1361 – Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)
1775 – John Hill, British writer
1916 – Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1848-1916), dies of pneumonia after catching a cold taking a walk at 86
1940 – Geoffrey Legge, cricketer (WWII 196 Eng v NZ Auckland 1930), dies
1967 – Florence Reed, actress (Black Panther Club), dies after illness at 84
1969 – Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (1924)
1987 – Jim Folsom, American politician (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), dies at 79
1995 – Dorothy Jeakins, American film and theatre costume designer (Samson and Delilah), dies at 81
1995 – Peter Grant, English rock band manager (Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin), dies of a heart attack at 60
2023 – Georges Perroud, Swiss soccer forward (18 caps; FC Sion, Servette FC), dies at 82
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 20th November 2025
869 – King Edmund of East Anglia
1758 – Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish violinist, conductor (Swedish Royal Orchestra), and composer (“Drottningholm Music”), known as the “Swedish Handel”, dies at 64
1851 – Wenzel Sedlak, Bohemian clarinetist and composer, dies at 75
1984 – Alexander Moyzes, Slovak composer, dies at 78
2000 – Mike Muuss, American computer programmer (Ping), dies in a car accident at 42
2008 – Sven Inge, Swedish painter and modern artist (b. 1935)
2015 – Jim Perry, American and Canadian tv host ($ale of the Century), dies at 82
2019 – Wataru Misaka, American basketball point guard (first non-white player, first player of Asian descent in BAA [later known NBA]; NY Knicks), dies at 95
2020 – Ernesto Canto, Mexican race walker (Olympic gold 20k 1984; World C’ship gold 20k 1983), dies from pancreatic and liver cancer at 61
2022 – Hebe de Bonafini, Argentine human rights activist (co-founded Mothers of Plaza de Mayo), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 19th November 2025
1478 – Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)
1915 – Joe Hill [Joel Hägglund], Swedish-American labor activist and protest songwriter (“The Preacher and the Slave”; “There Is Power in a Union”), executed at Sugar House Prison in Salt Lake City, Utah for murder at 36
1942 – Bruno Schulz, Polish writer (The Street of Crocodiles), shot and killed by German Nazi at 50
1985 – Stepin Fetchit [Lincoln Perry], American actor (Miracle in Harlem) 1st African American film star, dies of pneumonia 83
1991 – Reggie Nalder, Austrian actor (Mark of Devil), dies of bone cancer at 80
1992 – Dorothy Walker Bush, American mother of President George H. W. Bush, dies at 91
1996 – Denis Jenkinson, British motor racing journalist, dies at 74
1997 – Durlyn Eddmonds, American murderer, executed at 45
2023 – Hannes Strydom, South African rugby union lock (21 Tests; Eastern Province, Northern Transvaal, Transvaal, Super Rugby Cats), dies in a car accident at 58
2024 – Roy Christian, New Zealand rugby league centre (32 Tests; Auckland RL, Otahuhu RLFC), dies at 81
Famous Deaths for 18th November 2025
1154 – Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
1559 – Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
1785 – Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
1814 – Aleijadinho ‘the Cripple’ [Antônio Francisco Lisboa], Brazilian architect and sculptor (São Francisco de Assis), dies at 76
1887 – Eduard Marxsen, German pianist and composer, dies at 81
1904 – Justus van Maurik, Dutch author and cigar manufacturer, dies at 58
1946 – Johnny Lush, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1904-10 (Philadelphia Phillies, St . Louis Cardinals 2 no-hitters – 1 official, 1 rain-shortened), dies at 61
1986 – Lajos Bárdos, Hungarian conductor, composer, musicologist and professor, dies at 87
1996 – Douglas Guest, British organist, choir master (Westminster Abbey, 1963-81), conductor, and composer (For the Fallen), dies at 80
2024 – Karl Kohn, Austrian-American pianist, composer, and educator (Pomona College), dies at 98
Famous Deaths for 17th November 2025
594 – St Gregory of Tours, Gallo-Roman chronicler and bishop (History of the Franks), dies at 55
1302 – St. Gertrude the Great, German Benedictine nun (b. 1256)
1905 – Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and son of Leopold I, dies at 68
1917 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (Baiser, Thinker), dies at 77
1943 – Paul Charles Rene Landormy, French musicologist, music critic, and composer, dies at 74
1947 – Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
1986 – Georges Besse, French president-director of Renault, murdered
1991 – Kelly Jean Van Dyke-Nance, American actress, adult film performer and Jerry Van Dyke’s daughter, commits suicide at 33
1994 – G Waller, German/Swiss movie journalist (NRC/Variety), dies at 82
2018 – Richard Baker, English broadcaster (newsreader for BBC News, 1954-1982), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 16th November 2025
1808 – Mustapha IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08), dies at 29
1869 – Hamiora Pere is hanged for treason at the Terrace Gaol, Wellington – only New Zealander ever to be executed for treason
1884 – František Chvostek, Czech-Austrian military physician and medicinal lecturer, dies at 49
1980 – O. V. [Overton Vertis] Wright, American blues singer, dies at 41
1987 – Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore’s national anthem, dies at 80
1994 – John Boylan, American actor (Twin Peaks, Sleepless in Seattle), dies at 82
1994 – Dino Valenti [Chester Powers, Jr.], American rock guitarist and singer (Quicksilver Messenger Service – “Fresh Air”), dies at 57
1997 – Georges Marchais, French political leader (French Communist Party), dies at 77
2007 – Gene Golub, American mathematician known for his work on numerical analysis, dies at 75
2010 – Wyngard Tracy, Filipino talent manager (b. 1952)
Famous Deaths for 15th November 2025
655 – Penda of Mercia, Pagan Anglo-Saxon King of Mercia, killed at the Battle of Winwaed and his head cut off at about 49 [b. 606. exact date uncertain]
1907 – Horatio Richmond Palmer, American composer and choir director, dies at 73
1934 – Anton Dreesmann, German-Dutch manufacturer (Vroom and Dreesman), dies at 80
1993 – Luciano Liggio [Leggio], Italian mafia leader and painter, dies while serving a life sentence in prison of a heart attack at 68
1998 – Stokely Carmichael, American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
2009 – Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (b. 1914)
2017 – Keith Barron, English actor (At Earth’s Core, Baby Love), dies at 83
2020 – Campbell Forsyth, Scottish soccer goalkeeper (4 caps; St Mirren, Kilmarnock, Southampton), dies at 86
2023 – Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese Buddhist leader (Soka Gakkai), dies at 95
2023 – George Chigova, Zimbabwean soccer goalkeeper (32 caps; Polokwane City FC, SuperSport United FC), dies from heart disease at 32
Famous Deaths for 14th November 2025
1844 – John Abercrombie, Scottish physician, dies at 64
1908 – Guangxu, Chinese Emperor of the Qing dynasty (1875-1908), dies of arsenic poisoning at 37
1910 – John La Farge, American painter (stained glass), dies at 75
1922 – Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer, dies at 79
1935 – Jacobus Wouterus van Dieren, Dutch biologist (specializing in study of dune formation, particularly on West Frisian Island of Terschelling), dies of kidney failure at 33
1992 – Clem Beauchamp, American film actor, stuntman, and production manager (Tarzan; Dick Tracy; The Adventures of Superman), dies at 94
1993 – Sanzo Nosaka, co-founder of Japanese Communist Party (1922), dies
2001 – Charlotte Coleman, British actress (Four Weddings and a Funeral), dies of an asthma attack at 33
2020 – M. A. Foster, American sci-fi author, (Gameplayers of Zan), dies at 81
2024 – Vic Flick, British studio guitarist (“James Bond Theme”; George Martin Orchestra; John Barry Seven), film score composer, and arranger, dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 13th November 2025
1004 – Abbo of Fleury [Floriacensis], French abbott and saint, dies
1868 – Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer (Barber of Seville, William Tell), dies at 76
1869 – Iskandar Ali Mirza, Bengali-Pakistani general and 1st President of Pakistan (1956-58), dies of a heart attack at 70
1967 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist, dies at 71
1979 – Dimitris Psathas, Greek playwright (b. 1907)
1994 – Lewis Bingham Keeble, British-born town planner, dies at 79
1997 – Dawud M. Mu’Min, American murderer (b. 1953)
2001 – Raphaël Sommer, Czech cellist, and educator, dies of an aortic aneurysm at 64
2001 – Margaret “Peggy” Mount, British actress (Oliver!, Panic in the Parlor), dies following a stroke at 86
2024 – Theodore Olson, American attorney (42nd Solicitor General of the United States, 2001-04), dies of a stroke at 84
Famous Deaths for 12th November 2025
1600 – Andrew of Austria, Austrian nobleman (Margrave of Burgau), clergyman (Catholic cardinal and bishop), and Governor-General of the Habsburg Netherlands (1598-1599), dies at 42
1823 – Emanuel Aloys Förster, Bohemian composer and music teacher, dies at 75
1852 – Georg Hellmesberger Jr., Austrian violinist and composer, dies at 22
1944 – George David Birkhoff, American mathematician (Aesthetic measure), dies at 60
1967 – Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian, dies at 58
1967 – Kurt Barthel [KuBa], German writer and political activist, dies at 53
1970 – Gene Gifford American jazz banjoist, guitarist, and arranger (Jean Goldkette; Casa Loma Orchestra), dies at 62
1996 – John Qace Hardbattle, Botswana political activist and co-founder of the First People of the Kalahari (1991), dies of lymphatic cancer at 51
2001 – Albert Hague [Marcuse], German-American actor, singer and composer (Fame, How the Grinch Stole Christmas), dies of cancer at 73
2003 – Kay E. Kuter, American actor (Green Acres), dies at 78