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
Category: Famous Deaths
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
Famous Deaths for 15th August 2022
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
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