1661 – Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru
1956 – Walter Herlihy, announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 42
1960 – Douglas Spencer, American actor (The Thing from Another World, This Island Earth, River of No Return), dies from diabetes at 50
1973 – Arnold Maria Walter, Canadian composer, dies at 71
1976 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
1983 – Terence Cooke, cardinal/archbishop of NY, dies at 62
1989 – Bette Davis, American actress (All About Eve, White Mama), dies at 81
2006 – Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)
2011 – Brad Felt, American jazz tuba and euphonium player, composer, and bandleader, dies of pancreatic cancer at 55
2015 – Árpád Göncz, Hungarian politician, 1st post-communist President (1990-2000), dies at 93
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 5th October 2022
1112 – Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
1799 – Antonio Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Portuguese poet (O Hissope), dies at 68
1885 – Doc Durant [Thomas C. Durant], American financier and railroad promoter (Transcontinental Railroad-Union Pacific), dies at 65
1918 – Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies
1940 – Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican classical violinst, conductor, and composer (Cuauhnáhuac; Planos), dies of pneumonia at 40
1954 – Oscar Charleston, American Baseball HOF CF (NgL Triple Crown 1921 St. Louis Giants, 1924, 25 Harrisburg Giants) and manager (NgL WS 1933, 35, 36 Pittsburgh Crawfords), dies of a stroke at 57
2007 – Walter Kempowski, German writer (German Chronicle), dies at 78
2011 – Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights activist, dies at 89
2011 – Graham Dilley, English cricket fast bowler (41 Tests, 138 wickets; Kent CCC, Worcestershire CCC), dies from oesophageal cancer at 52
2016 – Michal Kováč, ist President of Slovakia (1993-98), dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 4th October 2022
1755 – Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer, dies
1785 – David Brearly, American statesman (b. 1703)
1888 – Tom King, English boxer (English heavyweight champion 1862-63), rower and bookmaker, dies of bronchitus at 53
1962 – John Lowry, NYC builder (Radio City Music Hall), dies at 79
1982 – Glenn Gould, Canadian classical pianist (Bach’s Goldberg Variations) and broadcaster (Solitude Trilogy), dies after suffering a stroke at 50
1991 – Leonard C. Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83
2005 – Michael “Mike” Gibbins, Welsh musician (Badfinger), dies from a brain aneurysm at 56
2006 – Oskar Pastior, Romanian-born German writer, dies at 78
2009 – Günther Rall, German fighter ace, dies at 91
2017 – John Miller, American politician (Rep-R-WA, 1985-93), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 2nd October 2022
1264 – Urbanus IV [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies
1817 – Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)
1853 – François Arago, French astronomer, physicist (chromosome) and politician, dies at 67
1961 – Reggie Spooner, English cricket batsman (10 Tests; dual cricket/rugby union international), dies at 80
1962 – Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)
1968 – Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (Nude Descending a Staircase), dies at 81
1993 – William Berger, Austrian American actor (Face to Face, Adventure of Hercules), dies of prostate cancer at 65
2006 – Milly Vitale, Italian actress (7 Little Foys, War and Peace, Juggler), dies at 73
2008 – Rob Guest, New Zealand entertainer (b. 1950)
2010 – Kwa Geok Choo, wife of Singapore PM Lee Kuan Yew (b. 1920)
Famous Deaths for 1st October 2022
1404 – Boniface IX [Pietro Tomacelli], Pope (1389-1404), dies
1708 – John Blow, English baroque composer (Venus and Adonis), dies at 59
1864 – Rose Greenhow, American Confederate spy (b. 1817)
1912 – Mary Frances Allitsen, Nritish mezzo-soprano, voice coach, and composer (Psalm 27: “The Lord is My Light”), dies at 63
1913 – Eugene O’Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (O’Keefe Brewery Company of Toronto Limited), dies at 85
1943 – Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36
1972 – Kurt Hiller, German writer, dies at 87
1994 – Carlos Lleras Restrepo, President of Colombia (1966-70), dies at 86
2009 – V. M. Muddiah, Indian cricket spin bowler (2 Tests, 3 wickets), dies from stroke complications at 80
2011 – David Vickerman Bedford, British composer and educator, dies at 74
Famous Deaths for 30th September 2022
1560 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
1626 – Nurhaci, Manchurian chief, founding Khan of Later Jin (b. 1559)
1877 – Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of Nez Perce indians, dies in battle
1891 – Georges Boulanger, French general and politician, dies at 54
1959 – Taylor Holmes, American actor (Sleeping Beauty, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 81
1973 – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)
1985 – Heleb MacInnes, American spy writer (Affiliate in place), dies at 77
1995 – George Kirby, American comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show), dies at 71
1997 – Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, British professor of occupational health, dies at 86
2012 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (Olympic gold 1948, World champion 1947-48), dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 29th September 2022
1902 – William McGonagall, Scottish-Irish poet infamous as an extremely bad poet and considered the worst in British history (The Tay Bridge Disaster, The Famous Tay Whale), dies at 77
1951 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach and administrator (first coach US men’s national team), dies at 86
1967 – Carson McCullers, American author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 50
1984 – Marnix Gijsen [Jan-Al Goris], Belgian writer (Lament for Agnes), dies at 85
1991 – Zapata Jaw [Nelson Renfrum], Surinamese musician, dies
1991 – Sam Ntuli, South African community pleader and negotiator, murdered
2002 – Edmund Trebus, British hoader, (A Life of Grime), dies at 83
2010 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian (Comedy Central Roast), dies of an overdose at 44
2018 – Otis Rush, American blues musician (Right Place, Wrong Time), dies from complications from an earlier stroke at 83
2020 – Mac Davis, American country music singer-songwriter (“Baby, Don’t Get Hooked On Me”; “In The Ghetto”; “I Believe In Music”) and actor (North Dallas Forty) dies following heart surgery at 78
Famous Deaths for 28th September 2022
876 – Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b. 804)
1104 – Pedro I, king of Navarra and Aragon, dies
1757 – Andrea Zani, Italian composer and violinist, dies at 60
1895 – Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist (invented pasteurization), dies at 72
1915 – Saitou Hajime, 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844)
1918 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
1972 – Rory Storm [Alan Caldwell], Brirish rock singer (Rory Storm and the Hurricanes), commits suicide with sleeping pills at 34
1973 – Mantan Moreland, comedian (Watermelon Man), dies at 71
2009 – Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor (b. 1956)
2021 – Carlisle Floyd, American opera composer (Susanna; Prince of Players), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 27th September 2022
1651 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, dies at 78
1784 – Boniface Stoeckl, German composer, dies at 38
1943 – Waclaw Gieburowski, Polish composer, dies at 65
1972 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
1975 – Mark Frechette, actor (Zabriskie Point, Uomini Contro), dies at 27
1981 – Robert Montgomery, American actor and director (Robert Montgomery Presents, Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack), dies at 77
1983 – Wilfred Burchett, Australian communist and writer (Catapult to Freedom), dies at 72
2004 – Louis Satterfield [also known as Lui-Lui, Ealee, and Sat], American trombone player (The Pharaohs, Earth, Wind and Fire, Phenix Horns), dies at 67
2010 – Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon (b. 1955)
2018 – Marty Balin [Buchwald], American singer (Jefferson Airplane/Starship), dies at 76
Famous Deaths for 26th September 2022
1716 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician, dies at 50
1935 – Andy Adams, American writer (Cattle fire), dies at 76
1968 – Daniel Johnson, Sr., Canadian politician, 20th Premier of Quebec, dies at 53
1977 – Ernie Lombardi, American Baseball HOF catcher (8 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1940; NL MVP 1938; Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves, NY Giants), dies at 69
1984 – Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
1989 – Arnold Shaw, American writer on popular music and composer, dies at 80
1996 – Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist (1973 Nobel Prize – organometallic compounds), dies at 75
2000 – Richard Mulligan, American Emmy Award-winning actor (Soap – “Burt”; Empty Nest; The Big Bus), dies of colorectal cancer at 67
2006 – Tokyo Rose [Iva Toguri D’Aquino], American-born Japanese propagandist (WWII), dies at 90
2007 – Bill Wirtz, American longtime Chicago Blackhawks owner, dies at 77