Notable Deaths on August 25

August 25 has 130 recorded notable deaths across history, from 79 to 2026. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

Dolly Parton

2026 — Dolly Parton

American singer-songwriter, actress, philanthropist and businesswoman (born 1946)

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Notable Deaths 130 source records 79 – 2026

Major events on August 25

See what else happened on this day in history.

  1. 1912 The Kuomintang is founded for the first time in Peking. Source
  2. 1835 The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon. Source

Did you know about Dolly Parton

Dubbed the "Queen of Country", Parton was one of the most successful performers in the history of country music.

Did you know about Tim Curry

Timothy James Curry was an English actor and singer who amassed more than 240 credits on screen and stage in a career that spanned nearly 60 years.

Did you know about Friedrich Nietzsche

Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879.

Did you know about Aaliyah

Aaliyah Dana Haughton was an American singer, actress, dancer, and model.

Did you know about Ted Kennedy

A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second-most-senior member of the Senate when he died.


More major people who died on August 25

Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.

2026 Tim Curry

Tim Curry

English actor and singer (born 1946)
Timothy James Curry was an English actor and singer who amassed more than 240 credits on screen and stage in a career that spanned nearly 60 years. Curry made his acting debut in the West End production of Hair (1968–1969) and gained wide recognition for portraying Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (1973–1975) and its 1975 film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He received three Tony nominations for his Broadway performances in Amadeus (1980–1981) as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, My Favorite Year (1992–1993) as Alan Swann, and Spamalot (2005) as King Arthur; and two Olivier nominations for West End productions of The Pirates of Penzance (1982) and Spamalot (2006–2007).
1900 Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

German philologist, philosopher, and critic (born 1844)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and later his sister, until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
2001 Aaliyah

Aaliyah

American singer and actress (born 1979)
Aaliyah Dana Haughton was an American singer, actress, dancer, and model. Known as the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen of Urban Pop", she is credited with helping to redefine contemporary R&B, pop, and hip-hop. Her accolades include three American Music Awards and two MTV VMAs, along with five Grammy Award nominations.
2009 Ted Kennedy

Ted Kennedy

American politician (born 1932)
Edward Moore Kennedy was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second-most-senior member of the Senate when he died. He is ranked fifth in U.S. history for length of continuous service as a senator. Kennedy was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, an uncle of U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the father of former U.S. Representative Patrick J. Kennedy.
1984 Truman Capote

Truman Capote

American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1924)
Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of more than 20 films and television productions.
2012 Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong

American pilot, engineer, and astronaut (born 1930)
Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, as the commander of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot and university professor.
2018 John McCain

John McCain

American politician (born 1936)
John Sidney McCain III was an American politician and naval officer who represented Arizona in the United States Congress for over 35 years, first as a U.S. representative from 1983 to 1987, then as a U.S. senator from 1987 until his death in 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nominee in the 2008 presidential election.
1942 Prince George

Prince George

Duke of Kent (born 1902)
Prince George, Duke of Kent, was a member of the British royal family, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, and a younger brother of Kings Edward VIII and George VI. He served in the Royal Navy during the 1920s before briefly working as a civil servant, and in 1934 was created Duke of Kent. That same year he married Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, with whom he had three children: Edward, Alexandra and Michael.
1867 Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

English physicist and chemist (born 1791)
Michael Faraday was an English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis. Despite receiving little formal education, as an autodidact Faraday became one of the most influential scientists in history. It was by his research on the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a direct current that Faraday established the concept of the electromagnetic field in physics. Faraday also established that magnetism could affect rays of light and that there was an underlying relationship between the two phenomena. He similarly discovered the principles of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and the laws of electrolysis. His inventions of electromagnetic rotary devices formed the foundation of electric motor technology, and it was largely due to his efforts that electricity became practical for use in technology. The SI unit of capacitance, the farad, is named after him.
1776 David Hume

David Hume

Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (born 1711)
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist who is known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical scepticism and metaphysical naturalism. Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Following John Locke, Hume rejected the existence of innate ideas, holding that all our ideas derive ultimately from impressions, but in his fork he distinguished relations of ideas, known a priori, from matters of fact, whose knowledge rests on experience. This places him in the empiricist tradition of Locke and George Berkeley, while drawing his experimental method from Francis Bacon.
1270 Louis IX of France (born 1214)

Louis IX of France (born 1214)

Louis IX, also known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. He is widely recognized as the most distinguished of the Direct Capetians, is the sole king of France to be canonised as a saint of the Catholic Church, and is also the direct ancestor of all subsequent French kings. Following the death of his father, Louis VIII, he was crowned in Reims at the age of 12. His mother, Blanche of Castile, effectively ruled the kingdom as regent until he came of age, and continued to serve as his trusted adviser until her death.
2017 Rich Piana

Rich Piana

American bodybuilder (born 1971)
Richard Eugene Piana was an American bodybuilder, businessman, and YouTuber. He won the National Physique Committee (NPC) Mr. Teen California title in 1989, NPC Mr. California in 1998, and NPC competitions in 2003 and 2009.
1967 George Lincoln Rockwell

George Lincoln Rockwell

American commander, politician, and activist, founded the American Nazi Party (born 1918)
George Lincoln Rockwell was an American neo-Nazi activist and politician who founded the American Nazi Party (ANP) and became one of the most notorious white supremacists in the United States until his assassination in 1967. While Rockwell remains obscure to the American public and never achieved political power, he remains an influence on far-right extremism.
1554 Thomas Howard

Thomas Howard

3rd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier and politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1473)
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was a politician and military officer of the Tudor era. He was an uncle of two of the wives of King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, both of whom were beheaded, and played a major role in the machinations affecting these royal marriages. After falling from favour in 1546, Norfolk was stripped of his dukedom and imprisoned in the Tower of London, avoiding execution when Henry VIII died on 28 January 1547.
1482 Margaret of Anjou wife of Henry VI and Queen Consort of England and disputed Queen Consort of France  (born 1429)

Margaret of Anjou wife of Henry VI and Queen Consort of England and disputed Queen Consort of France (born 1429)

Margaret of Anjou was Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. Through marriage, she was also nominally Queen of France from 1445 to 1453. Born in the Duchy of Lorraine into the House of Valois-Anjou, Margaret was the second eldest daughter of René of Anjou, King of Naples, and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine.
1956 Alfred Kinsey

Alfred Kinsey

American biologist and academic (born 1894)
Alfred Charles Kinsey was an American sexologist, biologist, and professor of entomology and zoology who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. He is best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), also known as the Kinsey Reports, as well as for the Kinsey scale. Kinsey's research on human sexuality, foundational to the field of sexology, provoked controversy in the 1940s and 1950s, and has continued to provoke controversy decades after his death. His work has influenced social and cultural values in the United States and United Kingdom as well as internationally.
1819 James Watt

James Watt

Scottish engineer and instrument maker (born 1736)
James Watt was a Scottish inventor, engineer and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.
1688 Henry Morgan

Henry Morgan

Welsh admiral and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (born 1635)
Sir Henry Morgan was a Welsh privateer, plantation owner and, later, the lieutenant governor of Jamaica. From his base in Port Royal, Jamaica, he and those under his command raided settlements and shipping on the Spanish Main, from which he profited. With the prize money and plunder from these raids, Morgan purchased three large sugar plantations in Jamaica.
2000 Jack Nitzsche

Jack Nitzsche

American pianist, composer, and producer (born 1937)
Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on to work with the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, and others. He worked extensively in film scores for the films Performance, The Exorcist and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In 1983, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing "Up Where We Belong" with Buffy Sainte-Marie.
1967 Paul Muni

Paul Muni

Ukrainian-born American actor (born 1895)
Paul Muni was an American stage and film actor from Chicago. He started his acting career in the Yiddish theater and during the 1930s, he was considered one of the most prestigious actors at the Warner Bros. studio and was given the rare privilege of choosing his own parts.
1822 William Herschel

William Herschel

German-English astronomer and composer (born 1738)
Frederick William Herschel, generally known as William Herschel, was a German–British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel. Born in the Electorate of Hanover, he followed his father into the military band of Hanover, before emigrating to Britain in 1757 at the age of 19.
1988 Art Rooney

Art Rooney

American businessman, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers (born 1901)
Arthur Joseph Rooney Sr., often referred to as "the Chief", was an American professional football executive. He was the founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, an American football franchise in the National Football League (NFL), from 1933 until his death. Rooney is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, was an Olympic qualifying boxer, and was part or whole owner in several track sport venues and Pittsburgh area pro teams. He was the first president of the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1933 to 1974, and the first chairman of the team from 1933 until his death in 1988.
1998 Lewis F. Powell

Lewis F. Powell

Jr., American lawyer and Supreme Court justice (born 1907)
Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 to 1987.
1965 Moonlight Graham

Moonlight Graham

American baseball player and physician (born 1879)
Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham was an American professional baseball player and physician who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905. His story was popularized by Shoeless Joe, a novel by W. P. Kinsella, and the subsequent 1989 film Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, and featuring Burt Lancaster and Frank Whaley, respectively, as older and younger incarnations of Graham.
1600 Hosokawa Gracia

Hosokawa Gracia

Japanese aristocrat and Catholic convert (born 1563)
Akechi Tama , usually referred to as Hosokawa Gracia , was a member of the aristocratic Akechi family from the Sengoku period. Gracia is best known for her role in the Battle of Sekigahara; Ishida Mitsunari attempted to take her hostage to sway her husband, Hosokawa Tadaoki, into joining his side on the battle. She refused to commit suicide because of her Catholic faith, breaking the code of conduct imposed on women of the samurai class and causing a family retainer to kill her instead, possibly at her request.
2019 Ferdinand Piëch

Ferdinand Piëch

Austrian business magnate and engineer (born 1937)
Ferdinand Karl Piëch was an Austrian business magnate, engineer, and executive who held the positions of chairman of the executive board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) of the Volkswagen Group from 1993 to 2002, and chairman of the supervisory board (Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender) from 2002 to 2015.
2000 Carl Barks

Carl Barks

American author and illustrator (born 1901)
Carl Barks was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his work in Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him "The Duck Man" and "The Good Duck Artist". In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.
1945 John Birch

John Birch

American soldier and missionary (born 1918)
John Morrison Birch was a United States Army Air Forces military intelligence captain, OSS field agent in China during World War II, as well as former Baptist minister and missionary. He was killed in a confrontation with Chinese Communist soldiers during an assignment he was ordered on by the OSS, ten days after the war ended. Birch was posthumously awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal.
1925 Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf

Austrian field marshal (born 1852)
Franz Xaver Josef Conrad von Hötzendorf, sometimes anglicised as Hoetzendorf, was an Austrian general who played a central role in World War I. He served as K.u.k. Feldmarschall and Chief of the General Staff of the military of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Navy from 1906 to 1917. He was in charge during the July Crisis of 1914 that caused World War I.
1908 Henri Becquerel

Henri Becquerel

French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French experimental physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie and Pierre Curie for his discovery of radioactivity.
1999 Rob Fisher

Rob Fisher

English keyboard player and songwriter (born 1956)
Rob Fisher was an English keyboardist and songwriter from Cheltenham, England, who achieved chart success as a member of the new wave band Naked Eyes and, later, Climie Fisher. He attended Lord Wandsworth College in Hampshire, where he was a member of a band called Cirrus with Nick Ryall and Ray Coop (bass).
1979 Stan Kenton

Stan Kenton

American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1911)
Stanley Newcomb Kenton was an American popular music and jazz artist. As a pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, he led an innovative and influential jazz orchestra for almost four decades. Though Kenton had several pop hits from the early 1940s into the 1960s, his music was always forward-looking. Kenton was also a pioneer in the field of jazz education, creating the Stan Kenton Jazz Camp in 1959 at Indiana University.
1966 Lao She

Lao She

Chinese novelist and dramatist (born 1899)
Shu Qingchun, known by his pen name Lao She, was a Chinese writer of Manchu ethnicity, known for his vivid portrayal of urban life and his colorful use of the Beijing dialect, such as in the novel Rickshaw Boy and the play Teahouse. During the Cultural Revolution, he was persecuted and either drowned himself or was murdered.
1603 Ahmad al-Mansur

Ahmad al-Mansur

Sultan of the Saadi dynasty (born 1549)
Ahmad al-Mansur, also known as al-Dhahabī was the Saadi Sultan of Morocco from 1578 to his death in 1603, the sixth and most famous of all rulers of the Saadis. Ahmad al-Mansur was an important figure in both Europe and Africa in the sixteenth century. His powerful army and strategic location made him an important power player in the late Renaissance period. He has been described as "a man of profound Islamic learning, a lover of books, calligraphy and mathematics, as well as a connoisseur of mystical texts and a lover of scholarly discussions."
2000 Allen Woody

Allen Woody

American bass player and songwriter (born 1955)
Douglas Allen Woody was an American bass guitarist best known for his eight-year tenure in the Allman Brothers Band and as a co-founder of Gov't Mule.
1982 Anna German

Anna German

Polish singer (born 1936)
Anna Wiktoria German-Tucholska was a Polish singer (lirico-spinto), immensely popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and the 1970s. She released over a dozen music albums with songs in Polish, as well as several albums with Russian repertoire. Throughout her music career, she also recorded songs in the German, Italian, Spanish, English, and Latin languages.
2008 Ahmad Faraz

Ahmad Faraz

Pakistani poet (born 1931)
Syed Ahmad Shah, better known by his pen name Ahmad Faraz, was a Pakistani Urdu poet, scriptwriter and became the founding director general of Pakistan Academy of Letters. He wrote his poetry under the pseudonym Faraz. He criticised military rule and coup d'état in the country and was displaced by the military dictators.
2006 Noor Hassanali

Noor Hassanali

Trinidadian-Tobagonian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (born 1918)
Noor Mohamed Hassanali TC was a Trinidadian lawyer, judge and politician who served as the second president of Trinidad and Tobago from 1987 to 1997. A retired high-court judge, he was the first person of Indian descent and first Muslim president of Trinidad and Tobago, and the first Muslim head of state in the Americas.
1988 Price Daniel

Price Daniel

American politician, 38th Governor of Texas (born 1910)
Marion Price Daniel Sr. was an American jurist and politician who served as a U.S. senator and the 38th governor of Texas. A member of the Democratic Party, he was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to be a member of the National Security Council, Director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness, and Assistant to the President for Federal-State Relations. Daniel also served as Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
2008

Kevin Duckworth

American basketball player (born 1964)
Kevin Jerome Duckworth was an American professional basketball player who played as center in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A native of Illinois, he played college basketball for the Eastern Illinois Panthers before being selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the second round of the 1986 NBA draft. Before completing his rookie season with the Spurs, he was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers where he spent most of his six seasons and was named the NBA's Most Improved Player and a two-time All-Star. After playing with three more teams he retired in 1997 and returned to Oregon where he would later work for the Trail Blazers' organization.
1904 Henri Fantin-Latour

Henri Fantin-Latour

French painter and lithographer (born 1836)
Ignace Henri Jean Theodore Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.
1967 Stanley Bruce

Stanley Bruce

Australian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1883)
Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne was the eighth prime minister of Australia, serving from 1923 to 1929. He held office as the leader of the Nationalist Party, having previously served as the treasurer of Australia from 1921 to 1923.
1968 Stan McCabe

Stan McCabe

Australian cricketer and coach (born 1910)
Stanley Joseph McCabe was an Australian cricketer who played 39 Test matches for Australia from 1930 to 1938. A short, stocky right-hander, McCabe was described by Wisden as "one of Australia's greatest and most enterprising batsmen" and by his captain Don Bradman as one of the great batsmen of the game. He was never dropped from the Australian Test team and was known for his footwork, mastery of fast bowling and the hook shot against the Bodyline strategy. He also regularly bowled medium-pace and often opened the bowling at a time when Australia lacked fast bowlers, using an off cutter. He was one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1935.
1971 Ted Lewis

Ted Lewis

American singer and clarinet player (born 1890)
Ted Lewis was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He was well known for his catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" He fronted a band and touring stage show that presented a combination of hot jazz, comedy, and nostalgia that was a hit with the American public before and after World War II.
1995 Doug Stegmeyer

Doug Stegmeyer

American bass player and producer (born 1951)
Douglas Alan Stegmeyer was an American musician who was best known as a bassist and back-up vocalist for Billy Joel. Stegmeyer also performed as bassist for Debbie Gibson and Hall & Oates.
1921 Nikolay Gumilyov

Nikolay Gumilyov

Russian poet and critic (born 1886)
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev was a Russian poet, literary critic, traveler, and military officer. He was a co-founder of the Acmeist movement. He was the husband of Anna Akhmatova and the father of Lev Gumilev. Nikolai Gumilev was arrested and executed by the Cheka, the secret Soviet police force, in 1921.
1886 Zinovios Valvis

Zinovios Valvis

Greek lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1800)
Zinovios Zafirios I. Valvis was a Greek politician and Prime Minister of Greece. Valvis was born in 1800 in Missolonghi. He first studied theology at the Theological School of Halki but switched to law, furthering his studies in Pisa, Italy. Valvis married Arsinoe Ratzikosta and fathered nine children. He twice served as prime minister but fell on hard times in his old age, dying impoverished in 1872 after refusing a state pension so as not to be a burden on the Greek state. Zinovios Valvis was the brother of Dimitrios Valvis who also served as prime minister. He died in Missolonghi in 1886.
1797 Thomas Chittenden

Thomas Chittenden

Governor of the Vermont Republic, and first Governor of the State of Vermont (born 1730)
Thomas Chittenden was an American politician from Vermont, who was a leader of the territory for nearly two decades. He was the state's first and third governor, serving from 1778 to 1789—when it was a largely unrecognized independent state now called the Vermont Republic—and again from 1790 until his death. Vermont was admitted to the Union in 1791 as its 14th state.
1742 Carlos Seixas

Carlos Seixas

Portuguese organist and composer (born 1704)
José António Carlos de Seixas was a Portuguese composer of the 18th century. An accomplished virtuoso of both the organ and the harpsichord, Seixas succeeded his father as the organist for Coimbra Cathedral at the age of fourteen. In 1720, he departed for the capital, Lisbon, where he was to serve as the organist for the royal chapel, one of the highest offices for a musician in Portugal, a position which earned him a knighthood. Much of Seixas' music rests in an ambiguous transitional period from the learned style of the 17th century to the galant style of the 18th century.
1976 Eyvind Johnson

Eyvind Johnson

Swedish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)
Eyvind Johnson was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.
1368 Andrea Orcagna

Andrea Orcagna

Italian painter, sculptor, and architect
Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo, better known as Orcagna, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect active in Florence. He worked as a consultant at the Florence Cathedral and supervised the construction of the façade at the Orvieto Cathedral. His monumental marble tabernacle (1352–1359), commissioned by the confraternity of Orsanmichele to protect the Maestà by Bernardo Daddi (1347) at Orsanmichele, was immediately praised. The tabernacle, executed according to his design with the assistance of a team of selected sculptors and masons, included 117 figural sculptures or reliefs as part of a domed structure.
1930 Frankie Campbell

Frankie Campbell

American boxer (born 1904)
Frankie Campbell was an Italian-American boxer who fought professionally as a heavyweight. He won 33 of his 40 career fights, losing four, drawing twice, and fighting to a no-contest in another. Campbell was killed in the ring by future heavyweight champion Max Baer on August 25, 1930, in San Francisco, California.
1815 Stephen Badlam

Stephen Badlam

American artisan and military officer (born 1751)
Stephen Badlam was an American artisan and military officer. Raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Badlam was orphaned as a young child following the death of his father, a tavern-keeper and cabinetmaker. Badlam worked as a surveyor prior to the American Revolutionary War, where he served as an artillery commander in engagements in New York, Canada, and Vermont, serving as a major in General Richard Montgomery's ill-fated 1775 invasion of Quebec. After serving at Fort Stanwix, he fell gravely ill and was forced to return home with his wife to Dorchester.
1938 Aleksandr Kuprin

Aleksandr Kuprin

Russian pilot, explorer, and author (born 1870)
Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin was a Russian writer best known for his novels The Duel (1905) and Yama: The Pit (1915), as well as Moloch (1896), Olesya (1898), "Captain Ribnikov" (1906), "Emerald" (1907), and The Garnet Bracelet (1911) – the latter made into a 1965 movie.
1984 Viktor Chukarin

Viktor Chukarin

Ukrainian gymnast and coach (born 1921)
Viktor Ivanovich Chukarin was a Ukrainian gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. He won eleven medals, including seven gold medals at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics and was the all-around world champion in 1954. He was the most successful athlete at the 1952 Summer Olympics. His performance at the 1952 Summer Olympics became second after Anton Heida for medals received in gymnastics, which was overcome by Boris Shakhlin at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
2007 Ray Jones

Ray Jones

English footballer (born 1988)
Raymond Barry Bankote Jones was an English professional footballer who played as a striker. Jones spent his professional career at Queens Park Rangers, making his debut in the Football League Championship in April 2006. His good form at the start of the following season led to his only international match, for England under-19 against the Netherlands, as well as bids for other clubs to sign him. He totalled six goals in 37 professional matches.
2014 William Greaves

William Greaves

American director and producer (born 1926)
William Garfield Greaves was an American filmmaker and actor. Trained at the Actors Studio, he worked as a stage and film actor but became disillusioned with the roles available to Black performers, and transitioned into a career as a documentarian at the height of the civil rights movement. He produced more than 200 documentaries, and wrote and directed more than half of these. He garnered many accolades for his work, including four Emmy nominations.
2013 Gylmar dos Santos Neves

Gylmar dos Santos Neves

Brazilian footballer (born 1930)
Gylmar dos Santos Neves, known simply as Gilmar, was a Brazilian footballer who played goalkeeper for Corinthians and Santos and was a member of the Brazil national team in three World Cups. He was elected the best Brazilian goalkeeper of the 20th century and one of the best in the world by the IFFHS. He is remembered for his sober style on the pitch and his peaceful personality.
1939 Babe Siebert

Babe Siebert

Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1904)
Charles Albert "Babe" Siebert was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. A left winger and defenceman, he played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Maroons, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens. He won the 1926 Stanley Cup championship with the Maroons, and was a member of the famous "S Line", and another with the Rangers in 1933.
79 Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder

Roman commander and philosopher (born 23)
AD 79 (LXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Titus and Vespasianus. The denomination AD 79 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
383 Gratian

Gratian

Roman emperor (born 359)
Year 383 (CCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Merobaudes and Saturninus. The denomination 383 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
471 Gennadius I

Gennadius I

patriarch of Constantinople
Gennadius of Constantinople was the patriarch of Constantinople from August 458 until his death. Gennadius is known to have been a learned writer who followed the School of Antioch of literal exegesis, although few writings have been left about him. He is commemorated in the Eastern Orthodox Church on 17 November but is not listed in the Roman Martyrology.
1984 Waite Hoyt

Waite Hoyt

American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1899)
Waite Charles Hoyt was an American right-handed professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball for seven different teams during 1918–1938. He was one of the dominant pitchers of the 1920s, and the most successful pitcher for the New York Yankees during that decade. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969.
2014 Marcel Masse

Marcel Masse

Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence (born 1936)
Marcel Masse was a Canadian politician who represented Montcalm in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1966 to 1973 and Frontenac in the House of Commons of Canada from 1984 to 1993. He served in the federal cabinet as Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources (1986–1989) and Minister of National Defence (1991–1993) under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
1969 Robert Cosgrove

Robert Cosgrove

Australian politician, 30th Premier of Tasmania (born 1884)
Sir Robert Cosgrove was an Australian politician who was the 30th and longest-serving Premier of Tasmania. He held office for over 18 years, serving from 1939 to 1947 and from 1948 to 1958. His involvement in state politics spanned five decades, and he dominated the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party for a generation.
1924 Velma Caldwell Melville

Velma Caldwell Melville

American editor, and writer of prose and poetry (born 1858)
Velma Caldwell Melville was an American editor, and writer of prose and poetry from Wisconsin. She edited the Practical Farmer and the Wisconsin Farmer. Melville was one of the most voluminous writers of her time in Central/Western U.S. publications. She wrote several serials, and her poems and sketches appeared in nearly 100 publications.
1632 Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker

English author and playwright (born 1572)
Thomas Dekker was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer, whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists.
1282 Thomas de Cantilupe

Thomas de Cantilupe

English bishop and saint (born 1218)
Thomas de Cantilupe was Lord Chancellor of England and Bishop of Hereford. He was canonised in 1320 by Pope John XXII. He has been noted as "an inveterate enemy of the Jews", and his demands that they be expelled from England were cited in the evidence presented for his canonization.
2012 Donald Gorrie

Donald Gorrie

Scottish politician (born 1933)
Donald Cameron Easterbrook Gorrie OBE was a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region from 1999 to 2007, and sat in the British House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh West from 1997 to 2001.
1916 Mary Tappan Wright

Mary Tappan Wright

American novelist and short story writer (born 1851)
Mary Tappan Wright was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her acute characterizations and depictions of academic life. She was the wife of classical scholar John Henry Wright and the mother of legal scholar and utopian novelist Austin Tappan Wright and geographer John Kirtland Wright.
2014 Enrique Zileri

Enrique Zileri

Peruvian journalist and publisher (born 1931)
Enrique Zileri Gibson was the publisher of Caretas (Masks), Peru's leading newsmagazine, which was cofounded by his mother Doris Gibson. He ran the magazine as "a symbol of resistance" against successive Peruvian dictators and their censors. He won many international honours, including the Maria Moors Cabot Prize (1975), but was twice deported by his own government, and the magazine was shut down at least eight times. The Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa called him an "indefatigable defender of freedom and democracy" who "could never be bribed or intimidated".
1711 Edward Villiers

Edward Villiers

1st Earl of Jersey, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (born 1656)
Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, was an English diplomat, courtier and Tory politician from the Villiers family. He was created Baron Villiers and Viscount Villiers in 1691 and Earl of Jersey in 1697. A leading opponent of the Whig Junto, he was made Southern Secretary in 1699.
1485 William Catesby

William Catesby

supporter of Richard III (born 1450)
William Catesby was a principal councillor to Richard III of England. He also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Commons during Richard's reign. The Catesbys’ medieval wealth derived from livestock and the zenith of their political achievement came during his career.
2002 Dorothy Hewett

Dorothy Hewett

Australian author and poet (born 1923)
Dorothy Coade Hewett was an Australian playwright, poet and author. She wrote in a number of different literary styles: modernism, socialist realism, expressionism and avant garde. She was a member of the Australian Communist Party in the 1950s and 1960s, which informed her work during that period.
1192 Hugh III

Hugh III

Duke of Burgundy (born 1142)
Hugh III was Duke of Burgundy between 1162 and 1192. As duke, Burgundy was invaded by King Philip II and Hugh was forced to sue for peace. Hugh then joined the Third Crusade, distinguishing himself at Arsuf and Acre, where he died in 1192.
2013 Raghunath Panigrahi

Raghunath Panigrahi

Indian singer-songwriter (born 1932)
Suramani' Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi was an Odissi music Guru, vocalist, composer and music director. He is most known for his renditions of Jayadeva's Gita Govinda and his vocal support for his wife, the Odissi danseuse Sanjukta Panigrahi. He was widely known as 'Gitagobinda Panigrahi'.
1973 Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám

Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám

Hungarian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1875)
Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám de Dancka was a conservative Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister and temporary Minister of Finance of the second counter-revolutionary government in Szeged for one month in 1919. His government commissioned Miklós Horthy to Supreme Commander of the National Army.
2003 Tom Feelings

Tom Feelings

American author and illustrator (born 1933)
Tom Feelings was an American artist, cartoonist, children's book illustrator, author, teacher, and activist. Many of his books focus on African-American and African culture, such as To Be a Slave (1968), Jambo Means Hello (1974), and The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo (1995).
1774 Niccolò Jommelli

Niccolò Jommelli

Italian composer and educator (born 1714)
Niccolò Jommelli was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he was responsible for certain operatic reforms including reducing ornateness of style and the primacy of star singers somewhat.
1967 Oscar Cabalén

Oscar Cabalén

Argentine race car driver (born 1928)
Oscar Cabalén, was an Argentine racing driver, mainly active in the Turismo Carretera series. He also took part in the Carrera Panamericana and the Mille Miglia, and was a reserve driver for the Formula One Argentine Grand Prix in 1960.
2014 Nico M. M. Nibbering

Nico M. M. Nibbering

Dutch chemist and academic (born 1938)
Nicolaas Martinus Maria Nibbering was a Dutch chemist and mass spectrometrist. He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the Thomson Medal and the Joannes Marcus Marci Award.
2024 Salim Al-Huss

Salim Al-Huss

Lebanese statesman, 34th Prime Minister of Lebanon (born 1929)
Salim Ahmad al-Huss, also spelled Selim El-Hoss, was a Lebanese economist and politician who served as the prime minister of Lebanon and a longtime Member of Parliament representing his hometown, Beirut. He was known as a technocrat.
1091 Sisnando Davides

Sisnando Davides

military leader
Sisnando Davides was a Mozarab nobleman and military leader of the Reconquista, born in Tentúgal, near Coimbra. He was a contemporary and acquaintance of El Cid, but his sphere of activity was in Iberia's southwest.
306 Saint Maginus

Saint Maginus

Christian hermit and martyr from Tarragona
Saint Maginus was a Catalan hermit in the late third and early fourth centuries in Tarragona. Orphaned early, he was a hermit in a cave on Mount Brufaganya for thirty years.
1592 William IV

William IV

Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (born 1532)
William IV of Hesse-Kassel, also called William the Wise, was the first Landgrave of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel. He was the founder of the oldest line, which survives to this day.
1882 Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald

Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald

Estonian physician and author (born 1803)
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald was an Estonian writer who is considered to be the father of the national literature for the country. He is the author of Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg.
2013 Liu Fuzhi

Liu Fuzhi

Chinese academic and politician, 3rd Minister of Justice for China (born 1917)
Liu Fuzhi was a politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as the Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, Minister of Public Security, and Minister of Justice.
1271 Joan

Joan

Countess of Toulouse (born 1220)
Joan was Countess of Toulouse from 1249 until her death. She was the only child of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse by his first wife Sancha of Aragon.
1322 Beatrice of Silesia

Beatrice of Silesia

queen consort of Germany (born c. 1292)
Beatrice of Silesia was a Polish princess member of the House of Piast in the Silesian branch of Jawor-Świdnica and by marriage Duchess of Bavaria and German Queen.
1892 William Champ

William Champ

English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Tasmania (born 1808)
William Thomas Napier Champ was a British soldier and Colonial Australian politician and penal administrator, who served as the first Premier of Tasmania from 1856 to 1857.
1970 Tachū Naitō

Tachū Naitō

Japanese architect and engineer, designed the Tokyo Tower (born 1886)
Tachū Naitō was a Japanese architect, engineer, and professor. He was a father of earthquake-proof design and built many broadcasting and observation towers, including the Tokyo Tower.
274 Yang Yan

Yang Yan

Jin Dynasty empress (born 238)
Yang Yan (楊艷), courtesy name Qiongzhi (瓊芝), formally Empress Wuyuan was an empress of the Western Jin dynasty. She was the first wife of Emperor Wu.
2001 Carl Brewer

Carl Brewer

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1938)
Carl Thomas Brewer was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. Brewer attended De La Salle College and Riverdale Collegiate Institute prior to his hockey career.
2013

William Froug

American screenwriter and producer (born 1922)
William Froug was an American television writer and producer. His producing credits included the series The Twilight Zone, Gilligan's Island, and Bewitched. He was a writer for, among other shows, The Dick Powell Show, Charlie's Angels, and Adventures in Paradise. He authored numerous books on screenwriting, including Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade, Zen and the Art of Screenwriting I and II, The Screenwriter Looks at The Screenwriter, and How I Escaped from Gilligan's Island: Adventures of a Hollywood Writer-Producer, published in 2005 by the University of Wisconsin Press.
2012

Roberto González Barrera

Mexican banker and businessman (born 1930)
Roberto González Barrera was a Mexican businessman. He was the chairman of Gruma, the largest producer of tortillas and corn flour in the world, and of Banorte, the largest Mexican-owned private bank in Mexico. Because of his prominent role in the expansion of Gruma, he was often nicknamed "El Maseco" or "Don Maseco", as well as the "King of Tortillas".
2007

Benjamin Aaron

American lawyer and scholar (born 1915)
Benjamin Aaron was an American attorney, labor law scholar and civil servant. He is known for his work as an arbitrator and mediator, and for helping to advance the development of the field of comparative labor law in the United States.
2013

Ciril Bergles

Slovene poet and translator (born 1934)
Ciril Bergles was a Slovene poet, essayist and translator. He published numerous collections of poetry and was also known for his translations of poetry, mostly by Spanish and South American authors, into Slovene.
2014

Uziah Thompson

Jamaican-American drummer and producer (born 1936)
Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson was a Jamaican percussionist, vocalist and deejay active from the late 1950s. He worked with some of the best known performers of Jamaican music and played on hundreds of albums.
2013

António Borges

Portuguese economist and banker (born 1949)
António Mendo de Castel-Branco do Amaral Osório Borges was a Portuguese economist and banker. He was also a Managing Director and International Adviser of Goldman Sachs.
985

Dietrich of Haldensleben

German margrave
Dietrich of Haldensleben was a count in the Schwabengau, later also in the Nordthüringgau and the Derlingau, who was the first Margrave of the Northern March from 965 until the Great Slav Rising of 983. He also bore the title of a dux (duke) in contemporary sources. He was an ancestor of John V.
2009

Mandé Sidibé

Malian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Mali (born 1940)
Mandé Sidibé was Prime Minister of Mali from 2000 to 2002 and chairman of the Board of Directors of Ecobank from 2006 to 2009. He was also Director of the Malian branch of the Central Bank of West African States from 1992 to 1995.
766

Constantine Podopagouros

Byzantine official
Constantine Podopagouros was a high-ranking Byzantine official and, with his brother Strategios, leader of a conspiracy against Emperor Constantine V.
766

Strategios Podopagouros

Byzantine general
Strategios Podopagouros was a Byzantine military commander, and with his brother Constantine, the leader of a conspiracy against Emperor Constantine V.
1258

George Mouzalon

regent of the Empire of Nicaea
George Mouzalon was a high official of the Empire of Nicaea under Theodore II Laskaris.
1270 Alphonso of Brienne (born c. 1225)

Alphonso of Brienne (born c. 1225)

Alfonso of Brienne, called Alphonse d'Acre, was the son of John of Brienne and Berengaria of León, born in Acre.
1327

Demasq Kaja

Chobanid
Demasq Kaja or Dimashq Khwāja was a member of the Chobanid family around the first quarter of the 14th century.
1330 Sir James Douglas

Sir James Douglas

Scottish guerrilla leader (born 1286)
Sir James Douglas was a Scottish knight and feudal lord. He was one of the chief commanders during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
1339 Henry de Cobham

Henry de Cobham

1st Baron Cobham (born 1260)
Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham lord of the manor of Cobham, Kent and of Cooling, also in Kent, was an English peer.
1631 Nicholas Hyde

Nicholas Hyde

Lord Chief Justice of England (bornc. 1572)
Sir Nicholas Hyde was Lord Chief Justice of England.
1699 Christian V of Denmark (born 1646)

Christian V of Denmark (born 1646)

Christian V was King of Denmark and Norway from 1670 until his death in 1699.
1794 Florimond Claude

Florimond Claude

Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-Austrian diplomat (born 1727)
Florimond Claude, comte de Mercy-Argenteau was an Austrian diplomat and statesman of French noble ancestry in the service of the Holy Roman Empire.
1924 Mariano Álvarez

Mariano Álvarez

Filipino general and politician (born 1842)
Mariano Malia Álvarez was a Filipino revolutionary and statesman. He was the first Municipal President of Noveleta.
1931

Dorothea Fairbridge

South African author and co-founder of Guild of Loyal Women (born 1862)
Dorothea Ann Fairbridge referred as Dora Fairbridge was a South African author and co-founder of the Guild of Loyal Women.
1936 Juliette Adam

Juliette Adam

French author (born 1836)
Juliette Adam was a French author and feminist.
1940 Prince Jean

Prince Jean

Duke of Guise (born 1874)
Jean d'Orléans was Orléanist pretender to the defunct French throne as Jean III. He used the courtesy title of Duke of Guise.
1977 Károly Kós

Károly Kós

Hungarian architect, ethnologist, and politician (born 1883)
Károly Kós was a Hungarian architect, writer, illustrator, ethnologist and politician of Hungary and Romania.
1980 Gower Champion

Gower Champion

American dancer and choreographer (born 1919)
Gower Carlyle Champion was an American actor, theatre director, choreographer, and dancer.
1981

Nassos Kedrakas

Greek actor and cinematographer (born 1915)
Athanasios (Nassos) Kedrakas was a Greek actor.
1990

Morley Callaghan

Canadian author and playwright (born 1903)
Edward Morley Callaghan was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality.
2000 Frederick C. Bock

Frederick C. Bock

American soldier and pilot (born 1918)
Frederick Carl Bock Jr was an American bomber pilot during World War II who took part in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945.
2001 Ken Tyrrell

Ken Tyrrell

English race car driver and businessman, founded Tyrrell Racing (born 1924)
Robert Kenneth Tyrrell was a British Formula Two racing driver and the founder of the Tyrrell Formula One constructor.
2001

Üzeyir Garih

Turkish engineer and businessman, co-founded Alarko Holding (born 1929)
Üzeyir Garih was a Jewish Turkish engineer, businessman, writer and investor.
2005 Peter Glotz

Peter Glotz

Czech-German academic and politician (born 1939)
Peter Glotz was a German social democratic politician and social scientist.
2011 Lazar Mojsov

Lazar Mojsov

Macedonian politician (born 1920)
Lazar Mojsov was a Macedonian journalist, communist politician and diplomat from SFR Yugoslavia.
2012

Florencio Amarilla

Paraguayan footballer, coach, and actor (born 1935)
Florencio Amarilla Lacasa was a Paraguayan footballer, coach and later actor.
2015 Francis Sejersted

Francis Sejersted

Norwegian historian and academic (born 1936)
Francis Sejersted was a Norwegian history professor and the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 1991 until 1995.
2015 José María Benegas

José María Benegas

Spanish lawyer and politician (born 1948)
José María "Txiki" Benegas Haddad was a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). His nickname "Txiki" is Basque for "small".
2016 Marvin Kaplan

Marvin Kaplan

American actor (born 1927)
Marvin Wilbur Kaplan was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter who was best known as Henry Beesmeyer in Alice (1978–1985).
2022

Mable John

American blues vocalist (born 1930)
Mable John was an American blues vocalist and the first female artist signed by Berry Gordy to Motown's Tamla label.

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