1907 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt Suite), dies at 64
1944 – Izaak van der Horst, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Herzogenbusch concentration camp at 35
1974 – Creighton W. Abrams, US general and army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59
1979 – Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (b. 1904)
1994 – Laurens van Deenen, Dutch biochemist, dies at 66
1999 – Klement Slavický, Czech composer (Sinfonietta No. 4 – Pax hominibus in universo orbi) dies at 88
2006 – Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and TV personality (The Crocodile Hunter), attacked and killed by a stingray at 44
2007 – John Scott, Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish peer, then largest landowner in Scotland, 1st MP in a wheelchair, dies at 83
2010 – Paul Conrad, American cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84), dies at 86
2018 – Bill Daily, American actor and comedian (I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show), dies at 91
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 3rd September 2021
1592 – Robert Greene, English writer (Friar Bacon), dies at 34
1653 – Claudius Salmasius [Claude Saumaise], French linguist, dies at 65
1808 – John Montgomery, American Continental Congressman (b. 1722)
1843 – Cornelis Pieter Jacob Elout, Dutch military and President of West Sumatra, dies at 47
1970 – Vince Lombardi, American Pro Football Hall of Fame coach (Green Bay Packers 1949-67; NFL Coach of the Year 1959, 61; Super Bowl 1967, 68), dies at 57
1971 – Dave Street [Patrick Devlin], American actor and singer (Moonrise, I Surrender Dear, Broadway Open House), dies of cancer at 53
1980 – Duncan Renaldo, Spanish actor (Cisco Kid, Guns of Fury), dies from lung cancer at 76
1991 – Henri de Lubac, French theologist and antifascist, dies at 95
2000 – Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (Escape to Athena), dies at 86
2005 – William Rehnquist, American lawyer and 16th Chief Justice of the United States (1986-2005), dies in office at 80
Famous Deaths for 2nd September 2021
421 – Flavius Constantine III, Emperor of Western Roman Empire, dies at about 51
1915 – August Stramm, German poet and playwright dies in battle during WWI at 41
1934 – James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player All Black, dies at 73
1964 – Alvin York, American World War I soldier who led a famed attack on a German machine gun nest (Medal of Honor), dies at 76
1984 – Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (Antigone, Marinos Kontaras), dies at 79
1986 – Philip Radcliffe, English composer, dies at 81
1996 – Emily Kngwarreye, artist, dies at 86
2012 – Mark Abrahamian, guitarist (Starship), dies of a heart attack at 46
2013 – Ronald Coase, British economist (Nobel Prize in Economics 1991), dies at 102
2014 – Norman Gordon, South African cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 20 wickets; Transvaal), dies at 103
Famous Deaths for 1st September 2021
1615 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters, dies at 86
1687 – Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
1731 – Pierre Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 50
1967 – Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (commonly known as “The Bitch of Buchenwald”) hangs herself in prison at 60
1967 – James Dunn, American actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), dies at 61
1981 – Bùi Thanh Liêm, Vietnamese cosmonaut, dies in a MiG-21 crash at 32
1989 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American executive (MLB Commissioner 1989; President Yale University 1978-86), dies of heart attack at 51
1994 – Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, Anglican pastor and bishop, dies at 88
1995 – Benay Venuta [Benvenuta Rose Crooke], American actress, singer and dancer (Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister), dies of lung cancer at 84
2006 – Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
Famous Deaths for 31st August 2021
1654 – Ole Worm, Danish physician, dies at 66
1772 – William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
1966 – Kasimir Edschmid, German writer, dies at 75
1986 – Urho Kekkonen, 8th President of Finland (1956-81), dies at 85
1990 – Johnny Lindsay, cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1947), dies
1995 – John Erik Jonsson, American businessman and Mayor of Dallas, dies at 93
1995 – David Richard Holloway, literary Editor, dies at 71
1996 – Milt Larkin, American jazz trumpeter and band leader, dies at 85
2005 – Michael Sheard, British actor (b. 1940)
2006 – Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (b. 1977)
Famous Deaths for 30th August 2021
1844 – Francis Baily, English astronomer and describer of “Baily’s Beads” during solar eclipse, dies at 70
1903 – Vicente Fidel López, Argentine historian (Historia the Chile), dies at 87
1964 – Wesley Lau, actor (Lt Anderson-Perry Mason), dies at 43
1968 – William Talman, American actor (Crashout, The Hitch-Hiker, Perry Mason), dies of lung cancer at 53
1974 – Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Leeuwenhoek), dies at 87
1989 – Joe De Santis, American actor, dies at 80
2000 – Willie Maddren, English soccer defender (Middlesborough 293 games) and manager (Middlesborough 1984-86), dies from motor neurone disease at 49
2013 – Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature 1995), dies at 74
2016 – Joe Sutter, American engineer and head of the Boeing 747 program, dies at 95
2019 – Franco Columbu, Italian bodybuilder, powerlifter, actor and author (Mr. Olympia 1976, 81), dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 29th August 2021
1526 – Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, dies in accident at 20
1780 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
1821 – Horace Coignet, French singer and composer, dies at 86
1933 – Frank Cavanagh, American football player and coach, dies at 57
1941 – Jan Louis Guillaume Doornik, Dutch resistance fighter in France, executed at 36
1972 – Rene Leibowitz, Polish French composer, dies at 59
1976 – Anissa Jones, actress (Buffy, Family Affair), ODs at 18
1987 – Lee Marvin, American actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou), dies of a heart attack at 63
1994 – Tushar Kanti Ghosh, Indian journalist and world’s oldest and longest serving newspaper editor, dies at 93
2005 – Barry Cowsill, American rock bassist (The Cowsills – “We Can Fly”), drowned during Hurricane Katrina at 50
Famous Deaths for 28th August 2021
1528 – Pedro Navarro, Navarrese general and engineer (invented the land mine), dies (b. c. 1460)
1757 – David Hartley, English philosopher and Founder of the Associationist School of Psychology, dies at 51
1818 – Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies
1839 – William Smith, British geologist who is credited with creating the first nationwide geological map (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils), dies at 70
1964 – Lumsden Hare, Irish actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox, Young Bess), dies at 89
1981 – Béla Guttmann, Hungarian soccer midfielder (4 caps; MTK Hungária, Hakoah Wien) and coach (Benfica, AC Milan, FC Porto; Hungary, Austria, Netherlands, Italy, Brazil, Uruguay, Portugal), dies at 82
1982 – Geoff Chubb, South African cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 21 wickets; Border), dies at 71
1990 – Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske and Wiske), dies
1991 – Eleanor Berry, actress (Death Valley Days), dies
2016 – Juan Gabriel [Alberto Aguilera Valadez], Mexican singer, dies at 66
Famous Deaths for 27th August 2021
1748 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (Rule, Britannia), dies at 47
1827 – Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat, dies
1879 – Rowland Hill, English inventor who introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840), dies at 84
1944 – Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)
1969 – Erika Mann, German-American author (Other Germany) and daughter of Thomas Mann, dies at 63
1981 – Valery Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)
1982 – Anandamayi Ma [Nirmala Sundari], Indian spiritual leader, dies at 86
1997 – Jeep Swenson, American actor (Batman and Robin), dies of heart failure at 40
2008 – Mark Priestley, Australian actor (b. 1976)
2020 – David Bryant, English lawn bowler (World Outdoor C’ship singles 1966, 80, 88; 4 x C’wealth Games gold singles), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 26th August 2021
1278 – Ottokar II, King of Bohemia (1253-78), dies in battle
1518 – Giberto X, Italian mister of Correggio, husband of Veronica Gambara
1950 – Ransom Eli Olds, American auto (Oldsmobile) and truck (REO) manufacturer, dies at 86
1977 – H. A. Rey, American author of popular constellation book, dies at 78
1981 – Roger Nash Baldwin, American founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, dies at 97
2003 – Wilma Burgess, American country-pop singer, dies of a heart attack at 64
2004 – Laura Branigan, American singer-songwriter (Gloria), dies of a brain aneurysm at 52
2005 – Ed White, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1949)
2009 – Ellie Greenwich, American singer-songwriter (Da Doo Ron Ron, Leader of the Pack), dies at 68
2020 – Dan Yochum, American football offensive lineman (CFL All-Star 1975, 76, 77, 78; Grey Cup 1974, 77; Montreal Alouettes; CFHOF), dies at 70