1225 – Engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40
1837 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher and abolitionist, murdered at 34
1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist, explorer and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution through natural selection, dies at 90
1919 – Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56
1945 – Alfred Dipper, cricketer (England batsman scored in only Test), dies
1978 – Janet Flanner, American journalist (New Yorker), dies at 86
1995 – Melvin “Slappy” White, American comedian and actor, dies of heart attack at 74
2002 – Charles Hambro, English banker, multi-millionaire and CEO (Hambros), dies at 72
2005 – Harry Thompson, English-born comedian and novelist (b. 1960)
2006 – Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1981)
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 6th November 2020
1231 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
1801 – Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer, dies at 78
1822 – Hendrik van Stralen, Secretary of Interior of the Netherlands, dies at 71
1901 – Kate Greenaway, English artist known for her children’s book illustrations (Under the Window), dies of breast cancer at 55
1931 – Jack Chesbro, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (NY Highlanders – won 41 games 1904), dies of heart attack at 57
1937 – Johnston Forbes-Robertson, British actor and theatre director (Kathleen), dies at 84
1944 – Walter Guinness, Lord Moyne, Anglo-Irish politician, British prefect (Middle-East), assassinated by Jewish terrorists at 64
1991 – Gene Tierney, American actress (Laura, Leave Her to Heaven, The Razor’s Edge), dies of emphysema at 70
1996 – Patience Edney, British nurse and communist, dies at 85
2010 – Robert Lipshutz, American attorney and counsel to the Carter Adminisrtation (b. 1921)
Famous Deaths for 5th November 2020
1869 – Otis Tufts, American machinist and inventor who built printing machines, steam engines, firefighting equipment and invented the steam pile driver, dies at 65
1872 – Thomas Sully, American portrait painter (Queen Victoria), dies at 89
1951 – Reggie Walker, South African athlete (Olympic gold 100m 1908), dies at 62
1968 – Estelle Hemsley, American actress (Leech Woman, Take a Giant Step), dies at 81
1977 – René Goscinny, French cartoonist (Asterix), dies of cardiac arrest during a routine stress test at 51
1992 – Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer (hypothesized “Oort Cloud”), dies at 92
1996 – Lars-Ake Nilsson, diplomat, dies at 53
1997 – James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter (b. 1946)
2000 – Jimmie Davis, American singer and songwriter (You Are My Sunshine), dies at 101
2012 – Elliott Carter, American composer, dies from natural causes at 103
Famous Deaths for 4th November 2020
1890 – Jacob PP baron van Zuylen, Dutch foreign minister (1852-3), dies at 74
1898 – Charles Jerome Hopkins, American composer, dies at 62
1942 – Marcel Barger [Streliskie], cabaret performer, killed in Auschwitz
1974 – Bert Patenaude, American soccer forward (4 caps; scorer of first hat-trick in World Cup history, 1930), dies at 65
1982 – Dominique Dunne, actress (Poltergeist), murdered by boyfriend at 23
1994 – Fred “Sonic” Smith, American guitarist (MC5), dies at 46
1995 – Paul Eddington, British actor (Devil Rides Out, Yes Minister), dies at 68
1995 – Gilles Deleuze, philosopher, dies at 70
2003 – Ken Gampu, South African actor (b. 1929)
2013 – Hakon Barfod, Norwegian sailor and Olympic champion, dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 3rd November 2020
361 – Constantius II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (337-61), dies at 44
1808 – Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian and clergyman, dies at 85
1904 – Gaston Serpette, French composer, dies at 57
1918 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (Lyapunov exponent), dies at 61
1939 – Waldemar Lindgren, Swedish-American Geologist (economic geology, ore classification), dies at 79
1944 – Jack Miner, Canadian naturalist and conservationist, dies at 79
1954 – Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84
1992 – John H Davis, actor (Our Gang), dies of respiratory failure at 78
1994 – Ralph Wyckoff, American scientist and pioneer of X-ray crystallography, dies at 97
2015 – Howard Coble, American politician (Rep-R-NC, 1985-2015), dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 2nd November 2020
1618 – Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria (1612-18), dies at 60
1717 – Johann Jacob Walther, composer, dies
1875 – James W. W. Birch, 1st British resident in Perak, Malaysia is speared to death while in the bath-house of his boat, SS Dragon at 49
1905 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and histologist (one of the first to interpret tissue structure in terms of cellular elements), dies at 88
1960 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek/US conductor/composer, dies at 64
1962 – Felice Lattuada, composer, dies at 80
1968 – Ernst Hess, Swiss composer, dies at 56
1986 – Paul Frees [Solomon Hersh Frees], American voice actor (voice of Boris Badenov in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show), dies at 66
2004 – Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 1st President of the United Arab Emirates, dies at 85
2018 – Roy Hargrove, American trumpeter, dies of kidney disease at 49
Famous Deaths for 1st November 2020
1588 – Jean Daurat, French poet (b. 1508)
1711 – Christian Demelius, composer, dies at 68
1750 – Gustaaf W van Imhoff, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1736-40), dies at 45
1810 – Georg Anton Kreusser, German composer, dies at 64
1935 – Émile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat, dies at 72
1949 – Leslie Gay, English cricket wicket-keeper and soccer goalkeeper (1 Test; 3 caps), dies at 78
2004 – Mac Dre [Andre Louis Hicks], American rapper and hip hop pioneer, dies at 34
2007 – S. Ali Raza, Bollywood Screenwriter (b. 1922)
2010 – Charlie O’Donnell, American game show announcer (Wheel of Fortune), dies of Congestive heart failure at 78
2018 – Amal Hussain, Yemeni famine victim who raised world’s awareness, dies aged 7
Famous Deaths for 31st October 2020
1661 – Mehmed Koprulu, Albanian great vizier of Turkey, dies
1913 – William Evans-Gordon, British politician (b. 1857)
1943 – Max Reinhardt [Goldmann], Austrian theatrical director (Oedipus Rex) and founder of the Salzburg Festival, dies at 70
1963 – Henry Daniell, British actor (The Great Dictator, Camille, Philadelphia Story, Body Snatchers), dies at 69
1977 – Joan Tetzel, American actress (Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning), dies of cancer at 56
1993 – Federico Fellini, director (La Dolce Vita), dies of stroke at 73
1995 – Wallace Edward Rowling, Prime Minister of NZ (1974-1975), dies at 68
2010 – Maurice Lucas, American basketball player, dies at 58
2015 – Gregg Palmer [Palmer Edvind Lee], American actor (Scream, To Hell and Back), dies at 88
2018 – Willie McCovey, American Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman (6 x MLB All Star; NL MVP 1969; NL home run leader 1963, 68, 69; SF Giants), dies of an infection at 80
Famous Deaths for 30th October 2020
1654 – Emperor Go-Kōmyō, 110th emperor of Japan, dies at 21
1867 – John Albion Andrew, American politician (25th Governor of Massachusetts), dies at 49
1912 – James S. Sherman, 27th Vice President of the United States (1909-1912), dies at 57
1923 – Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1922-23), dies of throat cancer at 64
1957 – Fred Beebe, baseball player (b. 1880)
1984 – June Duprez, actress (Calcutta, Tiger Fang), dies at 66
1996 – John Young, Scottish actor and TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 80
2004 – Margaret O’Rene “Peggy” Ryan, American dancer and actress (Hawaii Five-0), dies at 80
2009 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French social anthropologist and ethnologist (structuralism), dies at 100
2013 – Pete Haycock, English guitarist, dies at 62
Famous Deaths for 29th October 2020
1268 – Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252)
1873 – Leonardus Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship, dies at 78
1919 – A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
1957 – Louis B. Mayer, American film producer and creator of the star system (MGM), dies at 71
1966 – [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Manner Kater), dies at 83
1983 – Sten Broman, Swedish composer, dies at 81
1987 – Kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57
1996 – J. Edward Day, 55th U.S. Postmaster General (1961), dies at 82
2003 – Hal Clement [Harry Clement Stubbs], American sci-fi writer (Mission of Gravity), dies at 81
2016 – John D. Roberts, American chemist, received American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2013), dies at 98