1138 – Boleslaw III Wrymouth [scheefmond], Duke of Poland, dies at 52
1676 – Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
1969 – Constance Dowling, actress (Blind Spot), dies of cardiac arrest at 49
1971 – Yves de La Casiniere, composer, dies at 74
1975 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer (world light heavyweight champion, 1st $1m gate v J Dempsey), dies of a heart attack at 81
1991 – John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51
1997 – Toni Carabillo, writer (Feminist Chronicles), dies of lymphoma at 71
2005 – Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
2006 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican professional boxer, dies at 52
2019 – Al Bianchi, American basketball guard, coach and general manager (Philadelphia 76ers, Virginia Squires; GM NY Knicks), dies from congestive heart failure at 87
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 27th October 2020
939 – King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)
1573 – Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
1822 – Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, German pianist, composer and publisher, dies at 55
1938 – Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic, dies at 57
1942 – Helmuth Hubener, Youth Political Activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925)
1962 – Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate (Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi), dies at 58
1973 – Allan “Rocky” Lane, American western cowboy actor (voice of Mr Ed, Red Ryder), dies from cancer at 64
1990 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American bandleader, dies at 90
1992 – David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
2008 – Bernard W. Rogers, United States Army general who served as the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 26th October 2020
1608 – Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish royal painter, dies
1817 – Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
1903 – Herbert Oakeley, English composer, dies at 73
1947 – Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
1972 – Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aviation pioneer and helicopter builder, dies at 83
1979 – Park Chung-hee, South Korean general and President (1963-79), assassinated by the director of the Korean Intelligence Agency at 61
1992 – Jerome Andrews, US/French dancer/choreographer, dies
1995 – Bernhard Heiliger, German artist and sculptor, dies at 79
2010 – Romeu Tuma, Brazilian politician (b. 1931)
2010 – Glen “Frosty” Little, American circus clown (b. 1925)
Famous Deaths for 25th October 2020
625 – Boniface V, Italian Pope (619-25), dies
1845 – Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral, dies at 81
1910 – Hermann Kipper, German music teacher and composer, dies at 84
1957 – Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish sci-fi writer (Time and Gods), dies at 79
1972 – Norman Norell [Levinson], US fashion designer, dies at 72
1980 – Virgil Fox, American organist, dies at 68
1988 – Johnnie Richardson, American RandB musician (Johnnie and Joe), dies at 53
1993 – Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 54
1994 – Anthony David Machell Cox, medievalist, dies at 81
1999 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (US Open 1991, 99; PGA 1989), dies in a plane crash at 42
Famous Deaths for 24th October 2020
1579 – Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 51
1708 – Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
1785 – Jean-Jacques Robson, Flemish composer, dies at 64
1944 – Lauri S A Haarla, Finnish writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja), dies at 54
1952 – Frederick Jacobi, American composer, dies at 61
1969 – Otto Jochum, German composer, dies at 71
1985 – Lásló Jósef Bíró, Hungarian inventor (ballpoint pen), dies at 86
1994 – Alexandr Nikolaievich Shelepin, dir of KGB (1958-61), dies
2004 – Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (b. 1954)
2016 – Bobby Vee, American pop singer (Night has a Thousand Eyes), dies at 73
Famous Deaths for 23rd October 2020
930 – Daigo, 60th Emperor of Japan (897-930), dies at 45
1774 – Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist, dies at 59
1935 – Otto “Aba Daba” Berman, American gangster, murdered
1975 – Barboura Morris, actor (Wasp Woman, Machine-Gun Kelly), dies at 43
1984 – Oskar Werner, Austrian film actor and director (Farenehit 451), dies of a heart attack at 61
1994 – Robert Lansing, American actor (12 O’Clock High, Equalizer, A Man for All Seasons, Chariots of Fire), dies of cancer at 66
1996 – Ronald Alfred Gardyne “Rags” Butler, sailor, dies at 68
2002 – Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (It’s Always Fair Weather), dies at 87
2005 – Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady (b. 1945)
2016 – Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (1972-95), dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 22nd October 2020
1383 – Ferdinand I, the wise, king of Portugal, dies
1751 – Willem IV KH Friso, prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at 40
1883 – Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (The Headless Horseman), dies at 65
1906 – Paul Cézanne, French artist and Post-Impressionist painter (The Basket of Apples), dies of pneumonia at 67
1942 – Sybren Tulip, NSBer/supt of police in Amsterdam (1941-42), dies
1964 – Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan and President of Pakistan Muslim League, dies at 70
1972 – Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits), dies at 82
1978 – John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b. 1937)
1994 – Sandy Horn, lesbian Activist, dies at 59
2017 – Paul J. Weitz, American test pilot and NASA astronaut (Skylab 2, STS 6), dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 21st October 2020
1805 – Johann Baptist Lasser, composer, dies at 54
1905 – Jose Teodor Vilar, composer, dies at 69
1955 – Roy Minnett, Australian cricketer (all-rounder prior to WWI), dies
1981 – Šrom, Karel, Czech composer, musicologist, and critic, dies at 77
1992 – Jim Garrison, Louisiana District Attorney who investigated JFK assassination, dies at 70
1993 – Melchior Ndadaye, 1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murdered at 40
1995 – Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer, dies at 58
1996 – Robert O’Neill Crossman, politician, dies at 49
1996 – Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71
2013 – Major R Owens, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1983-2007), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 20th October 2020
1187 – Urban III [Umberto Crivelli], Italian Pope (1185-87), dies
1640 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
1794 – James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64
1870 – Michael William Balfe, composer (Bohemian Girl), dies at 62
1876 – Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 68
1913 – Daniel David Palmer, Canadian founder of chiropractic (1897 Palmer School of Chiropractic), dies of typhoid fever at 68
1913 – Leander Schlegel, composer, dies at 69
1994 – Ivan Sviták, Czech philosopher and poet, dies at 69
2007 – Max McGee, American football player (Green Bay Packers), dies at 75
2008 – Gene Hickerson, American football Hall of Famer (b. 1935)
Famous Deaths for 19th October 2020
1813 – Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish general and marshal of France, dies in battle at 50
1856 – William Sprague III, American politician (U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1842-44)), dies at 56
1897 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
1912 – E. B. Dwyer, Austalian-born cricketer (Sussex bowler 1906-09), dies at 36
1918 – Joseph Lesage, French painter/etcher (WWI), dies at 34
1926 – Victor Babeş, Romanian physician and bacteriologist, dies at 72
1937 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist (Nobel Prize 1908), dies at 66
1955 – John Hodiak, American actor (Battleground, A Bell for Adamo, Lifeboat), dies from coronary thrombosis at 41
1996 – Neville Robinson, English physicist, dies at 71
2014 – Lynda Bellingham, Canadian-born English actress, dies from colon cancer at 66