1559 – Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
1919 – Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (Riemann–Hurwitz formula), dies at 60
1946 – Johnny Lush, American MLB pitcher (2 no-hitters), dies at 61
1951 – Johan van Maarseveen, Dutch Minister of Justice and Internal minister, dies at 57
1986 – Lajos Bárdos, Hungarian conductor, composer, musicologist and professor, dies at 87
1992 – Herman Musaph, psychiatrist/sexologist/co-founder (NVSH), dies
1996 – Douglas Guest, British organist (For the Fallen), dies at 80
2005 – Harold J Stone, American actor (Spartacus, The Wrong Man), dies at 92
2012 – Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Russian Woman Grandmaster of chess, dies from brain cancer at 55
2015 – Mal Whitfield, American track athlete (Olympic 3 gold, silver and bronze 1948, 52), dies at 91
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 16th November 2020
1272 – Henry III, King of England (1216-72, Provisions of Oxford), dies at 65
1548 – Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer, dies at 44
1869 – Hamiora Pere is hanged for treason at the Terrace Gaol, Wellington – only New Zealander ever to be executed for treason
1957 – Cora Witherspoon, actress (Quality Street, Bank Dick), dies at 67
1961 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House for 17 years, dies at 79
1973 – Alan Watts, writer/popularizer of Zen, dies in Calif
1986 – Siobhán McKenna [Cionnaith], Irish stage actress (Saint Joan, The Chalk Garden), dies of lung cancer at 63
1997 – Russ “Mad Monk” Meyer, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 74
2004 – Margaret Hassan, Irish aid worker in Iraq, abducted at 59 (presumed dead)
2008 – Reg Varney, British actor (On The Buses) (b. 1916)
Famous Deaths for 15th November 2020
1812 – Eagle Fokke Simonsz, writer (Year 3000), dies at about 57
1815 – Johann Lukas Schubaur, composer, dies at 65
1863 – Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (1848-63), dies at 55
1978 – Dick Chapman, American golfer (1940 US amateur, 1951 British amateur), dies of a stroke at 67
1990 – Alydar, American racehorse (b. 1975)
1993 – Mouin Shabaita, Palestinian al-Fatah commandant, murdered
1995 – Billy Hughes, British educationist and Labour Party politician, dies at 81
2004 – Elmer L. Andersen, 30th Governor of Minnesota (1961-63), dies at 95
2010 – Imre Polyák, Hungarian featherweight (Olympic gold 1964), dies at 78
2016 – Sixto Durán Ballén, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador (1992-96), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 14th November 2020
1673 – Michael Wisniowieki, King of Poland, dies
1687 – Eleanor “Nell” Gwyn, English mistress of King Charles II of England, dies from apoplexy at 37
1797 – Ivan Shuvalov, 1st Russian Minister of Education and founder of the Moscow University, dies at 70
1831 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher and inventor (dialectic), dies at 61
1914 – Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Malayalin journalist (b. 1861)
1975 – Max Ackermann, German “entartet” painter, dies at 88
1977 – A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian guru, founder of International Society for Krishna Consciousness, dies at 81
1984 – George Matthews, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Chick-Glynis), dies at 73
1995 – Les Horvath, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback and halfback (Heisman Trophy 1944; first Ohio State player to win the award; National C’ship 1942), dies of heart failure at 74
2015 – Warren Mitchell, English actor (Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 13th November 2020
1771 – Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor and theatre director (Die Oberpfalz), dies at 61
1861 – Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet, friend of Matthew Arnold, dies at 42
1903 – Camille Pissarro, Danish Antillean and French Impressionist painter, dies at 73
1975 – R. C. Sherriff, English playwright (Journey’s End), dies at 79
1982 – Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Quebec (b. 1911)
1982 – Dorothy [Little-]Round, England, tennis star (Never on Sunday), dies
1992 – Maurice Ohana, pianist/composer, dies
2004 – John Balance, English musician (Coil, Psychic TV), dies from a fall from a two-storey balcony at his home at 42
2007 – Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician and Congressman, dies at 47
2014 – Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager, dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 92
Famous Deaths for 12th November 2020
1555 – Stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65
1912 – Jose Canalejas bon Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12), murdered at 58
1939 – Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor, communist and humanitarian (Spanish Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War), dies of blood poisoning from a cut on his finger from operating on a wounded soldier at 49
1942 – ‘Philadelphia’ Jack O’Brien, American boxer (World light heavyweight champion 1905), dies at 64
1962 – Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer, dies at 68
1966 – Quincy Porter, American composer, dies at 69
1991 – Christopher Hayes, dies of heart attack
1995 – Marion Pitt, social worker/writer, dies at 56
2000 – Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, (b. 1928)
2007 – Ira Levin, American author (Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day), dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 11th November 2020
405 – Arsacius, intruding archbishop of Constantinople
1810 – Johann/John Zoffany, German painter (Tribuna degl’ Uffizi), dies at 77
1886 – Paul Bert, Auxerre, French Zoologist, Physiologist and pioneer of aerospace medicine whose study of the effects of air pressure on the body made possible space and ocean exploration, dies of dysentery at 53
1939 – Jan Opletal, Czech student, victim of Nazi violence in Prague
1974 – Jane Ace, comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 74
1976 – E Q Davies, cricketer (9 runs and 7 wickets in 5 Tests for South Africa), dies
1999 – Jacobo Timmerman, Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1923)
2005 – Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director (Lion of the Dessert), dies at 75
2009 – Dhanpat Rai Nahar, Indian labour leader (b. 1919)
2013 – George Reinholt, American actor (Steve-Another World, One Life to Live), dies at 73
Famous Deaths for 10th November 2020
461 – St. Leo I, the Great, Italian Pope (440-61), dies in office
1241 – Celestine IV [Goffredo Castiglioni], Pope (1241, 16 days), dies
1549 – Paul III [Alessandro Farnese], Italian Pope (1534-49), dies at 81
1673 – Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (1669-73), dies at 33
1959 – Lupino Lane, English actor (Deputy Drummer), dies at 67
1976 – Theodore Besterman, British bibliographer and psychical researcher, dies at 71
1982 – Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53
1991 – Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972), dies
2006 – Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
2010 – Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
Famous Deaths for 9th November 2020
1862 – John Bordenave Villepigue, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 32
1929 – Nicolaas Theunissen, South African cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies
1937 – Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister (Labour: 1924, 1929-35), dies of natural causes at sea on board the liner Reina del Pacifico at 71
1953 – Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, Founder and first King of Saudi Arabia (1932-53), dies of a heart attack at 78
1970 – William L Dawson, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84
1991 – Guido Claus, Belgian actor (Sacrament), dies
1994 – Priscilla Morrill, American actress (Edie Grant-Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 67
1995 – F. G. Emmison, British archivist and historian, dies at 88
2017 – Fred Cole, American rock artist (The Lollipop Shoppe, Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows), dies from cancer at 69
2017 – John Hillerman, American actor (Magnum PI, Chinatown, Blazing Saddles), dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 8th November 2020
1527 – Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
1793 – Madame Roland [Marie-Jeanne Phlippon], French revolutionary (member of the Girondist faction), executed by guillotine at 39
1817 – Andrea Appiani, Italian royal painter (Napoleon), dies at 63
1880 – Jacob Edvard Gille, composer, dies at 66
1890 – Caesar Franck, Belgian organist and composer (Symphonic Variations), dies at 67
1911 – Samuel Wilks, British Physician and founding father of clinical science, dies at 87
1941 – Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83
1984 – Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, Norwegian composer, dies at 81
1991 – Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45
1998 – Rumer Godden, English author (Thursday’s Children), dies at 90