1546 – George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer, martyred at 33
1773 – Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian, dies at 63
1804 – Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, German composer, dies at 63
1884 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician, dies at 63
1914 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, dies at 63
1970 – Ed Hoornik, Dutch writer and poet (Na jaren), dies at 59
1980 – Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model and founder of Wilhelmina Models, dies at 40
1993 – Luis Kutner, American co-founder (Amnesty International), dies at 84
1994 – Manmohan Desai, Indian filmmaker (Amar Akbar Anthony, Suhaag), dies at 57
2013 – Sammy Guillen, West Indian cricket wicket-keeper (5 Tests West Indies and 3 Tests New Zealand), dies at 88
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 28th February 2023
1936 – Pedro Muñoz Seca, Spanish comic playwright (Don Mendo’s Vengence), executed by the Spanish Republican army at 55
1959 – Maxwell Anderson, American dramatist (Key Largo, Bath Seed), dies of a stroke at 70
1961 – Joris Vriamont, Flemish writer and music publisher, dies at 64
1966 – Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, dies at 34, in a crash of T-38 jet
1985 – David Byron [Garrick], British vocalist and songwriter (Uriah Heep), dies of alcohol-related complications at 38
1999 – Christine Glanville, British Puppeteer (. 1924)
2004 – Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (b. 1982)
2004 – Gene Allison, American RandB singer (“You Can Make It If You Try”), dies at 69
2007 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian (1946 Pulitzer-Age of Jackson), dies at 89
2016 – Frank Kelly, Irish stage and screen actor (Father Ted), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 27th February 2023
1797 – Benvenuto Robbio San Raffaele, Italian composer, dies at 61
1943 – Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (b. 1859)
1968 – Johannes Tralow, German writer (Ottoman tetralogy), dies at 85
1986 – Jacques “Jake the Snake” Plante, Canadian Ice Hockey goalie who was the first to wear a goaltender mask, dies of stomach cancer at 57
1989 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist and ethologist (Man and His Ideas, Nobel Prize 1973), dies at 85
1991 – Hein van Royen, Dutch director of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (1974-91), dies at 52
1995 – Bernard Cornfield, financier, dies at 67
1996 – Pat Smythe, English equestrian rider (Olympic bronze team jumps 1956; author children’s books), dies from heart disease at 67
2004 – Paul Sweezy, American Marxist economist and editor (Monthly Review), dies at 93
2010 – Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer, dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 26th February 2023
1324 – Dino Compagni, Italian silk seller, poet and chronicler, dies
1552 – Heinrich Faber, German singer, music theorist, and composer, dies at about 52
1901 – Hsu Cheng-yu, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
1918 – Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, Spanish violinist and composer, dies at 74
1941 – Jan Keizer, Zaanse February striker, shot to death
1947 – Ben Webster, British actor (Old Curiosity Shop), dies at 82
1966 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian independence activist and writer (The Indian War of Independence), dies at 82
2005 – Jef Raskin, American computer scientist (b. 1943)
2012 – Rolf “Hazy” Osterwald, Swiss jazz bandleader, trumpeter, and vibraphonist, dies at 90
2021 – Aleksandr Klepikov, Russian rower (Olympic gold Soviet Union coxed four 1976), dies at 70
Famous Deaths for 25th February 2023
1247 – Hendrik IV, duke of Limburg/earl of Bergen (1226-47), dies
1798 – Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)
1850 – Daoguang, 8th Emperor of Qing Dynasty, dies at 67
1852 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet and musician, dies at 72
1914 – John Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93
1967 – Walter “Fats” Pichon American jazz pianist, singer, and big bandleader, dies at 60
1970 – Mark Rothko [Marcus Rothkovich], Latvian-American abstract expressionist (Green on Blue), takes his own life at 66
1995 – Terence Weil, British cellist (English Chamber Orchestra; Melos Ensemble), dies at 73
2012 – Louisiana Red [Iverson Minter], American blues guitarist, and singer-songwriter (“Sweet Blood Call”), dies of a stroke at 79
2017 – Boaz Vaadia, Israeli-born sculptor who worked in America, dies of cancer at 65
Famous Deaths for 24th February 2023
1907 – Otto Goldschmidt, German composer, dies at 77
1933 – Spottiswoode Aitken, Scottish actor (The Birth of a Nation, The Avenging Conscience), dies at 65
1984 – Uwe Johnson, writer, dies at 59
1991 – Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
1991 – Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68
1994 – Jean Sablon, French pop singer-songwriter, dies at 87
2002 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-American composer and pianist, (born about 1893)
2006 – Don Knotts, American actor (Andy Griffth Show, 3’s Company), died of lung cancer at 81
2008 – Larry Norman, American musician and pioneer of Christian rock music (“Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?”), dies at 60
2014 – Harold Ramis, American actor and director, dies from vasculitis at 69
Famous Deaths for 23rd February 2023
1934 – Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by the National Guard at 38
1970 – Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (b. 1904)
1976 – John Forest “Fuzzy” Knight, American stage and screen actor, noted as sidekick in Westerns (Oklahoma Annie; Cowboy and the Lady), dies at 74
1980 – Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician, dies at 62
1987 – Esmond Knight, British actor (Hamlet, Sleeping Murder), dies from a heart attack at 80
2003 – Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (b. 1910)
2003 – Howard “Howie” Epstein, American bass guitarist (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, 1982-2002), dies from an overdose at 47
2007 – John Ritchie, British footballer (b. 1941)
2016 – Lennie Baker, American rock saxophonist musician (Sha Na Na, 1970-99), dies at 69
2020 – Stefan Florenski, Polish soccer defender (11 caps; Górnik Zabrze), dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 22nd February 2023
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
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