1265 – Simon de Montfort the younger, English Earl of Leicester, dies in battle
1718 – René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France, dies at 62
1727 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
1930 – Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer and conductor, dies at 61
1938 – L. H. Perquin, Dutch religious radio broadcaster, dies at 73
1981 – Melvyn Douglas [Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg], American actor (Hud, Being There, Ghost Story), dies at 80
1984 – Mary Miles Minter, actress (Drums of Fate), die at 82 of heart failure
1999 – Victor Mature, American actor (I Wake Up Screaming, Samson and Delilah), dies from leukemia at 86
2011 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese Soccer player (b. 1977)
2022 – Sam Gooden, American soul vocalist (The Impressions – “People Get Ready”; “It’s All Right”), dies at 87
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 3rd August 2023
1387 – Olaf V Haakonsson, King of Denmark (1376-87)/Norway (1380-87), dies
1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (Frobenius–Stickelberger formulae), dies at 67
1943 – Edward “Corky” Cornelius, American jazz trumpeter (Benny Goodman; Gene Krupa), dies of kidney failure at 28
1951 – Neville Tufnell, English cricket wicket-keeper (Test for England 1910), dies at 64
1964 – Flannery O’Connor, American writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies pf lupus at 39
2007 – John Gardner, English spy and thriller novelist (Boysie Oakes novels; James Bond continuation novels), dies of suspected heart failure at 80
2008 – Skip Caray, American TV and radio broadcaster (b. 1939)
2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel Prize for Literature 1970), dies at 89
2011 – Bubba Smith, American College Football Hall of Fame defensive end (Michigan State; Pro Bowl 1970, 71; First Team All Pro 1971; Super Bowl 1971; Baltimore Colts) and actor (Police Academy), dies of acute drug intoxication and heart disease at 66
2015 – Les Munro, New Zealand WWII pilot (Dambusters), dies at 96
Famous Deaths for 2nd August 2023
640 – Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies
1859 – Horace Mann, American educator, author, abolitionist and politician who pioneered public schools, dies at 63
1938 – Bjarni Thorsteinsson, Icelandic organist, composer, musical folklorist, and priest, dies at 76
1954 – Rene Amengual, Chilean pianist, composer and educator, dies at 42
1972 – Brian Cole, American rock vocalist and bassist (Association – “Windy”; “Cherish”), dies of overdose at 29
1983 – James Jamerson, American session bass guitarist (Motown Records’ “Funk Brothers”), dies of alcohol-related complications at 47
1995 – Irwin Bazelon, American composer (Duo for Viola), dies at 73
2001 – Edward Gardner, British barrister and Conservative Party politician (British Nationality Act 1981), dies at 89
2004 – François Craenhals, Belgian comic artist (Chevalier Ardent), dies at 77
2008 – Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist, dies of pneumonia at 72
Famous Deaths for 1st August 2023
1667 – Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48
1798 – François-Paul Brueys D’Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
1892 – George Baird Hodge, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 64
1943 – Ismar Elbogen, German-American rabbi and scholar (Encyclopedia Judaica), dies at 68
1971 – John McDermott, American golfer (US Open, 1911-12), dies of heart failure at 79
1996 – Pierre Lucien Claverie, Algerian-French Bishop of Oran, murdered by Islamic extremists in Algeria at 58
2010 – Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby union halfback (1 cap; Wellington RFU), cricket wicketkeeper (5 Tests, 7 dismissals) and international umpire (1 Test), dies at 99
2013 – Dick Kazmaier, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1951; Unanimous All-American 1951; Princeton), dies from heart and lung disease at 82
2015 – Anatoly Kremer, Russian composer and conductor (Eksperiment), dies at 82
2016 – Franciszek Macharski, Polish Cardinal, Archbishop of Krakow (1978-2005), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 31st July 2023
1864 – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (Librairie Hachette), dies at 64
1917 – Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (b. 1887)
1927 – Walter Travis, Australian-American golfer, writer, course designer (US Amateur C’ship 1900-01, 03; British Amateur 1904), dies at 65
1964 – Jim Reeves, American country singer (“He’ll Have To Go”; “Distant Drums”), and actor (Kimberley Jim), dies in airplane crash at 39
1965 – James Rennie, Canadian actor (Lash, Little Damozel), dies at 75
1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist (Nobel 1938-work on carotenoids and vitamins), dies at 66
1986 – Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
1996 – Joan Warburton, Scottish painter, dies at 76
1998 – Barbara Giuranna, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 98
2020 – Alan Parker, English director (Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express), dies at 76
Famous Deaths for 30th July 2023
1550 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
1680 – Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
1875 – George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1967 – John Macchia, American actor (Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Party), dies of stroke at 35
1980 – Charles McGraw [Butters], American actor (Spartacus, The Birds, The Killers, Smith Family), dies after falling through a glass shower door at 66
1985 – Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
1990 – Karl Weber, dies of heart failure at 74
1993 – Edward Bernard Raczyński, Polish President-in-exile (1979-86), dies at 101
2006 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
2015 – Lynn Anderson, American country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden), dies of a heart attack at 67
Famous Deaths for 29th July 2023
1108 – Philip I of France, King of the Franks (1060-1108), dies at 56
1781 – Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician, dies at 73
1792 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
1808 – Selim III, Turkish sultan (1789-1808) poet and composer, assassinated at 46
1983 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish surrealist film director (Monk), dies of cirrhosis of liver at 83
1988 – Ellin Berlin (née MacKay), American writer (Lace Curtain), and second wife of songwriter Irving Berlin, dies at 86
1994 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British biochemist who developed protein crystallography to study molecular structure, including that of vitamin B12 (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1964), dies of a stroke at 84
1998 – Jerome Robbins [Rabinowitz], American Tony and Academy Award-winning theater and ballet choreographer and director (West Side Story; Peter Pan), dies shortly after suffering a strokeat 79
2007 – Mike Reid, English comedian and actor (b. 1940)
2013 – Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian soccer striker (58 caps; El Nacional, Santos Laguna, América), dies from heart failure at 27
Famous Deaths for 28th July 2023
1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist and novelist (Voyage to the Moon), and inspiration for Edmond Rostand’s play, dies under mysterious circumstances at 36
1667 – Abraham Cowley, English poet (Mistress/Sex libri plantarum), dies
1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain, dies at 76
1878 – George Law Curry, American newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon, dies at 58
1915 – Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, Haitian rebellion leader, President of Haiti (1915), lynched by a mob at 56
1937 – Muslim Magomayev, Azerbaijani-Soviet composer, dies at 51
1981 – Fr. Stanley Rother, American Roman Catholic priest, martyr and missionary to Guatemala, murdered at 46
1986 – Cliff Melton, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1942; NL saves leader 1937; NY Giants), dies at 74
1994 – Colin Turnbull, British-American anthropologist (The Forest People), dies at 69
2015 – James Jude, American thoracic surgeon (developed CPR), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 27th July 2023
1498 – Vespasiano da’ Bisticci, Italian book seller/writer, dies at about 77
1720 – Johann Samuel Welter, German composer, dies at 69
1833 – William Bainbridge, American naval officer, dies at 59
1938 – Catherine Wolfe Donohue, American watch dial painter, dies of radium poisoning at 35
1942 – William Matthew Finders Petrie, Egyptologist, dies
1958 – Claire Chennault, American aviator and military leader (Flying Tigers), dies at 64
1995 – Rick Ferrell, American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher (8 x MLB All Star; Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators), dies of arrhythmia at 89
2005 – Al Held, American painter and sculptor (hard edge-style), dies at 76
2016 – James Alan MacPherson, American writer, 1st black writer to win Pulitzer Prize, dies at 72
2017 – Sam Shepard Ill, American actor and playwright (Frances; Crimes of the Heart), dies at 73
Famous Deaths for 26th July 2023
1611 – Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
1863 – Sam Houston, 1st President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent state, dies at 70
1919 – Edward Poynter, British painter, President of the Royal Academy, dies at 83
1937 – Gerda Taro (Gerta Pohorylle), German-born war photojournalist, dies covering Spanish Civil War aged 26
1967 – Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch classical composer, critic, and musicologist dies at 79
1988 – Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani modernist scholar, dies at 68
1992 – Ron Webber, dies of cancer at 60
1998 – (David Allan) “Chico” Ryan, American rock bassist and singer (Sha Na Na, 1973-98), dies at 50
2009 – Marcey Jacobson, American photographer (b. 1911)
2021 – Ivan Toplak, Serbian soccer striker (1 cap; Red Star Belgrade) and manager (Red Star Belgrade, San Jose Earthquakes, Yugoslavia), dies at 89