October 5

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403 deaths recorded on October 5 throughout history

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Ancient 1

659 BC

Pradyota

Pradyota killed his father to seize Avanti's throne around 682 BCE, then spent decades warring with neighboring Magadha. Buddhist texts say he was violent and paranoid. He kept trying to conquer Magadha and kept failing. His dynasty lasted four more generations before collapsing. Magadha eventually absorbed Avanti and became the foundation of India's first empire.

Medieval 24

578

Justin II

Justin II went insane during his reign as Byzantine emperor. Courtiers found him screaming, biting attendants, demanding to be wheeled through the palace on a cart while organ music played. His wife Sophia ran the empire for his final four years. He adopted his successor, Tiberius, then died at 58. The empire didn't collapse.

610

Phocas

Phocas seized the Byzantine throne by leading a military revolt, then spent eight years executing anyone who might do the same to him. He killed the previous emperor's family, purged the aristocracy, and lost wars on every border. His own troops finally dragged him through Constantinople's streets and beheaded him. The empire he left behind had shrunk by a third.

785

Ōtomo no Yakamochi, japanischer Dichter

989

Henry III

Henry III ruled Bavaria as duke and spent his life fighting Otto I and Otto II for more autonomy. He rebelled twice and was defeated twice. He died at 49, still a duke. Bavaria wanted independence and never got it.

1016

Wichmann III., sächsischer Graf aus der Sippe der Billunger

1056

Henry III

Henry III was Holy Roman Emperor at 21 and died at 39. He spent his entire reign fighting wars to keep his empire together. He won most of them. He died of illness while preparing for another campaign. Eighteen years of constant conflict, and the empire outlasted him by centuries. Empires don't care who holds them.

1111

Robert II

Robert II led Flemish troops on the First Crusade and fought at the siege of Jerusalem. He brought relics back to Flanders and used his crusader reputation to consolidate power. His county became one of medieval Europe's wealthiest regions. He turned religious war into economic advantage.

1112

Sigebert of Gembloux

Sigebert of Gembloux went blind in his final years but kept writing, dictating his World Chronicle to monks. He'd spent 82 years in the same Belgian monastery, compiling histories of kings and popes he'd never met. His chronicle became a standard medieval reference text, copied for centuries by scribes who could see.

1212

Philipp I., Markgraf von Namur

1214

Liborius, Priester und Abt des Klosters Marienfeld

1214

Alfonso VIII

Alfonso VIII became king of Castile at three years old. Rival nobles kidnapped him twice during his childhood. He spent his reign fighting Muslims in the south and Christians in the north. He won the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212, breaking Almohad power in Spain. He died two years later, at 59. The Reconquista took another 280 years.

1214

Alfonso VIII of Castile

Alfonso VIII became King of Castile at three years old. Nobles fought over who would control him for a decade. He took power himself at 14 and spent 50 years expanding his kingdom. He died after losing a major battle to the Almohads. Half a century of wins, and the loss is what killed him.

1225

Al-Nasir

Caliph al-Nasir ruled the Abbasid Caliphate for 47 years while controlling only Baghdad and its surroundings. The rest of the Islamic world ignored him. He spent decades trying to unite Sunni and Shia Islam under a new organization he invented. Nobody joined. He died in 1225 having ruled longer than almost any caliph over an empire that barely existed.

1239

Robert von Courtenay, Herr von Champignelles

1285

Philip III of France

Philip III of France earned the nickname "the Bold" after a single battle. He ruled for 15 years and spent most of it fighting Aragon over Sicily. He died of dysentery while retreating from a failed invasion. His son inherited a treasury drained by war and a kingdom no larger than when Philip took the throne.

1295

Guido II.

Guido II. de la Roche, Herzog von Athen

1354

Giovanni Visconti

Giovanni Visconti ruled Milan as both archbishop and lord, combining spiritual and temporal power in one person. He controlled more of northern Italy than any churchman before or since. The pope never excommunicated him despite his military campaigns. He died suddenly during a siege, possibly poisoned, with half of Tuscany under his control.

1361

Reginald de Cobham, 1.

Reginald de Cobham, 1. Baron Cobham, englischer Adeliger und Militär

1398

Blanche of Navarre

Blanche of Navarre married Philip VI of France and outlived him by 42 years. She never remarried, keeping her title and her independence. She founded a college at the University of Paris that still exists. Widowhood gave her more power than marriage ever did.

1399

Raymond of Capua

Raymond of Capua was Catherine of Siena's confessor. She dictated her visions to him. After she died, he became Master General of the Dominican Order and wrote her biography. The Church made her a saint. His biography is still the main source on her life.

1491

Jean de La Balue, französischer Kardinal und Minister

1500s 12

1512

Sofia Jagiellonka, Markgräfin von Brandenburg-Kulmbach und Brandenburg-Ansbach

1523

Bogislaw X., Herzog von Pommern

1524

Joachim Patinir

Joachim Patinir painted landscapes so detailed that the religious figures in them became almost incidental. He invented the bird's-eye view in Western art, showing the world as if seen from a mountain. Dürer called him 'the good landscape painter.' He made backgrounds into the main subject.

1528

Richard Foxe

Richard Foxe went blind in his final years as Bishop of Winchester. He spent his fortune building schools instead of monuments. He founded Corpus Christi College at Oxford with a library of 400 books — massive for 1517. The college still uses the pelican he chose as its symbol.

1540

Helius Eobanus Hessus

Helius Eobanus Hessus wrote Latin poetry so popular that students memorized it across Germany. He called himself the "German Ovid." He drank heavily, moved between universities, and died broke in Marburg. His funeral oration lasted three hours. Within a generation, German poets had switched to writing in German, and his work was forgotten.

1546

Jorge Robledo, spanischer Konquistador

1557

Caramuru, portugiesischer Kolonist in Brasilien

1564

Pierre de Manchicourt

Pierre de Manchicourt directed the chapel choir for three Spanish kings. He composed masses that required 16 separate voice parts — nearly impossible to perform. Only 12 of his works survive. He died in Madrid, 800 miles from Flanders, where he was born.

1565

Lodovico Ferrari

Lodovico Ferrari solved the quartic equation at 18. His teacher, Gerolamo Cardano, published the solution in a book and gave Ferrari credit. Ferrari became famous, taught math, then quit academia to become a tax assessor. He died at 43, possibly poisoned by his sister. Solving an ancient problem doesn't protect you from family.

1573

Peter Tossanus, deutscher evangelischer Theologe und Reformator

1574

Felix Lindtmayer der Jüngere, Schweizer Glasmaler

1582

Peter Buchner, Bürgermeister von Leipzig

1600s 11

1606

Philippe Desportes

Philippe Desportes was France's wealthiest poet, holding six abbeys that paid him enormous rents though he never lived in any of them. He wrote love sonnets for Henri III's mistresses on commission. His poetry made him rich. The King made him richer. He died owning more land than most nobles.

1607

Matthäus Dresser, deutscher Schulhumanist, Pädagoge, Philologe und Historiker

1611

Gregor Bersman, deutscher Philologe und lateinischer Dichter

1629

Heribert Rosweyde

Heribert Rosweyde spent 30 years collecting the lives of saints, planning a massive 18-volume encyclopedia of every holy person in Christian history. He died before publishing a single volume. His Jesuit successors continued the work. The Acta Sanctorum eventually reached 68 volumes and took 300 years to complete.

1633

Joachim von Loß, Reichspfennigmeister des Ober- und Niedersächsischen Reichskreises

1637

Daniel Cramer, deutscher lutherischer Theologe, Chronist und Autor

1646

Heinrich VI.

Heinrich VI. Pförtner, Abt des Zisterzienserklosters in Ebrach

1652

Willem Cornelisz Backer, Bürgermeister und Regent von Amsterdam

1653

Joseph Clauder, deutscher evangelischer Theologe, Kirchenliedkomponist und Dichter

1660

أيوب الخلوتي، متصوف ومصنف وشاعر شامي عثماني.

1689

Johannes Scheibler, deutscher evangelischer Geistlicher

1700s 21

1706

Elisabeth Albertine von Anhalt-Dessau, Herzogin zu Sachsen-Weißenfels-Barby, Äbtissin

1707

Daniel Speer, deutscher Schriftsteller und Komponist

1711

Christian Friedrich Richter, deutscher evangelischer Pfarrer, Kirchenlieddichter und Arzt

1714

Kaibara Ekiken

Kaibara Ekiken walked 1,500 miles across Japan studying plants. He cataloged herbs, wrote health manuals, and published books on everything from agriculture to Confucian ethics. He produced over 100 works before dying at 84. His advice on longevity: eat less, walk more, keep working.

1725

Johann Sinapius, schlesischer Gelehrter

1740

Friedrich Opfergeldt, deutscher lutherischer Theologe und Geistlicher

1740

Jean-Philippe Baratier

Jean-Philippe Baratier translated Hebrew at age four, published a Greek-to-French dictionary at seven, and died at 19. He'd mastered ten languages and corresponded with Voltaire about biblical chronology. Universities across Europe offered him professorships he was too young to accept legally. His father, a Protestant minister, had tutored him since infancy. Genius doesn't wait for adulthood, and adulthood didn't wait for him.

1744

Friedrich Benedict Carpzov II., deutscher Jurist und Rechtswissenschaftler

1747

Paul Friedrich Opitz, deutscher Theologe und Orientalist

1754

Safdarjung, Gouverneur von Avadh und Wesir am Mogulhof

1763

August III., König von Polen und Kurfürst von Sachsen

1767

Francis Wise, englischer Archivar

1777

Johann Andreas Segner

Johann Andreas Segner invented the first practical water turbine in 1750 — a rotating sprinkler head that spun from water pressure. It powered mills across Europe for a century. He also built thermometers, studied capillary action, and taught mathematics at three universities. The Segner wheel is still used in irrigation systems today.

1784

Antonín Kammel, tschechischer Violinist und Komponist

1786

Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, deutscher Arzt und Botaniker

1787

Thomas Stone, Delegierter für Maryland im Kontinentalkongress

1790

Christian David Jani, deutscher Philologe und Pädagoge

1791

Grigori Potemkine (Григорий Александрович Потёмкин), militaire et homme d'État russe (° 13 septembre 1739).

1791

Grigori Potemkin

Grigori Potemkin was Catherine the Great's lover, general, and possibly secret husband. He annexed Crimea, founded cities, and built Russia's Black Sea fleet. He died in a carriage on an empty steppe, heading south to meet her. Catherine wept for days. She never took another serious lover.

1793

José del Castillo, pintor español (n.

José del Castillo, pintor español (n. 1737).

1798

Luís António de Sousa Botelho Mourão, nobre português (n.

Luís António de Sousa Botelho Mourão, nobre português (n. 1722).

1800s 44

1802

Sanité Bélair

Sanité Bélair fought alongside her husband in the Haitian Revolution, commanding troops and leading raids against French forces. When captured, she was sentenced to beheading while her husband was hanged. She walked to the scaffold without assistance. She was 21, and Haiti's independence was two years away.

1804

John Hoskins Stone, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1805

Charles Cornwallis

Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, ending the American Revolution. Then he went to India as Governor-General and conquered half the subcontinent. Then Ireland, where he suppressed the 1798 rebellion. He died in India in 1805, still working. Yorktown was his most famous moment. He spent the next twenty-four years proving it wasn't his defining one. Empires don't retire generals for losing.

1807

Luis Née, französischer Botaniker

1811

James Ogilvy, 7.

James Ogilvy, 7. Earl of Findlater, schottisch-britischer Peer

1813

Eleonore Prochaska, deutsche Freiheitskämpferin

1813

Étienne Ozi, französischer Fagottist und Komponist

1813

Tecumseh

Tecumseh was shot during a battle in Ontario while fighting alongside British troops against Americans. His body disappeared. The British officer he'd trusted retreated immediately, leaving Tecumseh's confederacy leaderless. Within a generation, every tribe he'd united had been forced west of the Mississippi. Kentucky politicians spent decades claiming they'd fired the shot.

1815

Juan Hipólito Vieytes, economista y periodista argentino (n.

Juan Hipólito Vieytes, economista y periodista argentino (n. 1762).

1816

Camilo Torres Tenorio, abogado y político colombiano (n.

Camilo Torres Tenorio, abogado y político colombiano (n. 1766).

1820

Augustin Barruel, religieux et essayiste français (° 2 octobre 1741).

1821

Claudius James Rich, archéologue et anthropologue britannique (° 28 mars 1787).

1827

William Mullins

William Mullins inherited his title as 2nd Baron Ventry and served in the Irish House of Lords. He was sixty-six when he died. The Irish peerage was already fading — within decades, the House of Lords in Ireland would be abolished entirely. He held a title that was disappearing in real time.

1828

Carlota, Princesa Real (n.

Carlota, Princesa Real (n. 1766).

1830

José Gregorio Argomedo, chilenischer Anwalt und Politiker

1837

Hortensia de Beauharnais, reina de Países Bajos y madre de Napoleón III (n.

Hortensia de Beauharnais, reina de Países Bajos y madre de Napoleón III (n. 1783).

1848

Joseph Hormayr

Joseph Hormayr organized the Tyrolean Rebellion against Napoleon in 1809, then fled to Germany when it failed. He'd been Austria's chief archivist. He spent 30 years in exile, writing histories of the Habsburg Empire. He returned to Austria only after Napoleon died. His 90-volume historical work is still cited today.

1851

Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny, botánico francés (n.

Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny, botánico francés (n. 1777).

1853

Mahlon Dickerson, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1854

« Leoncillo » (Juan León y López dit), matador espagnol (° 2 septembre 1788).

1857

Wenzel Scholz, österreichischer Schauspieler

1858

Francisco Solano Antuña, uruguayischer Politiker

1861

Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski

Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski was Archbishop of Warsaw when Russia controlled Poland. He refused to condemn the 1830 uprising against Russian rule. The Tsar exiled him for eight years. He returned, rebuilt churches, and died during another failed Polish rebellion. He's buried in a cathedral the Russians later demolished.

1861

Kinsley S. Bingham, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1865

Carl August Gadegast, Schafzüchter, Pionier der Merinoschafzucht in Deutschland, MdL

1867

Achille Fould, französischer Finanz- und Staatsmann

1871

Aleksandr Afanásiev, escritor y folclorista ruso (n.

Aleksandr Afanásiev, escritor y folclorista ruso (n. 1826).

1872

Johann Nepomuk Hemauer, Kanonikus in Regensburg

1874

Francis Walker, britischer Entomologe

1877

Constantin Ackermann, deutscher evangelischer Geistlicher

1880

Jacques Offenbach

Jacques Offenbach wrote 100 operettas — short, satirical, packed with cancan dancers mocking Napoleon III's Paris. He died in 1880 with his only serious opera, The Tales of Hoffmann, unfinished. A student completed it. It became his most-performed work. He spent his life writing jokes and is remembered for the one tragedy he didn't finish.

1880

William Lassell, astronome britannique (° 18 juin 1799).

1880

Pierre-Anastase Pichenot, évêque français (° 23 octobre 1816).

1882

Clara Pfänder, deutsche Ordensfrau, Gründerin der Salzkottener Franziskanerinnen

1883

Joachim Barrande, géologue et paléontologue français (° 11 août 1799).

1885

Daniel Alcides Carrión, estudiante peruano, mártir de la medicina (n.

Daniel Alcides Carrión, estudiante peruano, mártir de la medicina (n. 1857).

1885

Thomas C. Durant

Thomas C. Durant manipulated stock, bribed congressmen, and embezzled millions while building the Union Pacific Railroad. He hired Grenville Dodge to do the actual engineering while he handled the fraud. The transcontinental railroad got built anyway. He died wealthy, never charged with a crime, having stolen his way across a continent.

1885

Wilhelm Heine, deutscher Maler und Reisender

1886

Ernest-Eugène Hiolle, sculpteur français (° 5 mai 1834).

1891

Giovanni Caselli, italienischer Physiker

1892

George-Albert Aurier, homme de lettres français (° 5 mai 1865).

1893

James Black Groome, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1895

Ralph Tollemache

Ralph Tollemache fathered 16 children and gave them some of the strangest names in Victorian England: Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Plantagenet. His son's full name had 12 middle names. He was a priest who believed every syllable mattered.

1899

James Harlan, US-amerikanischer Politiker

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1902

Albrecht Wilke, deutscher Lehrer und Schuldirektor

1904

Ernst Arthur Seemann, deutscher Verleger

1905

Carlos Walker Martínez, escritor y político chileno (n.

Carlos Walker Martínez, escritor y político chileno (n. 1842).

1909

Agneta Matthes, niederländische Unternehmerin

1911

Manfred von Seherr-Thoss, homme politique prussien (° 5 janvier 1827).

1911

Charles Théodore Malherbe, französischer Musikwissenschaftler und Komponist

1912

Lewis Boss, US-amerikanischer Astronom

1913

Hans von Bartels

Hans von Bartels painted the sea. He grew up in Hamburg watching ships and spent his career capturing water, fog, and sailors. He painted fishing boats in the Netherlands, harbors in Venice, naval vessels in Kiel. He died in Munich, 300 miles from the nearest ocean.

1913

Oskar Ackermann, deutscher Theologe

1914

Albert Solomon

Albert Solomon was Premier of Tasmania for two years starting in 1912. He expanded education and infrastructure. He lost the 1914 election. He died three months later at 38. He's the youngest Tasmanian premier to die in office.

1915

Otto Malling, dänischer Organist und Komponist

1918

Roland Garros

Roland Garros escaped from a German POW camp after three years and went back to flying combat missions. He was shot down over France one month before the armistice. He was 29. The tennis stadium in Paris was named after him in 1928 because he'd been friends with the developer.

1919

Hugo Kersten, deutscher Schriftsteller und Publizist

1921

John Storey

John Storey collapsed and died on a Sydney train in 1921. He was Premier of New South Wales, riding to work. Passengers didn't recognize him until someone checked his pockets. He'd been premier for two years, the first Labor leader to win a majority. He was 52. They named a street after him. Nobody uses his first name.

1925

صالح قنباز، طبيب وشاعر سوري.

1926

Carl Rehfus, deutscher Jagdschriftsteller und Kynologe

1926

Mari Jászai, ungarische Schauspielerin

1927

Sam Warner

Sam Warner spent two years convincing his brothers to add sound to movies. They thought it was a gimmick. He mortgaged everything to finance The Jazz Singer. It opened October 6, 1927—the first feature-length talkie. Sam died of a brain hemorrhage the day before the premiere, 40 years old. His brothers attended his funeral instead of the opening. The movie made $3.9 million. Silent films were dead within two years.

1929

Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly

Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly was a priest in Kerala who started taking in destitute women in 1927. He founded the Sisters of the Destitute to care for the dying, the homeless, the abandoned. He died in 1929, two years after starting the order. The sisters are still there, still taking people in.

1930

Stina Berg, schwedische Schauspielerin

1930

Christopher Thomson

Christopher Thomson perished when the R101 airship crashed in France during its maiden voyage to India. His death ended the British government’s ambitious program to develop rigid airships for imperial travel, shifting the nation’s aviation focus toward heavier-than-air craft and commercial airplanes instead.

1932

Christopher Brennan, australischer Dichter

1933

Renée Adorée

Renée Adorée was born in a circus tent in France. Her parents were acrobats. She performed across Europe before moving to Hollywood at 22. She starred in The Big Parade, the highest-grossing silent film of the 1920s. Tuberculosis killed her at 35, just as sound films made her French accent an asset.

1933

Nikolai Yudenich

Nikolai Yudenich nearly captured Petrograd from the Bolsheviks in 1919, leading the White Army to the city's outskirts. Trotsky rallied the Red Army. Yudenich retreated into Estonia, then exile. He died in France 14 years later, forgotten. The Whites lost. He lived long enough to see Stalin consolidate everything he'd fought against. He came within miles of changing history.

1934

Jean Vigo, cinéaste français (° 26 avril 1905).

1935

Pío Tamayo, poeta y precursor del pensamiento marxista en Venezuela (n.

Pío Tamayo, poeta y precursor del pensamiento marxista en Venezuela (n. 1898).

1936

J. Slauerhoff

J. Slauerhoff worked as a ship's doctor, writing poems between ports while battling tuberculosis. He sailed to Asia dozens of times, always alone, always coughing. He published 10 books of poetry and died at 38 in the same Dutch town where he was born. He'd circled the world to end up nowhere.

1938

John A. M. Adair, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1938

Albert Ranft

Albert Ranft controlled nearly every major theater in Stockholm by the early 1900s, creating Sweden's first entertainment monopoly. He produced over 1,000 plays and employed most of the country's actors. He died wealthy and powerful, having turned Swedish theater into an industry. Everyone worked for him or didn't work at all.

1938

Saint Faustina

Saint Faustina was a Polish nun who kept a diary of visions she said came from Jesus. She died of tuberculosis at 33. Her diary was banned by the Vatican for 20 years over translation errors. John Paul II canonized her in 2000 and made the Sunday after Easter "Divine Mercy Sunday" based on her writings.

1938

Faustina Kowalska

Faustina Kowalska kept a diary of visions she said came from Jesus, describing Divine Mercy in 600 pages. She was a Polish nun with three years of schooling. The Catholic Church declared her a saint in 2000. Poland had a mystic who wrote theology with a third-grade education.

1938

Mary Faustina Kowalska

Mary Faustina Kowalska had visions of Jesus for three years in a Warsaw convent. She wrote a 600-page diary about Divine Mercy. Her superiors thought she was crazy. They had her examined by psychiatrists. She died of tuberculosis at 33. Twenty years later, a Polish priest started reading her diary. He became Pope John Paul II.

1939

Alice Lee, britische Mathematikerin

1940

Silvestre Revueltas

Silvestre Revueltas died of pneumonia brought on by alcoholism at 40. He'd written some of Mexico's most celebrated orchestral music — wild, dissonant, full of folk melodies and chaos. He conducted the premiere of one of his pieces while drunk. He left behind 50 compositions and a reputation for brilliance and self-destruction. Talent doesn't cure anything.

1940

Camilla Jellinek, österreichisch-deutsche Frauenrechtlerin und Juristin

1940

Ballington Booth

Ballington Booth transformed social welfare by co-founding the Volunteers of America, an organization that prioritized direct aid to the urban poor and incarcerated populations. His death in 1940 concluded a lifetime of religious activism, leaving behind a nationwide network of shelters and rehabilitation programs that continue to provide essential services to marginalized communities today.

1940

Lincoln Loy McCandless

Lincoln Loy McCandless owned 40,000 acres of Hawaiian ranchland and served two terms in Congress representing the Territory of Hawaii. He introduced legislation to make Honolulu a naval base in 1915. He lost a fortune in the 1929 crash but kept his cattle operation running through the Depression. He died in 1940, still working his ranch at 81. The Navy base bill had passed.

1941

Louis Brandeis

Louis Brandeis was the first Jewish Supreme Court justice, confirmed in 1916 after a brutal four-month fight. Opponents called him a radical. He'd spent 20 years fighting monopolies and defending workers for free. He served 23 years on the court. He wrote the legal foundation for the right to privacy in 1928, arguing that wiretapping violated the Fourth Amendment.

1942

Dorothea Klumpke

Dorothea Klumpke married the first woman to discover a comet, then spent decades cataloging 10,000 stars for the Paris Observatory. She photographed the night sky on glass plates, measuring stellar positions to the arc-second. Her star catalog is still referenced today.

1943

Leon Roppolo

Leon Roppolo played clarinet with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, one of the first white bands to record jazz. He was 20 in 1922, already brilliant. He had schizophrenia. He was institutionalized at 24. He spent the last 18 years of his life in Louisiana asylums, still playing when they'd let him. He recorded for two years. The illness took the rest.

1943

Ludwig von Estorff, deutscher General

1945

Eduard Stadtler, deutscher Publizist und Politiker

1946

Cécile Brunschvicg, französische Politikerin und Feministin

1949

محمد حامد السقاف، قيه شافعي حضرمي يمني.

1950

Frederic Lewy

Frederic Lewy discovered the protein deposits in brain cells that cause Parkinson's disease. They're called Lewy bodies. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and worked in Philadelphia for 17 years. He died in 1950. His discovery became the foundation for diagnosing dementia decades later.

1950

Helen Taylor, US-amerikanische Komponistin, Pianistin und Musikpädagogin

1951

Alfredo Accorsi, italienischer Turner

1951

Isolde Hausser, deutsche Physikerin

1952

Vincentius Eugenio Bossilkoff, bulgarischer Bischof

1952

Joe Jagersberger

Joe Jagersberger won the 1928 Austrian Grand Prix driving an Austro-Daimler. He raced through the 1930s, survived crashes, and kept competing after World War II. He died during practice for a hill climb in Gaisberg at 68, still racing 24 years after most drivers retired.

1953

Friedrich Wolf, deutscher Arzt, Schriftsteller und Politiker

1954

Flor Alpaerts, belgischer Dirigent und Komponist

1955

Koichi Kawai, homme d'affaires japonais (° 5 janvier 1886).

1956

Juan Armet, spanischer Fußballspieler und -trainer

1957

José Leandro Andrade, futbolista uruguayo (n.

José Leandro Andrade, futbolista uruguayo (n. 1901).

1959

Josip Mandić, kroatischer Komponist

1960

Alfred Louis Kroeber, antropólogo estadunidense (n.

Alfred Louis Kroeber, antropólogo estadunidense (n. 1876).

1961

Alexander Willwoll, Schweizer Jesuit und Psychologe

1961

Booker Little, US-amerikanischer Jazzmusiker

1962

Edmond Gaujac, französischer Komponist und Musikpädagoge

1962

Joseph Noyon, französischer Komponist und Kirchenmusiker

1962

Sylvia Beach, US-amerikanische Buchhändlerin und Verlegerin

1964

Roger Féral (Roger Boris Lazareff dit), journaliste français (° 19 octobre 1904).

1965

Georges Vantongerloo, belgischer Maler, Bildhauer und Architekt

1965

Gustaf Bengtsson, schwedischer Komponist

1966

Korbinian Aigner, deutscher Pfarrer und Pomologe

1967

Clifton Williams

Clifton Williams was training to walk on the moon when his T-38 jet crashed in Florida in 1967. Born in 1932, he was a Marine pilot and astronaut assigned to Apollo 12. His backup took his seat. Pete Conrad walked on the moon instead. Williams is buried at Arlington. He came within two years of the lunar surface.

1971

Pjotr Galadschew, sowjetischer Szenenbildner und Schauspieler

1973

Anna Maria Schulte, deutsche Kommunalpolitikerin

1974

Zalman Shazar (זלמן שז"ר), homme politique, écrivain, journaliste et poète israélien, 3e président d'Israël de 1963 à…

Zalman Shazar (זלמן שז"ר), homme politique, écrivain, journaliste et poète israélien, 3e président d'Israël de 1963 à 1973 (° 24 novembre 1889).

1974

Miguel Enríquez, político chileno, secretario general del Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (n.

Miguel Enríquez, político chileno, secretario general del Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (n. 1944).

1974

Marie Couette, französische Gewerkschafterin und Résistante

1974

Ebe Stignani, cantatrice italienne (° 10 juillet 1903).

1975

Lady Constance Malleson

Lady Constance Malleson was Bertrand Russell's mistress for six years. She was an actress. He wrote her hundreds of letters about philosophy and loneliness. She kept them all. Published them after he died. She'd been married to someone else the entire time. So had he. She acted into her seventies. Wrote books about Russell. Never apologized for any of it.

1976

Takeda Taijun, japanischer Schriftsteller

1976

Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager proved that energy flows are reversible at the molecular level, work so abstract that chemists ignored it for 20 years. He won the Nobel Prize in 1968 for equations he'd published in 1931. He spoke Norwegian at home in Connecticut and once fixed a colleague's car engine by deriving the thermodynamics on a chalkboard. Theory predicted the wrench.

1976

Barbara Nichols

Barbara Nichols was a showgirl in New York before Hollywood cast her as the dumb blonde in 30 films. She played strippers, chorus girls, and gangsters' molls. Her real voice was intelligent and sharp. She died of liver failure at 47, broke, her last role two years behind her.

1977

Jean-Charles Bonenfant, journaliste et professeur de droit québécois (° 21 juillet 1912).

1978

May Warden, britische Schauspielerin

1979

Karl Obrecht, Schweizer Jurist und Politiker

1981

Gloria Grahame

Gloria Grahame won an Oscar at 29 and married four times, including to a director, then later to his son. She felt a lump in her breast but didn't see a doctor for two years. By the time she got treatment, the cancer had spread. She died in New York during a play's rehearsal period.

1983

Humberto Mauro

Humberto Mauro made Brazil's first sound film in 1933 with equipment he built himself. He shot over 300 educational films for the government, teaching rural Brazilians about hygiene, agriculture, and history. He went blind late in life but kept working, directing by sound. He died at 86 with most of his films unseen outside Brazil.

1983

Earl Tupper

Earl Tupper invented airtight plastic containers in 1946. Nobody bought them. Brownie Wise figured out they sold better at home parties. She built Tupperware into an empire. He resented her success, fired her, and moved to Costa Rica. He died a bitter millionaire. She died broke. The containers are still airtight.

1984

Leonard Rossiter, actor británico (n.

Leonard Rossiter, actor británico (n. 1926).

1984

Hugo Kükelhaus, deutscher Pädagoge

1985

Emil Spiess, Schweizer römisch-katholischer Geistlicher und Pädagoge

1985

Peter Paul, deutscher Schauspieler

1985

Serge Jaroff, US-amerikanischer Chorleiter

1985

Therese Angeloff, deutsche Kabarettistin und Schauspielerin

1985

Karl Menger

Karl Menger was the son of economist Carl Menger and developed dimension theory in mathematics. He fled Austria in 1938 and spent the rest of his life in America. He was part of the Vienna Circle, a group of philosophers who tried to make philosophy as precise as math. He died at eighty-three. His father studied markets; he studied space itself.

1986

Diego Angulo Íñiguez, historiador de arte y ensayista español (n.

Diego Angulo Íñiguez, historiador de arte y ensayista español (n. 1901).

1986

Hal B. Wallis

Hal B. Wallis produced Casablanca. He also produced 19 Elvis Presley films. He fought with Jack Warner over screen credit for Casablanca and lost — Warner took the Oscar. Wallis left to start his own company and produced 400 films across five decades. He died with two honorary Oscars and zero competitive wins.

1986

James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1919)

1986

James H. Wilkinson

James Wilkinson developed algorithms that made computers stop rounding errors from destroying calculations. His backward error analysis sounds boring until you realize it's why your phone's GPS works and why planes don't fall from the sky. He made computation trustworthy. Every engineer uses his methods without knowing his name.

1986

Mike Burgmann

Mike Burgmann was leading the 1986 Bathurst 1000 when his brakes failed on lap 29. He hit a wall at 280 kilometers per hour. The car caught fire. He died before medical crews reached him. He'd qualified on pole position the day before, his first pole at Bathurst in 12 attempts. He was 39. The race continued for another 132 laps.

1986

Alexander Arendt, deutscher Mediziner

1989

Robert Thomas Ashmore, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1991

Jørgen Beck, dänischer Schauspieler

1992

Anatoli Baranzew, sowjetischer bzw.

Anatoli Baranzew, sowjetischer bzw. russischer Schauspieler, Schauspiellehrer und Synchronsprecher

1992

Apa Sahib Pant, político, diplomático y escritor indio (n.

Apa Sahib Pant, político, diplomático y escritor indio (n. 1912).

1992

Eddie Kendricks, cantante y compositor estadounidense, de la banda The Temptations (n.

Eddie Kendricks, cantante y compositor estadounidense, de la banda The Temptations (n. 1939).

1992

Enrique Kicho Díaz, contrabajista y bandoneonista de tango argentino (n.

Enrique Kicho Díaz, contrabajista y bandoneonista de tango argentino (n. 1918).

1992

Fulvio Pennacchi, pintor ítalo-brasileiro (n.

Fulvio Pennacchi, pintor ítalo-brasileiro (n. 1905).

1992

Eddie Kendricks

Eddie Kendricks sang lead on "My Girl" and "Just My Imagination." He left the Temptations in 1971 over creative differences and had a solo career. He died of lung cancer at 52. His voice — that high, aching falsetto — defined Motown's sound. The group replaced him and kept recording.

1993

Martin Auguste Winterberger, seul Français évadé du camp de concentration de Natzweiler-Struthof (°19 décembre 1917).

1993

Dumitru Stăniloae, rumänischer Geistlicher und Theologe, Schriftsteller und Professor

1993

Francesco Carpino, prélat italien (° 18 mai 1905).

1993

Karl Gordon Henize, astronaute américain (° 17 octobre 1926).

1993

J.B.

J.B. Tanko, réalisateur et producteur croate expatrié au Brésil (° 21 avril 1906).

1994

Nini Rosso, italienischer Trompeter

1995

Leonid Wiktorowitsch Afanassjew, sowjetischer Komponist

1995

Lillian Fuchs, US-amerikanische Bratschistin, Musikpädagogin und Komponistin

1995

Walter Edwin Arnoldi, US-amerikanischer Maschinenbau-Ingenieur

1995

Linda Gary

Linda Gary voiced over 100 cartoon characters, including Teela in He-Man and Aunt May in Spider-Man. She worked constantly through the 1980s, often recording three different shows in a day. She died of a heart attack at 51. Most fans never learned her name.

1996

Seymour Cray

Seymour Cray designed the fastest computers in the world for 30 years. He worked alone in a lab in Wisconsin, avoided meetings, and dug a tunnel under his house to think. He said the elves who lived there helped him solve problems. His computers ran weather simulations and nuclear tests. Eccentricity doesn't disqualify genius.

1996

Judith Allen, actrice américaine (° 28 janvier 1911).

1996

Richard Kröll, skieur alpin autrichien (° 15 mars 1968).

1997

Bernard Yago, cardinal et archevêque ivoirien (° juillet 1916).

1997

Maurice-Raymond de Brossard, officier de marine, historien et peintre français (° 2 mars 1909).

1997

Brian Pillman

Brian Pillman was redefining what a wrestler could be — unpredictable, unhinged, breaking the fourth wall. He blurred the line between character and reality so well that nobody knew what was real. He died of a heart condition at 35. His last match aired the day after he died. The character outlived the man by hours.

1997

Arthur Tracy, chanteur et acteur américain (° 25 juin 1899).

1997

Federico Gallo, periodista español (n.

Federico Gallo, periodista español (n. 1930).

1998

Jacques Abram, US-amerikanischer Pianist und Musikpädagoge

1998

Megs Jenkins, britische Schauspielerin

1998

Georges Matoré, lexicologue français (° 8 août 1908).

1998

Denis Savignat, acteur français (° 3 mai 1937).

1998

Federico Zeri, critique et historien de l'art italien (° 21 août 1921).

1999

Marie-Madeleine Duruflé, französische Organistin

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2000

Cuco Sánchez, cantante mexicano (n.

Cuco Sánchez, cantante mexicano (n. 1921).

2000

Johanna Döbereiner

Johanna Döbereiner discovered bacteria that fix nitrogen in tropical grasses without fertilizer. Her work saved Brazilian farmers billions of dollars. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize multiple times. She never won. She died in 2000, having fed millions of people who never learned her name.

2000

Júlio Pinto, jornalista e humorista português (n.

Júlio Pinto, jornalista e humorista português (n. 1949).

2000

Cătălin Hîldan

Cătălin Hîldan was the captain of Dinamo București and died of a heart attack during a match at 24. The stadium went silent. His teammates carried him off the field. Dinamo retired his number. He's buried in a cemetery where fans still leave flowers.

2000

Ruth Ellis, ativista estadunidense (n.

Ruth Ellis, ativista estadunidense (n. 1899).

2001

Ivan Hrušovský, slowakischer Komponist, Musikwissenschaftler und Musikpädagoge

2001

Emilie Schindler, deutsch-österreichische Aktivistin und Gerechte unter den Völkern

2001

Joaquim Brugué, footballeur espagnol (° 18 juillet 1931).

2001

Mike Mansfield

Mike Mansfield was the longest-serving Senate Majority Leader in U.S. history — 16 years. Then he became ambassador to Japan and served for 11 more years under three presidents. He spent 27 years in the Senate and never raised his voice. Quiet persistence beats theatrics.

2001

Zoltán Székely, violoniste et compositeur hongrois (° 8 décembre 1903).

2002

Chuck Rayner

Chuck Rayner played goalie without a mask for 10 NHL seasons. He won the Hart Trophy in 1950 — the only goalie between 1930 and 1997 to win MVP. He took 400 stitches to the face during his career. He died at 82 with a face full of scars and a trophy no goalie thought they'd win again.

2002

José Botella Llusiá, investigador y ginecólogo español (n.

José Botella Llusiá, investigador y ginecólogo español (n. 1912).

2002

Rick Abao, US-amerikanischer Jazzmusiker, Komponist und Entertainer

2002

Mia Čorak Slavenska, kroatisch-US-amerikanische Tänzerin

2002

Jay R. Smith, US-amerikanischer Kinderschauspieler

2003

Denis Quilley, acteur britannique (° 26 décembre 1927).

2003

Neil Postman, crítico cultural estadounidense (n.

Neil Postman, crítico cultural estadounidense (n. 1931).

2003

Denis Quilley

Denis Quilley played both the Elephant Man on stage and Sweeney Todd in the West End. He could sing, do Shakespeare, and handle musicals with equal skill. He worked steadily for 50 years, never quite becoming a household name. Actors called him the actor's actor, which means audiences didn't.

2003

Dan Snyder

Dan Snyder was in a car driven by his teammate, Dan Heatley, when it crashed in Atlanta. Snyder died six days later. He was 25. Heatley survived and pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide. The Snyder family asked the judge for leniency. Heatley served no jail time and returned to the NHL four months later.

2003

Timothy Treadwell

Timothy Treadwell spent 13 summers camping among Alaskan grizzlies, filming himself talking to bears he'd named. He believed they accepted him as one of them. In his final audio recording, you can hear him screaming as a bear killed him, then his girlfriend. Park rangers found his footage and six minutes of audio. The bear was shot. His camera kept rolling.

2003

Annalena Tonelli, italienische Missionarin

2003

Roger Bédard, entraîneur de hockey sur glace québécois (° 5 mars 1925).

2004

Mildred McDaniel, US-amerikanische Hochspringerin

2004

Maurice Wilkins

Maurice Wilkins took Photo 51 — the X-ray diffraction image that showed DNA's double helix structure. Actually, Rosalind Franklin took it in his lab. He showed it to Watson without her permission. Watson and Crick used it to build their model. All three men shared the Nobel in 1962. Franklin had died four years earlier of ovarian cancer. The Nobel isn't awarded posthumously.

2004

William H. Dobelle

William Dobelle built an artificial eye that let blind patients see shapes and light. He implanted electrodes directly into their brains, connected to a camera on sunglasses. It worked. Patients could navigate rooms, read large letters. He died at 62 before the technology was perfected. His company collapsed within months.

2004

Rodney Dangerfield

Rodney Dangerfield started doing stand-up at 19, quit at 29 to sell aluminum siding, and came back at 42 when his wife left him. He was broke, middle-aged, and nobody wanted him. Then he wrote "I don't get no respect" and built an entire persona around failure. He didn't become famous until he was 46.

2005

Álvaro Domecq Díez, ganadero, rejoneador y empresario español (n.

Álvaro Domecq Díez, ganadero, rejoneador y empresario español (n. 1917).

2006

Friedrich Karl Flick, deutscher Unternehmer

2006

George Zervanos

George Zervanos was a Greek tenor who performed opera in Athens and toured internationally. He died in 2006 at 76. He'd sung the repertoire—Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti—in theaters that seated hundreds, not thousands, making a career in opera's middle tier.

2006

Jennifer Moss

Jennifer Moss played Lucille Hewitt on Coronation Street for 11 years starting at age 16. She left the show, struggled with alcoholism, and worked as a florist. She died of cancer at 61. The show that made her famous sent flowers to her funeral.

2006

Antonio Peña

Antonio Peña revolutionized lucha libre by founding Asistencia Asesoría y Administración in 1992, breaking the rigid traditions of the industry to introduce high-flying spectacle and elaborate character storytelling. His death in 2006 left a massive void in the sport, but his promotion remains the primary engine for modern Mexican wrestling, defining the current global style of the genre.

2006

Liao Hansheng, homme politique chinois (° 14 novembre 1911).

2007

Jack Wilson, US-amerikanischer Pianist, Arrangeur und Komponist

2007

Walter Kempowski, romancier allemand (° 29 avril 1929).

2007

Władysław Kopaliński, lexicographe, journaliste et linguiste polonais (° 14 novembre 1907).

2007

Vladimir Kuzin, fondeur soviétique puis russe (° 15 juillet 1930).

2007

Justin Tuveri

Justin Tuveri was the last Italian veteran of World War I. He lied about his age to enlist at 16. He fought in the Alps, survived, and lived 93 more years. He died at 109. Italy had entered the war with 5.2 million soldiers. He was the last one breathing.

2007

Alexandra Boulat, photographe français (° 2 mai 1962).

2007

Fernando Rosas Pfingsthorn, director de orquesta y músico chileno (n.

Fernando Rosas Pfingsthorn, director de orquesta y músico chileno (n. 1931).

2007

Jeroným Zajíček, US-amerikanischer Komponist und Musikpädagoge

2008

Ken Ogata, acteur japonais (° 20 juillet 1937).

2009

Mike Alexander

Mike Alexander died of pulmonary edema after drinking all night. He was 32. He'd just finished recording Evile's third album. The band released it as a tribute. They replaced him and kept touring. He's on three albums.

2009

Heidi Oetinger, deutsche Verlegerin

2009

Rob Bron, niederländischer Motorradrennfahrer

2009

Giselher Klebe, compositor alemán (n.

Giselher Klebe, compositor alemán (n. 1925).

2009

Israel Gelfand, mathématicien, biologiste et professeur d'université russe, ukrainien, soviétique puis américain (° 2…

Israel Gelfand, mathématicien, biologiste et professeur d'université russe, ukrainien, soviétique puis américain (° 20 août 1913 ou 2 septembre 1913).

2010

Kerstin Leitmeyer, deutsche Schriftstellerin und Malerin

2010

Jorge Presno, abogado y político uruguayo (n.

Jorge Presno, abogado y político uruguayo (n. 1929).

2010

Georges Salomon, entrepreneur français dans l'industrie du ski (° 18 novembre 1925).

2010

Bernard Clavel

Bernard Clavel left school at 13 to become a pastry chef. He didn't publish his first novel until he was 41. Then he wrote 80 more books, won the Goncourt Prize, and sold millions. He'd spent three decades kneading dough before he wrote a word anyone read.

2010

Mary Leona Gage

Mary Leona Gage was crowned Miss USA in 1957. Two weeks later, pageant officials discovered she was married and had two children. She was stripped of the title. The runner-up became Miss USA. Gage went back to Maryland. She died in 2010. She'd been Miss USA for 14 days.

2010

Roy Ward Baker, cineasta británico (n.

Roy Ward Baker, cineasta británico (n. 1916).

2010

Hans Ulrich Graf, Schweizer Verleger und Politiker

2010

Børge Raahauge Nielsen, dänischer Ruderer

2010

Moss Keane, joueur de rugby irlandais (° 27 juillet 1948).

2010

Steve Lee

Steve Lee fronted the Swiss hard rock band Gotthard for 20 years. In 2010, the band was on tour in the U.S. Their motorcycles were riding through Nevada when a truck pulling a trailer swerved. Lee was killed instantly. He was 47. The band kept going. They replaced him. They're still called Gotthard.

2011

Gökşin Sipahioğlu

Gökşin Sipahioğlu founded Sipa Press in 1973 and built it into one of the world's largest photo agencies. He covered 15 wars and trained a generation of photojournalists. He sold the agency in 1999 but couldn't stop working. He was photographing protests at 85.

2011

Fred Shuttlesworth

Fred Shuttlesworth's house was bombed on Christmas 1956. He walked out of the rubble and kept organizing. He was beaten with chains, arrested 30 times, and helped plan the Birmingham campaign with King. He moved to Cincinnati in 1961 and pastored there for 47 years. Birmingham named an airport after him.

2011

Charles Napier

Charles Napier played a corrupt prison guard, a hitman, a general, and a space admiral. He worked with Jonathan Demme eleven times, starting in 1972 with a biker film nobody saw. His face was everywhere in the eighties and nineties — you knew him even if you didn't know his name. He left behind seventy film credits and the kind of career character actors dream about.

2011

Peter Jaks, hockeyeur sur glace suisse (° 4 mai 1966).

2011

Niver Arboleda, futbolista colombiano (n.

Niver Arboleda, futbolista colombiano (n. 1967).

2011

Bert Jansch

Bert Jansch taught Jimmy Page and Neil Young how to play guitar, though he never met them — they learned from his records. He recorded 23 albums. He influenced everyone but never had a hit. He died of lung cancer in 2011. Young and Page showed up to his tribute concert. They finally got to thank him, five months too late.

2011

Derrick Bell

Derrick Bell was Harvard Law's first tenured Black professor, then quit in 1990 to protest their failure to hire a woman of color. He never returned. He taught at NYU instead, wrote prolifically, and founded critical race theory. He gave up prestige for principle and never looked back.

2012

Claude Pinoteau

Claude Pinoteau directed La Boum in 1980, a teen romance that sold 4.7 million tickets in France. He'd made serious films for 20 years. Then he cast Sophie Marceau, age 13, in a movie about first love. It made her a star and him commercially viable.

2012

Wladimir Iwanowitsch Zytowitsch, russischer Komponist

2012

Mariano Ramos, matador mexicain (° 20 octobre 1953).

2012

Edvard Mirzoyan

Edvard Mirzoyan composed Armenia's national anthem in 1991, at age 70. He'd spent his entire career under Soviet rule, writing symphonies the state approved. Then the USSR collapsed. They asked him to write something new. He had three weeks.

2012

James W. Holley

James Holley III was Portsmouth's first Black mayor, a dentist who entered politics to fix a broken city. He served on and off for decades, always returning when asked. He died at 85, still involved, still showing up. Some people can't retire from caring about their hometown.

2012

Vojin Dimitrijević

Vojin Dimitrijević was a Yugoslav human rights lawyer who documented war crimes during the breakup of Yugoslavia. He taught international law in Belgrade and testified at the Hague Tribunal. He died in 2012 at 79. He'd spent the 1990s collecting evidence of atrocities committed by all sides, including his own.

2012

Keith Campbell

Keith Campbell cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996. He wasn't the lead scientist — Ian Wilmut got most of the credit — but Campbell designed the technique. He transferred DNA from an adult cell into an egg, then watched it become a lamb. The breakthrough proved you could reverse cellular aging. He died of complications related to his work with animals. Dolly lived six years.

2012

Luis Gómez Llorente, político y filósofo español (n.

Luis Gómez Llorente, político y filósofo español (n. 1939).

2012

سليمان العيسى، مذيع سعودي.

2013

Ruth R. Benerito

Ruth Benerito invented wrinkle-free cotton in 1969. She held 55 patents. Her process for cross-linking cotton fibers with formaldehyde saved the American cotton industry from being replaced by polyester. She never made money from it—she worked for the Department of Agriculture. She died in 2013 at 97. Every permanent-press shirt exists because of her chemistry.

2013

Yakkun Sakurazuka

Yakkun Sakurazuka was a Japanese comedian who performed in drag and voiced anime characters. He died in 2013 at 37 in a car accident on a highway. He'd pulled over to help after a collision and was hit by another vehicle. He died doing the right thing on the side of the road.

2013

Sadek Batel, homme politique algérien (° 12 mars 1922).

2013

Carlo Lizzani

Carlo Lizzani directed neorealist films in postwar Italy, then spaghetti westerns when that's what sold, then political dramas during the Years of Lead. He worked for 60 years, adapting to whatever Italian cinema needed. He died by suicide in 2013 at 91. He'd outlived every movement he'd been part of.

2013

Paul Kienberg, deutscher Geheimdienstler

2013

Gaetano Fidanzati

Gaetano Fidanzati ran the Palermo Mafia's construction rackets for three decades. He controlled which buildings got built and who got paid. Arrested in 1996, he turned informant, testified against seventy mobsters, then disappeared into witness protection. He died in hiding, identity erased, seventy-eight years old. The man who built half of Palermo ended up with no name at all.

2013

Butch Warren

Butch Warren recorded with Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon, and Thelonious Monk before he turned twenty-five. He played bass on Hancock's 'Maiden Voyage' in 1965 — one of the most influential jazz albums ever made. Then he disappeared. Mental illness, hospitalizations, decades away from music. He left behind a handful of recordings from his early twenties that bassists still study.

2013

Butch Warren, jazzman américain, contrebassiste de hard bop (° 9 août 1939).

2014

Ike Jones

Ike Jones was a Black producer who secretly married white actress Inger Stevens in 1961—interracial marriage was still illegal in 31 states. They kept it hidden for nine years. She died in 1970. He revealed the marriage only then, producing their Mexican marriage certificate. He died in 2014 at 84. They'd hidden their marriage to save her career.

2014

Vera van Hasselt, niederländische Bildhauerin

2014

Anna Przybylska

Anna Przybylska was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at 35. She kept it secret for months, continued acting, appeared in magazines. She died 18 months later. Poland mourned a actress who'd hidden her illness so completely that her death shocked a nation.

2014

Misty Upham

Misty Upham was a Native American actress who appeared in August: Osage County and Django Unchained. She spoke publicly about sexual assault and mistreatment in Hollywood. She died in 2014 at 32. Her body was found in a ravine after she'd been missing for 11 days. Her family said she'd been failed by everyone who should've helped.

2014

Yuri Lyubimov

Yuri Lyubimov founded Moscow's Taganka Theatre in 1964, staging subversive productions under Soviet censors' noses. He was stripped of citizenship in 1984 while touring abroad. He didn't return for 17 years. He died at 97, having outlived the regime that exiled him. Patience is a form of resistance.

2014

Geoffrey Holder

Geoffrey Holder was 6'6", spoke with a booming Trinidadian accent, and became famous in America for laughing "ha ha ha ha ha!" in 7Up commercials. He'd been a dancer, choreographer, and director who won two Tonys for The Wiz. He played Baron Samedi in a Bond film. He died in 2014 at 84. Most Americans only knew him from the soda ads.

2014

Andrea de Cesaris

Andrea de Cesaris started 208 Formula One races and never won one. He crashed so often in his early years that teammates called him 'de Crasheris.' He held the record for most races without a victory for decades. He came close — five second-place finishes, fourteen podiums. He died in a motorcycle accident at fifty-five. Racing took his whole life, just never gave him first place.

2014

David Chavchavadze

David Chavchavadze was a CIA officer whose great-great-grandfather was a Russian poet. He was born in London, raised in Connecticut, spoke five languages. He worked intelligence for 27 years, wrote three books about it after retiring. He spent his career being the spy with the aristocratic name nobody could pronounce.

2014

Marc Galabru, médecin et écrivain français, frère du comédien Michel Galabru (° 30 janvier 1929).

2014

Anna Maria Gherardi, actrice italienne (° 21 mars 1939).

2014

Göte Hagström, athlète suédois (° 7 septembre 1918).

2014

Misty Upham, actrice américaine (° 6 juillet 1982).

2014

Anna Przybylska, actriz y modelo polaca (n.

Anna Przybylska, actriz y modelo polaca (n. 1978).

2015

Joker Arroyo

Joker Arroyo defended martial law prisoners when it could get you killed. He represented victims of Marcos's regime, then became a senator after the dictatorship fell. His nickname came from his college days, nothing sinister. He spent 88 years in a country he helped free.

2015

Grace Lee Boggs

Grace Lee Boggs was born in 1915, lived to 100, and never stopped organizing. She protested for 70 years, from labor rights to Black Power to urban farming in Detroit. Chinese-American, married to a Black autoworker, she outlived most of the movements she built.

2015

Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell created detective Kurt Wallander in 1991 and wrote ten novels about a depressed Swedish cop solving murders in small towns. The books sold 40 million copies in 40 languages. He spent half of each year in Mozambique directing plays. Sweden had a crime writer who lived in Africa.

2015

Carlos de Borbón-Dos Sicilias, aristócrata español (n.

Carlos de Borbón-Dos Sicilias, aristócrata español (n. 1938).

2015

Flavio Emoli, footballeur italien (° 23 août 1934).

2015

Ana Diosdado, escritora y actriz argentino-española (n.

Ana Diosdado, escritora y actriz argentino-española (n. 1938).

2015

Chantal Akerman

Chantal Akerman made a three-hour film of a woman peeling potatoes and washing dishes. Jeanne Dielman played in art houses in 1975. Critics called it unwatchable. Forty years later, it topped the Sight & Sound poll as the greatest film ever made. She died at 65, before she saw it.

2016

Michal Kováč, homme politique slovaque, président de la République slovaque de 1993 à 1998 (° 5 août 1930).

2016

Arthur Z'ahidi Ngoma, homme politique congolais (° 18 septembre 1947).

2016

Walter Schmidt, deutscher Journalist und Autor

2016

Michiyo Yasuda (保田道世), animateur japonais (° 28 avril 1939).

2016

Rodney Lynn « Rod » Temperton, auteur-compositeur-interprète anglais (° 9 octobre 1949).

2016

Brock Yates

Brock Yates co-founded the Cannonball Run, an illegal cross-country race from New York to Los Angeles. It inspired two terrible movies and countless speeding tickets. He wrote for Car and Driver for decades, celebrating speed when everyone else wanted speed limits. He was 82.

2016

Joan Marie Johnson, chanteuse américaine du groupe The Dixie Cups (° 1944).

2016

Georges Balandier, ethnologue et sociologue français (° 21 décembre 1920).

2016

Walter Greiner, deutscher Physiker

2017

Anne Wiazemsky, écrivaine, comédienne et réalisatrice française (° 14 mai 1947).

2017

Giorgio Pressburger, écrivain, réalisateur, scénariste et dramaturge hongrois puis italien (° 21 avril 1937).

2017

António de Macedo, réalisateur, scénariste, monteur et producteur portugais (° 5 juillet 1931).

2017

Dan Hanganu, architecte canado-roumain (° 27 janvier 1939).

2017

Georges Griffiths, footballeur ivoirien (° 24 février 1990).

2017

Antonius Geurts, kayakiste néerlandais (° 29 février 1932).

2017

Alain Billon, homme politique français (° 19 mai 1942).

2017

Sylke Tempel, deutsche Journalistin und Buchautorin

2017

Eberhard van der Laan

Eberhard van der Laan was mayor of Amsterdam when he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He kept working through chemotherapy for two years. He died in office at 62. Amsterdam flags flew at half-mast. He'd never smoked.

2018

Atiyyat al-Abnudi, ägyptische Filmemacherin

2018

Pierre Théberge, historien de l'art et administrateur public canadien (° 9 août 1942).

2018

Jimmy Duquennoy, coureur cycliste belge (° 9 juin 1995).

2018

Khadija Jamal, actrice marocaine (° ?

Khadija Jamal, actrice marocaine (° ? décembre 1935).

2018

Grigorij Khizhnyak, basketteur soviétique puis ukrainien (° 16 juillet 1974).

2018

Edgardo Rivera Martínez, écrivain et professeur d'université péruvien (° 28 septembre 1933).

2018

Karl Mildenberger, boxeur allemand (° 23 novembre 1937).

2018

Víctor Pey, ingénieur, professeur et patron de presse espagnol naturalisé chilien (° 31 août 1915).

2018

Horst Kirsch, deutscher Fußballspieler

2018

Héctor Ulloa, actor colombiano (n.

Héctor Ulloa, actor colombiano (n. 1936).

2019

John Mbiti, kenianischer Religionsphilosoph

2019

سليمان الحكيم، كاتب وصحفي مصري.

2019

Marcello Giordani, italienischer Opernsänger

2020

Ruth Klüger, US-amerikanische Literaturwissenschaftlerin und Schriftstellerin

2020

Karlheinz Drechsel, deutscher Musikjournalist und Jazzmusiker

2020

Szmul Gutman dit Simon Gutman, déporté franco-polonais, survivant et témoin de la Shoah (° 20 juillet 1923).

2020

Margaret Nolan, actriz, modelo de glamour y artista visual británica (n.

Margaret Nolan, actriz, modelo de glamour y artista visual británica (n. 1943).

2021

Jules Théobald, doyen masculin des Français entre 2019 et sa mort, premier homme français (et martiniquais) à atteind…

Jules Théobald, doyen masculin des Français entre 2019 et sa mort, premier homme français (et martiniquais) à atteindre l'âge de 112 ans (° 17 avril 1909).

2021

Budge Patty, tennisman américain (né en 1924).

2021

Pierre Légaré, auteur fantaisiste et psychologue canadien québécois (° 2 juin 1949).

2021

Manfred Hermann Schmid, deutscher Musikwissenschaftler

2021

Jürgen Goslar, deutscher Schauspieler, Regisseur und Synchronsprecher

2021

Ivo Barroso, escritor, poeta e tradutor brasileiro (n.

Ivo Barroso, escritor, poeta e tradutor brasileiro (n. 1929)

2021

Francisca Celsa dos Santos, supercentenaria brasileña (n.

Francisca Celsa dos Santos, supercentenaria brasileña (n. 1904).

2022

Alejandra González Pino, femme politique chilienne (° 10 mars 1968).

2022

Barbara Stamm, deutsche Politikerin

2022

Wolfgang Kohlhaase, réalisateur, scénariste et écrivain allemand (° 13 mars 1931).

2022

Marguerite Andersen, romancière, essayiste et poétesse canadienne (° 15 octobre 1924).

2023

Jacques Chonchol, agrónomo y político chileno (n.

Jacques Chonchol, agrónomo y político chileno (n. 1926).

2023

Piotr Klemensiewicz, peintre et sculpteur français (° 11 février 1956).

2023

Dick Butkus, joueur de foot U.S.

Dick Butkus, joueur de foot U.S. américain (° 9 décembre 1942).

2023

Otmar Richter, deutscher Schauspieler

2023

Jonathan Beare, rameur d'aviron canadien (° 10 mai 1974).

2024

Ildar Dadine, militant politique russe (° 14 avril 1982).

2024

Ifigenia Martínez, política, economista, catedrática y diplomática mexicana (n.

Ifigenia Martínez, política, economista, catedrática y diplomática mexicana (n. 1925).

2024

Robert Coover

Robert Coover wrote "The Public Burning" in 1977, imagining Richard Nixon having sex with Uncle Sam. Viking Press refused to publish it after lawyers panicked. Another publisher took it. Nixon never sued. Coover kept writing experimental fiction for 50 more years.

2024

Werner Merzbacher, Schweizer Pelzhändler und Kunstsammler

2024

Bruce Ames, fue un bioquímico estadounidense.

Bruce Ames, fue un bioquímico estadounidense. (n. 1928).

2024

A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, homme d'État bangladais (° 11 octobre 1930).

2024

Giorgio Trevisan, illustrateur et dessinateur de bande dessinée italien (° 13 octobre 1934).

2024

Mímis Pléssas, compositeur grec (° 12 octobre 1924).

2024

Naima Lamcharki, actrice marocaine (° 11 juillet 1943).

2024

Timothy Darvill, archéologue britannique (° 22 décembre 1957).

2025

Deaths

Pradyota

Justin II

Phocas

Ōtomo no Yakamochi, japanischer Dichter

Henry III

Wichmann III., sächsischer Graf aus der Sippe der Billunger

Henry III

Robert II

Sigebert of Gembloux

Philipp I., Markgraf von Namur

Liborius, Priester und Abt des Klosters Marienfeld

Alfonso VIII

Alfonso VIII of Castile

Al-Nasir

Robert von Courtenay, Herr von Champignelles

Philip III of France

Baidu, mongolischer Ilchan von Persien

Hermann II., Abt von Ebrach

Ludwig von Ravensberg, Bischof von Osnabrück

Guido II.

Giovanni Visconti

Reginald de Cobham, 1.

Blanche of Navarre

Raymond of Capua

Jean de La Balue, französischer Kardinal und Minister

Sofia Jagiellonka, Markgräfin von Brandenburg-Kulmbach und Brandenburg-Ansbach

Bogislaw X., Herzog von Pommern

Joachim Patinir

Richard Foxe

Helius Eobanus Hessus

Jorge Robledo, spanischer Konquistador

Caramuru, portugiesischer Kolonist in Brasilien

Pierre de Manchicourt

Lodovico Ferrari

Peter Tossanus, deutscher evangelischer Theologe und Reformator

Felix Lindtmayer der Jüngere, Schweizer Glasmaler

Peter Buchner, Bürgermeister von Leipzig

Philippe Desportes

Matthäus Dresser, deutscher Schulhumanist, Pädagoge, Philologe und Historiker

Gregor Bersman, deutscher Philologe und lateinischer Dichter

Heribert Rosweyde

Joachim von Loß, Reichspfennigmeister des Ober- und Niedersächsischen Reichskreises

Daniel Cramer, deutscher lutherischer Theologe, Chronist und Autor

Heinrich VI.

Willem Cornelisz Backer, Bürgermeister und Regent von Amsterdam

Joseph Clauder, deutscher evangelischer Theologe, Kirchenliedkomponist und Dichter

أيوب الخلوتي، متصوف ومصنف وشاعر شامي عثماني.

Johannes Scheibler, deutscher evangelischer Geistlicher

Elisabeth Albertine von Anhalt-Dessau, Herzogin zu Sachsen-Weißenfels-Barby, Äbtissin

Daniel Speer, deutscher Schriftsteller und Komponist

Christian Friedrich Richter, deutscher evangelischer Pfarrer, Kirchenlieddichter und Arzt

Kaibara Ekiken

Johann Sinapius, schlesischer Gelehrter

Friedrich Opfergeldt, deutscher lutherischer Theologe und Geistlicher

Jean-Philippe Baratier

Friedrich Benedict Carpzov II., deutscher Jurist und Rechtswissenschaftler

Paul Friedrich Opitz, deutscher Theologe und Orientalist

Safdarjung, Gouverneur von Avadh und Wesir am Mogulhof

August III., König von Polen und Kurfürst von Sachsen

Francis Wise, englischer Archivar

Johann Andreas Segner

Antonín Kammel, tschechischer Violinist und Komponist

Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, deutscher Arzt und Botaniker

Thomas Stone, Delegierter für Maryland im Kontinentalkongress

Christian David Jani, deutscher Philologe und Pädagoge

Grigori Potemkine (Григорий Александрович Потёмкин), militaire et homme d'État russe (° 13 septembre 1739).

Grigori Potemkin

José del Castillo, pintor español (n.

Luís António de Sousa Botelho Mourão, nobre português (n.

Sanité Bélair

John Hoskins Stone, US-amerikanischer Politiker

Charles Cornwallis

Luis Née, französischer Botaniker

James Ogilvy, 7.

Eleonore Prochaska, deutsche Freiheitskämpferin

Étienne Ozi, französischer Fagottist und Komponist

Tecumseh

Juan Hipólito Vieytes, economista y periodista argentino (n.

Camilo Torres Tenorio, abogado y político colombiano (n.