1875 – Isaac Singer, American inventor (1st practical home sewing machine), dies at 63
1904 – John Simon, British pathologist, public health officer, and 1st Chief Medical Officer (1855-76), dies at 87
1920 – Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (b. 1835)
1942 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer who invented devices for radio broadcasting, dies at 72
1974 – Mary Forbes, actress (Nun-Les Miserables, Ivy), dies at 90
1982 – Betty Parsons, American artist and art dealer, dies at 82
1995 – Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 80
2011 – Amy Winehouse, British singer songwriter, dies from alcohol poisoning at 27
2013 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer, dies from complications from pneumonia at 84
2013 – Emile Griffith, American boxer, (world welterweight, middleweight and junior middleweight champion), dies of dementia complications at 75
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 22nd July 2020
1362 – Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (b. 1324)
1676 – Clement X [Emilio Altieri], Italian Pope (1670-76), dies at 86
1916 – James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849)
1918 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian World War I flying ace, dies at 19
1990 – George Wood, dies of diabetes complications at 56
1990 – Preben Neergaard, Danish actor (Mordskab), dies of cancer at 70
1996 – Leon Shenandoah, native American leader, dies at 81
1996 – Robert Collins, keyboard player, dies at 33
2000 – Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author, dies at 74
2012 – George A. Miller, American psychologist, dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 21st July 2020
1878 – Sam Bass, American Old West train robber and outlaw, dies at 27
1928 – Ellen Alice Terry, British Shakespearean actress and director (Imperial Theatre), dies at 81
1941 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet, dies at 68
1948 – Donald Nichols Tweedy, American composer, dies at 58
1962 – G. M. Trevelyan [George Macaulay Trevelyan], British historian and academic, dies at 86
1967 – Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies
1970 – Bob Kalsu, American football player, dies at 25
1996 – Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79
2010 – Ralph Houk, American baseball catcher, coach, manager and executive (World Series champion 1947, 52-53, coach, 58; mgr 1961-62; NY Yankees), dies at 90
2019 – Ben Johnston [Benjamin Burwell Johnston Jr], American microtonal composer (Gambit), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 20th July 2020
985 – Antipope Boniface VII (974, 984–985)
1320 – King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)
1453 – Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler
1816 – Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743)
1866 – Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies at 39
1897 – Philip Dale Roddey, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 71
1944 – Brandt, col/German staff chief, dies in bombing
1944 – Rudolf Schmundt, German general /Hitler’s Army adjunct, dies from wounds in attempt to assassinate Hitler at 48
1976 – Tom Lowry, cricketer (early New Zealand Test captain), dies
2005 – James Doohan, Canadian actor (Star Trek), dies from Pulmonary fibrosis at 85
Famous Deaths for 19th July 2020
931 – Uda, 59th Emperor of Japan (887-897), dies at 64
1700 – Hieronymus Gradenthaler, German composer, dies at 62
1844 – Heinrich Domnich, German hornist and composer, dies at 77
1939 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (Curfew Must Not Ring) and writer, dies at 89
1992 – Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79
1993 – Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist/conductor, dies at 84
1994 – Nathan Susskind, Slovak/US linguist (Yiddish), dies at 87
1994 – Ray Flaherty, American Pro Football Hall of Fame end, coach (3 x NFL Championships; Washington Redskins 1937, 42 coach), dies at 90
1998 – Elmer Valo, baseball player (b. 1921)
2011 – Sheila Burrell, British actress (Black Orchid, Paranoiac, Laughter in Dark), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 18th July 2020
1899 – Horatio Alger, American clergyman and author (Disagreeable Woman, Ragged Dick), dies at 67
1941 – Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer, dies at 80
1965 – Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, Russian composer, dies at 64
1966 – Bobby Fuller, American rock singer and guitarist (I Fought the Law), found dead at 23
1989 – Donnie Moore, pitcher (Angels), shoots himself at 35
1989 – Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (Patti-My Sister Sam), is shot by a fan at 21
1990 – Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Astérix, Tintin), dies at 79
1993 – John Beck, US producer (Harvey, Singing Nun), dies at 83
2001 – Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1920)
2008 – Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (Hamoun), dies at 64
Famous Deaths for 17th July 2020
656 – Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated.
1790 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist (Wealth of Nations) and moral philosopher, dies at 67
1894 – Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist, dies at 83
1918 – Alexei Trupp, Russian footman and assistant of Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 62
1937 – Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, composer, dies at 73
1987 – Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
1996 – Paul Touvier, French-Nazi WW II criminal, dies at 81
2003 – David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector (b. 1944)
2005 – Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer and one of the pioneers of Jamaican ska music, dies at 78
2009 – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927)
Famous Deaths for 16th July 2020
1691 – Francois Michel le Tellier, French statesman (Marquis de Louvois), dies at 82
1782 – Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden and wife of Adolf Frederik, dies at 61
1886 – Ned Buntline, [Edward Zane Carroll Judson], author, dies
1917 – Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70
1947 – Horatio Mbelle, South African interpreter, community leader and politician, dies in Pretoria at 77
1960 – Albert Kesselring, German general during World War II (Commander-in-Chief South and West), dies of a heart attack at 74
1996 – John Panozzo, drummer, dies at 48
1998 – John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
2006 – Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (b. 1948)
2019 – Pat Bowlen, American Pro Football Hall of Fame team owner (Denver Broncos), dies of complications of Alzheimer’s disease at 75
Famous Deaths for 15th July 2020
1751 – John Wilson, botanist, dies
1839 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English politician and poet, dies at 36
1929 – Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies
1931 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician 9Poisson distribution) and economist (b. 1868)
1937 – Walter Gay, artist, dies
1960 – Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (b. 1897)
1982 – Bill Justis, American musician and producer (Raunchy), dies of cancer at 58
1982 – Donald Beard, cricketer (4 Tests for NZ 1952-56), dies
1983 – Eddie Foy Jr [Edwin Fitzgerald Jr], American actor (The Pajama Game, Fair Exchange), dies of cancer at 78
1992 – Henk van der Molen, guitarist/composer/writer (Martine Bijl), dies
Famous Deaths for 14th July 2020
1711 – Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange and monarch of Nassau-Dietz, drowns at 23
1744 – Immanuel J. Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28
1762 – Cornelis Hop, Amsterdams regent/diplomat, dies at 77
1770 – David ‘t Kindt, Flemish architect (Mammelokker, Ghent), dies at 71
1812 – Christian G. Heyne, German archaeologist, dies at 82
1902 – Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor, dies at 58
1939 – Alphonse Mucha, Czech Nouveau painter and artist, dies at 78
1994 – Robert Jungk, German/French/Us/Austrian philosopher/historian, dies
1998 – Robert A. W. Lowndes, American sci-fi author (Puzzle Planet), dies at 81
2008 – Hugh Lloyd, British actor (Hugh and I, Punch and Judy Man), dies at 85