1346 – Charles II of Alençon, killed in the Battle of Crécy (b. 1297)
1346 – Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine, killed in the Battle of Crécy (b. 1320)
1873 – Carl Wilhelm, German composer, dies at 57
1921 – Matthias Erzberger, German Minister of Finance, murdered at 45
1983 – Mike Kellin [Myron Kellin], American actor (Pipe Dream, American Buffalo), dies of cancer at 61
1992 – Bob the Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Tintin, Kuifje), dies at 66
2011 – John McAleese, British SAS Trooper, Team leader during 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege (b. 1949)
2018 – Neil Simon, American playwright (The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues), dies at 91
2021 – Kenny Malone, American Nashville-based session drummer (Dolly Parton; Dobie Gray: Waylon Jennings), dies of COVID-19 at 83
2022 – Mable John, American blues, RandB, and gospel vocalist (Tamla-Motown; Ray Charles; “Your Good Thing (Is About to End)”), and minister, dies at 91
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 25th August 2023
1346 – Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders, dies in battle
1944 – Musa Cälil, Russian-Soviet Tatar poet (The Moabit Notebooks), and resistance fighter, executed by guillotine in Plötzensee Prison, Berlin at 38
1971 – Ted Lewis [Theodore Leopold Friedman], American entertainer, bandleader and musician (Is Everybody Happy?), dies of lung failure at 81
2001 – Ken Tyrrell, English race driver and founder of Tyrrell Racing, dies at 77
2001 – Madge Adam, English solar astronomer (1st solar physicist at Oxford university’s observatory), dies at 89
2007 – Ray Jones, English footballer, dies when he crashed his car into a bus 3 weeks after getting his driver’s license at 18
2016 – Marvin Kaplan, American character and voice actor (Top Cat – “Choo Choo”; Alice – “Henry”), dies at 89
2018 – John McCain, American war hero and Republican politician (Rep-Arizona, 1983-2018, Presidential candidate, 2008), dies of brain cancer at 81
2021 – Robin Miller, American motorsports journalist (Indianapolis Star, Autoweek, Car and Driver, ESPN, Speed, NBCSN), dies from leukemia at 71
2021 – Neal Brendel, American rugby union prop (6 Tests; Pittsburgh RC) and executive (Chairman USA Rugby 2002-05), dies from cancer at 66
Famous Deaths for 24th August 2023
1907 – Pieter Lodewijk Tak, Dutch journalist and politician (Chronicle), dies at 58
1923 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 66
1958 – Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist, dies at 82
1974 – Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (b. 1894)
1991 – Mark Lawrence, American pianist (Alice Pearce), and songwriter, and theatrical producer, dies at 70
2006 – Cristian Nemescu, Romanian film director (b.1979)
2010 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director, dies at 46
2020 – Tony Colton [Chalk], British singer-songwriter, and record producer (Head, Hands, and Feet), dies of kidney failure at 68
2021 – Wilfried van Moer, Belgian soccer midfielder (57 caps; Belgian Golden Shoe x 3; Beveren, Antwerp, Standard Liège), dies from a stroke at 76
2022 – Ken Jones, Welsh rugby union centre (14 caps Wales, 6 British Lions; Cardiff RFC, London Welsh RFC, Barbarian FC), dies at 81
Famous Deaths for 23rd August 2023
1706 – Colonel Edward Nott, Esq., British Crown Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
1914 – George Ambrose Pogson, British consul in Hamburg (1880-1914), dies
1927 – Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Massachusetts
1970 – (Neeltje) “Nel” Roos, Dutch ballerina and dance teacher, dies of a heart attack at 55
1971 – Gisela Hernández [Gonzalo], Cuban composer (Diálogo), and music educator, dies at 58
1992 – Virginia Sale-Wren, entertainer, dies of heart failure at 92
1993 – Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys), dies at 80
1995 – James Pilditch, designer, dies at 66
2016 – Reinhard Selten, German economist (Nobel Prize 1994), dies at 85
2020 – Lori Nelson, American actress (Greta-How to Marry a Millionaire), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 22nd August 2023
1801 – Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten, Dutch Governor-General of Dutch East Indies (1796-1801), dies at 46
1891 – Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
1951 – J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (Toronto Maple Leafs), dies at 66
1965 – Ellen Church, American 1st female airline stewardess (United flight in 1930 from San Francisco to Cheyenne), dies in a horse riding accident at 60
1970 – Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
1974 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born British mathematician and science writer best known as the presenter of the BBC television series, The Ascent of Man, dies of a heart attack at 66
1976 – Oskar Brusewitz, East German vicar, sets himself on fire in protest of repression of religion at 47
2011 – Nickolas “Nick” Ashford, American songwriter, record producer (“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”; “Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand)”), and singer (Ashford and Simpson – “Solid”), dies of throat cancer at 70
2021 – Micki Grant [Minnie Perkins], American theater singer, actress, and composer (Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope; Your Arms Are Too Short To Box With God), dies at 92
2021 – Eric Ash, British engineer and university rector (Imperial College, London), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 21st August 2023
1867 – Juan Álvarez, Mexican revolutionary leader (President of Mexico 1855), dies at 77
1921 – Ernest Daudet, French journalist and writer (White Terror), dies at 84
1937 – George Wright, American Baseball HOF shortstop (NA pennant 1872-75 Boston Red Stockings; NL pennant 1877-78 Boston Red Caps, 1879 Providence Grays), dies at 90
1952 – Isaac Sadeh, Polish-born leader of Jewish commando force (Palmach), dies at 62
1958 – Walter Schumann, American choral director (Ford Show) and film and television composer (Night Of The Hunter; Dragnet theme), dies at 44
1980 – Jack Cheetham, South African cricket batsman and captain (24 Tests; Western Province), dies at 60
1995 – James Truitte, American ballet dancer (Lester Horton; Alvin Ailley), dies at 72
1996 – Joyce Plesters, British conservation scientist, dies at 69
2005 – Martin Dillon, American opera singer, dies of cardiac arrest at 48
2012 – Georg Leber, German politician, dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 20th August 2023
1153 – Bernard of Clairvaux, French saint (preached famous sermon advocating for the Second Crusade), dies
1648 – Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military and philosopher, dies at 65
1823 – Pius VII [Luigi Barnaba Gregorio Chiaramonti], Italian bishop of Imola and Pope (1800-23), dies at 83
1856 – Philipp Jakob Riotte, German composer, dies at 80
1885 – Edouard J. A. Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42
1932 – Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87
1970 – Hildo Krop, Dutch modernistic sculptor, dies at 86
1995 – Paul Foster, American gospel singer (The Soul Stirrers), dies at 75
2000 – Henry Austin, British tennis player (3-time Grand Slam runner-up), dies of complications from a fall at 94
2008 – Margaret Douglas, chief political adviser (BBC), dies at 73
Famous Deaths for 19th August 2023
1245 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
1493 – Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77
1922 – Felipe Pedrell, Spanish guitarist, composer (Excelsior; La Celestina), and musical scholar, dies at 81
1939 – Johannes Marinus Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, dies at 70
1957 – David Bomberg, English painter, dies at 66
1959 – Jacob Epstein, American-English sculptor (Adam, Jacob and the Angel), dies at 78
1968 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-born American nuclear physicist and cosmologist (Big Bang Theory, DNA), dies at 64
1976 – Jenö Kenessey, Hungarian conductor and composer, dies at 70
1996 – Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch pianist and composer (Berkshire Symphonies; Les Cloches des Clochards), dies at 70
2013 – Cedar Walton, American hard bop jazz pianist (Jazztet; Art Blakey), and composer (“Mosaic”), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 18th August 2023
1712 – Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
1896 – Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (founded the epistemological theory of knowledge known as empirical criticism), dies at 52
1969 – Otto Stern, German-American physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943), dies at 81
1989 – Bert Oosterbosch, Dutch cyclist, dies at 32
1990 – Raf Reymen, Flemish actor (Huisvuil, Het glas water), dies at 64
1994 – Gottlob Frick, German opera singer, dies at 88
2000 – Maurice Evans, English soccer wing half (Reading, 407 games) and manager (Shrewsbury Town, Reading, Oxford United), dies from a heart attack at 63
2005 – Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
2018 – Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat and 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2006), dies at 80
2020 – Hal Singer, American jazz and RandB saxophonist (“Corn Bread”), dies at 100
Famous Deaths for 17th August 2023
1958 – Florent Schmitt, French composer (La tragédie de Salome; Psalm 47), and music critic (Le Temps), dies at 87
1966 – Michael Garrison, American TV producer (Crowded Sky), dies after a fall at 43
1969 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect (November Group), dies at 83
1973 – Conrad Aiken, American poet (Pulitzer Prize, US Poet Laureate 1950-52), dies at 74
1976 – William Redfield, American actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop, Marriage), dies of leukemia at 49
1982 – Barney Phillips [Bernard Philip Ofner], American actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies from cancer at 68
1982 – Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb
1984 – Hammie Nixon [Nickerson], American blues harmonica player (Sleepy John Estes), dies at 76
1984 – Hollie Roffey, British youngest ever heart transplant, dies at 28 days
2022 – Josephine Tewson, British actress (Keeping Up Appearances; Last Of The Summer Wine, 2003-10), dies at 91