1575 – Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (b. 1502)
1640 – John Francis Regis, French priest and Roman Catholic saint, dies of pneumonia at 43
1652 – Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies
1877 – Gustave Courbet, French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine), dies at 58
1910 – Archibald Hoxsey, American pioneer aviator (worked for the Wright brothers), dies at 26
1977 – Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, ruler of Kuwait (b. 1924)
1985 – Sam Spiegel, American film producer (On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai), dies at 84
2000 – José Greco, Italian-born American flamenco dancer and choreographer, dies of heart failure at 82
2003 – Paula Raymond, American actress and model (The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms), dies at 79
2005 – Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor, dies of cancer at 73
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 30th December 2022
1591 – Pope Innocent IX [Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti], 230th Catholic pope (1591), dies at 72
1828 – Waldemar Thrane, Norwegian composer, dies at 38
1968 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician and 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (1946-52), dies at 72
1989 – Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies
1995 – Doris Grau, American script supervisor, actress and voice artist (Point Blank, King Kong), dies from respiratory failure at 71
1996 – (Marvin John) “Jack” Nance, American stage and screen actor (Eraserhead; Twin Peaks), dies at 53
1997 – Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist (b. 1926)
2005 – Rona Jaffe, American novelist (Mazes and Monsters), dies at 74
2014 – Erik Hansen, Danish canoeist (Olympic gold K-1 1000m 1960; World C’ship gold 1963), dies at 74
2014 – Yolande Donlan, British-American actress (Jigsaw, Expresso Bongo, Penny Princess), dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 29th December 2022
1170 – Thomas Becket, English Archbishop of Canterbury (1162-70), assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II at 52
1785 – Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69
1933 – Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered
1958 – Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (Dances of Women), dies at 63
1975 – Euell Gibbons, American outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets (b. 1911).
1981 – Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (b. 1893)
1996 – Oswald Szemerényi, Hungarian linguist, dies at 83
1998 – Donald “Don” Taylor, American director and actor (Father’s Little Dividend, Escape from the Planet of the Apes), dies of hear failure at 78
2005 – Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. 1922)
2020 – John Paul Jr., American auto racer (IMSA GT C’ship 1982; 24 Hours of Daytona 1982, 92; 12 Hours of Sebring 1982), dies from Huntington’s disease at 60
Famous Deaths for 28th December 2022
1367 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (2nd shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate), dies at 37
1862 – Joaquim Casimiro Jr., Portuguese composer, dies at 54
1891 – Alfred Cellier, British conductor (Glibert and Sullivan) and composer (Dorothy), dies at 47
1918 – George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies
1919 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (Rydberg formula), dies at 65
1985 – Benny Morton, American jazz trombonist (Teddy Wilson Sextet), dies at 78
1991 – Jacques Aubuchon, actor (Hoax, Thunder Road), dies of heart failure
1999 – Clayton Moore, American actor (The Lone Ranger), dies at 85
2003 – Benjamin T. Hacker, American naval aviator (first Naval Flight Officer (NFO) to achieve Flag rank), dies at 68
2021 – Nikolay Shirshov, Uzbekistani soccer defensive midfielder (64 caps; FC Pakhtakor Tashkent, FC Rostov), dies at 47
Famous Deaths for 27th December 2022
1065 – Ferdinand I, the Great, king of Castile, dies
1631 – John Pijnas, Dutch painter, buried at about 47
1737 – William Bowyer, English printer (b. 1663)
1812 – Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Chabad Hasidism (b. 1745)
1880 – Alessandro Nini, Italian composer, dies at 75
1991 – Edward M Love, American Broadaway dancer and choreographer, dies of AIDS at 43
2002 – George Roy Hill, American film director (b. 1922)
2003 – Ivan Calderón, Puerto Rican baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1991; Chicago White Sox, Montreal Expos), dies from multiple firearm wounds at 41
2006 – Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley and Chairman of the Board of Governors of BBC (1986-96), dies at 83
2019 – (Beryl) “Jack” Sheldon, American jazz trumpeter (Merv Griffin), singer (Schoolhouse Rock), and actor (Run Buddy Run), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 26th December 2022
1624 – Simon Marius, astronomer, dies in Bavaria at 54
1658 – Simon Guillain, French sculptor (Castle of Blois/Sorbonne), dies at 78
1780 – John Fothergill, English physician, dies at 68
1963 – “Gorgeous George” Wagner, wrestler, dies
1974 – Robert Levine Sanders, American composer, dies at 68
1984 – Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, English race walker (Olympic bronze 50k 1952; oldest Olympic medal-winning athlete; 48 years and 115 days), dies at 84
1988 – Pablo Sorozábal, Spanish composer, dies at 91
1994 – Robert Emhardt, American actor (Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers), dies at 80
1999 – Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and soul musician (“Freddie’s Dead”; “Superfly”), dies from complications of type 2 diabetes at 57
2006 – Enrique Antonio “Tony” Silvester, Panamanian-American RandB singer-songwriter (The Main Ingredient – “Everybody Plays the Fool”), dies at 65
Famous Deaths for 25th December 2022
1880 – Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councillor, dies at 52
1950 – Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (b. 1903)
1954 – Johnny Ace, American rhythm and blues singer, accidentally shoots himself in the head at 25
1957 – Frederick Law Olmsted Jr, US landscape architect and advocate for wildlife conservation, dies at 87
1972 – C. Rajagopalachari, India’s freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India, dies at 94
1996 – Rupert John, gov-gen of Grenadines (1970-76), dies
1997 – Anatoli Boukreev, mountaineer, dies at 39
2004 – Gennadi Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11, TM-21), dies at 64
2007 – Mighty King Kong, Kenyan reggae musician. (b. 1973)
2009 – Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter, dies of an overdose of muscle relaxants at 46
Famous Deaths for 24th December 2022
1541 – Andreas R Bodenstein von Carlstadt, radical Lutheran, dies at about 61
1813 – Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740)
1823 – Philipp Christoph Kayser, German pianist and composer, dies at 68
1885 – Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian, dies at 85
1935 – Alban Berg, Austrian composer (Wozzeck; Lulu), dies of sepsis at 50
1963 – Raphaël Verwilghen, Belgian architect, and urban planner, dies at 78
1972 – Ernst Kreuder, German writer (The Attic Pretenders), dies at 69
1975 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer, dies of a heart attack at 64
1994 – Buddy Ace, [Jimmie Lee Land] American Texas blues singer, dies of a heart attack while performing at 57
2019 – Walter Horak, Austrian soccer striker (13 caps; Wiener Sport Club, Sochaux), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 23rd December 2022
558 – Childebert, King of France (specifically, the Neustrian Franks) (511-58), dies at about 62
1556 – Nicholas Udall, English playwright (wrote the 1st comedy in English “Ralph Roister Doister”), dies at about 52
1902 – Frederick Temple, 95th Archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 81
1939 – Anthony H. G. Fokker, Dutch airplane builder (Spider), dies at 49
1948 – Seishirō Itagaki, Japanese military officer and politician (War Minister, 1938-39), hanged for war crimes at 63
1959 – Lester Lonergan Jr, American actor (Growing Paynes), dies at 65
1967 – Karen Verne [Ingeborg Klinkerfuss], German actress (Sky Murder, All Through the Night, Madame X), dies from a heart ailment at 49
1970 – Charlie Ruggles, American actor (Bringing Up Baby, The Patchwork Girl of Oz), dies at 84
2004 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (1991-96), dies of a heart attack at 83
2018 – (Ann) “Honey” Lantree, British rock drummer (The Honeycombs), dies at 75
Famous Deaths for 22nd December 2022
1738 – Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer, dies at 56
1832 – Ishmail Spicer, American composer, dies at 72
1918 – Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author and painter, dies at 83
1944 – Harry Langdon, American comedian (The Strong Man, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp), dies at 60
1964 – Bonifacio Gil Garcia, Spanish composer and folklorist, dies at 66
1985 – D. Boon, American singer and guitarist (The Minutemen) (b. 1958)
1996 – Hetta Empson, South African-British artist, dies at 81
1998 – Michelle Thomas, American actress (b. 1969)
2009 – Luis Francisco Cuéllar, Colombian politician (b. 1940)
2021 – Bob Keselowski, American auto racer (ARCA Hooters SuperCar Series 1989) and team owner (K Automotive Racing), dies from cancer at 70