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Ancient 1

330 BC

Kidinnu, chaldäischer Astronom und Mathematiker

Medieval 29

582

Tiberius II Constantine

He ate himself to death. Tiberius II Constantine, who'd ruled Byzantium with unusual generosity — emptying the treasury to feed the poor and pay his soldiers — collapsed after a banquet in August 582, likely poisoned by contaminated food. He'd reigned just four years. Dying, he named Maurice his successor and gave him his daughter in marriage the same day. That handoff kept the empire stable for another two decades. A man famous for giving everything away ultimately gave away the throne from his deathbed.

760

Werenfried, Heiliger, Schutzpatron der Gemüsegärtner und Gichtkranken

958

Eberhard von Einsiedeln, Mitbegründer und erster Abt des Klosters Einsiedeln

1040

Duncan I of Scotland

Duncan I of Scotland was killed in battle near Elgin by his cousin Macbeth in 1040 — not in his bed as Shakespeare dramatized. Duncan had been king for only six years and was a young man, not the elderly figure of the play. His death launched Macbeth's 17-year reign, which was by most accounts competent.

1059

Giselbert, Graf von Luxemburg

1118

المستظهر بالله، خليفة عباسي.

1167

Rainald of Dassel

Rainald of Dassel was Archbishop of Cologne and Frederick Barbarossa's chancellor — arguably the most powerful man in the Holy Roman Empire after the emperor himself. He negotiated, commanded armies, and pursued the canonization of Charlemagne to give Barbarossa a royal saint in his lineage. He died of plague in 1167 while on campaign in Italy, outside Rome. His death was a serious blow to Barbarossa's Italian ambitions. The army he had led suffered devastating losses from the same epidemic.

1196

Heinrich IV., Graf von Luxemburg

1204

Minamoto no Yoriie

Minamoto no Yoriie was the second shogun of the Kamakura shogunate, son of its founder Yoritomo. He was 18 when his father died, and the council of regents immediately began limiting his authority. Within six years they had him confined to a monastery. He was 21. Then, in 1204, he was assassinated — strangled, according to most accounts, on orders from the Hojo regents who had taken effective control of the shogunate. The Hojo family ran Japan behind figurehead shoguns for the next century.

1237

Guy II.

Guy II. de Nesle, Herr von Mello und Marschall von Frankreich

1369

Philippa von Hennegau, Königsgemahlin Eduards III.

Philippa von Hennegau, Königsgemahlin Eduards III. von England

1388

James Douglas, 2.

James Douglas, 2. Earl of Douglas, schottischer Adeliger

1390

John FitzAlan

John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, died at 25 during a military campaign in France. He had participated in raids along the Norman coast and reportedly spent the winter at sea rather than shelter in a hostile town. He died of disease. Medieval military campaigns killed more soldiers through illness and exposure than through battle, and Arundel's death is representative of that reality. His barony passed through the complicated FitzAlan inheritance structure. He left no male heirs.

1390

John Arundel, 2.

John Arundel, 2. Baron Arundel, englischer Adliger

1426

خليل بن هارون الصنهاجي، فقيه مالكي وصوفي مغاربي.

1430

Philip I

Philip I, Duke of Brabant, died without legitimate heirs in 1430, which is how Brabant came under the control of Philip the Good of Burgundy. Philip of Burgundy absorbed it into the Burgundian Netherlands — the accumulation of territories in the Low Countries that he spent his reign expanding. Brabant was one of the wealthiest territories in northern Europe, its cloth trade making cities like Brussels and Leuven rich. When it passed to Burgundy, it began a connection to the Habsburg dynasty that would define the Netherlands for centuries.

1433

John I of Portugal

He wasn't even supposed to be king. Born illegitimate — the son of King Pedro I and a mistress — John spent his early years as Grand Master of the Order of Avis, not a throne in sight. Then a succession crisis cracked Portugal open. He seized power in 1383, defeated Castile at Aljubarrota with an outnumbered army, and ruled 48 years. His reign launched Portugal's Age of Exploration. He died at 76 having fathered the prince who'd reach Africa's coast — Infante Henry the Navigator was his son.

1443

Nikodemus della Scala, Bischof von Freising

1464

Pope Pius II

Before becoming pope, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini wrote steamy Renaissance erotica. Not a rumor — he actually penned *The Tale of Two Lovers*, a wildly popular erotic novel that circulated across Europe for decades. He later called it his greatest embarrassment. But he couldn't un-ring that bell. He died in Ancona in 1464, still trying to launch a crusade nobody wanted to join. The man who'd tried to erase his scandalous past left behind a papal library — and a bestselling love story that outlived him by centuries.

1471

Konrad IX., Herzog von Oels, Cosel, Steinau und halb Beuthen

1486

Marco Barbarigo, 73e doge de Venise de 1485 à 1486 (° 1413).

1500s 7

1504

Enevold Sövenbröder, Bischof von Schleswig

1537

Peter Swyn, wichtiger Anführer der Bauernrepublik Dithmarschen

1539

Peter Edgcumbe, englischer Adeliger, Politiker und Militär

1573

Saitō Tatsuoki

Saito Tatsuoki was the grandson of Saito Dosan, the Viper of Mino. He inherited a domain and a reputation he couldn't sustain. Oda Nobunaga invaded Mino in 1567 and took it in a campaign that took weeks, not years. Tatsuoki fled. He spent years as a fugitive general with a shrinking band of followers. Nobunaga had him killed in 1573. He was 25. His grandfather had built something. He had only been in the way of it.

1587

Guillermo Gonzaga de Mantua, aristócrata italiano (n.

Guillermo Gonzaga de Mantua, aristócrata italiano (n. 1538).

1588

Johann Jakob Wick, Schweizer protestantischer Geistlicher

1593

Martin Mirus, deutscher lutherischer Theologe und sächsischer Oberhofprediger

1600s 14

1618

Philipp Eduard Fugger, deutscher Handelsherr

1622

Henri de Gondi, Bischof von Paris

1625

Johannes Rottenhammer, deutscher Maler

1629

Georg Balthasar, böhmischer Märtyrer

1631

Henneke von Essen, Bürgermeister von Arnsberg, Opfer der Hexenverfolgung

1632

August, Pfalzgraf und Herzog von Sulzbach

1637

Nikolaus Elerdt, deutscher lutherischer Theologe und Liederdichter

1657

Jean de Lascaris-Castellar, Großmeister des Malteserordens

1660

Marie de Mantoue, noble italienne, duchesse de Mantoue par mariage avec le duc Charles III de Mayenne (° 29 juillet 1…

Marie de Mantoue, noble italienne, duchesse de Mantoue par mariage avec le duc Charles III de Mayenne (° 29 juillet 1609).

1661

صفي الدين القشاشي، متصوف وفقيه ومصنف مسلم.

1662

Christine Magdalena von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Kleeburg, Markgräfin von Baden-Durlach

1665

Charles II de Mantoue, duc de Mantoue (° 31 octobre 1629).

1691

Richard Talbot

Richard Talbot, the 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, died in Limerick while desperately attempting to hold Ireland for the deposed King James II. As Lord Lieutenant, his aggressive promotion of Catholic interests in the army and government accelerated the Williamite War, ensuring that the subsequent Protestant victory solidified British control over Irish land and politics for generations.

1692

Nicolas Chorier, avocat, écrivain et historien français (° 1er septembre 1612).

1700s 27

1700

Martin Friedrich Friese, sächsischer Mediziner

1703

Grigore Pintea, siebenbürgischer Hajdukenführer

1704

Roland Laporte

Roland Laporte led the Camisards — Protestant guerrillas in the Cevennes region of France — after the Edict of Nantes was revoked in 1685, stripping Huguenots of their legal protections. He was known as 'Roland' by his fighters. The French army eventually pacified the Cevennes through a combination of attrition and burning villages. Laporte died in a skirmish in 1704. The rebellion ended without him.

1704

Roland Laporte, revolucionário francês (n.

Roland Laporte, revolucionário francês (n. 1680).

1716

Madre María Rosa

Madre María Rosa, a Spanish-born Capuchin nun, traveled to Peru in the late 17th century and spent decades in religious service in Lima. Her life reflected the broader pattern of Spanish religious orders establishing deep roots in colonial South America.

1727

William Croft

William Croft served as organist of the Chapel Royal and later of Westminster Abbey, composing anthems and service music for the English church. His setting of the burial service — the funeral sentences — remained in use for two centuries after his death in 1727. He also wrote the tune now used with the hymn O God, Our Help in Ages Past, which means his music has been heard in churches every week somewhere in the world for nearly three hundred years. He is better known than he thinks he is.

1728

Ernst August II.

Ernst August II. von Hannover, Duke von York und Albany und Fürstbischof von Osnabrück

1733

William Houstoun, britischer Arzt und Botaniker

1734

August Christoph von Wackerbarth, kursächsischer Generalfeldmarschall und Staatsminister

1740

Johann Christian Lünig, deutscher Jurist, Historiker und Publizist

1744

Philippine Elisabeth Cäsar, Herzogin von Sachsen-Meiningen

1747

Johann Engelbert von Jabach, Priester und Domherr in Köln

1752

Georg Jakob Schwindel, deutscher evangelischer Theologe und Historiker

1752

Hedwig Friederike von Württemberg-Weiltingen, Fürstin von Anhalt-Zerbst

1754

María Ana de Austria, aristócrata austriaca, reina consorte de Portugal (n.

María Ana de Austria, aristócrata austriaca, reina consorte de Portugal (n. 1683).

1755

Jean-Baptiste Anet, französischer Violinist und Komponist

1761

Birgitte Christine Kaas, dänisch-norwegische Poetin, Kirchenlieddichterin und Übersetzerin

1763

Giovanni Battista Somis, italienischer Violinist und Komponist

1772

Ferdinand Karl Gobert von Aspremont-Lynden, habsburgischer Militär

1774

Johann Jakob Reiske

He taught himself Arabic from a borrowed grammar book while nearly starving in Leipzig, surviving on bread and water for years because no university would hire an Arabist. Reiske. The greatest European scholar of Arabic manuscripts in his century, dismissed by colleagues who called his work worthless. He edited over forty Greek and Arabic texts from crumbling originals nobody else could read. His wife Ernestine published his unfinished work after he died. Without her, half his scholarship disappears. The man they ignored built the foundation of modern Arabic studies anyway.

1777

Otto Magnus von Schwerin, preußischer General

1784

Nathaniel Hone the Elder

Irish painter Nathaniel Hone the Elder was a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768 and gained notoriety for 'The Conjuror,' a satirical painting targeting Joshua Reynolds that was rejected from exhibition. His portraits and miniatures earned him prominent commissions in Georgian-era London.

1784

Nathaniel Hone

He got rejected, so he started a fight. When London's Royal Academy refused to hang his 1775 painting *The Conjurer* — a savage mockery of Sir Joshua Reynolds — Hone didn't quietly move on. He staged his own solo exhibition, one of the first ever held by a single artist in Britain. Over 60 works, his name alone on the door. Reynolds never forgot the insult. But Hone's defiant show quietly invented something artists still do today: bet on yourself when the gatekeepers say no.

1793

Gabriel Baudry d'Asson, militaire français et chef royaliste de la guerre de Vendée (° 1755).

1794

Peter von Hohenthal, kursächsischer Kreishauptmann

1794

George Colman der Ältere, britischer Schriftsteller

1795

Marianne Ehrmann, deutsch-schweizerische Schauspielerin, Schriftstellerin und Journalistin

1800s 44

1814

Johann Heinrich Sulzer, Schweizer Mediziner und Insektenkundler

1819

Erik Acharius, médico sueco (n.

Erik Acharius, médico sueco (n. 1757).

1826

Friedrich Karl Blum, deutscher Beamter

1841

Johann Friedrich Herbart, filósofo y pedagogo alemán (n.

Johann Friedrich Herbart, filósofo y pedagogo alemán (n. 1776).

1844

Christian Aulenbach, deutscher Pfarrer und Dichter

1846

Manuel Agustín Heredia, empresario español (f.

Manuel Agustín Heredia, empresario español (f. 1786).

1847

Ferdinand Leonhardi, deutscher Advokat, Bürgermeister und Politiker

1847

Frans Michael Franzén, schwedischer Dichter und Schriftsteller

1848

Sarah Flower Adams, britische Dichterin

1849

Wilhelm Adolph von Trützschler, deutscher Politiker, Mitglied der Frankfurter Nationalversammlung

1850

Johann Gottlob Mende, deutscher Orgelbauer

1852

Margaret Taylor

Margaret Taylor reportedly opposed her husband Zachary's presidential ambitions and rarely appeared publicly as First Lady, leaving hosting duties to her daughter. She died just 16 months after leaving the White House, her health weakened by decades of following her husband to remote frontier military posts.

1852

Eberhard von Wächter, deutscher Maler

1854

Carl Carl

Polish-born actor and theater director Carl Carl managed Vienna's Theater an der Wien and Leopoldstädter Theater, turning them into the city's most popular comedy venues in the 1830s and 1840s. He championed Viennese folk comedy and gave early platforms to playwrights like Johann Nestroy.

1855

August Ludwig Gottlob Krehl, deutscher evangelischer Theologe und Hochschullehrer

1856

Constant Prévost

Constant Prevost was a French geologist who argued for uniformitarianism — the principle that geological formations were shaped by the same slow processes observable today, not by catastrophic events — decades before Charles Lyell made the argument famous in English. He studied volcanic regions and fossil-bearing strata and consistently found evidence for gradual change. He was right. Geology moved in the direction he had pointed. He died in Paris in 1856, his influence real but his name largely swallowed by the scientists who built on him.

1856

William Buckland, geólogo y paleontólogo británico (n.

William Buckland, geólogo y paleontólogo británico (n. 1784).

1858

Tokugawa Iesada, militar y shogun japonés (n.

Tokugawa Iesada, militar y shogun japonés (n. 1824).

1860

André Marie Constant Duméril

Andre Marie Constant Dumeril spent his career at the Natural History Museum in Paris and catalogued more species of reptiles and amphibians than almost any naturalist of the 19th century. His Erpetologie generale, published in nine volumes over 27 years, remained the standard reference for decades. He was methodical to the point of being boring. That was the point.

1863

Karl von Gerlach, Berliner Polizeipräsident und Ehrenbürger

1863

Colin Campbell, 1.

Colin Campbell, 1. Baron Clyde, britischer Feldmarschall

1866

Karol Kuzmány, slowakischer Schriftsteller und evangelischer Theologe

1869

Adolphe Niel, französischer General, Marschall von Frankreich und Kriegsminister

1870

David Farragut

David Farragut was 59 years old when he sailed into Mobile Bay in 1864 and ordered his fleet through a Confederate minefield after a ship ahead of him was sunk. Damn the torpedoes, he reportedly said. Full speed ahead. Whether those were his exact words is disputed. What is not disputed is that he sailed through the mines, took the bay, and helped seal the Confederacy's fate on the Gulf coast. He became the US Navy's first admiral. He died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1870 at 69.

1870

Manuel Saumell, compositor cubano, considerado el iniciador del nacionalismo musical cubano (n.

Manuel Saumell, compositor cubano, considerado el iniciador del nacionalismo musical cubano (n. 1818).

1871

Philipp Blommaert, flämischer Schriftsteller

1874

Julius Freudenthal, deutscher Komponist und Numismatiker

1874

Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs

Florida's Secretary of State died at his desk. Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs collapsed on August 14, 1874, after years of fighting to build public schools across a state that had enslaved people just a decade earlier. He'd personally overseen the enrollment of over 100,000 students into Florida's new public school system as Superintendent of Public Instruction. Born free in Philadelphia, he'd graduated from Dartmouth. His death at 53 left no successor with his reach. Florida's public education system, built largely by a Black minister from Pennsylvania, outlasted everyone who tried to dismantle it.

1876

Carl Wilhelm Otto Koch, deutscher Jurist, Bürgermeister von Leipzig

1878

Wilhelm Rüstow, deutscher Freiheitskämpfer und Revolutionär, Militärschriftsteller und -historiker

1878

Wilhelm Heinrich Jobelmann, Bürgerrepräsentant und Stadtgeschichtsschreiber von Stade

1880

Charles Jules Labarte, französischer Kunsthistoriker

1882

« El Salamanquino » (Julián Casas del Guijo), matador espagnol (° 16 février 1918).

1886

Calinic Miclescu, prêtre orthodoxe et un homme politique roumain (° 16 avril 1822).

1886

Edmond Laguerre, matemático francés (n.

Edmond Laguerre, matemático francés (n. 1834).

1886

Charles Gaslonde, homme politique français (° 13 mars 1812).

1888

Friedrich Hofmann, deutscher Schriftsteller

1889

Carl Büchsel, deutscher evangelischer Geistlicher und Autor

1890

Michael J. McGivney

He was 38 years old. That's it. McGivney died of pneumonia in Thomaston, Connecticut, before most men his age had built anything lasting. But eight years earlier, this son of Irish immigrants had gathered a handful of New Haven parishioners in a church basement and invented something: a fraternal insurance society so Catholic working families wouldn't lose their homes when fathers died. The Knights of Columbus today covers 2 million members across 13 countries. He founded a financial safety net. The Vatican declared him Blessed in 2020.

1891

Sarah Childress Polk

Sarah Childress Polk outlived her husband by over four decades, transforming her widowhood into a position of immense social influence in Nashville. As a former First Lady who acted as her husband’s primary political advisor, she maintained a rigorous correspondence with national leaders, preserving the Polk legacy long after his 1849 death.

1893

Alexander Strauch, zoologiste germano-russe (° 1er mars 1832).

1893

Ida Frick, deutsche Schriftstellerin

1894

John Quincy Adams II, político norte-americano (n.

John Quincy Adams II, político norte-americano (n. 1833).

1895

Joseph Caspar Jeuch, Schweizer Architekt

1900s 164

1902

Emil Killinger, deutscher Jurist

1905

Simeon Solomon

Simeon Solomon was a Pre-Raphaelite painter who depicted androgynous figures, classical scenes, and Jewish religious subjects with unusual beauty and intensity. He was arrested in 1873 for 'attempted sodomy' in a London public toilet. The art world, which had celebrated him, abandoned him almost instantly. He spent his last years selling small drawings for shillings. He died in a workhouse in 1905.

1906

Aniceto Arce, abogado boliviano (n.

Aniceto Arce, abogado boliviano (n. 1824).

1907

Hans Heinrich XI.

Hans Heinrich XI. von Hochberg, deutscher Fürst, General und Industrieller

1907

Alexander Bernardazzi, Schweizer Architekt

1908

Friedrich Paulsen, deutscher Pädagoge und Kant-Forscher

1909

William Stanley

William Stanley invented the first practical transformer for alternating current in 1885, making it possible to transmit electricity over long distances. His work for Westinghouse directly enabled the AC power system that electrified the world, winning out over Edison's direct current.

1910

Frank Podmore, socialista e pesquisador de fenômenos espíritas britânico (n.

Frank Podmore, socialista e pesquisador de fenômenos espíritas britânico (n. 1856).

1910

Emilio Censi, Schweizer Jurist und Politiker

1911

Raban von Canstein, österreichischer Jurist und ordentlicher Professor

1915

Albert Thumb, deutscher Sprachwissenschaftler und Neogräzist

1917

Miguel Almereyda, französischer Journalist und Anarchist

1918

Maria Uhden, deutsche Malerin und Grafikerin

1920

Homer Albert Norris, US-amerikanischer Organist, Komponist und Musikwissenschaftler

1921

Georg von Schönerer, österreichischer Gutsbesitzer und Politiker

1922

Alfred Harmsworth, 1.

Alfred Harmsworth, 1. Viscount Northcliffe, britischer Journalist und Verleger

1922

Sophie Bryant, irische Mathematikerin und Aktivistin

1922

Rebecca Cole

Rebecca Cole became the second African American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States when she graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1867. She spent her career providing healthcare to impoverished communities in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., and advocated for public health reforms.

1926

John H. Moffitt

John H. Moffitt represented New York's 28th congressional district as a Republican from 1895 to 1899. Born in Andes, New York in 1843, he was a businessman who entered politics late and served two terms without particular distinction. He lived long enough to see the party he served change almost beyond recognition. Died 1926. The kind of congressman who kept the lights on and the appropriations flowing without anybody writing books about it.

1928

Alfred Henschke

He burned through life like someone who knew he didn't have much of it. Alfred Henschke adopted the pen name Klabund — a mashup of "Klabautermann" and "vagabund" — and wrote over 60 books while tuberculosis slowly killed him at 38. He dictated some final poems from a Swiss sanatorium bed. His play *The Chalk Circle* outlasted everything, inspiring Bertolt Brecht's *The Caucasian Chalk Circle* years later. The sick man in the sanatorium inadvertently handed Brecht one of his masterpieces.

1928

Klabund

Klabund was the pen name of Alfred Henschke, a German poet and playwright who produced an extraordinary volume of work — novels, poems, plays, translations — before dying of tuberculosis at just 37. His 1925 play "The Chalk Circle" influenced Brecht's later "Caucasian Chalk Circle."

1929

Dickie Baugh, englischer Fußballspieler

1931

Janie Marèse, actrice française (° 23 mai 1908).

1931

Francisco Vega de los Reyes, torero español (n.

Francisco Vega de los Reyes, torero español (n. 1904).

1932

Georg Schmorl, deutscher Arzt und Pathologe

1933

Maximilian Modde, deutscher Maler und Schriftsteller

1934

Raymond Hood, architecte américain (° 29 mars 1881).

1936

Nicolae Berechet, rumänischer Boxer

1938

Hugh Trumble

Hugh Trumble took 141 Test wickets for Australia, including two Test hat-tricks — a feat only he and two other bowlers have achieved in Test history. He was a tall, methodical off-spinner who understood how to use the pitch and vary his pace. He played his last Test in 1904, then spent years as secretary of the Melbourne Cricket Club. He died in 1938. His Test hat-tricks remain two of the rarest achievements in cricket, and he did it twice, 18 years apart, against England.

1941

Maximilian Kolbe

A Nazi guard injected him with carbolic acid on August 14, 1941 — because starvation had taken too long. Kolbe had volunteered to die in Auschwitz's Bunker 18 in place of a stranger, Franciszek Gajowniczek, a Polish soldier with a wife and children. He wasn't a soldier or a resistance fighter. He was a Franciscan friar who'd run a printing press. Gajowniczek survived until 1995 and spent decades telling the story. The man Kolbe saved outlived him by 54 years.

1941

Arthur Hiller, footballeur allemand (° 3 octobre 1881).

1941

Paul Sabatier

He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 but refused to leave Toulouse to accept it in person — so Sweden sent the medal to him. Sabatier had turned down prestigious Paris positions three times, loyal to his provincial university for over four decades. His discovery that finely divided nickel could hydrogenate organic compounds transformed food production worldwide, making margarine and hardened vegetable oils possible. He died at 86, still in Toulouse. The man who fed millions never left home to claim his prize.

1942

Hans Behrendt, deutscher Regisseur, Drehbuchautor und Schauspieler

1942

María Polivanova, militar soviética (n.

María Polivanova, militar soviética (n. 1922)

1942

Alekséi Troitski, ajedrecista ruso (n.

Alekséi Troitski, ajedrecista ruso (n. 1866).

1943

Joe Kelley

Joe Kelley played outfield for the Baltimore Orioles during their dynasty years in the 1890s — three consecutive National League pennants from 1894 to 1896 — and was one of the most effective offensive players of the Dead Ball era, consistently batting above .300 and stealing bases at a high rate. He managed after his playing days and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame posthumously in 1971. He died in Baltimore in 1943, long after the game had moved on without him.

1943

Lore Berger

Lore Berger was a Swiss writer who published only one novel, "Der barmherzige Hügel" (The Merciful Hill), before taking her own life at age 21 in 1943. The book, a portrait of young women's intellectual awakening, was rediscovered decades later as a lost masterpiece of Swiss German literature.

1943

Flora Philip, schottische Mathematikerin

1943

Lore Berger, Schweizer Schriftstellerin

1944

Friedrich Stoffels, deutscher Zeuge Jehovas, Opfer der NS-Kriegsjustiz

1944

Joseph-Ermend Bonnal, französischer Komponist, Organist und Musikpädagoge

1946

Robert Wagner, deutscher Politiker, Gauleiter von Baden, Kriegsverbrecher

1948

Eliška Misáková

Czech gymnast Eliška Misáková died of infantile paralysis during the 1948 London Olympics at age 22, just as her teammates were competing in the final. The Czech women's team, learning of her death mid-competition, went on to win gold — dedicating their victory to her memory.

1951

William Randolph Hearst

He built 28 newspapers, two wire services, and a castle with 56 bedrooms — but died with $400,000 in debt. William Randolph Hearst spent decades turning Hearst Castle's 165 rooms into a warehouse for European art he'd sometimes never unwrapped. His editors knew his golden rule: make it dramatic, make it sell. He largely invented the template for modern tabloid sensationalism. But the man who'd shaped what millions read each morning died in a Beverly Hills home, far from his unfinished monument on the California coast.

1952

Sally Wiest, deutsche Malerin

1952

David-Zvi Pinkas, político israelí (n.

David-Zvi Pinkas, político israelí (n. 1895).

1952

Gustave Violet, escultor francés (n.

Gustave Violet, escultor francés (n. 1873).

1953

Friedrich Schorr, ungarisch-US-amerikanischer Opernsänger (Bassbariton)

1954

Juan Aguirre Escobar, militar y político mexicano (n.

Juan Aguirre Escobar, militar y político mexicano (n. 1874).

1954

Nikos Ploumpidis

Nikos Ploumpidis led the Greek Communist Party's underground network during the 1950s and was executed by firing squad in 1954 despite international protests. His execution, during Greece's post-civil-war repression, became a cause celebre for the European left.

1954

Hugo Eckener

He flew 600 passengers across the Atlantic without losing a single one — and Adolf Hitler hated him for it. Hugo Eckener commanded the Graf Zeppelin on its 1929 around-the-world voyage, covering 21,500 miles in just 12 days. The Nazis tried erasing his face from postage stamps after he publicly criticized the regime. They couldn't silence him completely. He died at 86, having outlasted the airships he loved — and the government that despised him for loving something bigger than politics.

1955

Herbert Putnam

Herbert Putnam served as Librarian of Congress for 40 years — 1899 to 1939 — and transformed what had been a legislative reference collection into one of the great research libraries in the world. He expanded the building, systematized the classification scheme, established the interlibrary loan system, and opened the collections to the public. He died in 1955 at 93. The Library of Congress Classification system is still in use. Every academic library using LC call numbers is using his work.

1956

Jaroslav Řídký, tschechischer Komponist

1956

Joseph Godehard Machens, deutscher Bischof

1956

Bertolt Brecht

He died with a deliberately bad doctor. Brecht had chosen his East Berlin physician carefully — a man he knew wasn't prominent enough to be forced to collaborate with authorities. Paranoid until the end. The playwright who invented "alienation effect," the theatrical technique designed to stop audiences from losing themselves in emotion, spent his final years genuinely alienated from both East and West. He left behind *Mother Courage*, *The Threepenny Opera*, and a staging method that Pina Bausch, Peter Brook, and a hundred others still can't shake.

1956

Konstantin von Neurath

Konstantin von Neurath served as Hitler's first Foreign Minister from 1933 to 1938 and later as Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. Convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg and sentenced to 15 years, he was released early in 1954 due to poor health.

1956

Hans Hamburger, deutscher Mathematiker

1958

Jacinto Grau, dramaturgo español (n.

Jacinto Grau, dramaturgo español (n. 1877).

1958

Edwiges de Sá Pereira, maestra, periodista, poetisa y feminista brasileña (n.

Edwiges de Sá Pereira, maestra, periodista, poetisa y feminista brasileña (n. 1884).

1958

Theo Smit Sibinga, indonesisch-niederländischer Komponist, Cellist und Dirigent

1958

Konstantin von Neurath

Konstantin von Neurath was Hitler's first Foreign Minister and later Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, where he oversaw the brutal suppression of Czech resistance. He was convicted at Nuremberg of crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 15 years. He was released in 1954 on health grounds after serving eight years. He died in 1958 in the town where he was born. The early release angered many in Czechoslovakia. The sentence had already been lenient.

1958

Frédéric Joliot-Curie

Frédéric Joliot-Curie transformed nuclear physics by discovering artificial radioactivity, proving that stable elements could be transmuted into radioactive isotopes. His work earned him the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and provided the essential foundation for modern medical imaging and cancer treatments. He died in Paris at age 58, leaving behind a legacy of pioneering atomic research.

1959

Felix Swinstead, britischer Pianist, Komponist und Musikpädagoge

1960

Jaime Cortesão, portugiesischer Arzt, Politiker, Historiker und Autor

1961

Marcel Jousse, historiador francés (n.

Marcel Jousse, historiador francés (n. 1886).

1961

Henri Breuil, französischer Prähistoriker

1961

Guido Alberto Fano, italienischer Komponist, Dirigent und Pianist

1961

Clark Ashton Smith, US-amerikanischer Dichter, Bildhauer, Maler und Autor

1962

Rudi Arnstadt, deutscher Offizier, Hauptmann der Grenztruppen der DDR

1963

Sally Deaver, US-amerikanische Skirennläuferin

1963

Clifford Odets

He wrote *Waiting for Lefty* in three days. Three days. The 1935 one-act about striking taxi drivers caused audiences to spontaneously chant "Strike! Strike!" during performances — police informants were planted in theaters to watch the crowd. Odets became the conscience of Depression-era America overnight. But Hollywood money pulled him west, and he spent years feeling like he'd traded his soul for a swimming pool. He died at 57, never finishing his autobiography. The man who gave America its angry voice went quiet mid-sentence.

1964

Albino Carraro, italienischer Fußballschiedsrichter und -trainer

1964

Johnny Burnette

Johnny Burnette died in a boating accident on Clear Lake, California, silencing one of the most influential voices of the early rockabilly era. As a founding member of The Rock and Roll Trio, he helped define the raw, frantic sound of 1950s rock, influencing generations of musicians who sought to capture that same high-octane energy.

1964

Guy Decomble, acteur français (° 12 novembre 1910).

1965

Willy Spilling, deutscher Komponist und Musikwissenschaftler

1965

Vello Kaaristo

Vello Kaaristo was an Estonian cross-country skier who competed in the 1930s and 1940s under three different flags — independent Estonia, Soviet-occupied Estonia, and the USSR. His career arc mirrors Estonia's loss of sovereignty and the athletes who were swept along with it.

1966

Tip Snooke

Tip Snooke played Test cricket for South Africa in the early 20th century, appearing in 26 matches between 1905 and 1922. He was a medium-paced bowler and capable lower-order batsman who played most of his cricket in an era when South African cricket was still developing its international standing. He died in Cape Town in 1966. Cricket has a long institutional memory and keeps records back to the earliest Tests, which means players from Snooke's era exist in the record even when their stories are largely lost.

1967

Bob Anderson

Bob Anderson raced both motorcycles and cars professionally in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. He competed in Formula One as a privateer, entering his own car rather than driving for a factory team. He died in 1967 during a test session at Silverstone when his car left the road. Privateer racing in Formula One required funding your own equipment and competing against works teams with professional support structures. Anderson did that for years. He was 35 when Silverstone ended it.

1967

Hans Joachim Moser, deutscher Musikwissenschaftler

1968

Marcel Thil, boxeur français (° 25 mai 1904).

1968

Edith Junghans, deutsche Malerin und Zeichnerin, Ehefrau von Otto Hahn

1968

Carlos Ripamonte, pintor argentino (n.

Carlos Ripamonte, pintor argentino (n. 1874).

1968

Augusto Álvaro da Silva, prélat brésilien (° 8 avril 1876).

1968

Olivier Maurault, historien et prêtre canadien (° 1er janvier 1886).

1969

Alfredo Solf y Muro, político y diplomático peruano (n.

Alfredo Solf y Muro, político y diplomático peruano (n. 1872).

1970

Friederike Nadig, deutsche Politikerin, MdL, MdB, eine der vier „Mütter des Grundgesetzes“

1970

Rodrigo Gómez Gómez, economista mexicano (n.

Rodrigo Gómez Gómez, economista mexicano (n. 1897).

1970

Wano Muradeli, georgischer Komponist

1971

Georg von Opel, deutscher Automobilunternehmer und Sportfunktionär

1972

Pierre Brasseur

Pierre Brasseur was a French actor who worked in theater and film from the 1920s through the early 1970s. His most famous role was as the bombastic actor Frederic Lemaitre in Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise — the 1945 film shot during the German occupation of France, with a cast and crew partially involved in the Resistance. It is one of the greatest films ever made, and Brasseur's performance is a kind of theatrical manifesto. He died in 1972. The film endures.

1972

Jules Romains

Jules Romains wrote Les Hommes de bonne volonte — Men of Good Will — in 27 volumes over 25 years, from 1932 to 1946. It covered French society from 1908 to 1933 in near-total breadth. He also wrote Knock, a 1923 play about a doctor who convinces an entire village it is ill. The play is still performed. The 27-volume novel is mostly unread. That is often how it goes with ambitious projects.

1972

Pierre Brasseur, acteur français (° 22 décembre 1905).

1972

Manolo Millares, pintor español (n.

Manolo Millares, pintor español (n. 1926).

1972

Oscar Levant

Oscar Levant was a concert pianist, film actor, and wit who spent more time on psychiatrists' couches than in concert halls. He appeared on television in the 1950s and early 60s talking about his breakdowns with a candor that was startling for the era. He was Gershwin's closest friend and the person who played Gershwin's music best after Gershwin died. He once said, 'I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.'

1972

Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer, deutscher Bibliothekar und Literaturwissenschaftler

1973

Fred Gipson

Fred Gipson wrote "Old Yeller" (1956), the novel about a boy and his dog in post-Civil War Texas that Disney turned into one of the most tearful family films ever made. The book drew from Gipson's own childhood on a hardscrabble Texas Hill Country farm.

1974

Raúl González Tuñón, poeta argentino (n.

Raúl González Tuñón, poeta argentino (n. 1905).

1974

Clay Shaw, homme d’affaires américain (° 17 mars 1913).

1974

Arnulf Klett, deutscher Kommunalpolitiker, Oberbürgermeister von Stuttgart

1975

Aureliano Urrutia, médico, militar y político mexicano (n.

Aureliano Urrutia, médico, militar y político mexicano (n. 1872).

1976

Werner Bräunig, deutscher Schriftsteller

1977

Otto Aßmann, deutscher Politiker

1977

Aleksandr Lúriya, neuropsicólogo y médico ruso (n.

Aleksandr Lúriya, neuropsicólogo y médico ruso (n. 1902).

1978

Joe Venuti, US-amerikanischer Musiker

1978

Nicolas Bentley

Nicolas Bentley illustrated the collected works of T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, and Damon Runyon. He was the kind of illustrator whose presence made a book look serious. He also published satirical cartoons and ran Andre Deutsch publishing company for years. He died in 1978. His father was E.C. Bentley, who invented the clerihew — the four-line biographical comic poem — and whose shadow he carried his entire career.

1979

Richard Alewyn, deutscher Germanist und Literaturkritiker

1979

Andreas Wackwitz, namibischer Propst

1980

Dorothy Stratten

Dorothy Stratten was 20 years old when she was murdered in Los Angeles in August 1980. She had been Playmate of the Year and was beginning an acting career. Her estranged husband Paul Snider killed her and then himself. She had been trying to leave him. Her story was later told in a book and two films. Director Peter Bogdanovich, who had been in a relationship with her, wrote about her with great tenderness. She was gone before anyone could see what she might become.

1981

Karl Böhm

Karl Bohm conducted the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic for fifty years. He was associated above all with Mozart and Strauss — Richard Strauss personally asked him to conduct the world premiere of Die schweigsame Frau in 1935, and the two had a relationship that shaped Bohm's approach to German music for decades. His recordings of Mozart's operas remain standards. He died in 1981 at 86, having conducted almost until the end.

1981

Dudley Nourse

Dudley Nourse played 34 Test matches for South Africa between 1935 and 1951, averaging 53.81 at the crease — an exceptional figure. His most famous innings was in the 1951 Headingley Test, where he batted with a broken thumb, scored 208 runs, and declared with South Africa well ahead. They still lost. He was the son of Dave Nourse, who had also played Test cricket, making them one of cricket's great father-son pairings. He died in 1981 at 71.

1982

Patrick Magee, ator norte-irlandês (n.

Patrick Magee, ator norte-irlandês (n. 1922).

1982

Wichard von Alvensleben, deutscher Offizier, Land- und Forstwirt

1982

Patrick Magee

Patrick Magee was a Northern Irish actor whose intense, gaunt presence made him ideal for extreme roles — he played the tortured writer in Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" and originated several Beckett roles, including the title character in "Krapp's Last Tape." His voice alone could unsettle an audience.

1982

Mahasi Sayadaw

Mahasi Sayadaw was one of the most influential Theravada Buddhist monks of the 20th century, systematizing the Vipassana meditation technique that would spread globally through the insight meditation movement. His method of noting mental states became the foundation for mindfulness practices now used by millions.

1982

José Ángel Buesa, poeta cubano (n.

José Ángel Buesa, poeta cubano (n. 1910).

1983

Alfred Rust, deutscher Archäologe

1983

Rainer Brambach, Schweizer Schriftsteller

1983

Alceu Amoroso Lima, crítico literário, escritor e líder católico brasileiro (n.

Alceu Amoroso Lima, crítico literário, escritor e líder católico brasileiro (n. 1893).

1983

Wilhelm Cleven, deutscher Bischof von Köln

1984

J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (born 1894)

1984

J. B. Priestley

He turned down two honors from the Queen — a knighthood and a life peerage — because he didn't want to become "Sir J.B." or sit in the Lords. Priestley wrote *An Inspector Calls* in just one week in 1945, on a hunch the idea would escape him. The play never really closed. It's still performed somewhere on Earth nearly every night. He died at 89 in Alveston, having outlived most of his critics. The man who refused titles is now simply remembered by his initials.

1984

Spud Davis

Spud Davis was a catcher in the National League from 1928 to 1945 and one of the best pure hitters at his position — he batted .308 over his career and led the NL in pinch hitting repeatedly. He was known as a fine defensive handler of pitchers, which was the most important part of his job in an era when catchers called the game without electronic communication. He became a coach and manager after his playing days. He died in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1984.

1985

Otto Kaufmann, deutscher Heimatforscher

1985

Marie Bell, actrice française (° 23 décembre 1900).

1985

Gale Sondergaard

Gale Sondergaard won the first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1937 for Anthony Adverse. She spent the next decade building a reputation in Hollywood as a skilled dramatic actress, often playing villains. Then her husband Herbert Biberman was blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten, and she was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. She refused to testify and was blacklisted herself. She did not work in Hollywood again for twenty years. The industry that blacklisted her eventually gave her small parts.

1986

Pierre Bertaux, französischer Germanist

1987

Vincent Persichetti, US-amerikanischer Komponist und Professor

1988

Roy Buchanan

He turned down The Rolling Stones. Twice. Roy Buchanan was offered the guitarist spot before Mick Taylor joined, and he said no both times — choosing bar gigs in Virginia over stadiums. Born in Ozark, Arkansas, he built a tone so distinctive that guitarists like Robbie Robertson studied him obsessively. He died in a Fairfax County jail cell on August 14, 1988, ruled a suicide at 48. His 1972 PBS special introduced millions to a man who'd deliberately stayed invisible. The greatest unknown guitarist in America chose obscurity on purpose.

1988

Enzo Ferrari

Enzo Ferrari was a racing driver who became a constructor because he was too controlling to just drive other people's cars. He built a racing team inside Alfa Romeo, was forced out, agreed not to use his own name on cars for four years, waited four years, and built Ferraris. The road cars were an afterthought — he sold them to fund the racing. He hated losing more than he loved winning. When his son Dino died at 24, Ferrari channeled the grief into a car named after him. He worked until the week he died.

1988

Robert Calvert

He wrote sci-fi rock operas and performed in a cape while Hawkwind's crowds were still figuring out what planet they were on. Robert Calvert wasn't just a singer — he was a poet who'd been institutionalized for bipolar disorder, yet channeled that chaos into "Silver Machine," a song he co-wrote that charted Top 5 in Britain while he wasn't even officially in the band. He died of a heart attack at 43. Behind him: seven solo albums, one unfinished novel, and a blueprint for art-rock that nobody's fully decoded yet.

1989

Robert B. Anderson, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1989

Ricky Berry

Ricky Berry was averaging 11 points a game for the Sacramento Kings as a promising 24-year-old guard when he died by suicide in August 1989. His death shocked the NBA and brought attention to mental health struggles among professional athletes decades before the issue gained mainstream recognition.

1990

Kurt Goth, deutscher Fußballtorwart

1990

James Boulton, britischer Automobilrennfahrer

1990

Michail Wassiljew, sowjetischer Schauspieler

1991

Alberto Crespo

Alberto Crespo raced in Formula One during the early 1950s, when the championship was still new and the cars were genuinely dangerous. He started 14 Grands Prix and finished 11, which in that era represented genuine resilience — cars and circuits were unforgiving in ways that would not be tolerated today. Born in Buenos Aires in 1920, he was part of the generation of South American drivers who competed in Europe during Formula One's founding years. He died in 1991.

1991

Alfred Kittner, rumänischer Schriftsteller

1991

Ludwig Landgrebe, österreichischer Philosoph

1992

Tony Williams (en), chanteur américain du groupe The Platters (° 5 avril 1928).

1992

Immy Schell, deutsche Schauspielerin

1992

Tony Williams, cantante estadounidense, de la banda The Platters (n.

Tony Williams, cantante estadounidense, de la banda The Platters (n. 1928).

1992

Tony Williams

Tony Williams was the lead tenor of The Platters, the group that gave 'Only You' and 'The Great Pretender' to the world in the mid-1950s. His voice was precise, intimate, and deeply romantic in a way that transcended the doo-wop era. He left the group in 1961 and never quite replicated that success on his own. He died in 1992, six years after The Platters were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

1992

John Sirica

The son of an Italian immigrant barber, John Sirica failed the bar exam twice before becoming the judge who wouldn't let Watergate die quietly. When Nixon's men stonewalled, Sirica handed out preliminary sentences of up to 40 years — not because he believed they'd stick, but to crack the silence. It worked. James McCord broke. The cover-up unraveled. Sirica served as chief judge of D.C. District Court for decades, but one stubborn hunch about a two-bit burglary brought down a presidency.

1993

Francis Mankiewicz, réalisateur et scénariste québécois (° 15 mars 1944).

1993

Hans Henn, deutscher Bobfahrer

1993

Oskar Jan Tauschinski, österreichischer Schriftsteller

1993

José Basso, pianista, director de orquesta y compositor argentino de tango (n.

José Basso, pianista, director de orquesta y compositor argentino de tango (n. 1919).

1994

Alice Childress

Alice Childress was a pioneering Black American playwright, actress, and novelist whose 1955 play "Trouble in Mind" was the first by an African American woman to be professionally produced in New York. Her 1973 novel "A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich" was both a bestseller and a frequently banned book.

1994

Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. His novel Auto-da-Fe, written in 1935, depicts a scholar who destroys himself through disconnection from reality. His non-fiction book Crowds and Power, published in 1960 after 30 years of work, attempted to explain the psychology of crowds, leaders, and the will to power. He was Bulgarian-born, lived in Vienna, fled to London after the Anschluss, and wrote in German. He was 76 when he won the Nobel Prize.

1995

Helmut Beumann, deutscher Historiker

1995

Romualds Grīnblats, lettisch-russischer Komponist

1996

Solomos Solomou

Solomos Solomou was a 26-year-old Greek Cypriot refugee shot dead by Turkish soldiers while climbing a flagpole to remove a Turkish flag in the UN buffer zone in 1996. His killing, captured on video, inflamed Greek-Turkish tensions on Cyprus and he became a martyr figure for the Greek Cypriot community.

1996

Tom Mees

Tom Mees was one of ESPN's original on-air personalities, hired when the network launched in 1979. He was there when ESPN was broadcasting truck pulls and arm wrestling because it had nothing else. He covered the growth of cable sports from the inside. He drowned in his backyard swimming pool in 1996 at forty-six. His colleagues said he had one of the best voices in sports television. He'd been at ESPN for seventeen years.

1996

Camilla Horn, deutsche Schauspielerin

1996

Maria Kobel, deutsche Chemikerin und Abteilungsleiterin im Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Biochemie

1996

Sergiu Celibidache

He refused to let his concerts be recorded. Celibidache believed music existed only in the moment — a live performance couldn't be captured, only experienced. He turned down major recording contracts, calling records "canned music," while rivals like Karajan built global empires on vinyl. His Munich Philharmonic rehearsals sometimes ran six hours. Audiences either loved his glacial tempos or walked out. After he died in 1996, his family released the recordings he'd forbidden. Turns out, he'd been right — nothing captured what witnesses described being in that room.

1997

Gustav Wellenstein, deutscher Forstwissenschaftler, Zoologe und Entomologe

1997

Víctor Medina, político chileno (n.

Víctor Medina, político chileno (n. 1919).

1997

Guido Vincenzi, futebolista italiano (n.

Guido Vincenzi, futebolista italiano (n. 1932).

1998

Xavier Miserachs, fotógrafo español (n.

Xavier Miserachs, fotógrafo español (n. 1937).

1998

August Seeling, deutscher Kommunalpolitiker

1998

Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, deutscher Schauspieler und Fernsehmoderator

1999

Alfred Goodman, deutsch-US-amerikanischer Komponist, Musikwissenschaftler und Pianist

1999

Pee Wee Reese

Pee Wee Reese played shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1940 to 1958. When Jackie Robinson arrived in 1947, some Dodgers circulated a petition against him. Reese, the team captain, was from Kentucky and could have signed it. He didn't. In one game in Cincinnati, with the crowd hurling racial abuse at Robinson, Reese walked over and put his arm around him. He told reporters afterward it seemed like the right thing to do.

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2000

Alain Fournier

Alain Fournier was a computer scientist at the University of British Columbia who helped develop fundamental techniques in fractal-based terrain generation and computer graphics rendering. His work in the 1980s and 90s shaped how digital landscapes were created in film, games, and simulation. He died in 2000 at fifty-six, in the middle of a field that was still inventing its own foundations.

2000

Cuan McCarthy

Cuan McCarthy bowled for South Africa in the 1940s and was considered one of the fastest bowlers in the world during that period. He played only 15 Test matches — the international programme was limited compared to today's — but his pace was genuinely feared. He died in 2000 at seventy-one, remembered by cricket historians and largely unknown to the generation that watches cricket now.

2000

Alfred Rieck, deutscher Ruderer

2000

Winfried Steffani, deutscher Politikwissenschaftler

2001

José Bueso, anarquista español (n.

José Bueso, anarquista español (n. 1918).

2001

Edith Lechtape, deutsche Schauspielerin und Fotokünstlerin

2001

Earl Anthony

Earl Anthony was the greatest bowler of his era — the first to earn $1 million in career winnings — with 43 PBA Tour titles and six Player of the Year awards. He was named the greatest bowler of the 20th century but struggled with alcoholism and died from a fall at age 63.

2002

Dave Williams

He was 30 years old, found unresponsive on the band's tour bus outside a Virginia venue — no drugs, no foul play. Just gone. Doctors later identified an undiagnosed heart condition called cardiomyopathy. Drowning Pool had released their debut album *Sinner* only fourteen months earlier, and "Bodies" was everywhere. Williams had written those lyrics himself. The band eventually continued with new vocalists, but that debut album still carries his voice alone — the only recording where listeners hear exactly who Drowning Pool was supposed to be.

2002

Larry Rivers

Larry Rivers bridged Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, creating works like 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' (1953) that reinterpreted historical images with loose, gestural brushwork. He was also a jazz saxophonist, poet, and filmmaker — a restless polymath who resisted easy categorization.

2002

Dave Williams, cantante estadounidense, de la banda Drowning Pool (n.

Dave Williams, cantante estadounidense, de la banda Drowning Pool (n. 1972).

2002

Peter R. Hunt, britischer Filmregisseur und Filmeditor

2003

Robin Thompson, joueur de rugby irlandais (° 5 mai 1931).

2003

Helmut Rahn

Helmut Rahn scored the winning goal in the 1954 World Cup final for West Germany against Hungary — one of the most shocking upsets in tournament history. Hungary had been undefeated for four years and were heavy favorites. Rahn's shot in the 84th minute sealed a 3-2 win. West Germany's victory was broadcast on radio across a country still recovering from occupation and defeat. People wept.

2003

Lew Jefimowitsch Kerbel, russischer Bildhauer

2003

Regina Weicker, deutsche Hörspiel- und Drehbuchautorin

2004

Czesław Miłosz

He spent decades on a U.S. government blacklist while simultaneously being banned in Communist Poland — a man unwanted by both sides of the Cold War. Miłosz defected from the Polish diplomatic service in Paris in 1951, typed out *The Captive Mind* in a borrowed apartment, and eventually found a desk at UC Berkeley where he'd teach for decades. He was 93 when he died in Kraków — the city his government once forbade him to enter. He left behind poems still memorized by Poles who learned them in secret.

2004

Trevor Skeet

Trevor Skeet served as a Conservative MP in Britain from 1970 to 1992, representing various English constituencies. He was a lawyer by training and focused much of his parliamentary work on energy policy and gas deregulation. He died in 2004 at eighty-five. The record of his parliamentary contributions runs to hundreds of pages in Hansard. His name is remembered mainly by researchers.

2004

Neal Fredericks, producteur américain (° 24 juillet 1969).

2004

Gerda Johanna Werner, deutsche Malerin, Modell für das 50-Pfennig-Stück

2004

Marion S. Kellogg, US-amerikanische Managerin und Unternehmensberaterin

2005

Hans Berentzen, deutscher Spirituosenfabrikant

2005

Hans Bols, deutscher Büttenredner im Kölner Karneval

2005

Coo Coo Marlin

Coo Coo Marlin raced NASCAR from the 1960s through the 1980s, running primarily on the superspeedways with limited funding and a great deal of tenacity. He became better known as the father of Sterling Marlin, who won back-to-back Daytona 500s in 1994 and 1995. The Marlin name became a NASCAR dynasty built on one generation deciding to race and the next deciding not to stop.

2005

Manolo Vázquez, matador espagnol (° 21 août 1930).

2006

Adriaan de Groot, psicólogo e mestre de xadrez holandês (n.

Adriaan de Groot, psicólogo e mestre de xadrez holandês (n. 1914).

2006

Johnny Duncan, US-amerikanischer Country-Sänger

2006

Bruno Kirby

Bruno Kirby played supporting roles in some of the most memorable American comedies of the 1980s and 90s — Billy Crystal's best friend in City Slickers, the driver in Tin Men, and the friend giving advice in When Harry Met Sally. He died of leukemia in 2006 at fifty-seven. Character actors who make films better without becoming famous are hard to write obituaries for. He deserved a better one than most people could write.

2006

Pierre-Noël Mayaud, prêtre jésuite, géophysicien et scientifique français (° 4 octobre 1923).

2006

Rubén Marcos, futbolista chileno (n.

Rubén Marcos, futbolista chileno (n. 1942).

2006

Adriaan de Groot

Adriaan de Groot was a Dutch psychologist and chess master whose 1946 study of how chess players think became a foundational text in cognitive science. His research on expert problem-solving influenced Herbert Simon and helped launch the field of artificial intelligence.

2007

Pinchas Goldstein

Pinchas Goldstein was an Israeli politician who served in the Knesset and was active in the National Religious Party. He represented the religious Zionist movement in Israeli politics during a period of growing tension between secular and religious visions of the state.

2007

Sergio Vantaggiato, journaliste sportif italien (° 1967).

2007

Alice Schwarz-Gardos, israelische Journalistin und Buchautorin

2007

Bill Lomas, britischer Motorradrennfahrer

2007

Sayoko Yamaguchi, mannequin et actrice japonaise (° 19 septembre 1949).

2007

Tikhon Khrennikov

Tikhon Khrennikov was appointed head of the Union of Soviet Composers in 1948 and held the position for 43 years. Born in 1913, he was the man who delivered the official denunciations of Shostakovich and Prokofiev on behalf of the Soviet state — following orders he may have believed in. He also protected composers from worse fates and used his position to shield Soviet musical culture when he could. He died in 2007. The people he denounced became legends. He became a symbol of compromise.

2007

Kotozakura Masakatsu

Kotozakura Masakatsu held the rank of yokozuna — sumo's highest honor — as the 53rd grand champion from 1973 to 1974. At 5'10" and 309 pounds, he was known for his aggressive pushing style and won three Emperor's Cup championships.

2008

Marius Maziers, prélat français (° 1er mars 1915).

2008

Kurt Ruchholz, deutscher Geologe und Hochschullehrer

2008

Percy Irausquin

Percy Irausquin was an Aruban-born Dutch fashion designer who was building an international reputation when he drowned at age 39 in 2008. He had shown at Amsterdam Fashion Week and was considered one of the most promising designers to emerge from the Netherlands.

2008

Seiji Aochi (青地清二), sauteur à ski japonais (° 21 juin 1942).

2008

Lita Roza, cantora britânica (n.

Lita Roza, cantora britânica (n. 1926).

2009

Kimani Maruge, personnalité kényane (° 1920).

2009

Nicolas Wyrouboff, résistant français, compagnon de la libération de la 1re division française libre (° 7 février 1915).

2009

Ted Kennedy, joueur de hockey sur glace canadien (° 12 décembre 1925).

2009

Pablo Antoñana, escritor español (n.

Pablo Antoñana, escritor español (n. 1927).

2010

Mario Gavilán, periodista argentino (n.

Mario Gavilán, periodista argentino (n. 1945).

2010

Moshe Lewin, historien franco-américain (° 7 novembre 1921).

2010

Tahar Ouettar

Tahar Ouettar was one of Algeria's foremost Arabic-language novelists, writing fiction that explored the tensions between tradition and modernity in post-independence North Africa. His novel "Al-Zilzal" (The Earthquake) is considered a landmark of Algerian literature.

2010

Herman Leonard

Herman Leonard was the defining photographer of jazz's golden age — his images of Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie in smoky clubs became the visual identity of bebop itself. He lost thousands of prints in Hurricane Katrina but rebuilt his archive from surviving negatives.

2010

Rallis Kopsidis

Rallis Kopsidis was a Greek painter, poet, and art critic whose work spanned expressionism and abstraction across seven decades. He was also a prolific writer about art, helping shape how modern Greek art was understood and criticized.

2010

أحمد السقاف، أديب وشاعر كويتي.

2010

Jeny de los Reyes Aguilar, política mexicana (n.

Jeny de los Reyes Aguilar, política mexicana (n. 1977).

2010

Alberto Müller Rojas, político y militar venezolano (n.

Alberto Müller Rojas, político y militar venezolano (n. 1935).

2010

Abbey Lincoln, cantante y compositora estadounidense de jazz (n.

Abbey Lincoln, cantante y compositora estadounidense de jazz (n. 1930).

2010

Alain Vogin, joueur de hockey sur glace puis entraîneur franco-canadien (° 15 novembre 1970).

2011

Shammi Kapoor, actor y cineasta indio (n.

Shammi Kapoor, actor y cineasta indio (n. 1931).

2011

Fritz Korbach

Fritz Korbach played 371 Bundesliga matches across his career and managed several clubs in the German football system. He's a figure of the middle tier of German football history — competent, durable, present, but not one of the names that survived the sport's curation into celebrity. He died in 2011 at 65. His record exists in the archives.

2011

Shammi Kapoor

Shammi Kapoor was Bollywood's original rock-and-roll hero — his dancing, energy, and willingness to look ridiculous on screen revolutionized Hindi cinema in the late 1950s and 1960s. His performance in "Junglee" (1961), where he yodels and dances with abandon, made him the embodiment of youthful rebellion in Indian film.

2011

Sofia Gon's, chanteuse franco-marocaine (° 12 janvier 1986).

2011

Katerina Golubeva, actrice russe (° 9 octobre 1966).

2011

Austin-Emile Burke, prélat catholique canadien (° 22 janvier 1922).

2011

Paul Reeves, ecclésiastique et homme d'état néo-zélandais (° 6 décembre 1932).

2011

Friedrich Schoenfelder, deutscher Schauspieler

2012

Phyllis Thaxter

Phyllis Thaxter appeared in over 40 films, including "Superman" (1978) as Clark Kent's adoptive mother Martha. Her earlier career included dramatic leads in "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" and "The World of Henry Orient," showcasing range that kept her working across four decades.

2012

Rosemary Rice

Rosemary Rice was a radio and television actress who voiced Rosemary in "Archie" cartoons and worked steadily across American media for over five decades. Her career spanned the transition from radio drama to television, adapting to each new medium.

2012

Ron Palillo

Ron Palillo played Arnold Horshack on "Welcome Back, Kotter" (1975-1979), creating one of television's most memorable catchphrases with his frantic hand-raising "Ooh! Ooh!" He spent his later career teaching acting in Florida, passing along decades of performance experience to students.

2012

Zhou Kehua

Zhou Kehua was one of China's most wanted criminals, responsible for a string of armed robberies and murders across multiple provinces between 2004 and 2012. He was shot dead by police in Chongqing in 2012 after a massive nationwide manhunt.

2012

Sergey Kapitsa

Sergey Kapitsa was a Russian physicist and science communicator who hosted "Evident but Incredible," one of the longest-running science shows in television history, airing from 1973 to 2012. The son of Nobel laureate Pyotr Kapitsa, he made physics accessible to millions of Soviet and Russian viewers.

2012

Svetozar Gligorić

Svetozar Gligoric was Serbia's greatest chess player for decades, a grandmaster who competed at the top level from the 1940s through the 1980s. He played in 11 Chess Olympiads, wrote definitive books on openings, and was also a respected jazz critic and war correspondent.

2012

Vilasrao Deshmukh

Vilasrao Deshmukh served two terms as Chief Minister of Maharashtra, governing India's richest and most industrialized state. His political career survived multiple crises including the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, though his decision to tour the damaged Taj Hotel with his filmmaker son drew harsh criticism.

2012

Maja Bošković-Stulli

Maja Boskovic-Stulli was Croatia's foremost folklorist, spending over five decades collecting and analyzing oral traditions from across the Balkans. Her scholarship preserved stories and songs that were disappearing as rural communities modernized.

2012

Francisco Pastor Pérez, poeta y galerista español (n.

Francisco Pastor Pérez, poeta y galerista español (n. 1931).

2012

Henri Greder, copilote puis pilote de rallye auto français (° 30 novembre 1930).

2013

Jörg Pleva, deutscher Schauspieler

2013

Stephen Easley

Stephen Easley served in the Alabama State Legislature, representing his district during a period of political transition in the Deep South. He was part of the generation of Southern politicians navigating the region's shift in party alignment.

2013

Paddy Power

Paddy Power served as Ireland's Minister for Defence from 1982 to 1986 and was a long-serving Fianna Fail TD from Kildare. He represented the rural conservative tradition in Irish politics during a period of significant social change.

2013

Jack Garfinkel

Jack Garfinkel (later known as Jack Garin) played for the Boston Celtics in the Basketball Association of America in 1946-47, one of the founding season's original players. He later coached at Boston University, connecting professional basketball's earliest days to the college game.

2013

Jack Germond

Jack Germond was one of America's great political journalists — a Baltimore Sun columnist, "McLaughlin Group" panelist, and author whose memoir "Fat Man in a Middle Seat" captured decades of campaign trail wisdom. He covered every presidential election from 1960 to 2004.

2013

Lisa Robin Kelly

Lisa Robin Kelly played Laurie Forman on "That '70s Show" before substance abuse issues led to her departure from the series. She died in 2013 at age 43 while in a rehabilitation facility, a reminder of the struggles that can accompany early fame.

2013

Gia Allemand

Gia Allemand was an American model and reality television personality who appeared on "The Bachelor" in 2010. She died by suicide in 2013 at age 29, sparking conversations about the mental health toll of reality television fame.

2013

Allen Lanier

Allen Lanier was the rhythm guitarist and keyboardist for Blue Oyster Cult, the band behind "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" and "Burnin' for You." His keyboard work gave the band its distinctive sound — heavier than art rock, more cerebral than metal. He was also Patti Smith's partner during her early career.

2013

Janina Depping, deutsche Rallye-Fahrerin

2013

Lisa Robin Kelly, actriz estadounidense (n.

Lisa Robin Kelly, actriz estadounidense (n. 1970).

2014

Pedro Omar Caino, ciclista argentino (n.

Pedro Omar Caino, ciclista argentino (n. 1956).

2014

Alan Landsburg

Alan Landsburg produced "In Search Of..." — the television series narrated by Leonard Nimoy that explored mysteries, UFOs, and the paranormal from 1977 to 1982. The show defined a genre of speculative documentary that influenced everything from "Unsolved Mysteries" to modern streaming true-crime series.

2014

George V. Hansen

George V. Hansen represented Idaho in Congress for seven terms and was one of the first prominent advocates for greater government transparency. He was later convicted of filing false financial disclosure reports, a case that tested the boundaries of congressional ethics enforcement.

2014

Leonard Fein

Leonard Fein co-founded Moment Magazine with Elie Wiesel in 1975, creating one of American Judaism's most influential independent publications. He was also a leading progressive Jewish activist, founding Mazon, the Jewish response to hunger.

2014

Mariana Briski

Mariana Briski was an Argentinian actress known for her comic roles in film and television, including the long-running show "Casados con Hijos" (Married with Children). She was one of Argentina's most recognizable comedic performers.

2014

Jay Adams

Jay Adams was one of skateboarding's founding legends — a member of the Z-Boys team that invented vertical skating in the drained swimming pools of 1970s drought-era Los Angeles. At 13, he was the youngest Z-Boy, and his aggressive style influenced every generation of skaters that followed.

2014

Mariana Briski, actriz argentina (n.

Mariana Briski, actriz argentina (n. 1965).

2014

Stephen Lee, US-amerikanischer Schauspieler

2014

Helga Köhler, deutsche Springreiterin

2014

George V. Hansen, American politician (born 1930)

2015

Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach, escritor israelí (n.

Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach, escritor israelí (n. 1923).

2015

Agustín Cejas, argentinischer Fußballspieler

2015

Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano, argentinisch-paraguayischer Bischof

2015

Bob Johnston

Bob Johnston produced Bob Dylan's *Highway 61 Revisited*, *Blonde on Blonde*, and *Nashville Skyline* — three of the most influential albums in rock history — and also produced Leonard Cohen's first two albums and Johnny Cash's *At Folsom Prison*. His instinct for capturing raw performances with minimal studio interference defined a production philosophy that shaped 1960s and 1970s music.

2015

Bob Farrell

Bob Farrell founded Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour in Portland, Oregon in 1963, creating a chain known for its Americana theme, group birthday spectacles, and massive sundaes. The restaurants became a cultural fixture in Western U.S. communities, and Farrell later became a customer-service guru whose book *Give 'Em the Pickle* became a hospitality industry staple.

2015

Agustín Cejas

Agustin Cejas was a goalkeeper for Racing Club de Avellaneda and played in their historic 1967 Intercontinental Cup victory over Celtic, one of the most violent and controversial series in football history. He earned 12 caps for Argentina during a strong period for the national team.

2016

Na.

Na. Muthukumar, poète, parolier et écrivain indien (° 12 juillet 1975).

2016

Fyvush Finkel

He spent 30 years performing Yiddish theater before most Americans ever heard his name. Fyvush Finkel worked the Second Avenue circuit in Manhattan through its dying decades, playing to immigrant audiences who'd grown up with that world. Then *Picket Fences* found him at 70, and he won an Emmy anyway. He'd started performing at age nine in Brooklyn. That's 61 years of work before mainstream recognition arrived. He left behind proof that an entire theatrical tradition — nearly extinct — could still shape American comedy.

2016

Philip "Fyuvsh" Finkel

He went by Fyyvush — a Yiddish nickname nobody outside his Brooklyn neighborhood could quite pronounce — but Philip Finkel spent decades making sure they'd try. He built his career on Yiddish theater stages before television finally caught up with him at age 70, when *Picket Fences* handed him an Emmy. Seventy years of hustle before mainstream America paid attention. Not overnight. Not even close. He left behind a bridge between immigrant stage culture and prime-time drama that nobody else had the exact right accent to build.

2016

Dena F. Dincauze, US-amerikanische Archäologin

2016

Hermann Kant, écrivain allemand (° 14 juin 1926).

2017

Miriam Goldschmidt, deutsche Schauspielerin, Regisseurin und Autorin

2017

Stephen Wooldridge, australischer Radrennfahrer, Weltmeister

2018

José Pimentel, ator, diretor e escritor teatral brasileiro (n.

José Pimentel, ator, diretor e escritor teatral brasileiro (n. 1934).

2018

Jill Janus

She told almost nobody. Jill Janus, lead singer of heavy metal band Huntress, had performed screaming vocals across five studio albums while privately battling severe mental illness for years. She'd been diagnosed with multiple personality disorder and bipolar disorder, conditions she eventually spoke about openly, hoping to reduce stigma. She died by suicide on August 26, 2018, in Oregon, at 43. Huntress had already disbanded in 2016. But her brutal honesty about mental health in a genre that rarely allowed it outlasted every record she made.

2018

Günter Schmahl, deutscher Physiker

2019

Jagannath Mishra, indischer Politiker

2019

Ivo Malec, französischer Komponist kroatischer Herkunft

2019

Dulce Almada Duarte, kapverdische Linguistin und Widerstandskämpferin

2019

Polly Farmer

Polly Farmer revolutionized Australian Rules football by popularizing the handball as an attacking weapon rather than a last resort, transforming how the game was played. He won seven VFL/WAFL premierships as a player and coach, and is widely regarded as the most innovative footballer in the sport's history.

2020

Julian Bream

He taught himself guitar from a plastic toy instrument at age eleven. Julian Bream didn't come from money or music conservatories — he came from a Battersea jazz musician father who handed him a battered guitar and stepped back. Benjamin Britten wrote music specifically for his hands. John Dowland's lute songs found new audiences through Bream's recordings, some four centuries after Dowland composed them. He retired after a 2013 car accident shattered his right hand. Forty albums. The lute, near-forgotten in concert halls, wasn't when he finished.

2020

Ewa Demarczyk, chanteuse polonaise (° 16 janvier 1941).

2020

Ferenc Petrovácz, tireur sportif hongrois (° 13 janvier 1944).

2020

Ash Christian, US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, Regisseur und Filmproduzent

2020

Annerose Iber-Schade, deutsche Unternehmerin und Verbandsfunktionärin

2020

Moisés Mamani, político peruano (n.

Moisés Mamani, político peruano (n. 1969).

2020

Pete Way, músico y compositor británico (n.

Pete Way, músico y compositor británico (n. 1950).

2020

Linda Manz, actriz estadounidense (n.

Linda Manz, actriz estadounidense (n. 1961).

2020

James R. Thompson

James 'Big Jim' Thompson served as Governor of Illinois for a record 14 years across four terms from 1977 to 1991, the longest gubernatorial tenure in the state's history. A former federal prosecutor who convicted corrupt politicians, he later became chairman of the 9/11 Commission.

2020

Angela Buxton

Angela Buxton won the 1956 Wimbledon doubles title partnering with Althea Gibson — a pairing born partly from both players facing discrimination, Buxton as Jewish and Gibson as Black. After retiring from tennis, Buxton became a coach, businesswoman, and lifelong advocate for Gibson's legacy.

2021

Günter Schultz, deutscher Pharmakologe

2021

Michael Aung-Thwin

Historian Michael Aung-Thwin challenged conventional narratives of Burmese history, particularly the colonial-era construct of 'Mon origins' for Burmese civilization. His revisionist scholarship at the University of Hawaii reshaped how Southeast Asian history is studied in Western academia.

2021

Piera Degli Esposti, italienische Schauspielerin

2021

Robin Hahn, kanadischer Vielseitigkeitsreiter

2022

Dmitri Vrubel, pintor russo (n.1960).

2022

Egle Martin (86), actriz, vedette, coreógrafa y cantante argentina (n.

Egle Martin (86), actriz, vedette, coreógrafa y cantante argentina (n. 1936).

2023

Francesco Alberoni, sociologue, journaliste et professeur italien (° 31 décembre 1929).

2023

Bruno Albert, architecte belge (° 19 août 1941).

2023

Delwar Hossain Sayeedi

Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was a prominent Bangladeshi Islamic orator and Jamaat-e-Islami politician who was convicted of war crimes in 2013 for atrocities committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. His trial and death sentence — later commuted to life imprisonment — sparked massive protests across Bangladesh.

2024

Alexander Ushakov, biathlète soviétique puis russe (° 18 juillet 1948).

2024

Soke Kubota Takayuki, expert japonais en arts martiaux, grand maître de karaté (° 20 septembre 1934).

2024

Eugenia Kalnay, météorologue argentine (° 1er octobre 1942).

2024

Denise Gagnon, actrice et enseignante canadienne (° 17 septembre 1936).

2024

Michel Dugué, poète et prosateur français (° 14 août 1946).

2024

Gena Rowlands

She played a woman unraveling in *A Woman Under the Influence* so convincingly that audiences thought John Cassavetes had filmed a real breakdown. He hadn't. It was a 14-month rehearsal process, her idea. Rowlands earned two Oscar nominations from films her husband directed on borrowed money and maxed-out credit cards. She didn't just act in those films — she co-built them. Her son Nick later cast her in *The Notebook*, opposite a man playing her younger self. The work stayed in the family.

2024

Volker Michael Strocka, archéologue classique allemand (° 26 février 1940).

2024

Delbar Nazari, femme politique afghane (° 1958).

2024

Georges Corm, historien, économiste et homme politique libanais (° 15 juin 1940).

2025

Mike Castle

Mike Castle defined Delaware politics for decades, serving as both its governor and its lone representative in the U.S. House. His tenure prioritized fiscal moderation and bipartisan cooperation, establishing a pragmatic governance style that stabilized the state’s budget during economic downturns. His death concludes a career that shaped the modern political landscape of the First State.

2025

Paulo Sérgio Almeida, diretor e produtor de cinema brasileiro (n.

Paulo Sérgio Almeida, diretor e produtor de cinema brasileiro (n. 1945).

2025

Deaths

Kidinnu, chaldäischer Astronom und Mathematiker

Tiberius II Constantine

Werenfried, Heiliger, Schutzpatron der Gemüsegärtner und Gichtkranken

Eberhard von Einsiedeln, Mitbegründer und erster Abt des Klosters Einsiedeln

Duncan I of Scotland

Giselbert, Graf von Luxemburg

المستظهر بالله، خليفة عباسي.

Rainald of Dassel

Heinrich IV., Graf von Luxemburg

Minamoto no Yoriie

Magnús Gissurarson, Bischof von Skálholt im Süden Islands

Otto von der Mark, Graf von Altena und Propst in Aachen und Maastricht

Friedrich III., Burggraf von Nürnberg

Leopold I. von Gründlach, Bischof von Bamberg

Bernard de Castanet, Kardinal der Römisch-Katholischen Kirche

Giacomo Colonna, Kardinal der Römisch-Katholischen Kirche

Valdemar de Brandebourg, margrave de Brandebourg (° 1280 ou 1281).

Walram von Jülich, Erzbischof des Erzbistums Köln

Guy II.

Philippa von Hennegau, Königsgemahlin Eduards III.

James Douglas, 2.

John FitzAlan

John Arundel, 2.

خليل بن هارون الصنهاجي، فقيه مالكي وصوفي مغاربي.

Philip I

John I of Portugal

Nikodemus della Scala, Bischof von Freising

Pope Pius II

Konrad IX., Herzog von Oels, Cosel, Steinau und halb Beuthen

Marco Barbarigo, 73e doge de Venise de 1485 à 1486 (° 1413).

Enevold Sövenbröder, Bischof von Schleswig

Peter Swyn, wichtiger Anführer der Bauernrepublik Dithmarschen

Peter Edgcumbe, englischer Adeliger, Politiker und Militär

Saitō Tatsuoki

Guillermo Gonzaga de Mantua, aristócrata italiano (n.

Johann Jakob Wick, Schweizer protestantischer Geistlicher

Martin Mirus, deutscher lutherischer Theologe und sächsischer Oberhofprediger

Philipp Eduard Fugger, deutscher Handelsherr

Henri de Gondi, Bischof von Paris

Johannes Rottenhammer, deutscher Maler

Georg Balthasar, böhmischer Märtyrer

Henneke von Essen, Bürgermeister von Arnsberg, Opfer der Hexenverfolgung

August, Pfalzgraf und Herzog von Sulzbach

Nikolaus Elerdt, deutscher lutherischer Theologe und Liederdichter

Jean de Lascaris-Castellar, Großmeister des Malteserordens

Marie de Mantoue, noble italienne, duchesse de Mantoue par mariage avec le duc Charles III de Mayenne (° 29 juillet 1…

صفي الدين القشاشي، متصوف وفقيه ومصنف مسلم.

Christine Magdalena von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Kleeburg, Markgräfin von Baden-Durlach

Charles II de Mantoue, duc de Mantoue (° 31 octobre 1629).

Richard Talbot

Nicolas Chorier, avocat, écrivain et historien français (° 1er septembre 1612).

Martin Friedrich Friese, sächsischer Mediziner

Grigore Pintea, siebenbürgischer Hajdukenführer

Roland Laporte

Roland Laporte, revolucionário francês (n.

Madre María Rosa

William Croft

Ernst August II.

William Houstoun, britischer Arzt und Botaniker

August Christoph von Wackerbarth, kursächsischer Generalfeldmarschall und Staatsminister

Johann Christian Lünig, deutscher Jurist, Historiker und Publizist

Philippine Elisabeth Cäsar, Herzogin von Sachsen-Meiningen

Johann Engelbert von Jabach, Priester und Domherr in Köln

Georg Jakob Schwindel, deutscher evangelischer Theologe und Historiker

Hedwig Friederike von Württemberg-Weiltingen, Fürstin von Anhalt-Zerbst

María Ana de Austria, aristócrata austriaca, reina consorte de Portugal (n.

Jean-Baptiste Anet, französischer Violinist und Komponist

Birgitte Christine Kaas, dänisch-norwegische Poetin, Kirchenlieddichterin und Übersetzerin

Giovanni Battista Somis, italienischer Violinist und Komponist

Ferdinand Karl Gobert von Aspremont-Lynden, habsburgischer Militär

Johann Jakob Reiske

Otto Magnus von Schwerin, preußischer General

Nathaniel Hone the Elder

Nathaniel Hone

Gabriel Baudry d'Asson, militaire français et chef royaliste de la guerre de Vendée (° 1755).

Peter von Hohenthal, kursächsischer Kreishauptmann

George Colman der Ältere, britischer Schriftsteller

Marianne Ehrmann, deutsch-schweizerische Schauspielerin, Schriftstellerin und Journalistin

Johann Heinrich Sulzer, Schweizer Mediziner und Insektenkundler