Founder of the Qin dynasty and 1st emperor of a unified China (220 - 210 BC), dies reportedly from ingesting mercury pills meant to make him immortal at 49 584 Salvius of Albi, Catholic bishop of Albi (574-84) and saint, life recorded by Gregory of Tours, dies of the plague 827 Pope Valentine dies after 40 days in office [date approximate] 918 Baldwin II, Count of Flanders, dies at about 53 954 Louis IV [Louis of Overseas], King of France (936-54), dies at about 33 1167 Empress Matilda [Maud], claimant to the English throne as daughter of Henry I of England, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, dies at 65 1197 Henri of Champagne, French Crusader, Count of Champagne and King of Jerusalem, falls out a window in Acre to his death at 31 1217 William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon 1279 Robert Kilwardby [Anglicus], English Archbishop of Canterbury (1272-78), philosopher and Cardinal, dies (b. 1215) 1305 Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian saint and mystic, first Augustinian friar to be canonized, dies at 59 or 60 1308 Go-Nijō, 94th Emperor of Japan (1301-8), dies at 23 1382 Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary (1342-82) and Poland (1370-82), dies at 56 Duke of Burgundy (1404-19), assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France at 48 1482 Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and arts patron 1519 John Colet, English churchman and educator 1547 Pier Luigi Farnese, Italian Duke of Parma and Piacenza (1545-47) and illegitimate son of Pope Paul III, murdered at 43 by a group of his nobles tired of his oppressive and tyrannical rule 1559 Anthony Denny, English knight of the shire and confidant of King Henry VIII of England, dies at 58 1600 John Bruhesius [Bruhesen], bishop of Groningen, dies 1604 Hamida Banu Begum, Persian Mughal Empress, chief consort of the Emperor Humayun and mother of Akbar, dies at 77 1604 William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545) 1607 Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist, at about 63 [birth date unconfirmed] 1623 John van de Velde the Elder, Dutch calligrapher (Mirror of Write-Konste), dies 1669 Henrietta Maria, French-born daughter of Henry IV of France and queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609) 1676 Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609) 1680 Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato singer, dies at 69 1680 Marco Uccellini, Italian composer and violinist, dies (b. 1603) 1732 Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician, dies at 61 1748 Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, Filipino Religious Sister of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 85 1749 Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (translation of Newton's Principia), dies in childbirth at 42 1759 Ferdinand Konščak (aka Fernando Consag), Croatian explorer, cartographer (Baja California), and Jesuit missionary, dies at 55 1764 Giovanni Antonio Giay, Italian composer and maestro di cappella (Cappella Regia -Turin, 1732-64), dies at 74 1765 Jacob Gilles, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at about 74 1770 José de Escandón, Spanish colonizer and the first governor of the Nuevo Santander province, dies at 70 British author and feminist (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman), mother of Mary Shelley, dies of septicaemia at 38 1801 Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (stabbed girlfriend Elizabeth Banks in famous case), hung at 20 1806 Johann Christoph Adelung, German linguist, librarian, translator and lexicographer, dies at 74 1828 Antoine-Francçois Andreossy, French General and diplomat under Napoleon, dies at 67 1831 George Guest, English organist and composer, dies at 60 1839 Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter, dies at 66 1842 Letitia Tyler, US President Tyler's (1841-45) wife, dies at 51 1845 Joseph Story, American lawyer and 19th Supreme Court justice (1812-45), dies at 65 1845 Karl August von Lichtenstein, German composer, dies at 78 1851 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American pioneer of educating the deaf, dies at 63 1858 Henry Wellington Greatorex, English American composer (Gloria Patri), dies at 44 1862 Carlos Antonio López, 1st President of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71 1867 Simon Sechter, Austrian composer and music theorist, dies at 78 1868 Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, German composer and harpist, dies at 79 1875 John C. Vaughn, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 51 1895 Harrison Millard, American composer, dies at 64 1898 Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, and wife of Franz Joseph I, dies from a stab wound at 60 1905 Pete Browning, American baseball outfielder (AA batting champion 1882, 85 Louisville Eclipse/Colonels; Player's League batting champion 1890 Cleveland Infants), dies of asthenia at 44 1915 Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec, dies at 93 1916 Friedrich Gernsheim, German composer, dies at 77 1920 Olive Thomas, American silent screen actress (The Flapper), whose accidental death was one of Hollywood's first big scandals, dies by poisoning at 25 1922 Arpad Szendy, Hungarian composer, dies at 59 1922 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English writer (Irish Land League), traveller and Arabian stud founder, dies at 82 1924 Walter Lees, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 26 wickets), dies at 48 1925 Henry Lincoln "Linc" Johnson, American attorney and politician, remembered as one of the most prominent early 20th century African-American Republicans, dies of a stroke at 55 1930 Aubrey Faulkner, South African cricket all-rounder (25 Tests, 4 x 100s, TS 204; Transvaal), dies from self inflicted gas poisoning at 48 1931 Alfonso Rendano, Italian composer, dies at 78 1931 Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (differential geometry and mathematical analysis), dies at 61 1931 Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American organized crime figure, murdered at 63 1932 Percy Fletcher, British composer, dies at 52 1934 George Henschel, German-British baritone, pianist, conductor, and composer, dies at 84 1937 Sergei Tretyakov, Russian constructivist writer, playwright and special correspondent for Pravda, executed by Stalinist regime at 47 1940 Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (Modern Times, The Dumb Messenger), dies at 69 1942 Nachman N "Neddy" Bamberg, actor, dies in Auschwitz at 63 1944 Jaap P. Musch, Dutch resistance fighter, murdered by Nazis 1945 Väinö Raitio, Finnish composer, dies at 54 1948 Ferdinand I, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18), dies at 87 1951 Giuseppe Mulè, Italian composer, dies at 66 1952 Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese civil engineer and architect (b. 1866) 1954 Peter Anders, German opera singer, dies at 46 1955 Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer and the founder of Blackburn Aircraft, dies at 70 1960 Fjodor Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga - matushka-reka), dies at 63 New Zealand father of modern plastic surgery who pioneered skin graft techniques on injured soldiers in WWI, dies at 78 of a slight cerebral thrombosis gained while operating on the leg of an 18-year-old girl [1] 1961 Leo Carrillo, American actor (American Empire, Cisco Kid), dies at 80 1961 Wolfgang von Trips, German auto racer (29 x F1 GP, 2 wins), dies in 1961 Italian Grand Prix (with 15 spectators) at 33 1962 Rollin Henry White, American inventor of steam boilers for early automobiles and Cletrac tractors, dies at 90 [1] 1963 Eugène Baie, Belgian author (Sub rosa et sub umbra), dies at 89 1965 Father Divine [Reverend Major Jealous Divine], "the Messenger", African American religious leader 1965 Robert "Bobby" Jordan, American actor (Dead End Kids, Kid Dynamite, Flying Wild), dies of sclerosis of liver at 42 1966 Albert Warner, American trombonist (Eureka Brass Band, 1932-66), dies at 75 1966 Emil Gumbel, German mathematician (Statistics of Extremes), pacifist, and political writer (Conspirators; The Armor of War of the Imperialistic States), dies of lung cancer at 75 1966 James Langridge, English cricketer (242 runs & 19 wkts for England), dies at 60 Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame left wing (NHL leading scorer 1923-24), dies at 78 1971 Bella Darvi [Bajla Węgier], Polish actress (The Egyptian, Hell and High Water, Racers), commits suicide at 42 1971 Pier Angeli [Anna Maria Pierangeli], Italian actress (Sodom & Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge), dies of barbiturate overdose at 39

1972 Sid Pegler, South African cricket spin bowler (16 Tests, 47 wickets, BB 7/65; Transvaal, MCC), dies at 84 1975 George Paget Thomson, British physicist who demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel Prize,1937), dies at 83 [1] 1975 Hans Swarowsky, Austrian pianist, conductor (Graz Opera, 1947-50), and educator (Vienna Music Academy, 1949-75), dies at 75 1975 Robert Gordon Sproul, American educator and college president (University of California), dies at 84 1976 Dalton Trumbo, American writer and film director (Johnny Got His Gun), dies at 70 1976 Dorothy Devore, American silent film actress (Newscast, Senor Daredevil), dies at 77 1976 George Baxter, French actor (Flying Saucer, Lili, Caged), dies at 71 1976 John Heaton, American sledder (Olympic silver skeleton 1928, 48, bronze bobsled 1932; American team's flag bearer 1948), dies at 68 1976 Mordecai Johnson, 1st African American president of Howard U, dies at 86 1977 Hamida Djandoubi, Tunisian convicted murderer who was the last person to be executed in Western Europe, is beheaded in Marseille by guillotine at 28 1978 Ronnie Peterson, Swedish auto racer (World F1 C'ship runner-up 1971, 78), dies in crash during Italian F1 GP at 34 1979 Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (1975-79), dies at 56 1979 Stanyslav Lyudkevych, Ukranian composer, and musicologist, dies at 100 1982 Max Winders, Belgian architect (WWII), responsible for bringing the Belgian gold stock, dies at 100 1983 "John Vorster, South African Prime Minister (1966-78), dies at 67 1983 Felix Bloch, Swiss-American nuclear physicist (1st Director of CERN, Nobel Prize for Physics 1952), dies at 77 1983 Jon Brower Minnoch, American, world's heaviest recorded man at 1,400lb (635 kilograms; 100 stone), dies at 41 1983 Norah Lofts, British author (The Town House), dies at 79 1985 Alexa Kenin, American actress (Mousie-Coed Fever), dies at 23 1985 Ernest Julius Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist known for his studies of meteors and the structure and evolution of the cosmos, dies at 91 1985 Jock Stein, Scottish soccer manager (Dunfermline Athletic, Hibernian, Scotland [1965, 78-85], Celtic, Leeds United), dies from a pulmonary edema at 62 1986 (Park) "Pepper" Adams, American jazz saxophonist (Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band), dies of lung cancer at 55 1989 Jeff Stollmeyer, West Indian cricket batsman (32 Tests 4 x 100, HS 160; Trinidad & Tobago) and executive (President WI Board of Control 1974-81), dies from wounds suffered in home invasion at 68 1990 Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated 1991 Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (6 Grand Slam singles titles), dies at 83 1993 Clem Schouwenaars, Flemish poet (Het woud van licht en lommer (The forest of light and shadow), and novelist (Jij, een meermin? (You, a mermaid?); The Seasons), dies at 60 1993 Janice Carroll, American actress (End, April Fools), dies of cancer at 61 1993 Rita Karin, Polish-Latvia/American actress (Sophie's Choice), dies at 73 1993 Stuart Rose, British designer (British Post Office), dies at 81 1994 Amy Clampitt, American poet (Silence Opens), dies at 74 1994 Charles Drake [Ruppert], American actor (Harvey, Air Force, Glenn Miller Story), dies of a heart attack at 92 1995 Charles Denner, French actor (The Bride Wore Black, The Man Who Loved Women), dies at 69 1995 Derek Meddings, British TV and film special effects technician (Supermarionation, James Bond), dies at 64 1995 Molly Hide, English cricketer who captained England for 17 years, dies at 81 1996 Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor, dies at 100 1996 Joanne Dru [LaCock], American actress (Red River, All the King's Men), dies of lymphedema at 74 1996 Ray Coleman, British author (biographies of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Brian Epstein, and Phil Collins), and music journalist (Melody Maker), dies at 59 1997 Fritz Von Erich [Jack Adkisson], American professional wrestler, 3x world champion, dies of cancer at 68 1998 Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944) 1998 Vernon Guy, American R&B and gospel singer (Cool Sounds; Sharpees), dies in a car accident at 53 1999 Alfredo Kraus, Spanish bel canto operatic tenor, dies at 71 2000 Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani writer, journalist, and feminist, dies at 81 2001 DJ Uncle Al [Albert Moss] American DJ, shot and killed at 32 2004 Brock Adams, American politician who resigned due to sexual assault charges (Senator (D) Washington 1987-93), dies at 77 2005 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American blues singer (Mary is Fine), dies at 81 American golfer (15 major titles, US Open 1946), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 88 2006 Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (1965-2006), dies at 88 2007 Anita Roddick, English businesswoman and cosmetic manufacturer (Body Shop), dies at 64 [1] American Academy Award-winning actress (Johnny Belinda; Magnificent Obsession) and 1st wife of Ronald Reagan, dies of natural causes at 90 2007 Ted Stepien, American businessman and basketball team owner, dies at 82 2010 Edwin Charles Tubb, British sci-fi writer (Earth is Heaven, Earthfall), dies at 90 American actor (PT 109; Charly; Spider-Man) and spokesman for AT&T, dies at 88 2012 Lance LeGault, American actor (The A-Team - "Col. Decker"), dies of heart failure at 77 2012 Steven Springer, American guitarist, dies from lung cancer at 60 2013 Clay Shaw, American politician (Rep-R-FL, 1981-2007), dies from lung cancer at 74 2014 Oldřich František Korte, Czech pianist, composer, and writer, dies at 88 2014 Richard Kiel, American actor (Jaws in "Moonraker"; Skidoo; So Fine), dies of a heart attack at 74 2015 Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor (I Vitelloni, Ulysses, Sciuscià), dies at 83 2016 Eddie Antar, founder and CEO (Crazy Eddie Electronics Store), dies at 68 2016 Knut Wiggen, Norwegian computer music pioneer and composer, dies at 89 2016 Robert E. Allen, American businessman and chairman of AT&T (1988-97), dies of complications of a stroke at 81 2017 Don Ohlmeyer, American television producer (Monday Night Football) and president of NBC West Coast (1993-99), dies of cancer at 72 2017 Harry Landers [Sorokin], American actor (Star Trek; Ben Casey; Drive a Crooked Road), dies at 96 2017 Len Wein, American comic book writer (Swamp Thing; Wolverine), dies at 69 2017 Nancy Hatch Dupree, American historian, conservationist, and writer (An Historical Guide to Afghanistan), dies at 89 2018 John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, South African army general (Chief of the South African Defence Force, 1985-90; Chief of the Army, 1980-85), dies from complications of Alzheimer's disease at 84 2018 Peter Donat, Canadian-American actor (Flamingo Road, Different Story), dies of complications of diabetes at 90 2019 Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian neo-fascist terrorist (founder of Avanguardia Nazionale), dies at 82 2020 Diana Rigg, British actress (Emma Peel in "The Avengers"; Game of Thrones), dies at 82 2020 Patrick Deuchar, English CEO of Royal Albert Hall who helped modernize the venue, dies at 71 2021 Jorge Sampaio, Portuguese lawyer and Socialist Party politician (President of Portugal, 1996-2006; Mayor of Lisbon, 1990-95), dies of respiratory failure at 81 2021 Michael Chapman, British progressive folk-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter (Looking for Eleven; Fully Qualified Survivor), dies at 80 2022 Frank Cignetti Sr., American College Football HOF coach (West Virginia Uni, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; career college record 199–77–1), dies at 84 2022 William Klein, American-French photographer (1957 Prix Nadar), dies at 96 2023 Brendan Croker, English folk-rock musician and songwriter (The Five O'Clock Shadows: The Notting Hillbillies; Sally Tmms and the Drifting Cowgirls), dies of leukemia at 70 2023 Charlie Robison, American country singer-songwriter ("I Want You Bad"), dies of a heart attack at 59 2023 Hernán Carrasco, Chilean soccer manager (El Salvador; CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1967 Alianza FC, 1969, 70 CD Atlético Marte, 1968 CD Águila), dies at 100 2023 Nico Ladenis, Greek-Tanganyikan-British restaurateur (Nico at 90), dies at 89 2024 (Howard) "Frankie" Beverly, American soul singer, songwriter and produce (Maze - "Can't Get Over You", "Back in Stride"), dies at 77 [1] 2024 Eligio Martínez, Bolivian soccer defender (14 caps; Club The Strongest 1981-91), dies at 69 2024 Jim Sasser, American politician (US Ambassador to China, 1996-99; US Senator-D-Tennessee, 1977-95), dies at 87 2024 Michaela DePrince [Mabinty Bangura], Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer (Dance Theatre of Harlem; Boston Ballet), dies at 29 [1] 2024 Roberto Chale, Peruvian soccer midfielder (48 caps; Universitario), dies at 77 2025 Bobby Hart [Harshman], American pop songwriter (with Tommy Boyce: The Monkees - "Last Train to Clarksville", "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone"), and singer (Boyce & Hart - "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight"), dies at 86 American conservative political activist (co-founder of Turning Point USA), author, and media figure, shot and killed at 31 during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah [1] 2025 Phyllis Gardner, American pharmacology professor and noted critic of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, dies of a heart attack at 75 Famous Deaths Calendar Search the largest and most accurate independent site for today in history.