1819 – Georg Druschetzky [Jiří Družecký], Czech composer, oboist, and timpanist, dies at 74
1941 – Hugo Loudon, Dutch businessman and co-founder of Royal Dutch Shell, dies at 81
1948 – Gerrit Hendrik Kersten, Dutch vicar and founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66
1963 – Margarita Sierra, Spanish-American actress (Surfside 6 – “Cha Cha”), dies after heart surgery at 27
1981 – Joseph Yasser, Russian-American composer, dies at 88
1999 – René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
2018 – Evelyn Anthony, British historical writer (Poellenberg Inheritance), dies at 92
2018 – Alan Oakman, English cricket all-rounder (2 Tests; Sussex CCC), dies at 88
2024 – Mark Moffatt, Australian guitarist, songwriter, and record producers (The Monitors; Tim Finn), dies of pancreatic cancer at 74
2024 – Horst Weigang, German soccer goalkeeper (12 caps East Germany; Lokomotive Leipzig, Rot-Weiß Erfurt), dies at 83
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 5th September 2026
1201 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany and Countess of Richmond, dies at about 40 (b. circa 1161)
1859 – Friedrich von Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68
1922 – Sarah Winchester, American businesswoman, heiress, and philanthropist, dies at 83
1924 – Karel Komzák III, Austrian conductor and composer, dies at 46
1976 – Arthur Gilligan, British cricket all-rounder (11 Tests, 34 wickets; England captain 1924-25; Sussex CCC), dies at 81
1982 – Douglas Bader, English RAF fighter pilot in World War II, dies at 72
1996 – Clem Thomas, Welsh rugby union flanker (26 Tests, 9 as captain; Cambridge Uni RFC, Brynamman, Swansea, London Welsh, Harlequins) and journalist (The Observer), dies at 67 dies at 67
2015 – Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (Late Spring, Tokyo Story), dies of pneumonia at 95
2016 – Duane Graveline, American doctor and astronaut, dies at 85
2021 – Sarah Harding, British pop singer (Girls Aloud – “Sound of the Underground,” “Love Machine”), dies of breast cancer at 39
Famous Deaths for 4th September 2026
1784 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (geodesic labor), dies at 70
1864 – John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader of ‘Morgan’s Raiders’, killed by Union troops at Greeneville at 39
1977 – Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek folk singer, songwriter and guitarist, dies at 78
1988 – Oda Schaefer, German writer and journalist (Die Windharfe, Ladies Only), dies at 87
1994 – Laurens van Deenen, Dutch biochemist, dies at 66
1997 – Jeffrey Bernard, British writer (Spectator Magazine – Low Life), dies at 65
2007 – Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese army officer and educator, dies at 95
2023 – Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist (Nobel Prize for Medicine – 1998), dies at 86
2023 – Steve Harwell, American rock singer-songwriter (Smash Mouth, 1994-2021 – “All Star”, “I’m A Believer”), dies of liver failure at 56
2025 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer (American Gigolo) and founder of the Armani luxury fashion house, dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 3rd September 2026
1971 – Percy Holmes, English cricket batsman (7 Tests, 4 x 50; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 84
1980 – Fabian von Schlabendorff, German resistance fighter/judge, dies at 73
1984 – Arthur Schwartz, American composer (“I Guess I’ll Have To Change My Plans”; “That’s Entertainment”), dies at 83
1987 – Viktor Nekrasov, Ukrainian journalist and novelist (V okopakh Stalingrada – Front-line Stalingrad; Kira Georgijevna), dies at 76
1988 – Riccardo Torriani, Swiss ice hockey player, luger (Olympic bronze 1928, 48; took the Olympic oath 1948), dies at 76
2007 – Steve Fossett, American adventurer (1st person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon,) disappears while flying at 63
2010 – Cyril Smith, British Liberal Member of Parliament and alleged serial sex offender, dies at 82
2013 – Ariel Castro, Puerto Rican-born American criminal famous for kidnapping 3 women between 2002-4, commits suicide 1 month into his life sentence at 53
2016 – Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, American actress (Beloved), commentator (NPR) and food writer (Vibration Cooking or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl), dies at 79
2025 – Keith Hodiak [Hodiak Hampden Sears], Guyanese-British dancer, actor and member of the Ballet Rambert (1972-75), dies at 75
Famous Deaths for 2nd September 2026
1274 – Prince Munetaka, 6th Japanese shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate (1252-66), dies at 31
1765 – Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
1964 – Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist, dies at 64
1973 – Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
1994 – Richard M Major, US anti-terror specialist (CIA Red Book), dies at 72
1998 – Jonathan Mann, American physician and AIDS activist, dies in the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 at 51
2004 – (Roquel) “Billy” Davis, American songwriter and music producer of pop music and commercial jingles (“Reet Petite”; “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)”; “It’s the Real Thing”), dies at 72
2006 – [Walter] Dewey Redman, American jazz saxophonist, dies of liver failure at 75
2009 – Roger Aubert, Belgian church historian (Le Pontificat de Pie IX), dies at 95
2016 – Daniel Willems, Belgian cyclist, dies of a heart attack at 60
Famous Deaths for 1st September 2026
1862 – Isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 44
1926 – John Hunn, American businessman and 51st Governor of Delaware, dies at 77
1941 – “Kansas City” Frank [Melrose], American jazz and blues pianist, killed in a bar fight in Hammond, Indiana at 33
1991 – Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30
1995 – Ernest Marke, Sierra Leonean seaman and club owner, dies at 93
1998 – Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, English press magnate (The Mail on Sunday), dies of a heart attack at 73
2003 – Terry Frost, British artist, dies at 87
2006 – Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
2014 – Joseph Shivers, American chemist and inventor of Spandex, dies at 93
2021 – Marty Fried, American rock drummer (The Cyrkle – “Red Rubber Ball”), and attorney, dies of pancreatic cancer at 77
Famous Deaths for 31st August 2026
1422 – Henry V, King of England (1413-22) and France (1416-19), dies at 36 after being weakened by dysentery and heatstroke
1688 – John Bunyan, English minister and author (The Pilgrim’s Progress), dies at 59
1940 – Johanna “Annie” Bakker, Dutch revue-artist, singer and actress, dies at 58
1946 – Paul August von Klenau, Danish opera composer, and conductor, dies at 63
1967 – Michael Fitzmaurice, American radio actor (Superman, Reported Missing, 14 Hours), dies of lymphoma at 59
1968 – Dennis O’Keefe, American actor (Suspicion), dies of lung cancer at 60
1979 – E J “Tiger” Smith, English cricket wicket-keeper (11 Tests, 20 dismissals; Warwickshire CCC) and umpire (8 Tests 1933-38), dies at 93
1995 – John Erik Jonsson, American businessman and Mayor of Dallas, dies at 93
2006 – Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian soccer left back (19 caps; African Cup of Nations 2006; Al Ahly SC, Aluminium Nag Hammâdi), dies from a heart defect at 22
2017 – Ann Jellicoe, British theater director and playwright (The Knack), dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 30th August 2026
1856 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, British writer of humor, dies of typhoid fever at 45 (b. 1811)
1903 – Vicente Fidel López, Argentine historian (Historia the Chile), dies at 87
1950 – Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center), dies at 57
1963 – Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy, dies of acute liver failure at 52
1986 – Ellis Achong, West Indian cricket spin bowler (6 Tests, 8 wickets; Trinidad; 1st of Chinese descent to play a Test match), dies at 82
1994 – Michael Gribble, American film animator (Mike and Spike Festival), dies of cancer at 42
2007 – José Luis de Villalonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, Spanish aristocrat, author, and film actor, dies at 87
2015 – Marvin Mandel, American politician (Governor of Maryland 1969-79), dies at 95
2015 – Wes Craven, American filmmaker (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream), dies at 76
2019 – James Cellan Jones, Welsh television director (Fortunes of War, The Forsyte Saga), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 29th August 2026
1542 – Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier who led a force with Ethiopia against the Adal Sultanate, captured and executed at 25 or 26
1769 – Edmond Hoyle, English games expert, dies (birth date unknown)
1782 – Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns in sinking of HMS Royal George at about 64 (exact birthday uncertain)
1799 – Pope Pius VI [Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 81
1853 – Charles Napier, British soldier and Major General of the Bombay Army who conquered Sindh and became its Governor (1843-47), dies at 71
1865 – John Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54
1983 – Simon Oakland [Weiss], American stage and screen character actor (Toma; Kolchak), dies of colon cancer at 68
1991 – (Christina) “Dixie” Dunbar, American stage and screen dancer, singer and actress (George White’s Scandals; Pigskin Parade), dies of a heart attack at 72
2003 – Michel Constantin, French film actor, dies at 79
2018 – Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer (Paul Taylor Dance Company), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 28th August 2026
1618 – Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (1568–1618), dies at 65
1798 – James Wilson, One of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, dies at 55
1839 – William Smith, British geologist who is credited with creating the first nationwide geological map (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils), dies at 70
1910 – Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist and anthropologist, dies at 78
1937 – Frederick Burr Opper, American pioneering cartoonist (Happy Hooligan), dies at 80
1948 – Eleni Gatzoyiannis, Greek heroine (subject of “Eleni” by son Nicholas Gage about how she saved her children), shot and killed by communists at 41
1964 – Lumsden Hare, Irish actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox, Young Bess), dies at 89
1987 – John Huston, US/Irish actor and director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81
2018 – Tatyana Kuznetsova, Soviet cosmonaut (youngest person selected for space training at 20 but never flew), dies at 77
2023 – Len Chandler, American folk music singer-songwriter (“Beans in Ears”), and civil rights activist, dies at 88