1942 – J. B. M. Hertzog [Barry Hertzog], South African General and Prime Minister (1924-39), dies at 76
1953 – Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (Original Dixieland Jazz Band), dies at 60
1957 – Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)
1963 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (Perfil del Aire), dies at 61
1967 – Florence Reed, actress (Black Panther Club), dies after illness at 84
1975 – Gunnar Gunnarsson, Icelandic writer (The Church on the Mountain), dies at 86
1986 – Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b. 1947)
1995 – Dorothy Jeakins, costume designer, dies at 81
1997 – Robert Simpson, British classical composer, and broadcaster (BBC), dies at 76
2013 – Maurice Vachon, Canadian professional wrestler, dies at 84
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 20th November 2021
1527 – Wendelmoet “Weyntjen” Claesdochter, 1st Dutch woman burned as heretic
1951 – Thomas Quinlan, English opera impresario, dies at 70
1968 – Helen Gardner, American silent film actress (Sandra), dies at 84
1975 – Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (1936-75), dies at 82
1986 – William Bradford Huie, American writer and publisher, dies at 76
2000 – Kalle Päätalo, Finnish novelist (Iijoki), dies at 81
2006 – Robert Altman, American screenwriter, producer and director (The Player, M*A*S*H, Nashville), dies of complications from leukemia at 81
2009 – H.C. Robbins Landon, American musicologist (Haydn: Chronicle and Works), dies at 83
2009 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2010 – Danny McDevitt, American baseball player (b. 1932)
Famous Deaths for 19th November 2021
498 – Anastasius II, Pope (496-8) dies. Referred to by Dante in his Inferno XI, 8-9
1272 – David of Augsburg, Franciscan minister/author, dies
1389 – Dimitri Ivanovitch “Donskoi”, monarch of Vladimir-Soezdal, dies at 39
1672 – John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
1828 – Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (Die schöne Müllerin), dies at 31 from typhoid fever
1910 – Rudolf Fittig, German chemist (synthesizing organic compounds), dies at 74
1959 – Edward C. Tolman, American psychologist (behaviorism), dies at 73
1983 – Tom Evans, English rock musician (Badfinger), commits suicide at 36
2007 – Dick Wilson, British-American actor, dies at 91
2012 – Warren Rudman, American politician (Sen-R-NH, 1980-93), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 18th November 2021
1929 – Henricus van de Wetering, Archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
1946 – Donald Meek, Scottish-American actor (You Can’t Take It with You, Stagecoach), dies at 86
1951 – Johan van Maarseveen, Dutch Minister of Justice and Internal minister, dies at 57
1958 – Sivert Samuelson, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1910), dies
1984 – Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (Pictorial Review, Good Housekeeping), dies at 77
1987 – Jacques Anquetil, French road cyclist (Tour de France 1957, 61-64; first 5-time winner), dies of stomach cancer at 53
1992 – Herman Musaph, Dutch Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, dermatologist and sexologist, dies at 76
1999 – Paul Bowles, American novelist (The Sheltering Sky), dies at 88
2015 – Jim Slater, British financier and writer, dies at 86
2020 – Pim Doesburg, Dutch soccer goalkeeper (8 caps; Eredivisie record 687 games; Sparta, PSV), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 17th November 2021
1648 – Thomas Ford, English composer and lutenist to the royal court, dies (b. 1580)
1897 – George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
1929 – Dick Lilley, English cricket wicket-keepe (92 dismissals in 35 Tests 1896-1909), dies at 62
1944 – Johan Hermanus Doorn, Dutch journalist and resistance fighter (Orange Newspaper), dies at 34
1989 – Emerson Buckley, American composer, dies at 73
1994 – G Waller, German/Swiss movie journalist (NRC/Variety), dies at 82
1996 – Johan Fleming Ramsland, British broadcaster, dies at 54
2003 – Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
2005 – Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (Janosik), dies at 63
2008 – Guy Peellaert, Belgian graphic artist, photographer (Rock Dreams), movie poster and album cover designer (David Bowie -“Diamond Dogs’; Rolling Stones – “It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll”), dies of cancer at 74
Famous Deaths for 16th November 2021
1745 – James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier, dies at 80
1775 – Marian Paradeiser, Austrian composer, dies at 28
1885 – Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader and “Father of Manitoba”, hanged for treason at 41
1893 – George Alexander Osborne, Irish pianist and composer (La Pluie de perles), dies of natural causes at 87
1960 – Clark Gable, American actor (Gone With the Wind), dies at 59
1961 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House for 17 years, dies at 79
1982 – Arthur Askey, British actor (Bees in Paradise, Ghost Train), dies at 82
1997 – Headley Keith, South African cricket batsman (8 Tests @ 21.19), dies at 70
2009 – Robert J. Frankel, American thoroughbred race horse trainer, dies at 68
2015 – David Canary, American actor (Bonanza, All My Children), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 15th November 2021
1527 – Princess Catherine of York, 9th child and sixth daughter of King Edward IV by his wife Elizabeth Woodville, dies at 48
1848 – P Rossi, Italian, murdered
1910 – Wilhelm Raabe [Jakob Corvinus], German author (Der Hungerpastor), dies at 79
1916 – Luis Muñoz Rivera, Puerto Rican journalist (founded Federalist Party), dies at 57
1928 – Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, American Geologist and educator, dies at 85
1954 – Lionel Barrymore [Blythe], American actor (It’s A Wonderful Life; Dr. Kildare (films); Key Largo), dies at 76
1965 – John Geoghegan, U.S. Army infantry lieutenant and Silver Star recipient, killed during the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam War at 24
2002 – Myra Hindley, English murderess (murdered 5 small children with Ian Brady), dies at 60
2010 – Imre Polyák, Hungarian featherweight (Olympic gold 1964), dies at 78
2011 – Mark “Moogy” Klingman, American rock musician and songwriter (Utopia) dies of bladder cancer at 61
Famous Deaths for 14th November 2021
1226 – Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193)
1829 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (b. 1763)
1842 – Henry de Cock, Dutch reformed vicar and secession leader, dies at 41
1909 – Joshua Slocum, Canadian-American seaman and adventurer, departs from Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, sailing south for the winter, and is lost at sea, at 65
1915 – Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist, composer, and teacher (Contes de Jeunesse), dies at 85
1944 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist, dies at 71
1964 – Hendrik Gerrit Cannegieter, meteorology/director KNMI, dies at 85
1965 – Russell Collins, American actor (Niagara, Close Up, Shockproof), dies at 68
1990 – Robert Mariano, entertainer, dies at 21
2012 – Ahmed Jabari, Palestinian political activist, killed by an airstrike at 53
Famous Deaths for 13th November 2021
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
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