708 – Sisinnius, Greek-Syrian pope (708, 20 days), dies
1844 – Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant and leader of the protestant Réveil movement, dies at 49
1905 – Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor, dies at 63
1995 – Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies
2003 – Benyoucef Ben Khedda, Algerian politician (b. 1920)
2006 – Myron Waldman, American animator (Fleischer Studio), dies at 97
2010 – Kostas Axelos, Greek-French philosopher, dies at 85
2013 – Donald Byrd, American jazz trumpeter (Black Byrd), dies at 80
2016 – Dave Mirra, American BMX rider (Best Male Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award 2005; 24 x Games medals), dies by suicide at 41
2021 – Jessie Smith, American session and touring vocalist (Ike and Tina Turner Revue; The Mirettes; Dr. John), dies at 79
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 19th January 2025
1479 – Johan II, king of Aragon/Navarra, dies at 81
1862 – Felix Zollicoffer, American journalist and Confederate Brigadier General, killed in action at the Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky at 49
1925 – Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Queen consort of the Two Sicilies, dies at 83
1945 – Ernest-Bernard Allo, French Dominican theologist, dies at 71
1964 – Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist who twice won the Tour de France (1919, 1922), dies at 77
1993 – Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer (World Press Photo), dies at 72
2006 – Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricket all-rounder, captain (NZ 12 Tests @ 31.22, 16 wickets), dies at 84
2008 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (The Birds; The Bob Newhart Show – “Emily”), dies at 70
2011 – Ernest McCulloch, Canadian stem cell research pioneer, dies at 84
2023 – David Sutherland, Scottish cartoonist (Beano – Bash Street Kids, Dennis the Menace), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 7th January 2025
1721 – Rochus Aerts, Flemish sculptor, dies [or 1739]
1730 – Árni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar and collector of manuscripts (Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection), dies at 66
1770 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician, dies at 74
1872 – James Fisk, American financier “Barnum of Wall Street”, dies at 38
1882 – Jim Fisk, American financier and “robber baron” of the Gilded Age known as Big Jim, dies of an abdominal wound a day after being shot twice by business associate Edward Stiles Stokes at 36
1948 – Raoul Auernheimer, Austrian American writer, dies at 71
1972 – John Berryman, American poet (The Dream Songs), dies at 57
1987 – Larry Carr, American pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72
1991 – Charlotte Wynters, American stage and screen actress, dies at 91
2005 – Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
Famous Deaths for 5th January 2025
1066 – Edward the Confessor, King of England (1042-66) and the last King from the House of Wessex, dies at around 60 to 63
1713 – Jean Chardin, French explorer (Middle East and India), dies at 69
1880 – Benjamin J. Hill, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 54
1966 – George Duckworth, English cricket wicket-keeper (24 Tests, 60 dismissals), dies at 64
1972 – Gerald Kelly, British painter, dies at 92
1994 – Tip O’Neill, American politician and 47th speaker of the house (D-Ma: 1977-86), dies of cancer at 81
1998 – Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (b. 1943)
2013 – Bruce McCarty, American architect, dies at 92
2021 – Bob Brett, Australian tennis coach (Boris Becker, Goran Ivanišević, Marin Čilić), dies from cancer at 67
2024 – (Derek) “Del” Palmer, English session and touring bassist, and sound engineer (Kate Bush), dies at 71
Famous Deaths for 29th December 2024
1689 – Olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried
1737 – Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659)
1877 – Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies
1924 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1952 – Fletcher Henderson, American pianist, bandleader, composer, and arranger (Benny Goodman Orchestra), dies at 55
2003 – Bob Monkhouse, English comedian (Bonkers!) and game show host (The Golden Shot; Celebrity Squares), dies of prostate cancer at 75
2004 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
2008 – Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1938)
2019 – Norma Tanega, American folk and pop singer-songwriter, guitarist (“Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog”; “You’re Dead”), percussionist, and painter, dies of colon cancer at 80
2020 – Claude Bolling, French jazz and classical cross-over pianist and composer (Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio), dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 21st December 2024
1889 – Friedrich August Quenstedt, German geologist and paleontologist, dies at 80
1972 – Horace Mann Bond, American educator, administrator (President of Lincoln University (Pa), 1945-57), and historian, dies at 68
1974 – Richard Long, American actor (Prof-Nanny and the Professor), dies at 47
1976 – Edward Bartlett, cricketer (WI Test batsman in 5 Tests 1928-31), dies
1992 – Philip Farkas, American classical horn player (Chicago Symphony) and educator (University of Indiana), dies at 78
1992 – Stella Adler, American actress (Love on Toast; My Girl Tisa), and teacher (Stella Adler Studio of Acting), dies at 91
1993 – Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100
1997 – Michael Lyne, British Air Vice-Marshal, dies at 78
2006 – Sydney Wooderson, English athlete dubbed “The Mighty Atom” (world record 1937), dies at 92
2017 – Bruce McCandless II, American aviator, electrical engineer and astronaut who made the 1st untethered space walk (STS 41B, STS-31), dies at 80
Famous Deaths for 5th December 2024
1916 – Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and granddaughter of George III, dies at 94
1926 – Claude Monet [Oscar-Claude], French impressionist painter (Water Lilies, Haystacks, Poplars), dies from lung cancer at 86
1953 – Jorge Negrete [Moreno], Mexican singer and actor (The Rebel, La madrina del diablo), dies of hepatitis at 42
1963 – Herbert H Lehman, (Gov-D-NY), dies
1983 – Robert Aldrich, American director and producer (The Dirty Dozen, Last Sunset), dies at 65
1993 – Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms), commits suicide using a pistol at 32
1995 – Stanley Keith Runcorn, British geophysicist (reversals of earth’s magnetic field), dies at 73
1995 – Bill Bruton, American baseball outfielder (NL stolen bases leader 1953-55 Milwaukee Braves), dies of a heart attack at 70
2002 – Roone Arledge, American sports broadcasting executive (President ABC Sports – Monday Night Football; ABC News), dies of prostate cancer at 71
2007 – Andrew Imbrie, American contemporary classical composer, and pianist, dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 22nd November 2024
365 – Felix II, Italian anti-pope, dies after failing to regain position as Pope from Liberius
1963 – J. D. Tippit, American police officer, murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald at 39, shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy
1963 – C. S. Lewis [Clive Staples], British author (The Chronicles of Narnia), dies of renal failure at 64
1982 – Max Deutsch, Austrian-French composer, dies at 90
1983 – Michael Conrad, American Emmy Award-winning actor (Hill Street Blues – “Sgt. Phil Esterhaus”), dies of cancer at 58
1994 – John Michael Grimes, British set designer (Philby, Burgess and MacLean), dies at 70
2000 – Christian Marquand, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2002 – Arne Mellnäs, Swedish contemporary classical composer (Aura; Capricorn Flakes; Rolando furioso), and educator (Royal College of Music, 1963-83), dies at 69
2011 – Paul Motian, American jazz drummer (Bill Evans Trio; Keith Jarrett), composer, and bandleader (Electric Bebop Band), dies of bone marrow cancer at 80
2015 – Kim Young-sam, politician and activist – President of South Korea (1993-98), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 14th November 2024
1866 – Miguel I, King of Portugal (1828-34), dies at 64
1915 – Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist, composer, and teacher (Contes de Jeunesse), dies at 85
1947 – Joseph Allard, French Canadian fiddler and composer, dies at 74
1974 – Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (Lawman is Born, Back Trail), dies from a cardiac condition at 70
1981 – Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1941)
1982 – Joachim Stutschewsky, Austrian-Israeli cellist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 91
1992 – Clem Beauchamp, American film actor, stuntman, and production manager (Tarzan; Dick Tracy; The Adventures of Superman), dies at 94
1994 – Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
2001 – Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine soccer forward (Boca Juniors, Sampdoria, Atlético Madrid) and manager (Argentina, Boca Juniors, Lazio, Roma), dies at 79
2003 – Gene Anthony Ray, American dancer and actor (Fame – “Leroy”), dies from complications of a stroke at 41
Famous Deaths for 9th November 2024
1187 – Emperor Gaozong of Song, 10th emperor of Song dynasty, dies at 80
1927 – Ole Olsen, Norwegian composer, organist, and military bandleader, dies at 77
1932 – Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Russian woman who was the 2nd wife of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, commits suicide at 31
1953 – Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, Founder and first King of Saudi Arabia (1932-53), dies of a heart attack at 78
1971 – Maude Fealy, American actor and drama coach (The Ten Commandments), dies at 88
1980 – Carmel Myers, American stage and silent and sound screen actress (Ben-Hur; Svengali), dies of a heart attack at 81
1988 – David Bauer, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame player and builder (priest, school coach; National Team manager), dies at 64
2002 – William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
2005 – K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India (1997-2002), dies at 85
2018 – Paula Wayne [Watkins], American stage and Emmy Award-winning actress (Golden Boy; Everglade!), pop vocalist (“Everything’s Great”), and civil rights activist, dies of cancer at 84