August 31 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 651 - Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary


• 683 - Pacal II ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque


• 1056 - Theodora, Byzantine Empress (b. 981)


• 1234 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (b. 1212)


• 1372 - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)


• 1422 - King Henry V of England (b. 1387)


• 1645 - Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566)


• 1654 - Ole Worm, Danish physician (b. 1588)


• 1688 - John Bunyan, English writer (b. 1628)


• 1730 - Gottfried Finger, Czech composer (b. 1660?)


• 1741 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)


• 1772 - William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)


• 1795 - François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (b. 1726)


• 1799 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720)


• 1814 - Arthur Phillip, British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738)


• 1867 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet (b. 1821)


• 1869 - Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim (b. 1827)


• 1888 - Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845)


• 1920 - Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (b. 1832)


• 1940 - Georges Gauthier, French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1871)


• 1941 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)


• 1948 - Billy Laughlin, American actor (b. 1932)


• 1952 - Henri Bourassa, French Canadian political leader (b. 1868)


• 1963 - Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)


• 1967 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891)


• 1969 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)


• 1973 - John Ford, American film director (b. 1894)


• 1974 - William Pershing Benedict, American pilot


• 1974 - Norman Kirk, New Zealand prime minister (b. 1923)


• 1978 - John Wrathall, President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)


• 1979 - Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (b. 1904)


• 1985 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)


• 1986 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (b. 1898)


• 1986 - Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900)


• 1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)


• 1997 - Dodi Al-Fayed, film producer (b. 1955)


• 2000 - Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (b. 1925)


• 2002 - Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player (b. 1908)


• 2002 - George Porter, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)


• 2004 - Carl Wayne, English singer (b. 1943)


• 2005 - Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908)


• 2005 - Michael Sheard, British actor (b. 1940)


• 2006 - Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)


• 2006 - Tom Delaney, British racing driver (b. 1911)


• 2007 - Gay Brewer, American golfer (b. 1932)

August 30 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 526 - Theodoric the Great (b. 454)


• 1158 - King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)


• 1428 - Emperor Shōkō (b. 1401)


• 1483 - King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)


• 1580 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)


• 1617 - Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)


• 1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)


• 1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)


• 1751 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)


• 1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)


• 1879 - John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b. 1831)


• 1886 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)


• 1896 - Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)


• 1906 - Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)


• 1907 - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)


• 1928 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)


• 1935 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)


• 1938 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)


• 1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)


• 1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)


• 1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest (b. 1890)


• 1946 - Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907)


• 1946 - Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)


• 1949 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)


• 1961 - Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)


• 1963 - Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)


• 1968 - William Talman, American actor (b. 1915)


• 1970 - Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916)


• 1971 - Nathan Leopold, American murderer (b. 1904)


• 1981 - Vera-Ellen, American actress (b. 1921)


• 1981 - Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian statesman (b. 1933)


• 1985 - Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900)


• 1989 - Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922)


• 1991 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)


• 1993 - Richard Jordan, American actor, (b. 1938)


• 1994 - Lindsay Anderson, English film director (b. 1923)


• 1995 - Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938)


• 1995 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)


• 1996 - Christine Pascal, French actress and director (b. 1953)


• 1999 - Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910)


• 2001 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1907)


• 2002 - J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)


• 2003 - Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)


• 2003 - Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)


• 2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)


• 2004 - Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)


• 2006 - Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916)


• 2006 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)


• 2006 - Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)


• 2007 - Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942)


• 2007 - Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)

August 29 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)


• 1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)


• 1123 - King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)


• 1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)


• 1442 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)


• 1526 - King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (b. 1526)


• 1542 - Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)


• 1657 - John Lilburne, English dissenter


• 1712 - Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)


• 1769 - Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)


• 1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)


• 1799 - Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)


• 1844 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)


• 1856 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)


• 1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)


• 1889 - Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)


• 1891 - Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)


• 1904 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)


• 1930 - William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)


• 1931 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder


• 1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)


• 1966 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)


• 1968 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)


• 1972 - Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)


• 1975 - Eamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (b. 1882)


• 1976 - Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (b. 1925)


• 1976 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899)


• 1977 - Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (b. 1945)


• 1981 - Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)


• 1982 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)


• 1984 - Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)


• 1987 - Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)


• 1987 - Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)


• 1989 - Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)


• 1992 - Teddy Turner, comedian (b. 1917)


• 1995 - Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)


• 2000 - Willie Maddren, English former footballer (b. 1951)


• 2001 - Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)


• 2002 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)


• 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)


• 2003 - Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)


• 2003 - Michel Constantin, French film actor (b. 1924)


• 2004 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)


• 2007 - Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (b. 1962)


• 2007 - Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)


• 2007 - Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)


• 2007 - James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)

August 28 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 388 - Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper


• 430 - Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)


• 1341 - King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309)


• 1481 - King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)


• 1645 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)


• 1654 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)


• 1678 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)


• 1757 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)


• 1784 - Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)


• 1785 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)


• 1793 - Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)


• 1805 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)


• 1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, founder of Chicago


• 1820 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)


• 1839 - William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)


• 1900 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)


• 1903 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)


• 1933 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)


• 1943 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)


• 1947 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)


• 1955 - Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon (b. 1941)


• 1959 - Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)


• 1965 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)


• 1975 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)


• 1976 - Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)


• 1978 - Robert Shaw, English actor and writer (b. 1927)


• 1981 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)


• 1985 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)


• 1987 - John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)


• 1988 - Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)


• 1990 - Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913)


• 1993 - William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914)


• 1995 - Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)


• 2003 - Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956)


• 2005 - Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)


• 2005 - Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)


• 2005 - George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)


• 2006 - Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)


• 2006 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)


• 2007 - Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926)


• 2007 - Hilly Kristal, American Founder of CBGB/Punk rock legend (b. 1932)


• 2007 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (b. 1925)


• 2007 - Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)


• 2007 - Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)


• 2007 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929)


• 2007 - Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913)

August 27 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 542 - Saint Caesarius of Arles


• 827 - Pope Eugene II


• 1312 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)


• 1394 - Chokei, Emperor of Japan (b. 1343)


• 1450 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)


• 1521 - Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer


• 1545 - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)


• 1572 - Claude Goudimel, French composer


• 1577 - Titian, Italian artist


• 1590 - Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)


• 1635 - Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)


• 1664 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)


• 1748 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)


• 1773 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)


• 1871 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)


• 1875 - William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)


• 1909 - Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)


• 1929 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)


• 1931 - Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)


• 1931 - Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)


• 1944 - Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)


• 1948 - Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)


• 1958 - Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)


• 1963 - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)


• 1963 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)


• 1963 - Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)


• 1964 - Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (b. 1895)


• 1965 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)


• 1967 - Brian Epstein, English manager of The Beatles (b. 1934)


• 1968 - Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906)


• 1969 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)


• 1969 - Erika Mann, German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann (b. 1905)


• 1971 - Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television personality (b. 1898)


• 1971 - Margaret Bourke-White, American photo-journalist (b. 1906)


• 1975 - Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)


• 1976 - Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)


• 1979 - Earl Mountbatten, British admiral and statesman (assassinated) (b. 1900)


• 1980 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)


• 1981 - Valery Kharlamov, Soviet Union ice hockey player (b. 1948)


• 1984 - Bernard Youens, English actor (b. 1914)


• 1987 - Scott La Rock, American hip-hop artist Boogie Down Productions (b. 1962)


• 1988 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)


• 1988 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)


• 1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954)


• 1996 - Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)


• 1999 - Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1909)


• 2001 - Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938)


• 2001 - Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (b. 1936)


• 2003 - Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)


• 2004 - Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)


• 2005 - Seán Purcell, Gaelic footballer (b. 1929)


• 2006 - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)


• 2006 - Maria Capovilla, oldest woman alive from 2004-2006 (b. 1889)


• 2006 - Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)


• 2007 - Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)

August 26 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 1278 - King Otakar II of Bohemia


• 1346 - Killed in the Battle of Crécy:
  
  
  
  • Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297)
  
  
  • Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304)
  
  
  • John I, Count of Luxemburg (b. 1296)
  
  
  • Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)
  
  

August 25 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 383 - Gratian, Roman Emperor


• 471 - Gennadius I, Patriarch of Constantinople


• 1192 - Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)


• 1270 - King Louis IX of France (b. 1214)


• 1282 - Thomas Cantilupe, English saint


• 1330 - Sir James Douglas, Scottish soldier (b. 1286)


• 1482 - Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (b. 1429)


• 1554 - Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1473)


• 1632 - Thomas Dekker, English dramatist


• 1650 - Richard Crashaw, English poet


• 1688 - Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer


• 1699 - King Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)


• 1711 - Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician


• 1742 - Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (b. 1704)


• 1774 - Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (b. 1714)


• 1776 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)


• 1792 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)


• 1822 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)


• 1867 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)


• 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)


• 1900 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)


• 1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)


• 1904 - William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)


• 1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1852)


• 1924 - Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)


• 1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1852)


• 1938 - Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer (b. 1870)


• 1939 - Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)


• 1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)


• 1945 - John Birch, American intelligence officer and missionary (b. 1918)


• 1950 - Earl Caddock, professional wrestler (b. 1888)


• 1956 - Alfred Kinsey, American research biologist (b. 1894)


• 1965 - Moonlight Graham, American baseball player


• 1967 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)


• 1967 - Paul Muni, Polish actor (b. 1895)


• 1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b. 1918)


• 1971 - Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b. 1890)


• 1976 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)


• 1979 - Stan Kenton, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)


• 1980 - Gower Champion, American dancer, actor, and choreographer (b. 1919)


• 1984 - Truman Capote, American author (b. 1924)


• 1984 - Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (b. 1899)


• 1984 - Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (b. 1921)


• 1985 - Samantha Smith, American social activist (b. 1972)


• 1990 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (b. 1903)


• 1999 - Rob Fisher, English musician (b. 1956)


• 2000 - Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)


• 2000 - Jack Nitzsche, American record producer (b. 1937)


• 2001 - Aaliyah, American singer and actress (b. 1979)


• 2001 - Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)


• 2001 - Ken Tyrrell, former race driver and founder of Tyrrell Racing (b. 1924)


• 2001 - Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (b. 1940)


• 2002 - Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b. 1923)


• 2005 - Peter Glotz, German politician (b. 1939)


• 2007 - Ray Jones, English professional footballer (b. 1988)

August 24 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 79 - Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)


• 1042 - Michael V, Byzantine Emperor) (b. 1015)


• 1103 - King Magnus III of Norway (b. 1073)


• 1217 - Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate (bc. 1170)


• 1540 - Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)


• 1542 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)


• 1572 - Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:
  
  
  
  • 1572 - Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (b. 1519)
  
  
  • 1572 - Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515)
  
  
  • 1572 - Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier (bc. 1535)
  
  

August 23 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 93 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)


• 634 - Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph


• 1106 - Magnus, Duke of Saxony


• 1176 - Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)


• 1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot


• 1387 - King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)


• 1507 - Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)


• 1519 - Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot


• 1540 - Guillaume Budé, French scholar


• 1591 - Luis Ponce de León, Spanish poet and mystic (b. 1527)


• 1618 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)


• 1628 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)


• 1652 - John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)


• 1706 - Colonel Edward Nott, Esq., British Crown Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)


• 1723 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639)


• 1806 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736)


• 1813 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)


• 1819 - Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)


• 1853 - Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (b. 1806)


• 1867 - Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)


• 1892 - Deodoro da Fonseca, 1^st President of Brazil (b. 1827)


• 1926 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)


• 1927 - Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (b. 1891)


• 1927 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (b. 1888)


• 1937 - Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)


• 1955 - Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)


• 1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (b. 1895)


• 1962 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885)


• 1962 - Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892)


• 1963 - Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (b. 1900)


• 1966 - Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)


• 1967 - Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)


• 1971 - The original Shamu, Sea World orca


• 1974 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)


• 1982 - Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)


• 1987 - Didier Pironi, French racing car driver (b. 1952)


• 1989 - Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (b. 1944)


• 1989 - R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1927)


• 1990 - David Rose, American composer and orchestra leader (b. 1910)


• 1995 - Dwayne Goettel, Canadian musician (Skinny Puppy)(b. 1964)


• 1997 - John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)


• 1999 - Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b.1926)


• 1999 - James White, Northern Irish writer (b. 1928)


• 2000 - John Anthony Kaiser, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1932)


• 2001 - Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)


• 2001 - Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)


• 2002 - Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)


• 2003 - Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)


• 2003 - Jack Dyer, Australian rules footballer (b. 1913)


• 2003 - John Geoghan, American Catholic priest (b. 1935)


• 2005 - Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)


• 2005 - Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (b. 1973)


• 2006 - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1928)


• 2007 - Robert Symonds, American actor (b. 1926)