1528 – Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485)
1729 – Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64
1936 – Stanisław Niewiadomski, Polish composer, dies at 76
1959 – “Blind” Willie McTell [McTier], American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist, dies at 61
1971 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (Kim, Berlin Express), dies of heart failure at 76
1989 – Fritz de Jong Edz, Dutch historian (director of IISG), dies (b. 1919)
1992 – Osamu Inaba, Japanese Minister of justice (helped bring down Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in Lockheed bribery scandal), dies at 82
2006 – Faas Wilkes, Dutch soccer star (Xerxes, Fortuna, Inter Milan), dies at 82
2011 – Eric Dempster, New Zealand cricket spin bowler (5 Tests, TS 47, 2 wickets; Wellington CA), dies at 86
2016 – Bobby Hutcherson, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (“Little B’s Poem”; SFJAZZ Collective), dies of emphysema at 75
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 14th August 2022
1204 – Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun, dies at 21
1573 – Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)
1754 – Maria Anna of Austria, Archduchess of Austria and Queen consort of Portugal, dies at 70
1852 – Margaret Taylor, wife of Zachary Taylor and 1st lady of the United States (1849-50), dies at 63
1941 – Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (b. 1894)
1965 – Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet and author (Walk at Dawn), dies at 80
1984 – Peter Wishart, English composer, dies at 63
1996 – Uzo Egonu, painter/print maker, dies at 64
2000 – Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher (b. 1943)
2010 – Terje Stigen, Norwegian author (Det siste paradiset), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 13th August 2022
1674 – Lars Johnstown [Lasse Lucidor], Swedish poet, dies at 35
1860 – Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies
1946 – Valery Zhelobinsky, Russian composer, dies at 33
1948 – Elaine Hammerstein, American stage and silent film actress, dies in a Tijuana car crash at 51
1967 – Jane Darwell, American actress (The Grapes of Wrath), dies of heart attack at 87
1988 – Edward Bennett Williams, American lawyer, team owner (Washington Redskins, Baltimore Orioles), dies of colon cancer at 68
1990 – Jimmy Starr, American screenwriter, actor (The Corpse Came C.O.D.), and gossip columnist, dies at 86
1996 – António de Spínola, Portuguese general and conservative President of Portugal (1974), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 86
2001 – Jimmy Knapp, British trade unionist (National Union of Railwaymen), dies at 60
2014 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch flautist, recorder player, and conductor (Orchestra of the 18th Century), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 12th August 2022
1676 – King Philip [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death
1830 – Franz de Paula Roser, composer, dies at 50
1864 – Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
1900 – Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian World Chess Champion (1866-94), dies at 64
1911 – Jozef Israels, painter, dies
1994 – Gene Cherico, American jazz bassist, dies at 59
1999 – John Rigby Hale, British linguist and historian, dies at 75
2004 – Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (b. 1931)
2004 – Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
2010 – Isaac Bonewits, founder of U.S. Druid organization Ar Ndraiocht Fein (b. 1949)
Famous Deaths for 11th August 2022
1522 – Martin Siebenborger, mayor of Vienna, beheaded
1794 – Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, German composer, dies at 72
1872 – Lowell Mason, US organist/composer (Zebulo), dies at 80
1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
1956 – Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton)
1988 – Jean-Pierre Ponnele, French opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56
1994 – Dorothy Grenfell Williams, radio producer and broadcaster, dies at 60
1996 – Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor (Cornelia Farooli), dies at 82
2005 – James Booth [David Geeves], British actor and screenwriter (Zulu, Keeping Mum), dies at 77
2012 – Carlo Curley, American classical concert organist dies at 59
Famous Deaths for 10th August 2022
1730 – Sebastien de Brossard, French composer and music theorist, dies at 74
1886 – Eduard Grell, German composer, dies at 85
1976 – Ray “Crash” Corrigan, American actor (Crash Corrigan’s Ranch), dies at 74
1987 – Calvin Culver, actor (Score), dies
1995 – Donald Bisset, British children book writer, illustrator (Upside Down Stories) and actor (Battle of the Sexes), dies of natural causes at 84
2001 – Lou Boudreau, American Baseball HOF shortstop (8 × MLB All-Star; World Series and AL MVP 1948; AL batting champion 1944; Cleveland Indians) and manager (Cleveland, Boston RS, KC A’s, Chicago Cubs), dies at 84
2002 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist, dies at 75
2007 – Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American member of Tuskegee Airmen and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
2012 – Al Freeman Jr, American actor, dies at 78
2014 – Graham Gedye, New Zealand cricket batsman (4 Tests 1964), dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 9th August 2022
1420 – Pierre d’ailly [Peter de Alliaco], French theologist and cardinal, dies
1634 – Pieter de Jode I, Flemish publisher of engravings, dies (b. 1573)
1672 – Jose Ximenez, Spanish composer, dies at 70
1902 – Moritz Szeps, Austrian journalist and newspaper publisher, dies at 66
1924 – Jacob P Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66
1982 – Alexandre Alexeieff, Russian-French filmmaker (pinscreen animation) and artist, dies at 81
1986 – Jef Scherens, Belgian track cyclist (World C’ships gold sprint 1932-37, 47), dies at 77
1991 – Corrie Hartong, Dutch dance pioneer, dies at 85
1997 – Robert Satanowski, Polish opera conductor and general, dies at 79
2000 – Nicholas Markowitz, American teenager kidnapped and murdered by Jesse James Hollywood at 15
Famous Deaths for 8th August 2022
1445 – Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
1685 – Sassoferrato [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna), dies at 75
1788 – Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92
1816 – Blas de Laserna, composer, dies at 65
1970 – Johnny Goodman, American golfer (US Open 1933), dies at 60
1980 – Jacqueline Cochran, US pilot and 1st woman to break sound barrier, dies at 74
1987 – Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician, dies at 83
1994 – Leonid Leonov, Russian writer and playwright (Russky Lesson), dies at 95
2008 – Orville Moody, American golfer (US Open 1969), dies of multiple myeloma at 74
2020 – Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Colombian soccer manager (record 14 x league titles; Millonarios [6], Santa Fe [1], América de Cali [7]; Columbia), dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 7th August 2022
1547 – Cajetanus van Thiene, Italian saint, dies
1786 – Friedrich Schwindl, Dutch composer, dies at 49
1855 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (1851-53), dies at 53
1885 – Anthony Modderman, Dutch politician (Minister of Justice, 1879-83), dies at 46
1942 – Richard Gott, British gen/commandant of 8th Army, dies in battle at 43
1996 – Gerry Gomez, West Indian cricketer (post-war WI all-rounder), dies at 76
2003 – Mickey McDermott, baseball player (b. 1929)
2005 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies of lung cancer at 67
2017 – David Maslanka, American composer (Angel Of Mercy; Sea Dreams), and educator, dies of colon cancer at 73
2021 – Mike De Palmer, American tennis player and coach (Boris Becker), dies at 59
Famous Deaths for 6th August 2022
258 – Saint Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded under orders of Emperor Valerian
1162 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
1775 – Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, German composer, dies at 72
1799 – Joseph Friebert, Austrian composer, dies at 74
1821 – Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, Italian composer and conductor, dies at 64
1935 – Alexander Winkler, Russian composer, dies at 70
1968 – Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician (Communist Party of Belgium (PCB)), dies at 60
1995 – Paul James Nunn, mountaineer, dies at 52
2012 – Ruggiero Ricci, American composer and violinist (Paganini), dies from heart failure at 94
2012 – Dan Roundfield, American basketball forward (3-time NBA All Star), dies from drowning at 59