1678 – Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet, spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70
1840 – Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, German composer, dies at 67
1909 – Pauline Staegeman, German feminist, dies
1927 – Charles Boissevain, Dutch editor of Amsterdam Algemeen Handelsblad (1885-1908), dies at 84
1942 – Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
1945 – Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (b. 1926)
1988 – Michael Shaara, American author (Killer angels), dies of a heart attack at 59
1997 – Walter Gotell, German actor (James Bond, From Russia With Love), dies at 73
2015 – Craig Gruber, American rock bassist (Rainbow), dies of cancer at 63
2020 – Millie Small, Jamaican ska singer, and songwriter (“My Boy Lollipop”), dies of a stroke at 72
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 4th May 2022
1506 – Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438)
1535 – John Houghton, English monk, first of the Carthusian Martyrs, hung, drawn and quartered at the Tower of London
1893 – George Washington Hewitt, American composer, dies at 82
1922 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)
1971 – Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at 83
1995 – Louis Krasner, Ukrainian-American violinist, dies at 91
1997 – Vijayananda Dahanayake, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1959-60), dies
2012 – Mort Lindsey [Lippman], American pianist, arranger, musical director (Judy Garland, 1961-64; Merv Griffin Show, 1962-86; Barbra Streisand, 1968), and composer, dies at 89
2018 – Larry Hunter, American college basketball coach (Wittenberg Tigers, Ohio Bobcats, Western Carolina Catamounts), dies at 68
2018 – Naser Cheshm Azar, Iranian composer, dies of a heart attack at 67
Famous Deaths for 3rd May 2022
1693 – Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
1704 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Bohemian-Austrian violinist and composer, dies at 59
1737 – Abraham Patras, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1735-37), dies at 65
1861 – Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer, dies at 80
1868 – Olof Wilhelm Uddén, Swedish composer, dies at 68
1918 – Charlie Soong, Chinese Methodist missionary and key player in the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, dies at 55
1972 – Les Harvey, rocker, dies
1983 – Vaughn Taylor, American actor (Jailhouse Rock, Johnny Jupiter), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 72
2000 – John Joseph Cardinal O’Connor, Catholic Archbishop of New York (b. 1920)
2020 – Dave Greenfield, British rock keyboardist, and songwriter (The Stranglers – “Golden Brown”), dies of complications from Covid-19 at 71
Famous Deaths for 2nd May 2022
1450 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English military leader (b. 1396)
1736 – Albert Seba, Amsterdam pharmacist, dies at 71
1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72) dies at 77
1991 – Leib Lensky, dies at 82
1992 – Joey Cuevas, American movie dancer, dies at 34
1992 – Lee Salk, Russian-American child psychologist and author, dies of cardiac arrest at 65
1997 – Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher (critical pedagogy), dies at 75
1998 – Kevin Lloyd, British actor (b. 1949)
2005 – Kenneth Bancroft Clark, American civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto) and first black president of the American Psychological Association, dies at 90
2006 – Louis Rukeyser, American columnist (b. 1933)
Famous Deaths for 1st May 2022
1240 – Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals
1898 – Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian and archivist (Brussels), dies at 81
1926 – Nicolaus Adriani, Dutch translator (Middle-Celebes Language), dies at 60
1935 – Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (Tour de France 1923), dies of a gunshot wound at 46
1946 – Edward Bairstow, English composer, dies at 71
1946 – Percy Whitlock, English composer and organist, dies at 42
1991 – Richard Thorpe, American director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies at 95
1994 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian auto racer (World F1 champion 1988, 90, 91), dies in a crash at San Marino GP at 34
2015 – Pete Brown, American golfer (first African-American to win on PGA Tour, Waco 1964), dies at 80
2018 – Carl W. Duckworth, American politician (Utah House of Representatives, 1955–1958), dies of bone cancer at 53
Famous Deaths for 30th April 2022
1922 – David M Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet, dies
1983 – Jerry Hatsuo Fujikawa, actor (Uncle Matsu-Mr T and Tina), dies at 71
1989 – Guy Williams [Armando Joseph Catalano], American actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies of a brain aneurysm at 65
1992 – Daan van Driel, Dutch cartoonist/WWII resist fighter (Trouw), dies
1993 – Eric Rowan, cricketer (26 Tests for South Africa), dies
1996 – Jeanne Bal, American actress (Pat-Love and Marriage, Star Trek- The Man Trap), dies at 67
1997 – Henry Picard, American golfer (Masters 1938, PGA 1939), dies at 90
2003 – Mark Berger, University of Kentucky professor (b. 1955)
2007 – Grégory Lemarchal, French pop singer, dies of health complications while waiting for a lung transplant at 23
2021 – Anthony Payne, British composer (Phoenix Mass; Visions and Journeys), critic, and musicologist, dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 29th April 2022
1630 – Agrippa d’Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552)
1793 – Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist, dies at 79
1903 – Paul du Chaillu, French American explorer (first modern explorer to confirm existence of gorillas and pygmies) dies between 61-73 [birth date disputed] (b. c. 1835)
1944 – Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (1915–17, 1925–26), dies at 93
1954 – Ernst Heldring, Dutch ship owner and financier, dies at 82
1995 – Angier Biddle Duke, American diplomat and the youngest American ambassador in history, dies at 79
2002 – Lor Tok [Sawong Supsamruay], Thai comedian and actor (Ngern, Ngern, Ngern), dies at 88
2004 – Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2012 – Amarillo Slim, American professional poker player, dies at 83
2021 – Billie Hayes [Brosch], American stage, film, and television actress Li’l Abner – “Mammy Yokum”; Witchiepoo), dies at 96
Famous Deaths for 28th April 2022
1533 – Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat, dies at 72
1772 – Johann Friedrich Struensee, German physician of Christian VII of Denmark, dies at 34
1853 – Ludwig Tieck, German writer, dies at 79
1918 – Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian-Serb assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, dies of tuberculosis at 23
1934 – Charley Patton, American Delta blues musician (“Pony Blues”; “High Water Everywhere”), dies of a mitral valve disorder between the ages of 37 and 43
1935 – Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Scottish composer, dies at 87
1966 – Ralph Bunker, American actor (Ghost Goes West), dies of a stroke at 77
1973 – Pat Henning, American actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies at 64
1976 – Richard Hughes, English writer (Fiction as Truth), dies at 76
1999 – Alf Ramsey, English football manager, dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 27th April 2022
1813 – Zebulon Pike, American brigadier general and explorer (Pike’s Peak), dies in battle at 34
1901 – Richard Redhead, English composer, dies at 81
1902 – Julius Sterling Morton, American politician (3rd U.S. Secretary of Agriculture) and founder of Arbor Day, dies at 70
1972 – Kwame Nkrumah, 1st Prime Minister of Ghana (1957-60) and 1st President of Ghana (1960-66), dies at 62
1978 – Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan politician, murdered at 68
1992 – Sol K. Bright, Hawaiian steel-guitar player, singer (Hollywaiians), and songwriter (“Hawaiian Cowboy”), dies at 72
1994 – Lynne Frederick, English actress (Trail of Pink Panther), dies at 39
2000 – Vicki Sue Robinson, American stage and screen actress, and pop singer (“Turn the Beat Around”), dies of cancer at 45
2006 – Julia Thorne, American writer and ex-wife of John Kerry, dies at 61
2015 – Gene Fullmer, American boxer (world middleweight champion), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 26th April 2022
1945 – Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor, dies at 36
1950 – G. Murray Hulbert, American politician, dies at 68
1956 – Edward Arnold, American actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 66
1960 – Wander Johannes de Haas, Dutch physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies at 82
1965 – Aaron Avshalomov, Russian-born Jewish composer, dies at 70
1991 – Lars Hall, Swedish pentathlete (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 63
1995 – Alexander Knox, Canadian actor and author (Gorky Park, 2 of a Kind), dies of bone cancer at 88
2003 – Peter Stone, American writer, dies at 73
2005 – Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss star of German cinema (The Last Bridge, Gervaise), dies at 79
2013 – George Jones, American country singer-songwriter (“Golden Rings”; “Oh Lonesome Me”), dies from hypoxic respiratory failure at 81