1359 – Ivan II, great ruler of Moscow and Vladimir, dies
1893 – Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 78
1902 – Evander McNair, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 82
1939 – George Nicholls Jr, actor (Finishing School), dies at 42
1939 – Lois Weber, American film director who became the first American woman to direct a full feature-length film (The Merchant of Venice) and the first to own her own studio, dies of a stomach ulcer at 60
1963 – Margaret Murray, English anthropologist and Egyptologist (b. 1863)
1984 – Dorothy Arnold, actress (House of Fear, Phantom Creeps), dies at 66
1989 – Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-89), dies at 83
1998 – Valerie Hobson, British actress (Great Expectations), dies at 81
2013 – Hans-Jürgen Heise, German writer, dies at 83
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 12th November 2021
1555 – Stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65
1757 – Colley Cibber, English actor, dramatist and Poet Laureate (1730-57), dies at 86
1809 – Karel van Poucke, Flemish sculptor, dies at 69
1836 – Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
1949 – Hendrik A. de Fish [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological, dies at 64
1965 – Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader, dies at 77
1976 – Walter Hamor Piston, Jr, American two-time Pulitzer Prize winning composer (Incredible Flutist), music theorist, and educator (Harvard, 1926-60), dies at 82
2014 – Marge Roukema, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey), dies at 85
2014 – Warren Clark, British actor, dies at 67
2015 – Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer and goalkeeper, dies of cancer at 32
Famous Deaths for 11th November 2021
397 – Martinus, (St Maarten), Roman bishop of Tours, dies at about 81
1528 – Lucas van Prague, Czech leader of Bohemian Brothers, dies at about 68
1886 – Paul Bert, Auxerre, French Zoologist, Physiologist and pioneer of aerospace medicine whose study of the effects of air pressure on the body made possible space and ocean exploration, dies of dysentery at 53
1942 – Anton Hendrik Blaauw, Dutch botanist (Perception of the Lichtes), dies at 60
1942 – Hector Abbas, Flemish actor and director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58
1945 – Jerome Kern, American composer (Sally, Leave it to Jane), dies at 60
1967 – Jordan Whitfield, American actor (Bomba the Jungle Boy, Lord of the Jungle, Swamp Fox), dies of heart attack at 49
1994 – Ernest Clark, British actor (Ghandi, The Dam Busters, Doctor in the House), dies at 82
1999 – Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
2011 – Georges Papy, Belgian mathematician (Numbers Game), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 10th November 2021
1556 – Richard Chancellor, English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland
1948 – Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929- ), dies at 71
1973 – Stringbean, country singer/comedian/banjoist (Hee Haw), dies at 58
1976 – Theodore Besterman, British bibliographer and psychical researcher, dies at 71
1981 – Abel Gance, French movie director (J’accuse), dies at 92
1994 – Louis Nizer, lawyer, dies at 92
1997 – William Alland, American actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 81
1999 – Robert Kramer, American actor and director, dies of meningitis at 60
2000 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician, Prime Minister of France, President of the National Assembly, dies at 85
2006 – Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
Famous Deaths for 9th November 2021
1677 – Aert van der Neer, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 73
1939 – Dirk Klop, Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr
1961 – Antonius Coolen, Dutch author (Village by the River), dies at 64
1988 – David Bauer, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame player and builder (priest, school coach; National Team manager), dies at 64
1991 – Guido Claus, Belgian actor (Sacrament), dies
1994 – Ralph Michael, British actor (Quest, Doctor in the House), dies at 87
2011 – Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-American biochemist (Nobel 1968), dies at 89
2012 – Bill Tarmey, English actor (Coronation Street), dies at 71
2017 – Hans Vermeulen, Dutch singer and guitarist (Sandy Coast), dies at 70
2018 – Ken Howell, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 57
Famous Deaths for 8th November 2021
1805 – Francois-Thomas de Baculard d’Arnaud, French writer, dies at 87
1811 – Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies, dies at 47
1880 – Jacob Edvard Gille, Swedish composer, dies at 66
1908 – William Edward Ayrton, English Physicist, Inventor and Electrical Engineer, dies at 60
1952 – Claude Carter, South African cricket spin bowler (19 Tests, 28 wickets), dies at 71
1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter “The Baron of the Boogie”, American RandB singer, piano player, and songwriter (“Since I Met You Baby”), dies of lung cancer at 60
1984 – Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, Norwegian composer, dies at 81
1990 – Anya Seton, American author (Katherine), dies at 86
1998 – Jean Marais, French actor (Donkey Skin, Orpheus), dies of cardio-vascular disease at 84
1999 – Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter, dies at 58
Famous Deaths for 7th November 2021
1581 – Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
1599 – Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
1880 – Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer, dies at 72
1956 – Una Mae Carlisle, US pianist/singer, dies at 40
1993 – Charles Aidman, actor (Kotch, Zoot Suit), dies of cancer at 68
1995 – John Patrick, American screenwriter and playwright (Pulitzer Prize 1954), commits suicide at 90
1996 – Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer, dies at 81
2002 – Margaret “Peg” Phillips, American actress (Northern Exposure, ER, Suddenly Susan), dies of lung disease at 84
2008 – Hedley Howarth, New Zealand cricket spin bowler (30 Tests, 86 wickets), dies of cancer at 64
2015 – Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic-born American actor (Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), dies of cancer at 68
Famous Deaths for 6th November 2021
1793 – Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, dies at 46
1822 – Claude-Louis Berthollet, French chemist, dies at 73
1931 – Jack Chesbro, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (MLB wins leader 1902, 04 [41 wins], NY Highlanders), dies of heart attack at 57
1935 – Billy Sunday, American evangelist (revivals and sermons reflected the emotional upheavals caused by transition from rural to industrial society in the United States), dies at 72
1944 – Hannah Senesh, Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest
1991 – Gene Tierney, American actress (Laura, Leave Her to Heaven, The Razor’s Edge), dies of emphysema at 70
2001 – Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (Sleuth), dies at 75
2006 – Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (slalom Olympic Gold 1972), dies of cancer at 56
2009 – Ron Sproat, American TV writer and playwright (Dark Shadows), dies at 77
2018 – Hugh McDowell, British cellist (Electric Light Orchestra – “Strange Magic”; “Evil Woman”), dies of cancer at 65
Famous Deaths for 5th November 2021
1559 – Kano Motonobu, Zen co-founder (Kano school of painting), dies at 83
1660 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1660 – Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599)
1772 – Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749-72), dies at 66
1968 – Robert Ayres, actor (Battle Beneath the Earth), dies at 54
1990 – Humphrey Gibbs, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (1959-69), dies at 87
1991 – Robert Maxwell, British billionaire publisher (NY Daily News), dies at 68
1992 – Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer (hypothesized “Oort Cloud”), dies at 92
2005 – (Fred Lincoln) “Link” Wray, Native American rock guitarist (“Rumble”), dies of heart failure at 76
2009 – Félix Luna, Argentine historian and lyricist, dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 4th November 2021
1890 – Jacob PP baron van Zuylen, Dutch foreign minister (1852-3), dies at 74
1937 – Rogelio del Villar, Spanish composer, dies at 61
1980 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer, 1st female in Canada to get bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, dies at 75
1992 – Regina Carrol, American actress (Jessi’s Girl), dies of cancer at 49
1995 – Edward “Eddie” Egan, American actor (The French Connection, Joe Forrester), dies of cancer at 65
2003 – Charles Causley, Cornish writer and poet (b. 1917)
2005 – Len Barnard, Australian jazz drummer (“The Naked Dance”; Galapagos Duck), dies at 76
2006 – Torolf Elster, Norwegian journalist and writer (Frihet och demokrati), dies at 95
2012 – Ted Curson, American jazz trumpeter, dies from a heart attack at 77
2016 – Eddie Harsch [Hawrysch], Canadian keyboardist (Bulldog; The Black Crowes – “Hard To Handle”), dies at 59