1948 – D.W. Griffith, American film director and producer (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 73
1955 – Cordell Hull, American Secretary of State (1933-44) who established United Nations (Nobel Peace Prize 1945), dies at 83
1955 – Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Un soir de joie), dies at 55
1964 – Jan de Vries, Dutch scholar of Germanic linguistics and Germanic mythology, dies at 74
1980 – Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
1994 – Aad Ivens, Dutch checkers player, dies at 80
1997 – Chūhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (Olympic gold triple jump 1932; only person to have held WRs in both long jump and triple jump), dies at 93
2002 – William Luther Pierce, American author and activist, dies at 68
2012 – Sally Ride, American astronaut and 1st American woman in space, dies of pancreatic cancer at 61
2021 – John Cornell, Australian screenwriter (Paul Hogan Show; Crocodile Dundee), and director (Crocodile Dundee II),. dies from complications related to Parkinson’s disease at 80
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 22nd July 2024
1880 – Anna Caroline Oury (née De Belleville), German concert pianist and composer, dies at 74
1920 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
1922 – John Motley Morehead III, American chemist (commercial production of calcium carbide, important for welding), dies at 67
1950 – Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (1921-30, and 1935-48), dies of pneumonia at 75
1980 – Fred Kaps [Abram Bongers], Dutch magician (ISM World Champion 1950, 1955 and 1961), dies of cancer at 54
1992 – Wayne McLaren, American stuntman, rodeo performer, model and actor best known for playing the Marlboro Man, dies of lung cancer at 51
2000 – Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author, dies at 74
2005 – Eugene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
2020 – Carlton Haselrig, American football guard (Pro Bowl 1992; Pittsburgh Steelers) and wrestler (6 x NCAA titles; Pitt-Johnstown), dies from liver disease at 54
2022 – David Moores, British football executive (Chairman Liverpool FC 1991-2007; Honorary Life President), dies at 76
Famous Deaths for 21st July 2024
1540 – John I Zapolyai, Prince of Transslvania and King of Hungary, dies
1946 – Gualberto Villarroel, Bolivian military officer (President of Bolivia 1943-46), killed and lynched in La Paz riots at 37
1957 – Rockley Wilson, English cricket spin bowler (1 Test, 3 wickets; Cambridge University, Yorkshire CCC), dies at 78
1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated by the IRA at 54
1986 – Virginia Hewitt, American actress (Carol-Space Patrol), dies of cancer at 60
1986 – Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
1991 – Theodore Wilson, American actor dies after a stroke at 47
2012 – James D. Ramage, American Naval Aviator in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War, dies at 96
2022 – Paddy Hopkirk, Irish rally driver (Monte Carlo Rally 1964), dies at 89
2022 – Uwe Seeler, German soccer striker (72 caps West Germany; Hamburger SV 476 games, 404 goals), dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 20th July 2024
985 – Antipope Boniface VII [Franco Ferrucci] (974, 984–985), dies at unknown age
1201 – Agnes of France, Queen of France, dies [or 7/18]
1547 – Beatus Rhenanus [Beatus Birt], German humanist, classical scholar and friend of Erasmus, dies bequeathing his significant library to city of Sélestat, at 80
1573 – Lancelot van Brederode, Dutch general of the “water beggars” rebellion, beheaded by the Spanish
1866 – Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies at 39
1898 – Yuri Karlovich Arnold, Russian composer, dies at 86
1954 – Blair Moody, American journalist (US Senator (D)-Michigan, 1951-52), dies at 52
2000 – Roberto Suárez Gómez, Bolivian drug lord called the “King of Cocaine” whose story was the basis of the movie “Scarface”, dies of a heart attack at 68
2019 – Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player (Australian Open doubles 1979, Wimbledon doubles 1980, 82), dies of prostate cancer at 64
2021 – Jerry Granelli, American-Canadian jazz drummer (Vince Guaraldi Trio; Mose Allison), dies at 80
Famous Deaths for 19th July 2024
1838 – Frédéric-Nicolas Duvernoy, French horn player and composer, dies at 72
1844 – Heinrich Domnich, German hornist and composer, dies at 77
1852 – Anne François Mellinet, French-Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83
1906 – Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic, dies at 57
1939 – Tom Hayward, English cricket batsman (35 Tests, 3 x 100; HS 137; Surrey CCC), dies at 68
1965 – Syngman Rhee, 1st President of South Korea (1948-60), dies at 90
1986 – Alfredo Binda, Italian road cyclist (first to win Giro d’Italia x 5; World Road Race C’ship 1927, 30, 32), dies at 83
1994 – Frederik “Frits” van der More, archaeologist/art historian, dies at 87
2004 – Reverend Francis Marzen, American Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
2015 – Sybren Polet [Sijbe Minnema], Dutch writer and poet (Mannekino), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 18th July 2024
1698 – Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian, dies at 65
1908 – Jaime Nunó, Spanish composer (Mexican national anthem), dies at 83
1918 – Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (b. 1864)
1944 – George A Hartland, British politician (MP, Norwich, 1931-35), dies at 60
1969 – Barbara Pepper [Marion], American actress (Foreign Correspondent, Green Acres, Rogue Tavern), dies of coronary thrombosis at 54
1988 – Nico [Christa Päffgen], German model, and pop singer (Velvet Underground – “Sunday Morning”; “I’ll Be Your Mirror”), dies from a bicycle accident at 43
1992 – Willa Brown, American air pioneer (NAAA) and civil rights activist (1st African American woman to hold a pilot’s license), dies at 86
1992 – Viktor Louis, Russian journalist, dies
1997 – Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist and geologist (Shoemaker-Levy comet), dies at 69
2015 – Alex Rocco, American actor (The Godfather, The Famous Teddy Z), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 17th July 2024
1879 – Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (b. 1856)
1915 – Francesco Fanciulli, American-Italian composer, dies at 62
1918 – Maria Nikolaevna Russian Grand Duchess, 3rd daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 19 by a group of Bolsheviks
1966 – August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi Suite), dies at 71
1967 – Cyril Ring, American actor (I Wake Up Screaming, The Barber Shop), dies at 74
1987 – Howard McGhee, American be-bop bebop jazz trumpeter, dies at 69
1993 – Scott Salmon, US choreographer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 51
1996 – Amancio D’Silva, Goan-Indian jazz guitarist and composer, dies after several stokes at 60
2005 – Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish actress (Pawnbroker, Easy Money), dies of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at 91
2012 – William Raspberry, American columnist (Pulitzer 1994), dies at 76
Famous Deaths for 16th July 2024
1590 – Bartholomaeus of Braga [Fernandez], Dominican theologian and Archbishop Emeritus of Braga, dies at 76
1923 – Louis Couperus, Dutch poet and writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60
1972 – Max Zehnder, Swiss composer, dies at 70
1980 – Robert Brackman, American artist, dies at 81
1991 – Robert Motherwell, American painter (Elegies to Spanish Rep), dies at 76
1995 – Charles Bruck, Hungarian-French-American conductor (Dutch Opera, 1950-54; Strasbourg Philharmonic, 1955–65), and Orchestre Philharmonique de l’ORTF, 1965–70), dies of cancer at 83
2001 – Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler, dies at 40
2012 – Jon Lord, English keyboardist and composer (Deep Purple – “Smoke On The Water”; Whitesnake), dies from a pulmonary embolism at 71
2018 – Manuel Ycaza, Panamanian jockey (Belmont Stakes 1964; Racing Hall of Fame), dies of pneumonia at 80
2020 – Tony Taylor, Cuban baseball second baseman (MLB All Star 1960²; Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers), dies from stroke complications at 84
Famous Deaths for 15th July 2024
1934 – Jules Renkin, Belgian politician (28th Prime Minister of Belgium 1931-32), dies at 71
1939 – Percy Scott Worthington, architect, dies
1940 – Donald Calthrop, British actor (Blackmail, Scrooge, Rome Express), dies from a heart attack at 52
1959 – Peter Egge, Norwegian writer (The Dream), dies at 90
1969 – Peter Van Eyck [Götz von Eick], German actor (The Longest Day; The Wages of Fear), dies after long illness at 56
1977 – Konstantin Fedin, writer, dies
1986 – Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (Hambletonian x 4; Little Brown Jug x 5; Messenger Stakes x 7), dies from head injuries in fall at Yonkers Raceway at 62
1989 – Will Bradley [Wilbur Schwichtenberg], American session, jazz, and boogie-woogie trombonist and bandleader (“Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar”), dies at 77
1992 – Brett Whiteley, Australian artist, dies of an opiate overdose at 53
2021 – Andy Fordham, English darts player (BDO World Champion 2004), dies from organ failure at 59
Famous Deaths for 14th July 2024
1876 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder, dies at 60
1881 – Billy the Kid [William H. Bonney], American frontier outlaw and gunfighter of the Wild West, shot by sheriff Pat Garrett and dies of gunshot wounds at 21
1907 – William Perkin, English chemist and inventor (discovered aniline dyes), dies at 69
1954 – Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright (Nobel Prize for Literature 1922), dies at 87
1959 – Grock [Adrien Wettach], Swiss clown and circus director, dies at 79
1975 – [Arthur] Zutty Singleton, American jazz drummer (Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five), dies at 77
1982 – George Tremblay, Canadian-American composer, dies at 71
1990 – Dallas Alinder, American actor, dies at 58
1994 – Taeko Kuwata, Japanese Belgian pianist (Duo Crommelynck), commits suicide at about 47
2010 – Gene Ludwig, American jazz and RandB Hammond B-3 organist (Sonny Stitt, Arthur Prysock), dies at 72