Did you know about Charles Bronson
Near the end of the decade, he had his first cinematic leading role in Machine-Gun Kelly (1958).
Notable Deaths on August 30
August 30 has 102 recorded notable deaths across history, from 526 to 2024. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.
2003 — Charles Bronson
American actor and soldier (born 1921)
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Major events on August 30
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- 1800 Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen. Source
- 1983 STS-8: The Space Shuttle Challenger takes off on the first night launch of the shuttle program. Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space on this mission. Source
Did you know about Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Soviet and Russian politician who was the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the country's dissolution in 1991.
Did you know about Wes Craven
Amongst his prolific filmography, Craven worked primarily in the horror genre, particularly slasher films, where he mixed horror cliches with humor.
Did you know about Glenn Ford
Glenn Ford was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age as one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and had a career that lasted more than 50 years.
Did you know about Valerie Harper
Valerie Harper played Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977) and its spin-off Rhoda (1974–1978).
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Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2022
Mikhail Gorbachev
8th and final leader of the Soviet Union (born 1931)
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Soviet and Russian politician who was the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1985, and additionally as head of state from 1988. Ideologically, he initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism, but moved towards social democracy by the early 1990s.
2015
Wes Craven
American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (born 1939)
Wesley Earl Craven was an American filmmaker. Amongst his prolific filmography, Craven worked primarily in the horror genre, particularly slasher films, where he mixed horror cliches with humor. Craven has been recognized as one of the masters of the horror genre.
2006
Glenn Ford
Canadian-American actor and producer (born 1916)
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford, known as Glenn Ford, was a Canadian-born American actor. He was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age as one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and had a career that lasted more than 50 years.
2019
Valerie Harper
American actress and writer (born 1939)
Valerie Kathryn Harper was an American actress. She began her career as a dancer on Broadway, making her debut as a replacement in the musical Li'l Abner. She played Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977) and its spin-off Rhoda (1974–1978). For her work on Mary Tyler Moore, she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series three times, and later received the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Rhoda.
526
Theodoric the Great
Italian ruler (born 454)
Theodoric the Great, also called the Amal, was king of the Ostrogoths (471–526), and ruler of the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy between 493 and 526, regent of the Visigoths (511–526), and a patrician of the Eastern Roman Empire. As ruler of the combined Gothic realms, Theodoric controlled an empire stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Adriatic Sea. Though Theodoric himself only used the title 'king' (rex), some scholars characterize him as a Western Roman emperor in all but name, since he ruled a large part of the former Western Roman Empire. He also received and used the former Western imperial regalia from Constantinople in 497, and exercised imperial powers recognized in the East, such as naming consuls. The Italian aristocracy referred to him using the imperial title princeps.
1993
Richard Jordan
American actor (born 1938)
Robert Anson Jordan Jr., known professionally as Richard Jordan, was an American actor. A long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, he performed in many Off Broadway and Broadway plays. His films include: Logan's Run, Les Misérables, Old Boyfriends, Raise the Titanic, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Yakuza, Interiors, The Bunker, Dune, The Secret of My Success, Timebomb, The Hunt for Red October, Posse and Gettysburg.
1483
Louis XI
King of France (born 1423)
Louis XI, called the Prudent, was King of France from 1461 to 1483. He succeeded his father, Charles VII. Louis entered into open rebellion against his father in a short-lived revolt known as the Praguerie in 1440. The king forgave his rebellious vassals, including Louis, to whom he entrusted the management of the Dauphiné, then a province in southeastern France. Louis's ceaseless intrigues, however, led his father to banish him from court. From the Dauphiné, Louis led his own political establishment and married Charlotte of Savoy, daughter of Louis, Duke of Savoy, against the will of his father. Charles VII sent an army to compel his son to his will, but Louis fled to Burgundy, where he was hosted by Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy, Charles's greatest enemy.
2013
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1939)
Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".
1963
Guy Burgess
English-Soviet spy (born 1911)
Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era. His defection in 1951 to the Soviet Union, with his fellow spy Donald Maclean, led to a serious breach in Anglo-United States intelligence co-operation, and caused long-lasting disruption and demoralisation in Britain's foreign and diplomatic services.
1979
Jean Seberg
American actress (born 1938)
Jean Dorothy Seberg was an American actress. She is considered an icon of the French New Wave as a result of her performance in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film Breathless.
1940
J. J. Thomson
English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1856)
Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist. He received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases." In 1897, he showed that cathode rays were composed of previously unknown negatively charged particles, which he calculated must have bodies much smaller than atoms and a very large charge-to-mass ratio. The electron was the first subatomic particle to be discovered.
1981
Vera-Ellen
American actress and dancer (born 1921)
Vera-Ellen was an American dancer, actress, and singer. She is known for her solo performances as well as her work with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Danny Kaye, and Donald O'Connor. She is known for her roles in On the Town (1949) with Kelly and White Christmas (1954) with Kaye.
1938
Max Factor
Sr., Polish-born American make-up artist and businessman, founded the Max Factor Company (born 1877)
Max Factor Sr., born Maksymilian Faktorowicz, was a Polish-American businessman, beautician, entrepreneur and inventor. As a founder of the cosmetics giant Max Factor & Company, he largely developed the modern cosmetics industry in the United States and popularized the term "make-up" in noun form based on the verb.
2006
Naguib Mahfouz
Egyptian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Egyptian narrative art that applies to all mankind".
2024
Fatman Scoop
American rapper, hype man and radio personality (born 1971)
Isaac Freeman III, better known by his stage name Fatman Scoop, was an American hip-hop artist. Noted for his booming, raw vocal presence on various hip-hop songs, he was best known for his guest performances on the 2005 singles "Lose Control" by Missy Elliott and "It's Like That" by Mariah Carey, as well as his 1999 sleeper hit single, "Be Faithful", which topped the UK Singles Chart in 2003.
2017
Louise Hay
American motivational author (born 1926)
Louise Lynn Hay was an American motivational author and professional speaker. She authored several New Thought self-help books, including the 1984 book You Can Heal Your Life, and founded Hay House publishing.
1968
William Talman
American actor and screenwriter (born 1915)
William Whitney Talman Jr. was an American television and movie actor, best known for playing Los Angeles District Attorney Hamilton Burger in the television series Perry Mason.
1970
Abraham Zapruder
American clothing manufacturer, witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy (born 1905)
Abraham Zapruder was a Russian Empire-born American clothing manufacturer based in Dallas, Texas, who filmed the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Of Jewish descent, Zapruder resided in Dallas and founded a fashion company. On the day of the assassination, he captured the shooting in a home movie while filming Kennedy's presidential limousine as it traveled through Dealey Plaza. The Zapruder film is regarded as the most complete footage of the assassination. Zapruder died in 1970.
1961
Charles Coburn
American actor (born 1877)
Charles Douville Coburn was an American actor and theatrical producer. He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award three times – for The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), The More the Merrier (1943) and The Green Years (1946) – winning for his performance in The More the Merrier. He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for his contribution to the film industry.
1995
Sterling Morrison
American guitarist and singer (born 1942)
Holmes Sterling Morrison Jr. was an American musician, best known as one of the founding members of the rock band the Velvet Underground. He usually played electric guitar, occasionally played bass guitar, and provided backing vocals.
1981
Mohammad-Ali Rajai
Iranian politician, 2nd President of Iran (born 1933)
Mohammad-Ali Rajai was an Iranian politician who served as the president of Iran from 2 August 1981 until his assassination four weeks later. Before his presidency, Rajai had served as prime minister under Abolhassan Banisadr, while concurrently occupying the position of foreign affairs minister from 11 March 1981 to 15 August 1981. He died in a bombing on 30 August 1981 along with then-prime minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar.
2002
J. Lee Thompson
English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1914)
John Lee Thompson was an English filmmaker and playwright. Initially an exponent of social realism, he became known as a versatile and prolific director of thrillers, action, and adventure films.
1773
Peshwa Narayan Rao
Prime Minister of Maratha Empire (born 1755, assassinated)
Narayanrao was the 10th Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy, serving from November 1772 until his assassination in August 1773. He was the third and youngest son of Balaji Baji Rao and Gopikabai, and the younger brother of Madhavrao I. He was married to Gangabai Sathe, the daughter of Krishnaji Hari Sathe, and the couple had a posthumous son, Madhavrao II, who later succeeded him as Peshwa.
1994
Lindsay Anderson
English director and screenwriter (born 1923)
Lindsay Gordon Anderson was an English filmmaker, theatre director, critic, and actor. He was considered a leading light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave, and a principal exponent of kitchen sink realism on both the stage and screen.
1181
Pope Alexander III (born c. 1100–1105)
Pope Alexander III, born Roland, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 September 1159 until his death in 1181.
1946
Konstantin Rodzaevsky
Russian lawyer (born 1907)
Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky was the leader of the Russian Fascist Party, which he led in exile from Manchuria. Rodzaevsky was also the chief editor of the RFP paper Nash Put'. After the defeat of anti-communist forces in the Russian Civil War, he fled to Manchuria in 1925 and eventually became the leading figure of the Russian Fascist movement. He was lured by the NKVD to return to the Soviet Union with false promises of immunity and executed in a Lubyanka prison cellar after a trial for "anti-Soviet and counter-revolutionary activities".
1580
Emmanuel Philibert
Duke of Savoy (born 1528)
Emmanuel Philibert, known as Testa di ferro, was the Duke of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from 17 August 1553 until his death in 1580. He is notably remembered for restoring the Savoyard state, which had been occupied by France since his youth, following his triumph at the Battle of St. Quentin in 1557, and for transferring the capital to Turin.
2003
Donald Davidson
American philosopher and academic (born 1917)
Donald Herbert Davidson was an American philosopher and the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He previously held teaching appointments at Stanford University, Rockefeller University, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago. Davidson was known for his charismatic personality and difficult writing style, as well as the systematic nature of his philosophy. His work exerted considerable influence in many areas of philosophy from the 1960s onward, particularly in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and action theory. Most of Davidson's influence was on analytic philosophy, but his work has attracted attention in continental philosophy, literary theory, and related areas.
1995
Fischer Black
American economist and academic (born 1938)
Fischer Sheffey Black, Jr. was an American economist, best known as one of the co-authors of the Black–Scholes option pricing model. He held academic positions at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later working at Goldman Sachs. In addition to his work on option pricing, Black made important contributions to the development of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). He also proposed ideas in monetary economics and in theories of the business cycle.
2024
Tūheitia Paki
Māori King (born 1955)
Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII, crowned as Kīngi Tūheitia, reigned as the Māori King from 2006 until his death in 2024. He was the eldest son of the previous Māori monarch, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, and was announced as her successor and crowned on 21 August 2006, the final day of her tangi.
1619
Shimazu Yoshihiro
Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1535)
Shimazu Yoshihiro was the second son of Shimazu Takahisa and the younger brother of Shimazu Yoshihisa. Traditionally believed to be the 17th head of the Shimazu clan, he was a skilled general during the Sengoku period who greatly contributed to the unification of Kyūshū.
1991
Jean Tinguely
Swiss painter and sculptor (born 1925)
Jean Tinguely was a Swiss sculptor best known for his kinetic art sculptural machines that extended the Dada tradition into the later part of the 20th century. Tinguely's art satirized automation and the technological overproduction of material goods.
1329
Khutughtu Khan Kusala
Chinese emperor (born 1300)
Khutughtu Khan, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, was a son of Khayishan who seized the throne of the Yuan dynasty of China in 1329, but died in suspicious circumstances six months later. Apart from the Emperor of China, he is considered as the 13th Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, although it was only nominal due to the division of the empire.
2001
Govan Mbeki
ANC activist and father of President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki (born 1910)
Govan Archibald Mvunyelwa Mbeki was a South African politician, military commander, Communist leader who served as the Secretary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, at its inception in 1961. He was also the younger son of Chief Skelewu Mbeki and Johanna Mabula and also the father of the former South African president Thabo Mbeki and political economist Moeletsi Mbeki.
1935
Henri Barbusse
French journalist and author (born 1873)
Henri Barbusse was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist. He began his literary career in the 1890s as a Symbolist poet and continued as a neo-Naturalist novelist; in 1916, he published Under Fire, a novel about World War I based on his experience which is described as one of the earliest works of the Lost Generation movement or as the work which started it; the novel had a major impact on the later writers of the movement, namely on Ernest Hemingway and Erich Maria Remarque. Barbusse is considered one of the important French writers of 1910–1939 who mingled the war memories with moral and political meditations.
2015
M. M. Kalburgi
Indian scholar, author, and academic (born 1938)
Malleshappa Madivalappa Kalburgi was an Indian scholar of Vachana sahitya in the Kannada language and an academic who served as the vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi. A noted epigraphist of Kannada, he was awarded the National Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006 for Marga 4, a collection of his research articles.
1985
Taylor Caldwell
English-American author (born 1900)
Janet Miriam Caldwell was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction under the pen names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner. She was also known by a variation of her married name, J. Miriam Reback.
1856
Sir John Ross
Scottish naval officer and explorer (born 1777)
Rear-Admiral Sir John Ross was a British naval officer and explorer. He was the uncle of Sir James Clark Ross, who explored the Arctic with him, and later led expeditions to Antarctica.
2007
Michael Jackson
English author and journalist (born 1942)
Michael James Jackson was an English beer and whiskey writer. He was a regular contributor to a number of broadsheets, particularly The Independent and The Observer.
2014
Bipan Chandra
Indian historian and academic (born 1928)
Bipan Chandra was an Indian historian, specialising in economic and political history of modern India. An emeritus professor of modern history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, he specialized on the Indian independence movement is considered a leading scholar on Mahatma Gandhi. He is referred to as a "nationalist-Marxist" historian influenced by the Marxian approach. He authored several books, including The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism.
1991
Cyril Knowles
English footballer and manager (born 1944)
Cyril Barry Knowles was a footballer who played left-back for Tottenham Hotspur and England. He was the son of the rugby league footballer Cyril Knowles, and the older brother of fellow professional footballer Peter Knowles.
1967
Ad Reinhardt
American painter, illustrator, and academic (born 1913)
Adolph Friedrich Reinhardt was an American abstract painter and art theorist active in New York City for more than three decades. As a theorist he wrote and lectured extensively on art and was a major influence on conceptual art, minimal art, and monochrome painting.
2015
Marvin Mandel
American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (born 1920)
Marvin Mandel was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 56th governor of Maryland from January 7, 1969, to January 17, 1979, including a one-and-a-half-year period when Lieutenant Governor Blair Lee III served as the state's acting governor from June 1977 to January 15, 1979 while Mandel was in federal prison for mail fraud and racketeering. He was a member of the Democratic Party, as well as Maryland's first, and to date, only Jewish governor.
1131
Hervey le Breton
bishop of Bangor and Ely
Hervey le Breton was a Breton cleric who became Bishop of Bangor in Wales and later Bishop of Ely in England. Appointed to Bangor by King William II of England, when the Normans were advancing into Wales, Hervey was unable to remain in his diocese when the Welsh began to drive the Normans back from their recent conquests. Hervey's behaviour towards the Welsh seems to have contributed to his expulsion from his see. Although the new king, Henry I wished to translate Hervey to the see of Lisieux in Normandy, it was unsuccessful.
2014
Igor Decraene
Belgian cyclist (born 1996)
Igor Decraene was a Belgian cyclist. In 2013, he became the UCI world junior men's time trial champion. The event took place on 24 September in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. In 2013 and 2014 he was also the Belgian national champion in the time trial for juniors men. He also won the Crystal Bicycle for Best Young Rider in 2013. At the time of his death, he was preparing to defend his junior world time trial title at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships in Ponferrada, Spain on 23 September.
2014
Andrew V. McLaglen
English-American director and producer (born 1920)
Andrew Victor McLaglen was a British-born American film and television director. He was best known for his Westerns and adventure films, often starring John Wayne or James Stewart.
1907
Richard Mansfield
American actor and manager (born 1857)
Richard Mansfield was a German-born English actor-manager best known for his performances in Shakespeare plays, Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and the play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; his performances in the last made such an impression that he was accused of being Jack the Ripper.
2006
Robin Cooke
Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand lawyer and judge (born 1926)
Robin Brunskill Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, was a New Zealand judge and later a British Law Lord and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He is widely considered one of New Zealand's most influential jurists, and is the only New Zealand judge to have sat in the House of Lords. He was a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong from 1997 to 2006.
1949
Arthur Fielder
English cricketer (born 1877)
Arthur Fielder was an English cricketer who played as a fast bowler for Kent County Cricket Club and the England cricket team from 1900 to 1914. He played a major role in Kent's four County Championship wins in the years before World War I and toured Australia twice with the England team, making six Test match appearances. He was chosen as one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1907.
1989
Seymour Krim
American journalist and critic (born 1922)
Seymour Krim was an American author, editor and literary critic. In the 1950s and '60s, he contributed essays and journalistic pieces to The Village Voice, New York Herald Tribune, the Evergreen Review, Commentary, and Commonweal. Krim's best-known book was the 1961 essay collection, Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer. With his "naked, introspective" prose style, he was often linked to Beat Generation writers and to New Journalism.
1621
Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī
co-founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (born 1547)
Baha al-Din al-Amili, commonly known as Sheikh Bahāʾī, was a Twelver Shia Muslim scholar and polymath in Safavid Iran, who composed various works in Arabic and Persian. Closely tied to the court of Shah Abbas I, he became known for his role in the intellectual sphere of Isfahan and is seen as a leading figure in his field, with seventy-seven scholars counted among his students.
2015
Edward Fadeley
American lawyer and politician (born 1929)
Edward Norman Fadeley was an American attorney and politician in the state of Oregon. He was the 88th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Previously he served in both the Oregon House of Representatives and the Oregon State Senate, serving one session as President of the Oregon Senate. In later years he faced allegations of sexual harassment and was reprimanded for legal ethics violations.
1928
Wilhelm Wien
German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien was a German physicist who used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature.
2013
William C. Campbell
American golfer (born 1923)
William Cammack Campbell, often known as Bill Campbell or William C. Campbell, became one of the most distinguished amateur golfers in golf history. Campbell was two-time President of the United States Golf Association (USGA) and one time Captain of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. He was inducted to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1990.
1751
Christopher Polhem
Swedish physicist and engineer (born 1661)
Christopher Polhammar better known as Christopher Polhem, which he took after his ennoblement in 1716, was a Swedish scientist, inventor, and industrialist. He made significant contributions to the economic and industrial development of Sweden, particularly mining. He was ennobled by King Charles XII of Sweden for his contributions to Swedish technological development.
1941
Peder Oluf Pedersen
Danish physicist and engineer (born 1874)
Peder Oluf Pedersen was a Danish engineer and physicist. He is notable for his work on electrotechnology, his cooperation with Valdemar Poulsen on the developmental work on Wire recorders, which he called a telegraphone, the arc converter known as the Poulsen Arc Transmitter, and his work on electrical currents in the ionosphere.
1948
Alice Salomon
German-American social reformer (born 1872)
Alice Salomon was a German social reformer and pioneer of social work as an academic discipline. Her role was so important to German social work that the Deutsche Bundespost issued a commemorative postage stamp about her in 1989. A university, a park and a square in Berlin are all named after her.
1988
Jack Marshall
New Zealand colonel, lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1912)
Sir John Ross Marshall was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He entered Parliament in 1946 and was first promoted to Cabinet in 1951. After spending eleven years as the deputy prime minister of New Zealand, he served as the 28th prime minister from February until December 1972.
1954
Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
Italian cardinal (born 1880)
Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, was an Italian Catholic prelate and professed member of the Benedictines who served as the Archbishop of Milan from 1929 until his death. He took the religious name of Ildefonso as a Benedictine monk and served as an abbot prior to his elevation to the cardinalate.
1908
Alexander P. Stewart
American general (born 1821)
Alexander Peter Stewart was a Confederate military officer during the American Civil War and a college professor. He fought in many of the most significant battles in the Western Theater of the war and briefly took command of the Army of Tennessee in 1865.
2004
Fred Lawrence Whipple
American astronomer and academic (born 1906)
Fred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70 years. Among his achievements were asteroid and comet discoveries, the "dirty snowball" hypothesis of comets, and the invention of the Whipple shield.
1886
Ferris Jacobs
Jr., American general and politician (born 1836)
Ferris Jacobs Jr. was an American military officer, politician, and lawyer. He served in the Union Army in several roles during the American Civil War, and afterwards spent one term as United States representative from New York.
2014
Charles Bowden
American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist (born 1945)
Charles Clyde Bowden was an American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist based in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was best known for his work documenting violence on the Mexico-United States border, especially in and around Ciudad Juarez.
1896
Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky
Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (born 1824)
Prince Aleksey Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky was a Russian statesman, probably best remembered for having concluded the Li-Lobanov Treaty with China, the Peace of Constantinople with the Ottoman Empire, and for his publication of the Russian Genealogical Book.
2010
J. C. Bailey
American wrestler (born 1983)
Joseph Carl Bailey Jr., better known by his ring name J. C. Bailey, was an American professional wrestler. He wrestled for numerous American-based professional wrestling promotions including Combat Zone Wrestling, IWA Mid-South, and IWA East Coast.
2010
Francisco Varallo
Argentine footballer (born 1910)
Francisco Antonio Varallo was an Argentine footballer who played as a forward for the Argentina national team from 1930 to 1937, also representing the country at the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930.
1604
John Juvenal Ancina
Italian Oratorian and bishop (born 1545)
Giovanni Giovenale Ancina was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Saluzzo and was a professed member from the Oratorians. The bishop was also a scholar and music composer and was also known for being a noted orator. He served in the Oratorians as a simple priest for around two decades prior to his episcopal appointment which he attempted to elude for five months before submitting to Pope Clement VIII and accepting the papal appointment. He entered his diocese several months later where he became noted for his charitable work with the poor and his efforts to better implement the reforms of the Council of Trent.
1945
Alfréd Schaffer
Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1893)
Alfréd Schaffer was a Hungarian international footballer. He is recorded as having played for a record number of clubs: 21 in a 15-year career which lasted from 1910 to 1925.
1990
Bernard D. H. Tellegen
Dutch engineer and academic (born 1900)
Bernard D.H. Tellegen was a Dutch electrical engineer and inventor of the pentode and the gyrator. He is also known for a theorem in circuit theory, Tellegen's theorem.
2017
Skip Prokop
Canadian drummer, guitarist and keyboardist (born 1943)
Ronald Harry "Skip" Prokop was a Canadian drummer. He was also a band leader, was a founding member of the Canadian rock music groups the Paupers and Lighthouse.
2013
Leo Lewis
American football player and coach (born 1933)
Leo Everett Lewis Jr. was an American gridiron football player and coach. He played college football as a running back for Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, from 1951 to 1954 and professionally with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1955 to 1966. He served as the head football coach at his alma mater, Lincoln, from 1973 to 1975.
2008
Brian Hambly
Australian rugby player and coach (born 1937)
Brian Clinton Hambly was an Australian rugby league player, a representative forward for the Australia national team between 1959 and 1965. His club career was played with South Sydney and Parramatta. He was considered one of the Australia's finest rugby league players of the twentieth century.
1500
Victor
Duke of Münsterberg and Opava, Count of Glatz (born 1443)
Victor, Duke of Münsterberg also: Victor, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava; Czech: Viktorin z Minsterberka; was an Imperial Count from 1459 and Count of Kladsko. From 1462 until his death, he was Duke of Münsterberg, and from 1465 to 1485 Duke of Opava.
1936
Ronald Fellowes
2nd Baron Ailwyn, English peer (born 1886)
Lt.-Col. Ronald Townshend Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn was a British peer, the son of Ailwyn Edward Fellowes, 1st Baron Ailwyn. He succeeded to the Barony on 23 September 1924. He lived at Honingham Hall in Norfolk until he sold it in 1935.
2014
Felipe Osterling
Peruvian lawyer and politician (born 1932)
Felipe Enrique Osterling Parodi was a Peruvian lawyer, writer and politician. He was a member and leader of the Christian People's Party, and served in senior positions in the Peruvian government.
1991
Vladimír Padrůněk
Czech bass player (born 1952)
Vladimír Padrůněk was a Czech jazz and rock bass guitarist. He is known for his work with the groups Jazz Q, Energit, Etc..., Abraxas, and others.
832
Cui Qun
Chinese chancellor (born 772)
Cui Qun (崔群), courtesy name Dunshi (敦詩), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Xianzong.
2013
Howie Crittenden
American basketball player and coach (born 1933)
Howard Royce Crittenden was an American basketball player, best known for his college career at Murray State University and in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU).
1961
Cristóbal de Losada y Puga
Peruvian mathematician (born 1894)
Cristóbal de Losada y Puga was a Peruvian mathematician and mining engineer. He was Minister of Education of Peru in the government of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero and Director of the National Library of Peru between 1948 and 1961.
1428
Emperor Shōkō of Japan (born 1401)
Emperor Shōkō was the 101st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1412 through 1428.
1856
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
English lawyer and author (born 1811)
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was an English humorist.
1879
John Bell Hood
American/Confederate general (born 1831)
John Bell Hood was a Confederate general during the American Civil War.
1906
Hans Auer
Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (born 1847)
Hans Wilhelm Auer was a Swiss-Austrian architect best known for his design of the Swiss Bundeshaus (1894–1902) in Bern.
1935
Namık İsmail
Turkish painter and educator (born 1890)
Namık İsmail was a Turkish Impressionist painter and art educator, who received his training in France.
1943
Eddy de Neve
Indonesian-Dutch footballer and lieutenant (born 1885)
Eduard Karel Alexander de Neve was a Dutch footballer who played as a forward for Velocitas Breda, HBS Craeyenhout and the Netherlands national team.
1943
Eustáquio van Lieshout
Dutch priest and missionary (born 1890)
Eustáquio van Lieshout, SSCC was a Dutch Catholic missionary priest in Brazil from the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
1947
Gunnar Sommerfeldt
Danish actor and director (born 1890)
Gunnar Sommerfeldt was a Danish actor and film maker.
1951
Konstantin Märska
Estonian director and cinematographer (born 1896)
Konstantin Märska was an Estonian cinematographer and film director.
1964
Salme Dutt
Estonian-English lawyer and politician (born 1888)
Salme Anette Pekkala-Dutt, known by the pen name Sancho, was an Estonian-British communist politician, essayist, writer and translator.
1970
Del Moore
American comedian and actor (born 1916)
Marion Delbridge "Del" Moore was an American actor, comedian and radio announcer.
1971
Ali Hadi Bara
Iranian-Turkish sculptor (born 1906)
Ali Hadi Bara was a Turkish sculptor and one of the first artists of the Republican generation in Turkey.
1996
Christine Pascal
French actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1953)
Christine Pascal was a French actress, writer, and director known for Le Petit Prince a dit, 1992.
1999
Raymond Poïvet
French illustrator (born 1910)
Raymond Poïvet was a French cartoonist.
1999
Reindert Brasser
Dutch discus thrower (born 1912)
Reindert Johannes Brasser also known as Jan Brasser was a Dutch athlete who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
2007
Charles Vanik
American soldier and politician (born 1918)
Charles Albert Vanik was a Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1955 to 1981.
2008
Killer Kowalski
Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (born 1926)
Wladek Kowalski was a Canadian professional wrestler, known by his ring name Killer Kowalski.
2009
Klaus-Peter Hanisch
German footballer (born 1952)
Klaus-Peter Hanisch was a professional German footballer.
2010
Alain Corneau
French director and screenwriter (born 1943)
Alain Corneau was a French film director and writer.
2010
Myrtle Edwards
Australian cricketer and softball player (born 1921)
Myrtle Edwards was an Australian softball and cricket player.
2013
Allan Gotthelf
American philosopher and academic (born 1942)
Allan Stanley Gotthelf was an American philosopher. He was a scholar of the philosophies of both Aristotle and Ayn Rand.
2015
Oliver Sacks
English-American neurologist, author, and academic (born 1933)
Oliver Wolf Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.