Deaths

Philipp von Foltz, deutscher Maler

Gustavus

Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden, died in 1877 before he ever took the throne. He was the son of Oscar II and would have been king, but he predeceased his father by fifteen years. His death reshaped Swedish succession. His brother became Oscar II's successor, and then his brother's son became Gustav V. The throne passed through a line that wouldn't have existed had Gustavus lived.

Luigi Legnani, italienischer Sänger, Gitarrist und Komponist

Robert Williams

Robert Williams, known by his bardic name Trebor Mai, was a Welsh poet who competed and won at eisteddfodau — the traditional Welsh festivals of literature, music, and performance that have preserved the Welsh language and culture for centuries. His poetry contributed to the nineteenth-century revival of Welsh literary traditions.

Gustav

Gustav, Prince of Vasa, was the exiled son of the deposed Swedish king Gustav IV Adolf. He spent his life attempting to reclaim the Swedish throne, living in various European courts as the last direct male heir of the Vasa dynasty.

1879

Charles Albert Fechter, französisch-britischer Schauspieler

1880

Ludwig Binswanger der Ältere, deutscher Psychiater

1880

Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra

Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra built dermatology into a medical specialty in Vienna in the mid-nineteenth century. Before him, skin diseases were classified by appearance, which led to bizarre taxonomies and useless treatments. Hebra classified them by cause and mechanism. He identified scabies as caused by a mite. He showed that eczema wasn't one disease but many. He died in 1880. His students spread his methods across European medicine.

1881

Spotted Tail

Spotted Tail was a Brule Lakota chief who chose diplomacy over warfare in dealing with the United States government, negotiating for his people's survival while other Sioux leaders fought. He was assassinated by a fellow Lakota in 1881, a killing that reflected the deep internal divisions created by the impossible choices forced on Native American leaders during westward expansion.

1886

Robert Allen, général américain (° 15 mars 1811).

1888

Philip Sheridan, major général américain et général de l'Union (° 6 mars 1831).

1888

Anna Haining Bates

Canadian Anna Haining Bates stood 7 feet 11 inches tall and toured with P.T. Barnum's sideshow before marrying fellow giant Martin Van Buren Bates. Her newborn son — reportedly over 23 pounds — was the largest baby on record, though he did not survive.

1889

Fanny Lewald, deutsche Schriftstellerin, Frauenrechtlerin, Salonnière

1891

William Morris Davis, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1893

James Pierpont, compositor, arreglista y organista estadounidense (n.

James Pierpont, compositor, arreglista y organista estadounidense (n. 1822).

1893

Friedrich Wilhelm Adami, écrivain, dramaturge et critique de théâtre allemand (° 18 octobre 1816).

1895

Friedrich Engels

He burned his throat away. Engels spent his final months unable to speak, communicating by chalk on a small blackboard — the man who'd co-authored the most-read political document in history, silenced by esophageal cancer at 74. He'd spent 20 years after Marx died editing volumes two and three of *Das Kapital* from Marx's nearly illegible manuscripts. Nobody else could have decoded them. Engels also quietly funded Marx's entire career from his family's Manchester textile mill — the co-founder of communist theory was, himself, a factory owner.

1896

Pedro Salaverría, político español (n.

Pedro Salaverría, político español (n. 1821).

1896

George T. Anthony, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1897

Albert Marth, astrónomo británico (n.

Albert Marth, astrónomo británico (n. 1828).

1899

Carl du Prel, deutscher Philosoph, Spiritist und okkulter Schriftsteller

1900s 162

1901

Victoria

Victoria, Princess Royal, was Queen Victoria's eldest child and the mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II. She married Frederick of Prussia in 1858 and was committed to making Prussia a liberal constitutional monarchy on the British model. Her husband Frederick became emperor — for 99 days before dying of throat cancer. Her son Wilhelm dismissed Bismarck, fired his mother from any political influence, and drove Germany toward the war that killed 20 million people. She died in 1901, the same year as her mother, watching what she'd spent her life trying to prevent become inevitable.

1903

Oswald Theodor Feller, deutscher Lehrer, Autor und Bergsteiger

1904

Aloyse Michalesi, deutsche Opernsängerin (Altistin)

1904

Carl Weigert, deutscher Pathologe

1904

George Dibbs

He fought free trade so hard that his own party called him a liability. George Dibbs served as New South Wales Premier three separate times — never once winning a majority government. He championed protectionism when free traders dominated colonial politics, betting his career on a losing position for decades. Then Federation arrived in 1901 and made the whole argument irrelevant overnight. He died three years later, his life's great cause absorbed into federal tariff policy he'd never control. He'd been right about protection. Just wrong about who'd implement it.

1905

Anton Ažbe, österreichischer Maler slowenischer Herkunft

1905

Julius Stinde, deutscher Chemiker, Journalist und Schriftsteller

1909

Miguel Antonio Caro, político y escritor colombiano, presidente entre 1892 y 1898 (n.

Miguel Antonio Caro, político y escritor colombiano, presidente entre 1892 y 1898 (n. 1843).

1910

Julius Peter Christian Petersen, dänischer Mathematiker

1911

Anton Josef Gruscha, cardinal catholique autrichien (° 3 novembre 1820).

1911

Bob Caruthers

Bob Caruthers won forty or more games as a pitcher in two separate seasons in the 1880s — 40 in 1885 and 29 in 1886 for the St. Louis Browns. He also hit well enough to play outfield on days he didn't pitch. The late nineteenth century baseball that produced these statistics was a different game, with different rules and schedules, but the numbers still required someone exceptional to generate them. He died in 1911 at forty-seven.

1914

Jules Lemaître, écrivain et critique dramatique français (° 27 avril 1853).

1914

Alfred Hegar, deutscher Arzt und Gynäkologe

1915

Sakuma Samata, militaire japonais (° 19 novembre 1844).

1916

George Butterworth

George Butterworth composed "The Banks of Green Willow" and "A Shropshire Lad," two of the most beautiful works in English orchestral music, before being killed by a sniper at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 at age 31. He had already destroyed most of his manuscripts before enlisting, believing they weren't good enough — what survived became some of the most performed English concert pieces of the twentieth century.

1917

Wilhelm Brülle, deutscher Turner

1917

Albrecht von Zitzewitz, preußischer Gutsbesitzer und Politiker

1918

Peter Strasser, deutscher Luftschiffkapitän

1919

Cornelia Gurlitt, deutsche Malerin

1921

Dimitrios Rallis

He governed Greece during one of its most turbulent stretches, yet Dimitrios Rallis kept returning to power — four separate terms as Prime Minister. Born in 1844 to a political dynasty, his father had also led the country. That kind of inheritance cuts both ways. He navigated the aftermath of Greece's disastrous 1897 war with the Ottomans, when national bankruptcy loomed and public fury ran hot. He died in 1921, just as Greece lurched toward another catastrophe in Anatolia. He didn't live to see it collapse.

1922

Sandy Kenyon, US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, Regisseur und Synchronsprecher

1923

Vatroslav Jagić

Vatroslav Jagić spent fifty years turning Slavic philology into a rigorous academic discipline. He founded journals, trained scholars, and published texts that nobody had bothered to edit before. He was Croatian, but he worked across the entire South Slav world — and beyond, in Cyrillic manuscripts and Old Church Slavonic texts. He died in 1923 at eighty-seven. The field he built outlasted every political boundary he'd navigated.

1923

Ahmed Kamāl, ägyptischer Ägyptologe

1923

Vatroslav Jagić, kroatischer Slawist

1924

Raymond de Pezzer, französischer Komponist

1924

Teodor Teodorov, homme politique bulgare (° 8 avril 1859).

1925

Georges Palante, filósofo anarcoindividualista francés (n.

Georges Palante, filósofo anarcoindividualista francés (n. 1862).

1925

Jennie Lee

Jennie Lee transitioned from a celebrated stage career to become one of the earliest stars of the silent film era, most notably as the devoted Mammy in D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation. Her passing in 1925 ended a half-century of performance that helped define the transition from Victorian theater to the burgeoning Hollywood studio system.

1927

Joseph O’Mara, irischer Operntenor

1927

Robert von Dobschütz, preußischer Generalmajor

1929

Millicent Fawcett

Millicent Fawcett led the constitutional suffragist movement in Britain for nearly fifty years, choosing speeches, petitions, and parliamentary lobbying over the militant tactics of the suffragettes. She was right that violence alienated supporters; she was also slow. Women over thirty got the vote in 1918, women over twenty-one in 1928 — the same year Fawcett died. She got to vote exactly once before she died. She was eighty-two.

1929

António Mendes Bello, portugiesischer Geistlicher, Patriarch von Lissabon und Kardinal

1933

Charles Harold Davis

Charles Harold Davis was an American Impressionist landscape painter who studied in Paris and returned to Connecticut, where he spent decades painting the rolling hills and dramatic skies of the Mystic River valley. His atmospheric landscapes earned him membership in the National Academy of Design and a place in the American Impressionist movement.

1933

Karl Hagemeister, deutscher impressionistischer Maler

1935

David Townsend

American art director David Townsend contributed to the visual design of film and theater productions during the early decades of Hollywood.

1936

Georges Caussade, französischer Komponist

1936

Francisco Martínez García, político español (n.

Francisco Martínez García, político español (n. 1889).

1939

Karl Mohns, deutscher Pilot

1939

Charles Du Bos, écrivain et critique français (° 27 octobre 1882).

1939

Béla Jankovich

Hungarian economist Béla Jankovich served as Minister of Education and was a prominent voice in Hungarian public finance policy during the early 20th century.

1940

Gerhard Mensch, deutscher Bauingenieur

1942

Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen, deutscher General

1942

Janusz Korczak, polnischer Arzt, Kinderbuchautor und Pädagoge

Adam Kuckhoff, deutscher Schriftsteller und Widerstandskämpfer gegen den Nationalsozialismus

Oda Schottmüller, danseuse et résistante allemande (° 9 février 1905).

Cato Bontjes van Beek, deutsche Widerstandskämpferin gegen den Nationalsozialismus

Maria Terwiel, deutsche Widerstandskämpferin gegen den Nationalsozialismus

Walter Klingenbeck, deutscher Widerstandskämpfer gegen den Nationalsozialismus

Hilde Coppi, deutsche Widerstandskämpferin gegen den Nationalsozialismus

Liane Berkowitz, deutsche Widerstandskämpferin gegen den Nationalsozialismus

Eva-Maria Buch, résistante allemande (° 31 janvier 1921).

1944

Jędrzej Moraczewski, homme politique socialiste polonais (° 13 janvier 1870).

1944

Maurice Turnbull

Maurice Turnbull was a Welsh cricketer who represented Glamorgan, captained England, and also played rugby for Wales — a double international that was unusual even then. He joined the army in 1939 and was killed in Normandy in August 1944, just weeks after D-Day. He was thirty-eight. Wales lost him at the intersection of his playing prime and what would have been a long career as a cricket administrator.

1944

Henri Romanetti, officier mitrailleur aérien, compagnon de la Libération (° 7 mars 1909).

1946

Wilhelm Marx

Wilhelm Marx served as German Chancellor twice — in 1923-24 and again in 1926-28 — during the Weimar Republic's most fragile years. He was a Catholic centrist who kept coalition governments together through hyperinflation, political violence, and the constant threat of extremist takeover from both right and left. He ran for president in 1925 and lost to Hindenburg. The center did not hold. He died in 1946, having watched everything he'd tried to preserve collapse.

1947

Josef Aigner, österreichischer Landesbeamter und Politiker

1947

Hans Sachs, deutscher Politiker und MdR

1948

Montagu Toller

English cricketer and lawyer Montagu Toller played first-class cricket while building a legal career. He represented one of the English counties during the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.

1949

Ernest Fourneau, chimiste et pharmacologue français (° 4 octobre 1872).

1949

Louis Colas, französischer Automobilrennfahrer

1950

Emil Abderhalden, Schweizer Physiologe und Entdecker

1952

Sameera Moussa

Sameera Moussa was Egypt's first female nuclear scientist and spent her career trying to make nuclear medicine accessible to countries that couldn't afford Western medical technology. She proposed international cooperation on peaceful nuclear use at a time when the Cold War made such proposals radical. She died in a car accident in California in 1952 while visiting on a fellowship. She was thirty-five. Whether the accident was an accident has never been definitively settled.

1952

sir Jack Drummond, biochimiste britannique, supposément assassiné par Gaston Dominici (° 12 janvier 1891).

1953

Josef Hehl, deutscher Töpfer und Keramikkünstler

1955

Carmen Miranda

She collapsed mid-dance on live television, finished the number anyway, then died of a heart attack hours later. Carmen Miranda had been performing since her teenage years in Rio, and her fruit-laden headdresses — some weighing over 40 pounds — became so embedded in American pop culture that the Chiquita Banana mascot was modeled directly after her. She'd earned more than any other woman in Hollywood by 1945. Brazil declared three days of national mourning. The woman who defined "exotic" to millions of Americans was born in Portugal and raised in Rio.

1956

John Miller Andrews, Premierminister Nordirlands

1956

Wilhelm Stockums, deutscher Geistlicher, Weihbischof in Köln

1957

Martin Elsaesser, deutscher Architekturprofessor

1957

Heinrich Otto Wieland

Heinrich Wieland won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1927 for determining the structure of bile acids. His work showed that sterols — the chemical family that includes cholesterol — share a common structure, which eventually led to understanding how steroids work in the body. He ran his laboratory at Munich through the Nazi period and reportedly protected Jewish colleagues from deportation. He died in 1957 at seventy-nine.

1958

Carl Westergren, schwedischer Ringer

1958

Joseph Holbrooke, englischer Komponist, Dirigent und Pianist

1958

Regino Boti, kubanischer Schriftsteller

1959

Edgar Guest

Edgar Guest wrote a poem a day for the Detroit Free Press for most of his career — tens of thousands of poems in total. Most were about home, family, and the decent pleasures of ordinary life. Literary critics were merciless. Readers bought his books in enormous numbers. He was one of the most widely read poets in America during the first half of the twentieth century, which didn't impress anyone who thought they knew what poetry was supposed to be.

1960

Arthur Meighen

Arthur Meighen was Prime Minister of Canada twice: in 1920-21 and briefly in 1926, when he held office for three months before losing a confidence vote. The 1926 election that ended his second term turned partly on a constitutional crisis — the Governor General had refused to dissolve Parliament at the request of the Liberal prime minister and had invited Meighen to try to govern instead. Meighen tried and failed. He never held power again. He died in 1960 at eighty-six.

1960

Lori Sutton, US-amerikanische Schauspielerin

1961

Hanns Seidel, deutscher Politiker, MdL, Landesminister, Ministerpräsident Bayerns

1962

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Brentwood, California, home on August 5, 1962 — a Saturday. She was 36. The official cause was acute barbiturate poisoning, likely from a deliberate overdose of Nembutal. She'd been struggling with depression and pill dependency for years. She'd been fired from a film production two months earlier. She was in the middle of recording an album and had agreed to a comeback appearance. She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson, raised in a series of foster homes and an orphanage, and had created Marilyn Monroe entirely from scratch — the name, the voice, the walk. She had an IQ of 163 by some accounts. She was reading Ulysses when she died. The conspiracy theories began almost immediately and have never stopped.

1962

Ramón Pérez de Ayala, escritor español (n.

Ramón Pérez de Ayala, escritor español (n. 1880).

1962

John Willie, britischer Pionier der Fetischfotografie und Bondagekünstler

1963

Annie Rosar, österreichische Schauspielerin

1963

Salvador Bacarisse

Salvador Bacarisse left Spain in 1939 as Franco's forces took Madrid and never came back. He'd been a composer of the Spanish Republic, which meant there was no place for him in Franco's Spain. He settled in Paris and kept composing — orchestral works, operas, guitar music — for an audience that was largely indifferent to exiled Spanish artists. He died in 1963. His music has been rediscovered in fits and starts since the transition to democracy.

1964

Moa Martinson

Moa Martinson was a self-educated Swedish working-class writer whose novels about rural poverty and women's lives became classics of Swedish proletarian literature. She wrote from direct experience — growing up in extreme poverty, working in factories, and raising children alone — giving her fiction an authenticity that middle-class Swedish authors couldn't replicate.

1964

Karl Ritter von Halt, deutscher Leichtathlet und Sportfunktionär, Reichssportführer, Präsident des NOK

1964

Art Ross

Ross played professional hockey when there was no such thing as an established professional hockey league and then helped create one. He played in the Wanderers' first Stanley Cup team in 1906 and 1907, coached for decades, managed the Boston Bruins for 30 years, and gave the NHL the Art Ross Trophy, awarded to the regular season scoring leader, which bears his name. He also redesigned the puck. The Art Ross puck was the standard for decades. He touched every part of hockey administration and left his name on the part that mattered most to players.

1966

Anna Bachmann-Eugster, erste Berufsberaterin für Frauen in der Schweiz und Mitbegründerin der Zentralstelle für Fraue…

Anna Bachmann-Eugster, erste Berufsberaterin für Frauen in der Schweiz und Mitbegründerin der Zentralstelle für Frauenberufe

1966

Halvard Olsen, homme politique norvégien (° 23 janvier 1886).

1967

György Bródy

Hungarian water polo player György Bródy won Olympic gold at the 1932 Los Angeles Games as part of Hungary's dominant water polo dynasty. He was one of several Hungarian players who helped establish the sport as a national obsession.

1968

Carlyle Atkinson, britischer Schwimmer

1968

Luther Perkins

Luther Perkins was the guitarist who invented the boom-chicka-boom sound of Johnny Cash's recordings — that rolling bass line and snapped treble string that made every Sun Records session unmistakable. He wasn't a virtuoso. He was a country guitarist who found one thing that worked perfectly and committed to it. Cash said Perkins was irreplaceable. Perkins died in 1968 from injuries after a house fire. He was forty. Cash kept the sound.

1969

Adolf Friedrich zu Mecklenburg, deutscher Kolonialbeamter und Sportfunktionär, letzter Gouverneur von Deutsch-Togo, e…

Adolf Friedrich zu Mecklenburg, deutscher Kolonialbeamter und Sportfunktionär, letzter Gouverneur von Deutsch-Togo, erster Präsident des NOK

1970

Albin Kitzinger, deutscher Fußballspieler

1970

Magdalene Pauli, deutsche Schriftstellerin

1972

Harry Hylton-Foster

Harry Hylton-Foster served as Speaker of the British House of Commons from 1959 until his death in 1972. He was a Conservative MP for York, a career barrister before Parliament, and regarded as a scrupulously fair Speaker. He died in office — one of the few Speakers to do so in the twentieth century. His widow was made Baroness Hylton-Foster and sat in the Lords.

1972

Mezz Mezzrow, US-amerikanischer Jazz-Sopransaxophonist und Klarinettist

1973

M. Agejew, russischer Autor

1973

Barbette, US-amerikanischer Trapezkünstler

1974

Nicola Fausto Neroni, réalisateur et scénariste italien (° 12 décembre 1886).

1975

Marc Wright, perchiste américain (° 21 avril 1890).

1975

Gustav von Wangenheim, acteur et réalisateur allemand (° 18 février 1895).

1976

Ole Mørk Sandvik, norwegischer Volksliedsammler, Musikforscher und -pädagoge

1976

Lu Säuberlich, deutsche Schauspielerin

Kurt Pomplun, deutscher Heimatforscher

Leo Fleider, cineasta argentino (n.

Leo Fleider, cineasta argentino (n. 1913).

Chucho Reyes, pintor y coleccionista mexicano (n.

Chucho Reyes, pintor y coleccionista mexicano (n. 1880).

Otto Kuhler, deutsch-amerikanischer Automobildesigner

Max Kaus, deutscher Maler und Graphiker

Gerhard Just, deutscher Schauspieler

Jesse Haines

Jesse Haines pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals for eighteen seasons and won a World Series ring in 1926, 1931, and 1934. He threw a no-hitter in 1924. His Hall of Fame election in 1970 was controversial — he was elected by the Veterans Committee when many analysts thought his statistics didn't support it. He died in 1978 at eighty-five, which meant he'd been a Hall of Famer for eight years.

Victor Hasselblad, schwedischer Fotograf und Erfinder

Ernst Melchior, österreichischer Fußballspieler

Earl Clark, US-amerikanischer American-Football-Spieler und -Trainer

1979

Joseph Arregui y Yparaguirre, spanischer Geistlicher

1980

Harold L. Runnels

Runnels served in World War II, won the Silver Star, became a teacher, ran for Congress from New Mexico, and served six terms. He worked on veterans' benefits and rural electrification and water rights in the arid Southwest, which were unglamorous issues that mattered enormously to people who had no other advocate in Washington. He died in office. Heart attack. He was 55. His district held a special election to replace him. The seat stayed in the party. His constituents remembered the electrification more than the Silver Star.

1981

Jerzy Neyman, mathématicien polono-américain (° 16 avril 1894).

1981

Jean Bobescu, rumänischer Violinist, Dirigent und Musikpädagoge

1982

Dieter Borsche, deutscher Theater- und Filmschauspieler

Judy Canova

Canova was Judy Canova on radio and film throughout the 1940s, a hillbilly character who played dumb and wasn't. She sold the rural South to the rest of America as comedy and the rural South bought it back as identity. She had a voice that carried across a theater without amplification. She was in Hollywood Canteen in 1944, performing for troops. She raised her daughter to be an actress. Her daughter was Diana Canova, who was in Soap. The comedy business ran in the family.

Johann Sklenka, österreichischer Komponist, Kabarettist, Schauspieler und Regisseur

Bart Jan Bok, astronome néerlando-américain (° 28 avril 1906).

Joan Robinson

English economist Joan Robinson was one of the most brilliant and combative economic thinkers of the 20th century, contributing to Keynesian theory, developing the concept of monopsony, and waging decades-long intellectual wars with mainstream economists. She was widely considered the most deserving economist never to receive the Nobel Prize.

Hertha Thiele, deutsche Schauspielerin

Rudolf Hagelstange, deutscher Schriftsteller

Richard Burton

Richard Burton made seventeen films with Elizabeth Taylor and married her twice. He was also one of the finest Shakespearean actors of his generation — his Hamlet in 1964 ran for 136 performances on Broadway and was filmed for movie theaters. The tabloid story consumed the critical story. He drank heavily, acknowledged it freely, and kept working. He died in 1984 at fifty-eight, leaving unfinished a recording of Dylan Thomas he'd been making. He'd wanted to do it for years.

Gertrud Savelsberg, deutsche Sozialwissenschaftlerin

1985

Arnold Horween

Arnold Horween — along with his brother Ralph — was one of the first Jewish players in professional football, playing for the Chicago Cardinals in the 1920s. He later became head football coach at Harvard, his alma mater.

1985

Juozas Žilevičius, litauischer Komponist, Organist, Musikpädagoge und -wissenschaftler

1986

Arthur Douville, prélat québécois (° 22 juillet 1894).

1986

Artur Stegner, deutscher Politiker, MdB, MdL

Chava Flores (Salvador Flores Rivera), compositor y cantante mexicano (n.

Chava Flores (Salvador Flores Rivera), compositor y cantante mexicano (n. 1920).

Joseph Bouglione, artiste et directeur de cirque français (° 17 février 1904).

Casilda Fernández, aristócrata española (n.

Casilda Fernández, aristócrata española (n. 1888).

Zygmunt Mycielski, polnischer Komponist

Georg Gaßmann

German politician Georg Gaßmann served as Mayor of Marburg and contributed to local governance in postwar West Germany.

Shibusawa Tatsuhiko, japanischer Schriftsteller

1988

Colin Higgins, australischer Schriftsteller, Filmregisseur und Drehbuchautor

1989

Pieter Arie Hendrik de Boer, niederländischer reformierter Theologe

1989

Josef Nöcker, deutscher Mediziner und Sportfunktionär

1990

Ivan Blatný, tschechischer Dichter und Schriftsteller

Paul Brown

Paul Brown invented the modern NFL coaching staff. He used film study, written playbooks, and IQ tests when other coaches were still relying on intuition and memory. He built the Cleveland Browns into a dynasty in the 1940s and 1950s. He was fired by Art Modell in 1963. He went away, waited eight years, and came back with the Cincinnati Bengals — an expansion team he built from nothing into a Super Bowl contender. He died in 1991, still running the organization.

Hermann Cuhorst, deutscher Jurist

Gaston Litaize, französischer Komponist, Organist und Musikpädagoge

Julio Prieto Nespereira, pintor español (n.

Julio Prieto Nespereira, pintor español (n. 1896).

Soichiro Honda

Soichiro Honda started his company in 1948 with twelve workers in a small wooden shed. He was building motorcycles from war surplus radio equipment. By 1959, Honda was the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer. The company entered Formula One in 1964 and won a Grand Prix within two years. He ran the company with an intensity that his engineers found exhausting and inspiring in roughly equal measure. He died in 1991. Honda employs 200,000 people.

Jeff Porcaro, baterista estadounidense, integrante de la banda Toto (n.1954)

Robert Muldoon

Robert Muldoon served as New Zealand's Prime Minister from 1975 to 1984, governing with a combative, authoritarian style that earned him the nickname "Piggy" and deep loyalty from his working-class base. He called a snap election while reportedly intoxicated in 1984, lost to David Lange's Labour Party, and left behind an economy so distorted by his interventionist policies that his successors had to undertake radical free-market reforms.

Jeff Porcaro

Porcaro was on first call for every major session in Los Angeles by his late twenties. The shuffle he invented for the Toto song Rosanna became a textbook example. He played on Thriller, on Tug of War, on The Wall. He was 38 when he died. The cause was disputed — pesticide reaction, heart defect, cocaine. The family disputed the cocaine account. The coroner was inconclusive. The shuffle is named after him.

Juan David García Bacca, filósofo español (n.

Juan David García Bacca, filósofo español (n. 1901).

1993

Eugen Suchoň, slowakischer Komponist

1994

Alain de Changy

Alain de Changy raced in endurance events in the 1950s and early 1960s, including Le Mans, where he competed multiple times. Belgian motorsport had a small but serious group of privateers and gentleman drivers during the golden age, when amateurs with money and nerve could still enter the same race as factory teams. De Changy was part of that world. He died in 1994.

1994

Menachem Avidom

Israeli composer Menachem Avidom (born Herman Mahler-Kalkstein in Poland) became one of the founding composers of Israeli art music. He served as chairman of the Israeli Composers' League and helped establish a distinctly Israeli classical music tradition.

1995

Udo Giulini, deutscher Jurist, Unternehmer und Politiker, MdB

1995

Agha Hasan Abedi, pakistanischer Bankier

1996

Roman Schnur, deutscher Staatsrechtler

1996

Kurt Partzsch, deutscher Ingenieur und Politiker, MdL, Landesminister

1997

Alma Kettig, deutsche Politikerin, MdB, Widerstandskämpferin gegen den Nationalsozialismus, Gewerkschafterin und Frie…

Alma Kettig, deutsche Politikerin, MdB, Widerstandskämpferin gegen den Nationalsozialismus, Gewerkschafterin und Friedensaktivistin

1997

Elisabeth Höngen, deutsche Sängerin

Gabriel Delaunay, résistant, haut fonctionnaire et écrivain français (° 30 avril 1907).

Todor Zhivkov

He ruled Bulgaria for 35 years — longer than any other Eastern Bloc leader — yet died broke, under house arrest, in the same Sofia apartment where he'd been confined since 1990. Zhivkov had commanded a secret police apparatus that imprisoned thousands, but his own trial collapsed repeatedly due to his failing health. He was 86. The man who'd expelled 300,000 ethnic Turks in a single 1989 campaign died before a verdict ever came. Bulgaria's courts never formally closed his case.

Gérard Ménatory, journaliste, naturaliste et résistant français (° 3 décembre 1921).

Bernhard Achterberg, deutscher Psychologe, Psychotherapeut und Hochschullehrer

Arthur Ceuleers, footballeur belge (° 28 février 1916).

Otto Kretschmer

He sank more Allied tonnage than any other U-boat commander in the war — 47 ships, 274,333 tons — yet Otto Kretschmer refused to machine-gun survivors in the water. His crew called him "Silent Otto" because he rarely used his radio, which is exactly why British codebreakers couldn't track him. Captured in 1941 after U-99 was depth-charged into submission, he rose to vice admiral in West Germany's postwar navy. The man who nearly starved Britain back into the Atlantic died at 86 on his own boat near Bavaria.

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Otto Buchsbaum

Otto Buchsbaum was born in Austria, fled the Nazis, and built a second life in Brazil, where he became a journalist and an activist for Jewish cultural life in South America. He edited publications, organized community institutions, and documented the experience of Jewish refugees in a country that had accepted tens of thousands of them. He died in 2000 at eighty.

Arturo Durazo Moreno, policía y político mexicano (n.

Arturo Durazo Moreno, policía y político mexicano (n. 1918).

Tullio Crali

Italian Futurist painter Tullio Crali specialized in 'aeropainting' — canvases depicting the exhilaration of flight from the pilot's perspective — that captured the speed and danger of aviation with dizzying angles and bold color. He remained devoted to Futurism decades after the movement's other practitioners had moved on.

Alec Guinness

He hated the role that made him immortal. Alec Guinness begged George Lucas to let Obi-Wan Kenobi die in the first film, reportedly calling the *Star Wars* script "fairy-tale rubbish." Lucas agreed — and that death scene earned Guinness residuals that paid him millions for decades. But he'd already won an Oscar for *The Bridge on the River Kwai* in 1958, playing eight entirely different characters in *Kind Hearts and Coronets*. He left behind 36 films. The man who wanted out became the franchise's soul.

Lala Amarnath

Lala Amarnath scored India's first-ever Test century in 1933, hitting 118 against England at Bombay in only India's third Test match. He later captained India and became the patriarch of a cricketing dynasty — his sons Surinder and Mohinder both represented India at the international level.

Christopher Skase

Australian corporate raider Christopher Skase built a media empire that included the Seven Network, then fled to Majorca to avoid fraud charges as his businesses collapsed. He died in Spanish exile, never having returned to face Australian courts — a symbol of 1980s excess gone wrong.

Bahne Rabe, rameur d'aviron allemand (° 7 août 1963).

Otema Allimadi

He ran Uganda's government as Prime Minister under Milton Obote, navigating one of Africa's most volatile political climates — then vanished from power when Obote fell in 1985. Allimadi had served since 1980, steering policy through economic collapse and civil war. He was 71 when he died in 2001, largely forgotten outside Uganda. But he'd held the country's second-highest office during years when holding any office meant risking everything. Power in Uganda then wasn't a career. It was a gamble.

Ingo Braecklein, Bischof der evangelischen Landeskirche von Thüringen

Josh Ryan Evans

Josh Ryan Evans was born with hypochondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, and found his way into acting in his late teens. He became known for his role as Timmy the doll on 'Passions' and appeared in 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' in 2000. He died in 2002 at twenty, from heart problems connected to his condition. He'd been told as a child that he might not live past eighteen.

Matt Robinson

American actor Matt Robinson was the original Gordon on 'Sesame Street,' playing the character from 1969 to 1972 during the show's groundbreaking early years. He later produced and wrote screenplays, including 'Amazing Grace.'

Franco Lucentini

Franco Lucentini was half of one of Italy's most successful literary partnerships — he and Carlo Fruttero co-wrote detective novels and satirical works for decades. Their mysteries were popular enough to become television productions. Their satirical column in 'La Stampa' ran for years. Lucentini died in 2002. Fruttero continued writing alone for a decade. The partnership had been so complete that neither was quite the same without the other.

Francisco Coloane, escritor chileno (n.

Francisco Coloane, escritor chileno (n. 1910).

Darrell Porter

Darrell Porter was the World Series MVP for the 1982 St. Louis Cardinals and one of the best catchers of his era, earning four All-Star selections across stints with the Brewers, Royals, and Cardinals. He was open about his struggles with alcohol and cocaine addiction during his playing career, one of the first major leaguers to discuss substance abuse publicly.

Chick Hearn

Chick Hearn called Los Angeles Lakers games for forty-two seasons, missing exactly zero consecutive games in a streak that ran from 1965 to 2001 — 3,338 games without a break. He invented much of the language that basketball broadcasting uses today: 'slam dunk,' 'no harm, no foul,' 'the mustard is off the hot dog,' 'frozen rope.' He died in 2002 at eighty-five, three weeks after the streak finally ended because of surgery. The Lakers played his voice at his memorial.

Daniel Kelly, chanteur et danseur folk américain, chef, cofondateur, et patriarche, de la troupe musicale The Kelly F…

Daniel Kelly, chanteur et danseur folk américain, chef, cofondateur, et patriarche, de la troupe musicale The Kelly Family (° 11 octobre 1930).

Manuel Mur Oti, cineasta español (n.

Manuel Mur Oti, cineasta español (n. 1908).

Heinz Krekeler, deutscher Chemiker und Politiker

Carlo Coccioli, escritor italiano (n.

Carlo Coccioli, escritor italiano (n. 1920).

Tite Curet, compositor puertorriqueño de salsa (n.

Tite Curet, compositor puertorriqueño de salsa (n. 1926).

Maurice Mollin, cycliste sur route belge (° 6 mai 1924).

Domingo García-Sabell, médico y escritor español (n.

Domingo García-Sabell, médico y escritor español (n. 1908).

2004

Uri Adelman, israelischer Schriftsteller, Musiker und Komponist

Fritze Carstensen, nageuse danoise (° 18 juillet 1925).

Horst Ankermann, deutscher Pharmakologe und Bildhauer

Bertie Hill, cavalier de concours complet britannique (° 7 février 1927).

Polina Astakhova

Polina Astakhova won five Olympic medals in gymnastics — two golds, two silvers, one bronze — across the 1956 and 1960 Olympics. She was part of the Soviet gymnastic machine that dominated the sport in that era, but she was also known individually for artistry and expression at a time when gymnastics was becoming more athletic and less balletic. She died in 2005 at sixty-eight.

Raymond Klibansky, philosophe et historien de la culture franco-canadien (° 15 octobre 1905).

Jim O'Hora

Jim O'Hora played college football at Penn State and spent forty years coaching there under Rip Engle and then Joe Paterno. He was the kind of assistant coach whose career is invisible from the outside and irreplaceable from within — coaching defensive ends, building recruiting relationships, maintaining institutional knowledge. He died in 2005 at ninety.

Eddie Jenkins

Eddie Jenkins played football in Wales during the mid-twentieth century, competing in a country where the sport exists in the long shadow of rugby union. His career represented the passion for football that persists in Welsh communities despite the national obsession with rugby.

Raul Roco

He ran for president five times. Never won. But Raul Roco kept showing up anyway, arguing that corruption was the real enemy — not the opposition. As Secretary of Education, he pushed to shorten the school year's bureaucratic bloat and fought for teachers who hadn't seen a raise in years. He died of Parkinson's disease at 63, still mid-fight. His 2004 presidential campaign had revealed his diagnosis publicly — a rare act of transparency in Philippine politics. He lost that race. But he'd refused to hide.

Hugo Schiltz, homme politique belge (° 27 octobre 1927).

Susan Butcher, US-amerikanische Hundetrainerin

Susan Butcher

Susan Butcher won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race four times — in 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1990. She was the first person to win three consecutive times. She trained her dogs with a specificity and devotion that changed how mushing was understood: the dogs weren't tools, they were athletes. She moved to Alaska at twenty and built her kennel from scratch. She died of leukemia in 2006 at fifty-one. Alaska has a Susan Butcher Day.

Daniel Schmid, cineasta suizo (n.

Daniel Schmid, cineasta suizo (n. 1941).

Adrienne Clostre, compositrice française (° 9 octobre 1921).

Florian Pittiş

Florian Pittis was one of Romania most beloved cultural figures — a singer, actor, television presenter, and voice-over artist whose work spanned four decades. He appeared in children programs that generations of Romanians grew up watching, and he performed folk-influenced music with a warmth that made him ubiquitous in Romanian cultural life. He died in 2007. The obituaries ran for days.

Jean-Marie Lustiger

Jean-Marie Lustiger was born Aaron Lustiger to Polish Jewish parents in Paris. He converted to Catholicism at fourteen, against his family's wishes. His mother died in Auschwitz. He became Archbishop of Paris in 1981 and a cardinal in 1983. He never renounced his Jewish identity — he said he had fulfilled it, not abandoned it. He died in 2007. His ashes were buried in Notre-Dame. He had asked that Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, be said at his funeral.

Pedro Mesías, chilenischer Pianist und Dirigent

Florian Pittiș

Romanian actor, singer, and director Florian Pittiș was a cultural icon in Romania, known for his theater work, folk-rock music, and beloved voice acting. He was one of the most versatile and popular performers in Romanian entertainment.

Henri Amouroux, journaliste, historien et académicien ès sciences morales et politiques français (° 1er juillet 1920).

Raúl Conti, footballeur argentin (° 5 février 1928).

Manuel d’Almeida Trindade, portugiesischer Bischof

Eva Pflug, deutsche Schauspielerin

Neil Bartlett

British-American chemist Neil Bartlett shattered a fundamental assumption of chemistry in 1962 when he proved that noble gases could form chemical compounds — work that every chemistry textbook had previously declared impossible. His synthesis of xenon hexafluoroplatinate rewrote inorganic chemistry overnight.

Alex Raymond, homme politique français (° 12 octobre 1916).

Reg Lindsay

Reg Lindsay was a pioneer of Australian country music, performing on radio from the 1950s and recording dozens of albums across five decades. He won the Golden Guitar at Tamworth multiple times. Australian country music has its own tradition — related to but distinct from Nashville — and Lindsay was one of the figures who established what that tradition sounded like. He died in 2008 at seventy-eight.

Hans Müllejans, deutscher Theologe und Aachener Dompropst

Jean-Marie Benoît, compositeur québécois (° 23 décembre 1954).

Gerald Cohen, philosophe canadien (° 14 avril 1941).

Jordi Sabater Pi, etólogo español (n.

Jordi Sabater Pi, etólogo español (n. 1922).

Budd Schulberg

He named names — and Hollywood never fully forgave him. Budd Schulberg testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951, identifying 15 former Communist Party members, a decision that split friendships permanently. But he'd already written the thing that defined him: *What Makes Sammy Run?*, finished in 1941, a novel his own father — a studio chief — begged him not to publish. He also wrote *On the Waterfront*. Both scripts. Both books. He left behind the sharpest portrait of American ambition anyone's put on paper.

Hartmut Atsma, deutscher Historiker und Diplomatiker

2010

Robert Baker Aitken, maestro zen estadounidense (n.

Robert Baker Aitken, maestro zen estadounidense (n. 1917).

2010

Francisco María Aguilera González, mexikanischer Theologe und Weihbischof

2010

Fritz B. Busch, deutscher Journalist

Francesco Quinn, actor estadounidense de origen italiano, hijo de Anthony Quinn (n.

Francesco Quinn, actor estadounidense de origen italiano, hijo de Anthony Quinn (n. 1963).

Aziz Shavershian

Australian bodybuilder Aziz Shavershian — known online as 'Zyzz' — became an early internet fitness icon whose transformation from skinny teenager to muscular showman inspired millions. His sudden death from a cardiac arrest at 22 while vacationing in Thailand turned him into an internet legend and cautionary tale about performance-enhancing substances.

Francesco Quinn

Italian-American actor Francesco Quinn — son of Anthony Quinn — followed his father into acting, appearing in 'Platoon' and other films. His sudden death from a heart attack while running at 48 came before he could fully emerge from his father's shadow.

Andrzej Lepper

Polish politician Andrzej Lepper led the populist Samoobrona (Self-Defense) party and served as Deputy Prime Minister. He was found dead in apparent suicide in 2011 while facing corruption charges — a controversial end to a polarizing career.

Kirk Urso

American soccer player Kirk Urso played for the Columbus Crew in MLS before his sudden death from a heart condition at 22. He had been a standout at the University of North Carolina and was just beginning his professional career.

Fred Matua

American offensive lineman Fred Matua played for the Detroit Lions before his sudden death from a heart condition at 28. His college career at USC included appearances in multiple BCS bowl games.

Michel Daerden

Belgian politician Michel Daerden was one of the most colorful and controversial figures in Walloon politics, known for his larger-than-life personality and occasional public intoxication. His death prompted an outpouring of affection that surprised those outside his Liège political base.

Sister Boom Boom

Jack Fertig didn't just wear a habit — he ran for San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1982 as Sister Boom Boom, a six-foot nun in full drag, and pulled 23,000 votes. Not symbolic. Actual votes. The Catholic Church demanded the city ban candidate names like his. San Francisco changed its ballot rules because of him. He'd go on to become an astrologer and HIV activist after the AIDS crisis took friends by the dozens. He died at 56. The nun outlasted the outrage.

Chavela Vargas

She didn't record her first album until she was 42. Chavela Vargas spent decades singing in Mexican cantinas, drinking heavily, and living openly as a queer woman in mid-century Latin America — a defiance that cost her years of exile. Frida Kahlo was among her lovers. Pedro Almodóvar later revived her career, casting her in two films when she was in her 70s. She lived to 93. She's buried in Tepoztlán, Mexico — the country she loved more than the one that made her.

Erwin Axer

Polish theater director Erwin Axer was one of the most important figures in postwar Polish theater, directing at Warsaw's Współczesny Theatre for decades. His productions of Brecht, Beckett, and contemporary Polish playwrights helped shape modern Polish dramatic culture.

Roland Charles Wagner

Roland Charles Wagner was one of the most prolific French science fiction writers of his generation, publishing dozens of novels and winning multiple Utopiales and Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire awards over a thirty-year career. He wrote across subgenres — space opera, cyberpunk, humorous SF — and was active in the French SF community as an editor and critic as well as a writer. He died suddenly in 2012 at 52, leaving several projects unfinished.

Martin E. Segal

He fled Russia as a child with almost nothing, yet Martin Segal died having helped build one of America's most celebrated cultural institutions. As a benefits consulting executive, he had no formal film training — none. But in 1969, he co-founded the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which grew the New York Film Festival into a genuine international platform. He was 96. Behind him he left an organization that still screens hundreds of films annually and hands out the Chaplin Award, named for the man Segal most admired.

George Duke

American keyboardist George Duke fused jazz, funk, R&B, and Brazilian music across a prolific career that included collaborations with Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, and Michael Jackson. His ability to move between avant-garde jazz and mainstream funk made him one of the most versatile musicians of his generation.

Willie Dunn

Canadian Mi'kmaq singer-songwriter Willie Dunn was a pioneer of Indigenous music in Canada, best known for his 1968 film 'The Ballad of Crowfoot' — one of the first music videos produced by the National Film Board. His music addressed Indigenous rights and colonialism decades before these themes entered mainstream Canadian discourse.

Rob Wyda

Rob Wyda spent decades in uniform before trading a military career for a federal judge's robe — the same man who'd commanded sailors was now commanding courtrooms. He served as a Navy JAG officer, where law and war overlapped in ways most attorneys never see. He died in 2013 at just 54. But here's the thing: he built his entire life around the idea that discipline and justice weren't opposites. They were the same thing, approached from different angles.

Roy Rubin

American basketball coach Roy Rubin endured one of the worst seasons in NBA history when his 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers went 9-73, still the worst record in league history. Before that disastrous stint, he had been a successful college coach at Long Island University.

May Song Vang

American Hmong activist May Song Vang advocated for the Hmong community in the United States, working on issues affecting Southeast Asian refugees who resettled in America after the Vietnam War.

Ruth Asawa

American sculptor Ruth Asawa created her signature hanging wire sculptures — intricate, biomorphic forms crocheted from industrial wire — that hang in museums and public spaces across the country. She also championed art education in San Francisco's public schools with a tenacity that matched her artistic vision.

Shawn Burr

Canadian-American ice hockey player Shawn Burr spent most of his NHL career with the Detroit Red Wings, known as a scrappy, physical forward who could fight and score in equal measure. His teammates called him one of the best locker room presences in the game.

George Duke, US-amerikanischer Jazzmusiker

Robert Häusser, deutscher Fotograf

Jesse Leonard Steinfeld

He picked a fight with an entire industry — and won. Jesse Steinfeld, serving as Nixon's Surgeon General, demanded warning labels on cigarette packages get stronger and pushed broadcast networks to ban cigarette ads entirely, effective 1971. The tobacco lobby tried to have him fired. Nixon eventually didn't renew his appointment anyway. But Steinfeld's warnings became the legal template used in lawsuits that eventually cost tobacco companies billions. He died in 2014. The man Nixon sidelined built the case that dismantled Big Tobacco decades later.

كريستيان كارلسون كاتب وشاعر آيسلندي.

Marilyn Burns

American actress Marilyn Burns starred as the screaming final girl in Tobe Hooper's 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' — one of the most genuinely terrifying performances in horror film history. Her raw, exhausted terror in the final act wasn't entirely acting; the grueling shoot pushed the cast to their physical limits.

Harold J. Greene

U.S. Army Major General Harold Greene was killed by an Afghan soldier in an insider attack at a military training facility near Kabul — making him the highest-ranking American officer killed in combat since the Vietnam War. His death exposed the persistent danger of 'green-on-blue' attacks during the Afghan War.

Vladimir Orlov

Russian novelist Vladimir Orlov wrote 'Danilov the Violist,' a satirical fantasy about a half-demon musician in Moscow that became a cult classic of late Soviet literature. The novel blended Bulgakov-like supernatural elements with sharp social commentary on the absurdities of Soviet cultural life.

Chapman Pincher

British journalist Chapman Pincher spent six decades covering intelligence and defense for the Daily Express, becoming the most feared reporter in Whitehall. He lived to 100, publishing his last book at 98 — a career of exposing government secrets that made him both a national institution and a constant headache for MI5.

Harold J. Greene, American general (born 1962)

Scott Ciencin

American author Scott Ciencin wrote dozens of novels across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, including entries in the Dinotopia, Jurassic Park, and Star Wars expanded universe franchises. His prolific output made him one of the most productive tie-in novelists of his era.

Elfriede Brüning, deutsche Schriftstellerin

خليل مرسي ممثل مصري.

Rodrigo de Triano

Rodrigo de Triano was a thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1992 2000 Guineas at Newmarket, trained by Peter Chapple-Hyam and ridden by Lester Piggott. He was one of the final Classic winners of Piggott's remarkable career.

Diann Blakely

She kept Hank Williams's ghost alive on the page longer than almost anyone. Diann Blakely spent decades weaving Southern Gothic grief into formal verse — sonnets that smelled like bourbon and red clay — teaching at Belmont University while quietly becoming one of Nashville's sharpest literary voices. She wasn't famous outside poetry circles. But her collection *Cities of Flesh and the Dead* earned serious critical attention. She left behind poems that treat the American South not as myth but as wound.

Arthur Walter James

Arthur Walter James was an English journalist and Conservative politician whose career spanned the mid-to-late twentieth century. He worked in the overlapping worlds of British media and politics during a period of significant social transformation.

Ernst Seidel, deutscher Jurist und Unternehmer

Tony Millington

Tony Millington was a Welsh goalkeeper who played professionally in England during the 1960s and 1970s and earned caps for the Welsh national team. He represented Wales during an era when the country's football talent often went underappreciated on the international stage.

Richard W. Dill, deutscher Fernsehjournalist, Programmdirektor und Medienwissenschaftler

Raphy Leavitt, compositor y músico puertorriqueño, de la banda La Selecta (n.

Raphy Leavitt, compositor y músico puertorriqueño, de la banda La Selecta (n. 1948).

Annet Nieuwenhuijzen, actrice néerlandaise (° 7 novembre 1930).

Ines Mandl, US-amerikanisch-österreichische Biochemikerin

Vander Lee, cantor e compositor brasileiro (n.

Vander Lee, cantor e compositor brasileiro (n. 1966).

Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro, homme politique, journaliste et écrivain uruguayen, ministre de la Défense de 2011 à 20…

Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro, homme politique, journaliste et écrivain uruguayen, ministre de la Défense de 2011 à 2016 (° 14 mars 1942).

George Mendenhall, professeur universitaire américain (° 13 août 1916).

Alphons Egli, homme politique suisse (° 8 octobre 1924).

Robin Chichester-Clark, britischer Politiker

Christian Millau, écrivain et critique gastronomique français (° 30 décembre 1928).

Mark White, homme politique américain (° 17 mars 1940).

Dionigi Tettamanzi, cardinal italien (° 14 mars 1938).

Ernst Zündel, deutscher Holocaust-Leugner

Alfred Hertel, österreichischer Oboist

Claude Courtot, écrivain français (° 6 janvier 1939).

Piotr Szulkin, réalisateur et scénariste polonais (° 26 avril 1950).

Matthew Sweeney, irischer Lyriker

Alan Rabinowitz

Alan Rabinowitz was a zoologist who overcame a severe childhood stutter to become the world's leading advocate for wild cat conservation. He founded Panthera, the only organization devoted exclusively to protecting all 40 species of wild cats, and personally established the world's first jaguar preserve in Belize. He died of a rare blood cancer in 2018 at age 64, having done more to save big cats than anyone in history.

Charlotte Rae, actrice américaine (° 22 avril 1926).

Lauri Mononen, hockeyeur sur glace finlandais (° 22 mars 1950).

Koosje van Voorn, nageuse néerlandaise (° 15 janvier 1935).

Miguel Ángel Campano, pintor español (n.

Miguel Ángel Campano, pintor español (n. 1948).

Otwin Massing, deutscher Politikwissenschaftler und Soziologe

Alberto Sironi, réalisateur de télévision italien (° 7 août 1940).

Antônio Soares Calçada, dirigente esportivo brasileiro (n.

Antônio Soares Calçada, dirigente esportivo brasileiro (n. 1923).

Bjorg Lambrecht, ciclista profesional belga (n.

Bjorg Lambrecht, ciclista profesional belga (n. 1997).

Hilla Jablonsky, deutsche Malerin und Zeichnerin

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, the first African American woman to do so. She won the Pulitzer for Beloved in 1988 — a novel about a woman who kills her own daughter rather than let her be taken back into slavery, based on a real case from 1856. Morrison said she wrote the books she wanted to read and couldn't find. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye — each one excavates something about American history that most American literature had avoided. She taught at Princeton for seventeen years and died in 2019 at 88.

Josef Kadraba, footballeur tchécoslovaque puis tchèque (° 20 septembre 1933).

Pete Hamill, journaliste et romancier américain (° 24 juin 1935).

Tony Camargo, cantante mexicano (n.

Tony Camargo, cantante mexicano (n. 1926).

Agáthonas Iakovídis, chanteur grec (° 2 janvier 1955).

Sergio Zavoli, journaliste, écrivain et homme politique italien (° 21 septembre 1923).

Wilhelm Beermann, deutscher Manager

Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar, indischer Politiker

Aritana Yawalapiti, cacique brésilien (° 1949).

محمد طارق الخضراء، رئيس هيئة أركان جيش التحرير الفلسطيني.

Hawa Abdi

Hawa Abdi ran a hospital and refugee camp on her family's farm outside Mogadishu that sheltered up to 90,000 displaced Somalis during the country's civil war. A gynecologist who could have practiced anywhere, she stayed in Somalia through three decades of conflict, delivering babies and performing surgeries while warlords and al-Shabaab fighters threatened her compound. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and became known as the "Mother Teresa of Somalia."

Gésio Amadeu, ator brasileiro (n.

Gésio Amadeu, ator brasileiro (n. 1947).

Blanca Rodríguez de Pérez, política venezolana (n.

Blanca Rodríguez de Pérez, política venezolana (n. 1926).

Frédéric Jacques Temple, écrivain et poète français (° 18 août 1921).

Pierre Robin, ingénieur aéronautique français (° 14 août 1927).

2021

Jewhen Martschuk, ukrainischer Politiker

2021

Gábor Novák, ungarischer Kanute

2021

حسب الله الكفراوي، سياسي مصري ووزير أسبق للإسكان.

Issey Miyake

Issey Miyake revolutionized fashion by treating clothing as architecture, developing the pleating technique that allowed fabric to hold permanent folds without ironing and could be manufactured from a single sheet of polyester. A survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing — he was seven when the bomb fell — he rarely spoke about the experience, preferring to focus on creation rather than destruction. His designs are in the permanent collections of museums worldwide.

Dillon Quirke

Dillon Quirke collapsed and died during a senior hurling championship match in Tipperary in August 2022 at age 24. His sudden death on the field shocked the GAA community and prompted renewed attention to cardiac screening in young athletes across Ireland.

Clémentine Ananga Messina, femme politique camerounaise (° 15 mars 1959).

Clu Gulager, US-amerikanischer Schauspieler

Rudi Knez, jugoslawischer Eishockeytorwart

Mike Lang, US-amerikanischer Jazz- und Studiomusiker

Bob Lay, australischer Sprinter

Mark Paterson, neuseeländischer Segler

Wolfgang Schikowski, deutscher Brigadegeneral

Diego Bertie, actor y cantante peruano (n.

Diego Bertie, actor y cantante peruano (n. 1967).

Jô Soares, humorista, apresentador de televisão, escritor e ator brasileiro (n.

Jô Soares, humorista, apresentador de televisão, escritor e ator brasileiro (n. 1938).

Judith Durham

She'd sung "Georgy Girl" as a session vocalist before The Seekers made her a household name — but Judith Durham quietly turned down Las Vegas residencies and stadium-circuit money to stay true to folk's intimate roots. The Seekers sold more records in 1960s Australia than The Beatles. That fact still startles. She died in Melbourne at 79, complications from a chronic lung condition. She left behind a voice that Australian radio stations reportedly played uninterrupted for an hour straight the morning after she was gone.

Cherie Gil

Cherie Gil was one of the Philippines' most acclaimed actresses, known for playing sharp-tongued antagonists in Filipino film and television. Her line "You're nothing but a second-rate, trying-hard copycat" from the 1985 film "Bituing Walang Ningning" became one of the most quoted phrases in Philippine cinema.

Ali Haydar

Ali Haydar commanded Syria's Special Forces for over two decades under Hafez al-Assad, making him one of the most powerful military figures in the regime. He was sidelined after a power struggle with Rifaat al-Assad in the 1980s, a reminder that even the most entrenched generals in the Assad system could be discarded.

Nami Sano, mangaka japonaise (° 17 avril 1987).

Carlos Roqué Alsina, pianiste, compositeur français (° 19 février 1941).

Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, historienne et femme politique française (° 6 juillet 1929).

Philippe Curval, romancier et auteur de science-fiction, également illustrateur français (° 27 décembre 1929).

Timothy Daunt, diplomatique britannique (° 11 octobre 1935).

Daniel Gouffier, skipper français (° 4 novembre 1937).

Toshio Moriuchi, écrivain japonais (° 12 décembre 1936).

Jango Edwards, payaso, actor, cantante y cómico estadounidense (n.

Jango Edwards, payaso, actor, cantante y cómico estadounidense (n. 1950).

Sara, auteure pour la jeunesse, illustratrice, et réalisatrice française (° 17 mars 1950).

Arthur Schmidt, monteur américain (° 17 juin 1937).

Adílio, footballeur puis entraîneur brésilien (° 15 mai 1956).

Vyacheslav Ivanov, rameur soviétique puis russe (° 30 juillet 1938).

Inge Henningsen, mathématicienne, écrivaine et militante des droits des femmes danoise (° 14 avril 1941).

Denise Delouche, historienne de l'art, professeure d'université française (° 9 juillet 1933).

Pierre Labourdette, joueur de rugby à XV français (° 10 juin 1932).

Mumtaz Mustafa, homme politique pakistanais (° ).

Iouri Skobov, skieur de fond soviétique puis russe (° 13 mars 1949).

Jeremy Strong, écrivain britannique (° 18 novembre 1949).

Pierre Tiollais, médecin et biologiste français (° 8 décembre 1934).

Pascal Chabi Kao, homme politique béninois (° 10 mars 1935).

Ion Iliescu, homme d'État roumain, président du pays de 1989 à 1996 et de 2000 à 2004 (° 3 mars 1930).

Col Joye

Col Joye was one of Australia's first rock and roll stars, scoring hits in the late 1950s and 1960s as part of the wave of artists who brought American-style rock to Australian audiences. His career helped establish the Australian popular music industry before the British Invasion reshaped the global landscape.

Jorge Costa, footballeur puis entraîneur portugais (° 14 octobre 1971).

Keïta Fatoumata Diallo, troisième épouse du président malien Modibo Keïta (° 30 janvier 1943).

Enrico Lanzi, footballeur puis entraîneur italien (° 5 février 1953).

Snyder Rini, homme d'État salomonais (° 27 juillet 1948).

Ove Kindvall, footballeur suédois (° 16 mai 1943).