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
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 20th August 2020
1384 – Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life, dies at 43
1823 – Pius VII [Luigi Barnaba Gregorio Chiaramonti], Italian bishop of Imola and Pope (1800-23), dies at 83
1887 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (Les Complaintas), dies at 27
1915 – Paul Ehrlich, German bacteriologist and physician (Chemotherapy, Nobel Prize 1908), dies in 61
1945 – Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian writer, dies at 73
1952 – Kurt Schumacher, German political chairman (SPD), dies at 56
1959 – Alfred Kubin, Austrian writer and illustrator, dies at 82
1985 – Harchand Singh Longowai [Sant Ji], Indian Sikh leader and President of the Akali Dal during the Punjab insurgency of the 1980s, assassinated by Sikh extremists less than a month after he signed a peace accord with the government
1996 – George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur, dies at 81
2012 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese Prime Minister (1955-58, 1971-84), dies at 96
Famous Deaths for 19th August 2020
1186 – Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
1580 – Andrea Palladio [Andrea di Pietro della Gondola], Italian architect (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71
1646 – Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
1944 – Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide, dies at 62
1979 – Dorsey Burnette, American rockabilly singer (The Rock and Roll trio), dies at 46
1986 – Lorenzo Tucker, actor (Black King), dies
1993 – Jean King, actress (Night Hasa a Thousand Eyes), dies at 76
1994 – Walter Bartley, biochemist, dies at 78
2008 – Marguerite Empey, [Diane Webber], American model and Playboy playmate (May 1955, Feb 1956), dies at 76
2012 – Tony Scott, English film director and producer (Top Gun, Revenge, Days of Thunder), commits suicide at 68
Famous Deaths for 18th August 2020
1712 – Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
1797 – Josiah Spode, English potter and founder of Spode pottery works, dies at 64
1842 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (published the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia in 1811), dies at 62
1853 – Peter Lichtenthal, composer, dies at 73
1957 – Wawrzyniec Żuławski, Polish composer, dies at 41
1966 – Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Struggle and Blessing), dies at 75
1983 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)
2000 – Maurice Evans, English soccer wing half (Reading, 407 games) and manager (Shrewsbury Town, Reading, Oxford United), dies from a heart attack at 63
2005 – Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
2015 – Roger Smalley, British-Australian composer, dies at 72
Famous Deaths for 17th August 2020
1536 – Pietersz, book publisher (Kersten Knight – on Index), dies
1865 – Mosby Munroe Parsons, United States officer in the Mexican–American War and brigadier general of the Confederate States Army, dies in battle at 42
1888 – James Jameson, British nature investigator (Congo), dies
1945 – Gino Marinuzzi, Italian conductor and composer, dies at 61
1963 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose, Heroes for Sales), dies of cancer at 68
1972 – Wampilow, writer, dies
1991 – Donald “Don” Dubbins, American actor (From Here to Eternity, The Caine Mutiny), dies of cancer at 63
1991 – Mervyn Nelson, director (Some of My Best Friends Are…), dies at 76
1994 – Elias Canetti, buried next to James Joyce
1995 – William Strethan “Wild Bill” Davis, musician, dies at 76
Famous Deaths for 16th August 2020
1327 – Roch, French saint (b. 1295)
1855 – Henry Colburn, British publisher ( Pepys’s Diary) (b. 1784)
1938 – Robert Johnson, US Delta-blues singer/guitarist, poisoned at 27
1959 – Pedro Humberto Allende Saron, Chilean composer (Tonados), dies at 74
1961 – Maulvi Abdul Haq, Pakistani scholar, Father of Modern Urdu, dies at 91
1986 – John Hurley, songwriter (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45
2007 – The Missing Link, professional wrestler (b. 1939)
2018 – Yelena Shushunova, Russian gymnast (1988 Olympic Champion), dies of pneumonia at 49
2018 – Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian politician, 10th Prime Minister of India (1996, 1998-2004), dies at 93
2018 – Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter known as “The Queen of Soul” (Respect) and first female performer inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987), dies of pancreatic cancer at 76
Famous Deaths for 15th August 2020
1064 – Muhammad ibn Hazm, Andalusian historian, jurist and author of Islamic Spain, dies at 69
1728 – Marin Marais, French composer, dies at 72
1852 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92
1935 – Paul Signac, French painter (developed the technique called pointillism with Georges Seurat), dies at 71
1951 – Artur Schnabel, Austrian pianist (Reflections on Music), dies at 69
1966 – Gerhard Pohl, German writer (Crazy Ferdinand), dies at 64
1966 – Jan Kiepura, Polish vocalist and actor (Her Wonderful Lie, Give Us this Night), dies of heart attack at 64
1975 – Clay Shaw, alleged John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracist and businessman (b. 1913)
1982 – Axel Theorell, Swedish biochemist (Nobel 1955-discovering the oxidation enzyme and its effects), dies at 79
2006 – Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league player
Famous Deaths for 14th August 2020
582 – Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor
1167 – Raynald van Dassel, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1390 – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier, dies at 26
1763 – Giovanni Battista Somis, composer, dies at 76
1788 – Thomas Sheridan, Irish actor, biographer and lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies at approximately 69
1891 – Johnny Mullagh [Unaarrimin], Australian cricketer (Aboriginal tourist 1868), dies at 50
1905 – Simeon Solomon, English Pre-Raphaelite painter, dies at 64
1958 – Frederic Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), dies
1977 – Alexander Luria, Russian neuropsychologist (Higher Cortical Functions in Man), dies at 75
2018 – Jill Janus, American singer (Huntress), commits suicide at 43
Famous Deaths for 13th August 2020
1191 – Philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1913 – F August Bebel, German social-democrat, dies
1940 – George C. Pearce, American actor (The Shadow Sinister, British Agent, Valiant), dies at 75
1953 – Dmitri Arakishvili, composer, dies at 80
1973 – Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch playwright (Arid Earth), dies at 75
1974 – Kate O’Brien, Irish writer (Pray for the Wanderer), dies at 76
1994 – Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, French violinist and composer, dies at 75
1995 – Jan Křesadlo, Czech-British psychologist and writer, dies at 68
2008 – Dino Toso, American Formula-1 engineer (b. 1969)
2008 – Jack Weil, American oldest working CEO (b. 1901)
Famous Deaths for 12th August 2020
1546 – Francisco de Vitoria, Spanish theology/lawyer, dies
1750 – Rachel Ruysch, royal painter of soverign Johan von de Pfalz, dies
1810 – Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist, dies at 84
1848 – George Stephenson, English engineer known as the “Father of Railways” (Locomotion No. 1, Standard Gauge), dies of pleurisy at 67
1943 – Georges Martin Witkowski, composer, dies at 76
1973 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist and Nobel Laureate (polymers), dies at 74
1994 – Gene Cherico, American jazz bassist, dies at 59
1997 – Jack Delano [Jacob Ovcharov], Russian-born American composer and photographer, dies at 83
1997 – Luther Allison, blues performer (Motown), dies of cancer at 57
1999 – Jean Drapeau, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1916)