1546 – Giulio Romano, Italian painter/architect (Ondergang der Titanen), dies
1835 – William Motherwell, Scottish poet and civil servant, dies at 38
1956 – Pietro Badoglio, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (1943-44) and Italian General (1922-43), dies at 85
1961 – Joan McCracken, American stage and screen actress, dancer and comedienne (Oklahoma!; Claudia: Story of a Marriage), dies of a heart attack at 43
1963 – Elsa Maxwell, American author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 80
1968 – Georgios Papandreou, Greek politician and Prime Minister of Greece (1944–45, 1963, 1964–65 dies at 80
1977 – Franco Albini, Italian Rationalist architect, industrial and furniture designer (Albini desk), dies at 72
1986 – Serge Garant, Canadian composer and conductor (Anerca), dies at 57
1995 – Alun Pask, Welsh rugby union flanker (26 caps; British Lions 8 caps; Abertillery), dies at 58
2021 – Pat Martino [Azzara], American jazz guitarist (DownBeat Guitar Player of the Year, 2004), dies of chronic respiratory disorder at 77
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 31st October 2023
1834 – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French-American chemist and industrialist (E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company), dies at 63
1945 – Henry Ainley, English actor (As You Like It), dies at 66
1960 – H L Davis, American writer (Honey in the Horn, Pulitzer prize), dies at 64
1985 – Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek surrealist painter and poet (Do Not Distract the Driver), dies of a heart attack at 78
1990 – Hugh McPhillips, dies at 70
1994 – John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian and director of British Museum (1974-76), dies at 80
1998 – Bernard J. Dwyer, American politician (Rep-D-NJ 1981-93), dies at 77
2007 – Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby union footballer (Wales and the British Lions), dies of a heart attack at 56
2009 – Tom Wheatcroft, English businessman and car collector (Donington Grand Prix Collection), dies at 87
2015 – Gregg Palmer [Palmer Edvind Lee], American actor (Scream, To Hell and Back), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 30th October 2023
1632 – Henri de Montmorency, French duke/plotter, beheaded
1676 – Ahmed Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (siege of Candia, Kreta), dies
1969 – George “Pops” Foster, American jazz double bassist, tuba player, and trumpeter (Louis Armstrong; Sidney Bechet; Earl Hines), dies at 77
1992 – Joan Mitchell, American painter and printmaker dies of cancer aged 67
2000 – Steve Allen, American comedian, composer, actor and TV host (Tonight Show; Steve Allen Show), dies of injuries from a car accident at 78
2002 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2019 – William J. Hughes, American politician and diplomat (Rep-D-New Jersey, 1975-95), dies at 87
2019 – Don Fraser, American boxing promoter (LA venues; colourful wardrobe and offbeat PR gimmicks), dies at 92
2020 – Arthur Wills, British organist and composer (“God and Music”), and educator, dies at 94
2021 – Bert Newton, Australian radio, television, and stage personality (Good Morning Australia; Logie Award ceremonies; 20-1), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 29th October 2023
1268 – Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252)
1666 – James Shirley, English poet and dramatist (The Triumph of Peace), dies at 70 (date of burial)
1790 – Pieter van Bleiswijk, Grand pensionary of Holland 1771-87, dies at about 66
1846 – Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronomist, dies at 90
1892 – William Harnett, Irish-American painter (Old Cupboard Door), dies at 44
1963 – Michael Holliday [Norman Milne], British pop singer (“The Story of My Life”), dies of a suspected drug overdose at 38
1963 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor (Front Page; Star is Born), dies at 73
1965 – Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris
1968 – Marius Ulfrstad, Norwegian composer, dies at 78
1992 – Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies
Famous Deaths for 28th October 2023
1312 – Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen
1841 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (Father of Weather Bureau), dies at 77
1918 – Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (Fondamenti per la teorica delle funzioni di variabili reali), dies at 72
1940 – Andrea d’ Angeli, Italian composer, dies at 71
1959 – Egon Kornauth, Austrian classical pianist, composer, and teacher, dies at 68
1964 – Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66
1998 – Ted Hughes, English Poet and translator (British Poet Laureate 1984-98), dies at 68
2000 – Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
2002 – Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
Famous Deaths for 27th October 2023
1331 – Aboe al-Fida [Aboelfeda], Arabic writer/sultan of Hama, dies
1670 – Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
1964 – Willi Bredel, German writer, dies at 63
1965 – Leo van Puyfielde, Belgian art historian and museum curator (worked with Monuments Men during WWII to recover looted artifacts), dies at 83
1974 – Rudolf Dassler, German entrepreneur (founder sportswear company Puma), dies at 76
1977 – Peg Leg Sam [Arthur Jackson], American country blues harmonica player, singer and comedian, dies at 65
1990 – Elliott Roosevelt, American general, writer and son of FDR (Murder in the Oval Office), dies at 80
1991 – Pyke Koch, Dutch magic realism painter (Dolores’ Breakfast), dies at 90
1994 – Wally Halder, Canadian ice hockey forward (Olympic gold 1948, tournament top scorer), dies of cancer at 69
1994 – Robert White, American guitarist (The Funk Brothers), dies of complications from open heart surgery at 57
Famous Deaths for 26th October 2023
1132 – Floris the Black, brother of earl Dirk VI of Holland, murdered
1749 – Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French composer/organist, dies at 72
1935 – Akos Buttykai, Hungarian composer, dies at 64
1943 – Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-British archaeologist, dies at 80
1984 – Gus Mancuso, American baseball catcher (World Series 1931, 33; MLB All Star 1935, 37; NY Giants, St. Louis Cardinals) and broadcaster (Cardinals’ radio network), dies from emphysema at 78
1985 – Bob Scheffing, American baseball catcher (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds), manager (Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers) and executive (GM NY Mets 1970-74), dies at 72
1996 – Hans Kosterlitz, German-British biochemist (endorphins), dies at 93
2010 – Mbah Maridjan, Mount Merapi gatekeeper (b. 1927)
2019 – Enriqueta Basilio, Mexican track and field athlete, and first woman to light the Olympic Cauldron (Mexico City, 1968), dies of pneumonia at 71
2021 – Walter Smith, Scottish football manager (Rangers, Everton; Scotland 2004-07), dies at 73
Famous Deaths for 25th October 2023
1495 – John II the Perfect, King of Portugal (1481-95), dies at 40
1922 – Oskar Hertwig, German embryologist (discovered fertilization), dies at 73
1936 – Jaime de Magalhães Lima, Portuguese author and poet (Salmos do Prisoneiro), dies at 76
1973 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian distance athlete (Olympic gold marathon 1960 WR [barefoot], 64 WR; Africa’s first WR breaking athlete in any sport), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 41
1984 – Pascale Ogier, actress (Ghost Dance), dies of a heart attack at 24
1991 – Khigh Dhiegh [Kenneth Dickerson], American actor (Forbidden Nights; The Manchurian Candidate; Hawaii Five-0 – “Wo Fat”), dies of kidney and heart failure at 81
1991 – Margo J. Sylvia (née Lopez), American pop singer (Tune Weavers – “Happy, Happy Birthday, Baby”), dies of heart attack and stroke at 55
2010 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican reggae musician, dies of lung cancer at 59
2011 – Anna van Beers [Graeve], Dutch actress (A Woman like Eve, Diary of a Hooker), dies at 95
2018 – Sonny Fortune [Cornelius Fortune], American jazz saxophonist, dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 24th October 2023
1789 – Joaquín Martínez de Oxinagas, composer, dies at 69
1852 – Daniel Webster, US Secretary of State (1841-43, 1850-52), politician and lawyer, dies at 70
1898 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter, dies at 73
1902 – Władysław Zaremba, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 69
1985 – Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905)
1988 – Henry Armstrong, American boxer (world featherweight, lightweight, welterweight [19 x title defences] champion), dies at 75
1996 – Sid Pye, drummer, dies at 55
2002 – Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
2005 – Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history (b. 1923)
2012 – Anita Björk, Swedish actress (Miss Julie, Loving Couples, Night People), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 23rd October 2023
1764 – Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
1799 – William Paca, American judge and signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 58
1899 – Penn Symons, British Major General during Second Boer War, dies in battle during the Battle Of Talana Hill at 56
1928 – François Victor Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies at 79
1948 – Eugeniusz Morawski-Dabrowa, Polish composer, dies at 71
1954 – Henri Zagwijn, Dutch composer and musicologist, dies at 76
1996 – Ronald Alfred Gardyne “Rags” Butler, British sailor, dies at 68
2005 – John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
2005 – William Hootkins, American actor, dies at 57
2011 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician whose models for determining the chemical crystal structures vital for life revolutionized chemistry (Nobel 1985), dies at 94