August 03 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 1460 - King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)


• 1527 - Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal


• 1546 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)


• 1546 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)


• 1604 - Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander


• 1621 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556)


• 1667 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (b. 1599)


• 1712 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)


• 1720 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)


• 1721 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)


• 1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)


• 1773 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700)


• 1780 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (b. 1715)


• 1792 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)


• 1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)


• 1805 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)


• 1839 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)


• 1857 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)


• 1867 - Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)


• 1877 - William Butler Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)


• 1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)


• 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged) (b. 1864)


• 1917 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849)


• 1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857)


• 1925 - William Bruce, Former Australian cricketer (b. 1864)


• 1929 - Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)


• 1929 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)


• 1942 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1872)


• 1954 - Colette, French writer (b. 1873)


• 1958 - Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931)


• 1964 - Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925)


• 1966 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)


• 1973 - Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)


• 1977 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892)


• 1977 - Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (b. 1913)


• 1979 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)


• 1983 - Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)


• 1990 - Betty Amann, German-American actress


• 1993 - Swami Chinmayananda, spread the teachings of Vedanta (b. 1916)


• 1995 - Ida Lupino, English actress and director (b. 1914)


• 1995 - Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)


• 1997 - Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician (b. 1934)


• 1998 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)


• 2001 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (b. 1922)


• 2002 - Carmen Silvera, British actress (b. 1922)


• 2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954)


• 2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)


• 2005 - Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920)


• 2006 - Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945)


• 2006 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, singer (b. 1915)


• 2007 - John Gardner, British author (b. 1926)


• 2008 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (b. 1918)


• 2008 - Skip Caray, American TV and radio broadcaster (b. 1939)