Notable Deaths on August 12

Q: Who died on August 12?

Notable people who died on August 12 include: Cleopatra, Jænberht, Louis II, Li Gu, Yuan Zong.

Q: What is Bill Yeoman known for?

Bill Yeoman, American college football player and coach (born 1927)

2020 — Bill Yeoman

American college football player and coach (born 1927)

August 12 has seen 118 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 30 BC – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · August 12 — Wikipedia

Notable Deaths 118 people 30 BC – 2024

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In his tenure, he became the winningest coach in Houston Cougars football history, with an overall record of 160–108–8

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Yeoman also played a prominent role in the racial integration of collegiate athletics in the South by being the first coach at a predominantly white school in the State of Texas to sign a black player

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He served as the head football coach at the University of Houston from 1962 to 1986

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Yeoman revolutionized offensive football in 1964 by developing the Veer option offense

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Yeoman's Cougars finished the season ranked in the top ten of the AP Poll four times and finished 11 times in the AP or UPI top 20.

Cleopatra

Egyptian queen (born 69 BC)

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I…

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Jænberht

archbishop of Canterbury

Jænberht was a medieval monk, and later the abbot, of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, who was named Archbishop of Canterbury in 765. As archbishop, he had a difficult relationship with King Offa of Mercia, who at one…

792

Louis II

Holy Roman Emperor (born 825)

Louis II, sometimes called the Younger, was the king of Italy and emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 844, co-ruling with his father Lothair I until 855, after which he ruled alone.

875

Li Gu

chancellor of Later Zhou (born 903)

Li Gu, courtesy name Weizhen, titled Duke of Zhao, was an official of the Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Zhou, Liao, and Northern Song dynasties of China. He served as a chancellor under the Later Zhou…

960

Yuan Zong

emperor of Southern Tang (born 916)

Li Jing, originally Xu Jingtong (徐景通), briefly Xu Jing (徐璟) in 937–939, courtesy name Boyu (伯玉), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Yuanzong of Southern Tang (南唐元宗), also known in historiography as the Middle…

961

Vladislaus III

duke of Bohemia

Vladislaus Henry, a member of the Přemyslid dynasty, was elected Duke of Bohemia in 1197 and Margrave of Moravia from 1197 until his death. He only served as duke during the year 1197 and was indeed the last ruler of…

1222

Charles Martel

king of Hungary (born 1271)

Charles Martel of the Capetian dynasty was the eldest son of king Charles II of Naples and Mary of Hungary, the daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary.

1295

Guy de Beauchamp

10th Earl of Warwick, English nobleman

Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick was an English magnate, and one of the principal opponents of King Edward II and his favourite, Piers Gaveston. Guy was the son of William de Beauchamp, the first Beauchamp earl of…

1315

Rudolf I

duke of Bavaria (born 1274)

Rudolf I of Bavaria, called "the Stammerer", a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1294 until 1317.

1319

Prince Moriyoshi

Japanese shōgun (born 1308)

Prince Moriyoshi was a Japanese prince, military leader and monk.

1335

Demetrius I Starshy

Prince of Trubczewsk (in battle) (born 1327)

Dmitry of Bryansk or Dmitry the Elder was the Lithuanian prince of Bryansk from 1356 to 1379 and from 1388 to 1399. Dmitry was the second eldest son of Algirdas, the grand duke of Lithuania, and his first wife Maria of…

1399

Yongle

emperor of the Ming Empire (born 1360)

The Yongle Emperor, personal name Zhu Di, was the third emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, reigning from 1402 to 1424. He was the fourth son of the Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the dynasty.

1424

Sixtus IV

pope of the Catholic Church (born 1414)

Pope Sixtus IV (or Xystus IV, Italian: Sisto IV; born Francesco della Rovere; was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 9 August 1471 until his death in 1484.

1484

Francisco de Vitoria

Spanish theologian (born 1492)

Francisco de Vitoria, also known as Francisco de Victoria, was a Spanish Catholic philosopher, theologian, and jurist of Renaissance Spain. He is the founder of the tradition in philosophy known as the School of…

1546

Thomas Smith

English scholar and diplomat (born 1513)

Sir Thomas Smith was an English scholar, parliamentarian and diplomat.

1577

Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder

Italian-English composer (born 1543)

Alfonso Ferrabosco was an Italian composer. While mostly famous as the solitary Italian madrigalist working in England, and the one mainly responsible for the growth of the madrigal there, he also composed much sacred…

1588

Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak

Mughal vizier and historian (born 1551)

Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, also known as Abul Fazl, Abu'l Fadl and Abu'l-Fadl 'Allami, was an Indian writer, historian, and politician who served as the grand vizier of the Mughal Empire from his appointment in 1579, until…

1602

Giovanni Gabrieli

Italian organist and composer (born 1557)

Giovanni Gabrieli was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from…

1612

Johannes Althusius

German jurist and philosopher (born 1557)

Johannes Althusius was a German–Dutch jurist and Calvinist political philosopher.

1638

Philippe de Champaigne

Belgian-French painter and educator (born 1602)

Philippe de Champaigne was a Brabant-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of French Baroque painting. He was a founding member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris, the premier art…

1674

Pope Innocent XI (born 1611)

Pope Innocent XI, born Benedetto Odescalchi, was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 21 September 1676 until his death on 12 August 1689.

1689

Peregrine Bertie

3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire (born 1714)

General Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven,, styled Lord Willoughby de Eresby from 1715 to 1723 and Marquess of Lindsey from 1735 to 1742, was an English peer.

1778

Mikhail Kamensky

Russian field marshal (born 1738)

Count Mikhail Fedotovich Kamensky was a Russian nobleman and a noted field marshal, who distinguished himself in the Catherinian wars and the Napoleonic campaigns.

1809

Étienne Louis Geoffroy

French pharmacist and entomologist (born 1725)

Étienne Louis Geoffroy was a French entomologist and pharmacist. He was born in Paris and died in Soissons. He followed the binomial nomenclature of Carl von Linné and devoted himself mainly to beetles.

1810

Robert Stewart

Viscount Castlereagh, Irish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (born 1769)

Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, usually known as Lord Castlereagh, derived from the courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh by which he was styled from 1796 to 1821, was a British statesman. As secretary to the…

1822

William Blake

English poet and painter (born 1757)

William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his…

1827

Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie

French general (born 1760)

Charles Henri Félicité Sapinaud de la Rairie was a French soldier and Vendéen general during the war in the Vendée.

1829

George Stephenson

English engineer and academic (born 1781)

George Stephenson was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians as a great example of diligent application and thirst for…

1848

Albert Gallatin

Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (born 1761)

Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin was a Genevan-American politician, diplomat, ethnologist, and linguist. Often described as "America's Swiss Founding Father", he was a leading figure in the early years of the United…

1849

Eliphalet Remington

American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (born 1793)

Eliphalet Remington II was an American engineer who founded what would become known as Remington Arms. Originally the company was known as E. Remington followed by E. Remington & Son and then E. Remington and Sons.

1861

Sakuma Shōzan

Japanese scholar and politician (born 1811)

Sakuma Shōzan was a Japanese politician and scholar of the Edo period.

1864

William Jackson Hooker

English botanist and academic (born 1785)

William Jackson Hooker was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he founded…

1865

James Russell Lowell

American poet and critic (born 1819)

James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets to rival the popularity…

1891

Thomas Chamberlain

American colonel (born 1841)

Thomas Davee Chamberlain was the Lieutenant Colonel of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, the brother of Union general Joshua L. Chamberlain, the Colonel of the 20th Maine Infantry.

1896

Wilhelm Steinitz

Austrian chess player and theoretician (born 1836)

William Steinitz was a Bohemian-Austrian, and later American, chess player. From 1886 to 1894, he was the first World Chess Champion. He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician.

1900

Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld

Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (born 1832)

Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the noble Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friherre (baron).

1901

William Renshaw

English tennis player (born 1861)

William Charles Renshaw was a British tennis player active during the late 19th century, who was ranked world No. 1. He won twelve Wimbledon titles: seven in singles and five in doubles. A right-hander, Renshaw was…

1904

John Philip Holland

Irish engineer, designed HMS Holland 1 (born 1840)

John Philip Holland was an Irish marine engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, USS Holland (SS-1) and the first Royal Navy submarine, Holland 1.

1914

William Thompson

American archer (born 1848)

Will Henry Thompson was an American archer, poet and lawyer. His brother Maurice, he was a founder of the National Archery Association in 1879 in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Maurice was the inaugural president and William…

1918

Pyotr Boborykin

Russian playwright and journalist (born 1836)

Pyotr Dmitriyevich Boborykin was a Russian writer, playwright, and journalist.

1921

Arthur Griffith

Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (born 1871)

Arthur Joseph Griffith was an Irish writer, newspaper editor and politician who founded the political party Sinn Féin. He led the Irish delegation at the negotiations that produced the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, and…

1922

Sándor Bródy

Hungarian journalist and author (born 1863)

Sándor Bródy was a Hungarian author and journalist.

1924

Leoš Janáček

Czech composer and educator (born 1854)

Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, music theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic music, including Eastern European folk music, to create an original, modern musical…

1928

Hendrik Petrus Berlage

Dutch architect, designed the Beurs van Berlage (born 1856)

Hendrik Petrus Berlage was a Dutch architect and designer. He is considered one of the fathers of the architecture of the Amsterdam School.

1934

Friedrich Schottky

German mathematician and academic (born 1851)

Friedrich Hermann Schottky was a German mathematician who worked on elliptic, abelian, and theta functions and introduced Schottky groups and Schottky's theorem.

1935

Nikolai Triik

Estonian painter, illustrator, and academic (born 1884)

Nikolai Voldemar Triik was an Estonian Modernist painter, graphic artist, printmaker and professor. His work displays elements of Symbolism and Expressionism.

1940

Freeman Freeman-Thomas

1st Marquess of Willingdon, English soldier and politician, 56th Governor General of Canada (born 1866)

Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, styled as the Earl of Willingdon between 1931 and 1936, was a British Liberal politician and administrator who served as Governor General of Canada and as Viceroy and…

1941

Bobby Peel

English cricketer and umpire (born 1857)

Robert Peel was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire between 1883 and 1897. Primarily a left-arm spin bowler, Peel was also an effective left-handed batsman who played in the…

1941

Vittorio Sella

Italian photographer and mountaineer (born 1859)

Vittorio Sella was an Italian photographer and mountaineer, whose photographs of mountains are regarded as some of the finest ever made.

1943

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.

American lieutenant and pilot (born 1915)

Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. was an American naval aviator who was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Kennedy family and the oldest of the nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald…

1944

Jacques Pellegrin

French zoologist (born 1873)

Jacques Pellegrin was a French zoologist.

1944

David Bergelson

Ukrainian author and playwright (born 1884)

David Bergelson was a Yiddish language writer born in the Russian Empire. He lived for a time in Berlin, Germany, before moving to the Soviet Union following the Nazi rise to power in Germany. He was a victim of the…

1952

Thomas Mann

German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1875)

Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for…

1955

James B. Sumner

American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)

James Batcheller Sumner was an American biochemist. He discovered that enzymes can be crystallized, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley. He was…

1955

Mike O'Neill

Irish-American baseball player and manager (born 1877)

Michael Joyce O'Neill was an Irish born starting pitcher and left fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1901 through 1907, he played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1901–04) and Cincinnati Reds (1907). O'Neill batted and…

1959

Ian Fleming

English spy, journalist, and author (born 1908)

Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the…

1964

Artur Alliksaar

Estonian poet and author (born 1923)

Artur Alliksaar was an Estonian poet.

1966

Esther Forbes

American historian and author (born 1891)

Esther Louise Forbes was an American novelist, historian, and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal. She was the first woman elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society.

1967

Walter Rudolf Hess

Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)

Walter Rudolf Hess was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs. He shared the prize with Egas Moniz.

1973

Karl Ziegler

German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)

Karl Waldemar Ziegler was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers. The Nobel Committee recognized his "excellent work on organometallic compounds…

1973

Tom Driberg

British politician/journalist (born 1905)

Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell was a British journalist, politician, High Anglican churchman and possible Soviet spy, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1942 to 1955, and again from 1959 to 1974.…

1976

John Williams

English motorcycle racer (born 1946)

John Glen Williams was an English motorcycle short-circuit road racer who also entered selected Grands Prix on the near-continent. He mostly raced as a "privateer" having a personal sponsor, Gerald Brown. Williams died…

1978

Ernst Boris Chain

German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)

Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in…

1979

Henry Fonda

American actor (born 1905)

Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Known for his work on screen and stage, he often portrayed characters who embodied an everyman image.

1982

Salvador Sánchez

Mexican boxer (born 1959)

Salvador "Sal" Sánchez Narváez was a Mexican professional boxer. Sánchez was the WBC and The Ring featherweight champion from 1980 to 1982. Many of his contemporaries as well as boxing writers believe that had it not…

1982

Theodor Burchardi

German admiral (born 1892)

Theodor Burchardi was an Admiral with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. He was responsible for organising the evacuation of 2…

1983

Ladi Kwali

Nigerian potter (born 1925)

Ladi Dosei Kwali, OON NNOM, MBE was a Nigerian potter, ceramicist and educator.

1984

Kyu Sakamoto

Japanese singer-songwriter (born 1941)

Hisashi "Kyu" Sakamoto , legally registered as Hisashi Ōshima since 1956, was a Japanese singer and actor.

1985

Manfred Winkelhock

German race car driver (born 1951)

Manfred Winkelhock was a German racing driver, who competed in Formula One between 1980 and 1985.

1985

Evaline Ness

American author and illustrator (born 1911)

Evaline Ness was an American commercial artist, illustrator, and author of children's books. She illustrated more than thirty books for young readers and wrote several of her own. She used a great variety of artistic…

1986

Jean-Michel Basquiat

American painter (born 1960)

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.

1988

Aimo Koivunen

Finnish soldier and corporal (born 1917)

Aimo Allan Koivunen was a Finnish soldier in the Continuation War and the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on methamphetamine during combat. The case gained more notoriety due to Koivunen's fighting…

1989

William Shockley

American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)

William Bradford Shockley was an American physicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in…

1989

Dorothy Mackaill

English-American actress (born 1903)

Dorothy Mackaill was a British-American actress, most active during the silent-film era and into the pre-Code era of the early 1930s.

1990

John Cage

American composer and theorist (born 1912)

John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, artist, and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of…

1992

Victor Ambartsumian

Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist and academic (born 1908)

Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian was a Soviet and Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator. One of the 20th century's leading astronomers, he is widely regarded as the founder of theoretical astrophysics in the…

1996

Mark Gruenwald

American author and illustrator (born 1953)

Mark Eugene Gruenwald was an American comic book writer, editor, and occasional penciler known for his long association with Marvel Comics.

1996

Jack Delano

American photographer and composer (born 1914)

Jack Delano was a Russian Empire-born Ukrainian photographer, filmmaker, and composer, who spent much of his life in Puerto Rico. In the United States, he worked for the Works Progress Administration, United Fund, and…

1997

Jean Drapeau

Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Montreal (born 1916)

Jean Drapeau was a Canadian politician who served as mayor of Montreal for 2 non-consecutive terms from 1954 to 1957 and from 1960 to 1986. Major accomplishments of the Drapeau Administration include the development of…

1999

Gennady Lyachin

Russian captain (born 1955)

Gennady Petrovich Lyachin was a Russian navy officer. He was the commanding officer of the Russian submarine Kursk when the vessel suffered a series of explosions and sank on 12 August 2000.

2000

Loretta Young

American actress (born 1913)

Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child, she had a long and varied career in film from 1916 to 1989. She received numerous honors including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three…

2000

Enos Slaughter

American baseball player and manager (born 1916)

Enos Bradsher Slaughter, nicknamed "Country", was an American professional baseball right fielder. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees, Kansas City…

2002

Godfrey Hounsfield

English biophysicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919)

Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was a British electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray…

2004

John Loder

English sound engineer and producer, founded Southern Studios (born 1946)

John F. Loder was an English sound engineer, record producer and founder of Southern Studios, as well as a former member of EXIT and co-founder of the Southern Records distribution company with his wife Sue. He was also…

2005

Victoria Gray Adams

American civil rights activist (born 1926)

Victoria Jackson Gray Adams was an American civil rights activist from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She was one of the founding members of the influential Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

2006

Merv Griffin

American actor, singer, and producer, created Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune (born 1925)

Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr. was an American television show host and media mogul. He began his career as a radio and big band singer, later appearing in film and on Broadway. From 1962 to 1986, Griffin hosted his own talk…

2007

Mike Wieringo

American author and illustrator (born 1963)

Michael Lance Wieringo, who sometimes signed his work under the name Ringo, was an American comics artist best known for his work on DC Comics' The Flash, Marvel Comics' Spider-Man and Fantastic Four, as well as his own…

2007

Christie Allen

English-Australian singer (born 1954)

Christie Allen was an English-born Australian pop singer who had a successful career in Australia. Her top four hits on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart were "Goosebumps" and "He's My Number One". Allen…

2008

Helge Hagerup

Norwegian playwright, poet and novelist (born 1933)

Helge Hagerup was a Norwegian playwright, poet and novelist. He was born in Trondheim, a son of Inger Hagerup, and brother of Klaus Hagerup. He made his literary debut in 1949 with the short story collection Vi fem i…

2008

Les Paul

American guitarist, songwriter, and inventor (born 1915)

Lester William Polsfuss, known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, and his prototype, called…

2009

Isaac Bonewits

American Druid, author, and activist; founded Ár nDraíocht Féin (born 1949)

Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits was an American Neo-Druid who wrote a number of books on the subject of Neopaganism and magic. Bonewits was a public speaker, liturgist, singer and songwriter, and founder of the Neopagan…

2010

Guido de Marco

Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th President of Malta (born 1931)

Guido de Marco was a Maltese politician, who served as the sixth president of Malta from 1999 to 2004. A noted statesman and lawmaker, de Marco also served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, Justice,…

2010

Richie Hayward

American drummer and songwriter (born 1946)

Richard Hayward was an American drummer best known as a founding member and drummer in the band Little Feat. He performed with several bands and worked as a session player. Hayward also joined with friends in some small…

2010

André Kim

South Korean fashion designer (born 1935)

Kim Bong-nam, known professionally as André Kim, was a South Korean fashion designer based in Seoul, South Korea. He was known predominantly for his evening and wedding gown collections.

2010

Robert Robinson

English journalist and author (born 1927)

Robert Henry Robinson was an English radio and television presenter, game show host, journalist and author. He presented Ask the Family for many years on the BBC.

2011

Jimmy Carr

American football player and coach (born 1933)

James Henry Carr was an American professional football player who played nine seasons for the Chicago Cardinals, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). Carr also…

2012

Jerry Grant

American race car driver (born 1935)

Gerald Wayne Grant was a driver in the USAC Championship Car series. Born in Seattle, he began racing sports cars in Northern California in the early 1960s. He raced in the 1965-1977 seasons, with 54 career starts,…

2012

Joe Kubert

Polish-American illustrator, founded The Kubert School (born 1926)

Joseph Kubert was a Polish-born American comic book artist, art teacher, and founder of The Kubert School. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman. He is also known for working on…

2012

Édgar Morales Pérez

Mexican engineer and politician

Édgar Morales Pérez was the mayor-elect of Matehuala, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, elected on July 1, 2012. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM),…

2012

Alf Morris

English politician and activist (born 1928)

Alfred Morris, Baron Morris of Manchester, was a British Labour Co-operative politician and disability rights campaigner.

2012

Tereza de Arriaga

Portuguese painter (born 1915)

Tereza de Arriaga was a Portuguese painter and teacher.

2013

Hans-Ekkehard Bob

German soldier and pilot (born 1917)

Hans Ekkehard Bob was a German fighter pilot, serving with the Luftwaffe. During World War II, Bob flew approximately 700 combat missions, and claimed 60 victories; 37 of which were on the Eastern Front.

2013

Pauline Maier

American historian and academic (born 1938)

Pauline Alice Maier was a historian of the American Revolution, whose work also addressed the late colonial period and the history of the United States after the end of the Revolutionary War. She was the William R.…

2013

David McLetchie

Scottish lawyer and politician (born 1952)

David William McLetchie CBE was a Scottish politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party from 1998 to 2005. He was Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Edinburgh Pentlands constituency…

2013

Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov

Russian ecologist and journalist (born 1930)

Vasily Mikhailovich Peskov was a Soviet and Russian writer, journalist, photographer, traveler and ecologist. He worked in the Russian tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda since 1956. From 1975 until 1990, he…

2013

Lauren Bacall

American model, actress, and singer (born 1924)

Betty Joan Perske, known professionally as Lauren Bacall, was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute and was one of the last surviving…

2014

Futatsuryū Jun'ichi

Japanese sumo wrestler (born 1950)

Futatsuryū Jun'ichi was a sumo wrestler from Hokkaidō, Japan. After retirement he became the head coach of Tokitsukaze stable. Following his involvement in the hazing and death of trainee Takashi Saito, in October 2007…

2014

Kongō Masahiro

Japanese sumo wrestler (born 1948)

Kongō Masahiro was a former sumo wrestler from Hokkaidō, Japan. His highest rank was sekiwake and he won a top division tournament championship in 1975. He was a sumo coach and head of the Nishonoseki stable from 1976…

2014

Jaakko Hintikka

Finnish philosopher and academic (born 1929)

Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka was a Finnish and American philosopher and logician. Hintikka is regarded as the founder of formal epistemic logic and of game semantics for logic. He was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize for…

2015

Stephen Lewis

English actor and screenwriter (born 1926)

Stephen Lewis, credited early in his career as Stephen Cato, was an English actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, and playwright. He is best known for his roles as Inspector Cyril "Blakey" Blake in On the Buses, Clem…

2015

Meshulim Feish Lowy

Hungarian-Canadian rabbi and author (born 1921)

Meshilem Feish Segal Lowy II was the fourth Grand Rebbe of the Tosh Hasidic dynasty.

2015

John Scott

English organist and conductor (born 1956)

John Gavin Scott was an English organist and choirmaster who reached the highest levels of his profession on both sides of the Atlantic. He directed the Choir of St Paul's Cathedral in London from 1990 to 2004. He then…

2015

Juan Pedro de Miguel

Spanish handball player (born 1958)

Juan Pedro de Miguel Rubio was a Spanish handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

2016

Bryan Murray

Canadian ice hockey coach (born 1942)

Bryan Clarence Murray was a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and coach. He served as general manager of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 2007 to 2016. He had previously been general…

2017

DJ Arafat

Ivorian DJ and singer (born 1986)

Ange Didier Houon, known professionally as DJ Arafat and various other stage names, was an Ivorian disc jockey and singer who made music in the Coupé-Décalé genre. The word "coupé-décalé" came from a traditional dance…

2019

Una Stubbs

English actress, TV personality, and dancer (born 1937)

Una Stubbs was an English actress, television personality, and dancer who appeared on British television, in the theatre, and occasionally in films. She became known after appearing in the film Summer Holiday (1963) and…

2021

Kim Kahana

American actor and stunt performer (born 1929)

Kim Kahana Sr. was an American actor, stunt performer, and action choreographer of Hawaiian and Japanese descent. He worked on stunts for over 300 films and television programs and ran a stunt school in Groveland,…

2024

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Bill Yeoman — American football player and coach (1927–2020)

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Death year2020

Known forHe served as the head football coach at the University of Houston from 1962 to 1986

Deaths on this date118 (30 BC – 2024)

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Six people, five victims and the perpetrator are killed in Keyham, Plymouth in the worst mass shooting in the UK since 2010. Wikipedia →

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Thirty-nine civilians, including a dozen children, are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Sarmada, Syria. Wikipedia →

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The Unite the Right rally occurs in Charlottesville, Virginia, leading to the deaths of 3 and injuring nearly 50 more. Wikipedia →

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