1768 – Arthur Onslow, English politician (Speaker of the House of Commons 1728-61), dies at 76
1854 – John Martin, English painter and engraver, dies at 64
1954 – Evert Gorter, Dutch children’s pioneering paediatrician founder of Dutch medical child care), dies at 72
1976 – Jean Servais, Belgian actor (Le Plaisir, Every Man is My Enemy), dies from heart failure at 65
2007 – Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (b. 1961)
2017 – Alan Aldridge, British artist, graphic designer and illustrator whose artwork was used in record covers for The Beatles and The Who, dies at 78
2020 – Ja’net Dubois, American actress (Willona in “Good Times”), dies from cardiac arrest at 87
2021 – Doug Grisby, American soul music bassist, composer and producer (Patti LaBelle; Teena Marie), dies after suffering a stroke at 57
2021 – Murray Weideman, Australian rules football CHF (Collingwood VFL premiers 1953, 58 [c]; BandF 1957, 61, 62; Victoria 1956-60) and coach (Collingwood 1975-76), dies at 85
2023 – (Harry Gilbert) Gil Trythall, American pianist, contemporary classical and electronic music composer (The Pastimes of Lord Chaitanya), and educator, dies at 92
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 16th February 2026
1279 – Afonso III, King of Portugal (1248-79), dies at 68
1834 – Lionel Lukin, British life boat pioneer, dies at 91
1899 – Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (1895-99), dies at 57
1928 – Eddie Foy Sr. [Edwin Fitzgerald], Irish-American actor, singer and dancer (A Favorite Fool), dies at 71
1992 – Janio Quadros, president of Brazil (1961), dies
1996 – Edmund Gerald “Pat” Brown, American politician and Governor of California (D: 1959-67), dies at 90
1999 – Michael Larson, American “Press Your Luck” scandal big-winning contestant, dies of cancer at 49
1999 – Betty Roché [Mary Elizabeth Roach], American jazz singer (Duke Ellington – “Take The ‘A’ Train”), dies at 81
2002 – Walter Winterbottom, England soccer manager (first manager England national football team 1946–62; FA Director of Coaching), dies at 88
2025 – Luis Estaba, Venezuelan boxer (WBC light flyweight champion 1975-78), dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 15th February 2026
1835 – Henry Hunt, British politician, radical reformer (universal suffrage), dies at 61
1841 – Sibrandus Stratingh, Dutch phyisican and chemist (electrical car), dies at 53
1865 – Nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies at 62
1885 – Leopold Damrosch, German-American composer, and conductor (New York Oratorio Society. 1873-85; New York Symphony, 1878-85), dies at 52
1896 – E. J. Nicholson [Eliza Jane], American publisher (New Orleans’ “Daily Picayune”), dies at 47
1967 – William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador in USSR, dies at 76
1996 – Oscar Abrams, Guyanese-born British architect and community organizer (Keskidee Centre – UK’s 1st Black arts center), dies at 58
2004 – Jan Miner, American actress (Crime Photographer), dies at 86
2012 – Lina Romay, Spanish actress (Conan the Barbarian), dies at 57
2025 – Gran Hamada [Hiroaki Hamada], Japanese professional wrestler (New Japan Pro-Wrestling), dies at 74
Famous Deaths for 14th February 2026
1820 – Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, son of French King Charles X, assassinated by a Bonapartist at 42
1846 – Cornelis Felix van Maanen, Dutch Minister of Justice (1807-42), dies at 76
1955 – Charles Cuvillier, French composer of operetta (The Naughty Princess), dies at 77
1974 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricket batsman (10 Tests, 2 x 100s; Wellington CA, Leicestershire CCC, Warwickshire CCC), dies at 70
1975 – P. G. Wodehouse, English-American writer (Bertie Wooster novels), dies at 93
1984 – Elmer Keith, American firearms enthusiast and author (Guns and Ammo), dies at 84
1988 – Gerard Holt, Dutch architect (municipal theatres Tilburg and Nijmegen, St. Joseph’s Church), dies at 83
1996 – Ivan William Hannaford, British sociologist and author (Race: The History of an Idea in the West), dies at 64
1996 – Lady Caroline Blackwood, British journalist and writer (The Last of the Duchess), dies at 64
2001 – Alan Ross, British poet and editor (London Magazine), dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 13th February 2026
1837 – Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and romantic writer, commits suicide by gunshot at 27
1937 – Carl Albrecht Bernoulli, Swiss writer, dies at 69
1952 – Josephine Tey, English author (The Daughter of Time), dies of cancer at 55
1965 – Jerry Burke, American easy-listening pianist and organ player (Lawrence Welk Orchestra, 1934-65), dies of cancer at 53
1968 – Portia White, Canadian contralto, and educator, dies of cancer at 56
1982 – Gluyas Williams, American cartoonist (Fellows Citizen), dies at 93
1997 – Antonius “Ton” Lensink, Dutch actor (Rituelen), dies at 74
2010 – Dale Hawkins, American rock singer and songwriter (Susie Q), dies at 73
2012 – Russell Arms, American actor and vocalist (Your Hit Parade; “Cinco Robles”), dies at 92
2018 – Tito Francona, American baseball utility (MLB All Star 1961), dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 12th February 2026
1128 – Toghtekin, Turkoman atabek and military leader of Damascus (fought during First Crusade), founded Burid Dynasty, dies
1590 – François Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer and diplomat (Anti-Tribonien), dies at 65
1907 – Muriel Robb, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1902), dies of lymphadenoma at 28
1933 – Henri Duparc, French composer (L’invitation au voyage), and visual artist, dies at 85
1957 – Eric Alfred Knudsen, American Hawaiian folklorist, dies at 84
1986 – Guy Warrack, Scottish composer, dies at 86
1991 – Edward A. Blatt, Polish-born American director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88
1994 – Donald Judd, American minimalist sculptor and artist, dies of cancer at 65
2025 – Holmes Rolston III, American environmental philosopher and Templeton Prize laureate (2003), dies at 92
2025 – Tommy Hunt, American soul singer (Flamingos, 1956-60 – “I Only Have Eyes For You”; “Lovers Never Say Goodbye”), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 11th February 2026
1685 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter, dies at 46
1927 – Joel Engel, Russian musicologist (Jewish Folksongs), composer (“Numi, Numi”), and music publisher, dies at 58
1943 – Bess Houdini, American-German stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini, dies from heart attack at 67
1950 – Kiki Cuyler, American Baseball HOF right fielder (World Series 1925 Pittsburgh Pirates; 4 × NL stolen base leader; MLB All Star 1934 Chicago Cubs), dies at 51
1954 – Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, dies at 76
1971 – Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria
1972 – Jan Wils, Dutch architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80
1985 – Ben Abruzzo, American businessman and balloonist (b. 1930)
1997 – Don Porter, American actor (Gidget), dies at 84
2005 – Jack L. Chalker, American sci-fi author (Saga of Well World), dies at 60
Famous Deaths for 10th February 2026
1163 – Baldwin III, King of Jerusalem (1143-63), son of Princess Melisende and Fulco of Anjou, husband of Theodora, dies of consumption at about 33 [birthday uncertain]
1772 – Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein and general, dies at 75
1774 – Florian Leopold Gassmann, Bohemian composer, dies at 44
1822 – Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen and Governor of the Austrian Netherlands, dies at 83
1852 – Samuel Prout, British water color painter, dies at 68
1876 – August Söderman, Swedish composer, dies at 43
1987 – Ray Colignon (sometimes none as “Coco”), Belgian jazz and easy listening pianist, Hammond organist, and bandleader, dies at 80
2004 – Margaret Stacey, English sociologist who helped shape the distinctively British genre of empirical sociology, dies at 81
2005 – Jack Segal, American pianist and songwriter (“Scarlet Ribbons (for Her Hair)”, “When Sunny Gets Blue”, “Here’s to the Losers”), dies at 86
2010 – Max Schubel, American composer (Opus One Records), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 9th February 2026
1802 – Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves, British admiral (Seven Years’ War, American War of Independence), dies at 76
1875 – Cecil De Vere, English chess player (1st official British chess champion (1866), dies from tuberculosis at 28
1943 – World War II: Dutch fascist official Hermannus Reydon and his wife are shot by resistance members, his wife dies immediately and he dies six months later
1949 – Poul Schierbeck, Danish organist and composer, dies at 60
1994 – Jarmila Novotná, Czech-American soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1940-56), and actress (The Search), dies at 86
2010 – Chaskel Besser, Polish-American Orthodox rabbi, dies at 86
2013 – Kåre Valebrokk, Norwegian journalist and director of TV 2, dies at cancer at 72
2018 – Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic theatre, dance, and film score composer (The Theory of Everything), dies from a combination of cocaine and prescription medication at 48
2019 – Patricia Nell Warren, American novelist (The Front Runner, The Fancy Dancer), dies of cancer at 82
2023 – Lewis Spratlan, American classical composer and Pulitzer Prize winner (Life Is A Dream), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 8th February 2026
1691 – Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect and composer, dies at 79
1750 – Aaron Hill, English playwright and poet (Tragedy of Zara), dies at 65
1772 – Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales by marriage to Frederick, Prince of Wales, dies at 52
1910 – Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist as leader of the Kristiania Bohemians, dies at 55
1924 – Gee John, Chinese-American gangster (1st person in US to be executed by lethal gas in Nevada), executed at 29
1973 – Herbie Taylor, South African cricket batsman and captain (42 Tests; 2,936 runs @ 40.77; 7 x 100s), dies at 83
1993 – N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader
2007 – Ian Stevenson, Canadian-American parapsychologist and reincarnation expert, dies at 88
2015 – Filipe Pires, Portuguese pianist, composer (Portugaliae Genesis), and educator, dies at 81
2019 – Robert Ryman, American minimalist painter and visual artist known for his white-on-white works, dies at 88