1788 – Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer, dies at 63
1827 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter remembered for portraits of leading American Revolution figures (George Washington), dies at 85
1888 – Jean-Delphin Alard, French violinist and composer, dies at 72
1913 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-européennes), dies at 55
1976 – Angela Baddeley, English actress (Speckled Band), dies at 71
1978 – Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O’Brien), dies at 74
1980 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter and graphic artist, dies at 93
1984 – Jessamyn West, American writer (b. 1902)
2016 – Sonny James [James Loden], American country music singer-songwriter (Young Love), dies at 87
2017 – Ed Garvey, American labor leader (NFL Players Association), dies at 76
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 21st February 2023
1715 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland, dies at 77
1824 – Eugène de Beauharnais, French military officer and stepson of Napoleon Bonaparte (son of Alexandre de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie), dies at 42
1872 – Pavel Gagarin, Russian politician, dies at 82
1919 – Mary Edwards Walker, American surgeon and feminist, only woman awarded Medal of Honor (US Civil War), dies at 86
1949 – Tan Malaka, Indonesian philosopher and founder (Indonesian Communist), executed at 49
1951 – Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Potasch and Perlemoer, Boefje), dies at 63
1966 – Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician, dies at 70
2002 – Harold Pruett, American actor (Sybil, Embrace of the Vampire), dies of a drug overdose at 32
2015 – Bruce Sinofsky, American documentary film director (Brother’s Keeper), dies at 58 from diabetes complications
2019 – Peter Michael Braun, German composer, dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 20th February 2023
1258 – Al-Musta’sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad, dies in the sack of Baghdad by being rolled up in a carpet and trampled to death
1626 – John Dowland, British (or Irish?) Renaissance lutenist, singer, and composer (“I saw my Lady weepe”; “Flow My Tears”), dies and is buried at 63
1771 – Jean Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist, dies at 92
1809 – Johann Joseph Emmert, German composer, dies at 76
1871 – Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter, dies at 60
1980 – Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception), dies at 84
1984 – Fikret Amirov, Azerbaijani-Soviet composer (Azerbaijan Capriccio, Shur), dies at 61
1987 – Ivan Brkanović, Croatian composer (Triptych – Funeral Folk Rite), dies at 80
1996 – Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer, dies at 69
2021 – Stan Williams, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1960²; World Series 1959, 1990 [coach: Cincinnati Reds]; NY Yankees, LA Dodgers), dies from cardio-pulmonary illness at 84
Famous Deaths for 19th February 2023
1790 – Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz [Jan Křtitel Krumpholtz], Czech-French harpist and composer, drowns himself over lost love, in the Seine River, at 47
1957 – Maurice Garin, Italian-born French road bicycle racer (winner of Tour de France in 1903), dies at 85
1975 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian 12-tone composer (Il prigioniero; Ulisse), dies of Pulmonary edema at 71
1994 – Georges Watin, Algerian-French officer (OAS), dies at 71
1995 – John Howard, American actor (The Philadelphia Story, My Three Sons), dies of heart failure at 81
1995 – Calder Willingham, American novelist and scriptwriter (End as a Man), dies at 72
1996 – Brenda Bruce, actress (December Bride, Nightmare), dies at 77
2001 – Stanley Kramer, American producer/director (Inherit the Wind), dies at 87
2009 – Kelly Groucutt, British rock bass guitarist and vocalist (Electric Light Orchestra; ELO II; The Orchestra), dies of a heart attack at 63
2017 – Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist (11th House), dies at 73
Famous Deaths for 18th February 2023
1654 – Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer (b. 1594)
1900 – Eugenio Beltrami, Italian mathematician (non-Euclidean geometry), dies at 64
1902 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, American jeweler and founder of Tiffany and Co, dies at 90
1951 – Piet A W Hopmans, bishop of Breda (Crusade), dies at 85
1959 – Alfred Alessandrescu, Romanian composer, dies at 65
1975 – Chivu Stoica [Stoica Chivu], premier of Romania (1955-61), dies at 66
1993 – Jacqueline Hill, dies of cancer at 63
2008 – Sir Richard Knowles, British politician (b. 1917)
2009 – Ronald Dearing, British civil servant and chairman (British Post Office), dies of cancer at 78
2013 – Kevin Ayers, British progressive rocker (Soft Machine; Joy of a Toy), dies at 68
Famous Deaths for 17th February 2023
1652 – Gregorio Allegri, Italian singer and composer (Miserere), dies at about 67
1815 – Franz Gotz, Bohemian composer, dies at 59
1841 – Ferdinando Carulli, Italian classical guitar composer (Méthode, Op. 27), dies at 71
1852 – Micha Joseph Levenson, Hebrew poet, dies
1951 – Nikoghayos Fadeyi Tigranyan, Armenian composer, dies at 94
1971 – Teddy Hart, American actor (After the Thin Man, 3 Men on a Horse), dies at 73
1977 – Janani Luwum, Ugandan Archbishop (b. 1922)
1980 – Graham Sutherland, English artist (official WWII war artist), dies at 76
1999 – Shirley Stoler, American actress (The Honeymoon Killers, Seven Beauties), dies at 69
2004 – Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (Olympic gold 80m hurdles 1952, 56; 4 x 100m relay 1956), dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 16th February 2023
1495 – William Stanley, English soldier and lord chamberlain, beheaded for treason against the king at about 59 [birth date undocumented]
1710 – Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes, dies at 77
1858 – Georg F. Creuzer, German philological and historian, dies at 86
1919 – Vera Kholodnaya, Russian film star (b. 1893)
1963 – László Lajtha, Hungarian composer, ethno-musicologist and conductor, dies at 70
1996 – Charles McCorquodale, art historian, dies at 47
2000 – Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born engineer and inventor (b. 1911)
2012 – Elyse Knox, American actress and model (Hit the Ice, Black Gold), dies at 94
2019 – Don Bragg, American pole vaulter (Olympic gold 1960), dies of a stroke at 83
2019 – Ken Nordine, American voice-over and recording artist (World Jazz), dies at 98
Famous Deaths for 15th February 2023
1775 – Peter Dens, Flemish Catholic theologian, dies at 84
1820 – William Ellery, US attorney (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 92
1885 – Leopold Damrosch, German-American composer, and conductor (New York Oratorio Society; New York Symphony), dies at 52
1964 – Robert L. Thornton, American businessman and politician (b. 1880)
1981 – Thomas Beversdorf, American classical composer (“Of Walruses, Cheesecake, and Morse Code”), and educator (Indiana University, 1949-80), dies of asthma complications at 56
1991 – Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack
1994 – Maria Britneva, Russian actress (A Room with a View, Maurice), dies of heart failure 72
2005 – Samuel Francis, American journalist (b. 1947)
2006 – Andrey Petrov, Soviet-Russian classical and film score composer (Creation of the World), dies at 75
2021 – Leopoldo Luque, Argentine soccer striker (43 caps; River Plate), dies from COVID-19 at 71
Famous Deaths for 14th February 2023
1831 – Vicente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero, general and 2nd President of Mexico (1829, executed by firing squad at 48
1961 – Wallis Clark, British-American stage and screen actor (Penny Serenade; Great Guy; Postal Inspector; Easy Money), dies at 78
1969 – Wolfe Barzell, actor (Blue Angel), dies of a heart attack at 72
1988 – Frederick Loewe [Friedrich Löwe], Austrian-born American composer (My Fair Lady, Camelot), dies at 86
1989 – James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
1991 – Arno Breker, German architect and sculptor (Third Reich), dies at 90
2003 – Johnny Longden, Canadian hall of fame jockey and trainer (1943 Triple Crown on Count Fleet), dies of a stroke at 96
2006 – Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
2007 – Gareth Morris, British flautist (b. 1920)
2015 – Pamela Cundell, British stage and screen character actress (Dad’s Army – “Mrs. Fox”), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 13th February 2023
1237 – Jordanus of Saxon, 2nd general of Dominicans, drowns
1332 – Andronicus II Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk, dies
1873 – Petrus Abraham Samuel van Limburg Brouwer, Dutch politician and critic (Akbar), dies at 43
1958 – Georges Rouault, French expressionist painter (Miserere et Guerre), dies at 86
1970 – Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (28 Tests for England as wicket-keeper), dies at 90
1976 – Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military ruler, is assassinated at 37
1980 – Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician and cryptologist (1st to break German Enigma code), dies at 74
1998 – Jo Clayton, author, Cancer Died, Drums of Chaos, dies at 58
2003 – Walt Rostow, U.S. government official (b. 1916)
2005 – Lúcia Santos, Portuguese Carmelite nun and Fatima visionary, dies at 97