Notable Deaths on January 13

Q: Who died on January 13?

Notable people who died on January 13 include: Gaius Marius, Remigius, Mungo, Jitō, Æthelwulf.

Q: What is Lyonel Feininger known for?

Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (born 1871)

112 people 86 BC – 2026

January 13 has seen 112 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 86 BC – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1956 — Lyonel Feininger

German-American painter and illustrator (born 1871)

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In 1887 he traveled to Europe and studied art in Hamburg, Berlin and Paris

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His work, characterized above all by prismatically broken, overlapping forms in translucent colors, with many references to architecture and the sea, made him one of the most important artists of classical modernism

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He started his career as a cartoonist in 1894 and met with much success in this area

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He also worked as a commercial caricaturist for 20 years

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At the age of 36, he began to work as a fine artist

Gaius Marius

Roman general and politician (born 157 BC)

Gaius Marius was a Roman general and statesman. Victor of the Cimbric and Jugurthine wars, he held the office of consul an unprecedented seven times. Rising from a family of smallholders in a village called Ceraetae in…

-86

Remigius

French bishop and saint (born 437)

Remigius was the Bishop of Reims and "Apostle of the Franks". On 25 December 496, he baptised Clovis I, King of the Franks. The baptism, leading to about 3000 additional converts, was an important event in the…

533

Mungo

English-Scottish bishop and saint

Kentigern, known as Mungo, was a missionary in the Brittonic Kingdom of Strathclyde in the late sixth century, and the founder and patron saint of the city of Glasgow.

614

Jitō

Japanese empress (born 645)

Empress Jitō was the 41st monarch of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

703

Æthelwulf

king of Wessex

Æthelwulf was King of Wessex from 839 to 858. In 825, his father, King Ecgberht, defeated King Beornwulf of Mercia, ending a long Mercian dominance over Anglo-Saxon England south of the Humber. Ecgberht sent Æthelwulf…

858

Charles the Fat

Frankish king and emperor (born 839)

Year 888 (DCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

888

Berno of Cluny

Frankish monk and abbot

Saint Berno of Cluny or Berno of Baume was the first abbot of Cluny from its foundation in 909 until he died in 927. He began the tradition of the Cluniac reforms which his successors spread across Europe.

927

Fujiwara no Teishi

Japanese empress (born 977)

Fujiwara no Teishi , also known as Sadako, was an empress consort of the Japanese Emperor Ichijō. She appears in the literary classic The Pillow Book written by her court lady Sei Shōnagon.

1001

Robert de Craon

Grand Master of the Knights Templar

Robert de Craon or Robert Burgundio was the second Grand Master of the Knights Templar from June 1136 until his death. He was instrumental in getting papal sanction for the Templar Order, making it independent from…

1147

Suger

French historian and politician (born 1081)

Suger was a French abbot and statesman. He was a key advisor to King Louis VI and his son Louis VII, acting as the latter's regent during the Second Crusade. His writings are seminal texts for early 12th-century…

1151

Henry II

count palatine and duke of Austria (born 1107)

Henry II, called Jasomirgott, a member of the House of Babenberg, was Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1140 to 1141, Duke of Bavaria and Margrave of Austria from 1141 to 1156, and the first Duke of Austria from 1156…

1177

Bonacossa Borri

Italian noblewoman (born 1254)

Bonacossa Borri, also known as Bonaca, Bonacorsa, Buonacosa, Bonaccossi, and Bonacosta (1254–1321), was Lady of Milan by marriage from 1269 to 1321.

1321

Frederick I

duke and king of Germany

Frederick the Fair or the Handsome, from the House of Habsburg, was the duke of Austria and Styria from 1308 as well as the anti-king of Germany from 1314 until 1325 and then co-king until his death.

1330

Meinhard III

German nobleman (born 1344)

Meinhard, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, was duke of Upper Bavaria and count of Tyrol from 1361 until his death. He was the son of Duke Louis V of Bavaria with Countess Margaret of Tyrol and as such also the last…

1363

Thomas le Despenser

1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (born 1373)

Thomas Despenser, 2nd Baron Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester was the son of Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despencer, whom he succeeded in 1375.

1400

Edmund Spenser

English poet, Chief Secretary for Ireland (born 1552)

Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent…

1599

Jane Dormer

English lady-in-waiting (born 1538)

Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria was an English lady-in-waiting to Mary I who, after the Queen's death, married Gómez Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, 1st Duke of Feria and went to live in Spain, where she would become a…

1612

Jan Brueghel the Elder

Flemish painter (born 1568)

Jan Brueghel the Elder was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. He was the younger son of the eminent Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. A close friend and frequent collaborator with Peter Paul Rubens,…

1625

Henry Howard

6th Duke of Norfolk, English nobleman (born 1628)

Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk was an English nobleman and politician. He was the second son of Henry Howard, 15th Earl of Arundel, and Lady Elizabeth Stuart. He succeeded his brother Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of…

1684

George Fox

English religious leader, founded the Religious Society of Friends (born 1624)

George Fox was an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social upheaval and war. He…

1691

Maria Sibylla Merian

German entomologist and illustrator (born 1647)

Maria Sibylla Merian was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly. Merian was a descendant of the…

1717

Johann Georg Walch

German theologian and author (born 1693)

Johann Georg Walch was a German Lutheran theologian.

1775

Luc Urbain de Bouëxic

French admiral (born 1712)

Luc Urbain du Bouëxic, comte de Guichen was a French Navy officer who commanded the fleets that fought the Royal Navy at the Battle of Ushant and Battle of Martinique during the American Revolutionary War.

1790

John Anderson

Scottish philosopher and educator (born 1726)

John Anderson was a Scottish natural philosopher and liberal educator at the forefront of the application of science to technology in the Industrial Revolution, and of the education and advancement of working men and…

1796

Thomas Lord

English cricketer, founded Lord's Cricket Ground (born 1755)

Thomas Lord was a celebrated English professional cricketer, who prospered as a wine merchant in Georgian times.

1832

Ferdinand Ries

German pianist and composer (born 1784)

Ferdinand Ries was a German composer. Ries was a friend, pupil and secretary of Ludwig van Beethoven. He composed eight symphonies, a violin concerto, nine piano concertos, three operas, and numerous other works,…

1838

William Mason

American surgeon and politician (born 1786)

William Mason was an American physician and politician who served one term as a United States representative from New York from 1835 to 1837.

1860

Stephen Foster

American composer and songwriter (born 1826)

Stephen Collins Foster, known as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and folk music during the Romantic period. Foster wrote more than 200 songs, including "Oh!…

1864

William Scamp

English architect and engineer (born 1801)

William Scamp was an English architect and engineer. After working on the reconstruction of Windsor Castle to designs of Sir Jeffry Wyatville, he was employed by the Admiralty from 1838 to his retirement in 1867.…

1872

Juraj Dobrila

Croatian bishop and national revivalist (born 1812)

Juraj Dobrila was a Croatian Catholic bishop and benefactor from Istria who advocated for greater national rights for South Slavic peoples, Croats and Slovenes, in Istria under Austrian rule.

1882

Wilhelm Mauser

German engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mauser Company (born 1834)

Wilhelm Mauser was a German weapon designer and manufacturer/industrialist.

1882

Schuyler Colfax

American journalist and politician, 17th Vice President of the United States (born 1823)

Schuyler Colfax Jr. was an American journalist, businessman, and politician who served as the 17th vice president of the United States from 1869 to 1873, and prior to that as the 25th Speaker of the United States House…

1885

Solomon Bundy

American lawyer and politician (born 1823)

Solomon Bundy was an American attorney and politician, a United States representative from New York. He had earlier served as district attorney of Chenango County, New York.

1889

Alexander Stepanovich Popov

Russian physicist and academic (born 1859)

Alexander Stepanovich Popov was a Russian physicist who was one of the first people to invent a radio receiving device.

1906

Jakob Hurt

Estonian theologist and linguist (born 1839)

Jakob Hurt was an Estonian folklorist, nationalist, and theologian. He was a major figure in the Estonian national awakening and worked as a pastor in Otepää and Saint Petersburg. While he was president of the Society…

1907

Mary Slessor

Scottish-Nigerian missionary (born 1848)

Mary Mitchell Slessor was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria. Once in Nigeria, Slessor learned Efik, one of many local languages, then began teaching. Because of her understanding of the native language and…

1915

Victoriano Huerta

Mexican military officer and president, 1913–1914 (born 1850)

José Victoriano Huerta Márquez was a Mexican general, statesman, engineer, and dictator who served as the 39th President of Mexico from 1913 to 1914 and came to power by coup against the democratically elected…

1916

Alexandre Ribot

French academic and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1842)

Alexandre-Félix-Joseph Ribot was a French politician, four times Prime Minister.

1923

Georg Hermann Quincke

German physicist and academic (born 1834)

Georg Hermann Quincke was a German physicist.

1924

Earle Nelson

American serial killer

Earle Leonard Nelson, also known as the Gorilla Man, the Gorilla Killer, and the Dark Strangler, was an American serial killer, rapist, and necrophile who killed at least twenty women in various U.S. states and two in…

1928

Wyatt Earp

American police officer (born 1848)

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American lawman and an assistant marshal to his brother, Virgil Earp. Earp was involved in the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which he and other lawmen killed three outlaws. While…

1929

H. B. Higgins

Irish-Australian judge and politician, 3rd Attorney-General for Australia (born 1851)

Henry Bournes Higgins was an Australian lawyer, politician, and judge. He served on the High Court of Australia from 1906 until his death in 1929, after briefly serving as Attorney-General of Australia in 1904.

1929

Paul Ulrich Villard

French physicist and chemist (born 1860)

Paul Ulrich Villard was a French chemist and physicist. He discovered gamma rays in 1900 while studying the radiation emanating from radium.

1934

James Joyce

Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1882)

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's…

1941

Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Swiss painter and sculptor (born 1889)

Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and interior designer, architect, and dancer.

1943

Aino Aalto

Finnish architect and designer (born 1894)

Aino Maria Marsio-Aalto was a Finnish architect and a pioneer of Scandinavian design. She is known as the design partner of architect Alvar Aalto, with whom she worked for 25 years, and as a co-founder with him, Maire…

1949

A. E. Coppard English poet and short story writer (born 1878)

Alfred Edgar Coppard was an English author, noted for his short stories, many of which had rural settings. Largely self-taught, he was championed by Ford Madox Ford and Arnold Bennett, among others, in his lifetime, and…

1957

Jesse L. Lasky

American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (born 1880)

Jesse Louis Lasky was an American pioneer motion picture producer who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr.

1958

Edna Purviance

American actress (born 1895)

Olga Edna Purviance was an American actress of the silent film era. She was the leading lady in many of Charlie Chaplin's early films and in a span of eight years, she appeared in over 30 films with him.

1958

Ernie Kovacs

American actor and game show host (born 1919)

Ernest Edward Kovacs was an American comedian, actor, and writer.

1962

Sylvanus Olympio

Togolese businessman and politician, President of Togo (born 1902)

Sylvanus Épiphanio Olympio was a Togolese politician who was prime minister, and then president, of Togo from 1958 until his assassination in 1963. He came from the important Olympio family, which included his uncle…

1963

Anatole de Grunwald

Russian-English screenwriter and producer (born 1910)

Anatole "Tolly" de Grunwald was a Russian British film producer and screenwriter.

1967

Robert Still

English composer and educator (born 1910)

Robert Still was a wide-ranging English composer of tonal music, who made strong use of dissonance. He produced four symphonies and four string quartets. As a songwriter he set words by Byron, Keats and Shelley.

1971

Sabahattin Eyüboğlu

Turkish screenwriter and producer (born 1908)

Sabahattin Eyüboğlu was a Turkish writer, essayist, translator and film producer.

1973

Raoul Jobin

Canadian tenor and educator (born 1906)

Raoul Jobin, was a French-Canadian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the French repertory.

1974

Salvador Novo

Mexican playwright and poet (born 1904)

Salvador Novo López was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, television presenter, entrepreneur, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. As a noted intellectual, he influenced popular perceptions of…

1974

Margaret Leighton

English actress (born 1922)

Margaret Leighton was an English actress. Known for her work on stage and screen, her film appearances included Anthony Asquith's The Winslow Boy, Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn, Powell and Pressburger's The Elusive…

1976

Henri Langlois

Turkish-French historian, co-founded the Cinémathèque Française (born 1914)

Henri Langlois was a French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema. His film screenings in Paris in the 1950s are often credited with…

1977

Hubert Humphrey

American pharmacist, academic, and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (born 1911)

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. was an American politician who served from 1965 to 1969 as the 38th vice president of the United States. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964…

1978

Joe McCarthy

American baseball player and manager (born 1887)

Joseph Vincent McCarthy was an American manager in Major League Baseball (MLB), most renowned for his leadership of the "Bronx Bombers" teams of the New York Yankees from 1931 to 1946. The first manager to win pennants…

1978

Donny Hathaway

American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1945)

Donny Edward Hathaway was an American soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, backing vocalist, and arranger who Rolling Stone described as a "soul legend". His most popular songs include "The Ghetto", "This Christmas",…

1979

Marjorie Lawrence

Australian-American soprano (born 1907)

Marjorie Florence Lawrence CBE was an Australian dramatic soprano, particularly noted as an interpreter of Richard Wagner's operas. She was the first Metropolitan Opera soprano to perform the immolation scene in…

1979

Andre Kostelanetz

Russian-American conductor (born 1901)

Andre Kostelanetz was a Russian-American popular orchestral music conductor and arranger who was one of the major exponents of popular orchestra music.

1980

Marcel Camus

French director and screenwriter (born 1912)

Marcel Camus was a French film director. He is best known for Orfeu Negro, which won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

1982

René Bonnet

French race car driver and engineer (born 1904)

René Bonnet was a French engineer and businessman who co-founded the automobile manufacturing brand DB Deutsch-Bonnet in 1937, before founding his own brand, Automobiles René Bonnet, in 1961.

1983

Abdul Fattah Ismail

Yemeni educator and politician, 4th President of South Yemen (born 1939)

Abdul Fattah Ismail was a Yemeni Marxist politician and revolutionary who was the de facto leader of South Yemen from 1978 to 1980 after Salim Rubaya Ali. He served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's…

1986

Kevin Longbottom

Australian rugby league player (born 1940)

Kevin Longbottom was an Aboriginal Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s. Longbottom was known by the nickname "Lummy" and was renowned for his long-range goal kicking, sometimes even…

1986

Chiang Ching-kuo

Chinese politician, President of the Republic of China (born 1910)

Chiang Ching-kuo was a Chinese and Taiwanese statesman and diplomat who served as the president of the Republic of China from 1978 to 1988. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he was the party's chairman from 1975 until…

1988

Camargo Guarnieri

Brazilian composer and conductor (born 1907)

Mozart Camargo Guarnieri was a Brazilian composer.

1993

Max Harris

Australian journalist, poet, and author (born 1921)

Maxwell Henley Harris AO, generally known as Max Harris, was an Australian poet, critic, columnist, commentator, publisher, and bookseller.

1995

Frank Shuster

Canadian actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1916)

Frank Shuster, was a Canadian comedian best known as a member of the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster, alongside Johnny Wayne. Wayne played to Shuster's straight man.

2002

Norman Panama

American director and screenwriter (born 1914)

Norman Kaye Panama was an American screenwriter, film producer and film director. He is known for his partnership with Melvin Frank and their work on films such as Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), White…

2003

Arne Næss

Jr., Norwegian businessman and mountaineer (born 1937)

Arne Næss Jr. was a Norwegian businessman and the second husband of actress and singer Diana Ross.

2004

Earl Cameron

Canadian journalist (born 1915)

Earl Cameron was a Canadian broadcaster and was anchor of CBC's The National from 1959 to 1966.

2005

Nell Rankin

American soprano and actress (born 1924)

Nell Rankin was an American operatic mezzo-soprano. Though a successful opera singer internationally, she spent most of her career at the Metropolitan Opera, where she worked from 1951 to 1976. She was particularly…

2005

Frank Fixaris

American journalist and sportscaster (born 1934)

Francis J. Fixaris was an American sportscaster, anchor, reporter, and disc jockey, spending the majority of his career at WGME-TV in Portland, Maine. He also, along with partner Dave "Shoe" Schumacher, co-hosted a…

2006

Marc Potvin

Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1967)

Marc Potvin was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 121 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1990 and 1996. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1990 to 1998, was mainly spent in the…

2006

Michael Brecker

American saxophonist and composer (born 1949)

Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Over a four‑decade career, he recorded widely in jazz and popular music and appeared on more than 900 albums as a leader and sideman. He received 15…

2007

Danny Oakes

American race car driver (born 1911)

Daniel George Oakes was an American midget car hall of fame driver.

2007

Johnny Podres

American baseball player and coach (born 1932)

John Joseph Podres was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in the majors from 1953 to 1969, spending most of his career with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers. Podres won four World…

2008

Dai Llewellyn

Welsh socialite and politician (born 1946)

Sir David St Vincent "Dai" Llewellyn, 4th Baronet, was a Welsh socialite.

2009

Patrick McGoohan

Irish-American actor, director, and producer (born 1928)

Patrick Joseph McGoohan was an Irish-American actor, director, producer, and writer of film, television, and theatre. Born in New York City to Irish parents, he was raised in Ireland and England. He began his career in…

2009

Mansour Rahbani

Lebanese poet, composer, and producer (born 1925)

Mansour Rahbani was a Lebanese composer, musician, poet, philosopher, thinker and producer, known as one of the Rahbani brothers, and the brother-in-law of the singer Fairuz.

2009

W. D. Snodgrass

American poet (born 1926)

William De Witt Snodgrass was an American poet who also wrote under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons. He won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

2009

Nancy Bird Walton

Australian pilot (born 1915)

Nancy Bird Walton, was a pioneering Australian aviator, known as "The Angel of the Outback", and the founder and patron of the Australian Women Pilots' Association.

2009

Teddy Pendergrass

American singer-songwriter (born 1950)

Theodore DeReese Pendergrass was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He was born in Kingstree, South Carolina. Pendergrass lived most of his life in the Philadelphia area, and initially rose to musical fame…

2010

Albert Heijn

Dutch businessman (born 1927)

Albert Heijn was a Dutch entrepreneur, major stockholder and founder and chairman of the board of Ahold.

2011

Rauf Denktaş

Turkish-Cypriot lawyer and politician, 1st President of Northern Cyprus (born 1924)

Rauf Raif Denktaş was a Turkish Cypriot politician, barrister and jurist who served as the founding president of Northern Cyprus. He occupied this position as the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus…

2012

Guido Dessauer

German physicist and engineer (born 1915)

Guido Dessauer was a German physicist, pioneer in paper engineering, business executive, writer, art collector, patron of the arts, and academic. Born into a family of paper industrialists, he worked as an aerospace…

2012

Miljan Miljanić

Serbian footballer and manager (born 1930)

Miljan Miljanić was a Yugoslav and Serbian football administrator, coach and player who played as a defender. He was the all-powerful President of the Football Association of Yugoslavia (FSJ) from 1981 to 2001.

2012

Diogenes Allen

American philosopher and theologian (born 1932)

Diogenes Allen was an American philosopher and theologian who served as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary. He was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, which he served from…

2013

Rodney Mims Cook

Sr., American lieutenant and politician (born 1924)

Rodney Mims Cook was an American politician who served for over twenty years as Atlanta alderman and member of the Georgia House of Representatives.

2013

Chia-Chiao Lin

Chinese-American mathematician and academic (born 1916)

Chia-Chiao Lin was a Chinese-born American applied mathematician and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

2013

Bobby Collins

Scottish footballer and manager (born 1931)

Robert Young Collins was a Scotland international football player, best known for his successful spells at Celtic, Everton and Leeds United.

2014

Randal Tye Thomas

American journalist and politician (born 1978)

Randal Tye Thomas served as Mayor of Gun Barrel City, Texas. He was also a member of the Electoral College in the 2000 Presidential Election.

2014

Waldemar von Gazen

German general and lawyer (born 1917)

Waldemar von Gazen genannt von Gaza was an Officer in the German Wehrmacht and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords during World War II. The Knight's Cross, and its variants were…

2014

Mark Juddery

Australian journalist and author (born 1971)

Stanford Mark Juddery was an Australian freelance journalist, author, humorist and columnist for The Canberra Times. His work also appeared in such newspapers as The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald, as well as…

2015

Robert White

American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Paraguay (born 1926)

Robert Edward White was an American career diplomat who served as US Ambassador to Paraguay (1977–1980) and to El Salvador (1980–1981). He was recalled from El Salvador by incoming US President Ronald Reagan due to…

2015

Brian Bedford

English-American actor and director (born 1935)

Brian Bedford was an English actor. Known for his work on stage and screen, he was an actor and director in various Shakespearian productions. Bedford was nominated for seven Tony Awards for his theatrical work, winning…

2016

Giorgio Gomelsky

Georgian-American director, producer, songwriter, and manager (born 1934)

Giorgio Sergio Alessando Gomelsky was a filmmaker, impresario, music manager, songwriter and record producer. He was born in Georgia, grew up in Switzerland, and later lived in the United Kingdom and the United States.

2016

Lawrence Phillips

American football player (born 1975)

Lawrence Lamond Phillips was an American professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for three seasons. A highly touted college prospect, Phillips' professional career was cut…

2016

Antony Armstrong-Jones

1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer and a former member of the British royal family (born 1930)

Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, was a British photographer. He was best known internationally for his portraits of prominent cultural and political figures, many of which were published in…

2017

Dick Gautier

American actor (born 1931)

Richard Gilbert Gautier was an American actor. He was known for his television roles as Hymie the Robot in the television series Get Smart, and Robin Hood in the TV comedy series When Things Were Rotten, as well as for…

2017

Magic Alex

Greek electronics engineer (born 1942)

Yannis Alexis Mardas, also known as Magic Alex, was a Greek self-professed inventor who was closely associated with the Beatles. His nickname was given to him by John Lennon when he was involved with the group between…

2017

Phil Masinga

South African footballer (born 1969)

Philemon Raul Masinga was a South African professional footballer and manager who played as a striker from 1990 to 2002. He was born in Khuma in the city of Matlosana formerly known as Klerksdorp Municipality.

2019

Bryan Monroe

American journalist and educator, (born 1965)

Bryan Monroe was an American journalist and educator, who was the editor of CNNPolitics.com (2011–15). He was previously the vice president and editorial director of Ebony and Jet magazines at Johnson Publishing Co, and…

2020

Philip Tartaglia

Scottish prelate, Catholic archbishop of Glasgow (born 1951)

Filippo "Philip" Tartaglia was a Scottish prelate who served as a bishop of the Catholic Church. He served as Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow from 2012 until 2021. He previously served as Bishop of Paisley. Prior to…

2020

Joyce Randolph

American actress (born 1924)

Joyce Randolph was an American actress of stage and television, best known for playing Trixie Norton on The Jackie Gleason Show and the television sitcom The Honeymooners, being the last surviving member of the cast.

2024

Oliviero Toscani

Italian photographer (born 1942)

Oliviero Toscani was an Italian photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton from 1982 to 2000.

2025

Scott Adams

American author and illustrator (born 1957)

Scott Adams was an American cartoonist, author, and conservative commentator. He was best known for the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and nonfiction works of business, self-improvement, commentary, and satire.

2026

David Webb

British activist shareholder (born 1965)

David Michael Webb was a British-born Hong Kong activist investor, transparency advocate, and public data archivist and analyst. Long based in Hong Kong, he was once an investment banker. He maintained a large, open set…

2026

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