1404 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria and third son of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, dies at 74
1862 – Conrad Feger Jackson, US Union brigadier general, dies in Battle of Fredericksburg at 49
1908 – Augustus Le Plongeon, French-American photographer and antiquitarian, dies at 83
1911 – Reggie Duff, Australian cricket batsman (23 Tests; 104 on debut), dies of alcoholism at 33
1980 – Harm van Riel, Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73
1981 – Pigmeat [Dewey] Markham, American comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In), dies at 75
1992 – Bernard Drukker, Dutch pianist/orchestra leader (duivelswiel), dies
1993 – Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87
2010 – Stuart “Woolly” Wolstenholme, British keyboardist and vocalist (Barclay James Harvest), commits suicide at 63
2019 – Richard G Hatcher, American attorney and politician (Mayor of Gary, Indiana, 1968-88), dies at 88
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 12th December 2021
1212 – Geoffrey, Archbishop of York and illegitimate son of King Henry II of England, dies at about 60
1817 – Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751)
1821 – Phoebe Hessel, English woman who disguised herself as a man to serve in the British Army, probably to be with her lover, Samuel Golding, dies at 108
1938 – James McNeill, Irish politician, 2nd Governor-General of the Irish Free State, dies at 69
1951 – Mildred Bailey, American jazz singer (b. 1907)
1988 – John Canning, NY Post managing editor, dies at 56
1991 – Eleanor Boardman, actor (Crowd), dies in at 93
1993 – Mary Jarred, British mezzo-soprano and contralto singer (The Rake’s Progress), dies at 94
1999 – Joe Benner, American pistol shooter and coach (Olympic gold 1952; World C’ship gold 1949, 52, 54), dies at 82
2007 – Ike Turner, American musician (“Rocket 88”; Ike and Tina Turner – “A Fool in Love”; “Proud Mary”), dies of cocaine overdose at 76
Famous Deaths for 11th December 2021
384 – Pope Saint Damasus I, Pope of the Catholic Church, dies
1226 – Robert de Ros, northern English Nobleman (one of the Twenty-five barons appoints under the Magna Carta) (b. 1177)
1282 – Michael VIII, Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1259-82), dies
1686 – Louis II Condé, Duke of Bourbon (Rocroy), dies at 65
1797 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
1942 – Jochen Klepper, German writer, commits suicide at 39
1955 – Johan C. Altorf, Dutch sculptor (October 3 Monument), dies at 79
1967 – Victor De Sabata, Italian conductor and composer (II Macigno), dies at 75
2006 – Elizabeth Bolden, American Supercentenarian (oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death), dies at 116
2007 – Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian child actress (Now and Then), dies of a drug overdose at 26
Famous Deaths for 10th December 2021
1524 – Henry van Zutphen, Dutch Augustine/Luthern minister, burned to death
1805 – Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer, dies at 43
1926 – Nikola Pašić, Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes prime minister (b. 1845)
1945 – Theodor Dannecker, SS officer and an associate of Adolf Eichmann, dies at 32
1946 – Damon Runyon, American journalist and writer (Guys and Dolls-based on his work), dies at 66
1967 – Brasílio Itiberê da Cunha Luz, Brazilian composer, dies at 71
1983 – Dorothy Cummings, actress (Dancing Mothers), dies at 84
1995 – Gillian Rose, philosopher/writer, dies at 48
2001 – Ashok Kumar [Dadamoni, Kumudlal Kunjilal Ganguly], Indian actor (Mahal, Afsana), dies from chronic asthma at 90
2008 – Didith Reyes, Filipino singer (b. 1948)
Famous Deaths for 9th December 2021
1827 – François Léonard Rouwyzer, composer, dies at 90
1854 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)
1937 – [Nils] Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and industrialist (AGA, Nobel Prize in Physics 1912), dies at 68
1975 – William A Wellman, American director (Ox Bow Incident), dies at 79
1982 – Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor, dies at 77
1982 – Fritz Usinger, German writer (Song against Death), dies at 87
2002 – Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (b. 1944)
2003 – Norm Sloan, American basketball coach (b. 1926)
2004 – Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
2012 – Jenni Rivera, Mexican-American singer-songwriter, dies in a plane crash at 43
Famous Deaths for 8th December 2021
1649 – Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613)
1910 – George Doherty Johnston, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 78
1951 – Bobby Lowe, American baseball second baseman (first player to hit 4 HRs in one MLB game, 1894), dies at 86
1982 – Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered
1983 – Keith Holyoake, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (National: 1960-72), dies of a stroke at 79
1990 – Martin Ritt, American actor and director (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Slugger’s Wife, End of the Game), dies at 76
1991 – (Wilbur) “Buck” Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (Count Basie; Billie Holiday; Lester Young), and bandleader, dies at 80
1996 – Howard E Rollins Jr, actor (Ed Harding-Another World), dies at 46
2014 – Knut Nystedt, Norwegian organist, choral composer, and conductor, dies at 99
2019 – Rene Auberjonois, American actor and voice artist (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, God of War), dies of lung cancer at 79
Famous Deaths for 7th December 2021
1826 – John Flaxman, Engl sculptor (tombs at St Paul’s Cathedral), dies at 71
1906 – Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)
1977 – Paul Gibb, cricketer (England batsman, 8 Tests), dies
1989 – William ‘Haystacks’ Calhoun, American professional wrestler, dies at 55
1990 – Dee Clark, American singer (Raindrops), dies at 52
1990 – Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet and novelist (Pentagonia), dies at 47
2003 – Carl F. H. Henry American theologian and publisher (b. 1913)
2014 – John Bartholomew Tucker, American TV host (Candid Camera, Treasure Island), dies at 84
2019 – Ron Saunders, English soccer striker (Portsmouth) and manager (Manchester City, Aston Villa, Birmingham City), dies at 87
2019 – Denis Lalanne, French sports journalist (‘Le grand combat du XV de France’; ‘Rugbymania: French flair attitude’), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 6th December 2021
1855 – William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist, dies at 66
1882 – Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)
1953 – Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), dies at 48
1973 – Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer, dies at 94
1983 – Lucienne Boyer, French singer (Parlez-moi d’amour), dies at 82
1989 – Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry), dies at 86
1992 – Percy Herbert, actor (Capt Apache), dies of heart attack at 72
1994 – Gian Maria Volontè, Italian actor (Fistful of Dollars), dies at 61
1997 – Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer (WR 100m freestyle, 1:04.06 1933-56; Olympic gold 4×100m freestyle 1936), dies at 79
2017 – William H. Gass, American novelist and philosopher (Omensetter’s Luck), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 5th December 2021
1887 – Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)
1922 – Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, dies
1940 – Jan Kubelik, Czech composer, dies at 60
1974 – Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1909-11, 19), dies at 87
1986 – Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
1989 – John M Pritchard, British conductor, dies at 68
1992 – Felipe Padilla de León, Filipino composer, dies at 80
1995 – Victor Collin Matthews, British businessman, dies on 76th birthday
2012 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (Brasilia), dies from a respiratory infection at 104
2020 – Peter Alliss, English golfer (Ryder Cup 1957 GB winners) and author, course designer and television presenter, commentator (BBC, ESPN, ABC Sports), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 4th December 2021
1676 – Johann Georg Ebeling, German composer, dies at 39
1893 – Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian Major, dies in battle against the Ndebeles during First Matabele War
1959 – Rosetta Duncan, (Duncan Sisters), dies in an auto accident at 58
1976 – Ace Gutowsky, Russian/American football fullback (Portsmouth Spartans, Brooklyn Dodgers; NFL C’ship 1935, Detroit Lions), dies of cancer at 67
1988 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist, dies at 89
1991 – Alex Graham, Scottish cartoonist who created the comic strip “Fred Basset”, dies at 78
2000 – Colin Cowdrey, England cricket batsman (114 Tests, 7,624 runs @ 44.06), dies of a heart attack at 67
2005 – Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (b. 1924)
2011 – Sócrates [Socrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Sousa Vieira de Oliveira], Brazilian soccer midfielder and manager (60 caps, 22 goals Brazil; Corinthians), dies of septic shock at 57
2015 – Rodney Milne [Blumer], British opera critic (Opera magazine, 1971-99), musicologist, and libretto translator, dies at 79