Famous Deaths on 23 Dec

Famous Deaths on 23 Dec

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

Famous Deaths on 21 Dec

Famous Deaths on 21 Dec

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