1769 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, dies at 80
1869 – Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer and photographer, murdered trying to cross the Sahara at 33
1876 – “Wild Bill” Hickok [James Butler Hickok], American cowboy and scout, shot dead from behind at 39 by Jack McCall while playing poker (he held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8’s)
1903 – Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (Louis Pasteur Institute), dies at 53
1978 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican conductor and composer (Sinfonía India), dies at 79
1982 – Rudolf Maros, Hungarian composer (Sirato/Lament; Euphonies), and pedagogue, dies at 65
1995 – Brian Smith, Canadian sportscaster and NHL player, dies at 54 after being shot the previous day
2003 – Charles Kerruish, Manx politician and President of Tyndwald Isle of Man, dies at 86
2015 – Forrest Bird, American aviator and inventor (1st respirators and ventilators), dies at 94
2022 – Ray Majors, British rock guitarist (Mott the Hoople, 1975-76; British Lions, 1977-78), dies at 73
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 1st August 2024
371 – St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283)
1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
1857 – Charles Turner, engraver, dies
1911 – Konrad Duden, German linguist (the Duden dictionary), dies at 82
1911 – Edward Austin Abbey, American painter (Quest of the Holy Grail mural at Boston Public Library), dies at 59
1917 – Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
1922 – Vaclav Juda Novotny, Czech music writer, composer, and libretti translator, dies at 72
1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer, pedagogue (Venice Liceo Musicale, 1932-52), and musicologist (Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Vivaldi). s at 91
1993 – Alfred Manessier, French painter (glass-in-lead), dies in car crash at 81
1995 – Loudi Nijhoff, Dutch actress (Alicia, Van Geluk Gesproken), dies
Famous Deaths for 31st July 2024
1396 – William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1342)
1693 – Willem Kalf, Dutch ‘Golden Age’ painter (Still life with nautilus beaker and porcelain lidded bowl), dies at 73 or 74 [exact birthday in 1619, unknown]
1750 – John V, King of Portugal (1706-50), dies at 60
1784 – Denis Diderot, French enlightenment philosopher (Encyclopédie), dies at 70
1864 – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (Librairie Hachette), dies at 64
1871 – Phoebe Cary, American poet (Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary), dies at 46
1952 – N B F “Tufty” Mann, cricketer (South African slow lefty 1947-51), dies
1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist (Nobel 1938-work on carotenoids and vitamins), dies at 66
1978 – Carleton Percy Hobbs, actor (I Claudius, Dark Places), dies at 80
2022 – Fidel V. Ramos, Filipino general and 12th President of the Philippines (1992-98), dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 30th July 2024
1540 – Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
1652 – Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
1683 – Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France, dies at 44
1889 – Charles Absolom, English cricketer (Test for England), dies in a port accident at 43
1980 – Charles McGraw [Butters], American actor (Spartacus, The Birds, The Killers, Smith Family), dies after falling through a glass shower door at 66
1995 – Biggie Tembo [Rodwell Marasha], Zimbabwean musician (Bhundu Boys), takes his own life at 36
1998 – Buffalo Bob Smith [Robert Emil Schmidt], American TV host (Howdy Doody), dies of cancer at 80
2007 – Bill Walsh, American Pro Football HOF coach (Super Bowl 1981, 84, 88; NFL Coach of the Year 1981; SF 49ers; Stanford University 1977–78), dies of leukemia at 75
2010 – Otto Joachim, German-Canadian composer, dies at 99
2022 – [Grace] Nichelle Nichols, American actress (Star Trek – “Lt. Uhura”) and singer (Down To Earth; “Fly Me To The Moon”), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 29th July 2024
238 – Pupienus, Roman Emperor ruled 3 months with Balbinus, murdered by the Praetorian guard at about 70
1844 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer and 6th child of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, dies at 53
1918 – Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863)
1973 – Eileen Percy, Irish silent film actress (Wicked, Backstage), dies at 72
1984 – Fred Waring, American bandleader, conductor, and Waring Blender namesake, dies at 84
1985 – James F Nolan, actor (Dante), dies of cancer at 69
1996 – Jason Thirsk, American punk rock bassist (Pennywise), dies of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot at 28
1997 – Chuck Wayne [Jagelka], America session and bebop jazz guitarist (Woody Herman’s First Herd; George Shearing Quintet; Gil Evans; Tony Bennett), dies of emphysema at 74
2006 – Jim Olin, American politician (Rep-D-VA, 1983-93), dies at 86
2008 – Eric Varley, British politician and cabinet minister, dies at 75
Famous Deaths for 28th July 2024
1527 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador (founded city of Santa Marta), murdered by some of his men
1655 – Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism, dies at 76
1718 – Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
1746 – John Peter Zenger, German born journalist and printer working in New York, involved in 1st amendment fight, dies at 48
1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain, dies at 76
1878 – George Law Curry, American newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon, dies at 58
1965 – Minor Watson, American actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid), dies at 75
1980 – Cecil Burleigh, American violinist, composer (Sonnets of Autumn; Boyhood Recollections), and educator (University of Wisconsin, 1921-55), dies at 95
1991 – Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer who was exiled in the Netherlands, dies at 45
2007 – Jim LeRoy, American aerobatics pilot, dies in a plane crash at the Dayton airshow at 46
Famous Deaths for 27th July 2024
1844 – John Dalton, English physicist and chemist who developed the atomic theory of matter and researched colour blindness, dies at 77
1968 – Anton van Duinkerken [Willem Jan Marie Anton Asselbergs], Dutch poet and academic, dies at 65
1972 – Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian-Japanese politician, dies at 77
1992 – Max Dupain, Australian photographer (“Sunbaker”), dies at 81
1994 – Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner (member of the Bang-Bang Club), commits suicide at 33
1997 – Isabel Dean, English actress (Five Days One Summer Virgin Island, Ransom), dies at 79
2011 – Ágota Kristóf, Hungarian writer (The Notebook), dies at 75
2012 – Tony Martin, American singer, dies from natural causes at 98
2015 – A. P. J. [Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen] Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist and politician, 11th President of India (2002-07), dies at 83
2018 – Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident (Moscow 2042), dies of a heart attack at 85
Famous Deaths for 26th July 2024
1925 – Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (Begriffsschrift), dies at 76
1956 – Miguel Bernal Jiménez, Mexican organist, composer and pedagogue (Tata Vasco; Tres Cartas de México), dies of a heart attack at 46
1988 – Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani modernist scholar, dies at 68
1993 – Matthew Ridgway, American general (World War II, Korean War, NATO Supreme Commander) and Chief of Staff of the US Army (1953-55), dies of cardiac arrest at 98
1998 – (David Allan) “Chico” Ryan, American rock bassist and singer (Sha Na Na, 1973-98), dies at 50
2000 – John Tukey, American statistician (b. 1915)
2007 – Lars Forssell, Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy (b. 1928)
2009 – Merce Cunningham, American choreographer (Acrobat in Every Soul is a Circus), dies at 90
2016 – Miss Cleo [Youree Dell Harris], American psychic (Psychic Readers Network), dies of colon cancer at 53
2017 – June Foray, American voice actress (Rocky the Flying Squirrel; Cinderella, Cindy Lou Who), dies at 99
Famous Deaths for 25th July 2024
1539 – Lorenzo Campeggi(east), archbishop of Bologna and diplomat, dies at 65
1794 – André Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), executed by guillotine during French Revolution at 31
1934 – Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader, dies at 45
1952 – Herbert Murrill, British organist, composer (The Song of the Birds; Carillon), and educator (Royal Academy of Music, 1933-52), dies of cancer at 43
1983 – Jerome Moross, American composer (Frankie and Johnny), dies at 69
1984 – Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton, American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter (“Hound Dog”; “Ball and Chain”; “Stronger Than Dirt”), dies of heart and liver disorders at 57
1987 – Charles Stark “Doc” Draper, American Scientist and Engineer who headed the team that invented the Apollo Guidance Computer and inertial navigation technology for aircraft, space vehicles, and submarines, dies at 85
2008 – Jeff Fehring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1955)
2011 – Arsene Souffriau, Belgian pioneering electronic music composer, dies at 86
2018 – Judith Appelbaum, American magazine and newspaper editor and educator, dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 24th July 2024
446 – St Proclus, patriarch and archbishop of Constantinople, dies
1115 – Matilda of Tuscany, Countess of Canossa, feudal margravine dies at 68 or 69
1756 – George Vertue, English engraver, dies at about 72
1812 – Joseph Schuster, German composer, dies at 63
1954 – Mary Church Terrell, American educator and civil rights activist (co-founder and President National Association of Colored Women, dies at 90
1960 – Hans Albers, German actor (Blue Angel), dies at 68
1974 – Ernest Milton, American-British actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl), dies at 84
1996 – Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (Love and Death, Delicatessen), dies at 82
2001 – Georges Dor [Dore], French Canadian author, playwright, radio broadcaster, singer and songwriter, dies at 70
2011 – Dan Peek, American rock vocalist and guitarist (America), dies at 60