1100 – William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44
1827 – James Hewitt, American composer and conductor, dies at 57
1872 – Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59
1876 – Wild Bill” Hickok [James Butler], American cowboy and scout, shot dead from behind by Jack McCall while playing poker (he held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8’s), dies at 39
1891 – George Washington Williams, American historian (History of the Negro Race in America), dies from tuberculosis and pleurisy at 41
1979 – Thurman Munson, American baseball catcher (MLB All-Star 1971, 73–78; World Series 1977, 78; AL MVP 1976; NY Yankees), dies in a plane crash at 32
1988 – Raymond Carver, American poet and short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50
1988 – Roger Vuataz, composer, dies at 90
1995 – Brian Smith, British sportscaster, dies
1997 – Fela Kuti, Nigerian Afrobeat musician and composer, dies of an illness at 58
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 1st August 2020
1743 – Richard Savage, English poet and playwright, dies at about 46
1813 – Carl Stenborg, Swedish composer, dies at 60
1922 – Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer, dies at 72
1965 – Kiyoshi Nobutoki, Japanese cellist and composer, dies at 77
1980 – Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
1996 – Mohamed Farrah Aidid, President (ANS-CUS)/Somalia, dies
2005 – Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (1982-2005), dies at 84
2006 – Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
2007 – Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)
2008 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
Famous Deaths for 31st July 2020
855 – Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim Jurisprudent (b. 780)
1693 – Willem Calf, Rotterdams still life painter, dies at 73
1944 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer, poet and pioneering aviator (The Little Prince), dies during a reconnaissance mission at 44
1966 – Alex von Falkenhausen, German general (China, WW II), dies at 87
1977 – Stacy Moskowitz, shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20
1985 – Eugene Carson Blake, US Secretary-General of World Council of Churches (1966-72), dies at 78
1992 – G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72
2000 – Hendrik Christoffel Van de Hulst, Dutch astronomer (correctly predicted the existence of the 21 cm hyper-fine line of neutral atomic hydrogen in interstellar space), dies at 81
2012 – Gore Vidal, American author (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln), dies from pneumonia at 86
2013 – Michael Ansara, American actor (Broken Arrow, Centennial), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 30th July 2020
1683 – Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France, dies at 44
1741 – Wierich PL count von Daun, gov-gen of Austria and Netherlands, dies
1916 – Albert Neisser, German physician who discovered the bacterias that cause gonorrhea and leprosy, dies of septicemia at 61
1970 – George Szell, Hungarian-born American conductor (Cleveland Orchestra, 1946-70), dies at 73
1980 – Charles McGraw [Butters], American actor (Spartacus, The Birds, The Killers, Smith Family), dies after falling through a glass shower door at 66
1994 – Theo van Scheltinga, skater, dies at 80
1995 – Harry Shorto, British philologist and linguist (A Dictionary of the Mon Inscriptions), dies at 75
2000 – Max Showalter, American actor and composer (Kansas, Niagara, Stockard Channing Show in Caldwell), dies of cancer at 83
2006 – Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
2007 – Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)
Famous Deaths for 29th July 2020
238 – Balbinus, Roman Emperor, ruled 3 months with Pupienus
1507 – Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer, dies at 47
1612 – Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
1838 – Jonathan Huntington, composer, dies at 66
1839 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1983 – Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (Dr Kildare), dies of pneumonia at 86
1994 – John Bayard Britton, abortion doctor, killed by Paul Hill
2003 – Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
2009 – Gayatri Devi, 3rd Maharani consort of Jaipur, India (1940-49), dies of lung failure and gastric problems at 90
2018 – Tomasz Stańko, Polish trumpeter (Astigmatic), dies of complication from lung cancer at 76
Famous Deaths for 28th July 2020
1057 – Victor II, [Gebhard], Pope (1055-57), dies
1230 – Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
1631 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
1711 – Gerard Lairesse, Dutch painter, buried at 69
1864 – Samuel Benton, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at about 44
1895 – Edward Beecher, American theologian, dies at 91
1974 – Truman Bradley, American TV host (Science Fiction Theater), dies at 69
1996 – Harold Fox, American fashion designer and musician, dies at 86
1996 – Marguerite “Marge” Ganser, pop singer (The Shangri-Las), dies at 48
1999 – Rudolf Halaczinsky, German composer, dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 27th July 2020
1101 – Conrad II, King of Germany and Italy (b. 1074)
1276 – King James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
1833 – William Bainbridge, American naval officer, dies at 59
1968 – Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem J M A Asselbergs], literary, dies
1971 – Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor/composer, dies at 83
1976 – Ray Brennan, retired US Air Force captain, American Legion bookkeeper and the 1st American to die of “Legionnaire’s Disease”, dies of an apparent heart attack at 61
1988 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
1999 – Sweets Edison, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1915)
2011 – Richard Rutt, English bishop of Leicester, dies at 85
2011 – Ágota Kristóf, Hungarian writer (The Notebook), dies at 75
Famous Deaths for 26th July 2020
1533 – Atahualpa, last Sapa Inca Emperor, garroted by order of Franciso Pizarro at about 52
1615 – Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish Armada commander, dies at 64
1863 – Sam Houston, 1st President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent state, dies at 70
1867 – King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
1975 – Leigh Whipper, actor (Hidden Eye, Jungle Queen), dies at 98
1992 – Ron Webber, dies of cancer at 60
1994 – Owen “Terry” Scott, British actor and comedian (Terry and June, Carry On Films), dies of cancer at 67
2002 – Jutta Hecker, German writer, dies at 97
2007 – John Normington, English actor (b. 1937)
2012 – Franz West, Austrian artist, dies at 65
Famous Deaths for 25th July 2020
1814 – Charles Dibdin, British composer, author (Sea Songs), and actor, dies at 69
1834 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British romantic poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner), dies of heart failure at 61
1861 – Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)
1971 – Leroy Robertson, composer, dies at 74
1995 – Janice Elliott, English novelist, dies at 63
1998 – Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist, dies at 77
2003 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer, dies at 91
2007 – Jesse Marunde, American Strongman competitor, dies at 27
2011 – Michael Cacoyannis, Greek film director (Zorba the Greek, Trojan Women), dies at 90
2013 – Bernadette Lafont, French actress (Perils of Gwendoline), dies from cardiac arrest at 74
Famous Deaths for 24th July 2020
1712 – Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies
1812 – Joseph Schuster, composer, dies at 63
1862 – Martin Van Buren, 8th US President (1837-41), dies of heart failure at 79
1868 – George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies
1987 – Dick Wellstood, American jazz pianist, dies at 59
1995 – Don Richard Carpenter, novelist, dies at 64
1995 – Jerry Lordan, English singer and composer (Wonderful Land), dies at 61
1997 – Frank Parker, American tennis player (4-time Grand Slam singles winner), dies at 81
2005 – Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems), dies at 92
2012 – Robert Ledley, American scientist (invented the CT scanner), dies at 86