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
Category: Famous Deaths
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
Famous Deaths for 16th August 2023
1508 – Henry van Stolberg and Wernigerode, German viceroy of Friesland, dies at 41
1786 – Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer and violinist, dies at 80
1799 – Vincenzo Manfredini, Italian harpsichordist, composer, and music theorist, dies at 61
1870 – Edmund Passy, Swedish composer, dies at 80
1986 – Jaime Saenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1921)
1991 – Stuart Karl, CEO (Karl Home Video), dies at 38 of skin cancer
1994 – Henry Geldzahler, US critic, dies
2004 – Robert Quiroga, American boxer (b. 1969)
2005 – William Corlett, English children’s writer(b. 1938)
2005 – Joe Ranft, American screenwriter and animator (Toy Story, Cars), dies at 45
Famous Deaths for 15th August 2023
1552 – Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)
1615 – Mír ‘Imád al-Ḥasaní, Persian calligrapher (Master of the Nasta‘liq style – St. Petersburg Muraqqa), assassinated on Shah’s authorization (b. 1554)
1619 – Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Kraków, dies
1953 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (considered the father of aerodynamics – discovered the boundary layer), dies at 78
1956 – Constantine Freiherr von Neurath, German foreign minister, dies at 83
1967 – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter (This is Not a Pipe), dies at 68
1969 – Stijn Streuvels [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Vlaschaard), dies at 97
2020 – Henk Wullems, Dutch soccer manager (NAC Breda, SBV Vitesse, Go Ahead Eagles, AZ; Indonesia 1996-98), dies from a Cerebral infarction at 84
2021 – Gerd Müller “Der Bomber”, German soccer striker (62 caps; FIFA World Cup 1974; Bayern Munich 453 games, 398 goals), dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 75
2021 – Gary Woollard, New Zealand rugby league five eighth (10 Tests; Wellington), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 14th August 2023
1785 – John William Fletcher, evangelist, dies
1870 – David Farragut, American Admiral (“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”), dies at 69
1905 – Mohammed Abdoe, Egyptian writing expert (Al’Oerwah al-Woethka), dies
1955 – Herbert Putnam, American Librarian of Congress, dies at 93
1963 – Clifford Odets, American playwright (1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy), dies at 57
1992 – Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips, British politician (1st female Whip – UK House of Lords), dies at 82
1992 – Flora Benson, American wife of Ezra Taft Benson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dies at 91
1992 – Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters, 1953-59 – “Only You”; “Great Pretender”), dies at 64
2012 – Ron Palillo, American actor (Arnold Horshack-Welcome Back Kotter), dies from a heart attack at 63
2020 – Thomas Forsyth, Scottish soccer defender (22 caps; Motherwell, Rangers), dies at 71