1745 – Jean-Baptiste-Maurice Quinault, French composer, dies at 57
1826 – Theodor Zwetler, Austrian composer, dies at 67
1903 – Vicente Fidel López, Argentine historian (Historia the Chile), dies at 87
1914 – Adrian H Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26
1952 – Arky Vaughn, American Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop (MLB All-Star 1934–42; NL batting champion 1935; NL stolen base leader 1943), drowns whilst fishing at 40
1970 – Del Moore, American comedian and actor (Cal-Bachelor Father), dies at 53
1985 – Taylor Caldwell [Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell], Anglo-American novelist (Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician), dies at 84
2001 – Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor, dies at 94
2007 – Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
2019 – Franco Columbu, Italian bodybuilder, powerlifter, actor and author (Mr. Olympia 1976, 81), dies at 78
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 29th August 2020
1653 – Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49
1758 – Stepan F graaf Apraksin, Russian general-fieldmarshal, dies at 56
1769 – Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)
1880 – Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General (Union Army), dies at 47
1968 – Victor Sutherland, American actor (Captive City), dies at 79
1976 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher, dies at 77
1987 – Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)
1994 – Arthur Ernest Mourant, British hematologist, dies at 90
2005 – Barry Cowsill, American rock bassist (The Cowsills), believed to have drowned during Hurricane Katrina at 50
2009 – Frank Gardner, Australian auto racer (European F5000 1971; British Touring Car Championship 1967-68, 73), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 28th August 2020
1484 – Diogo, duke of Viseu, murdered
1647 – Johann Dilliger, German composer, dies at 53
1839 – William Smith, British geologist who is credited with creating the first nationwide geological map (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils), dies at 70
1964 – Lumsden Hare, Irish actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox, Young Bess), dies at 89
1978 – F. Van Wyck Mason, American historian and author (Three Harbours), dies at 76
1990 – Patience Strong [Winifred Emma May], English poet and journalist, dies at 83
1994 – Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian pater, murdered
1995 – Carl Ronald Giles, British cartoonist (Daily Express), dies at 78
2008 – Phil Hill, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1927)
2014 – Glenn Cornick, English rock bassist, dies from heart failure at 67
Famous Deaths for 27th August 2020
1545 – Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
1590 – Pope Sixtus V [Felice Piergentile], Pope of the Catholic Church (1585-90), dies at 68
1748 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (Rule, Britannia), dies at 47
1865 – Józef Nowakowski, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 64
1931 – Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
1950 – Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco Grande), dies at 41
1978 – Robert Shaw, British actor, novelist, and playwright (Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday), dies of heart attack at 51
1981 – Valery Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)
1991 – Vince Taylor, [Brian Holden], British singer (Brand new Cadillac), dies
1996 – Abram Games, graphic artist, dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 26th August 2020
1595 – Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)
1785 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
1894 – PPH van Ham, general-major, dies in battle on Lombok
1937 – Andrew Mellon, American banker (Mellon Bank), industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32), dies at 82
1966 – Art Baker, TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 67
1972 – Francis Chichester, English aviator and sailor (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire), dies at 70
1980 – Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
1988 – Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer, dies at 30
1993 – Alan Wharton, English cricketer (England batsman once v NZ 1949, scored 7 and 13), dies at 70
2011 – George Band, British mountaineer (b. 1929)
Famous Deaths for 25th August 2020
1192 – Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
1791 – Pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer, dies
1936 – Grigory Zinoviev [Hirsch Apfelbaum], Russian revolutionary, dies at 52
1942 – George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
1972 – Robert Denzler, composer, dies at 80
1989 – Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer, dies at 80
1992 – Alma Graciela Haro Esmerelda, singer, dies of diabetes at 65
1998 – Lewis F. Powell Jr., American Supreme Court justice (1972-87), dies at 90
2000 – Nils Viggo Bentzon, Danish pianist and composer (The Tempered Piano), dies at 80
2008 – Josef Tal, Israel composer (Israeli art music), dies at 97
Famous Deaths for 24th August 2020
1833 – Adrian Hardy Haworth, English entomologist and botanist, dies at 65
1889 – Jan Matzeliger, Surinamese-Dutch inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies at 36
1940 – Paul G. Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80
1967 – Amanda Randolph, actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
1983 – Scott Nearing, American sociologist, pacifist and author (The Good Life), dies at 100
1985 – Paul Creston [Giuseppe Guttoveggio], Italian-American composer (Creative Harmony, dies at 78
1994 – Wijnanda MC “Nan” Aberson, friend of Gerard Van de Reve Sr, dies at 82
1997 – Phillip Humphrey Vellacott, classicist, dies at 90
1999 – Mary Jane Croft, American actress (The Lucy Show, Our Miss Brooks), dies of natural causes at 83
2014 – Richard Attenborough, English actor and director (Gandhi, Young Winston), dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 23rd August 2020
1591 – Luis de Leon, Spanish scholar and poet, dies at 64
1898 – Joseph Robinson, Irish singer, organist and composer, dies at 82
1903 – Paul Gabriël, Dutch water colors painter and etcher, dies at 75
1939 – Sidney Coe Howard, American playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48
1941 – Jack O’Connor, cricketer (four Tests for Aust 1908-09, 13 wkts), dies
1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers, dies at 65
1965 – John Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer, dies at 67
1970 – Nel Rose, Dutch dance teacher, dies at 55
1971 – The original Shamu, Sea World orca
1979 – Mian Mohammad Saeed, cricketer (1st Pakistan capt 1948-49), dies
Famous Deaths for 22nd August 2020
1241 – Gregory IX, [Ugolino di Segni], Italian Pope, dies
1652 – Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (1st Governor-General of Swedish Livonia), dies at 69
1701 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman, dies at 72
1793 – Louis de Noailles, Marshal of France, dies at 80
1890 – Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian foreign minister, diplomat and poet, dies at 69
1891 – Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
1937 – David C Salas, Antillian writer (Josephina), dies
1966 – Apolinary Szeluto, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 82
1980 – Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Mercedes Benz), dies at 89
1991 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (Maggie-Blue and Grey), dies of cancer at 67
Famous Deaths for 21st August 2020
1763 – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
1824 – John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70
1963 – John Gunn, English cricketer (England all-rounder in 6 Tests 1901-05), dies at 87
1964 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian politician and founder of the Communist Party of Italy, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 71
1968 – Vladimir Boudnik, Czech sculptor, commits suicide at about 45
1970 – Timothy Mather Spelman, American composer, dies at 79
1971 – George Jackson, US prisoner, shot to death at 29
1988 – Ray Eames, American designer and filmmaker, dies at 75
1991 – Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist and philosopher, dies at 101
2018 – Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (Lazytown), dies of cancer at 43