Famous Deaths on August 1

Roman politician and general (Battle of Actium), commits suicide after he is defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium at 53

• 371 St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283)
• 527 Justin I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies (b. c. 450)
• 1137 Louis VI 'The Fat', King of the Franks (1108-37), dies of dysentery at about 55
• 1190 Floris III, Count of Holland, dies at about 49 [born c. 1141]
• 1227 Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
• 1252 Giovanni da Pian del Carpine [John of Plano Carpini], Italian friar, explorer and diplomat (1st European traveller to give account of the Mongol Empire), dies (b. c. 1185)
• 1402 Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England, dies at 61
• 1457 Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50

Italian banker, de facto ruler of Florence and patron of the arts, dies at 74

• 1541 Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
• 1546 Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (co-founder of Society of Jesus), dies at 39
• 1557 Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
• 1580 Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat, dies at 55
• 1589 Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
• 1628 Francesco Gonzaga, Italian composer, dies at 37
• 1630 Federico Cesi, Italian naturalist and founder of the first modern scientific society, the Accademia dei Lincei, dies at 45
• 1667 Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48
• 1708 Edward Tyson, English physician and father of comparative anatomy (The Anatomy of a Pygmy), dies at 57

Queen of Great Britain (1702-14), dies at about 49

• 1743 Richard Savage, English poet and playwright, dies at about 46
• 1787 Alfonsus Liguori, Italian bishop, theologian, poet, composer, lawyer, and Catholic saint, dies at 90
• 1796 Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
• 1798 François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
• 1805 Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz, German composer, dies at 51
• 1812 Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
• 1813 Carl Stenborg, Swedish composer, dies at 60
• 1821 Elizabeth Inchbald [Simpson], English actress and author (Lovers' Vows, Lady Abbess), dies at 68
• 1834 Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies
• 1837 Walter Geikie, Scottish painter, dies at 41
• 1846 Peter Ritter, German cellist and composer, dies at 83
• 1851 William Joseph Behr, German writer and politician arrested for sedition, dies at 75
• 1857 Charles Turner, engraver, dies
• 1866 John Ross [Guwisguwi], Cherokee leader (Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, 1828-66), dies at 75
• 1869 Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer and photographer, murdered while trying to cross the Sahara at 33
• 1882 Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet (Bell Birds), dies of tuberculosis at 43
• 1883 Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, classic scholar, dies
• 1884 Heinrich Laube, writer, dies
• 1887 Joseph Rainey, American politician, 1st African American in US House of Representatives (1870-1879), dies at 55
• 1892 George Baird Hodge, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 64
• 1895 Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzugs), dies at 77
• 1896 William Robert Grove, Welsh physicist and inventor of the first fuel cell, dies at 85
• 1902 Ludwig Beckmann, German painter, dies at 80

American frontierswoman, dies at 51

• 1911 Edward Austin Abbey, American painter (Quest of the Holy Grail mural at Boston Public Library), dies at 59
• 1911 Konrad Duden, German linguist (the Duden dictionary), dies at 82
• 1916 Claude Newberry, South African cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies
• 1917 Frank Little, American labor organize (Industrial Workers of the World), murdered at 38 or 39 (exact birthdaye unknown, b. 1879)
• 1918 Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle, Canadian physician and founder of Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal), dies at 72
• 1918 John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy, dies at 64
• 1919 Oscar Hammerstein, German-American cigar maker, opera and theater impresario, composer, and playwright, dies of kidney disease at 73
• 1920 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, early Indian nationalist leader, dies at 64
• 1922 Vaclav Juda Novotny, Czech music writer, composer, and libretti translator, dies at 72
• 1925 John Pieter Veth, painter/lithographer/etcher/writer, dies at 61
• 1926 Israel Zangwill, Jewish author (Children of The Ghetto) and Zionist leader, dies at 62
• 1929 Syd Gregory, Australian cricket batsman and captain (58 Tests, 4 x 100, 8 x 50, HS 201; NSW CA), dies at 59
• 1932 Arnold Fothergill, English cricket fast bowler (2 Tests, 8 wickets. BB 4/19; Somerset CCC, MCC), dies at 77
• 1934 Piotr Maszyński, Polish composer, dies at 79
• 1935 Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist (patented rayon), dies at 71
• 1943 Ismar Elbogen, German-American rabbi and scholar (Encyclopedia Judaica), dies at 68

• 1946 Andrey Vlasov, Russian-Soviet army general and Nazi collaborator, executed for high treason, by hanging at 45
• 1954 Charles-A Cingria, writer, dies
• 1959 Jean Behra, French Formula One driver, dies in a car race at 38
• 1962 Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62
• 1963 Theodore Roethke, American poet (Praise to the end!), dies at 55
• 1965 Kiyoshi Nobutoki, Japanese cellist and composer, dies at 77
• 1966 Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 16 at U of Texas, shot by cops
• 1966 Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell, American jazz pianist and composer, dies at 41
• 1970 Frances Farmer, American actress (Son of Fury, Flowing Gold, Among the Living), dies from esophageal cancer at 56
• 1970 Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician (Nobel-1931), dies at 86
• 1971 John McDermott, American golfer (US Open, 1911-12), dies of heart failure at 79 [1]
• 1973 Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer, pedagogue (Venice Liceo Musicale, 1932-52), and musicologist (Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Vivaldi). s at 91

German politician (Head Of State, German Democratic Republic), dies at 80

• 1974 Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1975 Howard Joslin, American actor (Quebec, Detective Story), dies at 68

American spy captured by the USSR after his U-2 spy was shot plane in 1959, dies in a helicopter crash at 47

• 1980 Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)

• 1981 (Sidney) "Paddy" Chayefsky, American Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Marty; The Hospital; Network), novelist, and playwright, dies of cancer at 58
• 1981 Seppo Nummi, Finnish composer and music critic, dies at 49
• 1983 "Wild Bill" Moore, American R&B and jazz tenor saxophone player ("We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll": Marvin Gaye's "Mercy, Mercy Me"), dies at 65
• 1983 Peter Arne, actor (Straw Dogs), bludgeoned to death in London at 62
• 1985 Joseph Walker, cameraman, dies at 92
• 1985 Sam Wooding, American jazz pianist, and bandleader, one of the 1st to tour Europe (Chocolate Kiddies), dies at 90
• 1986 Robert Wolfgang Schnell, German writer, dies at 70
• 1986 Willem Klein, variety artist, dies at about 73
• 1987 Benson Fong, American character actor (Charlie Chan films; Purple Heart; Flower Drum Song), and restaurateur, dies of a stroke at 70
• 1987 Pola Negri [Apolonia Chalupec], Polish-American stage and silent and sound screen actress (Forbidden Paradise; Madame Bovary), and singer, dies of pneumonia and a brain tumor at 92
• 1988 Florence Eldridge [McKechnie], American Broadway stage and screen actress (Long Day's Journey Into Night; The Swan; Inherit The Wind), dies of a heart attack at 86
• 1988 John Dearden, American cardinal (1969-88) and archbishop of Detroit, dies at 80
• 1989 John Ogdon, English pianist/composer, dies at 52
• 1990 Lotta Hitschmanova, Canadian humanitarian (founder of the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada), dies at 80 [1]
• 1990 Norbert Elias, German-British sociologist and philosopher (Process of Civilization), dies at 93
• 1991 Stuart Wilson, English actor (The Girl Who Had Everything), dies at 87
• 1992 Chico Alvarez, trumpeteer (Stan Kenton Orchestra), dies of cancer at 72
• 1992 Kenny Sacha, American actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer film), dies of AIDS at 39
• 1992 Margarita Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja), dies at 76
• 1992 Stanley Dudek, US platform diver (watershows), dies
• 1993 Alfred Manessier, French painter (glass-in-lead), dies in car crash at 81
• 1993 Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered
• 1993 Ewing Kaufman, founder/owner (KC Royals), dies of lung cancer at 76
• 1993 Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72
• 1993 Viktor Polyanitshko, governor of Kaukasus, murdered
• 1994 George Dixon, American jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
• 1994 Gerard van de Groenekan, furniture maker/designer, dies at 90
• 1995 Loudi Nijhoff, Dutch actress (Alicia, Van Geluk Gesproken), dies
• 1995 Robert L. "Bob" Talley, American jazz and blues pianist and composer, dies at 75
• 1996 Frida Boccara, French singer, dies at 55
• 1996 John Lanigan, Australian operatic tenor (Covent Garden), dies at 75
• 1996 Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
• 1996 Mohamed Farrah Aidid, President (ANS-CUS)/Somalia, dies
• 1996 Pierre Lucien Claverie, Algerian-French Bishop of Oran, murdered by Islamic extremists in Algeria at 58
• 1996 Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1950 - isolation and discovery of cortisone ), dies at 99 [1]
• 1997 Ngiratkel Etpison, president of Palau (1989-92), dies
• 1997 Svyatoslav Richter, Russian pianist, dies of a heart attack at 82
• 1998 Eva Bartok [Éva Márta Szőke], Hungarian-British actress (The Crimson Pirate; Ten Thousand Bedrooms), dies at 71 [birth date sources vary between 1926 and 1929]
• 1999 Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
• 2000 Hugh Hood, Canadian author (White Figure, White Ground), dies at 72
• 2001 Korey Stringer, American NFL football tackle, 1995-2000 (Minnesota Vikings), dies of complications from heat stroke at 27
• 2003 Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
• 2003 Marie Trintignant, French actress (Le Cousin), dies from injuries after domestic violence assault by her boyfriend at 41
• 2004 Philip Abelson, American physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 91
• 2005 Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (New York Post; Saturday Evening Post), introduced The Beatles to Bob Dylan, dies of cancer at 77
• 2005 Constant [Nieuwenhuys], Dutch painter (Uprising of Homo Ludens), and sculptor, dies at 85
• 2005 Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (1982-2005), dies at 84
• 2005 WiBo, Dutch cartoonist, dies at 87
• 2006 Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (Frank and Ernest), dies at 81
• 2006 Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
• 2006 Jason Rhoades, American installation artist know for his Perfect World installation, dies of heart failure at 41
• 2007 Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer, dies of lung cancer at 74
• 2008 Ashok Mankad, Indian cricket batsman (22 Tests, 6 x 50; Bombay), dies at 61
• 2008 Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)

• 2010 Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby union halfback (1 cap; Wellington RFU), cricket wicketkeeper (5 Tests, 7 dismissals) and international umpire (1 Test), dies at 99
• 2010 Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican nationalist (b. 1919)
• 2010 Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director, dies at 100
• 2012 Douglas Townsend, American composer, dies at 90
• 2012 Joan Bernard, English educator (Principal Trevelyan College, Durham) and army officer (WWII Auxiliary Territorial Service), dies at 94
• 2013 Dick Kazmaier, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1951; Unanimous All-American 1951; Princeton), dies from heart and lung disease at 82
• 2015 Anatoly Kremer, Russian composer and conductor (Eksperiment), dies at 82
• 2015 Cilla Black [Priscilla White], British pop singer ("Anyone Who Had a Heart"), and TV personality (Blind Date), dies at 72
• 2016 Franciszek Macharski, Polish Cardinal, Archbishop of Kraków (1978-2005), dies at 87
• 2016 Queen Anne of Romania [Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma], wife of Michael I King of Romania, dies at 92
• 2017 Goldy McJohn, [John Goadsby] Canadian rock organist (Steppenwolf - "Born To Be Wild"; "Magic Carpet Ride"), dies at 72
• 2019 Barry Hughart, American author of fantasy novels (Bridge of Birds), dies at 85
• 2019 [Donn Alan] DA Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (Don't Look Back), dies at 94
• 2020 Rickey Dixon, American College Football Hall of Fame cornerback (Jim Thorpe Award 1987; Oklahoma Sooners; Cincinnati Bengals, LA Raiders), dies from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 53
• 2020 Rodney H. Pardey, American poker player (2 x World Series of Poker C'ships; World Series of Poker Bracelets 1991, 94), dies of stroke complications at 75
• 2020 Stan Mellor, British National Hunt jockey and trainer (first jumps jockey to ride 1,000 winners; Champion Jockey 1960-62), dies at 83
• 2020 Vitold Kreyer, Russian athlete (Olympic bronze, triple jump 1956, 60) and coach (Soviet athletics team 1967–80; head Russian team 2000 Olympics), dies at 87
• 2020 Wilford Brimley, American character actor (Our House; Cocoon; Quaker Oats commercials), dies at 85 [1]
• 2021 David A. Gall, Canadian thoroughbred Hall of Fame jockey (US Champion Jockey by wins 1979, 81; first to ride 8 winners on single US race card), dies at 79
• 2021 Ian Thomson, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 9 wickets; Sussex CCC), dies at 92
• 2022 Hans Weilbächer, German soccer midfielder (1 cap West Germany; Eintracht Frankfurt e.V 241 games), dies at 88
• 2022 John Hughes, Scottish soccer striker (8 caps; Celtic 255 games), dies from cancer at 79
• 2023 Sheila Oliver, American politician (Lt. Governor of New Jersey, 2018-23; Member of NJ State Assembly, 2004-18), dies at 71
• 2024 Bertrand Fourcade, French rugby union coach (Italy 1989-93, France Universities 1996-2000; Lourds RFC), dies at 81
• 2024 Craig Shakespeare, English soccer coach (WBA, Leicester CIty) and midfielder (Walsall 284 games), dies from cancer at 60
• 2024 Zdeněk Prokeš, Czech soccer defender (17 caps Czechoslovakia; Bohemians Praha 294 games), dies at 71

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