1913 – Isabel Barrows, American editor and penologist (Conference on Negro Question), dies at 68
1918 – Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer, dies at 86
1947 – Dudley Digges, Irish actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, The Invisible Man), dies at 68
1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
1975 – Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by car bomb in Paris
1981 – Deborah Baltzell, actress (Karen-I’m a Big Girl Now), dies at 25
1982 – James Philbrook, actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at 58
1985 – Richie Evans, American auto racer (9 x NASCAR Modified Champion 1973, 78-85), dies in practice accident at 44
1987 – Constantin Alajalov, Armenian-American artist (Ditters and Jitters), dies at 86
1993 – Tonino Nardi, Italian cinematographer (Porte Manifest), dies at 54
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 23rd October 2021
1602 – Franciscus Junius, French-Dutch calvinist theologist and vicar, dies at 57
1935 – Otto “Aba Daba” Berman, American gangster (accountant for Dutch Schultz), murdered at 44
1935 – Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], American gangster, murdered at 33
1942 – Ralph Rainger, American film composer, dies at 41
1975 – Charles Brokaw, American actor (Outer Gate, I Cover the War), dies at 77
1976 – Leonard Lee, American vocalist (Shirley and Lee-I’m Gone), dies at 40
1983 – Tamara Shayne, Russian-American actress (Moma Yoelson-The Jolson Story), dies of a heart attack at 80
2011 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American Mathematician whose models for determining the chemical crystal structures vital for life revolutionized chemistry, dies at 94
2015 – Bill Keith, American banjoist, dies at 75
2020 – David Barnes, New Zealand sailor (470 world champion 1981, 83, 84), dies from multiple sclerosis at 62
Famous Deaths for 22nd October 2021
1565 – Jean, Vicomte d’Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
1763 – French van Mieris “the Young”, painter/historian, dies at 73
1854 – Jeremias Gotthelf [Albert Bitzius], Swiss writer (The Black Spider), dies at 57
1883 – George Coulthard, Australian rules footballer and cricketer (Test for Australia 1882), dies at 27
1934 – Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd, American gangster and FBI Most Wanted criminal, shot dead at 30 by the FBI in Ohio
1952 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss-German psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist, dies at 78
1969 – Giovanni Martinelli, Italian opera singer (NY Met), dies on 84th birthday
1986 – Ivor Francis, actor (Dusty’s Trail), dies at 68
2002 – Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)
2012 – Arthur Jensen, American psychologist, dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 21st October 2021
1204 – Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman
1500 – Go-Tsuchimikado, 103rd Emperor of Japan, dies at 58
1627 – Frederik de Houtman, navigator/governor of Ambon, dies at about 56
1773 – Johann Conrad Schlaun, German baroque architect, dies at 78
1975 – Charles Reidpath, American athlete (Olympic gold 1912), dies at 86
1993 – Melchior Ndadaye, 1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murdered at 40
1995 – Maxene Andrews, American singer (Andrew Sisters-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy), dies of heart attack at 79
2007 – Paul Fox, English musician and singer (The Ruts), dies at 56
2013 – Bud Adams Jr., American NFL team owner (Tennessee Titans), dies at 90
2019 – Willie Brown, American Pro Football Hall of Fame cornerback, coach and executive (Super Bowl 1976, 80, 84; Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders), dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 20th October 2021
1274 – Engelbert II of Falkenburg, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1676 – Christopher Gibbons, English composer, dies at 61
1865 – Champ Ferguson, American Confederate guerrilla, found guilty of war crimes during US Civil War, executed and hung at 43
1876 – Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist and historian, dies at 68
1894 – James Anthony Froude, English historian and novelist (The Nemesis of Faith), dies at 76
1913 – Daniel David Palmer, Canadian founder of chiropractic (1897 Palmer School of Chiropractic), dies of typhoid fever at 68
1935 – Adolphus Washington Greely, American Arctic explorer and recipient of the Medal of Honor, dies at 91
2005 – Eva Švankmajerová, Czech surrealist artist, dies of cancer at 65
2008 – Sœur Emmanuelle, Belgian-French religious sister, dies at 99
2014 – Lili Carati, Miss Italy 1975 and actress (Alcove), dies at 58
Famous Deaths for 19th October 2021
1432 – John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
1609 – Jacobus Arminius [Jacob Hermans], theologist, dies at about 49
1810 – Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and choreographer (ballet d’action), dies at 83
1934 – Johan J Arch, graphic artist (houtgravures), dies at 63
1955 – Carlos Dávila, President of Government Junta of Chile (1932), dies at 68
1978 – Gig Young [Byron Elsworth Barr], American actor (They Shoot Horses Don’t They), kills his bride of 3 weeks and commits suicide at 64
1992 – Gert Nastian, general and companion of Petra Kelly, found dead at 69
2005 – Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
2006 – Phyllis Kirk [Kirkegaard], American actress (Thin Man, Red Button’s Show), dies at 79
2013 – Noel Harrison, British singer and actor, dies of a heart attack at 79
Famous Deaths for 18th October 2021
1382 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde, dies at 51
1604 – Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
1938 – Karl J Kautsky, Austrian Marxist/socialist, dies at 83
1941 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal, dies at 81
1943 – Benedictus H. Danser, Dutch taxonomist and botanist, dies at 52
1972 – Esma Cannon, Australian-born actress (Sailor Beware!), dies at 66
1973 – Frank Knight, TV announcer (Chronoscope), dies at 79
1977 – Andreas Baader, German left-wing militant and leader of the Red Army Faction, commits suicide along with other RAF leaders at 34
2009 – Nancy Spero, American feminist artist, dies at 83
2013 – Mary Carver [Carvellas], American actress (Simon and Simon, Star Trek: Enterprise), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 17th October 2021
1638 – Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63
1806 – Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies
1910 – William V Moody, American poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies
1966 – Wieland Wagner, German opera director, dies
1974 – René A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57
1994 – Joan Barbara Grigor, artist, dies at 50
1999 – Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist, dies at 84
2008 – Levi Stubbs [Stubbles], American baritone singer (The Four Tops – “It’s the Same Old Song”; “Standing In The Shadows of Love”), dies at 72
2015 – Danièle Delorme [Gabrielle Girard], French actress (Pardon My Affair), dies at 89
2019 – Márta Kurtág [née Kinsker], Hungarian classical pianist, dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 16th October 2021
1655 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
1793 – Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (1774-92) who allegedly uttered the phrase “let them eat cake”, beheaded at 37
1796 – Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
1810 – Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian founder of Breslov Hasidut, dies at 38
1942 – 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed
1946 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister and war criminal, hanged at 53
1972 – Leo G. Carroll, British actor (Topper; Strangers On A Train; Man From U.N.C.L.E.), dies at 85
1996 – Anthony Griffin, sailor, dies at 75
1998 – Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
2002 – Angela Dawson, American murder victim
Famous Deaths for 15th October 2021
1389 – Urban VI [Bartolomeo Prignano], Italian pope (1378-89), dies
1833 – Michał Ogiński, Polish politician, violinist, the balalaika player, and composer (Farewell to My Homeland), dies at 68
1937 – James Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail), dies from a heart attack at 70
1960 – Clara Kimball Young, American actress (Return of Chandu), dies of stroke at 70
1960 – Henny Porten, German silent screen actress (Mother Love), dies at 70
1960 – Maude Eburne, Canadian actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman), dies at 84
1965 – Carl Hoff, American orchestra leader (Music Hall), dies at 60
1991 – Hotze de Roos, Dutch carpenter and writer (Chameleon series), dies at 81
2001 – Zhang Xueliang, Chinese ruler of Manchuria, dies at 100
2019 – Hossein Dehlavi, Persian composer, conductor and teacher (Sarbaz; Plectrum Orchestra), dies of Alzheimer complications at 92