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
Category: Famous Deaths
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)
Famous Deaths for 4th February 2024
211 – Lucius Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome (193-211), dies at 64
1615 – Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
1774 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
1936 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)
1956 – Peder Gram, Danish composer, dies at 74
2000 – Doris Coley, American pop singer (The Shirelles – “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”; “Baby It’s You”), dies of breast cancer at 58
2001 – Iannis Xenakis, Romanian-born, Greek-French composer, music theorist, and architect who helped revolutionize 20th century classical music (Metastaseis), dies after several years of serious illness at 78
2016 – Ulf Söderblom, Finnish conductor (Finnish National Opera, 1973-93), and teacher, dies at 85
2020 – Giancarlo Bergamini, Italian fencer (Olympic gold foil, team 1956; silver foil team 1952, individual 1956), dies at 93
2021 – Nolan Porter, American RandB singer-songwriter (“Keep On Keeping On”), dies at 71
Famous Deaths for 3rd February 2024
1566 – George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
1846 – Joseph Weigl, German-Austrian composer (La Principessa d’Amalfi; Emmeline), and conductor, dies at 79
1875 – Everhardus Johannes Potgieter, Dutch writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66
1895 – Theodore Dwight Weld, American abolitionist and writer (American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses), dies at 91
1943 – Alexander Goode, American US Navy chaplain and rabbi (The Four Chaplains) drowns in the sinking of the Dorchester at 31
1956 – Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)
1958 – Johan Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer and clown (1 great dog), dies at 81
1966 – June Walker, American actress (War Nurses), dies at 65
1975 – Robert Evett, American composer, dies at 52
1996 – Tibor Reich, British textile designer (Tibor Ltd), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 2nd February 2024
1768 – Robert Smith, English mathematician (b. 1689)
1828 – Frederik Sigismund van Bylandt, Dutch count and vice-admiral, dies at 78
1987 – Edna Manley, Jamaican sculptor ‘Mother of Jamaican art’, dies at 86
1988 – G. Mennen Williams, American lawyer, politician (Governor of Michigan, 1949-61), diplomat, and jurist (Chief Justice of Michigan Supreme Court, 1983-86), dies at 76
1988 – Clive Epstein, British music artist manager, and brother of Brian Epstein, dies at 51
1994 – Zilner Randolph, American jazz trumpeter, arranger, and music educator, dies at 95
1997 – Godfrey Baseley, British radio executive, dies at 92
2008 – Earl Butz, 18th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1971-76), dies at 98
2016 – Intizar Hussain, Pakistani and Urdu writer and columnist, dies in his early 90s
2021 – Rudolph Pariser, American physical and polymer chemist (molecular orbital computation), dies at 97