1482 – John van Schaffelaar, Gelders knight, dies
1594 – Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (The Spanish Tragedy), dies at 35
1887 – Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle at Woeringen), dies at 73
1917 – Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70
1931 – Alice Pike Barney, American painter, dies at 74
1962 – Jan Romein, Dutch historian (Breaking of Two Ages), dies at 68
1991 – Cornelis Z Forster [Da Kuneisi], Suriname granman/gaanman, dies
1992 – Buck Buchanan, NFL defensive lineman (KC Chiefs), dies at 51
2001 – Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
2012 – Kitty Wells [Ellen Deason], American country singer (It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels), dies from complications after a stroke at 92
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 15th July 2021
668 – Constantius II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at 37
1406 – Duke William of Austria (b. c.1370)
1885 – Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer and poet in the Galician language (‘Séculos Escuros’) (b. 1837)
1916 – Ilya Mechnikov, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist known as the “father of natural immunity” (Nobel 1908), dies of heart failure at 71
1919 – [Hermann] Emil Fischer, German chemist, discovered Fischer esterification (Nobel Prize 1902), commits suicide at 66
1930 – Leopold von Auer, Hungarian-American violinist, dies at 85
1961 – John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
1969 – Peter Van Eyck [Götz von Eick], German actor (The Longest Day; The Wages of Fear), dies after long illness at 56
1996 – Dana Hill, actress (Vacation), dies at 32
2015 – Alan Curtis, American harpsichordist, musicologist and conductor, dies at 80
Famous Deaths for 14th July 2021
1793 – Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist, dies in battle at 44
1812 – Christian G. Heyne, German scholar and archaeologist, dies at 82
1817 – Madame de Staël [Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein], French-Swiss author (De l’Allemagne), dies at 51
1876 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder, dies at 60
1897 – John Franklin Farnsworth, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 77
1904 – Paul Kruger, 3rd President of South African Republic (1883-1900) and face of Boer resistance during the Second Boer War, dies of pneumonia at 78
1954 – Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (b. 1892)
1994 – Taeko Kuwata, Japanese Belgian pianist (Duo Crommelynck), commits suicide at about 47
2000 – William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
2013 – Matt Batts, American MLB player, dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 13th July 2021
1380 – Bertrand du Guesclin, French King of Granada, dies at about 60
1551 – John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
1859 – Rufus Choate, American lawyer (Hall of Fame), dies at 59
1877 – Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German bishop of Mainz, dies at 65
1922 – Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1870)
1927 – James E K Aggrey, Ghana/US theologist, dies
1969 – Madiba Thembekile, Nelson Mandela’s son, dies in a car accident at 24
1976 – Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1884)
1976 – Joachim Peiper, German military leader (SS, by assassination; b. 1915)
1988 – Huub Bals, Dutch film promotor, dies at 51
Famous Deaths for 12th July 2021
1633 – Simon Besler, German composer, dies at 49
1814 – William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, British military leader (commander of British forces in the American Revolutionary War), dies at 84
1975 – Carl Snavely, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (Bucknell, North Carolina, Cornell 180–96–16), dies at 80
1988 – Joshua Logan, Broadway producer (South Pacific), dies at 79 of palsy
1993 – Dan Eldon, British-Kenyan photojournalist, killed in Somalia while working for Reuters at 22
1994 – Henk Terlingen, radio/TV-host (Sport in Image), dies at 52
1995 – Alan David Marks, pianist/composer, dies at 49
1999 – Bill Owen [William Owen Rowbotham], British actor (Last of the Summer Wine, Not So Dusty), dies from pancreatic cancer at 85
2013 – Pran Krishan Sikand, Indian actor often cast as the villain in Hindi cinema (Khandaan, Be-Imaan), dies of pneumonia at 93
2018 – Tom Gallagher, American diplomat, gay activist, and 1st Foreign Service officer to publicly come out in 1976, dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 11th July 2021
1768 – Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer, dies at 66
1944 – Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle
1958 – Karel Wellens, Flemish painter, dies at 69
1964 – Maurice Thorez, French politician and secretary-general (French Communist Party), dies at 64
1988 – Milton Krims, American screenwriter (Prince of Foxes), dies at 84
1991 – Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (Satanic Verses), murdered
1992 – Antoon Hubben, Dutch Mayor of Maasbree and trade union leader, dies at 73
1994 – Charles “Lefty” Edwards, saxophonist, dies at 67
2007 – Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939)
2013 – Eugene Wilkinson, American naval officer, dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 10th July 2021
1559 – Henry II, King of France (1547-59), dies
1621 – Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571)
1776 – Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
1851 – Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (daguerreotype), dies at 63
1909 – Flooi Du Toit, South African cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies at 40
1920 – Eugénie de Montijo, Emperor of France (1853-71), dies at 94
1963 – Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
1965 – Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Le cavalier seul), dies at 66
1985 – Fernando Pereira, military activist, murdered
2003 – Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
Famous Deaths for 9th July 2021
1883 – Adrien Louis Boieldieu, French composer, dies at 67
1932 – Henry Howell, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests 1920-24), dies
1943 – Clifford Whittingham Beers, American mental hygiene pioneer, dies at 67
1960 – Vallance Jupp, cricketer (28 wkts in 8 Tests for England 1921-28), dies
1969 – Pierre Cardevielle, French conductor, composer (Élégie de Duino), music critic (Monde musicale), and teacher, dies at 63
1985 – Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
1988 – Anthony Holland, AIDS sufferer committed suicide at 60
1995 – James Cameron Tudor, politician, dies at 66
2004 – Paul Klebnikov, American journalist (b. 1963)
2016 – Robert Nye, British novelist and poet (Falstaff), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 8th July 2021
1115 – Peter the Hermit, French priest, led the People’s Crusade, dies at about 64
1623 – Gregory XV [Alessandro Ludovisi], bishop of Bologna/Pope, dies at 69
1934 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer, dies at 1934
1939 – [Henry] Havelock Ellis, English sexologist (Man and Woman), dies at 80
1946 – Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Russian composer {Alexnadrov Ensemble}, dies at 63
1973 – Harry F. V. Edward, British 100m/200m runner (Olympic bronze 1920), dies at 75
1985 – Phil Foster, American comedian (Frank De Fazio-Laverne and Shirley), dies at 72
1985 – Simon Kuznets, American economist (Nobel 1971), dies at 84
2011 – Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (1974-77) and founder of the Betty Ford Center clinic, dies at 93
2016 – William H. McNeill, Canadian-born historian (Rise of the West), dies at 98
Famous Deaths for 7th July 2021
1572 – Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (1548-72), dies at 51
1663 – Thomas Baltzar, German violinist
1865 – David Herold, American pharmacist’s assistant who was part of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, executed by hanging at 23
1965 – Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (1954-55), dies at 70
1976 – Norman Foster, American actor (Skyscraper Souls), dies at 75
1988 – Jimmy Edwards, British comedy writer and actor (Take It From Here, Whack-O!), dies from pneumonia at 68
1995 – Gabor Ormai, viola Player, dies at 40
1996 – Albrecht Luitpold Ferdinand Michael, duke of Bavaria, dies at 91
1998 – Brigadier Theuns Swanepoel, South African Security Police notorious for ordering the police to shoot at protesting school children in 1976, 70
2020 – Dannes Coronel, Ecuadorian soccer defender (27 caps; El Nacional), dies from a heart attack at 47