor (b. 1917)
1982 - Paul Lynde, American comedian (b. 1926)
1984 - Souvanna Phouma, Prince and Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1901)
1985 - Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (b. 1906)
1986 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
1987 - Sir David Robinson, English philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)
1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (b. 1919)
1989 - Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)
1989 - Colin Winchester, Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered (b. 1933)
1992 - Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (b. 1919)
1995 - Kathleen Tynan, Canadian-British journalist, author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
1997 - Elspeth Huxley, British journalist and writer (b. 1907)
1997 - Sheldon Leonard, American film producer, actor, and director (b. 1907)
1997 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)
1999 - Sir Edward Williams, Australian judge (b. 1921)
2000 - Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)
2002 - W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (b. 1909)
2004 - Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2004 - Alexandra Ripley, American author (b. 1934)
2005 - Jack Horner, American sports journalist (b. 1912)
2005 - JosÃ©phine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
2005 - Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)
2005 - Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b. 1909)
2005 - Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b. 1911)
2005 - Kalevi HÃ¤mÃ¤lÃ¤inen, Finnish cross country skier (b. 1932)
2005 - James Forman, American civil rights leader (b. 1928)
2005 - Gene Baylos, American comedian (b. 1906)
2007 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
2007 - Bradford Washburn, American explorer (b. 1910)
2008 - Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)
2008 - Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira, Finnish-born American actress (b. 1921)
2008 - Mikhail Minin, Russian Soviet soldier (b. 1922)
681 - Pope Agatho
976 - John I Tzimiskes, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 925)

Famous Deaths on 9 Jan

2012-01-08T12:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 9 Jan

1150 - Emperor Xizong of Jin was murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'Ã©tat.
1282 - AbÃ» 'UthmÃ¢n Sa'Ã®d Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204)
1283 - Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)
1499 - Johann Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
1514 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)
1543 - Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
1562 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)
1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
1598 - Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553)
1677 - Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
1757 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)
1757 - Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688)
1766 - Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
1800 - Jean Ã‰tienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
1805 - Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1843 - William Hedley, British industrial engineer (b. 1773)
1848 - Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
1858 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
1873 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
1876 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
1877 - Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
1878 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
1895 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)
1901 - Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
1908 - Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
1908 - Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840)
1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)
1911 - Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
1918 - Ã‰mile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
1923 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
1927 - Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British pro-Aryan anti-semitic writer, son-in-law of Richard Wagner (b. 1855)
1931 - Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896)
1936 - John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)
1939 - Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866)
1945 - JÃ¼ri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)
1946 - Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903)
1946 - Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
1947 - Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
1960 - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880)
1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)
1971 - Giannis Christou, Greek composer (b. 1926)
1971 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
1972 - Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891)
1975 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
1975 - Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1979 - Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect (b. 1891)
1981 - Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922)
1984 - Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906)
1985 - Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)
1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919)
1987 - Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905)
1989 - Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)
1990 - Sir Edward McTiernan, Australian jurist, lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
1990 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
1992 - Steve Brodie, American actor (b. 1919)
1992 - Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
1993 - Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
1994 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927)
1995 - Peter Cook, British actor and comedian (b. 1937)
1995 - Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
1997 - Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)
1998 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1918)
1998 - Charito Solis, Filipino actress (b. 1935)
2000 - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
2001 - Maurice Prather, American photographer (b. 1926)
2003 - Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935)
2004 - Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
2005 - Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925)
2006 - Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
2006 - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)
2007 - Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)
2008 - Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (b. 1923)
2008 - William Quinn, Irish Republican Army soldier (b. 1950)
2008 - Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (b. 1977)
2008 - Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b.1924).

Famous Deaths on 8 Jan

2012-01-07T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 8 Jan

1100 - Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)
1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
1198 - Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106)
1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
1337 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (b. 1267)
1456 - St Lawrence Justinian, Italian bishop and first Patriarch of Venice (b. 1381)
1464 - Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)
1557 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
1570 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (bc. 1510)
1598 - John George, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1525)
1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and scientist (b. 1564)
1707 - John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
1775 - John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
1789 - Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703)
1794 - Justus MÃ¶ser, German statesman (b. 1720)
1815 - Edward Pakenham, British general (b. 1778)
1825 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
1854 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)
1865 - AimÃ©, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)
1874 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
1878 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1880 - Joshua A. Norton, American eccentric (b. 1811)
1896 - William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
1901 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
1916 - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
1916 - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
1918 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
1932 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
1934 - Serge Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (b. 1886)
1938 - Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (b. 1880)
1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of scouting (b. 1857)
1942 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
1943 - Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)
1944 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)
1945 - Karl Krafft, Swiss astrologer who was manipulated by the Nazi regime (b. 1900)
1948 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)
1948 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
1950 - Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
1953 - Admiral Sir Hugh Binney, British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
1956 - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
1963 - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)
1967 - Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (b. 1927)
1969 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
1970 - Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891)
1972 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet (b. 1911)
1975 - John Gregson, English actor (b. 1919)
1975 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
1976 - Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)
1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
1979 - Sara Carter, American country musician (b. 1898)
1980 - John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)
1981 - Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
1982 - GrÃ©goire Aslan, Armenian actor (b. 1908)
1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
1983 - Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)
1983 - Ron Frazer, Australian actor (b. 1924)
1986 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
1990 - Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (b. 1911)
1991 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)
1994 - Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
1994 - Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (b. 1925)
1995 - Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer (b. 1942)
1996 - John Hargreaves, Australian actor (b. 1945)
1996 - FranÃ§ois Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
1996 - Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (b. 1907)
1997 - Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
2000 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
2000 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)
2003 - Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2004 - John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)
2005 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952)
2005 - Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer
2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)
2006 - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
2007 - Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
2007 - David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
2007 - Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
2007 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 1922)
2007 - Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908)
2008 - George Moore, Australian champion jockey (b. 1923)
2008 - Clyde Otis, American song writer and music producer (b. c. 1924)
482 - Saint Severinus of Noricum

Famous Deaths on 7 Jan

2012-01-06T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 7 Jan

1285 - King Charles I of Naples (b. 1226)
1325 - King Dinis of Portugal (b. 1261)
1400 - Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
1451 - Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy (b. 1383)
1536 - Catherine of Aragon, consort of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)
1566 - Louis de Blois, Flemish mystic (b. 1506)
1619 - Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (bc. 1547)
1625 - Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (bc. 1560)
1655 - Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
1658 - Theophilus Eaton, American colonist (b. 1590)
1694 - Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (bc. 1618)
1700 - Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
1715 - FranÃ§ois FÃ©nelon, French-Catholic theologian and writer (b. 1651)
1758 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
1767 - Thomas Clap, 1st president of Yale University (b. 1703)
1770 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
1783 - William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
1786 - Jean-Ã‰tienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1830 - Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
1864 - Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
1872 - James Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)
1876 - Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
1878 - FranÃ§ois-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
1892 - Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (b. 1852)
1893 - JoÅ¾ef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
1913 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
1919 - Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1843)
1920 - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
1932 - AndrÃ© Maginot, French eponym of the Maginot Line (b. 1877)
1936 - Guy d'Hardelot, French composer, best known for Because (b. 1858)
1943 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (b. 1856)
1944 - Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady (b. 1874)
1944 - Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
1946 - Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (b. 1874)
1951 - RenÃ© GuÃ©non, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
1953 - Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
1960 - Dorothea Douglass Chambers (aka Katharine Lambert Chambers), UK tennis player (b. 1878)
1963 - Arthur Moore, Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
1964 - Cyril Davies, American musician (b. 1932)
1967 - Carl Schuricht, German conductor (b. 1880)
1967 - David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
1968 - Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)
1972 - John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
1972 - Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist
1980 - Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (b. 1935)
1981 - Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
1981 - Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
1984 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1985 - Mary Hardy, Australian radio and television presenter (b. 1931)
1986 - Philip D. Eastman, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1909)
1986 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (b. 1917)
1988 - Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
1988 - Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922)
1989 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)
1990 - Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908)
1990 - Horace Stoneham, American baseball executive (b. 1903)
1992 - Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (The Muppets) (b. 1951)
1995 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
1996 - TarÅ Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b. 1911)
1996 - KÃ¡roly GrÃ³sz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)
1998 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1998 - Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
2000 - Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (b. 1963)
2002 - Jon Lee, Welsh musician (Feeder) (b. 1968)
2002 - Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
2004 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
2005 - Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)
2005 - Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
2006 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
2007 - MagnÃºs MagnÃºsson, Icelandic-born television presenter (b. 1929)
2007 - Bobby Hamilton, NASCAR team owner (b. 1957)
2008 - Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917)

Famous Deaths on 6 Jan

2012-01-05T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 6 Jan

1088 - Berengar of Tours, French theologian (bc. 999)
1275 - St Raymond of PeÃ±afort (b. c. 1175)
1448 - Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (b. 1418)
1481 - Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde
1537 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
1537 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
1592 - Johann Casimir of Simmern, Elector Palatine (b. 1543)
1616 - Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (bc. 1550)
1646 - Elias Holl, German Architect (b. 1573)
1689 - Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1617)
1693 - Mehmed IV, ex-Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642)
1711 - Philipp van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
1718 - Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
1718 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664)
1725 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653)
1731 - Ã‰tienne FranÃ§ois Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
1734 - John Dennis, English dramatist whose thunder was stolen (b. 1657)
1813 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
1831 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1766)
1840 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)
1852 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (b. 1809)
1855 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
1882 - Richard Henry Dana, U.S. novelist (Two Years Before the Mast) (b. 1815)
1884 - Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (b. 1822)
1885 - Peter Christen AsbjÃ¸rnsen, Norwegian writer and scientist (b. 1812)
1913 - Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner (b. 1856)
1918 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
1919 - Max Heindel, Danish astrologer and mystic (b. 1865)
1922 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (b. 1842)
1928 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876)
1933 - Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian-German pianist (b. 1848)
1934 - Herbert Chapman , Legendary Manager of Arsenal and Huddersfield Town (b. 1878)
1937 - AndrÃ© Besette, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845)
1941 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (b. 1882)
1942 - Emma CalvÃ©, French soprano (b. 1858)
1942 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876)
1944 - Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
1945 - Edith Frank, mother of Anne Frank (b. 1900)
1945 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
1949 - Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
1966 - Jean LurÃ§at, French painter and tapestry designer (b. 1892)
1972 - Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (b. 1901)
1978 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
1981 - A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (b. 1896)
1984 - Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-U.S. cinematographer (b. 1898)
1990 - Pavel Alekseyevich ÄŒerenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1990 - Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (b. 1949)
1993 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1938)
1993 - Dizzy Gillespie, acclaimed jazz trumpet player (b. 1917)
1994 - Virginia Dell Cassidy, Bill Clinton's mother (b. 1923)
1995 - Joe Slovo, South African politician (b. 1926)
1997 - Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
1999 - Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist (b. 1962)
2000 - Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
2004 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)
2004 - Charles Dumas, American athlete (b. 1937)
2004 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (b. 1921)
2005 - Louis Robichaud, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1925)
2005 - Lois Hole, Lt. Governor of Alberta (b. 1933)
2006 - Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
2006 - Hugh Thompson, Jr., decorated Vietnam War helicopter pilot (b. 1943)
2007 - Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American musician and special-effects artist (b. 1934)
2007 - Roberta Wohlstetter, military historian and strategist (b. 1912)
2007 - Mario Danelo, American football player (b. 1985)
664 - Amr ibn al-A'as, Arab general (bc. 583)

Famous Deaths on 5 Jan

2012-01-04T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 5 Jan

1066 - Edward the Confessor, King of England (b. 1004)
1387 - King Peter IV of Aragon (b. 1319)
1400 - John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (b. ca. 1350)
1448 - Christopher of Bavaria (b. 1416)
1465 - Charles, Duke of OrlÃ©ans, French poet (b. 1394)
1477 - Charles, Duke of Burgundy (killed in battle) (b. 1433)
1524 - Marko MaruliÄ‡, Croatian poet (b. 1450)
1527 - Felix Manz, Swiss leader (executed) (b. 1498)
1588 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528)
1589 - Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (b. 1519)
1713 - Jean Chardin, French explorer (b. 1643)
1740 - Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1667)
1762 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709)
1771 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (b. 1710)
1823 - Major George Johnston, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales (b. 1764)
1846 - Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (b. 1812)
1858 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
1860 - Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, first American bishop to be canonized (b. 1811)
1883 - Charles Tompson, first Australian published poet (b. 1806)
1888 - Henri Herz, Austrian pianist (b. 1803)
1891 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)
1904 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (b. 1839)
1910 - LÃ©on Walras, French economist (b. 1834)
1922 - Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874)
1933 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
1937 - Marie Booth, child of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1864)
1939 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator declared dead after disappearance in 1937. (b. 1897)
1940 - Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (b. 1885)
1941 - Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903)
1943 - George Washington Carver, American educator (b. 1864)
1946 - Kitty Cheatham, American singer (b. 1864)
1951 - Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (b. 1899)
1952 - Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India (b. 1887)
1954 - Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1956 - Mistinguett, French singer (b. 1875)
1963 - Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (b. 1896)
1970 - Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer (b. 1896)
1970 - Cyril Fagan, Irish astrologer (b. 1896)
1970 - Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1971 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film engineer (b. 1899)
1974 - Lev Oborin, Russian pianist (b. 1907)
1976 - John A. Costello, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1891)
1976 - Mal Evans, Beatles' "roadie" (b. 1935)
1979 - Charles Mingus, American musician (b. 1922)
1981 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher (b. 1901)
1981 - Harold C. Urey, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1893)
1982 - Sir Edmund Herring, Australian military commander, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria (b. 1892)
1982 - Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)
1982 - Harvey Lembeck, American actor (b. 1923)
1985 - Robert L. Surtees, American Oscar-winning cinematographer (Ben-Hur) (b. 1906
1987 - Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-born Canadian cross-country skier (b. 1875)
1988 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
1990 - Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914)
1991 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (b. 1922)
1994 - Tip O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
1994 - Brian Johnston, English cricket commentator (b. 1912)
1996 - Lincoln Kirstein, American writer, impresario, art connoisseur (b. 1907)
1996 - Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian terrorist (b. 1966)
1997 - Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (b. 1912)
1997 - AndrÃ© Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) (b. 1924)
1998 - Sonny Bono, American entertainer and politician (b. 1935)
1998 - Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (b. 1943)
2001 - Nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942)
2003 - Jean Kerr, American author (b. 1923)
2003 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (b. 1920)
2003 - Doreen Carwithen, British composer, widow of William Alwyn (b. 1922)
2003 - Massimo Girotti, Italian film actor (b. 1918)
2004 - Tug McGraw, American baseball player, father of Tim McGraw (b. 1944)
2005 - Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (b. 1954)
2006 - Lord Merlyn-Rees, British politician (b. 1920)
2007 - Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)
2007 - Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles (b. 1910)
2008 - Clinton Grybas, Australian sports commentator (b. 1975)
842 - Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph (b. 794)

Famous Deaths on 4 Jan

2012-01-03T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 4 Jan

1248 - King Sancho II of Portugal (b. 1207)
1428 - Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, 'The Warlike' (b. 1370)
1564 - Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)
1584 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539)
1695 - FranÃ§ois Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (b. 1628)
1752 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (b. 1704)
1761 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist (b. 1677)
1773 - Anton Losenko, Russian painter (b. 1737)
1782 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (b. 1698)
1804 - Charlotte Lennox, English author and poet (bc. 1730)
1821 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, American saint (b. 1774)
1825 - King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1751)
1863 - Roger Hanson, Confederate general (b.1827)
1874 - Thomas Gregson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1798)
1877 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (b. 1794)
1882 - John William Draper, English scientist, photographer (b. 1811)
1883 - Antoine EugÃ¨ne Alfred Chanzy, French general (b. 1823)
1891 - Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (b. 1833)
1896 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821)
1903 - Gulstan Ropert, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1839)
1903 - Topsy the elephant (b. circa 1875)
1919 - Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843)
1920 - Benito PÃ©rez GaldÃ³s, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)
1924 - Alfred GrÃ¼nfeld, Austrian pianist, composer (b. 1852)
1931 - Art Acord, American actor (b. 1890)
1941 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
1944 - Kai Munk, Danish playwright, Lutheran pastor (b. 1898)
1960 - Albert Camus, Algerian-born French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
1961 - Erwin SchrÃ¶dinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1962 - Hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879)
1965 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1967 - Donald Campbell, English motorboat racer (b. 1921)
1969 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (b. 1908)
1970 - Jean-Ã‰tienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899)
1971 - Arthur Ford, American clairaudient (b. 1896)
1975 - Carlo Levi, Italian anti-fascist painter, writer and activist (b. 1902)
1981 - Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again) (b. 1914)
1985 - Lovro von Matacic, Croatian conductor (b. 1899)
1985 - Brian Horrocks, British general (b. 1895)
1986 - Christopher Isherwood, English writer (b. 1904)
1986 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy) (b. 1949)
1988 - Lily Laskine, French harpist (b. 1893)
1990 - Sir Henry Bolte, Premier of Victoria 1955-1972 (b. 1908)
1990 - Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
1993 - Charles Bridgford, Australian politician
1994 - RD Burman, Indian musician (b. 1939)
1995 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (b. 1907)
1995 - Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (b. 1942)
1996 - RamÃ³n Vinay, Chilean operatic tenor (b. 1911)
1997 - Harry Helmsley, American real estate mogul (b. 1909)
1998 - Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
1998 - John Gary, U.S. popular singer (b. 1932)
1999 - Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (b. 1904)
2000 - Tom Fears, American football player (b. 1922)
2001 - Les Brown, American bandleader (b. 1912)
2003 - Sabine Ulibarri, Mexican American writer (b. 1919)
2003 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (b. 1923)
2003 - Conrad Hall, American cinematographer (b. 1927)
2004 - Brian Gibson (director), English film director (b. 1944)
2004 - Jeff Nuttall, English writer (b. 1933)
2004 - Jake Hess, American singer (b. 1927)
2004 - Joan Aiken, English author (b. 1924)
2004 - John Toland, American historian (b. 1912)
2005 - Ali al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad (assassinated)
2005 - Humphrey Carpenter, English author (b. 1946)
2005 - Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (b. 1927)
2005 - Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
2005 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (b. 1921)
2005 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist (b. 1919)
2005 - Alton Tobey, American artist (b. 1914)
2006 - Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai (b. 1946)
2006 - Robert Howard White, Mayor of Papatoetoe, New Zealand (b. 1914)
2006 - Irving Layton, Canadian poet (b. 1912)
2007 - Helen Hill, American independent film-maker (b. 1970)
2007 - Ben Gannon, Australian theatre film and television producer (b. 1952)
2007 - GÃ¡spÃ¡r Nagy, Hungarian poet and writer (b. 1949)
2007 - Jan SchrÃ¶der, Dutch cyclist (b. 1941)
2007 - Sandro Salvadore, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
2007 - Gren, Welsh newspaper cartoonist (b. 1934)
2007 - Osman Waqialla, Sudanese artist and calligrapher (b. 1925)
2007 - Steve Krantz, American film and TV producer (Fritz the Cat) (b. 1923)
2007 - Sir Lewis Hodges, British Air Chief Marshal (b. 1918)
2007 - Marais Viljoen, former State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
2008 - Joyce Carlson, American artist (b. 1923)
2008 - Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan print editor (b. 1932)
2008 - Jimmy Nah, Singapore celebrity (b. 1968)

Famous Deaths on 3 Jan

2012-01-02T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 3 Jan

1098 - Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester (b. unknown)
1322 - King Philip V of France (b. 1293)
1437 - Catherine of Valois, wife of Henry V of England (b. 1401)
1543 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
1571 - Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1505)
1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. 1618)
1656 - Mathieu MolÃ©, French statesman (b. 1584)
1670 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (b. 1608)
1690 - Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
1701 - Prince Louis I of Monaco (b. 1642)
1743 - Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer (b. 1657)
1779 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712)
1785 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
1795 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (b. 1730)
1813 - Bennelong, Australian aboriginal interlocutor between his tribe and the British settlers (b. c. 1764)
1826 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
1875 - Pierre Larousse, French editor (b. 1817)
1882 - William Harrison Ainsworth, English novelist (b. 1805)
1895 - James Merritt Ives, American lithographer with Nathaniel Currier (b. 1824)
1903 - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)
1911 - Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
1915 - James Elroy Flecker, English author (b. 1884)
1916 - Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831)
1923 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
1927 - Carle David TolmÃ© Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
1931 - Joseph Joffre, French general (b. 1852)
1933 - Wilhelm Cuno, 6th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
1933 - Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
1943 - Sir Walter James, Premier of Western Australia (b. 1863)
1944 - Jurgis BaltruÅ¡aitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
1945 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
1945 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b. 1879)
1946 - William Joyce, American Nazi propagandist (executed) (b. 1906)
1950 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
1956 - Joseph Wirth, 5th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
1956 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
1967 - Mary Garden, Scottish singer (b. 1874)
1967 - Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
1969 - Howard McNear, American actor (b. 1905)
1969 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (b. 1909)
1970 - Gladys Aylward, British missionary in China; portrayed by Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (b. 1902)
1974 - Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
1979 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
1980 - Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist (b. 1910)
1980 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1892)
1981 - Princess Alice of Albany (b. 1883)
1988 - Rose AuslÃ¤nder, German poet (b. 1901)
1988 - Joie Chitwood, American racedriver & Daredevil (b. 1912)
1989 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1990 - Arthur Gold, American pianist, half of Gold and Fizdale duo (b. 1917)
1992 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
1993 - Johnny Most, American sports announcer (b. 1923)
1994 - Heather Sears, British actress (b. 1935)
2002 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch beer executive (b. 1923)
2002 - Juan GarcÃa Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918)
2003 - Sid Gillman, American football coach (b. 1911)
2004 - Des Corcoran, Premier of South Australia (b. 1928)
2004 - Leon Wagner, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2005 - JN Dixit, Indian government official (b. 1936)
2005 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (b. 1917)
2005 - Will Eisner, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
2006 - Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
2006 - Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1954)
2007 - Janos Furst, Hungarian orchestral conductor (b. 1935)
2007 - William Verity Jr., United States Secretary of Commerce 1987-1989 (b. 1917)
2007 - Michael Yeats, Irish Fianna FÃ¡il senator 1961-1981 and son of W.B. Yeats (b. 1921)
2007 - Sir Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast 1983-2001 (b. 1924)
2007 - Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey forward Detroit Red Wings (b. 1930)
2008 - Natasha Collins, British actress and television presenter (b. 1976)
2008 - Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
2008 - Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (b. 1918)
2008 - Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer/former WBC light flyweight champion (b. 1972)
235 - Pope St Anterus (b. unknown)

Famous Deaths on 2 Jan

2012-01-01T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 2 Jan

1512 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
1514 - William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)
1557 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
1685 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
1694 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
1726 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
1861 - King Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
1892 - George Airy, British Astronomer Royal (b. 1801)
1893 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
1904 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
1913 - LÃ©on Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
1915 - Carl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830)
1917 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
1920 - Paul Adam, French novelist (b. 1862)
1924 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
1936 - Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania, Western Australia (b. 1862)
1939 - Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
1941 - Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist (b. 1898)
1945 - Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, British naval commander (b. 1883)
1946 - Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
1950 - James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
1950 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor (b. 1884)
1951 - Sir William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
1959 - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (b. 1880)
1960 - Paul SauvÃ©, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
1960 - Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (b. 1919)
1963 - Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)
1963 - Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
1971 - Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (b. 1906)
1974 - Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
1977 - Errol Garner, American musician (b. 1921)
1983 - Dick Emery, English comedian (b. 1915)
1986 - Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
1986 - Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (b. 1914)
1986 - Dick James, English music publisher (Northern Songs) (b. 1920)
1990 - Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1918)
1994 - Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (b. 1915)
1994 - Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (b. 1914)
1995 - Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919)
1995 - Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
1996 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915)
1997 - Randy California, American guitarist & songwriter (Spirit) (b. 1951)
1998 - Frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (b. 1920)
1999 - Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)
2000 - Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (b. 1931)
2000 - Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., U.S. admiral (b. 1920)
2000 - Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (b. 1914)
2001 - William P. Rogers, American politician (b. 1913)
2001 - Teri Diver, American actress (b. 1971)
2002 - Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
2003 - Eric Jupp, British-Australian pianist, composer, arranger (b. 1922)
2004 - Jess Collins, American artist (b. 1923)
2004 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (b. 1927)
2005 - Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, American politician (b. 1934)
2005 - Frank Kelly Freas, American artist (b. 1922)
2005 - Edo MurtiÄ‡, Croatian painter (b. 1921)
2005 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (b. 1913)
2005 - Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
2006 - Cecilia MuÃ±oz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913)
2007 - Garry Betty, American CEO of Earthlink (b. 1957)
2007 - Richard Newton, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor (b. 1951)
2007 - Dan Shaver, NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner (b. 1950)
2007 - Robert C. Solomon, American scholar of continental philosophy (b. 1942)
2007 - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941)
2007 - Don Massengale, American PGA Tour golf player (b. 1937)
2007 - Sergio JimÃ©nez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
2007 - Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (b. 1929)
2007 - Mauno Jokipii, Finnish professor and World War II researcher (b. 1924)
2007 - David Perkins, Stanford University geneticist (b. 1919)
2007 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
2008 - Gerry Staley, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2008 - Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krommaluang Narathiwat Rajanagarindra, elder sister of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (b. 1923)
2008 - George MacDonald Fraser, British author (b. 1925)
2008 - Lee S. Dreyfus, American politician (b. 1926)

Famous Deaths on 1 Jan

2011-12-31T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 ChÃ©tardie, 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-ThÃ©ophile 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 - SeÃ¡n 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 SÃ¶derstrÃ¶m, 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)

Famous Deaths on 31 Dec

2011-12-30T18:02:00.000-08:00

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-FranÃ§ois 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 CreangÄƒ, 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 - JosÃ© 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

Famous Deaths on 30 Dec

2011-12-29T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 - JosÃ© 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)

Famous Deaths on 29 Dec

2011-12-28T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 Krlea, 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)

Famous Deaths on 28 Dec

2011-12-27T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 - LÃ©on 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 PaveliÄ‡, 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 LÃ©vesque, 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

Famous Deaths on 27 Dec

2011-12-26T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 FranÃ§ois BoÃ«ly, 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 StÃ¡bile, 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 BoumÃ©dienne, 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 - AndrÃ© 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 - IvÃ¡n CalderÃ³n, 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

Famous Deaths on 26 Dec

2011-12-25T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 HelvÃ©tius, 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 PathÃ©, 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 - JonBenÃ©t 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 KÃ¸hn, 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

Famous Deaths on 25 Dec

2011-12-24T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 - VÃ¡clav Prokop DiviÅ¡, Czech theologian and natural scientist (b. 1698)
1784 - Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716)
1824 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von KrÃ¼dener, 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 TaishÅ of Japan (b. 1879)
1933 - Francesc MaciÃ , 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 - Ä°smet Ä°nÃ¶nÃ¼, 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 MirÃ³, 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

Famous Deaths on 24 Dec

2011-12-23T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 - NoÃ«l 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 - FranÃ§ois 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 DÃ¶nitz, 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 - ThorbjÃ¸rn 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 - ToshirÅ Mifune, Japanese actor (b. 1920)
1997 - Pierre PÃ©ladeau, Quebec businessman, founder of Quebecor (b. 1925)
1999 - JoÃ£o 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)

Famous Deaths on 23 Dec

2011-12-22T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 - FranÃ§ois 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'Ã‰pÃ©e, French philanthropist (b. 1712)
1793 - Antoine FranÃ§ois PrÃ©vost, 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 - RenÃ© IchÃ©, 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 BarÃ³ti, 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

Famous Deaths on 22 Dec

2011-12-21T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 - AndrÃ© 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 BÃ©cquer, 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)

Famous Deaths on 21 Dec

2011-12-20T18:02:00.000-08:00

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-RÃ¶mhild, 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

Famous Deaths on 20 Dec

2011-12-19T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 20 Dec

1022 - Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996)
1355 - Stefan DuÅ¡an, 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 ParÃ©, 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 - Ã‰mile 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 - AndrÃ© 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 MÃ¡rquez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1946)
1986 - Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)
1988 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian television pioneer (b. 1908)
1989 - Kurt BÃ¶hme, 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 - LÃ©opold SÃ©dar 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

Famous Deaths on 19 Dec

2011-12-18T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 BrontÃ«, 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 OrdÃ³Ã±ez, 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

Famous Deaths on 18 Dec

2011-12-17T18:02:00.000-08:00

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-Ã‰tienne 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 MohoroviÄiÄ‡, 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 - XuÃ¢n Diá»‡u, 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 ApÃ©ry, 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 BÃ©caud, 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 OrlÃ©ans

Famous Deaths on 17 Dec

2011-12-16T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 - SimÃ³n BolÃvar, 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 - DÃ©sirÃ©e Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1777)
1907 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (b. 1824)
1909 - LÃ©opold 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

Famous Deaths on 16 Dec

2011-12-15T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 - FranÃ§ois Quesnay, French economist (b. 1694)
1783 - Johann A. Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
1783 - Sir William James, British naval commander (b. 1720)
1809 - Antoine FranÃ§ois, 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-SaÃ«ns, 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 - RÃ©al 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 GÃ¡lvez, 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)

Famous Deaths on 15 Dec

2011-12-14T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 FranÃ§ois 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 LÃ©vy, 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)

Famous Deaths on 14 Dec

2011-12-13T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 LuciÄ‡, 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 ChÃ©nier, 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 DÃ¼rrenmatt, 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 ErtegÃ¼n, co-founder of Atlantic Records (b. 1923)
2006 - Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)

Famous Deaths on 13 Dec

2011-12-12T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 - FranÃ§ois ViÃ¨te, 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 FÃ¼rchtegott 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 - Ãnyos 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-ArsÃ¨ne 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 VÃ©lez, 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 DuriÃ¨s, 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

Famous Deaths on 12 Dec

2011-12-11T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 - BedÅ™ich HroznÃ½, 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 JorrÃn, 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 - JÃ³zsef 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 - HeydÉ™r Æliyev, 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

Famous Deaths on 11 Dec

2011-12-10T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 Ãlvarez 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 Ã‰mile 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 - AndrÃ© 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 - JosÃ© 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

Famous Deaths on 10 Dec

2011-12-09T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 10 Dec

1041 - Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010)
1198 - Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)
1508 - RenÃ© 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 - AntÃ³nio Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta (b. 1663)
1831 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
1850 - FranÃ§ois Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
1865 - King LÃ©opold 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 PaÅ¡iÄ‡, 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 KÃ¼ng, 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

Famous Deaths on 9 Dec

2011-12-08T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 SÅseki, 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 DalÃ©n, 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 LÃ©on 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 - GyÃ¶rgy SÃ¡ndor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)
2005 - Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)
2007 - Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (b. 1931)

Famous Deaths on 8 Dec

2011-12-07T18:02:00.000-08:00

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)

Famous Deaths on 7 Dec

2011-12-06T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 - Ã‰lie 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 - LÃ©on 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

Famous Deaths on 6 Dec

2011-12-05T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 GraciÃ¡n 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-SimÃ©on 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 - JoÃ£o 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

Famous Deaths on 5 Dec

2011-12-04T18:02:00.000-08:00

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 FranÃ§ois Sarrazin, French writer
1663 - Severo Bonini, Italian composer (b. 1582)
1749 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la VÃ©rendrye, 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, pÃ¨re, 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 - WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw 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 KubelÃk, 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 - SylvÃ¨re 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

Famous Deaths on 4 Dec

2011-12-03T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 4 Dec

1075 - Archbishop Anno II of Cologne
1123 - Omar KhayyÃ¡m, 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 MeishÅ, 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 SÃ¡ Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
1980 - StanisÅ‚awa 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)

Famous Deaths on 3 Dec

2011-12-02T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 3 Dec

1154 - Pope Anastasius IV
1265 - Odofredus, Italian jurist
1533 - Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1479)
1552 - St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the East (b. 1506)
1610 - Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548)
1706 - Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and hymn writer (b. 1637)
1765 - Lord John Philip Sackville, British cricketer (b. 1713)
1789 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)
1815 - John Carroll (priest), first Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. (b. 1735)
1845 - Gregor MacGregor, Scottish con-man (b. 1786)
1882 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
1888 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)
1890 - Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
1892 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)
1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (b. 1850)
1902 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
1910 - Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist (b. 1821)
1912 - Prudente JosÃ© de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1919 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (b. 1841)
1934 - Charles James O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. 1849)
1941 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883)
1949 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born American actress (b. 1876)
1955 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (b. 1894)
1967 - Harry Wismer, American original owner of the New York Jets (b. 1913)
1969 - Mathias Wieman, German actor (b. 1902)
1972 - Bill Johnson, American musician (b. 1872)
1973 - Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895)
1979 - Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (b. 1905)
1980 - Oswald Mosley, British politician (b. 1896)
1981 - Walter Knott, American farmer (b. 1889)
1984 - Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (b. 1919)
1993 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (b. 1913)
1994 - Elizabeth Glaser, AIDS activist (b. 1947)
1995 - Jimmy Jewel, English actor (b. 1909)
1995 - Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (b. 1946)
1996 - Georges Duby, French historian (b. 1919)
1998 - Pierre HÃ©tu, Quebec conductor and pianist (b. 1936)
1999 - Scatman John, American singer (b. 1942)
1999 - Madeline Kahn, American actress (b. 1942)
1999 - Jarl WahlstrÃ¶m, 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918)
2000 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (b. 1917)
2000 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (b. 1922)
2002 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)
2003 - David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
2004 - Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911)
2005 - Herb Moford, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2006 - Logan Whitehurst, American musician (b. 1977)
2007 - James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948)

Famous Deaths on 2 Dec

2011-12-01T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 2 Dec

1348 - Emperor Hanazono of Japan (b. 1297)
1381 - John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic
1463 - Archduke Albert VI of Austria (b. 1418)
1469 - Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416)
1515 - Gonzalo FernÃ¡ndez de CÃ³rdoba, Spanish general and statesman (b. 1453)
1547 - HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s, Spanish explorer and conqueror (b. 1485)
1552 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Catholic missionary (b. 1506)
1615 - Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, French general
1665 - Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (b. 1588)
1694 - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (b. 1622)
1719 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (b. 1634)
1726 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (b. 1665)
1747 - Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695)
1748 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1662)
1774 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist (b. 1720)
1814 - Marquis de Sade, French writer (b. 1740)
1844 - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
1849 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
1859 - John Brown, American abolitionist (hanged) (b. 1800)
1860 - Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (b. 1796)
1892 - Jay Gould, American entrepreneur (b. 1836)
1899 - Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (killed at Battle of Tirad Pass) (b. 1875)
1918 - Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (b. 1868)
1924 - Kazimieras BÅ«ga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879)
1931 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851)
1936 - John Ringling, American circus owner (b. 1866)
1943 - Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian author and journalist (b. 1902)
1944 - Josef LhÃ©vinne, Russian pianist (b. 1874)
1944 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer (b. 1876)
1950 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (b. 1917)
1957 - Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (b. 1902)
1963 - Sabu Dastagir, Indian-born American actor (b. 1924)
1963 - Thomas J. Hicks, British-born runner (b. 1875)
1968 - Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson), Estonian painter (b. 1902)
1969 - Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Russian politician (b. 1881)
1974 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897)
1976 - Danny Murtaugh, baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
1980 - Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1905)
1980 - Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (b. 1914)
1982 - Marty Feldman, British comedian, writer and actor (b. 1933)
1983 - Fifi d'Orsay, Canadian actress (b. 1904)
1985 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (b. 1914)
1985 - Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic (b. 1922)
1986 - Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer (b. 1917)
1986 - John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (b. 1912)
1987 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1987 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914)
1988 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
1990 - Robert Cummings, American film and television actor (b. 1908)
1990 - Aaron Copland, American composer (b. 1900)
1993 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug dealer (b. 1949)
1995 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b. 1913)
1995 - Roxie Roker, American actress/news personality (b. 1929)
1997 - Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler (b. 1930)
1997 - Michael Hedges, American guitarist known for originality (b. 1953)
2002 - Arno Peters, German historian (b. 1916)
2002 - Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926)
2003 - Alan Davidson, British author (b. 1924)
2004 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
2004 - Alicia Markova, British ballerina (b. 1910)
2005 - Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (b. 1919)
2005 - Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian drug smuggler (hanged) (b. 1980)
2005 - Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1948)
2006 - Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (b. 1947)

Famous Deaths on 1 Dec

2011-11-30T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 1 Dec

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

Famous Deaths on 30 Nov

2011-11-29T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 30 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 29 Nov

2011-11-28T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 29 Nov

1253 - Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1206)
1268 - Pope Clement IV
1314 - Philip IV of France (b. 1268)
1330 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (b. 1287)
1342 - Michael of Cesena, Italian Franciscan leader (b. 1270)
1378 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1316)
1530 - Thomas Wolsey, adviser to King Henry VIII of England
1577 - Cuthbert Mayne, English saint (b. 1543)
1590 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547)
1595 - Alonso de Ercilla y ZÃºÃ±iga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533)
1626 - Ernst, Graf von Mansfield, German soldier (c. 1580)
1632 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (b. 1596)
1643 - William Cartwright, English dramatist (b. 1611)
1643 - Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b. 1567)
1646 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (b. 1565)
1661 - Brian Walton, English clergyman and scholar (b. 1600)
1694 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (b. 1628)
1695 - James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (b. 1619)
1699 - Patrick Gordon, Scottish general (b. 1635)
1759 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687)
1780 - Maria Theresa of Austria (b. 1717)
1797 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (b. 1723)
1847 - Marcus Whitman, Washington state pioneer (b. 1802)
1924 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (b. 1858)
1927 - George Giffen, Australian cricketer (b. 1859)
1939 - Philipp Scheidemann, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1865)
1953 - Alfons Fryland, Austrian actor (b. 1888)
1953 - Sam De Grasse, American actor (b. 1875)
1953 - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895)
1954 - Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892)
1957 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (b. 1897)
1972 - Carl Stalling, American composer (b. 1888)
1974 - James J. Braddock, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1905)
1975 - Graham Hill, English race car driver and two-time F1 World Champion (b. 1929)
1979 - Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
1980 - Dorothy Day, American journalist, turned social activist, and devout member of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1897).
1981 - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (b. 1895)
1981 - Natalie Wood, American actress (b. 1938)
1982 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (b. 1908)
1984 - Gotthard GÃ¼nther, German philosopher (b. 1900)
1986 - Cary Grant, British-born American actor (b. 1904)
1987 - Irene Handl, English actress (b. 1901)
1991 - Ralph Bellamy, American actor (b. 1904)
1992 - Jean DieudonnÃ©, French mathematician (b. 1906)
1996 - Dan Flavin, American artist (b. 1933)
1998 - Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (b. 1947)
1998 - Frank Latimore, American actor (b. 1925)
1999 - Gene Rayburn, American game show host (b. 1917)
2001 - John Knowles, American author (b. 1926)
2001 - George Harrison, English singer, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1943)
2001 - Mic Christopher, Irish singer and songwriter (b. 1969)
2002 - Daniel GÃ©lin, French actor (b. 1921)
2002 - George "Two Ton" Harris, American professional wrestler (b. 1927)
2003 - Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
2004 - Harry Danning, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2004 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (b. 1929)
2004 - Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (b. 1891)
2005 - Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (b. 1958)
2005 - David di Tommaso, French footballer (b. 1979)
2006 - Allen Carr, English anti-smoking campaigner (b. 1934)
2007 - Roger Bonham Smith, Former chairman and CEO of General Motors (b. 1925)
2007 - Ralph Beard, American basketball player (b. 1927)
2007 - James Barber, Canadian chef and writer (b. 1923)
2007 - Henry Hyde, American politician (b. 1924)
2007 - Tom Terrell, musicologist, NPR reviewer, deejay (b. 1950)
741 - Pope Gregory III

Famous Deaths on 28 Nov

2011-11-27T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 28 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 27 Nov

2011-11-26T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 27 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 26 Nov

2011-11-25T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 26 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 25 Nov

2011-11-24T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 25 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 24 Nov

2011-11-23T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 24 Nov

1468 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
1531 - Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (b. 1482)
1541 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (b. 1489)
1572 - John Knox, Scottish reformer (b. 1510)
1583 - RenÃ© de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
1615 - Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556)
1650 - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (b. 1566)
1722 - Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (b. 1623)
1741 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b. 1688)
1770 - Charles-Jean-FranÃ§ois HÃ©nault, French historian (b. 1685)
1775 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703)
1781 - James Caldwell, American revolutionary (b. 1734)
1793 - ClÃ©ment Charles FranÃ§ois de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)
1801 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
1807 - Joseph Brant, Mohawk leader (b. 1742)
1848 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
1870 - Comte de LautrÃ©amont, French writer (b. 1846)
1890 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816)
1916 - Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840)
1920 - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (b. 1854)
1922 - Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (executed) (b. 1870)
1929 - Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (b. 1841)
1943 - Doris Miller, American navy cook (b. 1919)
1956 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
1957 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
1958 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British politician, Nobel laureate (b. 1864)
1959 - Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (b. 1883)
1960 - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
1965 - Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
1967 - Louis Fratto, American gangster (b. 1908)
1973 - John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881)
1980 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
1980 - George Raft, American actor (b. 1895)
1985 - Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)
1987 - Jehane BenoÃ®t, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)
1990 - Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)
1990 - Fred Shero, National Hockey League player and coach (b. 1925)
1990 - Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
1991 - Eric Carr, American drummer (KISS) (b. 1950)
1991 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (b. 1946)
1993 - Albert Collins, American blues guitarist (b. 1932)
1996 - Sorley MacLean, British poet (b. 1911)
2001 - Melanie Thornton, American dance/pop singer (b. 1967)
2002 - John Rawls, political philosopher (b. 1921)
2003 - Floquet de Neu, Ecuato Guinean albino gorilla (b. 1964)
2003 - Warren Spahn, Major League Baseball player (b. 1921)
2004 - Arthur Hailey, British-born author (b. 1920)
2004 - Wong Jim, Hong Kong songwriter (b. 1940)
2005 - Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
2006 - George W. S. Trow, American writer (b. 1943)
2006 - Juice Leskinen, Finnish rock singer (b. 1950)
2006 - ZdenÄ›k VeselovskÃ½, Czech zoologist (b. 1938)
654 - Emperor KÅtoku of Japan (b. 596)

Famous Deaths on 23 Nov

2011-11-22T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 23 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 22 Nov

2011-11-21T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 22 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 21 Nov

2011-11-20T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 21 Nov

1361 - Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)
1555 - Georg Agricola, German scientist (b. 1490)
1566 - Annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507)
1579 - Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier
1652 - Jan BroÅ¼ek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)
1695 - Henry Purcell, English composer
1730 - FranÃ§ois de Troy, French portrait artist
1775 - John Hill, British writer
1811 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (b. 1777)
1844 - Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (b. 1769)
1881 - Ami BouÃ©, Austrian geologist (b. 1794)
1899 - Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)
1916 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (b. 1830)
1922 - Ricardo Flores MagÃ³n, Mexican anarchist (b. 1874).
1924 - Florence Harding, American First Lady (b. 1860)
1941 - Henrietta Vinton Davis American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker (b. 1860)
1942 - Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863)
1945 - Robert Benchley, American writer and actor (b. 1889)
1953 - Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1893)
1957 - Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)
1958 - Mel Ott, American baseball player (b. 1909)
1959 - Max Baer, American boxer (b. 1909)
1963 - Robert Stroud (The Birdman of Alcatraz), American prisoner (b. 1890)
1967 - C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (b. 1896)
1969 - Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (1924)
1970 - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1970 - Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
1973 - Thomas Pelly, American politician (b. 1902)
1974 - John B. Gambling, American radio talk show host (b. 1897)
1974 - Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b. 1890)
1980 - Sara GarcÃa, Mexican actress (b. 1895)
1981 - Harry Von Zell, American announcer (b. 1906)
1982 - John Hargrave, British Social Credit advocate (b. 1894)
1986 - Marcelino Sanchez, American actor (b. 1957)
1986 - Jerry Colonna, American comic (b. 1904)
1986 - Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b. 1947)
1988 - Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1990 - Dean Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1954)
1991 - Sonny Werblin, former owner of the New York Jets (b. 1907)
1993 - Bill Bixby, American actor and director (b. 1934)
1995 - Peter Grant, British rock manager, actor (Led Zeppelin, Bad Company) (b. 1935)
1995 - Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)
1996 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1926)
1999 - Quentin Crisp, British writer, raconteur and actor (b. 1908)
2001 - Salahuddin of Malaysia, King of Malaysia (b. 1926)
2002 - Hadda Brooks, American jazz singer, pianist, and composer (b. 1916)
2005 - Alfred Anderson, last Scottish World War I (and Christmas Truce) veteran (b. 1896)
2005 - Hugh Sidey, American journalist (b. 1927)
2006 - Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese Cabinet minister (assassinated) (b. 1972)
2006 - Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist (b. 1915)
2007 - Tom Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
2007 - Fernando FernÃ¡n GÃ³mez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (b. 1921)
2007 - Noel McGregor, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1931)
496 - Pope Gelasius I

Famous Deaths on 20 Nov

2011-11-19T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 20 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 19 Nov

2011-11-18T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 19 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 17 Nov

2011-11-16T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 17 Nov

1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)
1302 - St. Gertrude the Great (b. 1256)
1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
1558 - Mary I of England (b. 1516)
1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de GuÃ©briant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer
1665 - John Earle, English bishop
1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634)
1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate (b. 1682)
1747 - Alain-RenÃ© Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)
1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
1780 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
1794 - Jacques FranÃ§ois Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
1796 - Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (b. 1729)
1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
1818 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen consort of King George III (b. 1744)
1835 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1758)
1849 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-SchillingsfÃ¼rst, German priest and miracle-worker (b. 1794)
1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
1865 - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (b. 1813)
1897 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
1910 - Ralph Johnstone, pioneer pilot, 1st 'American' pilot killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver, Colorado.
1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
1921 - Pa Chay Vue, Hmong Nationalist
1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865)
1929 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860)
1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
1937 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860)
1938 - Ante TrumbiÄ‡, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
1942 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
1947 - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
1955 - James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)
1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
1973 - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878)
1979 - John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull)
1980 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st Sufi master of Oveyssi order (b. 1916)
1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)
1986 - Georges Besse, French automobile executive (b. 1927)
1987 - Paul Derringer, baseball player (b. 1906)
1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1993 - GÃ©rard D. LÃ©vesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
1995 - Alan Hull, English Rock Musician (Lindisfarne)
1998 - Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
2000 - Louis EugÃ¨ne FÃ©lix NÃ©el, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)
2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
2006 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
2006 - Ferenc PuskÃ¡s, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
2006 - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
2006 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)
375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)
594 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (b. c.539)
641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)
885 - Queen Liutgard

Famous Deaths on 16 Nov

2011-11-15T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 16 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 14 Nov

2011-11-13T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 14 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 13 Nov

2011-11-12T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 13 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 12 Nov

2011-11-11T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 12 Nov

1035 - Canute the Great
1094 - King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
1434 - King Louis III of Naples
1555 - Stephen Gardiner, English statesman
1567 - Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (b. 1493)
1595 - John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532)
1606 - St. Nicholas Owen (martyr), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
1667 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b. 1598)
1671 - Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (b. 1612)
1742 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1757 - Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
1836 - Juan RamÃ³n Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
1916 - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855)
1939 - Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
1941 - Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, American mobster (b. 1907)
1944 - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
1948 - Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
1955 - AlfrÃ©d HajÃ³s, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
1965 - Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888)
1972 - Rudolf Friml, Czech composer of operettas (b. 1879)
1976 - Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
1976 - Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)
1981 - William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
1984 - Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909)
1990 - Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
1993 - H. R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff (b. 1926)
1994 - Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)
1997 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
2000 - Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913)
2000 - Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, (b. 1928)
2001 - Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955)
2003 - Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (b. 1986)
2003 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (b. 1925)
2003 - Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
2003 - Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (b. 1954)
2003 - Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
2004 - John Peel, English DJ and Broadcaster (b. 1939)
2005 - William G. Adams, former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada (b. 1923)
2006 - General Jacob E. Smart, US Air Force leader World War II (b. 1909)
2007 - Khanmohammed Ibrahim, Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
2007 - Ira Levin, American novelist (b. 1929)
607 - Pope Boniface III

Famous Deaths on 11 Nov

2011-11-10T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 11 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 10 Nov

2011-11-09T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 10 Nov

1241 - Pope Celestine IV
1444 - King Vladislaus III of Varna is killed in battle (b. 1424)
1549 - Pope Paul III (b. 1468)
1556 - Richard Chancellor, English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland
1596 - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
1605 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522)
1617 - Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
1624 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
1644 - LuÃs VÃ©lez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
1673 - MichaÅ‚ WiÅ›niowiecki, King of Poland (b. 1640)
1727 - Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
1728 - Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admirals (b. 1661)
1772 - Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra GarÃ§Ã£o, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
1777 - Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
1808 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
1848 - Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (b. 1786)
1865 - Henry Wirz, Swiss-American Confederate commandant of POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia, by hanging (b. 1822)
1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, (b. 1854)
1909 - Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
1909 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
1912 - Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
1917 - Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (b. 1866)
1936 - Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
1938 - Mustafa Kemal AtatÃ¼rk, founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881)
1964 - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (b. 1910)
1973 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American country music banjo player (b. 1915)
1975 - Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
1981 - Abel Gance, French film director, producer, and actor (b. 1889)
1982 - Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
1985 - Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959)
1986 - Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
1986 - King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (b. 1903)
1990 - Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban baseball player (b. 1943)
1990 - MÃ¡rio Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
1991 - William Afflis, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1992 - Chuck Connors, American actor, baseball and basketball player (b. 1921)
1994 - Carmen McRae, American singer (b. 1920)
1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist (b. 1941)
1997 - Tommy Tedesco, American musician (b. 1930)
1998 - Mary Millar, English actress (b. 1936)
2000 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
2001 - Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
2002 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (b. 1921)
2003 - Irv "Kup" Kupcinet, American columnist and television personality (b. 1912)
2003 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
2004 - Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (b. 1907)
2006 - Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
2006 - Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
2006 - Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
2006 - Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
2006 - Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
2007 - Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
2007 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. 1907)
2007 - Norman Mailer, American author (b. 1923)
627 - Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
901 - Adelaide of Paris, Queen of Western Francia

Famous Deaths on 9 Nov

2011-11-08T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 9 Nov

1187 - Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1208 - Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
1504 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1623 - William Camden, English historian (b. 1551)
1641 - Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
1699 - Hortense Mancini, mistress of Charles II, King of England (b. 1646)
1766 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
1770 - John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
1778 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
1809 - Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
1848 - Robert Blum, German politician (b. 1810)
1881 - Edwin Drake, Father of the oil industry, drilled the first oil well.
1888 - Mary Jane Kelly, last known Jack the Ripper victim.
1911 - Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
1919 - Eduard MÃ¼ller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
1924 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
1937 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
1938 - Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Muslim poet (b.1877)
1938 - Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.1889)
1940 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
1940 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
1942 - Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
1944 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
1951 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887)
1952 - Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
1952 - Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
1953 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
1953 - Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
1957 - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
1968 - Jan Johansson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1931)
1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
1971 - Maude Fealy, American actor (b. 1881)
1977 - Fred Haney, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1980 - Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
1988 - Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
1988 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
1991 - Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
1997 - Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
1998 - Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
2000 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
2001 - Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
2002 - Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
2002 - William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
2003 - Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
2003 - Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
2003 - Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937)
2004 - Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
2005 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921)
2006 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 - Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director (b. 1923)
959 - Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)

Famous Deaths on 8 Nov

2011-11-07T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 8 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 7 Nov

2011-11-06T18:02:00.000-08:00

Famous Deaths on 7 Nov

1225 - Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
1550 - Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland prior to the reformation, beheaded in Skalholt with his two sons Are and Bjorn. (b. 1484)
1574 - Solomon Luria, Maharshal (b. 1510)
1581 - Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
1620 - Hetman StanisÅ‚aw Å»Ã³lkiewski polish commander in the Battle of Å¢uÅ£ora (1620) (b. 1547)
1633 - Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
1639 - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
1642 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
1713 - Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
1872 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
1881 - John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791)
1906 - Heinrich Seidel, German engineer, poet and writer (b. 1842)
1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
1919 - Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
1922 - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
1943 - Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)
1944 - Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
1944 - Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
1959 - Victor McLaglen, British-born actor (b. 1883
1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
1966 - Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
1967 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Congressman and Vice President (b. 1868)
1968 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1974 - Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
1978 - Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion (b. 1897)
1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
1983 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
1986 - Tracy Pew, Australian musician (The Birthday Party) (b. 1957)
1991 - Carter Cornelius, American R&B musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (b. 1948)
1991 - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
1992 - Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
1992 - Alexander DubÄek, Slovakian politician (b. 1921)
1994 - Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician (b. 1924)
1996 - Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist
1996 - Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)
2000 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
2000 - Queen Ingrid, Queen Dowager of Denmark (b. 1910)
2001 - Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
2002 - Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)
2004 - Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 - Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
2005 - Harry Thompson, English-born comedian and novelist (b. 1960)
2006 - Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1981)
2006 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
2006 - Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
2007 - Earl Dodge, American politician (Prohibition Party) (b. 1932)
644 - Umar ibn al-KhattÄb, Second caliph of Islam

Famous Deaths on 6 Nov

2011-11-05T19:02:00.000-07:00

Famous Deaths on 6 Nov

1231 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
1406 - Pope Innocent VII
1492 - Antoine Busnois, French composer
1550 - Ulrich, Duke of WÃ¼rttemberg (b. 1487)
1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (b. 1594)
1656 - King John IV of Portugal (b. 1603)
1656 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (b. 1583)
1692 - GÃ©dÃ©on Tallemant des RÃ©aux, French writer (b. 1619)
1752 - Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1685)
1771 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
1790 - James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (b. 1726)
1796 - Catherine II of Russia (b. 1729)
1816 - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
1822 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
1836 - King Charles X of France (b. 1757)
1846 - Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general
1846 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (b. 1800)
1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
1910 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b. 1838)
1925 - Kháº£i Äá»&lsqauo;nh, Emperor of Vietnam
1929 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1867)
1936 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (b. 1864)
1941 - Maurice Leblanc, French novelist (b. 1864)
1960 - Erich Raeder, German grand admiral (b. 1876)
1964 - Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (b. 1925)
1964 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
1965 - Edgard VarÃ¨se, French composer (b. 1883)
1965 - Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1898)
1968 - Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)
1968 - Charles B. McVay III, Ex-U.S. Navy Captain (b. 1898)
1970 - AgustÃn Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1900)
1978 - Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (b. 1899)
1978 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (b. 1915)
1984 - GastÃ³n SuÃ¡rez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
1985 - Joel Crothers, Soap Opera Actor (b. 1941)
1986 - Elisabeth GrÃ¼mmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911)
1987 - Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955)
1989 - Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (b. 1949)
1989 - Dickie Goodman, creator of "break-in" records (b. 1934)
1991 - Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
1995 - Aneta Corsaut, American actress (b. 1933)
1998 - Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (b. 1928)
2000 - David R. Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)
2000 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
2001 - Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (b. 1926)
2002 - Sid Sackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
2003 - Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962)
2003 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (b. 1919)
2003 - Crash Holly, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
2004 - Fred Dibnah, English television personality (b. 1938)
2004 - Johnny Warren, Australian soccer player (b. 1943)
2005 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
2005 - Rod Donald, New Zealand Politician, Green Party Co-leader (b. 1957)
2005 - Miguel Aceves MejÃa, Mexican actor, composer and singer (b. 1915)
2006 - Francisco FernÃ¡ndez Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (b. 1950)
2006 - Federico (Fico) LÃ³pez, Puerto Rican basketball player (b. 1962)
2007 - Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
2007 - Hilda Braid, English actress (b. 1929)
2007 - George Grljusich, Australian sports broadcaster (b. c1939)
2007 - Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, Afghan politician (b. c1962)
2007 - George Osmond, Osmond family patriarch (b. 1917)
2007 - Hank Thompson, American singer (b. 1925)

Famous Deaths on 4 Nov

2011-11-03T19:02:00.000-07:00

Famous Deaths on 4 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 3 Nov

2011-11-02T19:02:00.000-07:00

Famous Deaths on 3 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 2 Nov

2011-11-01T19:02:00.000-07:00

Famous Deaths on 2 Nov

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

Famous Deaths on 1 Nov

2011-10-31T19:02:00.000-07:00

Famous Deaths on 1 Nov

1296 - Guillaume Durand, French writer (b. 1230)
1391 - Amadeus VII of Savoy (b. 1360)
1399 - John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
1546 - Giulio Romano, Italian painter
1588 - Jean Daurat, French poet (b. 1508)
1596 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
1642 - Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598)
1676 - Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (b. 1589)
1678 - William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
1700 - Charles II of Spain (b. 1661)
1814 - Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
1888 - Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1838)
1894 - Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)
1903 - Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)
1907 - Alfred Jarry, French writer (b.1873)
1942 - Hugo Distler, German composer (b. 1908)
1947 - Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1917)
1955 - Dale Carnegie, American writer (b. 1888)
1962 - Ricardo RodrÃguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1942)
1968 - George Papandreou, Greek politician (b. 1888)
1972 - Ezra Pound, American poet (b. 1885)
1979 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (b. 1896)
1982 - King Vidor, American film director (b. 1894)
1982 - James Broderick, American actor (b. 1927)
1983 - Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (b. 1887)
1985 - Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (b. 1911)
1986 - Serge Garant, French-Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1929)
1987 - RenÃ© LÃ©vesque, Premier of Quebec (b. 1922)
1993 - A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (b. 1911)
1993 - Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1994 - Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Theodore Alvin Hall, Atomic Spy (b. 1925)
1999 - Jean Coutu, Canadian actor (b. 1925)
2000 - Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (b. 1934)
2004 - Mac Dre, American rapper (b. 1970)
2004 - Terry Knight, American music promoter (b. 1943)
2005 - Michael Piller, American screenwriter (b. 1948)
2005 - Skitch Henderson, English-born bandleader (b. 1918)
2006 - William Styron, American author (b. 1925)
2006 - Adrienne Shelly, American actress (b. 1966)
2007 - Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General (b. 1915)
2007 - S. Ali Raza, Bollywood Screenwriter (b. 1922)
921 - Richard, Duke of Burgundy
955 - Henry I, Duke of Bavaria

Famous Deaths on 31 Oct

2011-10-30T19:02:00.000-07:00

Famous Deaths on 31 Oct

1147 - Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (bc. 1090)
1214 - Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1162)
1448 - John VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1390)
1517 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (b. 1472)
1641 - Cornelis Jol, Dutch admiral and privateer (b. 1597)
1659 - John Bradshaw, English judge (b. 1602)
1723 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
1732 - Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (b. 1666)
1733 - Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of WÃ¼rttemberg (b. 1676)
1744 - Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (b. 1694)
1765 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (b. 1721)
1768 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (b. 1690)
1860 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (b. 1775)
1879 - Jacob Abbott, American author (b. 1803)
1879 - Joseph Hooker, American General (b. 1814)
1883 - Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj
1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (b. 1858)
1913 - William Evans-Gordon, British politician (b. 1857)
1916 - Charles Taze Russell, American founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1852)
1918 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890)
1920 - Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (b. 1854)
1925 - Max Linder, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1883)
1926 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874)
1929 - AntÃ³nio JosÃ© de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
1939 - Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (b. 1884)
1943 - Max Reinhardt, German film director (b. 1873)
1952 - U Chit Hlaing, Burmese politician (b. 1879)
1959 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)
1972 - Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
1975 - SD Burman, Indian musician (b. 1906)
1983 - George Halas, American football player, coach, and team owner (b. 1895)
1984 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1917)
1984 - Eduardo de Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1985 - Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913)
1985 - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (b. 1907)
1985 - Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (b. 1918)
1986 - Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1896)
1987 - Joseph Campbell, American author and expert on mythology (b. 1904)
1988 - Alfred Pellan, QuÃ©bÃ©cois painter (b. 1906)
1988 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and director (b. 1902)
1991 - Joseph Papp, American theatrical producer (b. 1921)
1991 - Gene Anderson, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1993 - Federico Fellini, Italian director (b. 1920)
1993 - River Phoenix, American actor (b. 1970)
1995 - Rosalind Cash, American actress (b. 1938)
1996 - Marcel CarnÃ©, French film director (b. 1906)
1998 - Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1935)
1999 - Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975)
2000 - Watanabe Kazuki Japanese musician (Raphael) (b. 1981)
2000 - Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2001 - RÃ©gine Cavagnoud, French skier (b. 1970)
2002 - Lionel PoilÃ¢ne, French baker and entrepreneur (b. 1945)
2002 - Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician, former president of Greece (b. 1903)
2002 - Raf Vallone, Italian actor (b. 1916)
2003 - Richard Neustadt, American political historian (b. 1919)
2003 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (b. 1908)
2005 - Mary Wimbush, English actress (b. 1924)
2005 - John "Beatz" Holohan, American drummer (Bayside) (b. 1974)
2005 - Hal Anger, American biophysicist (b. 1920)
2006 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa (b. 1916)
2007 - Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby union footballer (b. 1951)

Famous Deaths on 30 Oct

2011-10-29T19:02:00.000-07:00

Famous Deaths on 30 Oct

1459 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (b. 1380)
1522 - Jean Mouton, French composer
1553 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
1611 - King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
1626 - Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)
1632 - Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (b. 1595)
1654 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
1680 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
1685 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
1809 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
1816 - Frederick I of WÃ¼rttemberg (b. 1754)
1842 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784)
1853 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)
1883 - Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
1893 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
1894 - HonorÃ© Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
1899 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)
1910 - Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
1912 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
1915 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
1923 - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
1957 - Fred Beebe, baseball player (b. 1880)
1966 - YÃ³rgos TheotokÃ¡s, Greek novelist (b. 1906)
1968 - Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)
1968 - RamÃ³n Novarro, Mexican actor (b. 1899)
1968 - Conrad Richter, American writer (b. 1890)
1969 - Pops Foster, American musician (b. 1892)
1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1979 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
1979 - Sir Barnes Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (b. 1887)
1985 - Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
1988 - T. Hee, American animator (b. 1911)
1993 - Paul GrÃ©goire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
1997 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (b. 1912)
2000 - Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
2002 - Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (b. 1965)
2002 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2004 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
2005 - Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (b. 1908)
2005 - Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942)
2006 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
2006 - Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
2007 - Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)
2007 - Linda Stein, Ramones manager and real estate broker (b. 1945)
2007 - Washoe, chimpanzee trained in American Sign Language (b. 1965)
2007 - John Woodruff, American athlete (b. 1915)

Famous Deaths on 29 Oct

2011-10-28T19:02:00.000-07:00

Famous Deaths on 29 Oct

1038 - Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
1138 - BolesÅ‚aw III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086)
1268 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252)
1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (beheaded) (b. 1249)
1590 - Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician (b. 1522)
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed) (b. 1554)
1650 - David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)
1666 - Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)
1666 - James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)
1783 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
1829 - Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (b. 1751)
1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
1901 - Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (b. 1873)
1905 - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher (b. 1847)
1919 - A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
1932 - Joseph BabiÅ„ski, Polish-French neurologist (b. 1857)
1933 - Paul PainlevÃ©, French mathematician and politician (b. 1853)
1933 - Albert Calmette, French physician (b. 1863)
1939 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)
1941 - Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
1950 - King Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858)
1953 - William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
1957 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (b. 1885)
1957 - Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)
1958 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)
1963 - Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890)
1971 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1971 - Duane Allman, American musician (b. 1946)
1981 - Georges Brassens, French singer (b. 1921)
1986 - Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1987 - Woody Herman, American musician (b. 1913)
1995 - Terry Southern, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
1997 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
1998 - Paul Misraki, French songwriter (b. 1908)
1999 - Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (b. 1931)
2002 - Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
2003 - Franco Corelli, tenor (b. 1921)
2003 - Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
2004 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923)
2004 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (b. 1936)
2004 - Peter Twinn, English mathematician (b. 1916)
2006 - Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928)

Famous Deaths on 28 Oct

2011-10-27T19:02:00.000-07:00

Famous Deaths on 28 Oct

1225 - Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155)
1312 - Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen
1412 - Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)
1485 - Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist (b. 1443)
1520 - Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter
1568 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
1627 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1569)
1639 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
1646 - William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
1661 - AgustÃn Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
1676 - Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
1703 - John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616)
1704 - John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
1708 - Prince George of Denmark, Consort of Queen Anne of England (b. 1653)
1716 - Stephen Fox, British politician (b. 1627)
1740 - Empress Anna of Russia (b. 1693)
1754 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
1755 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689)
1763 - Heinrich, count von BrÃ¼hl, German statesman (b. 1700)
1768 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (b. 1700)
1792 - Paul MÃ¶hring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
1792 - John Smeaton, British civil engineer (b. 1724)
1800 - Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (b. 1727)
1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
1818 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
1841 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
1857 - Louis EugÃ¨ne Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
1877 - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
1899 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (tuberculosis) (b. 1854)
1900 - Max MÃ¼ller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823)
1916 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
1916 - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
1918 - Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
1929 - Bernhard von BÃ¼low, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
1939 - Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
1952 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1957 - Ernst GrÃ¤fenberg, German physician and scientist (b. 1881)
1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
1965 - Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
1969 - Constance Dowling, American actress (b. 1920)
1973 - Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
1973 - Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
1975 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
1975 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (b. 1932)
1986 - John Braine, British novelist (b. 1922)
1987 - AndrÃ© Masson, French artist (b. 1896)
1997 - Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
1998 - Ted Hughes, British poet (b. 1930)
2000 - Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
2000 - LÃda BaarovÃ¡, Czech actress (b. 1914)
2001 - Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
2002 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
2002 - Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1917)
2004 - Jimmy McLarnin, Northern Irish-born boxer (b. 1907)
2005 - Bob Broeg, American sports writer (b. 1918)
2005 - Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
2005 - Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (b. 1922)
2005 - Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
2005 - Raymond Hains, French artist (b. 1926)
2005 - Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (b. 1926)
2005 - Ljuba TadiÄ‡, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
2006 - Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1917)
2006 - Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (b. 1920)
2006 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
2007 - Porter Wagoner, American country singer (b. 1927)
312 - Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278)

Famous Deaths on 27 Oct

2011-10-26T19:02:00.000-07:00

Famous Deaths on 27 Oct

1271 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
1312 - John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
1327 - Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
1331 - Abu al-Fida, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273)
1430 - Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)
1439 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)
1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
1505 - Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
1553 - Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (burned at the stake) (b. 1511)
1561 - Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)
1573 - Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
1605 - Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (born 1542)
1617 - Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
1670 - Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
1674 - HallgrÃmur PÃ©tursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
1675 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1789 - John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
1917 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
1935 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
1942 - Helmuth Hubener, Youth Political Activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925)
1949 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
1949 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
1953 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
1962 - Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
1975 - Rex Stout, American novelist (b. 1886)
1977 - James M. Cain, American novelist (b. 1892)
1980 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
1980 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
1990 - Elliott Roosevelt, American war hero, author, and advertising executive (b. 1910)
1990 - Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1901)
1990 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
1990 - Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
1990 - Jacques Demy, French film director (b. 1931)
1991 - George Barker, English poet (b. 1913)
1992 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
1996 - Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
1996 - Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
1999 - Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
1999 - Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
2000 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
2002 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (b. 1925)
2003 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
2004 - Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
2006 - Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2006 - Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)
939 - King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)

Famous Deaths on 26 Oct

2011-10-25T19:02:00.000-07:00

Famous Deaths on 26 Oct

1235 - King Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1175)
1440 - Gilles de Rais, French serial killer (b. 1404)
1633 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
1671 - Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
1675 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
1679 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
1686 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)
1717 - Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
1751 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702)
1764 - William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
1773 - AmÃ©dÃ©e-FranÃ§ois FrÃ©zier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
1803 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (b. 1721)
1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
1817 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
1864 - "Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
1866 - John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
1890 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (b. 1826)
1896 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)
1909 - Hirobumi Ito, Japanese Prime Minister (b. 1841)
1930 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)
1937 - JÃ³zef DowbÃ³r-MuÅ›nicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
1941 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904)
1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (b. 1862)
1944 - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
1944 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
1945 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
1945 - Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895)
1956 - Walter Gieseking, French pianist (b. 1895)
1957 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883)
1957 - Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1896)
1962 - Louise Beavers, American actress (b. 1902)
1965 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
1966 - Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
1971 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
1972 - Igor Sikorsky, Kiev, Russian Empire (currently Ukraine) born inventor (b. 1889)
1978 - Alexander Gerschenkron, Russian-born economic historian (b. 1904)
1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917)
1984 - Gus Mancuso, baseball player (b. 1905)
1986 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
1989 - Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
1994 - Wilbert Harrison, American singer (b. 1929)
1995 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)
1997 - Joe Cinque, Civil Engineer (b 1978)
1999 - Hoyt Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
2002 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (b. 1979)
2002 - Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
2004 - Bobby Avila, Major League Baseball player (b. 1924)
2005 - Keith Parkinson, fantasy artist (b. 1958)
2006 - Pontus HultÃ©n, Swedish art collector and museum director (b. 1924)
2007 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase (b. 1918)
2007 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (b. 1943)
2007 - Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947)
2007 - Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
899 - Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (b. 849)

Famous Deaths on 25 Oct

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Famous Deaths on 25 Oct

1047 - King Magnus I of Norway (b. 1024)
1154 - King Stephen of England (b. 1096)
1200 - Conrad of Wittelsbach, German Archbishop
1230 - Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1180)
1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet
1415 - Killed in the Battle of Agincourt:
304 - Pope Marcellinus (martyred)
625 - Pope Boniface V