29 John the Baptist, beheaded 683 K'inich Janaab' Pakal [Pacal the Great], Ajaw (King) of Palenque (615-83), dies at 80 886 Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies 1093 Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) 1123 Eystein I, King of Norway (1103-23) portrayed as the "peace king" who ruled alongside his brothers Sigurd the Crusader and Olaf Magnusson, dies of an illness at around 34 or 35 1298 Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar, daughter of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile, dies at 29 1395 Albert III, Duke of Austria (1365-95), dies at 45 1442 John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) 1523 Ulrich von Hutten, German knight, scholar and poet (led Imperial Knights against Roman Catholic Church), dies of syphilis at 35 1526 Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, dies in an accident at 20 1542 Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier who led a force with Ethiopia against the Adal Sultanate, captured and executed at 25 or 26 1572 Claude Goudimel, French composer, music theorist, music editor and publisher, dies between 52 and 58 [birthdate disputed] Spanish Benedictine monk considered "the first teacher for the deaf", dies at about 64 1625 John Fletcher, English Jacobean playwright (followed Shakespeare as playwright for the Kings Men), dies at 45 1653 Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49 1657 John Lilburne, English dissenter 1712 Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63 1738 Georg Reutter, Austrian composer and organist, dies at 81 1769 Edmond Hoyle, English games expert, dies (birth date unknown) 1780 Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon in Paris, dies at 67 1782 Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns in sinking of HMS Royal George at about 64 (exact birthday uncertain) Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 81 1821 Horace Coignet, French violinist, singer and composer, dies at 86 1844 Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish missionary and founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers, dies at 82 British soldier and Major General of the Bombay Army who conquered Sindh and became its Governor (1843-47), dies at 71 1856 Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer, dies at 77 1861 Franz Joseph Glæser, Czech-Danish composer, dies at 63 1865 John Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54 1866 Tokugawa Iemochi, 14th Japanese shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate (1858-66), dies at 20 American religious leader (Latter-day Saints), dies of peritonitis at 76 1880 Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General (Union Army), dies at 47 1880 Paul Octave Hébert, American Brigadier General and 14th Governor of Louisiana, dies at 61 1889 Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure involved in Hungarian revolution and Italian unification, dies at 74 1891 Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844) 1893 Aleksey Apukhtin, Russian poet (I See You, My Dear, In Dreams), writer, and civil servant, dies at 52 [OS=8/17] 1899 Catharine Parr Traill, English-Canadian writer and naturalist (The Backwoods of Canada), dies at 97 [1] 1903 William Henry Penrose, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 71 1904 Murad V, 33rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876), dies at 63 1909 Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies at 67 1910 Johan Eilerts de Haan, Dutch naval officer and explorer (Lucie River, Suriname), dies, likely due to malaria, at 44 1911 Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (1869-1911), dies at 45 1916 Johann Oskar Backlund, Swedish-Russian astronomer (planets/asteroids), dies at 64 1918 Max Dauthendey, German painter and author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51 1921 Joel Asaph Allen, American zoologist (Allen's rule) and first curator of birds and mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, dies at 83 1928 Richard Haldane, Scottish viscount and lord-chancellor, politician, philosopher, and writer (Life of A Smith), dies at 72 1930 William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844) 1931 David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder, dies at 64 1933 Frank Cavanaugh, American College Football HOF coach (University of Cincinnati, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Boston College, Fordham), dies at 57 1933 Georgy Eduardovich Konyus, Russian composer, and music theorist, dies at 70 1935 Astrid of Sweden, Queen of the Belgians, first wife of King Leopold III (1934-35), dies in a car accident at 29 1935 Charles Lee Williams, English composer (Gloucester Cathedral), dies at 82 1938 Bela Kun, Hungarian Communist revolutionary (de facto head of Hungarian Soviet Republic 1919), executed during the 'Great Purge' in Russia at 52 1940 Arthur De Greef, Belgian composer, dies at 77 1941 Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40 1941 Jan Louis Guillaume Doornik, Dutch resistance fighter (Free French Forces), executed for treason by Nazi occupiers of France at 36 1944 Attik [Kleon Triantafyllou], Greek composer and lyricist, commits suicide at 59 1946 J E Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, executed 1946 John Steuart Curry, American painter and lithographer (Baptism in Kansas), dies of a heart attack at 48 1946 Milan Harašta, Czech composer, dies at 26 1948 (Abraham) "Albert" Sandler, British violinist and 'light music' orchestra leader, dies at 42 1957 Louis Diat, French-American chef (Ritz-Carlton Hotel NYC, 1910-51), culinary writer and cookbook author, credited with inventing vichyssoise soup, dies at 72 1960 Alexander Gauge, British actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood), dies at 46 1960 Hazza el-Majali, Prime Minister of Jordan is assassinated 1960 Hedwig "Vicki" Baum, Austrian-American author (Men Never Know; Grand Hotel), dies at 72 1965 Paul Waner, American Baseball HOF right fielder (NL MVP 1927; NL batting champion 1927, 1934, 1936; MLB All-Star 1933–35, 1937; Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 62 1966 Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906) 1968 Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner, dies at 87 1968 Victor Sutherland, American actor (Captive City), dies at 79 1970 Mary Clare, British actress, dies at 78 1971 Nathan Leopold, American murderer of Bobby Franks with Richard Loeb, dies at 66 1972 Lale Andersen [Elisabeth Bunnenberg], German singer and actress (Der Pott), dies at 67 1972 René Leibowitz, Polish-French jazz pianist, classical composer, conductor, and educator, dies at 59 1973 (James) Stringer Davis, British stage and screen character actor (Murder Most Foul), and veteran of both World Wars, dies at 74 1973 Michael Dunn, American short actor (Justine, Boom, Madigan), dies at 38 1973 Stringer Davis, English actress (Mouse on the Moon; Miranda), dies at about 77 Irish republican politician and President of Ireland (1937-48, 51-54, 57-59), dies at 92 1975 Leland T. Weed, American singer and actor, dies at 74 1976 Jimmy Reed, American blues singer ("Soulin'"; "Big Boss Man"), dies of epileptic seizure at 50 1976 Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher, dies at 77 1977 Edward Sinclair, Britsh actor (Dad's Army), dies at 63 1977 Jean Hagen, American actress (Doll in "The Asphalt Jungle"; Lina in "Singin' in the Rain"; The Danny Thomas Show), dies of esophageal cancer at 54 1979 Mary Marquet, French actress (Landru, Paris Canaille), dies at 84 1979 Samuel I. Newhouse Sr., American businessman and publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour), dies at 84 1980 Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, French politician and Nazi collaborator (anti-Semite minister in WWII Vichy government), dies at 92 1981 Lowell Thomas, American newscaster (High Adventure), dies in Pawling, NY at 89 Swedish actress (Casablanca, Gaslight), dies of breast cancer on her 67th birthday 1982 Lehman Engel, American conductor and composer (A Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 71 1982 Nahum Goldmann, American president of Zionist World Organization, dies at 87

1983 Simon Oakland [Weiss], American stage and screen character actor (Toma; Kolchak), dies of colon cancer at 68 1983 William Goyen, American writer, dies at 68 1984 Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901) 1985 Alexander Abramsky, Soviet composer, dies at 87 1985 Evelyn Ankers, American actress (Black Beauty, Jungle Woman), dies at 67 1985 Patrick Barr, English actor (Black Orchid, On the Run), dies at 77 1987 Archie Campbell, American country recording artist, comedian, and writer (Hee Haw), dies of a heart attack at 72 American actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou), dies of a heart attack at 63 1988 David A. Hargrave, American game designer and writer known as The Dream Weaver (Arduin), dies from heart disability at 42 1989 Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer, dies at 79 1990 Sandy, dog in the play Annie, dies at 16 1991 (Christina) "Dixie" Dunbar, American stage and screen dancer, singer and actress (George White's Scandals; Pigskin Parade), dies of a heart attack at 72 1991 Dallas Adams, British painter, writer and actor (Terror from Within), dies of AIDS at 44 1991 Daniel Ocko, American actor dies of a respiratory condition at 78 1991 Kathryn Cravens, American early news correspondent, dies at 92 1991 Libero Grassi, Italian underwear manufacturer/anti mafia, dies 1992 Mary Norton, English children book author (Borrowers), dies at 88 1992 Teddy Turner, English comedian (Coronation Street), dies at 75 1993 Dorian Corey, American actor (Paris is Burning), dies of AIDS at 56 1993 Henry J "Harry" Smeets, dealer of Volkskrant, dies at 56 1993 Nigel Henderson, British Royal Navy officer, Admiral (1964-71) and Chairman of NATO Military Committee (1968-71), dies at 84 1994 Arthur Ernest Mourant, British hematologist, dies at 90 1994 Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian Catholic priest, shot dead 1994 Marea Hartman, English sports executive (President Amateur Athletic Association of England 1991-94; integrated women's athletics), dies at 74 1994 Michael Peters, American choreographer and dancer (Dreamgirls; Michael Jackson videos "Beat It" and "Thriller"), dies of complications from AIDS at 46 1994 Phillip Gilmore, American actor (Malcolm X), dies at 38 1994 Tushar Kanti Ghosh, Indian journalist and world's oldest and longest serving newspaper editor (Amrita Bazar Patrika), dies at 95 1995 Frank Perry, American film director (Diary of Mad Housewife, David and Lisa; Mommie Dearest), dies of prostate cancer at 65 1995 Harry Broadhurst, British Royal Air Force commander and flying ace of the Second World War, dies at 89 1995 Pierre Max Dubois, French composer (Turlututu; Voulez-vous jouer au cirque?), conductor, and music educator, dies at 65 1995 Thomas Strittmatter, German writer (Raabe Baikal), dies at 33 1996 Jean Davies, British naval officer (Director of WRNS), dies at 87 1996 Tera de Marez Oyens, Dutch composer, dies at 64 1998 Charlie Feathers, American country music and rockabilly singer-songwriter, and musician ("Can't Hardly Stand It"), dies at from stroke complications at 66 2001 (Graeme) "Shirley" Strachan, Australian singer (Skyhooks - "Ego Is Not A Dirty Word"; "Jukebox in Siberia"), TV host (Shirl's Neighbourhood), and carpenter (Our House), dies as pilot in a helicopter crash at 49 2001 Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (Holy Innocents, Camorra), dies at 76 2002 Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (To Serve Them All My Days), dies at 82 2002 Paul Tripp, American TV host (Mr I Magination), songwriter (Tubby the Tuba), and children's book writer (Rabbi Santa Claus), dies at 91 2003 Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b. 1939) 2003 Michel Constantin, French film actor, dies at 79 2003 Patrick Procktor, British painter and printmaker, dies at 67 2004 Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (The Hague Philharmonic, 1980-1991; St. Louis Symphony, 1996-2002), dies from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS - Lou Gehrig's Disease) at 62 2005 Barry Cowsill, American rock bassist (The Cowsills - "We Can Fly"), drowned during Hurricane Katrina at 50 2007 Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and founder of Peet's Coffee and Tea Company (b. 1920) [1] 2007 Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (1975-77), dies at 89 2007 Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian soccer striker (33 caps; Zanaco FC), dies from heart failure at 28 2007 James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist, dies at 92 2007 Pierre Messmer, French politician (Prime Minister of France 1972-74 under Georges Pompidou), dies at 91 2007 Richard Jewell, American security guard (central figure in 1996 Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta bombing), dies from kidney failure at 44 2008 Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer (b. 1953) 2008 Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo, South African Secretary-General of the Inkatha Freedom Party (1978-90) and author of social studies textbooks, dies at 64 [1] [2] [3] 2009 Chris Connor [Mary Jean Loutsenhizer], American jazz singer ("I Wonder What Became of Me"), dies of cancer at 81 2009 Frank Gardner, Australian auto racer (European F5000 1971; British Touring Car Championship 1967-68, 73), dies at 77 2009 Simon Dee, British television broadcaster (Dee Time), dies at 74 2010 Hans Ulrich Humpert, German composer, dies at 69 2011 David "Honeyboy" Edwards, American delta blues guitarist, dies at 96 2014 Björn Waldegård, Swedish rally driver (World Rally Championship 1979), dies from cancer at 70 2015 Joy Golden [née Man], American Clio Award-winning advertising executive (Laughing Cow Cheese radio spots), dies of complications of pneumonia at 85 2015 Wayne Dyer, American psychologist and author (Your Erroneous Zones; Universe Within You), dies at 75 American actor (Blazing Saddles; Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; Silver Streak; Young Frankenstein), dies at 83 2016 Horacio Salgán, Argentine tango pianist, composer, and orchestra leader, dies at 100 2017 David Tang, Hong Kong businessman, socialite, columnist and founder of Shanghai Tang, dies of cancer at 63 2017 Dmitri Kogan, Russian concert violinist (Five Great Violins), dies of cancer at 38 2017 Janine Charrat, French ballerina and choreographer, dies at 93 2017 Larry Elgart, American big band jazz alto saxophonist, and bandleader ("Bandstand Boogie"; "Hooked On Swing"), dies at 95 2018 James Mirrlees, Scottish economist (Nobel Prize for Economic Science, 1996), dies at 82 2018 Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer (Paul Taylor Dance Company), dies at 88 [1] 2018 Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett, English jurist and Labour politician who was Minister of State for Northern Ireland (1976-79), dies at 70 [1] 2019 Jim Leavelle, American homicide detective who escorted JFK assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, through the Dallas Police basement when he was shot dead by Jack Ruby, dies from a heart attack at 99 2019 Randy Romero, American jockey (Breeder's Cup 1987-89; Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame 2010), dies from kidney and liver cancer at 61 2020 Clifford Robinson, American basketball center (NBA All-Star 1994; 6th Man of Year Award 1993; Phoenix Suns, Portland Trail Blazers), dies from lymphoma at 53 2020 Jürgen Schadeberg, German-born South African photographer who photographed apartheid struggle, dies at 89 2021 Ed Asner, American Emmy Award-winning actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show - "Mr. Grant"; Lou Grant, Roots; Up), and activist, dies at 91 2021 Jacques Rogge, Belgian sports administrator (8th President International Olympic Committee 2001-13), dies at 79 2021 Jemeel Moondoc, American improvisational jazz saxophonist (Ensemble Muntu; Jus Grew Orchestra), dies of sickle cell anemia at 75 2021 Lee "Scratch" Perry, [Rainford Hugh Perry] Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter and producer (The Upset;ers), dies at 85 2021 Ron Bushy, American rock drummer (Iron Butterfly - “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”), dies of esophageal cancer at 79 2022 Charlbi Dean [Kriek], South African actress (Spud films), dies of bacterial sepsis at 32 2022 Ernie Zampese, American football coach (San Diego State University 1967–75; SD Chargers asst. head coach 1983-85), dies at 86 2022 Rigoberto Riasco, Panamanian boxer (Lineal & WBC Super bantamweight champion 1976), dies at 69 2023 Mike Enriquez, Filipino broadcast journalist, dies of cardiac arrest during routine dialysis treatment at 71 2023 Waldemar Victorino, Uruguayan soccer forward (33 caps; CA Cerro, Cagliari, Newell's Old Boys, Colón de Santa Fe, LDU Portoviejo), dies at 71 2024 Adolfo Calisto, Portuguese soccer left-back (15 caps; Benfica 300 games) and manager (CD Alcains), dies at 80 2024 Jean-Charles Tacchella, French screenwriter and director (Cousin, Cousine; Silver Anniversary), dies at 98 2024 Johnny Gaudreau, American ice hockey left wing (7 x NHL All-Star; Calgary Flames; Columbus Blue Jackets), dies in a traffic accident at 31 2025 Rodion Shchedrin, Soviet-Russian pianist, organist, and composer (The Little Hump-backed Horse; Carmen Suite), and pedagogue, dies at 92 [1] Famous Deaths Calendar Search the largest and most accurate independent site for today in history.