1535 – Sir Thomas More, philosopher, author (Utopia) and statesman, executed (beheaded) for treason at 57
1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French author (Boule de Suif), dies four days after trying to commit suicide by cutting his throat at 42
1934 – Edward Vermeulen, Flemish writer, dies at 73
1952 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French Canadian politician (b. 1867)
1961 – Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890)
1973 – Otto Klemperer, German/US conductor, dies at 88
1980 – Gail Patrick [Margaret Fitzpatrick], American actress (My Man Godfrey, Love Crazy), dies of leukemia at 69
1982 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player, dies at 76
1991 – Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer (Rex Morgan, M.D.), dies at 79
2009 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian Canadian artist and sculptor (b. 1915)
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 5th July 2021
1626 – Stephan Fadinger, Austrian boer leader, dies in battle
1906 – Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist (optics), committed suicide at 42
1909 – Emil Bohn, composer, dies at 70
1932 – Sasha Chorny [Alexander Mikhailovich Glikberg], Russian poet, dies at 51
1966 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian radiochemist (Nobel 1943), dies at 80
1983 – Harry James, American swing-era bandleader, trumpeter and husband to Betty Grable, dies from lymphatic cancer at 67
2002 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress, 1st Latin actress to win a Golden Globe (High Noon, Broken Lance), dies at 78
2007 – Kerwin Mathews, American actor (b. 1926)
2010 – David Fanshawe, British composer and ethno-musicologist (African Sanctus,; Pacific Odessey), dies of a stroke at 68
2011 – Malcolm Forsyth, South African-Canadian trombonist and composer (Atayoskewin), dies of pancreatic cancer at 74
Famous Deaths for 4th July 2021
1754 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author, dies at 74
1780 – Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Imperial Army field marshal, dies at 67
1881 – Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (b. 1806)
1901 – Julian Scott, American artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 55
1910 – Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer, dies at 70
1926 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (b. 1901)
1946 – Othenio Able, Austrian artist, fossil creator and founder of paleobiology, dies at 71
1994 – Juan Gil-Albert, Spanish poet and writer, dies at 90
2008 – Thomas M. Disch, American sci-fi author (b. 1940)
2009 – Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese politician (b.1938)
Famous Deaths for 3rd July 2021
1816 – Dorothy Jordan, Irish-English actress, courtesan, mistress of future King William IV of the United Kingdom, dies at 65
1863 – George Hull Ward, American general and Union officer in the American Civil War, dies of his wounds at the Battle of Gettysburg at 37
1904 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist and founder (Zionist movement), dies at 44
1970 – Frances Parkinson Keyes, American novelist (Dinner at Antoine’s), dies at 84
1977 – Mohammed al-Zahaby, Egyptian minister, murdered by Moslem extremists at 64
1989 – James “Jim” Backus, American actor (Mr Magoo, Rebel Without a Cause, Gilligan’s Island), dies of pneumonia at 76
1992 – Arline Bletcher, American actress, dies of natural causes at 99
1994 – Felix Kelly, New Zealand-born British artist, dies at 80
2013 – Radu Vasile, Prime Minister of Romania (1998-99), dies at 70
2015 – Diana Douglas, Bermudian-born American actress (The Indian Fighter), dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 2nd July 2021
1504 – Stephen III (Stefan the Great), ruler of Moldavia (1457-1504), dies
1621 – Thomas Harriot, English astronomer (1st person to draw map of the Moon with a telescope), dies at 61 or 62
1663 – Thomas Selle, German composer, dies at 64
1863 – Stephen Hinsdale Weed, US Union brigadier general, dies in battle at 28
1895 – William Rockstro, English composer and musicologist, dies at 72
1955 – Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, dies at 82
1963 – Seth Barnes Nicholson, American astronomer who discovered four satellites of Jupiter, dies at 71
1966 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (The Beetle), dies at 67
2002 – Earle Brown, American composer (open form), dies at 75
2013 – Fawzia Fuad, Egyptian princess who became Queen of Iran as the first wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 1st July 2021
1109 – Alfonso VI, King of Castile and Leon (conquered Toledo) (b. c. 1040)
1592 – Marc A Ingegneri, Italian violinist/composer (Responsoria), dies
1662 – Simon Ives, English court composer, dies at 61
1774 – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English corrupt politician (Chiswick), dies at 68
1776 – Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War
1947 – Clarence Lucas, Canadian composer, dies at 80
1953 – Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies
2005 – Gus Bodnar, Canadian NHL center (NHL record 3 assists in 21 seconds 1952), dies at 82
2010 – Ilene Woods, American actress (b. 1929)
2020 – Hugh Downs, American TV journalist (20/20, Concentration), dies at 99
Famous Deaths for 30th June 2021
1224 – Adolf of Osnabrück, Saint Adolf (b. 1185)
1785 – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
1819 – Ernst Ludwig Gerber, German organist, composer and musicologist, dies at 72
1889 – Eugenio Terziani, Italian composer, dies at 64
1971 – Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies in outer space aboard Soyuz at 38
1994 – Nicholas Warner, English test Pilot for Airbus, dies in Airbus Industrie A330-321 test flight crash at 51
1995 – Georgy Beregovoy, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74
2001 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist (Me and My Guitar), dies at 77
2005 – Christopher Fry, English playwright (The Lady’s Not for Burning), dies at 97
2014 – Paul Mazursky, American film director and screenwriter, dies from pulmonary cardiac arrest at 84
Famous Deaths for 29th June 2021
1798 – Kaat Mussel [Catharina Mulder], exerciser, dies
1873 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
1965 – Joseph Ryelandt, Belgian composer (Christus Rex – Christ the King), dies at 95
1968 – Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66
1979 – Lowell George, American rock vocalist and guitarist (Mothers of Invention, Little Feat), dies at 34
1994 – Kurt Eichhorn, conductor, dies at 85
2002 – Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
2003 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (Adam’s Rib, On Golden Pond), dies of natural causes at 96
2020 – Hachalu Hundessa, Ethiopian singer songwriter (Waa’ee Keenyaa), shot and killed at 34
2020 – Ernesto Marcel, Panamanian boxer (WBA featherweight title 1972-74), dies at 72
Famous Deaths for 28th June 2021
1776 – Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged
1834 – Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
1880 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy, dies at 33
1892 – Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
1916 – Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
1940 – Italo Balbo, Italian pilot and governor of Libya, dies at 44
1954 – Red Deer, in Milwaukee Zoo, oldest known deer, dies at 26 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
1991 – Klas Bruinsma, clergyman, dies
1996 – Michael Wishart, British figurative painter, dies at 68
2004 – Anthony Buckeridge, English author (Jennings), dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 27th June 2021
1458 – Alfonso V, King of Aragon/Sicily/Naples (Alfonso I), dies
1814 – Johann Friedrich Reichardt, German composer, dies at 61
1876 – Harriet Martineau, British controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist, dies at 74
1935 – Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)
1962 – Paul Viiding, Estonian poet, dies at 58
1993 – Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death at 40
1996 – Alberto Romero “Cubby” Broccoli, American film producer (James Bond), dies at 87
2008 – Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971)
2015 – Chris Squire, British progressive rock bassist, founding and longest serving member of Yes, 1969-2014 (“The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)”), dies of acute erythroid leukemia at 67
2018 – Joe Jackson, American talent manager and patriarch of the Jackson family, dies at 89