1851 – Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (daguerreotype), dies at 63
1910 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer, discoverer of Neptune by telescope, dies at 98
1940 – Donald Francis Tovey, British musicologist and composer, dies at 64
1954 – Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian Mafia boss, dies at 76
1978 – Joe Davis, English snooker player (World Champion 1927-40, 1946), dies at 77
1983 – Werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige), dies at 82
2002 – Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
2008 – Mike Souchak, American golfer (15 PGA Tour titles; Ryder Cup 1959, 61), dies of a heart attack at 81
2020 – Lara van Ruijven, Dutch short track speed skater (World C’ship gold 500m 2019; Olympic bronze 3000m relay 2018), dies from an autoimmune disease at 27
2020 – Corra Dirksen, South African rugby union winger (10 caps; Northern Transvaal), dies from COVID-19 complications at 82
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 9th July 2024
1755 – Gottlob Harrer, German composer, dies at 52
1766 – Jonathan Mayhew, American Congregational minister, dies at 45
1969 – Pierre Capdevielle, French conductor, composer (Élégie de Duino), music critic (Monde musicale), and teacher, dies at 63
1994 – Sabby Lewis, American jazz pianist and arranger, dies at 79
1995 – John Eric Tieman, production Manager (The Guardian), dies at 67
1996 – Susan Cowdy, English ornithologist (Bardsey Island Trust) dies at 81
2011 – Don Ackerman, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2019 – William E. Dannemeyer, American politician who opposed LGBT rights (Rep-R-CA, 1979-93), dies at 89
2021 – Paul Mariner, English soccer striker (35 caps; Plymouth Argyle, Ipswich Town, Arsenal, Portsmouth) and coach (Plymouth Argyle, Toronto FC), dies from brain cancer at 68
2022 – Tommy Jacobs, American golfer (US Open 1964 runner-up; US Masters 1966 runner-up), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 8th July 2024
1115 – Peter the Hermit, French priest, led the People’s Crusade, dies at about 64
1422 – Michelle of Valois, Duchess consort of Burgundy (1419-22), dies after falling ill at 27 possibly poisoned
1623 – Gregory XV [Alessandro Ludovisi], Italian Catholic pope (1621-23) and Archbishop of Bologna, dies at 69
1905 – Walter Kittredge, American musician during American Civil War, dies at 70
1933 – Anthony Hope, British novelist and playwright (The Prisoner of Zenda), dies of cancer at 70
1957 – Henry Février, French composer, dies at 81
1999 – Pete Conrad, American US Navy pilot and NASA astronaut (Gemini 5, Gemini 11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2), dies injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident at 59
2007 – Chandra Shekhar, Indian politician, 8th Prime Minister of India (1990-91), dies at 80
2008 – Alex d’Arbeloff, Georgian-American entrepreneur who co-founded Teradyne, dies at 80
2020 – Alex Pullin, Australian snowboarder (World C’ship gold snowboard cross 2011, 13), dies from drowning at 32
Famous Deaths for 7th July 2024
1879 – George Caleb Bingham, American politician and painter (Country Election), dies at 68
1919 – Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies
1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British author who brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice, dies at 71
1932 – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian, dies at 87
1965 – Bill Hitch, England cricket fast-bowler (7 Tests 1911-21), dies
1967 – Jo Schlesser, French Formula One racing driver (b. 1928)
1973 – Veronica Lake [Constance Ockleman], American actress (Sullivan’s Travels, I Married a Witch), dies from hepatitis and acute kidney injury at 50
1975 – Barbara Brown, American actress dies at 73
1979 – Dalton Conyngham, South African cricket medium-pace bowler (1 Test, 2 wickets; Natal, Transvaal, Western Province), dies at 82
1985 – Guido Kisch, Czech-American Jewish historian (Jews in medieval Germany), dies at 96
Famous Deaths for 6th July 2024
1218 – Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
1809 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)
1854 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (Ohm’s law), dies at 65
1922 – Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (founded the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver), dies at 59
1932 – Kenneth Grahame, British author (The Wind in the Willows), dies at 73
1961 – Enrique Larreta [E Rodriguez Maza], Argentine diplomat and writer, dies at 86
1971 – Horst Lange, German writer (The Long Lament), dies at 66
1976 – Zhu De, Chinese general and politician (commander-in-chief of Eighth Route Army), dies at 89
2005 – L. Patrick Gray III, American lawyer and bureaucrat (Acting FBI Director, 1972-73), dies at 88
2006 – Kasey Rogers, American actress (Bewitched), dies at 80
Famous Deaths for 5th July 2024
1894 – Austen Henry Layard, British archaeologist and diplomat (work in Mesopotamia including rediscovery of Nineveh), dies at 77
1965 – Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat, race car driver, and international playboy, dies when he crashes his Ferrari into a tree at 56
1983 – Arie Querido, psychiatrist (social psychiatry), dies
1983 – Harry James, American swing-era bandleader, trumpeter and husband to Betty Grable, dies from lymphatic cancer at 67
2002 – Harold “Duke” Dejan, Creole-American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader (Olympia Brass Band), dies at 93
2011 – Malcolm Forsyth, South African-Canadian trombonist and composer (Atayoskewin), dies of pancreatic cancer at 74
2015 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-born American Physicist (Nobel Prize 2008), dies at 94
2019 – Ugo Gregoretti, Italian director and actor (Rogopag, Common Sense of Modesty), dies at 88
2020 – Bob Reade, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (NCAA Div III C’ship 1983-86; AFCA Div III Coach of the Year 1983–86; Augustana Vikings), dies at 87
2023 – Andrés Oliva, Spanish road cyclist (Mountains Classification Giro d’Italia
1975, 76; Vuelta a España 1975, 76, 78), dies at 74
Famous Deaths for 4th July 2024
1307 – Rudolf I, Habsburg nobleman (King of Bohemia, 1306-07; Duke of Austria and Styria 1298-1307), dies of stomach issues at about 26
1546 – Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy (b. 1478)
1854 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist, dies at 72
1910 – Melville Fuller, American 8th Chief Justice of the United States, dies at 77
1963 – Grant Richards, American actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger), dies at 48
1970 – Harold Vanderbilt, American yachtsman and America’s Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85
2009 – Brenda Joyce [Betty Graffina Leabo], American actress (Tarzan, The Rains Came), dies of complications from pneumonia at 92
2010 – Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-born Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor (b. 1935)
2012 – Larance Marable, American jazz drummer (Charlie Haden’s Quartet West; Stan Getz; Groove Holmes), dies at 83
2022 – Janusz Kupcewicz, Polish soccer midfielder (20 caps; KS Arka Gdynia, ASSE Saint-Étienne), dies from a stroke at 66
Famous Deaths for 3rd July 2024
1932 – Arthur Hawley Scribner, American magazine and book publisher, dies at 73
1969 – Hermann Grabner, Austrian composer, dies at 83
1982 – Henry King, US film director (Song of Bernadette, Gunfighter), dies at 96
1984 – Raoul Salan, French Army general and leader of OAS; Secret Army Organization (Algeria), dies at 85
1995 – Bert Hardy, English photographer (Picture Post), dies at 82
1996 – Pim Jacobs, Dutch jazz pianist, TV host and actor (Gilas), dies at 61
1998 – George Lloyd, English composer (The Serf; Pervigilium Veneris (The Vigil of Venus); John Socman), dies at 85
2000 – Harold Nicholas, American dancer known as one of the world’s greatest dancers (Nicholas Brothers), dies of heart failure at 79
2001 – Delia Derbyshire, English musician and composer (Doctor Who theme, White Noise), dies of renal failure at 64
2013 – Radu Vasile, Prime Minister of Romania (1998-99), dies at 70
Famous Deaths for 2nd July 2024
1591 – Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
1863 – Stephen Hinsdale Weed, US Union brigadier general, dies in battle at 28
1943 – Caroline Yale, American educator who revolutionized the teaching of hearing-impaired students, dies at 84
1987 – Michael Bennett, American theater director and choreographer (Chorus Line), dies of AIDS at 44
1990 – Snooky Lanson [Roy Landman], American singer (Your Hit Parade; 5 Star Jubilee), dies at 76
1994 – Marion Williams, American gospel singer (Stars of Faith), dies of diabetes at 66
1994 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian soccer defender (51 caps, World Cup own goal vs US; SA Atlético Nacional), dies of a gunshot wound at 27
1995 – Gervase Jackson-Stops, British architectural adviser to the National Trust, dies at 48
2015 – Charlie Sanders, American football player (Detroit Lions), dies at 68
2020 – Nikolai Kapustin, Russian jazz pianist and composer, dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 1st July 2024
1681 – Oliver Plunkett, Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and last Catholic martyr (later beatified) to die in England, hanged, drawn and quartered for treason at Tyburn at 55
1925 – Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (Music In The Shape OF A Pear; Dreamy Fish), dies at 59
1943 – Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1974 – Kick Smit, Dutch soccer striker and manager (29 caps; HFC Haarlem), dies at 62
1983 – Erich Juskowiak, German footballer, dies at 56
1996 – Michael Fraser, British Conservative Party political administrator, dies at 80
2008 – John Pont, American college football coach (Miami, Yale, Northwestern, Indiana), dies at 80
2008 – Mel Galley, English guitarist (Whitesnake; Phenomena), dies of esophageal cancer at 60
2009 – Mollie Sugden, English actress (Are You Being Served?), dies at 86
2020 – Hugh Downs, American TV journalist (20/20, Concentration), dies at 99