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
Category: Famous Deaths
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
Famous Deaths for 13th July 2024
574 – John III, Italian Pope (561-74), dies
1785 – Stephen Hopkins, American politician who signed the US Declaration of Independence, dies at 78
1789 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist, dies at 73
1863 – John S. Bowen, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 32
1923 – Asger Hamerik [Hammerich], Danish composer, and educator (Peabody Institute, 1878-91), dies at 80
1937 – Emmett Dalton, American outlaw of the Old West (The Dalton Gang in the American Old West, dies at 66
1955 – Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging
1978 – Antonio Veretti, composer, dies at 78
1994 – Eddie Boyd, American blues piano player, singer, and songwriter (“Five Long Years”), dies at 79
2007 – Ilja Zeljenka, Slovak composer (Oświęcim), dies at 74
Famous Deaths for 12th July 2024
1429 – Jean de Gerson, French theologian (Theologica mystic), dies at 65
1949 – Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
1962 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (“I’m Sitting On Top Of The World”), and aviator, dies of a heart attack at 54
1966 – D. T. Suzuki, Zen Japanese-American Buddhist scholar, dies in Tokyo, Japan at 96
1973 – Lon Chaney Jr, American actor (Larry Talbot-The Wolf Man, Lennie Small-Of Mice and Men), dies of heart failure at 67
1992 – Reginald Beck, English film editor (Robbery, Accident, Boom), dies
1995 – Alan David Marks, American concert pianist, dies of cancer at 49
2014 – Kenneth J. Gray, American politician (Rep-D-IL, 1955-74, 85-89), dies at 89
2020 – Lajos Szűcs, Hungarian soccer defender (37 caps; Ferencváros, Honvéd FC; Hungarian Footballer of the Year 1976; Olympic gold 1968), dies at 76
2023 – André Watts, American-Hungarian concert pianist, and educator, dies of prostate cancer at 77
Famous Deaths for 11th July 2024
1775 – Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1826 – Karl Bernhard Wessely, German composer (Sulamith und Eusebia), dies at 57
1844 – Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
1876 – Ottho Gerhard Heldring, Dutch preacher and reformer (Heldring Institutions), dies at 72
1948 – King Baggot, American actor and director (Tumbleweeds), dies at 68
1993 – Denis Tomlinson, South African cricket leg-spinner, dies
2001 – Marco Zanuso, Italian Modernist architect and product designer, dies at 85
2010 – Bob Sheppard, American public address announcer (MLB: NY Yankees 1951–2007; NFL: NY Giants 1956–2006), dies at 99
2021 – William Albert Penn, American composer (Living in the Next Great Ice Age; Garland Songs), educator, and record producer, dies at 78
2022 – Gary Moeller, American football coach (University of Michigan 1990-94; Uni of Illinois 1977-79; Detroit Lions), dies at 81