1400 – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
1598 – Feodor I (Fyodor/Theodore Ivanovich), Tsar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40
1786 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1830 – Infanta Carlota Joaquina, daughter of Charles IV of Spain and wife of John VI of Portugal, dies at 53
1960 – Luís Costa, Portuguese composer, dies at 80
1985 – Johnny Guarnieri, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show), dies at 67
1990 – Joseph Robbie, lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73
1994 – Bobby Pratt, American jazz trombone and piano player, dies at 67
1996 – Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist, dies at 88
2015 – Rod Taylor, Australian actor (Time Machine, The Birds), dies at 84
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 6th January 2021
1646 – Elias Hill, German architect of Augsburg, dies at 72
1831 – Rodolphe Kreutzer, French composer (La mort d’Abel) and virtuoso violinist, dies at 64
1847 – Tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music, dies at 79
1907 – Walter Read, cricketer (Engl batsman, 117 at no 10 v Aust 1884), dies
1942 – Emma Calvé, French soprano (b. 1858)
1994 – “Iron” Adriaan van Es, Dutch undersec of Navy (1963-72), dies at 80
1994 – Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70
1995 – Edward Sutcliffe, British judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77
2006 – Hugh Thompson Jr., American Vietnam War veteran who played a major role in ending the 1968 My Lai massacre, dies of cancer at 62
2007 – Roberta Wohlstetter, military historian and strategist (b. 1912)
Famous Deaths for 5th January 2021
1878 – Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman (6th Prime Minister of Italy, 1864-66), dies at 73
1904 – Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel, German geologist and paleontologist (Libya), dies at 64
1937 – Marie Booth, child of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1864)
1974 – Lev Oborin, Russian pianist (b. 1907)
1981 – Paul Félix, Flemish architect (Song of the Sun), dies at 67
1994 – Victor van Os, Dutch jazz guitarist, dies at 39
1995 – Mansour Sattari, Iranian Brigadier General and commandant (Iran Air Force), dies at 46
2004 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player and father of Tim McGraw, dies at 59
2010 – Rory Markas, Angels baseball announcer (b.1955)
2014 – Jerry Coleman, American MLB 2nd baseman, dies from complications from brain bleeding and surgery at 89
Famous Deaths for 4th January 2021
1584 – Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (Strasbourg astronomical clock), dies at 44
1931 – Arthemus “Art” Acord, American silent film actor and rodeo champion (Arizona Kid, Hard Fists), commits suicide by poison at 40
1955 – G. G. van der Hoeven, Dutch editor-in-chief (NRC newspaper), dies at 82
1961 – Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Academy Award, Going My Way), dies at 72
1962 – Hans Lammers, German SS officer and Nazi politician, dies at 82
1969 – Julian Myrick, American tennis promoter (West Side Tennis Club and Forest Hills Stadium), dies at 88
1995 – Dorothy Granger, American actress (Hog Wild, Dentist), dies at about 80
2008 – Mort Garson, Canadian-American composer (“Our Day Will Come”) and Moog synthesizer pioneer, dies of renal failure at 83
2011 – Coen Moulijn, Dutch footballer (b. 1937)
2017 – Georges Prêtre, classical and opera conductor known for interpretation of Poulenc,, dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 3rd January 2021
1841 – Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82
1882 – William H Ainsworth, English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at 76
1943 – Bid McPhee, American Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman (Cincinnati Reds; last 2nd baseman to play without a glove), dies at 83
1944 – Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
1997 – Burton Lane, composer, dies at 84
1997 – Roger Goeb, American composer, dies at 82
2000 – Bernhard Wicki, Austrian director and actor (Morituri, Crime and Passion), dies at 80
2006 – Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league centre (24 Tests; NSW; Cronulla-Sutherland), dies after swallowing combination of prescription drugs and alcohol at 51
2007 – Michael Yeats, Irish Fianna Fáil senator 1961-1981 and son of W.B. Yeats (b. 1921)
2015 – Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass), American politician and first popularly elected African American to the US Senate (1967-79), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 2nd January 2021
1740 – Johann Georg Weichenberger, Austrian composer, dies at 63
1819 – Maria Luisa of Parma, Queen of Charles IV of Spain, dies at 67
1971 – Lloyd Hall, African-American chemist and pioneer in food chemistry (science of food preservation), dies at 76
1971 – Richard Maxwell (Dick) Haldane, South African trade unionist, dies at 62
1983 – Harriet Parsons, American film producer (Susan Slept Here), dies at 76 of cancer
1986 – Bill Veeck, American MLB owner and promoter (Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns), dies of lung cancer at 71
2005 – Frank Kelly Freas, American artist, dies at 82
2007 – Teddy Kollek, Israeli politician (Mayor of Jerusalem), dies at 95
2011 – Richard D. Winters, American Army officer, dies at 92
2013 – Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan soccer goalkeeper (36 caps; Atlético Mineiro), dies from a respiratory illness at 67
Famous Deaths for 1st January 2021
1896 – Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor, dies at 69
1901 – Ignatius Donnelly, American politician and writer, dies at 69
1906 – Sir Hugh Nelson, Australian politician (Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
1965 – Juan Bautista Plaza, Venezuelan composer, dies at 66
1966 – Vincent Auriol, President of France (1947-53), dies at 82
1993 – June Clayworth, American actress (Bodyguard, Criminal Court), dies of lymphoma at 87
1996 – Orapin Chaiyakan, first Thai woman elected to the Parliament of Thailand, dies at 91
2005 – Shirley Chisholm, 1st African American Congresswoman (Rep-D-NY) and presidential candidate, dies of a stroke at 80
2005 – Bob Matsui, American politician, dies at 63
2009 – Claiborne Pell, American senator, dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 31st December 2020
1652 – Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies
1799 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer, dies at 76
1910 – Archibald Hoxsey, American pioneer aviator (worked for the Wright brothers), dies at 26
1936 – Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Span philosopher/poet (Cancionero), dies at 72
1938 – Richard Nicolaas Roland Holst, Dutch artist and painter, dies at 70
1971 – Peter Deuel, actor (Gidget, Love on a Rooftop), commits suicide at 31
1971 – Pete Duel American actor (b. 1940)
1991 – Felicja Blumental, Polish-Brazilian concert pianist ( Villa-Lobos’ Piano Concerto No. 5; Penderecki’s Partita for Harpsichord), dies at 83
1994 – Woody Strode, African American football player and actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante, Scream), dies of lung cancer at 80
2001 – Eileen Heckart, American actress (Butterflies Are Free, Doll’s House, Trauma Center), dies of lung cancer at 82
Famous Deaths for 30th December 2020
1218 – Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162)
1640 – John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
1971 – Jan Mul, Dutch composer, dies at 60
1995 – Heiner Muller, dramatist, dies at 66
1996 – Lew Ayres, American actor (All Quiet on Western Front, Holiday, Dr Kildare), dies at 88
2009 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist (The Birthday Party) (b. 1959)
2011 – Eva Zeisel, Hungarian-born ceramic designer, dies at 105
2014 – Patrick Gowers, British choral and film score composer (Viri Galilaei; Hamlet; Smiley’s People), dies at 78
2014 – Luise Rainer, German-American actress and 1st actor to win multiple Academy Awards (The Great Ziegfeld 1936, The Good Earth 1937), dies at 104
2015 – Howard Edward Davis Jr., boxer (Olympic silver 1976), dies at 59
Famous Deaths for 29th December 2020
1170 – Thomas Becket, English Archbishop of Canterbury, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II at 52
1894 – Christina Rossetti, English poet (Winter Rain, Passing Away) dies at 64
1933 – Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered
1943 – William Henry Singer, American painter and collector (Singer Museum, Laren), dies at 75
1965 – Kōsaku Yamada, Japanese composer (Nagauta Symphony), and conductor, dies of a heart attack at 79
1997 – Pat Clarke, British cyclist, dies at 82
1998 – Jeanne Stern, German screenwriter (The Condemned Village), dies at 90
2004 – Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947)
2004 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
2014 – Ivor Richardson, New Zealand judge (NZ Court of Appeals), dies at 84