Famous Deaths on 1 Aug

Famous Deaths on 1 Aug

1137 - King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
1402 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
1457 - Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (bc. 1406)
1464 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
1541 - Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
1546 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
1557 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
1580 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
1589 - Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
1675 - Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts, a band of the Wampanoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip's War
1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
1787 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
1796 - Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
1798 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
1812 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
1851 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
1866 - John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
1903 - Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (b. 1853)
1917 - Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
1918 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
1920 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
1929 - Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
1964 - Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)
1966 - Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. 1941)
1967 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
1970 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883)
1970 - Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
1973 - Walter Ulbricht, German communist statesman (b. 1893)
1974 - Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
1977 - Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
1980 - Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
1980 - Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
1990 - Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
1990 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
1996 - Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
1996 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
1996 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
1997 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
1998 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)
1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
2001 - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
2003 - Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
2003 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
2004 - Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)
2005 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
2005 - Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
2005 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
2005 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
2006 - Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
2006 - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
2006 - Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
2007 - Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)
2008 - Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283)
527 - Emperor Justin I (b. c. 450)

Famous Deaths on 31 Jul

Famous Deaths on 31 Jul

1396 - William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1342)
1508 - Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1494)
1556 - Ignatius Loyola, Spanish priest and founder of the Jesuits
1653 - Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
1726 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
1750 - King John V of Portugal (b. 1689)
1784 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (b. 1713)
1864 - Louis Hachette, French publisher (b. 1800)
1875 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
1886 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (b. 1811)
1914 - Jean Jaurès, French politician (d. 1859)
1917 - Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
1917 - Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (b. 1887)
1943 - Hedley Verity, English Test cricketer (b. 1905)
1944 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (b. 1900)
1953 - Robert Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate (b. 1889)
1954 - Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
1964 - Jim Reeves, American singer (b. 1923)
1966 - Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (b. 1924)
1970 - Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (b. 1912)
1972 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1899)
1980 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
1980 - Mohd. Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
1986 - Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
1986 - Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (b. 1912)
1988 - Trinidad Silva, American actor (b. 1950)
1990 - Albert Leduc, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1993 - King Baudouin I of Belgium (b. 1930)
1996 - Seagram Miller, American rapper (b. 1970)
2001 - Poul Anderson, American author (b. 1926)
2001 - Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
2001 - Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
2003 - Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (b. 1933)
2004 - Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917)
2004 - Laura Betti, Italian actress (b. 1927)
2005 - Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker (b. 1935)
2006 - Paul Eells, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
855 - Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim Jurisprudent (b. 780)