1650 – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer, dies at 83
1960 – Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
1967 – Louis Fratto, American gangster (b. 1908)
1985 – “Big” Joe Turner, American blues and RandB singer (“Shake, Rattle and Roll”), dies of heart failure at 74
1987 – Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)
1990 – Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer during the Great Depression, dies at 80
1992 – Mary Smithuysen, Dutch dancer and actress (Bridge Too Far), dies at 85
1993 – Jan Schrauwen, Dutch sculptor, dies at 36
2009 – Samak Sundaravej, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (2008), dies at 74
2016 – Florence Henderson, American actress (The Brady Bunch – “Carol”), and singer,dies at 82
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 23rd November 2022
1769 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (b. 1711)
1814 – Elbridge Gerry, American politician signer of Declaration of Independence, 5th Vice-President of the US (under James Madison, 1813-14), and namesake of “gerrymander”, dies at 70
1848 – John Barrow, 1st Baronet, English statesman and founder of the Royal Geographical Society, dies at 84
1916 – Leonard Moon, English cricketer (WW I 4 Tests for England 1905-06), dies
1923 – Urmuz [Demetru Dem. Demetrescu-Buzău], Romanian writer (Bizarre Pages), commits suicide at 40
1969 – (Donnell) “Spade” Cooley, American Western swing fiddler, bandleader, and television personality (“Shame On You”), dies of a heart attack during the intermission of a performance at 58
1979 – Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter (“Crayon Angels”; “Jesus Was A Cross Maker”), dies of a drug overdose at 35
1983 – Juhan Muks, Estonian artist (b. 1899)
1994 – Eldero L D Williams, tenor saxophonist, dies at 70
2005 – Constance Cummings, American-British Tony Award-winning stage (Wings; Long Day’s Journey Into Night), and screen (Blithe Spirit; Glamour) actress, dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 22nd November 2022
1247 – Robin Hood, dies (from “A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hood”)
1751 – Anton Englert, German composer and organist, dies at 77
1794 – John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1943 – Pietro Alessandro Yon, Italian organist and composer, dies at 57
1954 – Moroni Olsen, American actor (Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White), dies at 65
1963 – William R. Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars), dies at 87
1992 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (The Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland, The Aristocats, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree), dies at 87
1996 – Terence Donovan, English fashion photographer, film and video director, commits suicide at 60
2007 – Verity Lambert, English film and TV producer, 1st producer of Doctor Who, dies at 71
2010 – Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist (b. 1914)
Famous Deaths for 21st November 2022
496 – Pope Gelasius I, Catholic Pope (492-496), of Berber extraction (doctrine of the Two Powers)
1361 – Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)
1866 – Amable-Guillaume-Prosper Brugière, French politician and historian, dies at 84
1881 – Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (b. 1794)
1954 – Werner Elert, German Lutheran theologian, dies at 69
1995 – George Ivan Smith, diplomat, dies at 80
1995 – Peter Grant, English rock band manager (Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin), dies of a heart attack at 60
1997 – Ismail Fahmi, external minister of Egypt in (1973-77), dies
2010 – José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado, Brazilian composer, dies at 67
2013 – Vern Mikkelsen, American HOF basketball player, dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 20th November 2022
869 – King Edmund of East Anglia
1591 – Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540)
1750 – Wilhelmus Schortinghuis, Dutch Christian theologist, dies at 50
1984 – Trygve Bratteli, Norwegian Prime Minister (Labour: 1971-72, 1973-76), dies at 74
1995 – Robie Macauley, American editor (Houghton Mifflin) and novelist (A Secret History of Time to Come), dies of lymphoma at 76
2003 – Roger Short, British Consulate General (b. 1944)
2005 – Chris Whitley, American blues-rock guitarist, singer and songwriter, dies of lung cancer at 45
2006 – Robert Altman, American screenwriter, producer and director (The Player, M*A*S*H, Nashville), dies of complications from leukemia at 81
2019 – Fred Cox, American NFL kicker (NFL champion 1969; Pro Bowl 1970; Minnesota Vikings all-time leading scorer), dies at 80
2021 – Billy Hinsche, American pop musician, singer, and songwriter (Dino, Desi and Billy; The Beach Boys), dies of cancer at 70
Famous Deaths for 19th November 2022
1804 – Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian opera composer, dies at 75
1868 – Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
1975 – Roger D. Branigin, American politician (b. 1902)
1984 – George D. Aiken, American politician (Senator-R-Vermont, 1941-75), dies at 92
1988 – Christina Onassis, Greek heiress, daughter of Aristotle Onassis, dies of heart failure at 37
1992 – Bobby Russell, American songwriter (“Honey”; “Little Green Apples”), dies at 52
1995 – Shirley Bergeron, American Cajun singer and guitarist, dies at 62
1995 – Martha Hill, American modern dancer and teacher (Juilliard), dies at 94
1995 – Gwen Swire, British social worker, dies at 61
2008 – Carole Caldwell Graebner, American tennis player (US Open doubles 1965, Australian Open doubles 1966), dies of cancer at 65
Famous Deaths for 18th November 2022
1170 – Albrecht I “Bear”, 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70
1854 – Edward Forbes, English Naturalist and pioneer in the field of biogeography, dies of an illness at 39
1887 – Gustav Fechner, German psychologist and physicist (Weber–Fechner law), dies at 86
1904 – Justus van Maurik, Dutch author and cigar manufacturer, dies at 58
1919 – Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (Riemann–Hurwitz formula), dies at 60
1984 – Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (Pictorial Review, Good Housekeeping), dies at 77
1999 – Patrick Bowles, American writer and translator, dies at 88
1999 – Doug Sahm, American roots-rock and Tex-Mex musician (Sir Douglas Quintet – “Mendocino”; Texas Tornadoes – “Adios Mexico”), dies of a heart attack at 58
2012 – Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Russian Woman Grandmaster of chess, dies from brain cancer at 55
2016 – Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon (1st artificial heart transplant), dies at 96
Famous Deaths for 17th November 2022
1608 – Adolf, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 22
1808 – Mustafa IV, 29th Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1807-08), dies at 29
1858 – Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
1862 – Alexey Verstovsky, Russian composer, dies at 63
1931 – Hara Prasad Shastri, Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature, dies at 77
1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American atomic physicist and Nobel laureate (electron scattering in atomic nuclei), dies at 75
2002 – Leo P. Kelley, American sci-fi author (Dead Moon, Vacation in Space), dies at 74
2003 – Arthur Conley, American singer (“Sweet Soul Music”), dies of intestinal cancer at 57
2005 – Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (Janosik), dies at 63
2021 – Keith Alison, American session and touring guitarist (Paul Revere and The Raiders, 1968-75), and songwriter, dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 16th November 2022
1512 – Jemme Herjuwsma, Fries rebel, beheaded
1909 – Francis Thome, French composer, dies at 59
1954 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist, dies at 80
1958 – J. W. F. Werumeus Buning, Dutch poet (Daily Bread), dies at 67
1971 – Edie Sedgwick, American actress (Andy Warhol) and socialite, dies of alcohol and barbiturate intoxication at 28
1999 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist (Nobel 1978 – discovery of restriction enzymes and their application in restriction mapping), dies at 71
2003 – Bettina Goislard, French relief worker (b. 1974)
2008 – Reg Varney, British actor (On The Buses) (b. 1916)
2015 – David Canary, American actor (Bonanza, All My Children), dies at 77
2020 – Antonis Georgiadis, Greek soccer manager (Greece, South Africa; AEK Athens, Olympiacos), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 15th November 2022
1889 – Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat, dies at 88
1933 – Affie Jarvis, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (11 Tests, 18 dismissals; South Australia), dies at 73
1986 – Alexandre Tansman, Polish composer (Dyptique), dies at 89
1993 – Luciano Liggio, Italian mafia leader/painter, dies
1994 – Volodymyr Ivashko, President of Ukraine (1990-91), dies
2003 – Speedy West, Country Music Hall of Fame Steel Guitarist (b. 1924)
2004 – Elmer L. Andersen, 30th Governor of Minnesota (1961-63), dies at 95
2014 – (Bernard) “Bunny” Briggs, American tap dancer ‘Duke’s dancer’, dies at 92
2017 – Lil Peep [Gustav Åhr], American rapper, dies of a drug overdose at 21
2021 – Bobby Collins Jr., American college football coach (head coach University of Southern Mississippi; Southern Methodist University), dies at 88