1820 – Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician and founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires, dies at 61
1846 – Cornelis Felix van Maanen, Dutch Minister of Justice (1807-42), dies at 76
1884 – Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt, dies of Bright’s disease at 22
1891 – Giulio Roberti, Italian composer, dies at 61
1894 – Eugène Charles Catalan, French-Belgian mathematician (worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics), dies at 79
1969 – Wolfe Barzell, Polish-born actor (Blue Angel), dies of a heart attack at 72
1980 – Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor
1990 – Graeme Hole, Australian cricket batsman (18 Tests, 6 x 50; NSW CA), dies from cancer at 59
1995 – U Nu, 1st Prime Minister of Burma (1948-56, 1960-62), dies at 87
2011 – George Shearing, British-American blind jazz pianist (Lullaby of Birdland), dies at 91
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 13th February 2024
1896 – Carl Martin Reinthaler, German composer, dies at 73
1951 – Lloyd C. Douglas, American novelist (The Big Fisherman), dies at 73
1964 – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist, one of the main organizers of Nazi Germany’s T-4 Euthanasia Program, dies at 61
1989 – Wayne Hays, American politician (b. 1911)
1990 – Ken Lynch, American actor (Paratroop Command, Legend of Tom Dooley), dies at 79
1995 – Wilton “Bogey” Gaynair, Jamaican jazz saxophonist, dies at 68
2002 – Pauline Trigère, French-American fashion designer (Bell Bottoms), dies at 93
2007 – Richard Gordon Wakeford, Air Marshal, Royal Air Force (b. 1922)
2014 – Piero d’Inzeo, Italian equestrian rider (Olympic silver individual and team jumping 1956, 60; bronze 1956, 60, 64, 72), dies at 90
2022 – Johnny Whiteley, English rugby league back rower (15 Tests GB, 1 England; Hull RLFC 417 games) and coach (GB, England, Hull RLFC, Hull KR), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 12th February 2024
1684 – Pietro Andrea Ziani, Italian composer and organist, dies at 67
1834 – Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist and philosopher, dies at 65
1907 – Muriel Robb, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1902), dies of lymphadenoma at 28
1954 – Dziga Vertov [Denis Kaufman], Russian influential film director (Man with a Movie Camera, 3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58
1971 – George Shelton, American actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 86
1976 – Sal Mineo, American actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37
1984 – Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (Blow-Up, Underground Game), dies at 69
2011 – Elizabeth “Betty” Garrett, American actress, comedian, singer and dancer (All in the Family), dies of an aortic aneurysm at 91
2015 – David Carr, American journalist (New York Times), dies of cancer at 58
2016 – Johnny Lattner, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1953, Notre Dame; Pro Bowl 1954, Pittsburgh Steelers), dies from mesothelioma at 83
Famous Deaths for 11th February 2024
1503 – Elizabeth of York, Queen Consort of England and wife of King Henry VII, dies of a post-partum infection on her 37th birthday
1911 – Albert Salomon Anselm von Rothschild, Austrian banker and member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria, dies at 66
1952 – Charles Scribner III, American book publisher, dies at 62
1976 – Alexander Lippisch, German scientist and pioneer of aerodynamics, dies at 81
1977 – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Indian leader and 5th President of India (1974-77), dies of a heart attack at 72
1991 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist who worked with RNA (Nobel Prize 1968), dies at 71
1994 – Neil Bonnett, American race car driver, dies at 47
1996 – Kebby Musokotwane, prime minister of Zambia in (1985-89), dies
2015 – Jerry Tarkanian, American collegiate basketball coach, 1961-2002 (California State, UNLV, Fresno State; career record: 784–202), dies at 84
2017 – Harvey Lichtenstein, American head of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 10th February 2024
1832 – Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, Italian composer, dies at 84
1852 – Samuel Prout, British water color painter, dies at 68
1861 – Francis Danby, Irish painter, dies at 67
1902 – Johann Nepomu Krieger, German Selenographer (lunar maps), dies at 37
1960 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
1961 – Velma Middleton, American jazz vocalist (Louis Armstrong’s big bands and small groups), dies from complications of a stroke at 43
1966 – Billy Rose [William Samuel Rosenberg], American theatrical producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66
1987 – Ray Colignon (sometimes none as “Coco”), Belgian jazz and easy listening pianist, Hammond organist, and bandleader, dies at 80
1988 – Paolo Renosto, Italian composer, dies at 52
1997 – Matthew Eappen, American child involved in the Louise Woodward court case, dies at 8 months
Famous Deaths for 9th February 2024
1918 – Emiel van der Straeten, Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends), dies at 30
1962 – Harriet Ware (Krumbhaar), American concert pianist, composer (Women’s Triumphal March; The Rose Is Red; The Varying Shore), and music educator, dies at 84
1974 – Cees de Lange, Dutch conferencier, dies at 60
1977 – Gaus, an orangutan who lived to be 59
1979 – Allen Tate, American poet (Mr Pope and Other Poems), dies at 79
1987 – Larry French, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1940; Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs; Brooklyn Dodgers), dies at 79
2007 – Hank Bauer, American baseball infielder, manager (8-time World Series champion; NY Yankees, Baltimore Orioles), dies from lung cancer at 84
2009 – Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 17 years (b. 1970)
2015 – Claude Ruel, Canadian NHL coach (Stanley Cup 1968-69, Montreal Canadiens), dies at 76
2018 – Reginald “Reg” E Cathey, American actor (The Wire, Oz, House of Cards), dies of lung cancer at 59
Famous Deaths for 8th February 2024
1801 – Johann Chrysostomus Drexel, German composer, dies at 43
1878 – Elias M. Fries, Swedish botanist (System mycologicum), dies at 83
1949 – Franco Leoni, Italian composer, dies at 81
1961 – William Duncan, Scottish actor (Hopalong Rides Again, Thunder Trail), dies at 81
1980 – Nikos Xilouris, Greek folk singer-songwriter, dies of lung and brain cancer at 43
1987 – Bronislawa Wajs [Papuscha], Polish-Romani writer, dies at 78
1994 – Ken Hall, Australian director and producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92
1999 – Iris Murdoch, Irish-British novelist (“Under the Net”; “The Sea, The Sea”) and philosopher (“The Sovereignty of Good”), dies at 79
2000 – Derrick Thomas, American Pro and College Football Hall of Fame linebacker / end (Pro Bowl 1989–97; First-team All-Pro 1990–92; KC Chiefs), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 33
2002 – Eldon Rudd, American politician (Rep-R-AZ, 1977-87), dies at 81
Famous Deaths for 7th February 2024
1857 – Félix de Merode, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War and Finance, dies at 65
1918 – Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, Russian composer, dies at 68
1957 – Rudolph Reti, Serbian composer, dies at 71
1969 – Bainbridge Crist, American composer, dies at 85
1979 – Josef Mengele ‘the Angel of Death’, German Nazi officer and concentration camp doctor, drowns of the coast of Brazil at 67
1990 – Nathan Wartels, American publisher (Crown), dies at 88 of pneumonia
1991 – John Steinbeck IV, American author and journalist
1999 – Hussein ibn Talal, King of Jordan (1952-99), dies of cancer at 63
2005 – Bob Turner, Canadian Hockey HOF defenseman (Stanley Cup 1956, 57, 58, 59, 60 Montreal Canadiens; 6 x NHL All Star), dies at 71
2019 – Albert Finney, English actor (The Dresser, Under the Volcano), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 6th February 2024
1855 – Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor, dies at 63
1865 – John Pegram, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 33
1945 – Robert Brasillach, French author and journalist (editor in chief of the fascist weekly Je Suis Partout), controversially executed for treason by firing squad at 35
1986 – Dandy Nichols [Daisy Sander], British actress (Till Death Us Do Part, Confessions of a Window Cleaner), dies at 78
1989 – Chris Gueffroy, East German attempted defector (b. 1968)
1991 – Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist (Nobel Prize 1969), dies at 78
2001 – Fulgence Charpentier, French Canadian journalist, dies at 103
2009 – James Whitmore, American actor (The Shawshank Redemption, Give ’em Hell Harry), dies of lung cancer at 87
2012 – Janice Voss, American astronaut (shuttle radar topography mission), dies from breast cancer at 55
2021 – Ken McCaffery, Australian rugby league centre (12 Tests; North Sydney; Queensland), broadcaster (9 Network) and administrator (North Sydney DRLFC), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 5th February 2024
1679 – Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet and dramatist (Jephtha), dies at 91
1822 – Ali Paşa Tepelenë, known as ‘The Lion of Janina”, Ottoman Albanian ruler, Pasha of Yanina (1788-1822), dies aged somewhere between 78-82
1932 – Barney Dreyfuss, American Baseball HOF executive (owner Pittsburgh Pirates 1900-32; World Series 1909, 25), dies at 66
1938 – Hans Litten, German lawyer, workers’ rights advocate, anti-Nazi antagonist, and educator, commits suicide while imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp at 34
1947 – Hans Fallada [Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen], German writer (Little Man, What Now?), dies at 53
1982 – Dolores Moran, American actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies of cancer at 56
1989 – Joe Raposa, American composer and songwriter (Sesame Street), dies at 51
1992 – Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913)
1999 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906)
2011 – Brian Jacques, English author, author of the Redwall series (b. 1939)