1st Roman Emperor (27 BC–14 AD), founder of the Roman Empire, dies at 75 472 Ricimer, Germanic Roman general (kingmaker in the Western Roman Empire), dies 1186 Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond through his marriage to Constance, Duchess of Brittany, dies at 27 1245 Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195) 1284 Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son and heir of Edward I of England, dies at 10 1297 Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274) 1493 Frederick III of Innsbruck, Holy Roman Emperor (1452-1493), dies at 77 probably of blood loss after his leg is amputated 1506 Alexander Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania (1492-1506) and King of Poland (1501-6), dies at 45 1580 Andrea Palladio [Andrea di Pietro della Gondola], Italian architect (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71 1601 Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia and Moldovia (Romanian national hero), assassinated at 42 or 43 1646 Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian 1650 Abraham de Verwer, Dutch painter, buried at about 55 1654 Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi and scholar (Tosefot Yom Tov), dies (b. c. 1579) 1657 Frans Snyders, Flemish painter of animals, dies at 77 French mathematician , physicist and Christian philosopher (Pascal's Law, Pascal's Wager), dies of a stomach tumor at 39 1680 Jean Eudes, French catholic priest, founder of the Eudists, dies at 78 1691 Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha, Turkish grand vizer, dies in the Battle of Slankamen (b. 1637) 1699 José Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal, dies at 69 1705 Konrad Hoffler, German composer, dies at 58 1719 Karl H. Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer, dies at 52 1744 Carlo Arrigoni, Italian lutenist, harpsichordist, and composer (Il Pentimento d’Accabo; Fernando), dies at 46 1753 Balthasar Neumann, German Baroque architect (Würzburg Residence), dies at 66 1765 Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Swedish Chemist who discovered nickel and tungsten, dies at 42 1780 Bernhard Haltenberger, German composer, dies at 32 1795 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, German composer, dies at 67 1812 Vincenzo Righini, Italian composer and singer, dies at 56 1813 Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, German composer, dies at 54 1813 Josef Blažej Smrček, Czech organist and composer, dies at 61 French mathematician and astronomer (The History of Astronomy), dies at 72 1822 Melchor Lopez Jimenez, Spanish composer (Santiago de Compostela cathedral), dies at 62 1838 James Geddes, American Engineer (Erie Canal), dies at 75 1851 Gioseffo Catrufo, Italian composer, dies at 80 1856 Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist, dies at 39 1872 Eugene-Prosper Prevost, French composer, dies at 63 1876 George Smith, English archaeologist and assyriologist (cuneiform script), dies of fever at 36 1881 Joseph Labitzky, Bohemian composer, dies at 79 1883 Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (US Attorney General 1857-60, US Secretary of State 1860-61), dies at 73 1887 Alvan Clark, American astronomer and maker of the Dearborn Observatory telescope, the largest telescope in the world at the time, dies at 83 1888 Spencer Fullerton Baird, American naturalist and ornithologist (Wood's Hole Station), dies at 65 1889 Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (Contes cruels), dies at 60 1892 František Zdeněk Skuherský, Czech composer, dies at 62 1895 John Wesley Hardin, American outlaw and gunfighter (claimed to have killed 27 men), shot dead in a saloon at 42 1895 William Strong, American lawyer, jurist, politician, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1870-80), dies at 87 1896 Josiah Dwight Whitney, American Geologist who led the California Geological Survey (Mount Whitney and Whitney Glacier are named for him), dies at 76 1900 Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer, dies at 67 1909 Rembt Tobias Hugo Pieter Liebrecht Alexander van Boneval Faure, Dutch lawyer, teacher (Leiden University, 1859-92), and politician (member of the Senate of the States General. 1894-1904), dies at 83 1912 Alphonse Hasselmans, Belgian-French harpist, composer (La Source), and educator (Paris Conservatoire, 1884-1912), dies at 67 1914 Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus, dies at 69 1922 Felipe Pedrell, Spanish guitarist, composer (Excelsior; La Celestina), and musical scholar, dies at 81 1923 Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (Pareto’s law of income distribution, popularised the term 'elite'), dies at 75 1929 Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet director (founder of the Ballets Russes), dies freom complications of diabetes at 57 1931 Aristides Agramonte y Simoni, Cuban-American Physician, Pathologist and Bacteriologist (yellow fever), dies at 63 1936 Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet and composer, murdered at 37 or 38 1939 Johannes Marinus Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, dies at 70 German field marshal during World War II (Invasion of Poland, Battle of France, Operation Barbarossa), commits suicide at 61 1944 Henry Wood, British conductor associated with London's promenade "Proms" concerts (Gentle Art of Singing; My Life of Music), dies following an illness at 75 1945 Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (founder of Villa Lo Burgos), dies at 69 1947 Ernst Laqueur, Dutch chemist and psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67 1950 Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and electrical engineer (Giorgi system of measurement), dies at 78 1954 Alcide de Gasperi, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (1945-53), dies at 73 1957 Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (Rossby waves), dies at 58 [1] [2] 1957 David Bomberg, English painter, dies at 66 English aviation pioneer who was the 1st to make a night flight, dies at 79 1959 Jacob Epstein, American-English sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel), dies at 78 1960 Lewis Bernstein Namier, British historian, dies at 72 1961 (Carlos) "Charlie" Gemora, Filipino-American film make-up artist and actor who specialized in playing gorillas (Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Chimp & Swiss Miss; At the Circus; Road to Zanzibar), dies of a heart attack at 58 1962 Kerstin Hesselgren, Swedish politician, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90 1963 Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist, and educator, dies at 72 1967 Carl Wilhelm de Vries, Dutch jurist, dies at 84 1967 Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born American inventor and sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo), dies at 83 1967 Isaac Deutscher, Polish-English historian (Stalin/Trotsky biography), dies at 60 1968 George Gamow, Ukrainian-born American nuclear physicist and cosmologist (Big Bang Theory, DNA), dies at 64 1970 Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian, dies at 60 1971 Mary Browne, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1912-14), dies at 80 1971 Walther Victor, German writer, dies at 76 1974 Rodger Davies, United States ambassador to Cyprus, murdered at 53 by Greek Cypriot gunmen during a demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia 1975 Ima Hogg, American society leader, Texas arts patron, and founder of Houston Symphony, dies at 93 [1] 1975 Jim Londos, Greek-American wrestler, dies at 81 1975 Mark Donohue, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500, 1972), dies from injuries suffered in a crash during a practice run in Graz, Austria at 38 1976 Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (Christmas Carol, Green for Danger), dies at 75

1976 Jenö Kenessey, Hungarian conductor and composer, dies at 70 1976 Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricket wicket-keeper/batsman (33 Tests, 96 dismissals, 5 x 50s; Central Districts CA), dies from cancer at 29 American comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life), dies at 86 1979 Dorsey Burnette, American rockabilly singer (The Rock and Roll Trio), and songwriter ("It's Late"), dies of a heart attack at 46 1980 American farmer and inventor of center-pivot irrigation, US's most widely used irrigation system, dies at 86 [1] 1980 Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91 1981 Jessie Matthews, English actress (Gangway, First a Girl), dies at 74 1983 Aleksandar Ranković, Yugoslavic partisan and 1st Vice President of Yugoslavia (1963-66), dies at 73 1986 Hermione Baddeley, British actress (Camp Runamuck; Maude), dies at 79 1986 Lorenzo Tucker 'the Black Valentino', American actor (Black King), dies at 79 1987 Hayden Rorke, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie, When Worlds Collide), dies from multiple myeloma at 76 1990 Anna Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, Dutch children's book writer, dies at 80 1991 Richard Maltby Sr., American musician and orchestra leader ("(Themes from) The Man with the Golden Arm"; Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 77 1992 Donald William Kerst, American Physicist who developed the betatron (device to accelerate electron beams), dies of a brain tumor at 80 1992 Feliks Arons, Dutch director and actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48 1992 Norvel Lee, American boxer (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 67 1993 Jean King, American actress (Night Has a Thousand Eyes), dies at 76 1993 Lucinda Ballard, US costume designer, wife of Howard Dietz, dies at 90 1993 Utpal Dutt, Indian actor and director (Manusher Adhikar), dies at 64 1994 John George Hughes, British academic and 9th bishop of Kensington (1987-1994), dies at 59 1994 Ladislav Fuks, Czech writer, dies at 70 American chemist , engineer and peace activist (1954 Nobel prize for Chemistry, 1962 Nobel Peace Prize), dies at 93 1994 Nancy Lancaster, American British decorator (Colefax and Fowler), dies at 96 1994 Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet poet, dies at 64 1994 Walter Bartley, English biochemist, dies at 78 1995 Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70 1995 Pierre Schaeffer, French electronics engineer and composer, dies at 85 1996 Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch pianist and composer (Berkshire Symphonies; Les Cloches des Clochards; Hedwig's Portrait), dies at 70 1997 Petr Novák, Czech rock singer-songwriter (George and Beatovens; Flamengo), dies of apparent poisoning at 51 1998 Vasily Arkhipov, Soviet-Russian naval officer who saved the world by refusing to launch a nuclear torpedo from submarine B-59 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, dies of kidney cancer at 72 2000 Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941) 2000 Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo littérateur and religious figure (birth date unknown) 2000 Dachine Rainer, American-British poet and anarchist, dies at 79 2001 Betty Everett, American southern soul singer and pianist ("Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)"), dies at 61 2001 Donald Woods, South African journalist, anti-apartheid activist and author (Biko; Asking for Trouble), dies at 67 2003 Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926) 2003 Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat, dies in the Canal Hotel car-bomb attack on the UN in Iraq at 55 2005 Mo Mowlam, British Labour Party politician (Member of Parliament for Redcar), dies at 55 2008 Clea Bradford, American jazz singer, dies of breast cancer at 67 2008 LeRoi Moore, American saxophonist (Dave Matthews Band - "Too Much"), dies from injuries sustained in a farm vehicle accident at 46 2008 Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian politician (3rd President of Zambia), dies at 59 2008 Marguerite Empey [Diane Webber], American model and Playboy playmate (May 1955, Feb 1956), dies at 76 2009 Don Hewitt, American CBS news executive producer (60 Minutes), dies at 86 2010 Michael Been, American rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter (The Call - "Let the Day Begin"), dies of a heart attack at 60 2011 Gun Hägglund, Swedish news presenter (b. 1932) 2011 Raúl Ruiz, Chilean filmmaker (Three Sad Tigers), dies at 70 2012 Tony Scott, British film director and producer (Top Gun; Revenge; Days of Thunder), commits suicide at 68 2013 Cedar Walton, American hard bop jazz pianist (Jazztet; Art Blakey), and composer ("Mosaic"), dies at 79 2013 José Sarria, American political activist, drag queen and 1st openly gay candidate for public office in the US (1961), dies of adrenal cancer at 90 2014 Brian G. Hutton, American actor and director (Where Eagles Dare, Kelly’s Heroes), dies of heart failure at 79 2016 Donald Henderson, American epidemiologist, led world campaign that eradicated smallpox, dies at 82 2016 Jack Riley, American actor (The Bob Newhart Show - "Mr. Carlin"; Rugrats -"Stu Pickles"), dies of pneumonia at 80 2016 Lou Pearlman, American music manager and scam artist; developed the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, and ran one of the largest and longest-running Ponzi schemes in United States history, dies in federal custody at 62 2016 Nina Ponomaryova, Russian athlete (Olympic gold USSR discus 1952, 60; bronze 1956), dies at 87 2017 Bea Wain, American pop singer ("Deep Purple" (the song, not the group); "Heart and Soul"), and radio host, dies at 100 2017 Charles R. Bentley, American pioneer or polar science, dies from complications of Parkinson’s disease at 87 2017 Dick Gregory, American comedian, civil rights activist and dietician (Bahamian Diet), dies of heart failure at 84 2017 Janusz Glowacki, Polish novelist (Give Us This Day), playwright (Cinders) and screenwriter (Hunting Flies), dies at 78 2018 Vaughn Beals, American CEO (Harley Davidson. 1981-96), dies at 90 2019 Jack Perkins, American broadcast journalist (NBC - Prime Time Sunday, Today; A&E - Biography, 1994-99), poet, and photographer, dies at 85 2019 Larry "The Mole" Taylor, American session (The Monkees) and touring rock and blues bass player (Canned Heat - "On the Road Again"; John Mayall; Tom Waits), dies of cancer at 77 2020 Slade Gorton, American politician (Sen-R-WA, 1981-87, 1989-2001), dies at 92 2021 Bill Freehan, American baseball catcher (11 x All Star; World Series 1968; 5 x Gold Glove; Detroit Tigers), dies from dementia at 79 2021 Chuck Close, American painter and photographer, dies of congestive heart failure at 81 2021 Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba [Sadaho Maeda], Japanese martial artist and actor (The Street Fighter; Kill Bill: Volume 1), dies of Covid-19 complications at 82 2022 Egon Pajenk, Austrian soccer defender (3 caps; SK Rapid Wien 266 games), dies at 72 2022 Warren Bernhardt, American pianist in jazz, pop and classical pianist (L'Image; Steps Ahead; Steely Dan, 1993-94) and composer, dies at 83 [1] 2023 Carlo Mazzone, Italian soccer manager (Ascoli, Fiorentina, Roma, Napoli, Bologna, Cagliari) and centre-back (AS Roma, SPAL, Ascoli), dies at 86 2023 Gloria Coates, American post-minimalist composer (Music on Open Strings), dies of pancreatic cancer at 89 2023 John Warnock, American computer scientist, and businessman (co-founder of Adobe Systems), dies at 82 2023 Kazuo Fukushima, Japanese composer, dies at 93 2023 Ron Cephas Jones, American Emmy Award-winning actor (This is Us), dies of pulmonary disease at 66 2024 Maria Branyas, 2nd oldest American-Catalan supercentenarian (born 1907), dies at 117 years, 168 days 2024 Mike Lynch, English tech entrepreneur, founder of the Autonomy Corporation, dies when his yacht sinks off the coast of Sicily at 59 [1] 2025 Eduardo Serra, Portuguese cinematographer (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Girl with a Pearl Earring), dies at 81 2025 Herwig Schopper, German physicist and Director-General of CERN (1981-88), dies at 101 2025 Ken Shuttleworth, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 12 wickets, BB 5/37; Lancashire CCC, Leicestershire CCC), dies at 80 2025 Michel Odent, French obstetrician and advocate for natural approaches to childbirth (Birth Reborn), dies at 95 [1] Famous Deaths Calendar Search the largest and most accurate independent site for today in history.