1004 – Abbo van Fleury [Floriacensis], French abbott and saint, dies
1170 – Albert I of Brandenburg
1689 – Philipp von Zesen, German poet and historian (Bescheibung of Amsterdam), dies at 70
1862 – Ludwig Uhland, German writer, dies at 75
1944 – Wang Jingwei, Chinese politician (21st Premier of the Republic of China 1932-35), dies at61
1963 – Margaret Murray, English anthropologist and Egyptologist (b. 1863)
1975 – R. C. Sherriff, English playwright (Journey’s End), dies at 79
1994 – Lewis Bingham Keeble, British-born town planner, dies at 79
2007 – Montague “Monty” Westmore, American 3rd generation make-up artist (Westmore family), dies of prostate cancer at 84
2016 – Leon Russell, American musician and singer-songwriter (Carny), dies at 74
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 12th November 2023
1606 – Matthäus Ludecus, German composer, dies at 79
1908 – William Keith Brooks, American marine zoologist (anatomy and embryology of marine animals), dies at 60
1941 – Abe Reles “Kid Twist”, American NY gangster and police informer, killed falling from a window under suspicious circumstances at 35
1955 – Tin Ujević, Croatian poet (Žedan kamen na studencu), dies at 64
1972 – Rudolf Friml, Czech-American concert pianist and composer (Rose-Marie; The Vagabond King), dies at 92
1990 – Eve Arden [Eunice Quedens], American stage and screen actress (Stage Door; Our Miss Brooks; The Mothers-In-Law; Grease), dies at 82
1997 – William Matthews, American poet, dies at 55
2003 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (seaQuest DSV – “Lucas Wolenczak”), commits suicide at 27
2005 – Richard E. Lawyer, American USAF officer, pilot, and astronaut, dies at 73
2008 – (John) “Mitch” Mitchell, British drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience), dies at 62
Famous Deaths for 11th November 2023
826 – Theodore the Studite, Byzantine theologist/poet/saint, dies
1150 – Hartbert, bishop of Utrecht (1140-50), dies
1862 – James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
1871 – William Lonsdale, English geologist and paleontologist (fossil coral), dies at 77
1964 – H[enry] Beam Piper, American sci-fi author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60
1967 – (Robert Jordan) “Smoki” Whitfield, American actor (Bomba the Jungle Boy; Lord of the Jungle; Swamp Fox), dies of a heart attack at 49
1976 – Alexander Calder, American sculptor (mobiles), dies at 78
1999 – Vivian Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (led Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1st to cross Antarctica via South Pole), dies at 91
2013 – George Reinholt, American actor (Steve-Another World, One Life to Live), dies at 73
2020 – Carlos Campos, Chilean soccer striker (39 caps; Universidad de Chile 259 games), dies from respiratory failure at 83
Famous Deaths for 10th November 2023
1727 – Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (1923-38) and founder of the Republic of Turkey, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 57
1948 – Julius Curtius, German Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic (1929-31) and Minister for Economic Affairs (1926-29), dies at 71
1954 – Édouard Le Roy, French mathematician and philosopher, dies at 84
1964 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor (The Mickey Mouse Club; Thundering Trails; Riders of the Rio Grande), and singer-songwriter, dies of cancer at 54
1996 – Hugo Buchthal, German art historian, dies at 87
2001 – Ken Kesey, American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Sometimes a Great Notion), dies of liver tumor surgery complications at 66
2004 – (Catalina) “Katy” de la Cruz, Filipina bodabil singer and actress, dies at 97
2007 – Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1963-75), dies at 100
2015 – Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist who designed the IBM mainframe, dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 9th November 2023
1068 – Agnes of Poitou, duchess of Aquitania/mother of German Empress, dies
1829 – Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer, dies at 66
1862 – John Bordenave Villepigue, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 32
1919 – Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
1939 – Dirk Klop, Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr
1955 – Tom Powers, American actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65
1974 – Egon Wellesz, Austrian-British composer (Alkestis; The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo), teacher, and musicologist (Byzantine), dies at 89
2004 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish author (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), dies of a heart attack at 50
2012 – Major Harris, American RandB singer (Love Won’t Let Me Wait), dies from congestive heart and lung failure at 65
2018 – Ken Howell, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 57
Famous Deaths for 8th November 2023
1609 – Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst, Electress of Brandenburg, by marriage, dies at 44
1811 – Charles Ferdinand Bentinck, Dutch military officer (Governor of Suriname 1809-11), dies at 47
1909 – Eduard de Hartog, Dutch composer, dies at 80
1928 – Mauritz Stiller [Moshe Stiller], Swedish actor and director (The Saga of Gösta Berling, Erotikon), dies from an infective pleurisy at 45
1991 – Frances Faye, American cabernet singer and actress (Pretty Baby), dies after a stroke ay 79
1998 – Stuart Sutherland, British psychologist, educator (Sussex University’s Laboratory of Experimental Psychology), and writer (Breakdown), dies of a heart attack at 76
1998 – Jean Marais, French actor (Donkey Skin, Orpheus), dies of cardio-vascular disease at 84
2005 – Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor and director (Oi Kyries tis avlis), dies of lung cancer at 76
2009 – Patrick Howard-Dobson, British general (last Chief of Staff at British Far East Command in Singapore), dies at 88
2011 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist (The Family Circus), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 7th November 2023
1678 – Erasmus Quellinus II, Flemish painter and etcher, dies at 70
1723 – Godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77), dies
1935 – Lidj Jasu [Iyasu], Emperor of Ethiopia (1913-16), dies under mysterious circumstances under guard at 39
1965 – Friedrich Wildgans, Austrian composer, dies at 52
1968 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician, dies at 62
1978 – Gene Tunney, American boxer (world heavyweight champion 1926-28), dies at 80
1994 – Shorty Rogers [Milton Rajonsky], American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player, arranger, and composer, dies of melanoma at 70
2017 – Robert De Cormier, American conductor and musical director (The Belafonte Folk Singers), dies at 95
2017 – Paul Buckmaster, British Grammy Award-winning artist, arranger, conductor and composer, dies at 71
2018 – Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Irish pianist, composer and educator (University of Limerick), dies at 67
Famous Deaths for 6th November 2023
1835 – Ignaz Schuster, Austrian composer, dies at 56
1955 – Charley Toorop [Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop], Dutch painter, dies at 64
1982 – Frank Swinnerton, English novelist and critic (Summer Storm, Sanctuary), dies at 98
1987 – William Pahlmann, American interior designer (4 Season restaurant, NYC), dies at 80
1989 – Dickie Goodman, American parody singer and producer (“The Flying Saucer”; “Energy Crisis ’74”; “Mr. Jaws”), dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 55
1994 – Dean Gallo, American politician (Rep-R-NJ, 1985-94), dies of cancer at 58
1997 – Phillipo Seed, social work academic, dies at 67
2014 – Carole Mathews [Jean Deifel], American actress (The Californians, Swamp Women), dies at 94
2018 – Hugh McDowell, British cellist (Electric Light Orchestra – “Strange Magic”; “Evil Woman”), dies of cancer at 65
2020 – Barbara York, Canadian composer (A Butterfly in Time), dies of pulmonary fibrosis at 71
Famous Deaths for 5th November 2023
1515 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter, dies at 41
1680 – Gillis Valckenier, mayor of Amsterdam (1665..80), dies at about 57
1752 – Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670)
1803 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French army general and writer (Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons)), dies at 61
1935 – Mina Dilis-Beersmans, Flemish actress/wife of John Dilis, dies at 71
1969 – Itih Walracen, Sudanese widow of author William Walraven, dies
1985 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)
2021 – Marília Mendonça, Brazilian Sertaneja singer-songwriter, dies in a plane crash at 26
2021 – Charlie Burns, Canadian ice hockey forward (world champion Whitby Dunlops 1958) and coach (Minnesota North Stars), dies at 85
2022 – Bill Treacher, British actor (EastEnders, 1985-96 – “Arthur Fowler”), dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 4th November 2023
1869 – George Peabody, American-British entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Trust and the Peabody Institute, dies at 74
1890 – Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, Polish classical composer (Over the Precipice; You Are My Dream), dies at 46
1890 – Jacob PP baron van Zuylen, Dutch foreign minister (1852-3), dies at 74
1893 – Cornelis Eliza van Koetsveld, Dutch writer and preacher, dies at 86
1918 – Andrew Dickson White, American historian and educator, 1st President of Cornell University, dies at 85
1957 – Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith (b. 1897)
1982 – Talfryn Thomas, Welsh character actor (Dad’s Army -“Cheeseman”; Dr. Who), dies of a heart attack at 60
1993 – Basuki Abdullah, Indonesian painter, murdered at 78
1995 – Edward “Eddie” Egan, American actor (The French Connection, Joe Forrester), dies of cancer at 65
2010 – Eugénie Blanchard, French supercentenarian, dies at 114