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)
Category: Famous Deaths
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
Famous Deaths for 5th August 2022
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
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