1305 – Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
1661 – Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy, dies at 36
1713 – Valentin Molitor, Swiss composer, dies at 76
1888 – Tom King, English boxer (English heavyweight champion 1862-63), rower and bookmaker, dies of bronchitus at 53
1943 – Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence, dies at 37
1948 – Arthur Whitten Brown, British aviator (first nonstop airplane crossing of the Atlantic with John W. Alcock), dies at 62
1955 – Alexander Papagos, Greek fieldmarshal and supreme commander, dies at 71
1992 – Ohad Arnon, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
2000 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist (Nobel 1993- Site-directed mutagenesis), dies at 68
2020 – Kenzō Takada, Japanese fashion designer (Kenzo), dies of COVID-19 complications at 81
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 3rd October 2021
1646 – Virgilio Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 49
1703 – Richard Saab, Amersfoorts rebel leader, beheaded
1826 – Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Labyrinth), dies
1895 – Harry Wright, English Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder and manager (established baseball’s first fully professional team, Cincinnati Red Stockings 1869), dies of a lung ailment at 60
1907 – Alfred Reisenauer, German pianist and composer, dies at 43
1990 – Stefano Casiraghi, Italian speedboat racer, businessman and husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco, dies at 30
1996 – Thomas ap Rees, British botanist, dies in a cycling accident at 65
1999 – Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)
2002 – Robert Krausz, Stock market advisor and investor (b. 1936)
2019 – Vinnie Bell [Gambella], American session guitarist, electric sitar player, and pioneer of electronic effects in pop music, dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 2nd October 2021
1775 – Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
1786 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral, dies at 61
1842 – William Ellery Channing, cleric/writer, dies
1967 – Albertina Rasch, Austrian-born American ballerina and choreographer, dies at 76
1981 – Harry Golden, Jewish-American journalist and writer (Only in America), dies at 79
1985 – Rock Hudson, American actor (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms, Ice Station Zebra), dies of AIDS-related complications at 59
1991 – Dimitrios I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1973-91), dies at 77
2005 – Hamilton Camp, English-American actor (Andrew-He and She, Meatballs 2), dies at 70
2007 – Lady Katherine Brandram, Princess of Greece, the last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, dies at 94
2016 – Thomas Round, British tenor (Gilbert and Sullivan For All), dies at 100
Famous Deaths for 1st October 2021
540 – Vedastus St Vaast, 1st bishop of Atrecht/saint, dies
1567 – Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (b. 1508)
1640 – Claudio Achillini, Italian lawyer and poet, dies at 66
1708 – John Blow, English baroque composer (Venus and Adonis), dies at 59
1943 – Olaf T Thomsen, resistance fighter, executed at 23
1943 – Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36
1973 – Joe Devlin, American actor (Sam-Dick Tracy), dies at 77
2001 – Guy Beaulne, French-Canadian actor and theatre director (b. 1921)
2004 – Bruce Palmer, Canadian bassist (Buffalo Springfield), dies of a heart attack at 58
2016 – Edda Heiðrún Backman, Icelandic stage and screen actress, singer, theater director, and painter, dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at 58
Famous Deaths for 30th September 2021
1716 – Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer, theologian and poet, dies at 62
1862 – Isaac Peace Rodman, American banker and Brigadier General (Union Army), dies of injury at about 40
1885 – Maria Gartmann, Dutch actress, dies at 60
1961 – Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Québec (b. 1888)
1973 – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)
1985 – Heleb MacInnes, US spy writer (Affiliate in place), dies at 77
1987 – Robert Schollum, Austrian composer, dies at 74
1991 – Nancy Welford, entertainer, dies at 87
2004 – Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1936)
2008 – Christa Reinig, German poet and writer (Idleness is the Root of All Love, The Tightrope Walker), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 29th September 2021
855 – Lotharius I, Romanian-French emperor (signed Treaty of Verdun), dies
1364 – Charles, Duke of Brittany
1800 – Michael Denis, Austrian poet, bibliographer and lepidopterist, dies at 71
1915 – Luther Orlando Emerson, American composer, dies at 95
1925 – Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Galgmannen), dies at 36
1928 – Lido Manetti [Arnold Kent], Italian-born American actor, dies in a car accident at 29
1960 – Franz Arnold, German writer, dies at 82
1975 – Casey Stengel, American Baseball Hall of Fame manager (Yankees (1949-60), NY Met’s 1st), dies of cancer at 85
1994 – Don Watson, Australian race car driver, dies in an accident at a practice for the Bathurst 1000 at 43
1996 – Shūsaku Endō, Japanese writer (Sea and Poison, Silence), dies at 73
Famous Deaths for 28th September 2021
1197 – Henry VI von Hohenstaufen, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, dies in Messina, Sicily
1618 – Gilles van Ledenberg, sec of Utrecht States (1588-1618), suicide at 68
1899 – Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter (Become his fare), dies
1914 – Stevan Mokranjac [Stojanović], Serbian cellist, educator and composer of choral music (Garlands), dies at 58
1943 – Charles Vintcent, cricketer (played in South Africa’s 1st 3 tests), dies
1961 – Michael Shepley, British actor (Squibs, Dick and the Duchess), dies at 54
1968 – Dewey Philip “Daddy-O”, American pioneering DJ, dies of heart failure at 42
1981 – Rómulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)
2004 – Christl Cranz, German alpine skier (combined gold Winter Olympics 1936), dies at 90
2016 – Gloria Naylor, American author (Women of Brewster Place), dies at 66
Famous Deaths for 27th September 2021
1404 – William of Wykeham, chancellor/Bishop of Winchester, dies
1870 – Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50
1876 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
1962 – Francisco Brochado da Rocha, Prime Minister of Brazil (1962), dies at 52
1975 – Mark Frechette, actor (Zabriskie Point, Uomini Contro), dies at 27
1988 – William V. Shannon, American journalist and ambassador to Ireland (1977-81), dies at 61
1994 – Ruth Niehaus, German actress, dies at 69
1994 – Guiseppe Martelli, Italian physicist, dies at 71
1995 – Alison “Night Bird” Steele, DJ (WNEW-FM, WXRK-FM), dies of cancer
2009 – Ivan Dykhovichnyy, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1947)
Famous Deaths for 26th September 2021
1345 – Willem IV, earl of Henegouwen/Holland/Zealand, dies at about 27
1800 – William Billings, American hymn composer (Rose of Sharon), dies at 53
1945 – Béla Bartok, Hungarian pianist, composer (Concerto for Orchestra), and ethno-musicologist, dies of leukemia at 64
1953 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter, dies at 58
1954 – Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1890), dies at 86
1958 – Carl Brisson, Danish actor (Ship Cafe, Ring, Song of Soho, Murder at the Vanities), dies of jaundice at 64
1960 – William Ling, cricketer (South African batsman in 6 Tests 1921-23), dies
1972 – Charles J Correll, American actor (Calvin and the Colonel), dies at 82
1998 – Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)
2012 – Johnny Lewis, American actor, dies from injuries from a fall at 28
Famous Deaths for 25th September 2021
1066 – Harald III Hardrada, King of Norway (1047-66), dies at the Battle of Stamford Bridge at 51 – his death often considered the end of the Viking Age
1602 – Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
1898 – Hieronymus Theodor Richter, German mineralogist and co-discoverer of the element indium, dies at 73
1920 – William F. Sudds, American composer, music publisher, and teacher,, dies at 77
1946 – Heinrich George [Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz], German actor (Hitlerjunge Quex), dies at 52
1968 – Cornell Woolrich, American writer (El Angel Negro), dies at 64
1978 – Claire Adams, actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road), dies at 80
1980 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet, dies at 97
1987 – George Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor and playwright (David Copperfield), dies from cancer at 81
1997 – Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)