Famous Deaths for 4th August 2023

1265 – Simon de Montfort the younger, English Earl of Leicester, dies in battle
1718 – RenĂ© 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

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