1101 – Su Shi [Zizhan], Chinese poet, artist and important figure in Song Dynasty politics, dies at 64
1798 – Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709)
1943 – Ernst Ottwalt, writer, dies
1957 – Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, British priest, broadcaster and author (Viaduct Murder), dies at 69
1958 – Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist, dies at 82
1977 – Soewarsih Djojopoespito, Indonesian writer (Toe the Line), dies at 65
1999 – Mary Jane Croft, American actress (The Lucy Show, Our Miss Brooks), dies of natural causes at 83
2012 – Pauli Ellefsen, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1981-85), dies at 76
2015 – Justin Wilson, English auto racer (International Formula 3000 C’ship; Champ Car Series 4 wins), dies as a result of on track accident at 37
2017 – Jay Thomas [Jon Thomas Terrell], American actor and comedian (Cheers, Murphy Brown), dies of cancer at 69
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 23rd August 2021
1387 – King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)
1777 – Giuseppe Sellitto, composer, dies at 77
1813 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish ornithologist and naturalist, dies at 47
1898 – Joseph Robinson, Irish singer, organist and composer, dies at 82
1927 – Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Massachusetts
1961 – Beals Wright, American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1905; doubles 1904-06), dies at 81
1962 – Irving Fine, American composer (Toccata), dies of heart disease at 47
1967 – Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver, dies at 48
1982 – Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman and heir to the Bloomingdale’s department store, dies at 66
1995 – Leslie Graves, American actress (Brenda-Capitol, Death Wish 2), dies of AIDS at 35
Famous Deaths for 22nd August 2021
1532 – William Warham, English archbishop of Canterbury (1502-32), dies at 82
1793 – Louis de Noailles, Marshal of France, dies at 80
1862 – Henry Bohlen, German/US brigadier general (Union), dies in battle at 51
1926 – Charles William Eliot, American University president (Harvard, 1869-1909), dies at 92
1936 – Juliette Adam, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue) and feminist, dies at 99
1985 – Willy-August Linnemann, Danish writer and journalist, dies at 71
1989 – Huey P. Newton, African-American activist, revolutionary and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, shot and murdered by Tyrone Robinson in the streets of Lower Bottoms, Oakland, California at 47
2005 – Luc Ferrari, French composer, dies at 76
2015 – Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer (great lefty opening batsman), dies at 93
2015 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator, dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 21st August 2021
1190 – Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies
1673 – John de Love I, vice-admiral, dies in sea battle at about 54
1723 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Romanian historian and Monarch of Moldova (1710-11), dies at 49
1763 – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
1963 – John Gunn, English cricketer (England all-rounder in 6 Tests 1901-05), dies at 87
1981 – Eddie Byrne, British actor (Star Wars, Island of Terror), dies from a stroke at 70
1988 – H. G. Adler, German writer (The Journey), dies at 78
1997 – Misael Pastrana Borrero, President of Colombia (1970-74), dies
2012 – Georg Leber, German politician, dies at 91
2018 – Barbara Harris [Sandra Mankwitz], American actress (Plaza Suite, Family Plot), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 20th August 2021
1864 – John H Kelly, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 24
1914 – Pius X [Giuseppe M Sarto], Pope (1903-14), dies
1915 – Paul Ehrlich, German bacteriologist and physician (Chemotherapy, Nobel Prize 1908), dies in 61
1932 – Paul Keller, German writer (Vergrabenes Gut), dies at 59
1945 – Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian writer, dies at 73
1982 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (Zulu, One Summer of Happiness), dies of bone cancer at 53
1986 – Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76
2006 – Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Lord Deramore, British architect, dies at 95
2013 – Richard Angas, British operatic bass singer (English National Opera, 1980-2000), dies at 71
2017 – Fredell Lack, American concert violinist, and teacher (University of Houston, 1959-2009), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 19th August 2021
14 – Augustus Caesar [Gaius Octavius], First Roman Emperor (27 BC-14 AD), dies at 75
1601 – Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia and Moldovia (Romanian national hero), assassinated at 42 or 43
1889 – Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, French writer (Contes cruels), dies at 60
1900 – Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer, dies at 67
1922 – Felipe Pedrell, Spanish guitarist, composer (Excelsior; La Celestina), and musical scholar, dies at 81
1960 – Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian, dies at 72
1975 – Jim Londos, Greek-American wrestler, dies at 81
1991 – Richard Maltby Sr., American musician and orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 77
2001 – Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
2016 – Nina Ponomareva Romaschkova, Soviet discus thrower (Olympic gold 1952, 60), involved in shoplift scandal, dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 18th August 2021
1227 – Genghis Khan [Temüjin Borjigin], Mongolian warlord who founded the Mongol Empire, dies at around 65
1642 – Guido Reni, Italian Baroque painter, dies at 66
1889 – Jacques Damala [Aristides Damalas], Greek military officer and actor, dies from an overdose at 34
1944 – Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer (Gouverneurs de la Rosée), dies at 37
1950 – Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, murdered
1982 – Beverly Bayne, actress (Romeo and Juliet, Passionate Youth), dies at 87
1991 – Vaughn Shoemaker, US cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies
2007 – Michael Deaver, Reagan Administration Deputy White House Chief of Staff, dies at 69
2019 – Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster (ABC, CBS), dies of natural causes at 95
2020 – Glenn Bassett, American tennis coach (UCLA 1967-93; 7 x NCAA C’ships), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 17th August 2021
1898 – Carl Johann Adam Zeller, Austrian composer, dies at 56
1969 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect (November Group), dies at 83
1970 – Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker and cinematographer (Tang), dies at 62
1971 – Horace McMahon, American actor (Detective Story, Martin Kane Private Eye), dies from a heart ailment at 65
1973 – Paul Williams, American baritone singer and choreographer (The Temptations – Cloud Nine), commits suicide at 32
1976 – William Redfield, American actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop, Marriage), dies of leukaemia at 49
1983 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (‘S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm), dies in Beverly Hills at 86
1987 – Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor, comedian and Israel’s 1st mime (The Policeman, The Delta Force), dies of lung cancer at 57
1994 – Jack Sharkey, American boxer (NYSAC, NBA and lineal heavyweight champion 1932-33), dies at 91
2016 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian director (Love Story), dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 16th August 2021
1959 – Pedro Humberto Allende Saron, Chilean composer (Tonados), dies at 74
1960 – Errol Holmes, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for England 1935), dies
1968 – Luis Gianneo, Argentine pianist, organist, conductor, composer, and teacher, dies at 71
1991 – Robert DiMatte Jr, stage director/actor, dies at 43
2004 – Acquanetta [Mildred Davenport], American actress nicknamed “The Venezuelan Volcano” (Tarzan and Leopard Woman), dies at 83
2006 – Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician (Dissection), dies at 31
2006 – Alfredo Stroessner, 42nd President of Paraguay (1954-89), dies at 93
2008 – Ronnie Drew, Irish singer (The Dubliners), dies at 73
2012 – William Windom, American actor, dies from heart failure at 88
2018 – Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter known as “The Queen of Soul” (Respect) and first female performer inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987), dies of pancreatic cancer at 76
Famous Deaths for 15th August 2021
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