521 – Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
1763 – Wenzel Raimund Birck, Austrian organist and composer at the court of Marie Theresa, dies at 45
1859 – Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, German-born Queen of Portugal (1858-59), dies of diphtheria at 22
1918 – Alexei Trupp, Russian footman and assistant of Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 62
1970 – Juano Hernandez, Puerto Rican stage and film actor (St Louis Blues; Stars In My Crown), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 73
1994 – Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguist and writer (Poedjangga Baroe), dies at 86
2011 – David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (b. 1967)
2016 – Gary S. Paxton [Larry Wayne Stevens], American musician and songwriter (“Monster Mash”; “Alley Oop”), dies at 77
2023 – Nicholas Goodison, British businessman (CEO of TSB Group; Chairman of London Stock Exchange, 1976-86), and arts supporter (Chairman of the Courtauld Institute of Art, 1982-2002; Chair and of the National Art Collections Fund, 1986 -2002), dies at 97
2025 – Claude Teisseire, French rugby league centre (17 Tests; AS Carcassonne, FC Lézignan), dies at 94
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 16th July 2026
1890 – Gottfried Keller, German-Swiss novelist and poet, dies at 70
1897 – Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert, dies at 1897
1972 – Max Zehnder, Swiss composer, dies at 70
1976 – Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA
1982 – Patrick Dewaere, French actor (Les Valseuses, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs), commits suicide at 35
1991 – Robert Motherwell, American painter (Elegies to Spanish Rep), dies at 76
1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr, American magazine publisher (George), lawyer and son of JFK, dies in a plane crash at 38
2001 – Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler, dies at 40
2007 – Tom Brooks, Australian cricket umpire (23 Tests 1970-78), dies at 88
2022 – Hobie Billingsley, American ISHOF diving coach (Indiana University 1959-89; 6 x NCAA team championships; US Olympic team 1968, 72, 76), dies from myasthenia gravis at 95
Famous Deaths for 15th July 2026
1411 – Johannes Parvus [Jean Petit], French theologist, dies
1782 – Robert Wainwright, English composer and church organist, dies at 33
1857 – Carl Czerny, Czech-Austrian pianist, composer (Schule der Virtuosen), student of Ludwig van Beethoven, and teacher of Franz Liszt, dies at 66
1940 – Robert Wadlow, American who was world’s tallest known person (8’11.1″), dies at 22
1982 – Bill Justis, American musician and producer (Raunchy), dies of cancer at 58
1986 – Florence Halop, American actress (Night Court, 1985-86 -“Florence”; St Elsewhere, 1984-85), dies of lung cancer at 63
1992 – Johnny Martin, Australian cricketer (NSW and Australian bowler), dies at 60
1993 – Bobby Kent, alleged Florida bully murdered by his friends (b. 1973)
2003 – Elisabeth Welch, American born British-based singer (“Stormy Weather”, “Over the Moon”), and actress, dies at 99
2011 – Googie Withers, English actress and dancer (The Lady Vanishes), dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 14th July 2026
664 – Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (655-664), 1st Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury
1762 – Cornelis Hop, Amsterdams regent and diplomat, dies at 77
1789 – Bernard-René de Launay, French governor of the Bastille prison, murdered during the storming of the Bastille (b.1740)
1876 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder, dies at 60
1902 – William Still, African-American abolitionist, businessman and conductor of the Underground Railroad, dies at 80
1953 – Richard von Mises, Austrian scientist and mathematician (probability theory), dies at 70
1980 – Felix Berezin, Russian physicist and mathematician (Berezin integral), dies at 49
1984 – Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter (Shaft; The French Connection), dies at 56
2000 – Meredith MacRae, American actress (Petticoat Junction. 1966-70- “Billie Jo”; My Three Sons, 1964-66 – “Sally”), and talk show host, dies of brain cancer at 55
2022 – Pleun Strik, Dutch soccer defender (8 caps, FIFA World Cup 1974 runner-up; PSV Eindhoven 270 games), dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 13th July 2026
939 – Leo VII, Italian Pope (936-39), dies
1621 – Albert VII, Archduke of Austria and cardinal-archbishop of Toledo, dies at 61
1628 – Robert Shirley, English adventurer (b. 1581)
1640 – Henry Casimir I, Dutch count of Nassau-Dietz and Stadholder of Freisland, dies a day after being injured at the Battle of Hulst at 28
1844 – Johann Baptist Gansbacher, Austrian composer, dies at 66
1903 – August Reissmann, Prussian composer, dies at 77
1973 – Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon), dies from a heart attack at 72
1981 – Kirby Stone, American jazz combo leader (Kirby Stone Four – “Baubles Bangles and Beads”), dies at 63
2007 – Zdeněk Lukáš, Czech composer, dies at 78
2013 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (Glee; Monte Carlo), dies of heroin and alcohol overdose at 31
Famous Deaths for 12th July 2026
1892 – Cyrus West Field, American financier noted for success of 1st transatlantic cable, dies at 72
1917 – François Fournier, Swiss-French postage stamp forger, dies at 71
1961 – Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (b. 1879)
1983 – Chris Wood, British rock saxophone and flute player (Traffic; Ginger Baker’s Air Force, Jimi Hendrix), dies of pneumonia at 39
1988 – Joshua Logan, Broadway producer (South Pacific), dies at 79 of palsy
1994 – James Bysse Joll, British historian, dies at 76
2009 – Donald MacCormick, British broadcaster, dies at 70
2010 – Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer (American Splendor), dies at 70
2022 – Jan Wijn, Dutch classical pianist and pedagogue, dies at 88
2024 – Khalid “Billy” Ibadulla, Pakistani cricket batsman (4 Tests; 1 x 100, HS 166; Warwickshire, Otago) and broadcaster (TVNZ), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 11th July 2026
937 – King Rudolph II of Burgundy
1874 – Xavier de Mérode, Belgium minister to the Pope in Rome, dies at 54
1889 – Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author and poet, dies at 34
1921 – Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist and inventor, dies at 75
1966 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet, short story writer and critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52
1967 – Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer, politician and judge, dies at 50
2002 – Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuanian poet, editor and critic, dies at 95
2006 – John Spencer, English snooker player (b. 1935)
2010 – Bob Sheppard, American public address announcer (MLB: NY Yankees 1951–2007; NFL: NY Giants 1956–2006), dies at 99
2022 – Víctor Benítez, Peruvian soccer centre-back / defensive midfielder (11 caps; AC Milan, Roma, Inter Milan, Boca Juniors), dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 10th July 2026
1086 – Knut IV, the Saint, king of Denmark (1080-86), murdered
1460 – Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
1909 – Flooi Du Toit, South African cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies at 40
1910 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer, discoverer of Neptune by telescope, dies at 98
1937 – Attilio Brugnoli, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 56
1963 – John Sutton, British actor (The Three Musketeers, Tower of London, Return of Fly), dies of a heart attack at 54
1971 – Bhikari Thakur, Indian poet, playwright, and folklorist, known as the “Shakespeare of Bhojpuri”, dies at 83
1991 – Gerome Ragni, American playwright and songwriter (Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical), dies of cancer at 55
2010 – John Coates, British naval architect best known for reconstructing an Ancient Greek trireme, dies from cancer at 88
2015 – Roger Rees, Welsh Tony winning stage and screen actor (Cheers – “Robin Colcord”), dies of brain cancer at 71
Famous Deaths for 9th July 2026
1228 – Stephen Langton, English Cardinal and scholar, Archbishop of Canterbury (1207-1228), negotiated the Magna Carta, thought to have divided Bible into chapters (b. c. 1150)
1673 – Johann Rudolph Ahle, German organist, composer, and music theorist, dies at 47
1704 – Yan Ruoqu, Chinese scholar of Qing dynasty, dies at 67
1828 – Gilbert Stuart, American portrait painter (unfinished portrait of George Washington), dies at 72
1850 – Bab [Shirazi, Sayyid Ali Muhammad], Persian founder of Babism, executed by firing squad on orders of the Persian government at 30
1852 – Thomas M. T. McKennan, American politician who served as the 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior for only 11 days (1850), dies at 58
1923 – William R. Day, American diplomat and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, dies at 74
1960 – Vallance Jupp, cricketer (28 wkts in 8 Tests for England 1921-28), dies
1980 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist, dies at 66
1986 – Lê Duẩn, Vietnamese communist politician (General Secretary of Vietnam 1960-86), dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 8th July 2026
1253 – Theobald de Champagne, French ruler (Count of Champagne; King of Navarre, 1234-53), poet, and troubadour, dies at 52
1784 – Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist notable for publishing the largest chemical affinity tables, dies at 49
1822 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, British romantic poet (Adonais; Prometheus Unbound), drowns at 29
1897 – Isham Green Harris, American and Confederate politician (US Senator from Tennessee, 1877-97; Governor of Tennessee, 1857-1862; US Representative from Tennessee, 1849-53), dies at 79
1913 – Louis Hémon, French novelist (Maria Chapdelaine), dies at 32
1957 – Grace Goodhue Coolidge, American First Lady (1923-29) wife of Calvin Coolidge, dies at 78
1974 – Morris “Moose” Charlap, American Broadway composer (Peter Pan; Kelly), dies at 45
1987 – Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (Versos humanos), dies at 90
1988 – Ray Barbuti, American athlete (Olympic gold 400m, 400m relay 1928), dies at 83
2018 – Alan Johnson, American Emmy Award-winning screen and stage choreographer (The Producers – “Springtime for Hitler”; Legs Diamond), director (To Be Or Not To Be), and dancer (West Side Story), dies at 81