Died on Friday, 1st August – Famous Deaths

01/08/2024

Joyce Brabner, American writer and artist (born 1952)

Joyce Brabner was an American writer of political comics and wife of Harvey Pekar; with whom she co-wrote the nonfiction graphic novel Our Cancer Year.

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01/08/2021

Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Scottish Islamic scholar and writer (born 1930)

Abdalqadir as-Sufi was a Scottish Muslim leader and author. He was Shaykh of Instruction, leader of the Darqawi-Shadhili-Qadiri Tariqa, founder of the Murabitun World Movement and author of numerous books on Islam, Sufism and political theory. Born in Scotland, he was a playwright and actor before he converted to Islam in 1967 with the Imam of the Qarawiyyin Mosque in Fez, Morocco.

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Jerry Ziesmer, American assistant director, production manager and occasional actor (born 1939)

Jerry Ziesmer was an American assistant director, production manager and occasional actor. He is best known for his role as Jerry in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now in which he delivers the infamous line "terminate with extreme prejudice". His character is suspected to be a part of CORDS or DOD Command Staff.

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01/08/2020

Wilford Brimley, American actor and singer (born 1934)

Anthony Wilford Brimley was an American actor. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and working odd jobs in the 1950s, Brimley started working as an extra and stuntman in Western films in the late 1960s. He became an established character actor in the 1970s and 1980s in films such as The China Syndrome (1979), The Thing (1982), Tender Mercies (1983), The Natural (1984), and Cocoon (1985). Brimley was known for playing characters at times much older than his age. He was the long-term face of American television advertisements for the Quaker Oats Company. He also promoted diabetes education and appeared in related television commercials for Liberty Medical, a role for which he became an Internet meme.

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Rickey Dixon, American professional football player (born 1966)

Rickey Dixon was an American professional football safety who played in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners, where he won the Jim Thorpe Award in 1987. Dixon was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the first round of the 1988 NFL draft with the fifth overall pick. He played five seasons with the Bengals and one for the Los Angeles Raiders.

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Rodney H. Pardey, American poker player (born 1945)

Rodney Herm "Rod" Pardey was an American poker player. Pardey was the father of singer/songwriter and former tour manager of The Killers, Ryan Pardey, as well as professional poker player and singer/songwriter Rodney E. Pardey.

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01/08/2016

Queen Anne of Romania (born 1923)

Anne was the wife of King Michael I of Romania. She married Michael in 1948, the year after he had abdicated the throne. Nonetheless, she was known after the marriage as Queen Anne.

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01/08/2015

Stephan Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager (born 1968)

Stephan Beckenbauer was a German footballer who played as a centre-back.

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Cilla Black, English singer and actress (born 1943)

Priscilla Maria Veronica Willis, known professionally as Cilla Black, was an English singer, actress and television presenter.

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Bernard d'Espagnat, French physicist, philosopher, and author (born 1921)

Bernard d'Espagnat was a French theoretical physicist, philosopher of science, and author, best known for his work on the nature of reality. The Wigner–d'Espagnat inequality is partially named after him.

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Bob Frankford, English-Canadian physician and politician (born 1939)

Robert Timothy Stansfield "Bob" Frankford was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995 who represented the Toronto riding of Scarborough East.

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Hong Yuanshuo, Chinese footballer and manager (born 1948)

Hong Yuanshuo was a Chinese football manager and a former player. Throughout his playing career he spent all of it with Beijing where he won the 1973 league title with them. Since retiring he would move into scouting before moving into management with third-tier club Beijing Kuanli in 1997. By 2009 he would return to his former club as a manager to aid them in their successful push for the 2009 Chinese Super League title.

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01/08/2014

Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager (born 1973)

Valyantsin Byalkevich, also referred to as Valiantsin Bialkevich, was a Belarusian professional footballer who played as a midfielder for the Belarus national team. He spent the majority of his career with Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv, where he was predominantly used as a playmaker, and was part of the team that reached the semi-finals of 1998–99 UEFA Champions League.

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Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian author (born 1974)

Jan Roar Leikvoll was a Norwegian novelist.

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Charles T. Payne, American soldier (born 1925)

Charles Thomas Payne was an American librarian and soldier. A member of the Obama family, he was the brother of Madelyn Payne Dunham and granduncle of former U.S. president Barack Obama.

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Mike Smith, English radio and television host (born 1955)

Michael George Smith, also known by the on-air nickname of Smitty, was an English television and radio presenter, racing driver and businessman. During the 1980s, he was known for his appearances on BBC1 as a co-host of Breakfast Time and the music show Top of the Pops.

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01/08/2013

John Amis, English journalist and critic (born 1922)

John Preston Amis was a British broadcaster, classical music critic, music administrator, and writer. He was a frequent contributor for The Guardian and to BBC radio and television music programming.

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Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (born 1932)

Gail Kobe was an American actress and television producer.

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Babe Martin, American baseball player (born 1920)

Boris Michael Martin was an American Major League Baseball outfielder for the St. Louis Browns and a catcher for the Boston Red Sox (1948–49). He was nicknamed 'Babe'.

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Toby Saks, American cellist and educator (born 1942)

Toby Saks was an American cellist, the founder of the Seattle Chamber Music Society and a member of the New York Philharmonic.

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Wilford White, American football player (born 1928)

Wilford Parley "Whizzer" White was an American professional football player who was a halfback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He also was a member of the Toronto Argonauts in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was selected by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 1951 NFL draft. He played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils and became the school's first College Football All-American.

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01/08/2012

Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer and agent (born 1953)

Aldo Maldera was an Italian footballer who played as a full-back or as a wide midfielder on the left flank. A left-footed player, Maldera was a modern full-back who possessed an accurate and powerful shot, which earned him the nickname "Aldo-gol", due to his prolific goalscoring ability, despite his more defensive playing role; he was a hard-working team player, who was capable of covering the flank effectively and aiding his team both offensively and defensively. Throughout his career, he was known for his pace, stamina, technique, dribbling, and crossing ability; his speed and galloping offensive runs earned him the nickname "the horse".

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Douglas Townsend, American composer and musicologist (born 1921)

Douglas Townsend was an American composer and musicologist. Born in Manhattan, Townsend became interested in composition while a student at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, in New York City. He taught himself composition, counterpoint and orchestration. In 1941, he began studying composition privately, with Tibor Serly, Stefan Wolpe, Aaron Copland, Otto Luening and Felix Greissle, among others.

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Barry Trapnell, English cricketer and academic (born 1924)

Barry Maurice Waller Trapnell, was an English academic, school headmaster and a gifted amateur sportsman. As a cricket batsman, he was right-handed, and as a bowler, he was right-arm medium pace.

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01/08/2010

Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican-American activist (born 1919)

Lolita Lebrón was a Puerto Rican nationalist who was convicted of aggravated assault and other crimes after carrying out an armed attack on the United States Capitol in 1954, which resulted in the wounding of five members of the United States Congress. She was released from prison in 1979 after being granted clemency by President Jimmy Carter. Lebrón was born and raised in Lares, Puerto Rico, where she joined the Puerto Rican Liberal Party. In her youth she met Francisco Matos Paoli, a Puerto Rican poet, with whom she had a relationship. In 1941, Lebrón migrated to New York City, where she joined the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, gaining influence within the party's leadership.

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Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer (born 1910)

Eric William Thomas Tindill was a New Zealand sportsman. Tindill held a number of unique records: he was the oldest ever Test cricketer at the time of his death, the only person to play Tests for New Zealand in both cricket and rugby union, and the only person ever to play Tests in both sports, referee a rugby union Test, and umpire a cricket Test: a unique "double-double".

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01/08/2009

Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (born 1933)

María Corazón "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino was the 11th president of the Philippines, serving from 1986 to 1992. The first female president in Philippine history, Aquino was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ended the two-decade rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and led to the establishment of the current democratic Fifth Philippine Republic. She has been regarded by media outlets as the "Mother of Democracy".

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01/08/2008

Gertan Klauber, Czech-English actor (born 1932)

George Gertan Klauber was a Czech-born British actor, known for playing various character parts in films and television programmes, particularly the Carry On comedies.

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Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1916)

Harkishan Singh Surjeet was an Indian Communist politician from Punjab, who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from 1992 to 2005 and was a member of the party's Polit Bureau from 1964 to 2008.

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01/08/2007

Tommy Makem, Irish singer-songwriter and banjo player (born 1932)

Thomas Makem was an Irish folk musician, artist, poet and storyteller. He was best known as a member of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. He played the long-necked 5-string banjo, tin whistle, low whistle, guitar, bodhrán and bagpipes, and sang in a distinctive baritone. He was sometimes known as "The Bard of Armagh" and "The Godfather of Irish Music".

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01/08/2006

Bob Thaves, American illustrator (born 1924)

Robert Thaves was the creator of the comic strip Frank and Ernest, which began in 1972.

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Iris Marion Young, American political scientist and activist (born 1949)

Iris Marion Young was an American political theorist and socialist feminist who focused on the nature of justice and social difference. She served as Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and was affiliated with the Center for Gender Studies and the Human Rights program there. Her research covered contemporary political theory, feminist social theory, and normative analysis of public policy. She believed in the importance of political activism and encouraged her students to involve themselves in their communities.

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01/08/2005

Al Aronowitz, American journalist (born 1928)

Alfred Gilbert Aronowitz was an American rock journalist best known for introducing Bob Dylan to The Beatles in 1964.

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Wim Boost, Dutch cartoonist and educator (born 1918)

Willem Louis Joseph Boost, was a Dutch cartoonist, using the alias WiBo.

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Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter and sculptor (born 1920)

Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys, better known as Constant, was a Dutch painter, sculptor, graphic artist, author and musician.

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Fahd of Saudi Arabia (born 1923)

Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 13 June 1982 until his death in 2005. Prior to his ascension, he was Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from 1975 to 1982. He was the eighth son of King Abdulaziz, the founder of Saudi Arabia.

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01/08/2004

Philip Abelson, American physicist and author (born 1913)

Philip Hauge Abelson was an American physicist, scientific editor and science writer. Trained as a nuclear physicist, he co-discovered the element neptunium, worked on isotope separation in the Manhattan Project, and wrote the first study of nuclear marine propulsion for submarines. He later worked on a broad range of scientific topics and related public policy, including organic geochemistry, paleobiology and energy policy.

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01/08/2003

Guy Thys, Belgian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1922)

Guy Jean-Leonard Thys was a Belgian football manager, mostly known for being the most successful manager in the history of the Belgium national football team as he managed to lead the national side to their only UEFA European Championship final in 1980 and a fourth–place finish at the 1986 FIFA World Cup. With 114 games between 1976 and 1991, he is the longest-serving national coach in the history of the Red Devils to date.

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Marie Trintignant, French actress and screenwriter (born 1962)

Marie Trintignant was a French film and stage actress. She appeared in over 30 movies during her 36-year career. Her family was deeply involved in France's film industry, as her father was an actor and her mother was a director, producer, and screenwriter.

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01/08/2001

Korey Stringer, American football player (born 1974)

Korey Damont Stringer was an American professional football offensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons. He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes and was recognized as an All-American. He was selected in the first round of the 1995 NFL draft by the Minnesota Vikings. On August 1, 2001, Stringer died from complications brought on by heat stroke during the Vikings' training camp in Mankato, Minnesota.

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01/08/1998

Eva Bartok, Hungarian-British actress (born 1927)

Éva Márta Szőke Ivanovics, known professionally as Eva Bartok, was a Hungarian-British actress. She began acting in films in 1950, and her last credited appearance was in 1966. She acted in more than 40 American, British, German, Hungarian, French, and Israeli films. She is best known for appearances in Blood and Black Lace, The Crimson Pirate, Operation Amsterdam, and Ten Thousand Bedrooms.

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01/08/1996

Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)

Tadeusz Reichstein, also known as Tadeus Reichstein, was a Polish-Swiss chemist and a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (1950), which was awarded for his work on the isolation of cortisone.

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Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (born 1929)

Lucille Teasdale-Corti was a Canadian physician and pediatric surgeon, who worked in Uganda from 1961 until her death in 1996. With her husband she co-founded a university hospital in the north of Uganda.

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01/08/1990

Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist, author, and academic (born 1897)

Norbert Elias was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes.

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01/08/1989

John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (born 1937)

John Andrew Howard Ogdon was an English pianist and composer.

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01/08/1982

T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (born 1933)

Thamodarampillai Thirunavukarasu was a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and Member of Parliament.

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01/08/1981

Paddy Chayefsky, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1923)

Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for writing both Adapted and Original screenplays.

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Kevin Lynch, Irish Republican, hunger striker

Kevin Lynch was an Irish republican and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) from Park, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The Dungiven hurling team was renamed Kevin Lynch's Hurling Club in his honour after his death on hunger strike.

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01/08/1980

Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (born 1944)

Patrick André Eugène Joseph Depailler was a French racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1972 to 1980. Depailler won two Formula One Grands Prix across eight seasons.

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Strother Martin, American actor (born 1919)

Strother Douglas Martin Jr. was an American actor, who appeared in over 170 film and television productions between 1950 and 1980, mainly in character roles. He often appeared in support of John Wayne and Paul Newman, and in Westerns directed by John Ford and Sam Peckinpah. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role on the television legal drama Hawkins (1973–74).

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01/08/1977

Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (born 1929)

Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers is best known for his involvement in the 1960 U-2 incident, when he was shot down while flying a secret CIA spying mission over the Soviet Union. Powers survived, but was captured and sentenced to 10 years in a Soviet prison for espionage. He served 21 months of his sentence before being released in a prisoner swap in 1962.

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01/08/1974

Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (born 1898)

Ildebrando Antoniutti was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as prefect of the Congregation for Religious from 1963 to 1973, and was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope John XXIII in 1962.

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01/08/1973

Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (born 1882)

Gian Francesco Malipiero was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.

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Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician (born 1893)

Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht was a German communist politician. Ulbricht played a leading role in the creation of the Weimar-era Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and later in the early development and establishment of the German Democratic Republic. As the First Secretary of the Communist Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to 1971, he was the chief decision-maker in East Germany. From President Wilhelm Pieck's death in 1960, he was also the East German head of state until his own death in 1973. As the leader of a significant Communist satellite, Ulbricht had a degree of bargaining power with the Kremlin that he used effectively. For example, he demanded the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 when the Kremlin was reluctant.

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01/08/1970

Frances Farmer, American actress (born 1913)

Frances Elena Farmer was an American actress. She appeared in over a dozen feature films and three significant Broadway plays over the course of her career. Farmer gained greater notoriety posthumously for having had a nervous breakdown and undergone a five-year involuntary commitment in a state-run mental institution. She was said to have suffered abusive conditions, which have remained the subject of much controversy and speculation.

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Doris Fleeson, American journalist (born 1901)

Doris Fleeson was an American journalist and columnist and was the first woman in the United States to have a nationally syndicated political column.

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Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1883)

Otto Heinrich Warburg was a German physiologist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate. He served as an officer in the elite Uhlan during the First World War, and was awarded the Iron Cross for bravery. He was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1931. In total, he was nominated for the award 47 times over the course of his career.

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01/08/1967

Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (born 1900)

Richard Johann Kuhn was an Austrian-German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins".

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01/08/1966

Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (born 1941)

Charles Joseph Whitman was an American mass murderer and Marine veteran who became known as the "Texas Tower Sniper". On August 1, 1966, Whitman used knives to kill his mother and his wife in their respective homes, then went to the University of Texas at Austin with multiple firearms and began indiscriminately shooting at people. He fatally shot three people inside UT Austin's Main Building, then accessed the 28th-floor observation deck on the building's clock tower. There, he fired at random people for 96 minutes, killing an additional eleven people and wounding 31 others before he was shot dead by the Austin Police Department.

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01/08/1963

Theodore Roethke, American poet (born 1908)

Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954 for his book The Waking, and the annual National Book Award for Poetry on two occasions: in 1959 for Words for the Wind, and posthumously in 1965 for The Far Field. His work was characterized by a willingness to engage deeply with a multifaceted introspection, and his style was overtly rhythmic, with a skilful use of natural imagery. Roethke's mastery of both free verse and fixed forms was complemented by an intense lyrical quality that drew "from the natural world in all its mystery and fierce beauty."

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01/08/1959

Jean Behra, French race car driver (born 1921)

Jean Marie Behra was a French racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1952 to 1959.

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01/08/1957

Rose Fyleman, English writer and poet (born 1877)

Rose Amy Fyleman was an English writer and poet, noted for her works on fairies for children. Her 1917 poem "There are fairies at the bottom of our garden" was set to music by English composer Liza Lehmann.

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01/08/1944

Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (born 1878)

Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier, and politician who served as the second president of the Philippines from 1935 until his death in 1944. He was the first Filipino to head a government of the entire Philippines and is considered the second president of the Philippines after Emilio Aguinaldo (1899–1901), whom Quezon defeated in the 1935 presidential election. Quezon City, a city in Metro Manila and Quezon Province, are named after him.

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01/08/1943

Lydia Litvyak, Soviet lieutenant and pilot (born 1921)

Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak, also known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Historians' estimates for her total victories range from thirteen to fourteen solo victories and four to five shared kills in her 66 combat sorties. In about two years of operations, she was the first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft, the first of two female fighter pilots who have earned the title of fighter ace and the holder of the record for the greatest number of kills by a female fighter pilot. She was shot down near Orel during the Battle of Kursk as she attacked a formation of German aircraft.

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01/08/1938

Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and academic (born 1862)

Edmund Charles Tarbell was an American Impressionist painter. A member of the Ten American Painters, his work hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, DeYoung Museum, National Academy Museum and School, New Britain Museum of American Art, Worcester Art Museum, and numerous other collections. He was a leading member of a group of painters which came to be known as the Boston School.

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01/08/1929

Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (born 1870)

Sydney Edward Gregory, sometimes known as Edward Sydney Gregory, was a cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia. At the time of his retirement, he had played a world-record 58 Test matches during a career spanning 1890 to 1912. A right-handed batsman, he was also a renowned fielder, particularly at cover point.

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01/08/1922

Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (born 1856)

Donát Bánki was a Hungarian mechanical engineer and inventor of Jewish heritage. In 1893 he invented the carburetor for the stationary engine, together with János Csonka. The invention is often, incorrectly credited to the German Wilhelm Maybach, who submitted his patent half a year after Bánki and Csonka. Bánki also greatly contributed to the design of compressors for combustion engines.

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01/08/1921

T. J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (born 1876)

Thomas Joseph Ryan was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Queensland from 1915 to 1919, as leader of the state Labor Party. He resigned to enter federal politics, sitting in the House of Representatives for the federal Labor Party from 1919 until his premature death less than two years later.

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01/08/1920

Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian freedom fighter, lawyer and journalist (born 1856)

Bal Gangadhar Tilak, was an Indian nationalist and self-rule activist in the Indian independence movement. He was one third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate. The honorific "Lokmanya" was applied to him by his supporters.

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01/08/1918

John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (born 1854)

John Riley Banister was an American law officer, cowboy and Texas Ranger.

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01/08/1911

Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (born 1852)

Edwin Austin Abbey was an American muralist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well as for his painting of Edward VII's coronation. His most famous set of murals, The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail, adorns the Boston Central Library.

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Samuel Arza Davenport, American lawyer and politician (born 1843)

Samuel Arza Davenport was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

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01/08/1905

Henrik Sjöberg, Swedish gymnast and medical student (born 1875)

Kristian Henrik Rudolf Sjöberg was a Swedish gymnast, athlete, and medical student. He competed as the only Swedish participant at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.

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01/08/1903

Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (born 1853)

Martha Jane Canary, better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, sharpshooter and storyteller. In addition to many exploits, she was known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok. Late in her life, she appeared in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. She is said to have exhibited compassion to others, especially to the sick and needy. This facet of her character contrasted with her daredevil ways and helped to make her a celebrated frontier figure. She was also known for her habit of wearing men's attire.

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01/08/1869

Richard Dry, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Tasmania (born 1815)

Sir Richard Dry, KCMG was an Australian politician, the son of United Irish convict, who was Premier of Tasmania from 24 November 1866 until 1 August 1869 when he died in office. Dry was the first Tasmanian-born premier, and the first Tasmanian to be knighted.

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Peter Julian Eymard, French priest and founder of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (born 1811)

Peter Julian Eymard was a French Catholic priest, saint and founder of two religious institutes: the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament for men and the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament for women.

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01/08/1866

John Ross, American tribal chief (born 1790)

John Ross was the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828 to 1866; he served longer in that position than any other person. Ross led the nation through such tumultuous events as forced removal to Indian Territory and the American Civil War. Ross was of Native and European American descent. His father was a European man from Highland, Scotland. His mother was a Native American woman from the Cherokee Nation.

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01/08/1863

Jind Kaur Majarani (Regent) of the Sikh Empire (born 1817)

Maharani Jind Kaur, also known as Rani Jindan Kaur, was regent and, shortly the regnant of the Sikh Empire from 1843 until 29 March 1847. After the Sikh Empire was dissolved on 29 March 1847, the Sikhs claimed her as the Maharani and successor of Maharaja Duleep Singh. However, on the same day the British took full control and refused to accept the claims.

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01/08/1851

William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic (born 1775)

William Joseph Behr, German publicist and writer.

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01/08/1812

Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (born 1763)

Yakov Petrovich Kulnev was, along with Pyotr Bagration and Aleksey Yermolov, one of the most popular Russian military leaders at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Count Alexander Suvorov's admirer and participant of 55 battles, he lost his life during Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

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01/08/1808

Lady Diana Beauclerk, English painter and illustrator (born 1734)

Lady Diana Beauclerk was an English noblewoman and celebrated artist.

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01/08/1807

John Boorman, English cricketer (born c. 1754)

John Boorman was an English cricketer whose known career spanned 26 seasons from 1768 to 1793. In Scores & Biographies, Arthur Haygarth recorded that he found a reference to Boorman in an account of a single wicket match in 1772 which called him James, but Haygarth was convinced that the correct name was John, although CricketArchive and CricInfo both prefer to use James. Haygarth discovered that Boorman was "probably" born at Cranbrook in Kent but may have resided for many years at Sevenoaks, though he certainly died at Ashurst in Sussex, where he spent his latter years as a farmer. Boorman's year of birth is an estimate based on evidence found by Haygarth that he was 53 when he died and Haygarth made a comment that Boorman "began playing in great matches very young". Boorman is believed to have been a left-handed batsman; as a fielder, he was generally deployed at point.

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John Walker, English actor, philologist, and lexicographer (born 1732)

John Walker was an English stage actor, philologist and lexicographer.

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01/08/1798

François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral (born 1753)

Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Comte de Brueys was a French Navy officer who served in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary Wars. He commanded the French fleet in the Mediterranean campaign of 1798 until his death at the Battle of the Nile.

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01/08/1797

Emanuel Granberg, Finnish church painter (born 1754)

Emanuel Granberg (1754–1797) was a Finnish painter.

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01/08/1796

Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet, English colonel and politician (born 1720)

Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet was a British Army officer who served in the American War of Independence.

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01/08/1795

Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (born 1735)

Clas Bjerkander was a Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist.

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01/08/1787

Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (born 1696)

Alphonsus Maria de Liguori was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian. He founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, known as the Redemptorists, in November 1732.

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01/08/1714

Anne, Queen of Great Britain (born 1665)

Anne was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 8 March 1702, and Queen of Great Britain and Ireland following the ratification of the Acts of Union 1707 merging the kingdoms of England and Scotland, until her death in 1714.

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01/08/1603

Matthew Browne, English politician (born 1563)

Sir Matthew Browne of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, MP, was the only son of Sir Thomas Browne and Mabel Fitzwilliam. He was involved in legal and financial transactions concerning the Globe Theatre in 1601. He was killed in a duel with his kinsman, Sir John Townshend, on 1 August 1603.

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01/08/1589

Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (born 1567)

Jacques Clément was a French conspirator and the perpetrator of the regicide of King Henry III.

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01/08/1580

Albrecht Giese, Polish-German politician and diplomat (born 1524)

Albrecht Giese was a councilman and diplomat of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk). He was a member of the Hanseatic League, and part of an important merchant family who had offices in London and Danzig.

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01/08/1557

Olaus Magnus, Swedish archbishop, historian, and cartographer (born 1490)

Olaus Magnus was a Swedish writer, cartographer, and Catholic clergyman.

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01/08/1546

Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (born 1506)

Peter Faber, SJ was a Savoyard Catholic priest, theologian and co-founder of the Society of Jesus, along with Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier. Pope Francis announced his canonization in 2013.

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01/08/1543

Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (born 1488)

Magnus I of Saxe-Lauenburg was a Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg from the House of Ascania.

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01/08/1541

Simon Grynaeus, German theologian and scholar (born 1493)

Simon Grynaeus was a German scholar and theologian of the Protestant Reformation.

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01/08/1494

Giovanni Santi, artist and father of Raphael (born c. 1435)

Giovanni Santi was an Italian painter and poet, father of Raphael Sanzio. He was born in 1435 at Colbordolo in the Duchy of Urbino. He studied under Piero della Francesca and was influenced by Fiorenzo di Lorenzo. He was court painter to the Duke of Urbino and painted several altarpieces among other things. He died in Urbino.

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01/08/1464

Cosimo de' Medici, Italian ruler (born 1386)

Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici was an Italian banker and politician who became the de facto first ruler of Florence during the Italian Renaissance, establishing the Medici family as its effective leaders for generations. His power derived from his wealth as a banker and intermarriage with other rich and powerful families. He was a patron of arts, learning, and architecture. He spent over 600,000 gold florins on art and culture, including Donatello's David, the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity.

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01/08/1457

Lorenzo Valla, Italian author and educator (born 1406)

Lorenzo Valla was an Italian Renaissance humanist scholar, rhetorician, educator, and Catholic priest. He is best known for his historical-critical textual analysis that proved that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery, therefore attacking and undermining the presumption of temporal power claimed by the papacy. Lorenzo is sometimes seen as a precursor of the Reformation.

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01/08/1402

Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1341)

Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York was the fifth son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. Like many medieval English princes, Edmund gained his nickname from his birthplace: Kings Langley Palace in Hertfordshire. He was the founder of the House of York, but it was through the marriage of his younger son, Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, to Anne de Mortimer, great-granddaughter of Edmund's elder brother Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, that the House of York made its claim to the English throne in the Wars of the Roses. The other party in the Wars of the Roses, the incumbent House of Lancaster, was formed from descendants of Edmund's elder brother John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Edward III's third son.

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01/08/1299

Conrad de Lichtenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg (born 1240)

Conrad of Lichtenberg was a bishop of Strasbourg in the 13th century.

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01/08/1252

Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian archbishop and explorer (born 1180)

Giovanni da Pian del Carpine OFM was a medieval Italian diplomat, Catholic archbishop, explorer and one of the first Europeans to enter the court of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. He was the author of the earliest important Western account of Northern and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and other regions of the Mongol dominion. He served as the Primate of Serbia, based in Antivari, from 1247 to 1252.

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01/08/1227

Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (born 1179)

Shimazu Tadahisa was the founder of the Shimazu samurai clan.

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01/08/1146

Vsevolod II of Kiev, Russian prince

Vsevolod II Olgovich was Prince of Chernigov (1127–1139) and Grand Prince of Kiev (1139–1146). He was a son of Oleg Svyatoslavich, Prince of Chernigov.

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01/08/1137

Louis VI, king of France (born 1081)

Louis VI, called the Fat or the Fighter, reigned as King of the Franks from 1108 to 1137. Like his father Philip I, Louis made a lasting contribution to centralizing the institutions of royal power. He spent much of his twenty-nine-year reign fighting – either against the "robber barons" who plagued the Ile de France, or against Henry I of England for the English continental possessions in Normandy. Nonetheless, Louis VI managed to reinforce his influence considerably, often resorting to force to bring lawless knights to justice, and was the first member of the House of Capet to issue ordonnances applying to the whole of the kingdom of France.

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01/08/1098

Adhemar of Le Puy, French papal legate

Adhemar de Monteil was one of the principal figures of the First Crusade and was bishop of Puy-en-Velay from before 1087. He was the chosen representative of Pope Urban II for the expedition to the Holy Land. Remembered for his martial prowess, he led knights and men into battle and fought beside them, particularly at the Battle of Dorylaeum and Siege of Antioch. Adhemar is said to have carried the Holy Lance in the Crusaders’ desperate breakout at Antioch on 28 June 1098, in which superior Islamic forces under the atabeg Kerbogha were routed, securing the city for the Crusaders. He died in 1098 due to illness.

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01/08/0984

Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester

Æthelwold of Winchester was Bishop of Winchester from 963 to 984 and one of the leaders of the tenth-century monastic reform movement in Anglo-Saxon England.

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01/08/0953

Yingtian, Chinese Khitan empress (born 879)

Shulü Ping, nickname Yueliduo (月里朵), formally Empress Yingtian also known as Empress Di (地皇后) during the reign of her husband Emperor Taizu of Liao, posthumous name initially Empress Zhenlie then Empress Chunqin was an empress of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty of China. After Emperor Taizu's death in 926, she served as empress dowager until her death in 953. She was directly involved in two imperial successions and is credited with changing expectations of widows in Khitan society.

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01/08/0946

Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah, Abbasid vizier (born 859)

ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā ibn Dā'ūd ibn al-Jarrāḥ, was an official of the court of the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Lady Xu Xinyue, Chinese queen (born 902)

Xu Xinyue, formally the Lady Renhui of Wuyue (吳越國仁惠夫人), was a concubine, possibly later a wife, of Qian Yuanguan, the second king of the Chinese state Wuyue of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and the mother to his son and successor Qian Hongzuo.

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01/08/0873

Thachulf, duke of Thuringia

Thacholf, Thachulf, Thaculf, or Thakulf was the Duke of Thuringia from 849 until his death. He held the titles of comes (count) and dux (duke) and he ruled over a marca (march). He may have been the son of Hadulf, son of Thankulf.

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01/08/0527

Justin I, Byzantine emperor (born 450)

Justin I, also called Justin the Thracian, was Eastern Roman emperor from 518 to 527. Born to a peasant family, he rose through the ranks of the army to become commander of the imperial guard and when Emperor Anastasius I Dicorus died, he out-maneouvered his rivals and was elected as his successor, in spite of being around 68 years old. His reign is significant for the founding of the Justinian dynasty that included his nephew, Justinian I, and three succeeding emperors. His consort was Empress Euphemia.

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01/08/0371

Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop and saint (born 283)

Eusebius of Vercelli was a bishop from Sardinia and is counted a saint. Along with Athanasius, he affirmed the divinity of Jesus against Arianism.

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01/01/1970

Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (born 83 BC)

Marcus Antonius, commonly known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from a constitutional republic into the autocratic Roman Empire.

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