1647 – Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer, dies at 85
1683 – Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer, dies at 76
1862 – James Streshley Jackson, American attorney and Brigadier General (Union Army) dies in battle at 39
1864 – Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, US Union-brigadier general, dies at about 34
1886 – Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (b. 1819)
1956 – Dirk Koster, literary (New noises), dies at 69
1978 – Tibor Serly, Hungarian violinist and composer (American Elegy), dies at 76
1984 – Frederick Brisson, producer, dies at 71 after a stroke
1996 – Watkins Shaw, British musicologist, dies at 85
1997 – Robin Lee, American figure skater, dies at 77
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 7th October 2020
290 – [Christian] Sergius, Roman soldier and martyred saint, decapitated
1681 – Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philological/diplomat, dies at 61
1906 – Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
1926 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist who developed a classification system for mental illness, dies at 70
1943 – Eugeniusz Bodo [Bohdan Eugène Junod], Polish film director, producer and comedic actor, dies in the Gulag at 43
1991 – Leo Durocher, American Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop (MLB All Star 1936, 38, 40; World Series 1928, 34; NY Yankees, St.L Cardinals) and manager (World Series 1954 NY Giants; 1963 LA Dodgers), dies at 86
1994 – James Hill, director, dies at 75
1999 – Deryck Guyler, British actor (Please Sir!, Sykes), dies at 85
2006 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and human rights activist, dies at 48
2011 – George Baker, Bulgarian-born British actor (I, Claudius, Goodbye Mr Chips, Curse of the Fly), dies at 80
Famous Deaths for 6th October 2020
1861 – Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84
1893 – Ford Madox Brown, British painter, dies at 72
1912 – Auguste Beernaert, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium (1884-94) and Nobel Peace Prize laureare 1909, dies at 83
1956 – Charles E. Merrill, American investment banker (Merrill Lynch), dies at 70
1973 – Sidney Blackmer, American actor (played Ted Roosevelt in 7 movies, Rosemary’s Baby), dies of cancer at 78
1991 – Wendell Phillips, dies at 83 [or 10/13]
1995 – Hughie Charles, English songwriter and impresario, dies at 88
2010 – Colette Renard, French actress and singer (b. 1924)
2012 – Raoul de Keyser, Flemish painter, dies at 82
2019 – Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (only Japanese pitcher to win 400 games; perfect game 1957), dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 5th October 2020
1056 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1046-56), dies at 38
1631 – Arabella Holles, wife of English politician Thomas Wentworth, dies
1915 – Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer, dies at 28
1918 – Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies
1938 – Saint Faustina, Polish saint (b. 1905)
1981 – Gloria Grahame, American actress (Crossfire, Sudden Fear, Rich Man Poor Man), dies of peritonitis and breast cancer at 55
1995 – Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
2001 – Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
2011 – Charles Napier, American actor (Night Stalker, Rambo), dies at 75
2015 – Henning Mankell, Swedish playwright and author (Wallander novels), dies of cancer at 67
Famous Deaths for 4th October 2020
1072 – Sancho II, king of Castile/bro of Alfonso VI, murdered at about 35
1880 – William Lassell, British astronomer who discovered satellites of Uranus and Neptune, dies at 81
1904 – Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor (designed the Statue of Liberty), dies of tuberculosis at 70
1935 – Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
1968 – Francis Biddle, 58th United States Attorney General (1941-45), dies at 82
1975 – Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress, businesswoman and philanthropist (co-founder and majority owner of MLB’s New York Mets), dies at 72
1992 – Ohad Arnon, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
2000 – Benjamin Orr [Orzechowski], American rock bassist and singer (The Cars – “Just What I Needed”, “Drive”) dies of pancreatic cancer at 53
2004 – Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)
2019 – Diahann Carroll, American actress (Julia, Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty), dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 3rd October 2020
695 – “White Ewald”, helper of Willibrord, murdered
1884 – Hans Makart, Austrian painter (Geur), dies at 44
1912 – Guido Papini, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 65
1965 – Zachary Scott, American actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce), dies from a malignant brain tumor at 51
1969 – Skip James, American blues musician (b. 1902)
1983 – John K. M. McCaffery, American TV host (One Minute Please), dies at 69
1983 – Kurt Kusenberg, writer, dies at 79
1993 – Sgt. First Class Randy Shughart, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 35
2003 – William Steig, American cartoonist and children’s author (Shrek!, Doctor De Soto), dies at 95
2009 – Queen Fatima, former Libyan queen (b. 1918)
Famous Deaths for 2nd October 2020
1113 – Mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies
1264 – Urbanus IV, [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies
1764 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, 5th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1756-57), dies at 44
1860 – Louis Hersent, painter, dies
1956 – George Bancroft, American actor (Texas, Stagecoach, Little Men), dies at 74
1969 – Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian novelist (Black Opal), dies at 85
1974 – Ina Seidel, German poet and novelist, dies at 89
1991 – Dimitrios I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1973-91), dies at 77
1995 – Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67
2007 – George Grizzard, American Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor (Wrong is Right, Bachelor Party, Attica), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 1st October 2020
1040 – Alan III, Duke of Brittany (poisoned) (b. 997)
1570 – Frans Floris, Flemish painter (b. 1520)
1602 – Hernando de Cabezon, Spanish composer, dies at 61
1708 – John Blow, English baroque composer (Venus and Adonis), dies at 59
1943 – Johan Roemer, resistance fighter, executed at 22
1991 – Jan van Tongeren, painter, dies
1994 – Scott Dunbar, American blues vocalist and guitarist, dies at 90
1997 – Gul Mohammed, world’s shortest man (22.1″/56.16 cm), dies at 36
2004 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
2007 – Al Oerter, American discus thrower (Olympic gold 1956, 60, 64, 68), dies of heart failure aged 71
Famous Deaths for 30th September 2020
1770 – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
1837 – Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama, dies at 21
1865 – Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar, dies at 65
1897 – St Therese of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)
1977 – Mary Ford [Iris Colleen Summers], American vocalist, guitarist and actress (Les Paul, Queen of Outer Space), dies from complications of alcohol abuse at 53
1994 – Lina Basquette, actress (Night for Crime, Hard Hombre), dies at 87
1995 – George Kirby, American comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show), dies at 71
2012 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (Olympic gold 1948, World champion 1947-48), dies at 84
2017 – Elizabeth Baur, American actress (Fran-Ironside, Teresa-Lancer), dies at 69
2017 – Alam Thomas “Tom” Paley, American folk musician (New Lost City Ramblers), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 29th September 2020
1889 – Louis Faidherbe, French general (b. 1818)
1908 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (Epitaph of a small winner), dies at 69
1937 – Ray Ewry, American track and field athlete (8 Olympic golds 1900, 04, 08), dies at 63
1962 – Robert Burton, American actor (The Big Heat, Compulsion, A Man Called Peter), dies from cancer at 67
1980 – Bindo Maserati, Italian auto engineer and businessman (manager Maserati Racing; founder O.S.C.A. Racing), dies at 97
1993 – Ghuslam Wyne, premier of Lahore Pakistan, murdered at 60
1995 – Seger Pillot Ellis, American jazz pianist and vocalist, dies at 91
1995 – George Chesterman Phillips, British naval officer, dies at 90
2006 – Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
2013 – L. C. Greenwood, American football player, dies from kidney failure at 67