1916 – Leonard Moon, English cricket batsman (4 Tests, Cambridge University CC, Middlesex CCC), dies in WWI action at 38
1935 – Louise Mack, Australian poet and novelist, dies at 65
1980 – Thien-an Thich, Zen teacher/Vietnamese Rinzai line, dies in LA at 54
1993 – Gerarda Rueter, Dutch sculptor, dies at 89
1993 – Tatiana Nikolajeva, Russian pianist (Bach), dies at 69
1996 – Ralph Tubbs, architect, dies at 84
2008 – Richard Hickox, English conductor and music director, dies of a heart attack at 60
2009 – Richard Graham Meale, Australian composer (Three Miró Pieces; Voss), dies at 77
2016 – Ralph Branca, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1947–49; pitched “Shot Heard Round the World”), dies at 90
2017 – Carol Neblett, American operatic soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1979-93), dies at 71
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 22nd November 2023
1751 – Anton Englert, German composer and organist, dies at 77
1896 – Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexican Liberal politician, military leader and writer (Governor of the State of Mexico), dies at 64
1920 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
1963 – Bikram Singh, Indian Lt-General (Kashmir), killed in a helicopter crash in Poonch district
1963 – Wilhelm Beiglböck, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
1989 – C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
1993 – Anthony Burgess, British novelist and essayist (A Clockwork Orange), dies of cancer at 76
2000 – Emil Zátopek, Czech distance runner (4 x Olympic gold 1948, 52), dies of a stroke at 78
2003 – Dick Thomas, American singing cowboy and TV host (Village Barn), dies at 88
2007 – Verity Lambert, English film and TV producer, 1st producer of Doctor Who, dies at 71
Famous Deaths for 21st November 2023
1844 – Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (b. 1769)
1920 – Caryl Florio [William James Robjohn], English-American composer, dies at 77
1928 – Hermann Sudermann, German author (Frau Sorge), dies
1932 – Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument Argentina), dies at 60
1941 – Juanita Spellini, first women executed in Calif
1991 – Sonny Werblin, NY sports impresario, dies at 81
1992 – Kaysone Phomvihane, Prime Minister and President of Laos (1975-91), dies at 71
1995 – Peter Grant, English rock band manager (Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin), dies of a heart attack at 60
2007 – Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (All About My Mother), dies at 86
2022 – Kálmán Mészöly, Hungarian soccer defender (61 caps; Vasas SC 279 games) and manager (Hungary, Turkey, Fenerbahçe SK), dies at 81
Famous Deaths for 20th November 2023
1887 – Louis Gallait, Belgian historical painter (Egmont and Receiver), dies at 77
1898 – John Fowler, English engineer (engineer for London Metropolitan Railway – world’s 1st underground railway), dies at 81
1939 – Désiré Pâque, Belgian organist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 72
1962 – Jasper McLevy, American politician (Socialist mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1933-57), dies at 84
1986 – William Bradford Huie, American writer and publisher, dies at 76
1993 – Emile Ardolino, American Emmy and Academy Award-winning director (He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’; Dirty Dancing; Sister Act), dies of AIDs at 50
2003 – David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)
2008 – Sven Inge, Swedish painter and modern artist (b. 1935)
2020 – Ken Schinkel, Canadian ice hockey right wing (NY Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins 636 NHL games) and coach (Pittsburgh Penguins 1972-77), dies at 87
2021 – Ray McLoughlin, Irish rugby union prop (40 caps Ireland, 3 British and Irish Lions; Barbarians RFC, London Irish RFC), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 19th November 2023
1495 – Alfonso II, King of Naples (1494-95), dies
1931 – Frederic Cliffe, English composer, dies at 74
1973 – Cyril Allcott, New Zealand cricket all-rounder (6 Tests, 113 runs @ 22.6, 6 wickets; Auckland), dies at 77
1983 – Reinout Willem van Bemmelen, Dutch geologist, dies at 79
1990 – Georgy Flyorov, Soviet-Russian physicist (spontaneous fission, Soviet atomic bomb project), dies at 77
1995 – Gwen Swire, British social worker, dies at 61
1996 – Denis Jenkinson, British motor racing journalist, dies at 74
2003 – Ian Geoghegan, Australian racing driver (b. 1940)
2004 – Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
2012 – Warren Rudman, American politician (Sen-R-NH, 1980-93), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 18th November 2023
1822 – Anton Teyber, Austrian composer, dies at 66
1950 – Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60
1986 – Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
1993 – Fritz Feld, German actor (Jack Benny Show, At the Circus, Errand Boy, Promises Promises), dies at 93
1999 – Doug Sahm, American roots-rock and Tex-Mex musician (Sir Douglas Quintet – “Mendocino”; Texas Tornadoes – “Adios Mexico”), dies of a heart attack at 58
2003 – Ken Brett, American baseball player, dies at 55
2005 – Harold J Stone, American actor (Spartacus, The Wrong Man), dies at 92
2015 – Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union winger (youngest ever All Black, 63 internationals), dies of a heart attack linked to kidney disease at 40
2015 – Mal Whitfield, American track athlete (Olympic 3 gold, silver and bronze 1948, 52), dies at 91
2021 – Slide Hampton [Locksley Wellington Hampton], American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger, dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 17th November 2023
1494 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian scholar and Renaissance philosopher (Oration on the Dignity of Man), dies under mysterious circumstances, possibly poisoned, at 31
1512 – Kempo Roeper, Frisian rebel, quartered
1600 – Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander, commits seppuku (ritual suicide) after defeat at Battle of Sekigahara (b. 1542)
1826 – Louise Reichardt, German composer, dies at 47
1848 – Joseph Bernard Cannaert “Olim”, Flemish lawyer, dies at 80
1862 – Alexey Verstovsky, Russian composer, dies at 63
1905 – Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and son of Leopold I, dies at 68
1985 – Jimmy Ritz [Samuel Joachim], American vaudevillian, actor and comedian (Ritz Brothers – The Gorilla;, Hi’ya, Chum; Straight, Place and Show), dies of heart failure at 81
1989 – Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
1991 – John Blatnik, (Rep-Minn, 1947-75), dies at 80
Famous Deaths for 16th November 2023
1603 – Pierre Charron, French philosopher/theologian, dies
1706 – Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest, Dutch admiral and buccaneer, dies at 64
1935 – Kurt Schindler, composer, dies at 53
1964 – Albert Hay Malotte, composer, dies at 69
1986 – Siobhán McKenna [Cionnaith], Irish stage actress (Saint Joan, The Chalk Garden), dies of lung cancer at 63
1989 – Ignacio Ellacuría, Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit priest, philosopher and human rights activist, assassinated during the Salvadoran Civil War at 59
1993 – Achille Zavatta, French clown (b. 1915)
1996 – John Reginald Bevins, British Conservative politician, dies at 88
2004 – Margaret Hassan, Irish aid worker in Iraq, abducted at 59 (presumed dead)
2007 – Harold Alfond, American businessman and founder of Dexter Shoe Company, dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 15th November 2023
1917 – Oswald Chambers, Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement minister and writer (My Utmost for His Highest), dies at 43
1919 – Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies at 52
1967 – Michael J. Adams, USAF pilot (X-15), dies in X-15 crash at 37
1981 – Walter Heitler, German physicist, quantum field theorist, philosopher, and writer (Man and Science), dies at 77
1985 – Spencer W. Kimball, American 12th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1973-1985), dies at 90
1994 – Janet Ahlberg (née Hall), British children’s book illustrator (The Jolly Postman; Each Peach Pear Plum), dies of breast cancer at 50
1997 – Saul Chaplin [Kaplan], American Oscar Award-winning stage, and screen composer, arranger, and orchestrator (An American in Paris; “The Anniversary Song”), dies at 85
2000 – Gene Gutche, German-born composer, dies at 93
2005 – Dr. Adrian Rogers, American Southern Baptist Minister and leader (b. 1931)
2009 – Antonio de Nigris, Mexican soccer striker (16 caps; Monterrey, Villarreal), dies from a heart attack at 31
Famous Deaths for 14th November 2023
1391 – Nikola Tavelić, First Croatian saint (b. 1340)
1589 – Philipp Apianus [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German mathematician and geographer, dies at 58
1921 – Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (while serving as regent signed law abolishing slavery), dies in exile at 75
1929 – Joe McGinnity, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (World Series 1905; 5 × NL wins leader; NL ERA leader 1904; Baltimore Orioles, NY Giants), dies at 58
1965 – Russell Collins, American actor (Niagara, Close Up, Shockproof), dies at 68
1971 – William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (b. 1934)
1975 – Max Ackermann, German “entartet” painter, dies at 88
1994 – Michael Grierson Jarrett, archaeologist, dies at 60
1994 – John F Hampe, pathologist (Fabric and Stoflongen), dies at 83
2001 – Charlotte Coleman, British actress (Four Weddings and a Funeral), dies of an asthma attack at 33