1758 – Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German painter and stucco worker, buried at 78
1787 – Jean Allamand, Swiss-Dutch natural philosopher, dies at 73
1880 – Sir John MacNeill, Irish civil engineer (b. 1790)
1971 – Charles W Engelhard, US silver multi-millionaire, dies at 54
1999 – David Ackles, American singer-songwriter (American Gothic), dies of lung cancer at 62
2005 – Ivan Parik, Czech classical and electro-acoustic composer (Quadrophony), dies at 68
2009 – Ernest Ashworth, American country music singer (“Talk Back Trembling Lips”, “You Can’t Pick a Rose in December”), and broadcaster, dies at 80
2022 – Tony Walton, British Tony, Oscar, and Emmy Award-winning set and costume designer (Pippin; Mary Poppins; All That Jazz), dies from stroke complications at 87
2023 – Mary Bauermeister, German artist, dies at 88
2023 – Wayne Shorter, American jazz saxophonist and composer (Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers; Miles Davis; Weather Report), dies at 89
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 1st March 2026
1546 – George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer, martyred at 33
1940 – Josef Swickard, German actor (The Wizard of Oz; Lost City; A Tale of Two Cities), dies at 73
1982 – Charlie Spivak, Ukrainian-American big band trumpeter and bandleader, dies at 75
1994 – Walter Kent, American composer (I’ll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82
1994 – Manmohan Desai, Indian filmmaker (Amar Akbar Anthony, Suhaag), dies at 57
1994 – Sandro Fuga, Italian composer and pianist, dies at 87
1995 – Earl Blackwell, American society impresario (Celebrity Register), dies at 85
1995 – César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish soccer forward (12 caps; Barcelona) and manager (Zaragoza, Barcelona), dies at 74
2017 – Paula Fox, American writer (The Slave Dancer), dies at 92
2021 – Vladimír Heger, Czech basketball coach (Czechoslovakia 1965-69, 72-76; Netherlands 1983-85), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 28th February 2026
1788 – Thomas Cushing, American statesman, Continental Congressman, acting Governor of Massachusetts (1785) and dangerous radical, dies at 62
1965 – Adolf Schärf, Austrian politician (President of Austria, 1957-65; Vice-Chancellor, 1945-57), dies at 74
1986 – Laura Z. Hobson, American TV writer and panelist (I’ve Got a Secret), dies at 85
1989 – Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Indian yoga instructor and scholar known as “The Father of Modern Yoga”, dies at 101
1994 – G. O. Sayles, English historian, dies at 92
1998 – Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (Father Ted Crilly-Father Ted), dies of a heart attack at 45
2006 – John La Rose, Trinidadian-British activist, trade unionist, publisher and poet (Eyelets of Truth Within Me), dies at 78
2016 – George Kennedy, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Airport films; Naked Gun films;, Dallas), dies at 91
2017 – Claude Rene Georges Pascal, French composer, dies at 96
2020 – Johnny Antonelli, American baseball pitcher (6 × MLB All-Star; World Series, NL ERA leader 1954; NY Giants), dies from colon cancer at 89
Famous Deaths for 27th February 2026
1735 – John Arbuthnot, Scottish mathematician and writer (Scriblerus Club), dies at 67
1844 – Nicholas Biddle, US lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies at 85
1946 – James Cecil Parke, Irish tennis player (Australasian C’ship singles and doubles, Davis Cup 1912; Wimbledon doubles 1914) and rugby union centre (20 caps; Leinster Rugby), dies at 64
1947 – Francis MacKinnon, English cricket batsman (1 Test; Kent CCC) and 35th Chief of MacKinnon clan, dies at 98
1968 – Frankie Lymon, American pop singer (The Teenagers – “Why Do Fools Fall In Love”), dies of a heroin overdose at 25
1989 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist and ethologist (Man and His Ideas, Nobel Prize 1973), dies at 85
1993 – Marlena Davis, American pop singer (The Orlons – “Don’t Hang Up”; “South Street”), dies of lung cancer at 48
2008 – Anthony Blond, British publisher (The Publishing Game, Book Book), dies at 79
2011 – Frank Buckles, last surviving American World War I veteran (b. 1901)
2024 – Richard Lewis, American comedian and actor (Anything But Love; Robin Hood: Men in Tights; Curb Your Enthusiasm), dies of a heart attack at 76
Famous Deaths for 26th February 2026
1839 – Sybil Ludington, American revolutionary heroine (rode to alert militia), dies at 77
1910 – Adelaide Hoodless, Canadian educational reformer (founder of the Women’s Institute), dies at 51
1927 – Willie Simms, American jockey (US Champion Jockey by wins 1893, 94; Kentucky Derby 1896, 98; Preakness Stakes 1898; Belmont Stakes 1893, 94), dies at 57
1943 – Helene Stöcker, German feminist, pacifist, and writer, dies of cancer at 73
1966 – Minerva Urecal [Dunnock], American stage, radio, and screen character actress (Accent on Love; The Adventures of Tugboat Annie; Peter Gunn; The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao), dies of a heart attack at 71
1982 – Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japanese actor and director (Gate of Hell; A Page of Madness; Jujiro; Jigoku-mon), dies at 86
1995 – Willie Johnson, American electric blues guitarist (Howlin’ Wolf’s “How Many More Years”), dies at 71
2000 – George L. Street III, American Navy Submariner and Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 86
2008 – John Yates, Anglican bishop (Bishop of Lambeth), dies at 82
2021 – Hannu Mikkola, Finnish rally driver (World Rally champion 1983), dies from cancer at 78
Famous Deaths for 25th February 2026
1805 – Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)
1865 – Otto Ludwig, German playwright and writer (Between Heaven and Earth), dies at 47
1906 – Anton Arensky, Russian composer and conductor, dies of tuberculosis at 44
1964 – Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924)
1967 – John Griggs, American actor (The Joey Bishop Show; Fearless Fosdick), dies at 58
1992 – Ollie O’Toole, American comedian, impressionist, and actor, dies after long illness at 79
1994 – Baruch Goldstein, American-Israli physician and mass murderer (at least 55 dead in shooting at Hebron Ibrahimi Mosque), lynched at 42
1998 – Rockin’ Sidney [Simien], American zydeco and RandB singer-songwriter, accordionist, guitarist, organist, and harmonica player (“My Toot-Toot”; “You Ain’t Nothing But Fine”), dies of throat cancer at 59
2005 – Edward Patten, American soul singer (Gladys Knight and the Pips – “Midnight Train to Georgia”, “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”), dies of a stroke at 65
2021 – John Geddert, American gymnastics coach (US head coach London Olympic Team 2012), dies from self-inflicted gunshot wounds at 63
Famous Deaths for 24th February 2026
1525 – Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
1969 – Kenneth Green, actor (Penrod), dies of a heart attack at 61
1984 – Uwe Johnson, writer, dies at 59
1991 – John Charles Daly, American, newscaster and TV game show host (What’s My Line), dies at 77
1994 – Donald Phillips, pianist and composer, dies at 80
1998 – Henny Youngman, American comedian and violinist (Take my wife … please), dies at 91
2020 – Jan Kowalczyk, Polish equestrian rider (Olympics gold show jumping individual; silver team 1980), dies at 78
2020 – Ben Cooper, American western actor (The Rose Tattoo; Outcast; Arizona Raiders), dies at 86
2020 – Mario Bunge, Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist (pioneering work in epistemology), dies at 100
2024 – Kenneth Mitchell, Canadian actor (Star Trek: Discovery), dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 49
Famous Deaths for 23rd February 2026
1572 – Pierre Certon, French composer
1781 – George Taylor, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (for Pennsylvania), dies at about 64 or 65
1955 – Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (L’otage-1909), dies at 86
1980 – Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician, dies at 62
1990 – Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch lawyer and politician (Liberal), dies of cancer at 53
1992 – Jacquelyn Hyde, American actress (Dark, House of Terror), dies at 61
1995 – Peter Wykeham, Royal Air Force fighter pilot, dies at 79
1997 – Oscar Lewenstein, British theater impresario (Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera), and film producer (The Knack …and How to Get It), dies of heart failure at 80
1997 – Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (Miles Davis), dies at 51
2000 – Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)
Famous Deaths for 22nd February 2026
556 – Maximianus of Ravenna, Byzantine bishop (Basilica San Stefano), dies at about 56 [birthdate uncertain]
1827 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter remembered for portraits of leading American Revolution figures (George Washington), dies at 85
1892 – Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)
1911 – William Lewis Cabell “, Old Tige” American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) and Mayor of Dallas, dies at 84
1913 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-européennes), dies at 55
1936 – John Hope, American educator (President of Atlanta Baptist/Morehouse College,1906-36 and Atlanta University, 1929-36), dies at 67
1980 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austria-British painter and graphic artist, dies at 93
1982 – Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan, dies at 83
1995 – Emmanuel Roblès, Algerian-French novelist and playwright (Lesson Hauteurs), dies at 80
2017 – Fritz Koenig, German sculptor (Sphere at World Trade Center), dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 21st February 2026
1513 – Julius II, Italian Pope (1503-13) and patron of Michelangelo, Bramante and Raphael, dies at 69
1821 – Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat and jurist, dies at 64
1938 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (discovery of magnetic fields in sunspot), dies at 69
1971 – Adolph Weiss, American bassoonist and composer, dies at 79
1980 – Chester Lauck, American actor (Dreaming Out Loud, 2 Weeks to Live), dies at 78
1986 – Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (“…And Ladies of the Club”), dies at 90
1992 – Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies
1996 – Terence Edward Armstrong, British polar geographer, dies at 75
2015 – Clark Terry, American jazz trumpeter, dies at 94
2019 – Stanley Donen, American film director and producer (Singin’ in the Rain, Bedazzled, Damn Yankees), dies at 94