1434 – King Louis III of Naples
1606 – Matthäus Ludecus, German composer, dies at 79
1865 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (North and South), dies of a heart attack at 55
1941 – Ernie Koob, American baseball pitcher (no-hitter 1917; St. Louis Browns), dies from a lung ailment at 49
1991 – Diane Brewster, American actress (Courage of Black Beauty), dies at 60
1996 – Gwen Catley, English soprano, dies at 90
1997 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish-American composer, dies at 82
2007 – Ira Levin, American author (Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day), dies at 78
2010 – John MacIvor Perkins, American composer, dies at 75
2012 – Sergio Oliva, American body builder (The Myth, IFBB Mr. Olympia, 1967-9), dies at 71
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 11th November 2022
1150 – Hartbert, bishop of Utrecht (1140-50), dies
1285 – King Peter III of Aragon, dies at about 46 [exact birthdate uncertain]
1528 – Lucas van Prague, Czech leader of Bohemian Brothers, dies at about 68
1880 – Lucretia Mott, American Quaker, abolitionist and women’s right activist (1st Woman’s Rights Convention), dies at 87
1967 – Harry Seymour, American composer, actor (Tenderfoot), dies of a heart attack at 76
1973 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish Chemist and Nobel laureate, dies at 78
1974 – Jane Ace, American comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 74
1977 – Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
1994 – Ernest Clark, British actor (Ghandi, The Dam Busters, Doctor in the House), dies at 82
2017 – Francesco “Frank” Corsaro, American opera director (The Night of the Iguana, Play of the Week), dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 10th November 2022
1670 – Geory Horn [Hornius], theologist/historian, dies at about 50
1808 – Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and administrator (Governor of Quebec 1768-1778), dies at 84
1966 – Steven Nagy, American bowler (first televised perfect game [300}, 1954; ABC Hall of Fame 1963), dies at 53
1984 – Sudie Bond, American actress (Love Story, Johnny Dangerously), dies of a respiratory ailment at 56
1991 – Tutte Lemkow, dancer and director (Capt Paradise; I Am A Camera), dies at 73
1996 – Hugo Buchthal, art historian, dies at 87
2006 – Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
2009 – Robert Enke, German football goalkeeper, dies at 32
2013 – Herbert Worthington lll, American photographer and album cover artist (Stevie Nix; Fleetwood Mac), dies of heart disease at 69 (exact date uncertain, last seen on the 6th, body discovered on 10th)
2015 – Robert Craft, American conductor and friend of Stravinsky, dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 9th November 2022
1911 – Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
1938 – Edward Murray East, American botanist and geneticist who developed hybrid corn, dies at 59
1948 – Edgar Kennedy, American actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58
1953 – Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, Founder and first King of Saudi Arabia (1932-53), dies of a heart attack at 78
1974 – Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austrian-English composer, teacher and musicologist, dies at 89
1978 – Joe Wong, actor (Ken Murray Show), dies at 75
1993 – Stanley Myers, English movie composer (The Deer Hunter), dies at 63
1994 – Ralph Michael, British actor (Quest, Doctor in the House), dies at 87
2012 – Bill Tarmey, English actor (Coronation Street), dies at 71
2018 – Paula Wayne [Watkins], American stage and Emmy Award-winning actress (Golden Boy; Everglade!), pop vocalist (“Everything’s Great”), and civil rights activist, dies of cancer at 84
Famous Deaths for 8th November 2022
397 – Martin of Tours [St Martin], bishop of Tours and French Saint, dies
1658 – Pieter Floriszoon, Dutch admiral, dies at sea in the Battle of the Sound at about 50
1890 – Caesar Franck, Belgian organist and composer (Symphonic Variations), dies at 67
1920 – Salomon Anski, Russian-Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57
1941 – Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83
1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter “The Baron of the Boogie”, American RandB singer, piano player, and songwriter (“Since I Met You Baby”), dies of lung cancer at 60
1989 – Andre Kloos, Dutch trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67
2002 – Jaun Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher, dies at 70
2006 – Basil Poledouris, American film score composer, dies of cancer at 61
2021 – Keith Bradshaw, Australian cricket administrator (Secretary and Chief Executive Marylebone Cricket Club; CEO South Australian Cricket), dies from multiple myeloma at 58
Famous Deaths for 7th November 2022
1573 – Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies
1857 – Charles Zeuner, German-American composer and organist, dies at 62
1859 – Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, German kappelmeister and composer, dies at 61
1965 – Friedrich Wildgans, Austrian composer, dies at 52
1978 – Janet Flanner, American journalist (New Yorker), dies at 86
1980 – Wolfgang Weyrauch, German writer, dies at 73
1990 – Lawrence Durrell, Indian-British writer (Private Country, Alexandria Quartet), dies of a stroke at 78
2002 – Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)
2007 – Earl Dodge, American politician (Prohibition Party) (b. 1932)
2020 – Cándido Camero, Cuban American percussionist (congo drum) and bandleader, dies at 99
Famous Deaths for 6th November 2022
1796 – Catherine the Great [Catherine II], German-born Empress of Russia (1762-96) who expanded the Russian empire, dies of a stroke at 67
1822 – Hendrik van Stralen, Secretary of Interior of the Netherlands, dies at 71
1822 – Claude-Louis Berthollet, French chemist, dies at 73
1944 – Walter Guinness, Lord Moyne, Anglo-Irish politician, British prefect (Middle-East), assassinated by Jewish terrorists at 64
1955 – Cornelis GN de Vooys, translator, dies at 82
1972 – Billy Murcia, Colombian born American rocker (New York Dolls), chokes to death at 21
2001 – Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (Sleuth), dies at 75
2006 – Federico (Fico) López, Puerto Rican basketball player, dies of a heart attack at 44
2007 – Hank Thompson, American country music singer (The Brazos Valley Boys), dies at 82
2014 – Rick Rosas, American session and touring bassist (Neil Young; Joe Walsh; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young), dies of a heart attack at 65
Famous Deaths for 5th November 2022
1872 – Thomas Sully, American portrait painter (Queen Victoria), dies at 89
1941 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (b. 1905)
1975 – Lionel Trilling, American literary critic and author (1969 Poses Award, The Liberal Imagination), dies at 70
2000 – Roger Peyrefitte, French writer (Special Friendships), dies at 93
2005 – John Fowles, British novelist (Collector, French Lieutenant’s Woman), dies at 79
2006 – Bülent Ecevit, four term Turkish Prime Minister (between 1974 and 2002), dies at 81
2008 – Paul Greening, Royal Navy officer and master of Queen’s household, dies at 80
2012 – Charles V. Bush, African-American pioneer (1st African-American US Air Force Academy Graduate and US Supreme Court Page), dies from colon cancer at 72
2015 – Guido Masanetz, German composer (In Frisco ist der Teufel Los), dies at 101
2021 – Russell Ebert, Australian Rules midfielder (4 x Magarey Medals; 6 x Port Adelaide FC BandF; Australian Football HOF) and coach (SA 1996-98), dies of leukemia at 72
Famous Deaths for 4th November 2022
1698 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician and physicist, dies at 73
1914 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet, dies of a drug overdose at 27
1940 – Manuel Azaña, Prime Minister of Spain (1931-33) and 2nd President of the Spanish Republic (1936-39), dies of a heart attack at 60 while in exile in France
1950 – Grover Cleveland Alexander, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1926 Chicago Cubs; Triple Crown 1915, 16, 20; 6 × NL wins and strikeout leader; Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 63
1953 – Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, American pianist and philanthropist, dies at 89
1968 – Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer and author, dies at 78
1997 – Richard Hooker [Heister Richard Hornberger], American army surgeon, and novelist (MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors – inspiration for film and TV series), dies of leukemia at 73
2006 – Frank Calder, Canadian politician (British Columbia’s first indigenous cabinet minister), dies at 91
2009 – Hubertus Brandenburg, Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm (b. 1923)
2013 – Hakon Barfod, Norwegian sailor and Olympic champion, dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 3rd November 2022
1324 – Petronilla de Meath, Irish maidservant, first person in Ireland or Great Britain to be burnt at the stake for witchcraft and heresy, at about 24
1584 – Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan (1564-84), dies at 46
1711 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian Baroque composer, dies at 60
1794 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman, dies at 79
1919 – Terauchi Masatake, Japanese soldier and politician (Prime Minister of Japan 1916-18), dies at 67
1959 – Friedrich Niggli, Swiss composer (Buechfinkeliedli; Nach dem Regen), dies at 83
1960 – Paul Willis, American actor (The Little Lumberjack; Little Kaintuck), dies at 59
1969 – Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish soccer striker (16 caps; Fenerbahçe), dies at 71
1986 – E. Cuyler Hammond, American epidemiologist (first to link smoking with lung cancer), dies at 74
2001 – Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-English art historian (The Story of Art), dies at 92