1723 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman
1801 – Daniel Dal Barba, Italian composer, dies at 86
1872 – Michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84
1941 – Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist (the relation of language to thinking and cognition), dies at 44
1944 – Rezā Shāh Pahlavi [Rezā Khan], Shah of Iran (1925-41), dies of a heart ailment at 66
1966 – Howard Kinsey, American tennis player (French Open doubles 1924, US Open doubles 1926; Wimbledon singles 1926 runner-up), dies at 66
1984 – George Gallup, American survey sampling pioneer and inventor of the Gallup poll, dies of a heart attack at 82
1987 – Jim Bishop, American journalist and author (The Day Lincoln was Shot), dies at 79
2010 – Ben Keith [Schaeufele], American musician and record producer (Neil Young; Great Speckled Bird), dies at 73
2017 – June Foray, American voice actress (Rocky the Flying Squirrel; Cinderella, Cindy Lou Who), dies at 99
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 25th July 2022
1492 – Innocent VII [Giovanni B Cibo], Italian Pope (1484-92), dies
1539 – Lorenzo Campeggi(east), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat, dies at 65
1675 – Nicolas Saboly, French composer and poet, dies at 61
1790 – Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer, dies at 66
1927 – Matilde Serao [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies
1971 – Leroy Robertson, American pianist, composer (“Oratorio from the Book of Mormon”; “Trilogy for Orchestra”), and educator (Brigham Young, 1925-48; University of Utah, 1948-62), dies at 74
1991 – Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin, dies at 97
1998 – Sal Santen, Dutch writer (You Are Jewish People), dies at 82
2009 – Vernon Forrest, Professional boxer, 2-division world champion (b. 1971)
2020 – John Saxon, American actor (Bees, Nightmare on Elm St, Electric Horseman), dies of pneumonia at 83
Famous Deaths for 24th July 2022
1758 – John Dyer, British poet, dies at 58
1831 – Maria Szymanowska, Polish pianist and composer, dies of cholera at 41
1936 – Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of German Empire, dies at 78
1947 – Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72
1955 – Harry Haden, Canadian American actor (Harry-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 72
1989 – Ernest Morrison, actor (Peggy Does Her Darndest), dies
1992 – Sam Berger, Canadian football owner (b. 1900)
1993 – Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (b. 1957)
2011 – Frank Dietrich, German politician (b. 1966)
2012 – Robert Ledley, American scientist (invented the CT scanner), dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 23rd July 2022
945 – Richarius, bishop of Luik (922-45), dies
1685 – Pietro Reggio, Italian composer and musician, dies at 53
1757 – Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer and harpsichordist (La Silvia), dies at 71
1923 – Charles Dupuy, French statesman, 3 times Prime Minister of France (1893, 1894-95, 1898-99), dies at 71
1924 – Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar, dies at 64
1933 – Max Schillings, German composer and conductor (Mona Lisa), dies at 65
1951 – Robert Flaherty, American filmmaker and the father of documentary film (Nanook of North), dies at 67
1986 – Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, Finnish composer, dies at 73
1994 – Henry William Collins, English artist, dies at 84
2007 – Benjamin Libet, American scientist (human consciousness), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 22nd July 2022
1387 – French Ackerman, Ghent rebel/leader of Reisers, murdered at about 57
1645 – Gaspar de Guzman, premier of Spain (1621-43), dies at 58
1826 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (found 1st asteroid-Ceres), dies at 80
1852 – Auguste Marmont, French marshal, dies at 77
1958 – Karl Nunes, cricketer (1st WI Test captain 1928), dies
1974 – Lili Darvas, Hungarian actress (Szerelem, Cimmaron), dies at 68
1995 – Harold Larwood, England cricket fast bowler (21 Tests, Bodyline Series v Australia 1932-33), dies at 90
2004 – Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist, dies at 81
2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician killed by Scotland Yard (b. 1978)
2012 – Nan Merriman, American-Dutch singer (Arturo Toscanini NBC Orchestra), dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 21st July 2022
1840 – Moses Waddel, American educator, minister and bestselling author (Memoirs of the Life of Miss Caroline Elizabeth Smelt), dies at 70
1878 – Sam Bass, American Old West train robber and outlaw, dies of wounds from a gunfight with Texas Rangers 27
1938 – Owen Wister, American author, ‘father of the Western’ (The Virginian), dies at 78
1944 – Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau
1946 – Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
1975 – Fie Carelsen, Dutch stage actress (Malle Gevallen), dies at 85
1991 – Theodore Wilson, American actor dies after a stroke at 47
1996 – John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot, dies at 50
2003 – Walter M. “Matt” Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
2006 – Mako, Japanese-American actor (The Sand Pebbles), dies at 72
Famous Deaths for 20th July 2022
1897 – Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820)
1936 – Jose Sanjurjo, Spanish general (Morocco) and high director, dies at 64
1937 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and electrical engineer who pioneered work on long distance radio transmission (Nobel 1909), dies of a heart attack at 63
1944 – Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed
1951 – Mustafa Shuqri Ashu, tailor/murderer of king Abdullah, shot to death
1953 – Jan Struther, British author (b. 1901)
1990 – Sara Heyblom, Dutch actress (Obsessions, Pygmalion), dies
1994 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian surrealist painter, dies at 96
2001 – Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (b. 1978)
2009 – Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (b. 1957)
Famous Deaths for 19th July 2022
1944 – Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated
1957 – Curzio Malaparte [Kurt E Suckert], Italian author (Kaputt), dies at 59
1958 – Robert Earl Hughes, American man who became heaviest known human (485 kg), dies at 32
1964 – Carol Veazie, actress (Maude-Norby), dies at 69
1996 – Mervyn Hugh Cowie, wildlife conservationist, dies at 87
1996 – Lawrence Jenco, American Roman Catholic priest who was held hostage in Beirut, Lebanon, dies at 61
1996 – (Emmanual Tettey) “E.T.” Mensah, Ghanaian saxophonist, known as the “King of Highlife” music (Accra Rhythmic Orchestra; The Tempos), dies at 77
2007 – Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1944)
2014 – Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress, dies at 21
2019 – Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Osterman Weekend), dies at 75
Famous Deaths for 18th July 2022
1544 – René van Chalon, viceroy of Holland, dies in battle at 25
1610 – Caravaggio [Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio], Italian painter, (Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy), dies at 38
1721 – Jean-Antoine Watteau, French Rococo painter (fêtes galantes), dies at 36
1833 – Joseph Comb, missionary to Moluccas, dies at 63
1937 – Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)
1938 – Marie, last Queen of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand I (1914-27), dies at 62
1963 – A H C Cooper, South African cricketer (Test v England 1914), dies
2004 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist, dies at 92
2007 – Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle, Scottish judge and advocate, dies after a stroke at 82
2021 – John Woodcock, English cricket journalist (‘The Times’ 1954-88; Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1981-86; President Cricket Writers’ Club 1986-2004), dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 17th July 2022
1645 – Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician
1753 – Andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies
1794 – Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French composer, executed by guillotine after false charges of treason during French Revolution at 45
1915 – Francesco Fanciulli, American-Italian composer, dies on 62nd birthday
1918 – Alexei Trupp, Russian footman and assistant of Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 62
1928 – Giovanni Giolitti, 5x Prime Minister of Italy (1892-93, 1903-05, 1906-09, 1911-14, 1920-21), dies at 85
1980 – Donald “Red” Barry, American actor (Adventures of Red Ryder, Jesse James’ Women), commits suicide at 68
1987 – Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
1995 – Carlos Sánchez Málaga, Peruvian composer, dies at 91
2010 – Fred F. Carter Jr., American country session guitarist, singer, producer and composer (Nashville’s “A-Team”), dies of a stroke at 76