655 Pope Martin I, Umbrian cleric, Pope of the Imperial Church (649-53) who was banished due to his opposition to Monothelitism, and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint, dies at between 55 and 65 [birthdate unceratin] 1087 Victor III [Dauferio/Desiderius], Italian Pope (1086-87), dies 1100 Bernold of Constance, German chronicler (b. 1054) 1345 John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295) 1380 Charles V, the Wise, King of France during Hundred Years' (1364-80), dies at 42 1394 Clement VII [Robert de Geneve], Pope (1378-94), dies 1406 Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1336) 1498 Tomas de Torquemada, Castilian Grand Inquisitor during Spanish Inquisition, who burned 10,000 people, dies at 77 1542 Diego de Almagro II , Spanish conquistador known as "El Mozo," the son of Diego de Almagro, is executed for his role in fatal a coup d'état attempt at about 21 (birthday uncertain, b. 1520) 1583 Catherine Jagellion, Polish princess and queen of Sweden as the wife of John III of Sweden, dies at 56 1589 Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513) 1643 Lucas Franchoys the Elder, Belgian painter, dies at 69 1652 Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer, dies at 61 1670 William Penn, English admiral and politician, father of the founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, dies at 49 1672 Anne Bradstreet, New England's first published poet, dies (birth date unknown) 1681 Jahanara Begum, Mughal princess, eldest daughter of Emperor Shah Jahan, First Lady of the Mughal court, dies at 67 1696 Lambert Pietkin, Flemish composer, dies at 83 King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1685-88), dies at 68 Dutch-German-Polish physicist , inventor and scientific instrument maker, who invented the thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale, dies at 50 1753 Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Prussian architect (Sanssouci) and painter, dies at 54 1775 Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684) 1798 Damasus Brosmann, Moravian composer, dies at 67 1803 Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (b. 1754) 1819 John Jeffries, American physician and meteorologist (1st balloon flight across English Channel), dies at 75 1st post-revolutionary King of France (1814-24), dies at 68 1829 Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman, dies at 58 1834 Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French writer (Guillaume the Nassau), dies 1845 Johannes Kinker, Dutch linguist, philosopher and poet (Minderjarige Zangster), dies at 81 1865 Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (b. 1792) 1890 Louis Le Prince, French artist and original inventor of the motion picture camera sometimes called "the father of cinematography," vanishes under suspicious circumstances at 49 1896 Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian opera composer, first from outside of Europe have a successful career in Italy, dies at 60 1898 Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat, dies at 71 1910 Hormuzd Rassam, Assyrian archaeologist (discovered Epic of Gilgamesh, world's oldest piece of literature), dies at 84 1911 Édouard Nieuport, French Algerian aviator and plane designer and manufacturer, dies in a plane crash at 36 1911 Edward Whymper, English mountaineer 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865), dies at 71 1914 James Edward Sullivan, American sports official and founder (Amateur Athletic Union), dies at 51 1916 Basil W. Duke, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 78 1920 Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet and writer (Polar History), dies at 32 1925 Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888) 1925 Leo Fall, Austria operetta composer (That Pink von Stambul), dies at 52 1926 Rudolf C Eucken, German philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies at 80 1932 (Millicent) "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress, commits suicide at 24 [1] 1932 Ronald Ross, British pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, dies at 75 1933 George Gore, American baseball player, dies at 79 1936 Karl Buresch, Austrian lawyer and politician, dies at 57 1944 Gustav Bauer, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (1919-1920), dies at 74 1945 Johannes "Pa" van der Steur, Dutch missionary to the East Indies, philanthropist and humanitarian (established Oranje Nassau Orphanage), dies at 80 1945 John McCormack, Irish-American tenor (Irish folksongs), dies at 61 1946 James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, mathematician and astronomer (The Mysterious Universe), dies at 69 1946 Mamie Smith, American vaudeville singer, dancer and actress (Crazy Blues), dies at 63 1948 Ferdinand I MKLM, prince of Saxony-Coburg/tsar of Bulgaria, dies 1950 Pedro De Cordoba, American actor (Club Havana, Swamp Fire, Saboteur), dies at 68 1951 Bill Klem, American Baseball HOF umpire (record 18 x World Series), dies at of a heart attack at 77 1953 Colin G. Fink, American chemist (electro chemistry), dies at 71 [1] 1955 Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), dies at 81 1956 Shorty Ray, American football player and supervisor of NFL officials, dies at 71 Chinese painter famous for whimsical and playful watercolor paintings, dies at 93 1960 José Sancho Marraco, Spanish composer, organist and chapel master (Cathedral of Barcelona, 1923-57, dies at 81 1961 A P F Chapman, cricketer (26 Tests for England), dies 1961 Percy Chapman, British cricket batsman (26 Tests, captain 1926-31, 1 x 100; Kent CCC), dies after a fall at 61 1961 Yme Schuitmaker, Frisian-Dutch potato merchant, actor, and playwright (Maerteblom (Snowdrop); Lysbet), dies at 84 1962 Saif al-Islam Achmad, monarch of Yemen, dies at about 71 1964 Ernest Hill, American jazz double-bassist, dies at 64 1964 Leo Weismantel, German writer (Das Totenliebespar), dies at 76 1965 Ahn Eak-tai, Korean cellist, composer (Aegukga - national anthem of South Korea), and conductor, dies at 58 1965 Fred Quimby, American Academy Award-winning animated film producer (Tom and Jerry cartoons), dies of a heart attack at 79 1971 Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher and director, dies at 77 1973 (Avrum), "Al" Sherman, Russian-American Tin Pan Alley songwriter ("You Gotta Be a Football Hero", "For Sentimental Reasons"), and father of the Sherman Brothers), dies at 76 1973 Frederic Meyer, actor (Faraway Hill), dies at 63 1973 Leonard Carmichael, American Psychologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1953-64), dies at 74 1975 Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b. 1896) 1976 Bertha Lutz, Brazilian biologist, congresswoman, and feminist, and co- founder of the Brazilian Federation for Women’s Progress, dies at 82 [1] 1977 Marc Bolan, English rock vocalist and guitarist (T-Rex - "Bang a Gong (Get It On)"), dies in a car crash at 29 American-Greek soprano (Carmen), dies in Paris of a heart attack at 53 1978 Bill Foster, American Baseball HOF pitcher (NgL All-Star 1933, 34; NgL World Series 1926, 27; Chicago American Giants), dies at 74 1979 Nur Mohammed Taraki, Communist president of Afghanistan (1978-79), murdered by order from his successor, Hafizullah Amin, at 62 1980 Everard Endt, American sailor (Olympic gold 6 metre class 1952), dies at 87 1980 Jean Piaget, Swiss pioneer developmental psychologist and zoologist, dies at 84 1982 Rolfe Sedan, American actor (Young Frankenstein, Ninotchka, George Burns Show), dies at 86 1983 Roy Andries de Groot, Dutch-British-American culinary writer and wine critic, takes his own life at 73 1984 Paul Neuhuys, Belgian playwright and poet (Le Canari et le Cerise), dies at 87 1984 Richard Brautigan, American novelist and poet (Trout Fishing in America), takes his own life at 49 [exact date estimated based on forensic investigation] 1987 Howard Moss, American poet and editor (New Yorker), dies at 65 1990 Loretta Tupper, radio/TV entertainer, dies of cancer at 84

1990 Steve Condos, tap dancer, dies of a heart attack at 71 1991 Carol White, British actress (Cathy Come Home, Poor Cow), dies due to ill-health as a result of substance abuse at 47 1992 Duke Robbins, entertainer, dies of pneumonia at 71 1992 Lee Tully, entertainer, dies 1992 Millicent Fenwick, American politician (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82), dies at 82 1993 Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian Aboriginal political activist and writer (We Are Going), dies at 72 1993 Willie Mosconi, American pool player (World C'ship pocket billiards 1941-57), dies of a heart attack at 80 1994 Alain Bernardin, French impresario of the Crazy Horse Saloon, dies at 78 1994 Albert de Courtray, French archbishop of Lyon/cardinal, dies at 71 1994 Bernie Lazaroff Leighton, pianist, dies at 73 1994 Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom), dies at 84 1994 Jack Dodson, American character actor (he Andy Griffith Show - "Howard Sprague"), dies of heart failure at 63 1994 Johnny Berry, British soccer right winger (4 caps; Manchester United, Birmingham City), dies from cancer at 68 1995 Michael Balfour, historian, dies at 86 1995 Pierre Olaf [Trivier], French actor (Camelot, Don't Drink the Water, Kraft Music Hall), dies at 67 1996 Andrew MacElhone, British bartender, owner (Harry's New York Bar in Paris) and inventor of cocktails (Harry's ABC of Mixing Cocktails), dies of a heart attack at 73 1996 Gene Nelson [Leander Berg], American screenwriter, director and actor (Tea For 2, Oklahoma), dies at 76 1996 Kai Laursen, Danish concert violinist, dies at 74 1996 McGeorge Bundy, American national security adviser for JFK (1961-66), dies at 77 1997 Antony Kearey, television producer, dies at 77 1997 Terence Cooper, British actor (Casino Royale), dies at 64 1999 Henri Storck, Belgian filmmaker (Misére Au Borinage; Paul Delvaux Or The Forbidden Women), dies at 92 2000 Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969) 2001 Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer and co-founder of American International Pictures, dies at 83 2002 James Gregory, American actor (The Manchurian Candidate; My Favorite Martian; Beneath the Planet of the Apes; Barney Miller), dies at 90 2003 Sheb Wooley, American vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw), dies at 82 2004 Izora Rhodes Armstead, American disco singer (Two Tons O' Fun; The Weather Girls - "It's Raining Men"), dies of heart failure at 62 2005 Constance Moore, American singer and actress (Buck Rogers; Show Business; Atlantic City), dies at 85 American physicist (inventor of the laser), dies at 85 2005 Harry Freedman (Henryk Frydmann), Polish-Canadian composer, dies at 83 2006 Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey right wing (Stanley Cup 1953, 56-58; Montreal Canadiens), dies at 81 2006 Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (b. 1955) 2007 Jean Balissat, Swiss composer pedagogue and conductor (Kaleidoscope for trumpet and percussion), dies at 71 2007 Robert Jordan, American author of the Wheel of Time series, dies from complications from multiple myeloma at 58 2008 Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer for Motown ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine"), dies at 68 2009 Luciano Emmer, Italian filmmaker (Girl in the Window, Sunday in August), dies at 91 American folk singer (Peter Paul & Mary - "Puff" (The Magic Dragon)"; "Leaving On A Jet Plane"), dies of leukemia at 72 2009 Myles Brand, American sports administrator (4th NCAA President), dies of pancreatic cancer at 67 2011 Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, American electric blues vocalist, harmonica player, and drummer, dies following a stoke at 75 2012 John Ingle, American actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital), dies from cancer at 84 2012 Ragnhild Alexandra [Princess Ragnhild, Mrs Lorentzen], Norwegian princess, dies of cancer at 82 American hockey HOF center (Olympic gold 1960; Harvard University), dies at 79 2015 Guy Béart [Béhart-Hasson], French singer and songwriter ("L'Eau vive"), and television host, dies of a heart attack at 85 2016 António Mascarenhas Monteiro, 1st democratically elected President of Cape Verde (1991-2001), dies at 72 2016 Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian President (1999-2006) and Prime Minister (1993-94), dies at 95 2016 Dorothy Cann Hamilton, American businesswoman and founder of the French Culinary Institute, dies in a car accident at 67 American playwright (Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?), dies at 88 [1] 2016 W. P. Kinsella, Canadian novelist and short story writer of "Shoeless Joe" which was adapted into the movie "Field of Dreams", dies at 81 2018 Big Jay [Cecil James] McNeely, American R&B saxophonist, dies of prostate cancer at 91 2018 Frank Parker, American actor (Days of our Lives, Never Too Young), dies at 79 2018 Perry Miller Adato, American documentary director (Dylan Thomas: The World I Breathe; Eugene O’Neill: A Glory of Ghosts), dies at 97 2019 Peter Stormonth Darling, Scottish investment banker (Mercury Asset Management Group, largest fund-management in the UK), dies at 86 2019 Sander Vanocur, American journalist (NBC Weekend News), dies at 91 [1] 2019 Sir Donald Gosling, British entrepreneur (Central Car Parks; National Car Parks), yachtsman, and WWII Royal Navy veteran, dies at 90 2019 Vic Vogel, Hungarian-Canadian pianist, composer and bandleader, dies at 84 2020 Jack Kelley, American collegiate, WHA, and NHL ice hockey coach, and executive (Colby College coach, 1955-62; Boston University coach, 1962-72; New England Whalers, coach and general manager, 1972-81; Pittsburgh Penquins president, 1993-2001), dies at 93 2020 Stanley Crouch, American social critic and writer (Notes of a Hanging Judge; The All-American Skin Game, or, The Decoy of Race), dies at 74 2021 Boet van Dulmen, Dutch motorcycle racer (84 starts, 1 win, 4 podiums,1 pole; Finnish 500cc GP 1979), dies in a road accident at 73 2021 Clive Sinclair, British consumer electronics inventor (Executive pocket calculator; ZX Spectrum computer), dies of cancer at 81 [1] 2021 Dušan Ivković, Serbian basketball point guard (Radnički Belgrade) and coach (Yugoslavia 1987-95; Serbia 2008-13; FIBA HOF), dies from pulmonary edema and herpes at 77 2021 Jane Powell [Suzanne Burce], American singer and actress (Royal Wedding; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), dies at 92 2022 Allen Aylett, Australian Rules football midfielder (North Melbourne FC 220 games) and executive (president North Melbourne FC 1971-76, 2001-05; chairman VFL 1977-84), dies at 88 2022 Luciano Vassallo, Eritrean soccer midfielder (104 caps Ethiopia; Cotton Factory Club 1960-73) and manager (Ethiopia, Cotton FC), dies at 87 2022 Mahsa Amini, Iranian women whose death sparks nationwide protests, dies at 22 in suspicious circumstances allegedly after being beaten in by Iranian Morality Police [1] 2023 Arild Hetleøen, Norwegian soccer central defender (4 caps; SK Brann), dies at 80 2023 Horace Ové [Jones], British photographer and filmmaker credited as the director of the first Black British feature film (Pressure), dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 86 [1] 2023 Irish Grinstead, American R&B singer (702 - "Where My Girls At?"), dies at 43 2023 John Marshall, British jazz-rock drummer (Nucleus, 1969-72; Soft Machine, 1972-84 & 2015-22), dies at 82 2023 Lionel Morgan, Australian rugby league winger (3 Tests; first Indigenous Australian to play in a recognised RL Test), dies at 85 2023 Phillip JK Burton, British ornithologist and writer (Vanishing Eagles), dies at 87 2023 Ron Barassi, Australian Football HOF ruck rover (6×VFL Premierships Melbourne FC, Carlton FC) and coach (4×VFL Premierships; Melbourne, Carlton, North Melbourne, Sydney), dies after a fall at 87 2024 Barbara Leigh-Hunt, British stage and screen actress (Search for the Nile), dies at 88 2024 Billy Edd Wheeler, American folk and country music songwriter ("Jackson", "Coward of the County"), performer, and playwright, dies at 96 2024 István Juhász, Hungarian soccer midfielder (23 caps; Ferencváros; Olympic gold 1968), dies at 79 2024 Robert Dill-Bundi, Swiss track cyclist (Olympic gold Individual pursuit 1980; World C'ship gold Keirin 1984), dies at 65 2024 Robert Lansdorp, American tennis coach (Tracy Austin, Pete Sampras, Lindsay Davenport, Maria Sharapova), dies at 85 2025 D. D. Lewis, American College Football HOF linebacker (Mississippi State University; Super Bowl VI, XII Dallas Cowboys), dies at 79 American actor (The Sting; The Candidate; The Natural; All The President's Men), and Academy Award-winning director (Ordinary People; Quiz Show; A River Runs Through It), dies at 89 [1] [2] 2025 Roger Climpson, British-Australian television presenter (Australia's Most Wanted, Sydney's Seven News), dies at 93 2025 Ron Friedman, American screenwriter (The Transformers: The Movie; Fantasy Island), dies at 93 2025 Tomas Lindberg, Swedish death metal singer and songwriter (Grotesque; At the Gates), dies of adenoid cystic cancer at 52 Famous Deaths Calendar Search the largest and most accurate independent site for today in history.