Did you know about Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl's books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide.
Notable Deaths on November 23
November 23 has 109 recorded notable deaths across history, from 386 to 2024. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.
1990 — Roald Dahl
British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (born 1916)
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Did you know about Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski is best known for starring in five films directed by Werner Herzog from 1972 to 1987, who would later chronicle their tumultuous relationship in the documentary My Best Fiend.
Did you know about Larry Hagman
Larry Martin Hagman was an American actor, best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1978–1991 primetime television soap opera Dallas, and the astronaut Major Anthony Nelson in the 1965–1970 sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.
Did you know about Louis Malle
Louis Marie Malle was a French filmmaker who worked in France and Hollywood.
Did you know about Merle Oberon
Merle Oberon's career spanned the 1920s to the 1970s, and she was a major leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
More major people who died on November 23
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1991
Klaus Kinski
German-American actor and director (born 1926)
Klaus Kinski was a German actor. Equally renowned for his intense performance style and his notoriously eccentric and volatile personality off-screen, he appeared in over 130 film roles in a career that spanned 41 years, from 1948 to 1989. He is best known for starring in five films directed by Werner Herzog from 1972 to 1987, who would later chronicle their tumultuous relationship in the documentary My Best Fiend.
2012
Larry Hagman
American actor, director, and producer (born 1931)
Larry Martin Hagman was an American actor, best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1978–1991 primetime television soap opera Dallas, and the astronaut Major Anthony Nelson in the 1965–1970 sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. Hagman had supporting roles in numerous films, including Fail-Safe, Harry and Tonto, S.O.B., Nixon, and Primary Colors. His television appearances also included guest roles on dozens of shows spanning from the late 1950s until his death, and a reprise of his signature role on the 2012 revival of Dallas. Hagman also worked as a television producer and director. He was the son of actress Mary Martin. Hagman underwent a life-saving liver transplant in 1995. He died in 2012 from complications of acute myeloid leukemia.
1995
Louis Malle
French-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1932)
Louis Marie Malle was a French filmmaker who worked in France and Hollywood. Described as "eclectic" and "difficult to pin down", his works often depict provocative or controversial subject matter.
1979
Merle Oberon
Indian-born British actress (born 1911)
Merle Oberon was a British actress. Her career spanned the 1920s to the 1970s, and she was a major leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
2016
Andrew Sachs
German-born British actor (born 1930)
Andreas Siegfried Sachs, known professionally as Andrew Sachs, was a German-born British actor. He made his name on British television and found his greatest fame for his portrayal of the comical Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers.
1937
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (born 1858)
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a polymath with interests in biology, physics and writing science fiction. He was a pioneer in the investigation of radio microwave optics, made significant contributions to botany, and was a major force behind the expansion of experimental science on the Indian subcontinent. Bose is considered the father of Bengali science fiction. A crater on the Moon was named in his honour. He founded the Bose Institute, a premier research institute in India and also one of its oldest. Established in 1917, the institute was the first interdisciplinary research centre in Asia. He served as the Director of Bose Institute from its inception until his death.
1457
Ladislaus the Posthumous
Hungarian king (born 1440)
Ladislaus the Posthumous, known as Ladislaus V, was Duke of Austria and King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. He was the posthumous son of Albert II of Germany with Elizabeth of Luxembourg. Albert had bequeathed all his realms to his future son on his deathbed, but only the estates of Austria accepted his last will. Fearing an Ottoman invasion, the majority of the Hungarian lords and prelates offered the crown to Władysław III of Poland. The Hussite noblemen and towns of Bohemia did not acknowledge the hereditary right of Albert's descendants to the throne, but also did not elect a new king.
2006
Alexander Litvinenko
Russian spy and defector (born 1962)
Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko was a British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) who specialised in tackling organised crime. A prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he advised British intelligence and coined the term "mafia state."
2024
Chuck Woolery
American game show host and television personality (born 1941)
Charles Herbert Woolery was an American television host, actor, and musician. He had long-running tenures hosting several game shows. Woolery was the original host of the original daytime Wheel of Fortune from 1975 until 1981, when he was replaced by Pat Sajak.
1973
Sessue Hayakawa
Japanese actor, director, and producer (born 1889)
Kintarō Hayakawa, known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, was a Japanese actor. He was a popular star and matinée idol in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. His "broodingly handsome" good looks and typecasting as a sexually dominant villain made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial discrimination, and he became one of the first male sex symbols of Hollywood.
1585
Thomas Tallis
English composer (born c.1505)
Thomas Tallis was an English composer of High Renaissance music. His compositions are primarily vocal, and he occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music. Tallis is considered one of England's greatest composers, and he is honored for his original voice in English musicianship.
955
Eadred
English king (born 923)
Eadred was King of the English from 26 May 946 until his death in 955. He was the younger son of Edward the Elder and his third wife, Eadgifu. When his elder brother, Edmund I, was killed in 946, Edmund's two sons, Eadwig and Edgar, were young children, so Eadred became king. He suffered from ill health in the last years of his life and died in his early thirties, having never married. He was succeeded in turn by his nephews, Eadwig and Edgar.
1890
William III of the Netherlands (born 1817)
William III was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1849 until his death in 1890, and was also the Duke of Limburg from 1849 until the abolition of the duchy in 1866. Having reigned for 41 years, he is the second-longest reigning Dutch monarch, only surpassed by his daughter, Wilhelmina.
1910
Hawley Harvey Crippen
American physician and murderer (born 1862)
Hawley Harvey Crippen, colloquially known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser who was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for the murder of his second wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen. He was the first criminal to be captured with the aid of wireless telegraphy.
2014
Marion Barry
American lawyer and politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (born 1936)
Marion Shepilov Barry was an American politician who served as mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991 and 1995 to 1999. A Democrat, Barry had served three tenures on the Council of the District of Columbia, representing as an at-large member from 1975 to 1979, in Ward 8 from 1993 to 1995, and again from 2005 to 2014.
1499
Perkin Warbeck
pretender to the English throne (born c. 1474)
Perkin Warbeck was a pretender to the English throne claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, who was the second son of Edward IV and one of the so-called "Princes in the Tower". Richard, were he alive, would have been the rightful claimant to the throne, assuming that his elder brother Edward V was dead and that he was legitimate—a point that had been previously contested by his uncle, King Richard III.
1979
Judee Sill
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)
Judith Lynne Sill was an American singer-songwriter and composer. She was influenced by Bach, and wrote lyrics drawing on Christian themes of rapture and redemption.
1814
Elbridge Gerry
American merchant and politician, 5th Vice President of the United States (born 1744)
Elbridge Thomas Gerry was an American Founding Father, merchant, politician, and diplomat, who was a member of the Second Continental Congress, and signed the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation. From 1813 until his death in 1814, he served as the fifth vice president of the United States under President James Madison. The political practice of gerrymandering is named after him.
2001
Mary Whitehouse
English educator and activist (born 1910)
Constance Mary Whitehouse was a British teacher and conservative activist. She campaigned against social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society. She was the founder and first president of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, through which she led a longstanding campaign against the BBC. A hard-line social conservative, she was termed a reactionary by her socially liberal opponents. Her motivation derived from her Christian beliefs, her aversion to the rapid social and political changes in British society of the 1960s, and her work as a teacher of sex education.
1503
Margaret of York (born 1446)
Margaret of York, also known as Margaret of Burgundy, was Duchess of Burgundy from 1468 to 1477 as the third wife of Charles the Bold, and after his death acted as a protector of the Burgundian State. She was the daughter of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the sister of two kings of England, Edward IV and Richard III. Born at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, in the Kingdom of England, she died at Mechelen in the Low Countries.
1992
Roy Acuff
American singer-songwriter and fiddler (born 1903)
Roy Claxton Acuff was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the "King of Country Music", Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful. In 1952, Hank Williams told Ralph Gleason, "He's the biggest singer this music ever knew. You booked him and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God."
1970
Yusof Ishak
Singaporean journalist and politician, 1st President of Singapore (born 1910)
Yusof bin Ishak Al-Haj was a Singaporean journalist and civil servant who served as the head of state of Singapore from 1959 to 1970: as the second Yang di-Pertuan Negara of Singapore between 1959 and 1965 and the first president of Singapore between 1965 and 1970.
1407
Louis I
Duke of Orléans (born 1372)
Louis I was Duke of Orléans from 1392 to his death in 1407. He was also Duke of Touraine (1386–1392), Count of Valois (1386?–1406), Blois (1397–1407), Angoulême (1404–1407), Périgord (1400–1407) and Soissons (1404–07).
2016
Joe Esposito
road manager for Elvis Presley (born 1938)
Joseph Carmine Esposito was an American businessman and author known for his close association with singer-actor Elvis Presley. Esposito met Presley when both were serving in the US Army, and Esposito worked for Presley for many years until Presley's death in 1977. After Elvis's death, Esposito continued to collaborate with Jerry Weintraub, who produced Elvis's tours in the 1970s. Esposito also became an author and publisher of several Elvis books.
2006
Anita O'Day
American singer (born 1919)
Anita O'Day was an American singer known for her work in the jazz genre. She was considered by writers an influential jazz vocalist for her ability to keep up with fast-tempo arrangements and for her characteristic vocal delivery. Her music has been acclaimed by critics and writers.
1995
Junior Walker
American singer and saxophonist (born 1931)
Autry DeWalt Mixon Jr., known professionally as Junior Walker, was an American multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who recorded for Motown during the 1960s. He also performed as a session and live-performing saxophonist with the band Foreigner during the 1980s.
2006
Willie Pep
American boxer and referee (born 1922)
Guglielmo Papaleo, better known as Willie Pep, was an American professional boxer who held the World Featherweight Championship twice between the years of 1942 and 1950. Known for his speed, finesse, and elusiveness, Pep is widely considered one of the greatest defensive boxers of all time. He was voted as the No. 1 featherweight of the 20th century by the Associated Press and ranked the No. 1 featherweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization in 2005. He is also currently ranked by BoxRec as the greatest featherweight boxer of all time.
1833
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
French general and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1762)
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, 1st Count Jourdan, was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was made a Marshal of the Empire by Emperor Napoleon I in 1804. He was also a Jacobin politician during the Directory phase of the French Revolution, serving as member of the Council of Five Hundred between 1797 and 1799.
1682
Claude Lorrain
French-Italian painter and engraver (born 1604)
Claude Lorrain was a painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era originally from the Duchy of Lorraine. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest significant western artists, aside from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting. His landscapes often transitioned into the more prestigious genre of history paintings by addition of a few small figures, typically representing a scene from the Bible or classical mythology.
2016
Ralph Branca
American baseball player (born 1926)
Ralph Theodore Joseph Branca, nicknamed "Hawk", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1944 through 1956. Branca played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Detroit Tigers (1953–1954), and New York Yankees (1954). He was a three-time All-Star. In a 1951 playoff, Branca surrendered a walk-off home run to Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants; the game-winning hit was known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World".
1994
Art Barr
American wrestler (born 1966)
Arthur Leon Barr was an American professional wrestler. While he wrestled briefly for World Championship Wrestling, he found his greatest success in Mexico's Asistencia Asesoría y Administración promotion.
1974
Notable victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:
Aman Mikael Andom was an Ethiopian military officer and politician who was the first post-imperial head of state of Ethiopia. Aman was also the first Chairman of the Derg. He was appointed to this position following the coup d'état that ousted Emperor Haile Selassie on 12 September 1974, and served until his assassination in a shootout with his former supporters.
2020
Tarun Gogoi
Indian Chief Minister of Assam (born 1934)
Tarun Gogoi was an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the 13th Chief Minister of Assam from 2001 to 2016. He was the longest serving Chief Minister of Assam. He was a member of the Indian National Congress. He is the father of Deputy Leader of the Opposition of the Lok Sabha, Gaurav Gogoi.
1996
Idries Shah
Indian author, thinker and teacher in the Sufi tradition.
Idries Shah, also known as Idris Shah, Indries Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi and by the pen name Arkon Daraul, was an Afghan author, thinker and teacher in the Sufi tradition. Shah wrote over three dozen books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.
2014
Pat Quinn
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1943)
John Brian Patrick Quinn was a Canadian ice hockey player, head coach, and executive. Known by the nickname "the Big Irishman", he coached for the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Edmonton Oilers, reaching the Stanley Cup Final twice, with the Flyers in 1980 and the Canucks in 1994. Internationally, Quinn coached Team Canada to gold medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics, 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships and 2009 World Junior Championship, as well as World Cup championship in 2004.
2005
Constance Cummings
American-English actress (born 1910)
Constance Cummings was an American-British actress with a career spanning over 50 years. She starred in films such as Movie Crazy (1932) and American Madness (1932).
1572
Bronzino
Italian painter and poet (born 1503)
Agnolo di Cosimo, usually known as Bronzino or Agnolo Bronzino, was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. His sobriquet, Bronzino, may refer to his relatively dark skin or reddish hair.
2007
Robert Vesco
American-Cuban financier (born 1935)
Robert Lee Vesco was an American criminal financier. After several years of risky investments and dubious credit dealings, Vesco was alleged to have committed securities fraud. He immediately fled the ensuing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation by living in a number of Central American and Caribbean countries.
1983
Waheed Murad
Pakistani actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1938)
Waheed Murad, also known as Chocolate Hero, was a Pakistani film actor, producer and script writer. Famous for his charming expressions, attractive personality, tender voice and unusual talent for acting, Murad was considered one of the most famous and influential actors of Pakistan and South Asia.
2015
Douglass North
American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)
Douglass Cecil North was an American economist known for his work in economic history. Along with Robert Fogel, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993. In the words of the Nobel Committee, North and Fogel "renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change."
2024
Rico Carty
Dominican baseball player (born 1939)
Ricardo Adolfo Jacobo Carty was a Dominican professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder from 1963 to 1979, most prominently as a member of the Atlanta Braves where he helped the franchise win its first National League (NL) Western Division title in 1969. Carty was the 1970 National League batting champion and, became the first write-in candidate in MLB history to be elected as an All-Star starter in the 1970 All-Star Game. He also played for the Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers.
1974
Cornelius Ryan
Irish-American journalist and author (born 1920)
Cornelius Ryan was an Irish and American journalist, author, and historian, known mainly for writing popular military history. He was especially known for his histories of World War II events: The Longest Day: 6 June 1944 D-Day (1959), The Last Battle (1966), and A Bridge Too Far (1974).
1616
Richard Hakluyt
English priest and author (born 1552)
Richard Hakluyt was an English writer and priest. He is known for promoting the English colonization of North America through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589–1600).
1966
Seán T. O'Kelly
Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland (born 1882)
Seán Thomas O'Kelly, originally John T. O'Kelly, was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as the president of Ireland from June 1945 to June 1959. He also served as deputy prime minister of Ireland from 1932 to 1945, Minister for Local Government and Public Health from 1932 to 1939, Minister for Finance from 1939 to 1945 and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1919 to 1921. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1918 to 1945.
2006
Betty Comden
American actress, singer, and screenwriter (born 1917)
Betty Comden was an American lyricist, playwright, and screenwriter who contributed to numerous Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century. Her writing partnership with Adolph Green spanned six decades: "the longest running creative partnership in theatre history." The musical-comedy duo of Comden and Green collaborated most notably with composers Jule Styne and Leonard Bernstein, as well enjoyed success with Singin' in the Rain, as part of the famed "Freed unit" at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
1997
Jorge Mas Canosa
Cuban-American businessman (born 1939)
Jorge Lincoln Mas Canosa was a Cuban-American businessman who founded the Cuban American National Foundation and MasTec, a publicly traded company. Regarded within the United States as a powerful lobbyist on Cuban and anti-Castro political positions, he was labeled a "counterrevolutionary" by the Cuban Communist Party.
1899
Thomas Henry Ismay
English businessman, founded White Star Line (born 1837)
Thomas Henry Ismay was an owner of the White Star Line. His eldest son Joseph Bruce Ismay was managing director of the White Star Line and survived the sinking of its ocean liner RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage in 1912.
2002
Roberto Matta
Chilean-Italian painter and sculptor (born 1911)
Roberto Antonio Sebástian Matta-Echaurren, usually known simply as Matta, also as Sebastián Matta or Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and figures in 20th century surrealist art across the Americas and Europe.
1896
Ichiyō Higuchi
Japanese writer (born 1872)
Natsuko Higuchi , known by her pen name Higuchi Ichiyō , was a Japanese writer during the Meiji era. She was Japan's first professional woman writer of modern literature, specializing in short stories and poetry, and was also an extensive diarist. Her portrait was used on the 5000 yen banknote in Japan.
1503
Bona of Savoy (born 1449)
Bona of Savoy was Duchess of Milan as the second wife of Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444–1476), Duke of Milan. Following her husband's assassination in 1476, she served as regent of Milan for her son, Gian Galeazzo Sforza, during his minority from 1476 to 1481.
2024
Fred R. Harris
American politician (born 1930)
Fred Roy Harris was an American politician from Oklahoma who served from 1957 to 1964 as a member of the Oklahoma Senate and from 1964 to 1973 as a member of the United States Senate.
1974
Notable victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:
Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu Habte-Wold was an Ethiopian statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Ethiopia during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie I from 1961 to 1974 until his resignation due to the civil and military unrest brought by the student youth uprising and internal pressures of the soon to come military junta. He previously served as foreign minister before his premiership from 1943 to 1958. He was described leading the position of "Minister of the Pen" an ex-officio title due to his role as prime minister and handling all the practical leadership roles in the Ethiopian Empire.
2005
Frank Gatski
American football player and soldier (born 1919)
Frank "Gunner" Gatski was an American professional football player who was a center for the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and the National Football League (NFL) in the 1940s and 1950s. Gatski was one of the most heralded centers of his era. Known for his strength and consistency, he helped protect quarterback Otto Graham and open up running lanes for fullback Marion Motley as the Browns won seven league championships between 1946 and 1955. Gatski won an eighth championship after he was traded to the Detroit Lions in 1957, his final season.
2015
Manmeet Bhullar
Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1980)
Manmeet Singh Bhullar was a Canadian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta who represented the constituency of Calgary-Greenway as a Progressive Conservative. He served as a cabinet minister from 2011 until the defeat of the Progressive Conservative government in 2015. He was widely seen as a rising star in the Progressive Conservative caucus. Bhullar was killed when he was struck by a tractor trailer on a road when he went to help a stranded motorist on November 23, 2015.
1974
Notable victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:
Leul Ras Aserate Kassa GCVO was a Viceroy of Eritrea and a member of the nobility of the Ethiopian Empire. He was the fourth son of Ras Kassa Haile Darge, and his wife Princess (Le'ult) Tsige Mariam Beshah. He was married to (Le'ilt) Zuriash Worq Gabre-Igziabher, daughter of Jantirar Gabre-Igziabher, and granddaughter of Empress Menen Asfaw, consort of Emperor Haile Selassie I. Prince Aserate Kassa was the head of the Selalle sub-branch of the Shewan branch of Ethiopia's Imperial Solomonic dynasty.
1974
Notable victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:
Lij Endelkachew Makonnen was an Ethiopian politician. Born in Addis Ababa, his father, Ras Betwoded Makonnen Endelkachew, served as Prime Minister of Ethiopia in the 1950s. Endelkachew Makonnen was a member of the aristocratic Addisge clan that were very influential in the later part of the Ethiopian monarchy. He would be the last Imperial Prime Minister appointed by Emperor Haile Selassie. He was a stepson of Princess Yeshashework Yilma, Emperor Haile Selassie's only niece.
2007
Pat Walsh
New Zealand rugby union player (born 1936)
Patrick Timothy Walsh was a New Zealand rugby union player and selector. He played 13 Tests and 14 other games for the All Blacks from 1955 to 1964. He also played for New Zealand Māori in 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959 1961, captaining the side on its 1958 tour to Australia, against the British Lions in 1959 and against the French in 1961. He was an All Black selector from 1969 to 1971.
1534
Beatriz Galindo
Spanish Latinist and educator (born c. 1465)
Beatriz Galindo, sometimes spelled Beatrix and also known as La Latina, was a Spanish Latinist and educator. She was a writer, humanist and a teacher of Queen Isabella of Castile and her children. She was one of the most educated women of her time. There is uncertainty about her date of birth; some authors believe it was 1464 or 1465. The La Latina neighborhood in Madrid is named after her.
2012
Chuck Diering
American baseball player (born 1923)
Charles Edward Allen Diering was an American professional baseball player who appeared in 752 games in Major League Baseball as outfielder and third baseman over all or part of nine seasons between 1947 and 1956 for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants and Baltimore Orioles. He batted and threw right-handed and was listed as 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and 165 pounds (75 kg).
1769
Constantine Mavrocordatos
Greek prince (born 1711)
Constantine Mavrocordatos was a Greek noble who served as Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia at several intervals between 1730 and 1769. As a ruler he issued reforms in the laws of each of the two Danubian Principalities, ensuring a more adequate taxation and a series of measures amounting to the emancipation of serfs and a more humane treatment of slaves.
2004
Pete Franklin
American radio host (born 1928)
Pete Franklin, nicknamed "The King", "Sweet Pete" and "Pigskin Pete", was an American sports talk radio host who worked in Cleveland, New York and San Francisco. He is widely credited with pioneering the more aggressive, acerbic and attention-grabbing form of the genre, which has since been adopted by generations of sports media personalities, and bringing it to a multinational listening audience.
2006
Jesús Blancornelas
Mexican journalist, co-founded Zeta Magazine (born 1936)
J. Jesús Blancornelas was a Mexican journalist who co-founded the Tijuana-based Zeta magazine, known for its reporting on corruption and drug trafficking. His work encompassed extensive research on how the drug industry influences local leaders and the police in the Mexican state of Baja California – topics frequently avoided by the rest of the Mexican media.
1844
Thomas Henderson
Scottish astronomer (born 1798)
Thomas Henderson FRSE FRS FRAS was a Scottish astronomer and mathematician noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, the first to determine the parallax of a fixed star, and for being the first Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
2009
José Arraño Acevedo
Chilean journalist and historian (born 1921)
José Santos Arraño Acevedo was a Chilean journalist and historian who worked in several regional newspapers, including El Rancagüino from Rancagua, La Discusión from Chillán, amid others. He also wrote two books on the history of Pichilemu: Pichilemu y Sus Alrededores Turísticos and Hombres y Cosas de Pichilemu.
1937
George Albert Boulenger
Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (born 1858)
George Albert Boulenger was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Boulenger was also an active botanist during the last 30 years of his life, especially in the study of roses.
1940
Stanley Argyle
Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Victoria (born 1867)
Sir Stanley Seymour Argyle KBE, MRCS, LRCP, was an Australian radiologist and politician. He served as premier of Victoria from 1932 to 1935 and was the state leader of the Nationalist Party and United Australia Party from 1930 until his death in 1940.
2014
Dorothy Cheney
American tennis player (born 1916)
Dorothy "Dodo" May Sutton Bundy Cheney was an American tennis player from her youth into her 90s. In 1938, Bundy was the first American to win the women's singles title at the Australian National Championships, defeating Dorothy Stevenson in the final.
2017
Stela Popescu
Romanian actress (born 1935)
Stela Popescu was a Romanian actress and TV personality considered the greatest comedy actress and one of best female actresses of all time in Romania. With Ștefan Bănică and Alexandru Arșinel she was successively half of two famous romantic partnerships.
1905
John Burdon-Sanderson
English physiologist and academic (born 1828)
Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, 1st Baronet, FRS, HFRSE D.Sc. was an English physiologist born near Newcastle upon Tyne, and a member of a well known Northumbrian family. Burdon-Sanderson was notable for forming a correct theory of contagion in 1866.
2012
Diana Isaac
English-New Zealand businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1921)
Diana Isaac, Lady Isaac was a New Zealand conservationist, businesswoman, philanthropist and arts patron who supported a wide range of projects within Canterbury. She was best known for co-founding and running Isaac Construction with her husband Sir Neil Isaac.
1183
William Fitz Robert
2nd Earl of Gloucester (born 1116)
William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester was the son and heir of Sir Robert de Caen, 1st Earl of Gloucester, and Mabel FitzRobert of Gloucester, daughter of Robert Fitzhamon, and nephew of Empress Matilda.
1763
Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff
German field marshal and diplomat (born 1673)
Friedrich Heinrich Reichsgraf von Seckendorff was a Franconian field marshal and diplomat, in the service of the imperial Habsburg monarchy of Austria. Later he served as commander of the Bavarian army and fought Austria.
1804
Ivan Mane Jarnović
Italian violinist and composer (born 1747)
Ivan Mane Jarnović was a violinist and composer during the 18th century, often said to have been Italian but whose family was of Ragusan origin. There is no evidence that he ever lived in the Croatian lands to which both his paternal and maternal lineages have been traced. He later appears to have held French citizenship, escaping to England during the revolution. His career spanned Europe as he performed and/or sojourned in almost all major centres including Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, St Petersburg, Vienna, Stockholm, Basel, London, Dublin, amongst others. It appears he was a pupil of Antonio Lolli and he was an acquaintance of Joseph Haydn, with whom he shared concert programmes in London.
2007
Joe Kennedy
American baseball player (born 1979)
Joseph Darley Kennedy was an American Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He pitched from 2001 to 2007 for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Colorado Rockies, Oakland Athletics, Arizona Diamondbacks, and the Toronto Blue Jays.
2013
Connie Broden
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1932)
Thomas Connell Broden was a Canadian ice hockey forward. Broden is the only player to have won the International Ice Hockey Federation's World Championships and the Stanley Cup in the same year (1958).
2001
Bo Belinsky
American baseball player (born 1936)
Robert Belinsky was an American professional baseball pitcher who played for the Los Angeles Angels, Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball from 1962 to 1970.
386
Jin Feidi
emperor of the Jin Dynasty (born 342)
Emperor Fei of Jin, personal name Sima Yi (司馬奕), courtesy name Yanling (延齡), was an emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in ancient China. He was the younger full-brother of Emperor Ai; he was later deposed by military leader and regent Huan Wen. The title that he is normally referred to, "Emperor Fei", is not a posthumous name or temple name as is usually the case with Chinese imperial titles, but rather signified that he was deposed. He is also commonly known by the title he was given after his removal, Duke of Haixi (海西公); he is also the last descendant of Emperor Ming to become emperor of the Eastern Jin.
2014
Murray Oliver
Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1937)
Murray Clifford Oliver was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre, coach, and scout. Murray also played Minor League Baseball for the Batavia Indians, then an affiliate of the Cleveland Indians.
1996
Art Porter
Jr., American saxophonist and songwriter (born 1961)
Arthur Lee Porter Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist. He was the son of jazz musician Art Porter Sr. and the namesake of "The Art Porter Bill".
1803
Roger Newdigate
English politician (born 1719)
Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1742 and 1780. He was a collector of antiquities.
2012
José Luis Borau
Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1929)
José Luis Borau Moradell was a Spanish producer, screenwriter, writer, and film director. He won the Goya Award for Best Director in 2000 for Leo.
2007
Óscar Carmelo Sánchez
Bolivian footballer and manager (born 1971)
Óscar Carmelo Sánchez Zambrana was a Bolivian footballer who played for the Bolivia national football team in the 1994 FIFA World Cup held in the United States. Born in Cochabamba, he was capped 78 times by Bolivia and scored 6 goals, between 1994 and 2006. He was the captain of the national team several times. He made his debut for the national side on April 20, 1994, in a friendly match in Bucharest against Romania.
1923
Andy O'Sullivan
Irish Republican died on hunger strike
Andy O'Sullivan was an Irish militant and Republican activist who was an intelligence officer and regional leader in the Irish Republican Army. He died during the 1923 Irish hunger strikes while in prison.
947
Berthold
Duke of Bavaria (born 900)
Berthold, of the Luitpolding dynasty, was the younger son of Margrave Luitpold of Bavaria and Cunigunde of Swabia. He followed his nephew Eberhard as Duke of Bavaria in 938.
2011
Jim Rathmann
American race car driver (born 1928)
Royal Richard "Jim" Rathmann, was an American racing driver who competed primarily in Championship Cars. Rathmann is best known for winning the Indianapolis 500 in 1960, emerging victorious after a race-long duel with Rodger Ward – as recently as 2023, a panel of fans and historians voted Rathmann's victory as the greatest '500' of all time. In Europe he is well-known for winning the 1958 Race of Two Worlds.
1982
Grady Nutt
American minister and author (born 1934)
Grady Lee Nutt was a Southern Baptist minister, humorist, television personality, and author. His humor revolved around rural Southern Protestantism and earned him the title of "The Prime Minister of Humor".
1161
Adam
Abbot of Ebrach
Adam of Ebrach was a Cistercian monk and the first abbot of Ebrach Abbey in the area of Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany. He later became the founding abbot of Langheim Abbey.
1464
Blessed Margaret of Savoy (born 1390)
Margaret of Savoy was Marchioness of Montferrat, and a Dominican Sister.
1804
Richard Graves
English minister and author (born 1715)
Richard Graves was an English cleric, poet, and novelist. He is remembered especially for his picaresque novel The Spiritual Quixote (1773).
1807
Jean-François Rewbell
French lawyer and politician (born 1747)
Jean-François Reubell or Rewbell was a French lawyer, diplomat, and politician of the Revolution.
1907
Naimuddin
Bengali writer and Islamic scholar (born 1832)
Muhammad Naimuddin was a Bengali Islamic scholar, writer, and journalist. He was the chief editor of the Akhbare Islamia.
1934
Giovanni Brunero
Italian cyclist (born 1895)
Giovanni Giuseppe Brunero was an Italian professional road racing cyclist.
1958
Nikolaos Georgantas
Greek discus thrower (born 1880)
Nikolaos Georgantas was a Greek athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw.
1972
Marie Wilson
American actress (born 1916)
Marie Wilson was an American radio, film, and television actress. She may be best remembered as the title character in My Friend Irma.
1974
Notable victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:
Lij Abiye Abebe was an Ethiopian politician and son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie.
1976
André Malraux
French theorist and author (born 1901)
Georges André Malraux was a French novelist, member of the French Resistance, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs.
1983
Juhan Muks
Estonian painter (born 1899)
Juhan Jaagu Muks was an Estonian artist and painter.
1984
Leonard Baker
American historian and author (born 1931)
Leonard S. Baker was an American writer.
1992
Jean-François Thiriart
Belgian politician (born 1922)
Jean-François Thiriart, often known as Jean Thiriart, was a Belgian far-right political theorist.
1994
Irwin Kostal
American songwriter, screenwriter, and publisher (born 1911)
Irwin Kostal was an American musical arranger of films and an orchestrator of Broadway musicals.
1996
Mohamed Amin
Kenyan photographer and journalist (born 1943)
Mohamed Amin was a Kenyan photojournalist.
2006
Nick Clarke
English journalist (born 1948)
Nicholas Campbell Clarke, was an English radio and television presenter and journalist, primarily known for his work on BBC Radio 4.
2006
2010
Joyce Howard
English-American actress (born 1922)
Joyce Howard was an English actress, writer, and film executive.
2010
Nassos Daphnis
Greek-American painter and sculptor (born 1914)
Nassos Daphnis was a Greek-born American abstract painter, sculptor and tree peony breeder.
2013
Costanzo Preve
Italian philosopher and theorist (born 1943)
Costanzo Preve was an Italian philosopher and a political theoretician.
2015
Jamiluddin Aali
Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic (born 1925)
Nawabzada Mirza Jamiluddin Ahmed Khan PP, HI, also known as Jamiluddin Aali or Aaliji, was a Pakistani poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist, and scholar.
2016
Rita Barberá Nolla
Spanish politician (born 1948)
María Rita Barberá Nolla was a Spanish politician who was the mayor of Valencia from 1991 until 2015.