Notable Deaths on August 26

Q: Who died on August 26?

Notable people who died on August 26 include: Arechis II, Kōkō, Michael IV of Constantinople, Ottokar II of Bohemia (born 1233), Charles II.

Q: What is Dominick Dunne known for?

Dominick Dunne, American journalist and novelist (born 1925)

106 people 787 – 2024

August 26 has seen 106 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 787 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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2009 — Dominick Dunne

American journalist and novelist (born 1925)

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He began his career in film and television as a producer of the pioneering gay film The Boys in the Band (1970) and as the producer of the drama film The Panic in Needle Park (1971)

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After the 1982 murder of his daughter Dominique, an actress who had her breakthrough role in the film Poltergeist that year, he began to write about the interaction of wealth and high society with the judicial system

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Dunne was a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, and, beginning in the 1980s, often appeared on television discussing crime.

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Dominick John Dunne was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer

Arechis II

duke of Benevento

Year 787 (DCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 787 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent…

787

Kōkō

emperor of Japan (born 830)

Emperor Kōkō was the 58th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Kōkō reigned from 884 to 887.

887

Michael IV of Constantinople

Michael IV Autoreianos Ancient Greek: Μιχαὴλ Αὐτωρειανός; died 26 August 1212) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1208 to his death in 1212.

1214

Ottokar II of Bohemia (born 1233)

Ottokar II, the Iron and Golden King, was a member of the Přemyslid dynasty who reigned as King of Bohemia from 1253 until his death in 1278. He also held the titles of Margrave of Moravia from 1247, Duke of Austria…

1278

Charles II

Count of Alençon (born 1297)

Charles II, called the Magnanimous was Count of Alençon and Count of Perche (1325–1346), as well as Count of Chartres and Count of Joigny (1335–1336) as husband of Joan of Joigny.

1346

Louis I

Count of Flanders (born 1304)

Louis I was Count of Flanders, Nevers and Rethel.

1346

Louis II

Count of Blois

Louis II of Châtillon, son of Guy I, Count of Blois and Margaret of Valois, was count of Blois and lord of Avesnes from 1342 to 1346.

1346

Rudolph

Duke of Lorraine (born 1320)

Rudolph, called the Valiant, was the Duke of Lorraine from 1328 to his death. He was the son and successor of Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine and Elisabeth of Austria, the daughter of King Albert I of Germany of the…

1346

John of Bohemia (born 1296)

John of Bohemia, also called the Blind or of Luxembourg, was the Count of Luxembourg from 1313 and King of Bohemia from 1310 and titular King of Poland. He is well known for having died while fighting in the Battle of…

1346

Thomas Bradwardine

English archbishop, mathematician, and physicist (born 1290)

Thomas Bradwardine was an English cleric, scholar, mathematician, physicist, courtier and, very briefly, Archbishop of Canterbury. As a celebrated scholastic philosopher and doctor of theology, he is often called Doctor…

1349

Mikhail II

Grand Prince of Tver (born 1333)

Mikhail Alexandrovich was Grand Prince of Tver and briefly held the title of Grand Prince of Vladimir. He was one of only two Tver princes after 1317 to hold the grand princely title, which was almost the exclusive…

1399

Catherine Zaccaria

Despotess of the Morea

Catherine Asenina Zaccaria or Catherine Palaiologina was the daughter of the Prince of Achaea, Centurione II Zaccaria and a Byzantine lady hailing from the prestigious houses of Asen-Palaiologos and the house of…

1462

Ernest

Elector of Saxony (born 1441)

Ernest, known in German as Ernst, was Elector of Saxony from 1464 to 1486. He established the Ernestine line of Saxon princes.

1486

Philipp I

Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (born 1449)

Count Philipp I of Hanau-Münzenberg, nicknamed Philipp the Younger, was a son of Count Reinhard III of Hanau and Countess Palatine Margaret of Mosbach. He was the Count of Hanau from 1452 to 1458. The county was then…

1500

Margaret Leijonhufvud

queen of Gustav I of Sweden (born 1516)

Margaret Leijonhufvud or Margareta Eriksdotter was Queen of Sweden from 1536 to 1551 by marriage to King Gustav I. She played a political role as the advisor and intermediary to her spouse.

1551

Petrus Ramus

French philosopher and logician (born 1515)

Petrus Ramus was a French humanist, logician, and educational reformer. A prominent and controversial academic and professor in Paris' College De France, Ramus became famous for his iconoclastic critiques of Aristotle,…

1572

António

Prior of Crato (born 1531)

António, Prior of Crato, sometimes called "The Determined", "The Fighter", "The Independentist" or "The Resistant", was a grandson of King Manuel I of Portugal who claimed the Portuguese throne during the 1580 dynastic…

1595

Frans Hals

Dutch painter and educator (born 1580)

Frans Hals the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem, a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worship but citizens liked to decorate their…

1666

Constantin Brâncoveanu

Ruler of Wallachia (born 1654)

Constantin Brâncoveanu was Prince of Wallachia between 1688 and 1714.

1714

Edward Fowler

English bishop and author (born 1632)

Edward Fowler was an English churchman, Bishop of Gloucester from 1691 until his death.

1714

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Dutch microscopist and biologist (born 1632)

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch art, science and technology. A largely self-taught man in science, he is commonly known as "the Father of…

1723

Johan Augustin Mannerheim

Swedish nobleman and military leader (born 1706)

Baron Johan Augustin Mannerheim was a Swedish nobleman, the Artillery Colonel and the Gothenburg Commandant. He was a great-great-grandfather of Baron C. G. E. Mannerheim, the Marshal of Finland.

1778

George Germain

1st Viscount Sackville, English soldier and politician, 3rd Secretary of State for the Colonies (born 1716)

Major-General George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, PC was a British Army officer and politician who served as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1775 to 1782. Serving in the North ministry during the American…

1785

Santiago de Liniers

1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish sailor and politician, 10th Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (born 1753)

Santiago Antonio María de Liniers y Bremond, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, KOM, OM was a Spanish military officer and a viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Although born Jacques de Liniers in France, he is…

1810

Theodor Körner

German soldier and author (born 1791)

Carl Theodor Körner was a German poet and soldier. After having lived for some time in Vienna, where he wrote some light comedies and other works for the Burgtheater, he became a soldier and joined the Lützow Free Corps…

1813

Louis Philippe I of France (born 1773)

Louis Philippe I, nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, the penultimate monarch of France, the last French monarch to bear the title "King", and the only French monarch to descend from…

1850

Johann Franz Encke

German astronomer and academic (born 1791)

Johann Franz Encke was a German astronomer. Among his activities, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the Earth to the Sun, and made observations of the planet…

1865

Mariam Baouardy

Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (born 1846)

Mariam Baouardy, OCD, was a Palestinian Discalced Carmelite nun of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. Born to parents from the town of Hurfiesh in the upper Galilee, later moved to I’billin, she was known for her…

1878

William James

American psychologist and philosopher (born 1842)

William James was an American philosopher and psychologist. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States, he is considered to be one of the leading thinkers of the late 19th century, one of the…

1910

Matthias Erzberger

German publicist and politician (born 1875)

Matthias Erzberger was a German Centre Party politician who served as the minister of finance of Germany from 1919 to 1920.

1921

Sándor Wekerle

Hungarian jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1848)

Sándor Wekerle was a Hungarian politician who served three times as prime minister. He was the first non-noble to hold the office in Hungary.

1921

Petro Petrenko

Ukrainian anarchist military commander (born 1890)

Petro Petrenko was a Ukrainian military commander in the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine.

1921

Lon Chaney

American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1883)

Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney was an American actor and makeup artist. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of cinema, renowned for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and…

1930

Bîmen Şen

Turkish composer and songwriter (born 1873)

Bîmen Şen was a composer and lyricist of Armenian descent.

1943

Adam von Trott zu Solz

German lawyer and diplomat (born 1909)

Friedrich Adam von Trott zu Solz was a German lawyer and diplomat who was involved in the conservative resistance to Nazism. A declared opponent of the Nazi regime from the beginning, he actively participated in the…

1944

Franz Werfel

Austrian author and playwright (born 1890)

Franz Viktor Werfel was a Czech novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, a novel based…

1945

Jeanie MacPherson

American actress and screenwriter (born 1887)

Abbie Jean MacPherson was an American silent actress, writer and director. She is known for her collaborations with directors D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, and was a founding member of the Academy of Motion…

1946

Alfred Wagenknecht

German-American activist (born 1881)

Alfred Wagenknecht was an American Marxist activist and political functionary. He is best remembered for having played a critical role in the establishment of the Communist Party USA in 1919 as a leader of the Left Wing…

1956

Ralph Vaughan Williams

English composer and educator (born 1872)

Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years.…

1958

W. W. E. Ross

Canadian geophysicist and poet (born 1894)

William Wrighton Eustace Ross [often misspelt William Wrightson Eustace Ross] was a Canadian geophysicist and poet. He was the first published poet in Canada to write Imagist poetry, and later the first to write…

1966

Kay Francis

American actress (born 1905)

Kay Francis was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star…

1968

Francis Chichester

English pilot and sailor (born 1901)

Sir Francis Charles Chichester KBE was a British businessman, pioneering aviator and solo sailor.

1972

Charles Lindbergh

American pilot and explorer (born 1902)

Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, and author. On May 20–21, 1927, he made the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris, a distance of 3,600 miles (5,800 km), flying alone for over…

1974

Olaf Holtedahl

Norwegian geologist and academic (born 1885)

Olaf Holtedahl was a Norwegian geologist. He became a senior lecturer at the University of Oslo in 1914, and was Professor of Geology there from 1920 to 1956.

1975

Lotte Lehmann

German-American soprano (born 1888)

Charlotte "Lotte" Pauline Sophie Lehmann was a German-American dramatic soprano noted for her successful performances with international opera houses, on the recital stage and in teaching. She gave memorable appearances…

1976

H. A. Rey

German-American author and illustrator, created Curious George (born 1898)

H. A. Rey was a German-born American illustrator and author, known best for the series of children's picture books that he and his wife Margret Rey created about Curious George.

1977

Charles Boyer

French-American actor, singer, and producer (born 1899)

Charles Boyer was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in American films during…

1978

José Manuel Moreno

Argentinian footballer and manager (born 1916)

José Manuel Moreno Fernández, nicknamed "El Charro", was an Argentine footballer who played as an inside forward for several clubs in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia; for those who saw him play, he is regarded as…

1978

Mika Waltari

Finnish author, translator, and academic (born 1908)

Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian. He was extremely productive; Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, travel…

1979

Rosa Albach-Retty

German-Austrian actress (born 1874)

Rosa Albach-Retty was an Austrian film and stage actress.

1980

Tex Avery

American animator, director, and voice actor (born 1908)

Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery was an American animator and voice actor. He was known for directing and producing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation. His most significant work was for the Warner…

1980

Roger Nash Baldwin

American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (born 1884)

Roger Nash Baldwin was an American author, pacifist, and anti-communist who co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950.

1981

Lee Hays

American singer-songwriter (born 1914)

Lee Elhardt Hays was an American folk singer and songwriter, best known for singing bass with the Weavers. Throughout his life, he was concerned with overcoming racism, inequality, and violence in society. He wrote or…

1981

Ted Knight

American actor (born 1923)

Ted Knight was an American actor known for playing the comic roles of Ted Baxter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Henry Rush in Too Close for Comfort and Judge Elihu Smails in Caddyshack.

1986

John Goddard

Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (born 1919)

John Douglas Claude Goddard OBE was a cricketer from Barbados who captained the West Indies in 22 of his 27 Tests between 1948 and 1957.

1987

Georg Wittig

German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)

Georg Wittig was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with…

1987

Carlos Paião

Portuguese singer-songwriter (born 1957)

Carlos Manuel de Marques Paião was a singer and songwriter from Portugal. He represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 with the song "Playback". Carlos Paião was also a doctor, having graduated in…

1988

Irving Stone

American author (born 1903)

Irving Stone was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. Among the best known are Lust for Life (1934), about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The…

1989

Tang Chang

Thai artist (born 1934)

Tang Chang was a self-taught artist, poet, writer and philosopher of Sino-Thai heritage.

1990

Mildred Albert

American fashion commentator, TV and radio personality, and fashion show producer (born 1905)

Mildred Elizabeth Albert was an American fashion commentator, modeling agency director, fashion show producer, radio and television personality, and society columnist. Known as the "Mighty Atom" and Boston's "First Lady…

1991

Bob de Moor

Belgian author and illustrator (born 1925)

Robert Frans Marie De Moor, better known under his pen name Bob de Moor, was a Belgian comics creator. Chiefly noted as an artist, he is considered an early master of the Ligne claire style. He wrote and drew several…

1992

Reima Pietilä

Finnish architect, co-designed the Kaleva Church (born 1923)

Frans Reima Ilmari Pietilä was a Finnish architect and theorist. He did most of his work together with his wife Raili Pietilä; after 1963 all their works were officially attributed to "Raili and Reima Pietilä". Reima…

1993

John Brunner

English-Scottish author and poet (born 1934)

John Kilian Houston Brunner was a British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel and the BSFA…

1995

Frederick Reines

American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

Frederick Reines was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment. He may be the only scientist in history "so…

1998

Akbar Adibi

Iranian engineer and academic (born 1939)

Akbar Adibi (1939–2000) was an Iranian electronic engineer, VLSI researcher, and university engineering professor.

2000

Bunny Austin

English tennis player (born 1906)

Henry Wilfred "Bunny" Austin was an English tennis player. For 74 years he was the last Briton to reach the final of the men's singles at the Wimbledon Championships, until Andy Murray did so in 2012. He was also a…

2000

Louis Muhlstock

Polish-Canadian painter and educator (born 1904)

Louis Muhlstock, LL.D. was a Canadian painter best known for his depictions of the Great Depression and for landscapes and urban scenes in and around Montreal.

2001

Marita Petersen

Faroese educator and politician, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1940)

Marita Petersen was the first and to date only female Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands and the first female speaker of the Løgting (Parliament). She was elected to the Løgting in 1988 for Javnaðarflokkurin . In…

2001

Jim Wacker

American football player and coach (born 1937)

James Herbert Wacker was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Texas Lutheran University (1971–1975), North Dakota State University (1976–1978),…

2003

Laura Branigan

American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1952)

Laura Ann Kruteck was an American singer. Her signature song, the platinum-certified 1982 cover of Umberto Tozzi's single "Gloria," stayed on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 36 weeks, then a record for a female artist,…

2004

Denis D'Amour

Canadian guitarist and songwriter (born 1960)

Denis "Piggy" D'Amour was a Canadian guitarist. He was a member of the heavy metal band Voivod from its inception in 1982 until his death in 2005.

2005

Robert Denning

American art collector and interior designer (born 1927)

Robert Denning was an American interior designer whose lush interpretations of French Victorian decor became an emblem of corporate raider tastes in the 1980s.

2005

Moondog King

Canadian wrestler and politician (born 1949)

Edward John White was a Canadian professional wrestler, best known as Sailor White and as Moondog King of The Moondogs when he joined the World Wrestling Federation in the early-1980s. White won championships in Canada…

2005

Rainer Barzel

Polish-German lawyer and politician, Minister of Intra-German Relations (born 1924)

Rainer Candidus Barzel was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the eighth president of the Bundestag from 1983 to 1984.

2006

Clyde Walcott

Barbadian cricketer and coach (born 1926)

Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott OBE KA GCM was a West Indian cricketer. Walcott was a member of the "three W's", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very successful batsmen from Barbados, born…

2006

William Garnett

American landscape photographer (born 1916)

William A. Garnett was an American landscape photographer who specialized in aerial photography.

2006

Gaston Thorn

Luxembourger jurist and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (born 1928)

Gaston Egmond Thorn was a Luxembourgish politician who served in a number of high-profile positions, both domestically and internationally. He most prominently served as prime minister of Luxembourg (1974–1979),…

2007

Raimon Panikkar

Catalan priest and scholar (born 1918)

Raimon Panikkar Alemany, also known as Raimundo Panikkar and Raymond Panikkar, was a Spanish Catholic priest and a proponent of interfaith dialogue. As a scholar, he specialized in comparative religion.

2010

George Band

Taiwanese-English mountaineer and author (born 1929)

George Christopher Band was an English mountaineer. He was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to ascend the mountain. In…

2011

Patrick C. Fischer

American computer scientist and academic (born 1935)

Patrick Carl Fischer was an American computer scientist, a noted researcher in computational complexity theory and database theory, and a target of the Unabomber.

2011

John McAleese

Scottish sergeant (born 1949)

John Thomas "Mac" McAleese, MM was a Scottish soldier who took part in several late 20th century conflicts with the British Army's Royal Engineers and the Special Air Service. During his time in the Special Air Service,…

2011

Russ Alben

American composer and businessman (born 1929)

Bernard Russ Alben was an American advertising executive and composer. He served as the Vice President and Creative Director of Ogilvy & Mather from the early 1970s until his retirement in December 1981. Alben is…

2012

Reginald Bartholomew

American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (born 1936)

Reginald Bartholomew was an American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon (1983–1986), Spain (1986–1989), and Italy (1993–1997). He was also a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on…

2012

Jacques Bensimon

Canadian director and producer (born 1943)

Jacques Bensimon was a public film and television director, producer and executive in Canada, working primarily with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and TFO, the French-language network of TVOntario. From 2001…

2012

Krzysztof Wilmanski

Polish-German physicist and academic (born 1940)

Krzysztof Wilmanski was a Polish-German scientist working in the fields of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics.

2012

Hélie de Saint Marc

French soldier (born 1922)

Hélie Denoix de Saint Marc or Hélie de Saint Marc, was a senior member of the French Resistance and a senior active officer of the French Army, having served in the French Foreign Legion, in particular at the heart and…

2013

John J. Gilligan

American soldier and politician, 62nd Governor of Ohio (born 1921)

John Joyce "Jack" Gilligan was an American World War II veteran, educator and Democratic politician from the state of Ohio who served as a U.S. representative and as the 62nd governor of Ohio from 1971 to 1975. He was…

2013

Bill Schmitz

American football player and coach (born 1954)

Bill Schmitz was an American football coach. He served as head football coach at the United States Coast Guard Academy from 1993 to 1996 and Austin Peay State University from 1997 to 2002, compiling a career college…

2013

Jack Sinagra

American lawyer and politician (born 1950)

Jack G. Sinagra was an American Republican Party politician who was the mayor of East Brunswick, New Jersey, and served in the New Jersey Senate from 1992 to 2001, where he represented the 18th Legislative District.

2013

Clyde A. Wheeler

American soldier and politician (born 1921)

Clyde A. Wheeler was an American congressional relations expert, lobbyist, and member of the White House staff. After leaving the White House staff, he returned to Oklahoma, where he settled in Tulsa and became a…

2013

Christian Bourquin

French lawyer and politician (born 1954)

Christian Bourquin was a French politician, a member of the Socialist Party. He was the president of the Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon from 2010 to his death in August 2014.

2014

Peter Bacon Hales

American historian, photographer, and author (born 1950)

Peter Bacon Hales was an American historian, photographer, author and musician specializing in American spaces and landscapes, the history of photography and contemporary art.

2014

Caroline Kellett

English journalist (born 1960)

Caroline Kellett, usually known just as Kellett, was a British journalist who was fashion editor of Tatler and held a number of other positions in British fashion journalism.

2014

Chūsei Sone

Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1937)

Chūsei Sone was a Japanese film director known for his stylish and popular Roman Porno films for Nikkatsu, particularly the first two installments of the Angel Guts series. Despite a somewhat uneven career, many…

2014

Amelia Boynton Robinson

American activist (born 1905)

Amelia Isadora Platts Boynton Robinson was an American activist and supercentenarian who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama, and a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.

2015

Donald Eric Capps

American theologian, author, and academic (born 1939)

Donald Eric Capps was an American theologian and William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He specialized in the psychology of religion.

2015

P. J. Kavanagh

English poet and author (born 1931)

P. J. Kavanagh FRSL was an English poet, lecturer, actor, broadcaster and columnist. His father was the ITMA scriptwriter Ted Kavanagh.

2015

Stefanos Manikas

Greek politician (born 1952)

Stefanos Manikas was a Greek politician of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) who was Minister of State. He died on 26 August 2015, at the age of 63, from cancer.

2015

Francisco San Diego

Filipino bishop (born 1935)

Francisco Capiral San Diego was a Filipino Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Pasig from 2003 to 2010. He previously served as Bishop of San Pablo from 1995 to 2003.

2015

Tobe Hooper

American film director (born 1943)

Willard Tobe Hooper was an American filmmaker, best known for his work in the horror genre. The British Film Institute cited Hooper as one of the most influential horror filmmakers of all time.

2017

Neil Simon

American playwright and author (born 1927)

Marvin Neil Simon was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He received three Tony Awards and…

2018

Joe Ruby

American animator (born 1933)

Joseph Clemens Ruby was an American animator, writer, television producer, and music editor. He was best known as a co-creator of the animated Scooby-Doo franchise, together with Ken Spears. In 1977, they co-founded the…

2020

Bob Barker

American television game show host (born 1923)

Robert William Barker was an American media personality, game show host, and animal rights advocate. He hosted CBS's The Price Is Right, the longest-running game show in North American television history, from 1972 to…

2023

Sven-Göran Eriksson

Swedish footballer and manager (born 1948)

Sven-Göran Eriksson was a Swedish football player and manager. After a playing career as a right-back, Eriksson went on to experience major success in club management between 1977 and 2001, winning 18 trophies with a…

2024

Sid Eudy

American actor and professional wrestler (born 1960)

Sidney Raymond Eudy was an American professional wrestler, best known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring names Sid Justice, Sid Vicious, and…

2024

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Known forHe began his career in film and television as a producer of the pioneering gay film The Boys in the Band (1970) and as the producer of the drama film The Panic in Needle Park (1971)

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