Notable Deaths on October 14

Q: Who died on October 14?

Notable people who died on October 14 include: Antipope Dioscorus, Shi Yuanzhong, Pang Xun, Gerloc, Al-Aziz Billah.

Q: What is Klaas Runia known for?

Klaas Runia, Dutch theologian and journalist (born 1926)

119 people 530 – 2024

October 14 has seen 119 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 530 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · October 14 — Wikipedia

2006 — Klaas Runia

Dutch theologian and journalist (born 1926)

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He studied at the Free University, Amsterdam and obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the concept of theological time in Karl Barth in 1955

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In 1956 he was appointed Professor of Systematic theology at the Reformed Theological College in Geelong, Australia, where he taught until his return to the Netherlands in 1971

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He was also elected chairman of the Reformed Ecumenical Council from 1968 to 1976

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In 1971 he was appointed Professor of Practical Theology at the Kampen Theological University

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He was editor-in-chief of Centraal Weekblad from 1972 to 1996

Antipope Dioscorus

Dioscorus was a deacon of the Alexandrian and the Roman church from 506. In a disputed election following the death of Pope Felix IV, the majority of electors picked him to be pope, in spite of Pope Felix's wishes that…

530

Shi Yuanzhong

Chinese governor

Shi Yuanzhong was a Chinese general of the Tang dynasty, serving for several years as the military governor (Jiedushi) of Lulong Circuit and ruling it in de facto independence from the imperial government until he was…

841

Pang Xun

Chinese rebel leader

Pang Xun was the leader of a major rebellion, by soldiers from Xu Prefecture, against the rule of Emperor Yizong of the Chinese Tang dynasty, from 868 to 869. He was eventually defeated by the Tang general Kang…

869

Gerloc

Frankish noblewoman

Gerloc, baptised in Rouen as Adela in 912, was the daughter of Rollo, of Normandy, Count of Rouen, and his wife, Poppa of Bayeux. She was the sister of William I Longsword of Normandy.

962

Al-Aziz Billah

Fatimid caliph (born 955)

Abu Mansur Nizar, known by his regnal name as al-Aziz Billah, was the fifth caliph of the Fatimid dynasty, from 975 to his death in 996. His reign saw the capture of Damascus and the Fatimid expansion into the Levant,…

996

Battle of Hastings:

Harold Godwinson, also called Harold II, was the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England. Harold reigned from 6 January 1066 until his death at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, the decisive battle of the…

1066

Battle of Hastings:

Leofwine Godwinson was a younger brother of King Harold Godwinson, the fifth son of Earl Godwin.

1066

Battle of Hastings:

Gyrth Godwinson was the fourth son of Earl Godwin, and thus a younger brother of Harold Godwinson. He went with his eldest brother Sweyn into exile to Flanders in 1051, but unlike Sweyn he was able to return with the…

1066

Andronikos Doukas

Byzantine courtier (born 1022)

Andronikos Doukas, Latinized as Andronicus Ducas, was a protovestiarios and protoproedros of the Byzantine Empire.

1077

Nizam al-Mulk

Persian scholar and politician (born 1018)

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī Ṭūsī, better known by his honorific title of Niẓām al-Mulk, was a Persian Sunni scholar, jurist, and vizier of the Seljuk Empire. Rising from a low position within the empire, he became the de…

1092

Yusuf I

Almohad caliph (born 1135)

Abu Ya‘qub Yusuf or Yusuf I was the second Almohad Amir or caliph. He reigned from 1163 until 1184 in Marrakesh. He was responsible for the construction of the Giralda in Seville, which was part of a new grand mosque.…

1184

Geoffrey Fitz Peter

1st Earl of Essex, English sheriff and Chief Justiciar

Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex was a prominent member of the government of England during the reigns of Richard I and John. The patronymic is sometimes rendered Fitz Piers, for he was the son of Piers de…

1213

Isabella

English noblewoman and wife of John of England (born c. 1173)

Isabella, Countess of Gloucester, was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman who was the first wife of King John of England.

1217

Razia Sultana

female sultan of Delhi (born c. 1205)

Raziyyat-Ud-Dunya Wa Ud-Din, popularly known as Razia Sultan, was the Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate from 1236 until her deposition in 1240. She was the first female Muslim ruler of the Indian Subcontinent, and the only…

1240

Kujō Yoritsugu

Japanese shogun (born 1239)

Kujō Yoritsugu , also known as Fujiwara no Yoritsugu , was the fifth shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan. His father was the 4th Kamakura shōgun, Kujō Yoritsune.

1256

Edward Bruce

High King of Ireland (born 1275)

Edward Bruce, Earl of Carrick, was a younger brother of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots. He supported his brother in the 1306–1314 struggle for the Scottish crown, then pursued his own claims in Ireland. Proclaimed High…

1318

Ibn Nubata

Arab poet (born 1287)

Abu Bakr Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Khaṭīb ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Nubāta, better known simply as Ibn Nubāta was…

1366

Henry the Mild

duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Henry of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was called Henry the Mild. He was the prince of Lüneburg from 1388 to 1409 jointly with his brother Bernard I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, from 1400 to 1409, and…

1416

Garcilaso de la Vega

Spanish poet (born 1503)

Garcilaso de la Vega, KOS was a Spanish soldier and poet. Although not the first or the only one to do so, he was the most influential poet to introduce Italian Renaissance verse forms, poetic techniques, and themes to…

1536

Oswald Myconius

Swiss theologian and reformer (born 1488)

Oswald Myconius was a Swiss Protestant theologian and Protestant reformer. He was a follower of Huldrych Zwingli.

1552

Thomas Chaloner

English poet and politician (born 1521)

Sir Thomas Chaloner was an English statesman and poet.

1565

Jacques Arcadelt

Dutch singer and composer (born 1507)

Jacques Arcadelt was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in both Italy and France, and principally known as a composer of secular vocal music. Although he also wrote sacred vocal music, he was one of…

1568

Amago Yoshihisa

Japanese daimyō (born 1540)

Amago Yoshihisa was a daimyō (lord) of Izumo Province.

1610

Gervase Clifton

1st Baron Clifton, English nobleman (bornc. 1570)

Gervase Clifton, 1st Baron Clifton was an English nobleman.

1618

Samuel Daniel

English poet and historian (born 1562)

Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) was an English poet, playwright and historian in the late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean eras. He was an innovator in a wide range of literary genres. His best-known works are the sonnet cycle…

1619

Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow

queen of Denmark and Norway (born 1557)

Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow was Queen of Denmark and Norway from 1572 to 1588 as the wife of Frederick II. She was the mother of Christian IV and Anne of Denmark, and served as regent of the duchies of Schleswig and…

1631

Gabriello Chiabrera

Italian poet (born 1552)

Gabriello Chiabrera was an Italian poet, sometimes called the Italian Pindar. His "new metres and a Hellenic style enlarged the range of lyric forms available to later Italian poets." Chiabrera is routinely compared by…

1637

Antonio Cesti

Italian organist and composer (born 1623)

Antonio Cesti, known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, was also a singer (tenor) and organist. He was "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generation".

1669

Thomas Kingo

Danish bishop and poet (born 1634)

Thomas Hansen Kingo was a Danish bishop, poet and hymnwriter born in Slangerup, near Copenhagen. His work marked the high point of Danish baroque poetry.

1703

Tewoflos

Ethiopian emperor (born 1708)

Tewoflos, throne name Walda Anbasa, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1 July 1708 to 14 October 1711, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the brother of Iyasu I, and one of five sons of Yohannes I.

1711

James Francis Edward Keith

Scottish-Prussian field marshal (born 1696)

James Francis Edward Keith was a Scottish soldier and Generalfeldmarschall of the Royal Prussian Army. As a Jacobite he took part in a failed attempt to restore the Stuart Monarchy to Britain. When this failed, he fled…

1758

Jean-Louis Pons

French astronomer and educator (born 1761)

Jean-Louis Pons was a French astronomer. Despite humble beginnings and being self-taught, he went on to become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827 Pons discovered thirty-seven comets,…

1831

John Marshall Harlan

American lawyer and politician (born 1833)

John Marshall Harlan was an American lawyer and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1877 until his death in 1911. He is often called "The Great Dissenter" due to…

1911

Marcellus Emants

Dutch-Swiss author, poet, and playwright (born 1848)

Marcellus Emants was a Dutch novelist whose work is considered one of the few examples of Dutch Naturalism. His writing is seen as a first step towards the renewing force of the Tachtigers towards modern Dutch…

1923

Henri Berger

German composer and bandleader (born 1844)

Henry or Henri Berger was a Prussian Kapellmeister, composer and royal bandmaster of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi from 1872 to 1915.

1929

Samuel van Houten

Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (born 1837)

Samuel van Houten was a Dutch liberal politician, who served as Minister of the Interior from 1894 to 1897.

1930

Noboru Yamaguchi

Japanese mob boss (born 1902)

Noboru Yamaguchi was the second kumicho, or Godfather, of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza gang in Japan.

1942

Sobibór uprising:

Rudolf Beckmann was a German SS-Oberscharführer in the Sobibor extermination camp. He was stabbed to death during the uprising in Sobibor by inmates. Beckmann was a member of the Nazi Party and the Schutzstaffel.…

1943

Sobibór uprising:

Siegfried Graetschus was a German SS functionary at the Sobibor extermination camp during Operation Reinhard, the deadliest phase of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. He was assassinated by a prisoner during the Sobibor…

1943

Sobibór uprising:

Johann Niemann was a German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator who was deputy commandant of Sobibor extermination camp during Operation Reinhard. He also served as a Leichenverbrenner at Grafeneck, Brandenburg, and…

1943

Erwin Rommel

German field marshal (born 1891)

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel, known as The Desert Fox, was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. He served in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany, as well as in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and Imperial…

1944

Émile Sarrade

French rugby player and tug of war competitor (born 1877)

France was the host of the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. France was one of many nations that had competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Greece, which were the first international Olympic Games held in modern history,…

1953

Kyuichi Tokuda

Japanese lawyer and politician (born 1894)

Kyuichi Tokuda was a Japanese politician and first chairman of the Japanese Communist Party from 1945 until his death in 1953.

1953

Douglas Mawson

Australian geologist, academic, and explorer (born 1882)

Sir Douglas Mawson was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. He is known for being a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon…

1958

Nikolay Zabolotsky

Russian-Soviet poet and translator (born 1903)

Nikolay Alekseyevich Zabolotsky was a prominent Soviet and Russian poet and translator.

1958

Jack Davey

New Zealand-Australian singer and radio host (born 1907)

John Andrew Davey, known as Jack Davey, was a New Zealand-born singer and pioneering star of Australian radio as a performer, producer, writer and host from the early 1930s into the late 1950s. Later in his career he…

1959

Errol Flynn

Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (born 1909)

Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was an Australian and American actor who achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles, frequent partnerships with Olivia de…

1959

Abram Ioffe

Russian physicist and academic (born 1880)

Abram Fedorovich Ioffe was a Russian and Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942) and the Lenin Prize (1961) (posthumously). Ioffe was an expert in various areas of solid state physics and electromagnetism.…

1960

Paul Ramadier

French politician, 129th Prime Minister of France (born 1888)

Paul Ramadier was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France in 1947.

1961

Harriet Shaw Weaver

English journalist and activist (born 1876)

Harriet Shaw Weaver was an English political activist and a magazine editor. She was a significant patron of Irish writer James Joyce.

1961

William Hogenson

American sprinter (born 1884)

William P. Hogenson was an American athlete and sprinter, who competed in the early twentieth century. He won a silver medal in Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics in the men's 60 m dash, but was beaten by Archie…

1965

Randall Jarrell

American poet and author (born 1914)

Randall Jarrell jə-REL was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. He was the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate…

1965

George Carstairs

Australian rugby league player (born 1900)

George James Carstairs (1900–1966) was an Australian rugby league player who played in the 1920s and represented Australia.

1966

Arthur Folwell

English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator (born 1904)

Arthur Fitzgerald Folwell was a British-born Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, coached in the 1940s, and was an administrator in the mid-20th century. An Australia…

1966

Marcel Aymé

French author and playwright (born 1902)

Marcel Aymé was a French novelist and playwright, who also wrote screenplays and works for children.

1967

Haguroyama Masaji

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (born 1914)

Haguroyama Masaji was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Nakanokuchi, Niigata. He was the sport's 36th yokozuna. He was a yokozuna for a period of twelve years and three months dating from his promotion to that…

1969

August Sang

Estonian poet and translator (born 1914)

August Sang was an Estonian poet and literary translator. Sang was a member of the Arbujad literary group, which represented a new direction in Estonian poetry before the outbreak of World War II. He was known as a…

1969

Mavis Wheeler

English socialite and artist's model, also known for shooting her lover (born 1908)

Mavis Wheeler was an English artist's model, the mistress of painter Augustus John, and the wife of prankster Horace de Vere Cole and archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler. She came to public notice in 1954 when she shot…

1970

Edmund A. Chester

American journalist and broadcaster (born 1897)

Edmund Albert Chester Sr. was an American television executive and journalist. He served as a vice president and executive at the CBS radio and television networks during the 1940s. As Director of Latin American…

1973

Ahmed Hamdi

Egyptian general and engineer (born 1929)

Ahmed Hamdi was an Egyptian engineer and a general of the 3rd Army of Egypt during the Yom Kippur War. He was killed while crossing the Suez Canal with his soldiers and was awarded the Sinai star posthumously.

1973

Edith Evans

English actress (born 1888)

Dame Edith Mary Evans was an English actress. She was best known for her work on the West End stage, but also appeared in films at the beginning and towards the end of her career. Between 1964 and 1968, she was…

1976

Bing Crosby

American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1903)

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. was an American singer and actor. One of the first multimedia stars, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide. Crosby was a leader in…

1977

Louis Rougier

French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1889)

Louis Auguste Paul Rougier was a French philosopher who introduced the idea of neoliberalism to France in the 1930s. Rougier made many important contributions to epistemology, philosophy of science, political philosophy…

1982

Willard Price

Canadian-American historian and author (born 1887)

Willard DeMille Price was a Canadian-born American traveller, journalist and author.

1983

Martin Ryle

English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

Sir Martin Ryle was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources. In 1946 Ryle and Derek Vonberg were the first…

1984

Emil Gilels

Ukrainian-Russian pianist (born 1916)

Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Russian and Soviet pianist. His sister Elizabeth, three years his junior, was a violinist. His daughter Elena became a pianist.

1985

Keenan Wynn

American actor (born 1916)

Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn was an American character actor. His expressive face was his stock-in-trade. Though he rarely had a lead role, he had prominent billing in most of his film and…

1986

Takahiko Yamanouchi

Japanese physicist (born 1902)

Takahiko Yamanouchi was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for group theory in quantum mechanics first proposed by Yamanouchi in Japan.

1986

Leonard Bernstein

American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1918)

Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-born conductor to…

1990

Harold Robbins

American author (born 1915)

Harold Robbins was an American author. One of the best-selling writers of all time, he wrote over 25 best-sellers, selling over 750 million copies in 32 languages.

1997

Cleveland Amory

American author and activist (born 1917)

Cleveland Amory was an American author, reporter, television critic, commentator and animal rights activist. He wrote a series of popular books poking fun at the pretensions and customs of society, starting with The…

1998

Frankie Yankovic

American accordion player (born 1916)

Frank John Yankovic was an American accordion player and polka musician. Known as "America's Polka King", Yankovic was considered the premier artist to play in the Slovenian style during his long career. He was not…

1998

Julius Nyerere

Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (born 1922)

Julius Kambarage Nyerere was a Tanzanian politician, anti-colonial activist, and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as prime minister from 1961 to 1962 and then as president from 1962 to 1964, after which he led…

1999

Art Coulter

Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1909)

Arthur Edmund Coulter was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the New York Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League.

2000

Tony Roper

American race car driver (born 1964)

Anthony Dean Roper was an American professional stock car racing driver. A competitor in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, he died after suffering injuries in a racing accident at Texas Motor Speedway.

2000

Norbert Schultze

German composer and conductor (born 1911)

Norbert Arnold Wilhelm Richard Schultze was a prolific German composer of film music and a member of the NSDAP and of Joseph Goebbels' staff during World War II. He is best remembered for having written the melody of…

2002

Patrick Dalzel-Job

English linguist, commander, and navigator (born 1913)

Patrick Dalzel-Job was a British naval intelligence officer and commando in World War II. He was also an accomplished linguist, author, mariner, navigator, parachutist, diver, and skier.

2003

Ted Blakey

American historian, activist, and businessman (born 1925)

Theodore Robert Blakey was an American historian, businessman, and activist. He was instrumental in the civil rights movement in South Dakota and was leader of the committee that helped the state ratify the…

2004

Freddy Fender

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)

Freddy Fender was an American Country and Tejano singer, of Mexican descent, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. His signature sound fused country, rock, swamp…

2006

Gerry Studds

American educator and politician (born 1937)

Gerry Eastman Studds was an American politician from Massachusetts who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1973 until 1997. He was the first member of Congress to be openly…

2006

Robert Furman

American engineer and intelligence officer (born 1915)

Robert Ralph Furman was a civil engineer who during World War II was the chief of foreign intelligence for the Manhattan Engineer District directing espionage against the German nuclear energy project. He participated…

2008

Kazys Petkevičius

Lithuanian basketball player and coach (born 1926)

Kazimieras "Kazys" Petkevičius was a Lithuanian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He played for Žalgiris in Kaunas and later for Spartak…

2008

Martyn Sanderson

New Zealand actor and screenwriter (born 1938)

Martyn Sanderson was a New Zealand actor, director, producer, writer and poet.

2009

Collin Wilcox

American actress (born 1935)

Collin Randall Wilcox was an American film, stage and television actress. Over her career, she was also credited as Collin Wilcox-Horne or Collin Wilcox-Paxton. Wilcox may be best known for her role in To Kill a…

2009

Lou Albano

American professional wrestler (born 1933)

Louis Vincent Albano was an Italian-American professional wrestler, manager and actor, who performed under the ring/stage name "Captain" Lou Albano. He was active as a professional wrestler from 1953 until 1969, before…

2009

Simon MacCorkindale

English actor, director, and producer (born 1952)

Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale was a British actor, film director, writer, and producer from Ely, England. He spent much of his childhood moving around owing to his father's career as an officer with the Royal Air…

2010

Benoit Mandelbrot

Polish-American mathematician and economist (born 1924)

Benoit B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and…

2010

Reg Alcock

Canadian businessman and politician (born 1948)

Reginald B. Alcock, was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Winnipeg South as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2006 and was a cabinet minister in the government…

2011

Ashawna Hailey

American computer scientist and philanthropist (born 1949)

Ashawna Hailey was an American computer scientist and philanthropist. She was among the creators of the HSPICE program, which many electronic design companies worldwide use to simulate the electronic circuits. Her…

2011

John Clive

English actor and author (born 1933)

John Clive was an English actor and author, known internationally for his historical and social fiction, such as KG200 and Barossa.

2012

Max Fatchen

Australian journalist and author (born 1920)

Maxwell Edgar Fatchen, AM was an Australian children's writer and journalist.

2012

James R. Grover Jr.

American lawyer and politician (born 1919)

James Russell Grover Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

2012

Larry Sloan

American publisher, co-founded Price Stern Sloan (born 1922)

Lloyd Lawrence "Larry" Sloan was an American publisher of Mad Libs and co-founder of the Los Angeles publishing company, Price Stern Sloan, which opened in the early 1960s.

2012

Arlen Specter

American lieutenant and politician (born 1930)

Arlen Specter was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009,…

2012

Dody Weston Thompson

American photographer (born 1923)

Dody Weston Thompson was a 20th-century American photographer and chronicler of the history and craft of photography. She learned the art in 1947 and developed her own expression of “straight” or realistic photography,…

2012

Gart Westerhout

Dutch-American astronomer and academic (born 1927)

Gart Westerhout was a Dutch-American astronomer. Well before completing his university studies at Leiden, he had already become well-established internationally as a radio astronomer in the Netherlands, specializing in…

2012

Wally Bell

American baseball player and umpire (born 1965)

Wallace Robert Bell was an American umpire in Major League Baseball (MLB) who worked in the National League from 1992 to 1999 and in both major leagues from 2000 to 2013. He wore the number 36 while a National League…

2013

Max Cahner

German-Catalan historian and politician (born 1936)

Max Cahner i Garcia was a Catalan politician, and editor and historian of Catalan literature.

2013

Kōichi Iijima

Japanese author and poet (born 1930)

Kōichi Iijima was a Japanese poet, novelist, and translator. He was a member of the Japan Art Academy.

2013

Bruno Metsu

French footballer and manager (born 1954)

Bruno Jean Cornil Metsu was a French footballer and football manager. During his senior playing career from 1973 to 1987, he played for seven different clubs in France.

2013

Frank Moore

American painter and poet (born 1946)

Frank James Moore was an American performance artist, shaman, poet, essayist, painter, musician and Internet/television personality who experimented in art, performance, ritual, and shamanistic teaching since the late…

2013

Käty van der Mije-Nicolau

Romanian-Dutch chess player (born 1940)

Käty van der Mije-Nicolau, born Alexandra Ekatarina Nicolau, was a Dutch-Romanian chess player and Woman Grandmaster. She was the Romanian national champion six times before moving to the Netherlands in 1974. In the…

2013

A. H. Halsey

English sociologist and academic (born 1923)

Albert Henry 'Chelly' Halsey was a British sociologist. He was emeritus Professor of Social and Administrative Studies at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Nuffield…

2014

Leonard Liggio

American author and academic (born 1933)

Leonard P. Liggio was a classical liberal author, research professor of law at George Mason University and executive vice president of the Atlas Network in Fairfax, Virginia.

2014

Elizabeth Peña

American actress (born 1959)

Elizabeth Maria Peña was an American actress. Her film credits include Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Batteries Not Included, La Bamba, Jacob's Ladder (1990), Rush Hour (1998), and Nothing like the Holidays…

2014

Nurlan Balgimbayev

Kazakh politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (born 1947)

Nūrlan Ötepūly Balğymbaev was a Kazakh politician who served as the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 10 October 1997 to 1 October 1999.

2015

Mathieu Kérékou

Beninese soldier and politician, President of Benin (born 1933)

Mathieu Kérékou was a Beninese politician who served as president of the People's Republic of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and the Republic of Benin from 1996 to 2006.

2015

Margaret Keyes

American historian and academic (born 1918)

Margaret Naumann Keyes was an American academic and heritage preserver. She was a professor of Home Economics at the University of Iowa. She is also a nationally recognized leader in the field of heritage conservation,…

2015

Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani

Indian admiral (born 1930)

Admiral Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani, PVSM, AVSM was a Flag officer in the Indian Navy. He served as the 11th Chief of the Naval Staff from 1 December 1984 until 30 November 1987. His prior commands included those as…

2015

Helen Kelly

New Zealand trade union leader (born 1964)

Helen Kelly was President of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions from 2007 to 2015.

2016

Harold Bloom

American literary critic (born 1930)

Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world". After…

2019

Sulli

South Korean actress, singer, and model (born 1994)

Choi Jin-ri, known professionally as Sulli, was a South Korean singer and actress. She first made her debut as a child actress, appearing as a supporting cast member on the SBS historical drama Ballad of Seodong (2005).…

2019

Lee Wan-koo

South Korean politician, 39th Prime Minister of South Korea

Lee Wan-koo was a South Korean politician who briefly served as the prime minister of South Korea in 2015.

2021

Robbie Coltrane

Scottish actor, comedian and writer (born 1950)

Anthony Robin McMillan OBE, known professionally as Robbie Coltrane, was a Scottish actor. He is best known for his role as Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011) and as Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald…

2022

Thomas J. Donohue

American business executive (born 1938)

Thomas Joseph Donohue Sr. was an American business executive. He served as the President and CEO of the United States Chamber of Commerce located in Washington, D.C. from 1997 to 2021. During his leadership of the U.S.…

2024

Tina Kaidanow

American diplomat and government official (born 1965)

Tina Susan Kaidanow was an American diplomat and government official. She served as the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs before moving to the United States Department of Defense. From…

2024

Janet Nelson

British historian (born 1942)

Dame Janet Laughland Nelson, also known as Jinty Nelson, was a British historian and professor of medieval history at King's College London.

2024

Philip Zimbardo

American psychologist and academic (born 1933)

Philip George Zimbardo was an American psychologist and a professor at Stanford University. He was an internationally known educator, researcher, author and media personality in psychology who authored more than 500…

2024

Notable deaths

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Klaas Runia — Dutch theologian, churchman and journalist

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Death year2006

Known forHe studied at the Free University, Amsterdam and obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the concept of theological time in Karl Barth in 1955

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A coup d'état successfully overthrows Malagasy president Andry Rajoelina. Wikipedia →

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Australians vote to reject a constitutional amendment that would have established an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Wikipedia →

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About 10,000 American employees of John Deere go on strike. Wikipedia →

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