1585 – John Willock, Scottish reformer
1909 – Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter and graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60
1969 – Alceo Toni, Italian composer, dies at 85
1983 – Bruce Drake, American Basketball Hall of Fame coach (University of Oklahoma 1938-55, 200-181), dies at 77
1983 – Estelle Omens, American actress (Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds), dies at 55
1997 – Richard Vernon, British character actor (A Hard Days Night; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Gandhi), dies of complications from Parkinson’s disease at 72
2005 – Gregg Hoffman, American film producer (b.1963)
2005 – Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (b. 1924)
2012 – Jonathan Harvey, British composer (Bhakti; Wheel of Emptiness),educator, and musicologist (Music of Stockhausen), dies at 73
2020 – David L. Lander, American actor (Laverne and Shirley – “Squiggy”), dies of multiple sclerosis at 73
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 3rd December 2022
1882 – Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
1910 – Mary Baker Eddy, American founder of the religious movement, Christian Science (Science and Health), dies at 89
1919 – Pierre Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter and sculptor (Bal du moulin de la Galette, Luncheon of the Boating Party), dies at 78
1981 – (Nicolaas) “Cola” Debrot, Dutch lawyer, doctor.author and politician (Governor of the Netherlands Antilles, 1962-70), dies at 79
1993 – Thomas Mogotlane, South African actor (Mapantsula), dies at 40
1999 – John Archer [Ralph Bowman], American actor (Destination: Moon, White Heat, Blue Hawaii), dies of lung cancer at 84
2003 – David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
2009 – Richard Todd, Irish-born British actor (Dorian Gray, Assassin Yangtse Incident), dies at 90
2010 – Abdumalik Bahori, Tajik poet and fiction writer (b.1927)
2021 – Claude Humphrey, American Pro Football HOF defensive end (6 × Pro Bowl, 5 × First-team All-Pro Atlanta Falcons; Philadelphia Eagles), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 2nd December 2022
1844 – Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician, dies at 76
1918 – Margit Kaffka, Hungarian writer, dies in the flu pandemic at 38
1924 – Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879)
1972 – Ip Man, Chinese martial artist, and a master teacher of Wing Chun, dies at 79
1974 – Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor, dies at 77
1997 – Endicott Peabody, American politician (62nd Governor of Massachusetts), dies at 77
2006 – Dave Mount, English rocker (Mud), dies at 59
2006 – Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (Shocking Blue), dies of cancer at 59
2019 – Fred Storey, Canadian curler (World C’ship gold 1966, 68, 69), dies at 87
2020 – Warren Berlinger, American actor (Larry-Joey Bishop Shop, Take Two), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 1st December 2022
1433 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan, 100th Emperor of Japan, dies at 56
1750 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer, dies at 73
1865 – Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder, dies at 76
1913 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet (I Saw Estonia Yesterday), dies at 49
1947 – G. H. Hardy, English mathematician (Hardy–Weinberg principle, A Mathematician’s Apology), dies at 70
1995 – Koos Schuur, Dutch writer, poet (Novemberland), translator, and editor (Het Woord), dies at 79
1997 – Denis Gerald Barrington, British artist, dies at 67
2002 – Dave McNally, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1969-70, 72; World Series 1966, 70; Baltimore Orioles), dies from lung cancer at 60
2011 – Ragnhild Hveger, Danish swimmer (Olympic silver 400m freestyle 1936; 44 world records 1938-56), dies at 90
2016 – Ousmane Sow, Senegalese sculptor, dies at 81
Famous Deaths for 30th November 2022
1675 – Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)
1703 – Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer, dies at 31
1841 – Charles Louis W J van Keverberg, Dutch government official, dies at 73
1944 – Max Halbe, German playwright (Jugend), dies at 79
1974 – Bert Gordon [Barney Gorodetsky], American comedian, dies at 79
1987 – Simon Carmiggelt, journalist/literary (Kronkel), dies at 74
2000 – Jānis Kalniņš, Latvian-Canadian organist, composer (Ugunī; New Brunswick Rhapsody), and conductor (Latvian National Opera, 1933–1944), dies at 96
2011 – J. Blackfoot [Colbert], American soul singer (“Soul Children”; “Taxi”), dies of pancreatic cancer at 65
2012 – I. K. [Inder Kumar] Gujral, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (1997-98), dies at 92
2015 – Marcus Klingburg, Israeli soviet spy and epidemiologist, dies at 97
Famous Deaths for 29th November 2022
561 – Chlotarius I, king of the France (558-61), dies at about 61
1974 – Ouida Bergere, American scriptwriter (Peter Ibbetson), dies at 88
1977 – George Hamilton Combs, American politician and TV and radio commentator (Through the Curtain), dies at 78
1982 – Yuri Kasakow, Russian writer, dies at 55
1986 – Cary Grant [Archibald Alexander Leach], British-born American actor (Arsenic and Old Lace, North by Northwest), dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 82
1994 – Ronald “Buster” Edwards, British Great Train Robber turned flower-seller, found hanged at 63
2007 – Tom Terrell, American musicologist, NPR reviewer and deejay, dies at 57
2015 – Joe Marston, Australian soccer defender (1954 FA Cup Final), dies at 89
2019 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese politician (Prime Minister of Japan 1982-87), dies at 101
2019 – Seymour Siwoff, American sports statistician (president and CEO Elias Sports Bureau 1952-2019), dies at 99
Famous Deaths for 28th November 2022
1574 – Georg Major, German Protestant theologian, dies at 72
1927 – Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (New Guinea), dies
1969 – Roy Barcroft [Howard Ravenscroft], American actor (Oklahoma!; Freckles), dies at 67
1971 – Wasfi Tal, Jordan’s PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo
1997 – Georges Marchal, French actor (Evil Eden, Gina, Milky Way, La mort en ce jardin), dies at 77
2011 – Andrew Kazdin, classical record producer, dies at 77
2011 – Ante Markovic, last Premier of Yugoslavia, dies at 87
2015 – Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist, and author (We Are Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made Of), dies at 81
2015 – Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera director, dies of cancer at 67
2016 – Van Williams, American actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 27th November 2022
1890 – Emanuele Muzio, Italian composer, dies at 69
1934 – Herman Hollis, FBI agent, shot and killed by Baby Face Nelson
1958 – Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor (Cleveland Orchestra, 1933-43; New York Philharmonic, 1943-47; Chicago Symphony, 1947-48), dies at 66
1960 – Dirk Jan de Geer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1926-29, 39-40), dies at 89
1967 – Cameron Prud’Homme, American actor (Rainmaker), dies after long illness at 75
1967 – Ettore Panizza, Argentinian composer and conductor, dies at 92
1968 – Hans Redlich, Austrian composer, dies at 65
1971 – Joe Guyon, American NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I, etc), dies at 79
2007 – Bill Moor [William Hendrickson Moor III], American actor (Kramer vs. Kramer, The Devil’s Advocate, Hanky Panky), dies at 76
2012 – Marvin Miller, American Baseball HOF executive (Executive Director MLB Players Association 1966-82), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 26th November 2022
1651 – Henry Ireton, English general and parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40
1807 – Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800), dies at 62
1883 – Sojourner Truth, African-American abolitionist and feminist, dies at 86
1885 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist (ozone), dies at 71
1966 – Harold Burrage, American RandB singer, pianist, and songwriter (“Got to Find a Way”), dies of heart failure at 35
1994 – Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of El Salvador (1980-94), dies at 71
2003 – Soulja Slim [James Adarryl Tapp Jr.], American rapper (Slow Motion), shot to death by an assailant at 26
2006 – Graham Roope, Englishcricketer (England batsman in 21 Tests 1972-78), dies at 60
2018 – Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director (Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor), dies of lung cancer at 77
2021 – Doug Cowie, Scottish soccer defender (20 caps; Dundee FC 341 games), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 25th November 2022
1785 – Richard Glover, British poet, dies at about 73
1947 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)
1952 – Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, French composer (Ophellia), dies at 71
1968 – Phil Lord, actor (Stud’s Place), dies at 89
1974 – Rosemary Lane, American actress (An Angel from Texas, 4 Mothers, Harvest Melody), dies from diabetes and pulmonary obstruction at 61
1996 – Michael Economides, restaurateur, dies at 86
1998 – Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
2012 – Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician, dies at 81
2013 – (Foreststorn) “Chico” Hamilton, American jazz drummer (Lester Young; Gerry Mulligan; Count Basie), and bandleader (Chico Hamilton Quintet), dies at 92
2020 – Duris Maxwell [Ted Lewis], Canadian session and touring drummer (Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers; Powder Blues Band), dies of heart failure at 74