1192 – Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
1819 – James Watt, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist (steam engine), dies at 83
1944 – Krijn van den Helm, Dutch resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death
1975 – John R Dunning, US physicist, dies at 67
1992 – Jan G Toonder, writer (Castle in Ireland), dies at 78
1994 – Ramdas Nayak, Indian Hindu leader and politician, murdered at 52
2001 – Ken Tyrrell, English race driver and founder of Tyrrell Racing, dies at 77
2005 – Terence Morgan, British actor (Sir Francis Drake, Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb), dies of a heart attack at 83
2008 – Pehr Henrik Nordgren, Finnish composer (The Whole World Will Lament; Kwaidan-balladit), dies at 64
2015 – Ian Smith, South African cricket leg-spin bowler (9 Tests), dies at 90
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 24th August 2022
1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mechanical engineer and mathematician known as the “father of thermodynamics”, dies of cholera at 36
1939 – W H Moule, cricketer (Australia v England 1880)/High Court judge, dies
1950 – Ernst Wiechert, writer, dies at 63
1954 – Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), modernizer and dictator, commits suicide at 71
1957 – Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, British priest, broadcaster and author (Viaduct Murder), dies at 69
1983 – Scott Nearing, American sociologist, pacifist and author (The Good Life), dies at 100
1994 – Jason McRoy, downhill MTB racer, dies at 23
2017 – Charlie Robertson, American politician (mayor of York, Pennsylvania 1994-2002), dies of cancer at 83
2018 – Tom Frost, American rock climber (founder gear and apparel company Patagonia), dies of prostate cancer at 82
2020 – Tony Colton [Chalk], British singer-songwriter, and record producer (Head, Hands, and Feet), dies of kidney failure at 68
Famous Deaths for 23rd August 2022
1106 – Magnus, Duke of Saxony
1723 – Antoine Mouque, Flemish composer, organist and singer, dies at 64
1867 – Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
1961 – Beals Wright, American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1905; doubles 1904-06), dies at 81
1962 – Edmund “Hoot” Gibson, American rodeo champion, western actor, director, and producer (Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw), dies from cancer at 70
1980 – Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill’s Speech), dies at 77
2006 – Jacques Wildberger, Swiss composer (In My End is My Beginning), dies at 84
2017 – Susan Vreeland, American author (The Passion of Artemisia), dies at 71
2017 – [Jacob] “Jack” Rosenthal, American journalist and government official, dies of pancreatic cancer at 82
2018 – George Theophilus Walker, African-American pianist, composer and teacher (Lilacs; In Praise Of Folly), dies at 96
Famous Deaths for 22nd August 2022
408 – Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), executed at 48
1358 – Isabella, Queen of England (b. circa 1295)
1607 – Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
1828 – Franz Joseph Gall, German-French physician (phrenology), dies at 70
1831 – John White, English organist and violinist, dies at 52
1989 – Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
1989 – Johannes “Jan” Teulings, Dutch actor (Lentelied, The Three Wishes), dies of natural causes at 84
1993 – Kasdi Merbah, Prime Minister of Algeria (1988-89), assassinated
2003 – Imperio Argentina [María Magdalena Nile], Argentinian-Spanish singer and actress, dies at 92
2011 – Jean-Charles Capon, French jazz cellist and composer (Confluence; Baroque Jazz Trio), dies at 75
Famous Deaths for 21st August 2022
1271 – Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France, dies at 50
1824 – Santiago Ferrer, Spanish composer, dies at 62
1864 – John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 24
1940 – Leon Trotsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and founder of the Red Army, assassinated at 62 by an ice-pick wielding Ramón Mercader
1994 – Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis player (US Nat C’ships 1937; first Latin American major winner), dies at 78
2000 – Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2007 – Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)
2015 – Jimmy Evert, American tennis coach (father of Chris Evert), dies at 91
2020 – Mohamed Ben Rehaiem, Tunisian soccer midfielder (35 caps; CS Sfaxien), dies at 69
2020 – Pedro Nájera, Mexican soccer midfielder (FIFA World Cup 1954, 62; Club América), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 20th August 2022
1580 – Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
1680 – William Bedloe, English fraudster and Popish Plot informer, dies at 30
1799 – Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, German composer, dies at 37
1887 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (Les Complaintas), dies at 27
1908 – Louis Varney, French composer, dies at 64
1945 – Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian writer, dies at 73
1992 – Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut, dies at 59
1998 – Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (“Seven Lonely Days”), dies at 82
2006 – Claude Blanchard, French Canadian singer, comedian and actor, dies at 74
2017 – Wilhelm Killmayer, German composer, dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 19th August 2022
1493 – Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77
1691 – Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha, Turkish grand vizer, dies in the Battle of Slankamen (b. 1637)
1753 – Balthasar Neumann, German Baroque architect (Würzburg Residence), dies at 66
1838 – James Geddes, American Engineer (Erie Canal), dies at 75
1909 – Rembt Tobias Hugo Pieter Liebrecht Alexander of Boneval Faure, Dutch lawyer and Member of parliament, dies at 83
1929 – Serge Diaghilev, Russian ballet director (founder of the Ballets Russes), dies at 57
1971 – Mary Browne, American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1912-14), dies at 80
1983 – Aleksandar Ranković, Yugoslavic partisan and 1st Vice President of Yugoslavia (1963-66), dies at 73
1993 – Utpal Dutt, Indian actor and director (Manusher Adhikar), dies at 64
1998 – Vasili Arkhipov, Soviet Russian Navy submarine officer credited with successfully arguing against a Soviet nuclear strike during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, dies at 72
Famous Deaths for 18th August 2022
1318 – Clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (born c. 1268)
1559 – Paul IV [Giampietro Caraffa], Pope (1555-59), dies at 83
1634 – Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
1712 – Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
1907 – John Kerr, Scottish physicist and pioneer in the field of electro-optics (electro-visually Kerr-effect), dies at 82
1916 – Edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36
1961 – Learned Hand, Chief judge of US court of Appeals, dies at 89
2006 – Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
2006 – Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (b. 1946)
2010 – Scott Davis, American Announcer of Track and Field (b.1943)
Famous Deaths for 17th August 2022
1792 – Jan Jachym Kopriva, Czech composer and organist, dies at 38
1865 – Mosby Munroe Parsons, United States officer in the Mexican–American War and brigadier general of the Confederate States Army, dies in battle at 42
1953 – Bannister Fletcher, English architect and architectural historian (A History of Architecture), dies at 87
1953 – Johannes Tielrooy, Dutch literary professor (French Living Lesson), dies at 66
1954 – Billy Murray, American singer (Denver Nightengale), dies at 77
1972 – Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Schoone slaapster), dies at 76
1992 – Barbara Morgan, American photographer (Martha Graham), dies at 92
1995 – David Warrilow, English actor (Simon, Radio Days, Barton Fink), dies at 60
2007 – Bill Deedes, British journalist and politician (b. 1913)
2013 – John Hollander, American poet and literary critic, dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 16th August 2022
1705 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician known for his contributions to calculus, dies at 50
1738 – Joe Miller, English comic, dies
1748 – Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, Italian composer, dies at 63
1854 – Duncan Phyfe, furniture maker, dies
1907 – James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
1972 – John Barnes Chance, American composer, dies at 39
1991 – Shamu the Whale, dies of respiratory failure at 16
1992 – Mark Heard, Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack
2018 – Yelena Shushunova, Russian gymnast (Olympic gold USSR Team, All-around 1988; World C’ship gold x 5), dies of pneumonia at 49
2018 – Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter known as “The Queen of Soul” (Respect) and first female performer inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987), dies of pancreatic cancer at 76