1662 – Davis Mell, British violinist, composer, and clockmaker, dies at 57
1766 – John Taylor, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
1806 – Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer, dies at 84
1831 – Isaiah Thomas, American journalist, editor and historian (Massachusetts Spy), dies at 82
1967 – Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan soccer forward (51 caps; Nacional, FC Barcelona, FC Inter Milan, Palermo FC), dies at 68
1983 – Jacqueline Logan, American actress and silent film leading lady (WAMPAS Baby Star), dies at 78
1992 – Arthur Russell, American experimental classical-pop fusion cellist, and composer, dies of AIDS at 40
2010 – Clifford M. Hardin, American politician (17th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture), dies at 94
2020 – Forrest Compton, American actor (Gomer Pyle USMC, Edge of Night), dies at 94
2023 – Craig Breedlove, American auto racer (5 x world land speed record holder; first to reach 500mph (800km/h) and 600mph (970km/h), dies of cancer at 86
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 3rd April 2024
1525 – Giovanni Rucellai, Italian humanist and poet (The Bees – one of the 1st famous poems in blank verse), dies at 49
1747 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter, dies at 89
1897 – Johannes Brahms, German composer and conductor (Hungarian Dances; A German Requiem), dies at 63
1930 – Emma Albani, Canadian operatic soprano, dies at 82
1936 – Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, executed at 36
1962 – Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer, dies at 78
2015 – Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist, dies at 73
2020 – Tom Dempsey, American NFL kicker (Pro Bowl, First-team All-Pro 1969; New Orleans Saints; longest winning field goal, 63 yards), dies of COVID-19 complications at 73
2022 – Tommy Davis, American baseball utility (3 x MLB All Star; World Series 1963; NL batting champion 1962, 63 LA Dodgers), dies at 83
2023 – Nigel Lawson, British journalist and politician (UK Chancellor 1983-89, reformed tax laws), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 2nd April 2024
1507 – Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order of the Minims (b. 1416)
1864 – Princess Hildegard of Bavaria, seventh child and fourth daughter of Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, dies at 38
1865 – Richard Cobden, English politician and manufacturer (founder of the Anti-Corn-Law League), dies at 60
1995 – Hannes Alfven, physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86
1997 – Anthony Bushell, British actor (Journey’s End, A Night to Remember), dies at 92
2000 – Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (b. 1928)
2009 – Frank Springer, American comics artist (The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist), dies at 79
2020 – Sergio Rossi, Italian shoe designer, dies of COVID-19 complications at 84
2020 – Carl Tacy, American college basketball coach (Wake Forest University 1972-85; 222-149 record), dies at 87
2023 – Salim Durani, Indian cricket all-rounder (29 Tests, 1 x 100, 74 wickets, BB 6/73; Saurashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan), dies from cancer at 88
Famous Deaths for 1st April 2024
1637 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord, dies at 65
1924 – Stan Rowley, Australian athlete (Olympic gold 5,000m team, bronze 60m, 100m, 200m 1900), dies at 47
1925 – Francis William Davenport, English composer, dies at 77
1973 – Gus Aiken, American jazz and blues trumpeter (Jenkins Orphanage Band), dies at 70
1983 – Ken Kersey, Canadian jazz pianist, and composer (“Boogie Woogie Cocktail”), dies at 66
1989 – Henk Gortzak [Hendricus Gortzak], Dutch carpenter and politician (CPN/PSP), dies at 57
1996 – Florence Buchsbaum, French theater director (b. 1926)
2004 – Aaron Bank, American OSS officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces (b. 1902)
2005 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist, conductor, educator, and composer (McGill Chamber Orchestra), dies at 90
2019 – Michel Sénéchal, French operatic tenor, and educator, dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 31st March 2024
1578 – Juan de Escobedo, sec of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered
1944 – Mineichi Koga, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
1957 – Gene Lockhart, American actor (Going My Way), dies at 65
1971 – Liselotte Liselot Beekmeyer, Dutch actress (Child Crying), dies at 31
1993 – Chichay [Amparo Robles Custodio], Filipino comedienne and actress (Bilangguang puso, Ngitngit ng pitong whistle bomb), dies at 75
1993 – Jose Maria Lemus, president of El Salvador (1956-60), dies
1998 – Tim Flock, American auto racer (Winston Cup 1952, 55), dies of liver and throat cancer at 73
2020 – Pape Diouf, Senegalese journalist and football agent (president Olympique de Marseille 2005-09; first black president in Europe’s top 6 leagues), dies from COVID-19 at 68
2021 – Ron Greene, American college basketball coach (Uni of New Orleans, Mississippi State, Murray State, Indiana State), dies at 82
2022 – Fred Johnson, American doo-wop bass vocalist (The Marcels – “Blue Moon”), dies at 80
Famous Deaths for 30th March 2024
988 – Arnulf II, count of Flanders (965-988), dies
1953 – Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar, Austrian composer, dies at 75
1961 – Philibert Melotte, British astronomer (discovered Jupiter’s 8th satellite Pasiphae), dies at 81
1968 – Bobby Driscoll, American Academy Juvenile Award-winning actor (Song Of The South; The Window), dies of heart failure at 31 [date reflects discovery of his body in a deserted NYC tenement]
1976 – Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, Dutch actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99
1995 – Tony Lock, English cricket spin bowler (49 Tests, 174 wickets, BB 7/35, 2 x 50; Surrey CCC, Western Australia, Leicestershire CCC), dies from cancer at 65
1996 – Ryoei Saito, Japanese businessman (Daishowa Paper Manufacturing), dies at 79
1998 – Ramsay Ames [Phillips], American actress, model and dancer (The Mummy’s Ghost; Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves), dies of lung cancer at 79
2020 – Frank Maloney, American football coach (Syracuse University 1974-1980), dies from brain cancer at 79
2020 – Manolis Glezos, Greek politician, writer and resistance hero (took down Nazi flag from Acropolis), dies at 97
Famous Deaths for 29th March 2024
1368 – Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)
1625 – Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)
1683 – Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667)
1878 – Mark Hopkins, American business tycoon and railroad executive (Central Pacific Railroad), dies at 64
1930 – Anton Bettelheim, Austrian writer, dies at 78
1948 – Olev Siinmaa, Estonian ‘Functionalist’ architect (Pärnu Beach Hotel), dies at 66
1953 – Arthur Fields [Abraham Finkelstein], American singer-songwriter (Aba Daba Honeymoon), dies in a fire at his nursing home residence at 68
1955 – Everard Verachtert, Flemish linguist (I Can Speak Nicely pamphlet), dies at 81
1980 – Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 74
2020 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer (“Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima”), dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 28th March 2024
1880 – Achille Peri, composer, dies at 67
1910 – William Paul Roberts, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 68
1914 – Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55
1929 – Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)
1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian-American piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer (Aleko; Piano Concerto No. 3), dies at 69
1993 – Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
1994 – Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84
2004 – Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
2004 – Peter Ustinov, British actor, author, journalist, comedian and broadcaster (Death on the Nile: Logan’s Run: Billy Budd), dies of heart failure at 82
2014 – Jeremiah Denton, American politician (Senator-R-Alabama, 1981-86), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 27th March 2024
1472 – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet and translator, dies at 37
1809 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French court painter, dies at 92
1873 – Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
1934 – Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State, dies at 89
1986 – Cass Canfield, US publisher, dies at 88
1991 – Elinor Remick Warren, American concert pianist and composer, dies at 91
1994 – Dennis Hartas, flier, dies at 69
1995 – Chet Gierlach, American music publisher, jazz and popular song composer ((The Funniest Bird I’ve Heard of) The Kiwi (Kee Wee) Bird), dies at 75
2000 – Ian Dury, English rock musician (The Blockheads) and actor (Judge Dredd), dies at 57
2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
Famous Deaths for 26th March 2024
304 – Saint Emmanuel, Christian martyr killed under Diocletian
1880 – Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, Spanish composer, dies at 62
1926 – Georges Vezina, Canadian NHL Hall of Fame goalie (Canadiens), dies from TB at 39
1932 – Jean Cartan, French composer, dies at 25
1934 – Grete Gulbransson, Austrian writer and poet (Geliebte Schatten), dies at 51
1943 – Lillien Jane Martin, American psychologist who founded the world’s 1st gerontology clinic in San Francisco, dies at 91
1973 – Don Messer, Canadian folk fiddler, and television host (Jubilee, 1959-73), dies of a heart attack at 63
1988 – Musa Kaleem [Orlando Wright], American jazz saxophonist, dies at 67
2002 – (Randolpho) Randy Castillo, American rock and mariachi drummer (Ozzy Osbourne; Mötley Crüe; Azul), dies of cancer at 51
2016 – Jim Harrison, American poet and novelist (Legends of the Fall), dies at 78