1864 – Griffin A Stedman, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies in battle at 26
1916 – George Butterworth, English composer, dies at 31
1940 – Frederick Cook, American explorer, claimed to have 1st discovered North Pole, dies at 75
1966 – Austin Diamond, Australian cricketer (Australian capt to America 1913), dies at 92
1976 – Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88
1982 – Wanda Rotha, actress (Mrs Fitzherbert), dies at 72
1995 – Anthony Barber Doncaster, bookseller, dies at 81
1998 – Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander, dies at 86
2002 – Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
2007 – Jean-Marie Lustiger, Cardinal of France
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 4th August 2021
1566 – Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies
1633 – George Abbott, English theologist and the Archbishop of Canterbury (1611-1633), dies at 60
1904 – Arnold Krug, German composer, dies at 54
1922 – Enver Pasha, Turkish general and politician, dies in battle at 40
1938 – Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter and writer (Legenden Der Zeit), dies at 70
1938 – L H Perquin, Dutch radio announcer, dies at 73
1978 – Frank Fontaine, American comedian (Crazy Guggenheim), dies at 58
1987 – Kenny Price, American country singer (Walking on New Grass, Happy Tracks), dies of a heart attack at 56
1994 – Sol Adler, economist Sinophile, dies at 85
1994 – Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian and politician, dies at 69
Famous Deaths for 3rd August 2021
1530 – Philibert Chalon, prince of Orange/viceroy of Naples, dies
1721 – Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born British sculptor and woodcarver, dies at 73
1823 – Jacob Abraham de Mist, Dutch statesman, dies at 74
1886 – Per August Olander, composer, dies at 62
1977 – Makarios III [Michail Mouskos], Greek Cypriot clergyman and politician, dies at 63
1977 – Alfred Lunt, American actor (The Guardsman, Sally of the Sawdust), dies at 83
1981 – Roberto Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered at 25
1995 – Jose B M Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader, dies at 88
1995 – Carl Donnell “Kansas” Fields, American jazz drummer, dies at 79
2001 – Christopher Hewett, British actor (b. 1922)
Famous Deaths for 2nd August 2021
1589 – Henry III, King of Poland and France (1573-89), assassinated at 37
1600 – Arent van Dorp, Dutch governor of East-Zealand, dies at about 70
1849 – Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769)
1876 – Wild Bill” Hickok [James Butler], American cowboy and scout, shot dead from behind by Jack McCall while playing poker (he held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8’s), dies at 39
1956 – Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109
1964 – José María Castro, Argentine composer, dies at 71
1972 – Helen Hoyt, American poet, dies at 85
1990 – Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
1992 – Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/American journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies
2003 – Peter Safar, Austrian physician (pioneered cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 1st August 2021
1580 – Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
1743 – Richard Savage, English poet and playwright, dies at about 46
1798 – François-Paul Brueys D’Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
1821 – Elizabeth Inchbald [Simpson], English actress and author (Lovers’ Vows, Lady Abbess), dies at 68
1926 – Israel Zangwill, Jewish author (Children of The Ghetto) and Zionist leader, dies at 62
1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer, dies at 91
1993 – Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered
1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (Crimson Pirate), dies at 72
2019 – [Donn Alan] DA Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (Don’t Look Back), dies at 94
2020 – Rickey Dixon, American College Football Hall of Fame cornerback (Jim Thorpe Award 1987; Oklahoma Sooners; Cincinnati Bengals, LA Raiders), dies from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 53
Famous Deaths for 31st July 2021
1358 – Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies
1566 – Bartholome de Casas, Spanish historian/bishop of Chiapa, dies at 92
1653 – Thomas Dudley, British colonial governor of Massachusetts, dies at 76
1726 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
1854 – Samuel Wilson, American meat packer and possible namesake of Uncle Sam, dies at 87
1943 – Hedley Verity, English cricket spin bowler (40 Tests, 144 wickets @ 24.37), dies in POW camp in Italy at 38
1951 – J of Oudshoorn [John K Feylbrief], writer (Maze of Sentences), dies
1994 – G de Ru, chairman of Dutch Reformed Synode, dies
1994 – Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66
2009 – Harry Alan Towers, English film producer and screenwriter (b. 1920)
Famous Deaths for 30th July 2021
1863 – George Crockett Strong, US Union gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
1916 – Albert Neisser, German physician who discovered the bacteria that cause gonorrhea and leprosy, dies of septicemia at 61
1947 – George Challenor, West Indian cricketer (played in 1st WI Test side 1928), dies at 59
1978 – Aasan Ferit Alnar, Turkish classical composer, dies at 72
1983 – Lynn Fontanne, Broadway’s premier actress (Emmy 1965), dies at 95
1987 – Mary Spinell, actress (Last Horror Film), dies
1991 – Leonardus S van Egerat, travel expert, dies at 68
1996 – Claudette Colbert, French-born American actress (It Happened One Night), dies of a stroke at 93
2007 – Bill Walsh, American Pro Football Hall of Fame coach (San Fransisco 49ers), dies of leukemia at 75
2016 – Gloria DeHaven, American musical actress (Step Lively), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 29th July 2021
1573 – John Caius, English physician, dies at 62
1612 – Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
1781 – Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician, dies at 73
1813 – Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
1964 – Vean Gregg, American baseball player, dies at 79
1988 – Pete Drake, American pedal steel guitarist and producer, dies at 55
1997 – Chuck Wayne [Jagelka], America session and jazz guitarist ( Woody Herman; George Shearing; Tony Bennett), dies of emphysema at 74
2001 – Wau Holland, German computer hacker (b. 1951)
2003 – Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
2020 – Mike Gillespie, American college baseball coach (College World Series 1998, Collegiate Coach of the Year 1998, USC), dies from a stroke at 80
Famous Deaths for 28th July 2021
1330 – Michael Shishman of Bulgaria [Michael III], Tsar of Bulgaria (1323-30), dies in the Battle of Velbuzd
1837 – John Ross, British composer and organist, dies at 73
1849 – Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49), dies at 50
1976 – Lucie Mannheim, German singer and actress (39 Steps), dies at 77
1999 – Rudolf Halaczinsky, German composer, dies at 78
2004 – Sam Edwards, American actor (Captain Midnight, Twelve O’Clock High), dies at 89
2006 – Patrick Allen, British actor (Roman Holiday, Dial “M” for Murder), dies at 79
2007 – Jim LeRoy, Airshow pilot (b. 1961)
2014 – Jon Erikson, American swimmer 1st to triple cross English Channel (1981), dies at 58
2020 – Bent Fabric [Fabricius-Bjerre], Danish pianist and composer (Alley Cat), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 27th July 2021
1233 – Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders, dies at 45
1863 – William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
1929 – Raoul Pictet, Swiss physicist who invented liquid nitrogen and was a pioneer of cryogenics, dies at 83
1931 – Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
1971 – Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor/composer, dies at 83
1984 – Guillermo Díaz-Plaja, Spanish literary and poet (Lorca), dies at 75
1990 – Nick Pippins, American actor (Simon), dies of AIDS at 35
1995 – Rick Ferrell, American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher (8 x MLB All Star; Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators), dies of arrhythmia at 89
1997 – Isabel Dean, English actress (Five Days One Summer Virgin Island, Ransom), dies at 79
2017 – Sam Shepard Ill, American actor and playwright (Frances, Crimes of the Heart), dies at 73