1118 – Alexius I Comnenus [Alexios I Komnenos], Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies
1853 – Giovanni Battista Polledro, Italian composer, dies at 72
1963 – John Powell, American composer, dies at 80
1974 – Edmund Cobb, Mexican western actor (Motorcycle Gang, Comanche Territory), dies at 82
1983 – Benjamin V Cohen, American author of New Deal legislation, dies at 88
1985 – Richard Yardumian, American composer (Creator Spirit), dies at 68
1988 – Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash
1992 – Jackie Edwards, Jamaican songwriter (Keep On Running), dies at 53 or 54
1995 – Jesse Thomas ‘Babyface’, American blues singer, dies at 84
2008 – Vic Toweel, South African boxer (undisputed world bantamweight champion), dies at 79
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 14th August 2021
1652 – Abraham Elsevier, Dutch book publisher, dies at 60
1784 – Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born portrait and miniature painter, dies at 66
1856 – William Buckland, dean (Westminster)/geologist, dies
1922 – Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies
1966 – Tip Snooke, South African cricket all-rounder and captain (26 Tests 1905-23, 35 wickets), dies at 85
1984 – J. B. Priestly, English novelist and scriptwriter (The Good Companions, An Inspector Calls), dies at 89
1996 – Uzo Egonu, painter/print maker, dies at 64
2004 – Eric Petrie, New Zealand cricketer (NZ wicketkeeper of the late 1950’s), dies at 77
2013 – Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress, dies at 43
2020 – Angela Buxton, English tennis player (French C’ships, Wimbledon women’s doubles 1956 [with Althea Gibson]), dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 13th August 2021
1134 – Irene of Hungary [Piroska], Byzantine empress, dies at 46
1933 – Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, French composer and painist, dies at 80
1954 – Hermann W. S. Waltershausen, German musicologist and composer, dies at 71
1989 – Tim Richmond, American race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS at 34
1992 – Bill Elverman, American playwright and actor (After Hours), dies at 40
1996 – W. Gordon Smith, Scottish playwright (Jock), dies at 67
1998 – Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer and composer (Mirza, Cornichons), dies at 63
2008 – Jack Weil, American oldest working CEO ( Rockmount Ranch Wear), dies at 107
2008 – Sandy Allen, American second-tallest woman in the world at 7 feet 7 inches (231 cm), dies at 53
2013 – Jon Brookes, English drummer (The Charlatans), dies of cancer at 44
Famous Deaths for 12th August 2021
1158 – Anselm of Havelberg, Brandenburg bishop of Havelberg (1129-55), dies at about 58
1546 – Francisco de Vitoria, Spanish theology/lawyer, dies
1638 – Johannes Althusius [Althaut], German lawyer, dies at about 81
1648 – Ibrahim I, 18th Ottoman Sultan (1640-48), dies at 32
1900 – James Edward Keeler, American astronomer (rings of Saturn), dies at 42
1935 – Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (Schottky’s theorem), dies at 84
1976 – Thomas Edward Driberg, 1st baron Bradwell, journalist, dies
1989 – William Shockley, American physicist who helped invent the transistor (1956 Nobel), who was also known for his racist eugenics views, dies of prostate cancer at 79
1992 – John Cage, American composer (Imaginary Landscape No 1/O’O), dies of a stroke at 79
2010 – Isaac Bonewits, founder of U.S. Druid organization Ar Ndraiocht Fein (b. 1949)
Famous Deaths for 11th August 2021
1494 – Hans Memling [John Memlinc], Flemish painter (Passietaferelen), dies
1886 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)
1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
1968 – Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian New Testament scholar, dies at 85
1982 – Tom Drake [Alfred Sinclair Alderdice], American actor (Meet Me In St. Louis; Warlock), dies of lung cancer at 63
1988 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (Throw Mama from the Train), dies of cancer at 59
1988 – Pauline Lafont, daughter of Bernadette, dies in hiking accident at 25
1995 – Phil Harris [Wonga Philip], American actor and singer (Anything Goes, Robin Hood), dies of heart failure at 91
2010 – Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Scottish Conservative politician (1959-2001), dies at 86
2016 – Hanif Mohammad, Pakistani cricket batsman (55 Tests; longest Test innings in history at 16 hours, 337 v WI 1958; 12 x 100), dies at 81
Famous Deaths for 10th August 2021
1857 – John Wilson Croker, politician
1861 – Nathaniel Lyon, American Brigadier-General (Union Army), 1st Union General to die in battle at 43
1886 – Eduard Grell, German composer, dies at 85
1918 – Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897)
1932 – Rin Tin Tin, American Hollywood shepherd dog (Clash of the Wolves), dies at 13
1948 – Emmy Hennings-Ball [Emma Cordsen], German poet and performer dies at 63
1960 – Emil Strauss, German writer (Vaterland), dies
1960 – Frank Lloyd, Scottish actor and director (Mutiny on Bounty, Oliver Twist, Blood on the Sun), dies at 74
1993 – Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
2007 – Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American member of Tuskegee Airmen and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
Famous Deaths for 9th August 2021
1634 – William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
1969 – Sharon Tate, American actress (Valley of Dolls), murdered by Manson’s gang at 26
1978 – Johan Daisne [Thiery], Belgian writer (Lago Maggiore), dies at 66
1980 – P K “Perker” Lee, Australian cricketer (Australian bowler 1931-33, 2 Tests), dies at 75
1992 – William Russell [Russell William Wagner], American violinist, modern composer (Fugue for Eight Percussion Instruments), and musicologist (Oh, Mister Jelly), dies at 87
1996 – Ruth Holland, British journalist (BMJ), dies in the Watford rail crash at 54
1996 – Kenneth Fleetwood, English fashion designer (Hardy Amies, dressed Queen Elizabeth II), dies at 65
1996 – James Whitman McLamore, American businessman and 1st CEO of Burger King who created The Whopper, dies at 70
2000 – Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician and leader of Egypt’s Wafd Party, dies at 88
2016 – Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, British peer and its 3rd richest Britain, dies at 64
Famous Deaths for 8th August 2021
869 – Lothair II of Lotharingia (855-869) dies at about 34
1828 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist, dies at 84
1897 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79
1898 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (beach scenes), dies at 74
1950 – Nikolai Myaskovsky, Russian composer (Kirov is With Us), dies at 69
1980 – Jacqueline Cochran, US pilot and 1st woman to break sound barrier, dies at 74
1982 – Hermine Heijermans, author (Snikken en Smartlapjes), dies at 80
1988 – Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
1996 – George Richard Samways, children’s writer, dies at 101
2005 – Ilse Werner [Ilse Charlotte Still], Dutch-German actress (Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow), dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 7th August 2021
1033 – Frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine
1816 – Dionysius Godefridus van der Keessel, Dutch jurist (Theses Selectae, Select Theses on the Laws of Holland and Zeeland), dies at 77
1959 – Armas Launis, Finnish composer, dies at 75
1961 – Frank Buchman, American theologist (Moral Re-Armament), dies at 83
1976 – Cecil Weston, South African-born actress (Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 86
1991 – Schottzie Schott, Cincinnati Red dog mascot, dies at 9
1997 – Douglas Gray, Scottish record and film producer, dies at 74
2009 – Louis E. Saavedra, American Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico (b. 1933)
2011 – Hugh Carey, American politician and attorney (Gov-D-NY), dies at 92
2012 – Judith Crist, American film critic (TV Guide, Today), dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 6th August 2021
258 – Saint Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded under orders of Emperor Valerian
1914 – Ellen Axson Wilson, US 1st Lady (1913-14), dies during Woodrow Wilson’s 1st term of Bright’s Disease at 54
1924 – John Henry Roberts, composer, dies at 76
1928 – W. H. Grattan Flood, Irish author and composer, dies at 68
1945 – Prince Wu of Korea (b. 1912)
1995 – Youly Algaroff, Russian-French ballet dancer, dies at 77
2001 – Dorothy Tutin, British actress (Importance of Being Ernest, Cromwell), dies at 71
2012 – Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (The Sting, A Chorus Line), dies at 68
2020 – Wayne Fontana [Glyn Geoffrey Ellis], British rocker (The Mindbenders – “The Game Of Love”), dies at 74
2020 – Wilbert McClure, American boxer (Olympic gold light middleweight 1960), dies at 81