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)
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 11th August 2020
1522 – Martin Siebenborger, mayor of Vienna, beheaded
1596 – Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
1901 – Francesco Crispi, Italian statesman, dies at 82
1939 – Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909)
1956 – Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton)
1975 – Howard Wendell, American actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Murder Your Wife), dies at 67
1988 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (Throw Mama from the Train), dies of cancer at 59
1988 – Pauline Lafont, daughter of Bernadette, dies in hiking accident at 25
2001 – Percy Stallard, English racing cyclist (b. 1909)
Famous Deaths for 10th August 2020
258 – Saint Lawrence, Christian martyr, burned to death
1250 – Erik IV Plovpenning, king of Denmark, murdered
1806 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer, dies at 68
1886 – Eduard Grell, German composer, dies at 85
1920 – Ádám Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician, dies at 84
1948 – Montague Summers, English clergyman and writer (Malleus Maleficarum), dies at 68
1948 – E Ball-Hennings, writer, dies at 63
1973 – Douglas Kennedy, American actor (Dark Passage, The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold), dies of cancer at 57
1991 – Josef Lipski, Polish politician, dies
2007 – Tony Wilson, British music personality and broadcaster (b. 1950)
Famous Deaths for 9th August 2020
1892 – Matthias de Vries, Dutch linguist (spelling), dies at 71
1928 – Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden (1907-18), dies at 71
1955 – Marion Eugene Bauer, American composer, dies at 57
1967 – Joe Orton, EBritish actor and dramatist (Prick Up Your Ears), is murdered by his partner Kenneth Halliwell at 34
1969 – Abigail Folger, American coffee magnate (Folgers), murdered
1978 – James Gould Cozzens, American novelist (1949 Pulitzer-Guard of Honor), dies at 74
1979 – Raymond Washington, founder of Los Angeles, California gang, the Crips
1991 – Corrie Hartong, dance pioneer, dies
2003 – Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (White Nights, Taps), dies of liver cancer at 57
2006 – James van Allen, American physicist (discovered Van Allen radiation belts), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 8th August 2020
1909 – William Miller, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 89
1921 – Juhani Aho, Finnish journalist and writer (Panu, Tuomio), dies at 59
1980 – Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician, dies at 63
1982 – Ferre Grignard, Belgian pop singer/painter (Crucified Jesus), dies
1982 – Hermine Heijermans, author (Snikken en Smartlapjes), dies at 80
1988 – Alan Napier, British actor (The Sword in the Stone, Batman), dies at 85
1992 – Alison L Gertz, US aids-activist, Esquire women of year, dies of aids at 26
1993 – Lou van Raised, impresario, dies at 77
1996 – Didi Duprat, French guitarist, dies at 69
2006 – Michael Hurd, British composer and musicologist known for his choral music (Jonah-Man Jazz), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 7th August 2020
1798 – Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer, dies at 65
1820 – Élisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca and sister of Napoleon, dies at 43
1821 – Caroline of Brunswick, Queen Consort of King George IV (1820-21), dies at 53
1834 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
1848 – Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist, dies at 68
1957 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian (Laurel and Hardy films), dies at 65
1970 – Harold Haley, American judge, shot dead in courthouse shootout in San Rafael at 67
1978 – Franz Alphons Wolpert, German composer, dies at 60
1999 – Brian Connell, British writer and broadcaster, dies at 83
2011 – Marshall Grant, American bassist (Johnny Cash’s Tennessee Two), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 6th August 2020
1221 – Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans)
1893 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
1914 – Ellen Axson Wilson, US 1st Lady (1913-14), dies during Woodrow Wilson’s 1st term of Bright’s Disease at 54
1943 – Tom Garrett, cricketer (last survivor of 1st Test in 1877), dies
1948 – Cyril Walker, English golfer (US Open 1924), dies of pleural pneumonia at 55
1963 – Tom Keene, American actor (Our Daily Bread), dies of cancer at 68
1996 – Hernan Siles Zuazo, President of Bolivia (1956-60, 1982-85), dies at 82
2002 – Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
2012 – Ruggiero Ricci, American composer and violinist (Paganini), dies from heart failure at 94
2018 – Joël Robuchon, French chef, world record for Michelin stars (32), dies of cancer at 73
Famous Deaths for 5th August 2020
1778 – Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)
1863 – Adolf Friedrich Hesse, German composer, dies at 53
1929 – Millicent Fawcett, English suffragist, dies at 82
1959 – Edgar Albert Guest, American poet and newspaperman, dies at 77
1964 – Moa Martinson, Swedish writer (My Mother Gets Married), dies at 73
1966 – Austin Diamond, Australian cricketer (Australian capt to America 1913), dies at 92
1972 – Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1905)
1991 – Paul Brown, NFL hall of fame coach (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals), dies of pneumonia at 82
2000 – Dudley Randall, African-American poet who founded the pioneering publishing house “Broadside Press”, dies at 84
2002 – Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
Famous Deaths for 4th August 2020
1578 – Sebastiaan, King of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24
1821 – William Floyd, American soldier who signed the US Declaration of Independence, dies at 86
1873 – Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter, dies at 39
1942 – Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer, dies at 81
1981 – Melvyn Douglas [Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg], American actor (Hud, Being There, Ghost Story), dies at 80
1984 – Walter Burke, American actor (Jack the Giant Killer), dies at 75 of emphysema
1991 – Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80
1995 – J. Howard Marshall [James Howard Marshall II], American businessman and husband of Anna Nicole Smith, dies at 90
2003 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist and Nobel Prize laureate 1954, dies at 86
2011 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese Soccer player (b. 1977)
Famous Deaths for 3rd August 2020
1604 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
1761 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar, dies at 70
1792 – Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (created the spinning frame), dies at 59
1811 – Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, Dutch dir-gen of East Indies Co, dies at 49
1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (Frobenius–Stickelberger formulae), dies at 67
1944 – Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz
1948 – Albert F Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78
1957 – John Vernou “Black Jack” Bouvier, father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer
1979 – Renato Fasano, Italian composer, dies at 76
1995 – Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)