1834 – Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, Dutch count and Minister of Foreign affairs (1813-14), dies at 71
1852 – František Čelakovský, Czech slavist, linguist and poet, dies at 53
1856 – Robert Lucas Pearsall, English composer, dies at 61
1901 – Victoria, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III, dies at 60
1956 – André Milhoux, Belgian racing driver, dies at 27
1961 – Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand (National: 1949-57), dies at 67
1972 – Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1905)
1992 – Robert Muldoon, New Zealand politician (Prime Minister, 1975-1984), dies at 70
1995 – Anthony Barber Doncaster, English bookseller, dies at 81
2002 – Chick Hearn, American NBA broadcaster (called 3,338 LA Lakers games), dies at 85
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 4th August 2022
1113 – Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)
1526 – Juan Sebastian Cano, Spanish explorer, dies
1639 – Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58
1821 – William Floyd, American soldier who signed the US Declaration of Independence, dies at 86
1856 – Johann Gottlieb Schneider, German composer, dies at 59
1889 – Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, German composer, dies at 75
1920 – Vladimir Rebikov, Russian pianist and composer, dies at 54
1931 – Daniel Williams, American heart surgeon who performed the 1st open heart surgery, dies at 73
1980 – Diego Fabbri, Italian playwright and leader (Vatican movie bureau), dies at 69
2014 – James Brady, U.S. press secretary (wounded during Reagan assassin attempt), dies at 73
Famous Deaths for 3rd August 2022
1546 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect, dies at 62
1784 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian Conventual Franciscan friar and composer, dies at 78
1792 – Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (created the spinning frame, built Cromford Mill), dies at 59
1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (Frobenius–Stickelberger formulae), dies at 67
1929 – Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
1973 – Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)
1977 – Alfred Lunt, American actor (The Guardsman, Sally of the Sawdust), dies at 83
1995 – Jose B M Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader, dies at 88
1996 – Guido Alberti, Italian film actor (Marco the Magnificent), dies at 87
2019 – Henri Belolo, French disco music producer and songwriter (The Village People; The Ritchie Family), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 2nd August 2022
1075 – John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian and patriarch of Constantinople, dies
1895 – Joseph Thomson, Scottish geologist and early African explorer (Thomson’s Gazelle), dies of pneumonia at 37
1916 – Hamish MacCunn, Scottish composer (The Land of the Mountain and the Flood), and teacher, dies at 48
1955 – Rupprecht, last crown prince of Bavaria and German fieldmarshall during WWI, dies at 86
1959 – Prospero Bisquertt, Chilean composer, dies at 78
1961 – Giovanni Battista Angioletti, Italian author (Il giorno del giudizio), dies at 64
1969 – Clarence Dickinson, American composer, dies at 96
1972 – Helen Hoyt, American poet, dies at 85
2011 – Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-American immunologist (Nobel 1980 – discovery of genes that regulate immune responses and of the role that some of these genes play in autoimmune diseases), dies at 90
2014 – Rosetta Hightower, American pop singer (The Orlons – “Don’t Hang Up”), dies at 70
Famous Deaths for 1st August 2022
1190 – Floris III, Count of Holland, dies
1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
1884 – Heinrich Laube, writer, dies
1926 – Israel Zangwill, Jewish author (Children of The Ghetto) and Zionist leader, dies at 62
1959 – Jean Behra, French Formula One driver, dies in a car race at 38
1981 – (Sidney) “Paddy” Chayevsky, American Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Marty; The Hospital; Network), novelist, and playwright, dies of cancer at 58
1983 – Peter Arne, actor (Straw Dogs), bludgeoned to death in London at 62
1992 – Stanley Dudek, US platform diver (watershows), dies
2010 – Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby, cricket representative (international cricket umpire, rugby referee), dies at 99
2021 – David A. Gall, Canadian thoroughbred Hall of Fame jockey (US Champion Jockey by wins 1979, 81; first to ride 8 winners on single US race card), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 31st July 2022
1556 – Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish knight from a Basque noble family, hermit, priest, theologian and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit) religious order, dies in Rome at about 65
1750 – John V, King of Portugal (1706-50), dies at 60
1917 – Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
1948 – Maria “Marie” Hens, Flemish actress (Female Revue), dies at 70
1961 – Jesse Harper, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (Notre Dame 57–17–7), dies at 77
1985 – Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer (NZ Test batsman through the 1950’s), dies at 55
1988 – Trinidad Silva, American character actor (Hill Street Blues -“Jesus Martinez”), killed in a car accident by a drunk driver at 38
1998 – Serge Golovine, French ballet choreographer (Death of Narcissus), dies at 73
2004 – Virginia Grey, American actress, dies at 87
2015 – Gerald S O’Loughlin, American actor and director (Storefront Lawyer, Rookies, Wheels), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 30th July 2022
1771 – Thomas Gray, English poet, dies at 54
1918 – Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar, dies
1947 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia, dies at 86
1983 – Lynn Fontanne, British Emmy Award-winning stage, screen, and radio actress, dies of pneumonia at 95
1985 – Peter Knight, English musical arranger, conductor, and composer, dies at 68
1992 – Brenda Marshall [Ardis Ankerson], American actress (The Sea Hawk, Paris After Dark), dies of throat cancer at 76
1993 – Jay Scott [Jeffrey Scott Beaven], US/Canada movie critic, dies at 43
1994 – Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90
1995 – Harry Shorto, British philologist and linguist (A Dictionary of the Mon Inscriptions), dies at 75
2007 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (Cries and Whispers), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 29th July 2022
1573 – John Caius, English physician, dies at 62
1752 – Peter Warren, British admiral who served in the Americas, dies at 47 or 48
1808 – Selam III, Turkish sultan (1789-1808) poet and composer, assassinated at 46
1833 – William Wilberforce, English abolitionist, dies at 73
1887 – Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman, Prime Minister of Italy (1876-78, 1778-79, 1881-87), dies at 74
1933 – Gerhard Schjelderup, Norwegian opera composer and musicologist, dies at 73
1976 – Mickey Cohen, American gangster (Cohen crime family), dies at 62
1979 – Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
1992 – Tavio Amorin, Togolese politician, murdered
2000 – Kobie Coetsee, South African Minister of Defense (1993-94) and Minister of Justice (1980-93), dies at 69
Famous Deaths for 28th July 2022
1631 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
1778 – Arvid Niclas von Höpken, Swedish nobleman, soldier, and composer (Il Re Pastore), dies at 68
1895 – Edward Beecher, American theologian, dies at 91
1969 – Frank Loesser, American songwriter and composer (Guys And Dolls, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”; Most Happy Fella), dies at 59
1969 – Ramón Grau, Cuban politician, 6th and 10th President of Cuba, dies at 87
1976 – Jacob Soetendorp, Dutch rabbi, dies at 62
1989 – Jeff Richards [Richard Mansfield Taylor], American actor (Don’t Go Near the Water), dies of acute respiratory failure at 64
1996 – Harold Fox, American fashion designer and musician, dies at 86
2004 – Francis Crick, English molecular biologist who co-discovered DNA’s structure, with James Watson (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1962), dies of colon cancer at 88
2013 – William Scranton, American Republican Party politician and diplomat, dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 96
Famous Deaths for 27th July 2022
1638 – Johan VIII de Jongere, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 54
1863 – William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
1864 – John Putnam Chapin, American politician (10th Mayor of Chicago (1846-47), dies at 54
1933 – James E. Talmage, English religious leader (LDS Church apostle), dies at 70
1948 – Francesco Spetrino, Italian conductor and composer, dies at 91
1962 – Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies
1991 – Pierre Brunet, French figure skater pair (Olympic gold 1928, 32), dies at 89
1996 – Jane Beverly Drew, English modernist architect, dies at 85
2003 – Vance Hartke, American politician (b. 1919)
2012 – Norman Alden, American character actor (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden), dies from natural causes at 87