Died on Saturday, 2nd August – Famous Deaths

02/08/2023

Nitin Chandrakant Desai, Indian art director, production designer, and film and television producer (born 1965)

Nitin Chandrakant Desai was an Indian art director, production designer, and film and television producer. He was most known for his work in Marathi and Hindi Films, World Cultural Festival 2016 at Delhi and films like, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), Lagaan (2001), Devdas (2002), Jodhaa Akbar (2008) and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015). During his career spanning twenty years, he worked with directors like Ashutosh Gowarikar, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani and Sanjay Leela Bhansali. In 2002, he turned film producer with Chandrakant Productions' Desh Devi, a devotional film on the Devi Mata of Kutch.

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02/08/2022

Vin Scully, American sportscaster and game show host (born 1927)

Vincent Edward Scully was an American sportscaster, best known for his broadcast work in Major League Baseball. Scully was the play-by-play announcer for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers for 67 years, beginning in 1950 and ending in 2016. He is considered by many to be the greatest sports broadcaster of all time.

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02/08/2020

Suzanne Perlman, Hungarian-Dutch visual artist (born 1922)

Suzanne Perlman was a Hungarian-Dutch visual artist known for her expressionist portraits and landscape paintings. Her bold use of colour has its origins in her early paintings of the tropical island of Curaçao, where she moved with her husband in 1940 to escape Nazi persecution. Her expressionist style developed under the tutelage of Austrian master Oskar Kokoschka in the late 1950s, with whom she worked in Salzburg in the 1960s. Reviewing a 1993 Exhibition as his Critic’s Choice in The Times, John Russell Taylor, art critic and author, wrote that "(Perlman) captures the particular feel of the place while abating none of her expressionist dash".

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02/08/2017

Judith Jones, American literary and cookbook editor (born 1924)

Judith Jones was an American writer and editor, initially known for having rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile. Jones is also known as the editor who championed Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She retired as senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. Knopf in 2011 and fully retired in 2013 after more than 60 years at the company.

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02/08/2016

Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (born 1930)

Terence Bayler was a New Zealand film, television, and stage actor. His most memorable roles were in Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001).

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David Huddleston, American actor (born 1930)

David William Huddleston was an American actor. An Emmy Award nominee, Huddleston had a prolific television career and appeared in many films, including Rio Lobo, Blazing Saddles, Crime Busters, Santa Claus: The Movie, and The Big Lebowski.

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Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (born 1927)

Franciszek Macharski was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was appointed Archbishop of Kraków from 1978, named by Pope John Paul II to succeed him in that role. Macharski was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979, and resigned as archbishop in 2005.

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Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1946)

Ahmed Hassan Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian and Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, and also the first African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was a professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was the first Caltech faculty member to be named the Linus Pauling Chair of Chemical Physics and served as the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology.

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02/08/2015

Forrest Bird, American pilot and engineer (born 1921)

Forrest Morton Bird was an American aviator, inventor, and biomedical engineer. He is best known for having created some of the first reliable mass-produced mechanical ventilators for acute and chronic cardiopulmonary care.

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Giovanni Conso, Italian jurist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (born 1922)

Giovanni Battista Conso was an Italian jurist who served on the Constitutional Court of Italy for nine years beginning in 1982, and served as President of the Accademia dei Lincei from 1989 until his death in 2015.

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Piet Fransen, Dutch footballer (born 1936)

Piet Fransen was a Dutch footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Jack Spring, American baseball player (born 1933)

Jack Russell Spring was an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher. The 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), 175 lb (79 kg) left-hander played for the Philadelphia Phillies (1955), Boston Red Sox (1957), Washington Senators (1958), Los Angeles Angels (1961–64), Chicago Cubs (1964), St. Louis Cardinals (1964), and Cleveland Indians (1965).

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02/08/2014

Ed Joyce, American journalist (born 1932)

Edward Matthew Joyce was a former television executive. He was president of CBS News. He lived for many years in California's Santa Ynez Valley and in Redding, Connecticut.

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Billie Letts, American author and educator (born 1938)

Billie Dean Letts was an American novelist and educator. She was a professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

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Barbara Prammer, Austrian social worker and politician (born 1954)

Barbara Prammer was an Austrian politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). In 2006 she was the first woman to become President of the National Council of Austria, an office she held until her death.

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James Thompson, American-Finnish author (born 1964)

James Thompson was an American-Finnish crime writer based in Helsinki. He had a master's degree in English philology from The University of Helsinki, where he also studied Finnish, in which he was fluent. He studied six languages. He published four crime novels with the Finnish inspector Kari Vaara as the protagonist.

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02/08/2013

Julius L. Chambers, American lawyer and activist (born 1936)

Julius LeVonne Chambers was an American lawyer, civil rights leader and educator.

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Richard E. Dauch, American businessman, co-founded American Axle (born 1942)

Richard E. "Dick" Dauch was an American businessman, and co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of American Axle and Manufacturing, now Dauch Corporation. Previously, Dauch served as a manufacturing manager at Chevrolet, Chrysler and at Volkswagen's Westmoreland Assembly Plant.

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Alla Kushnir, Russian–Israeli chess player (born 1941)

Alla Shulimovna Kushnir was a Soviet-born Israeli chess player and professor of classics, numismatics, and archaeology. She was awarded the FIDE titles of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1962 and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1976. In 2017, she was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.

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02/08/2012

Gabriel Horn, English biologist and academic (born 1927)

Sir Gabriel Horn was a British neuroscientist and Professor of Zoology at the University of Cambridge. His research was into the neural mechanisms of learning and memory.

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Magnus Isacsson, Canadian director and producer (born 1948)

Magnus Isacsson was a Canadian documentary filmmaker whose films investigated contemporary political issues and topics in social activism.

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Jimmy Jones, American singer-songwriter (born 1930)

James Jones was an American singer-songwriter who moved to New York City while a teenager. His biggest hits were "Handy Man" (1959) and "Good Timin'" (1960). According to Allmusic journalist Steve Huey, Jones sang "in a smooth yet soulful falsetto modeled on the likes of Clyde McPhatter and Sam Cooke."

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John Keegan, English historian and journalist (born 1934)

Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, air, maritime, intelligence warfare and the psychology of battle.

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Bernd Meier, German footballer (born 1972)

Bernd Meier was a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Marguerite Piazza, American soprano (born 1920)

Marguerite Piazza was an American soprano, entertainer and philanthropist from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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02/08/2011

José Sanchis Grau, Spanish author and illustrator (born 1932)

José Sanchis Grau was a Spanish comic book writer. He also worked for Editorial Bruguera and Spanish children comics in general. He was the creator of strips like Pumby (1954) and Robín Robot (1972).

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02/08/2008

Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese illustrator (born 1935)

Fujio Akatsuka was a Japanese manga artist. Known as the "King of Gag Manga" (ギャグ漫画の王様, he created many popular manga such as Osomatsu-kun, Himitsu no Akko-chan, and Tensai Bakabon.

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02/08/2007

Chauncey Bailey, American journalist (born 1950)

Chauncey Wendell Bailey Jr. was an American journalist noted for his work primarily on issues of the African-American community. He served as editor-in-chief of the Oakland Post in Oakland, California, from June 2007 until his murder.

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02/08/2005

Steven Vincent, American journalist and author (born 1955)

Steven Charles Vincent was an American author and journalist. In 2005 he was working as a freelance journalist in Basra, Iraq, reporting for The Christian Science Monitor, National Review, Mother Jones, Reason, Front Page and American Enterprise, among other publications, when he was abducted and murdered in southern Iraq after investigating corruption by Shia militias.

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02/08/2004

Ferenc Berényi, Hungarian painter and academic (born 1929)

Ferenc Berényi was a Hungarian painter.

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François Craenhals, Belgian illustrator (born 1926)

François Craenhals was a Belgian comics artist best known for the comic series Chevalier Ardent and Les 4 As.

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Heinrich Mark, Estonian lawyer and politician, 5th prime minister of Estonia in exile (born 1911)

Heinrich Mark was an Estonian politician and Prime Minister of the Estonian Government in Exile.

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02/08/2003

Peter Safar, Austrian-American physician and academic (born 1924)

Peter Safar was an Austrian anesthesiologist of Czech Jewish descent. He is credited with pioneering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

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02/08/1999

Willie Morris, American writer (born 1934)

William Weaks Morris was an American writer and editor born in Jackson, Mississippi and raised in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Morris had a lyrical prose style which he lent to reflections on the American South, including Yazoo City and the Mississippi Delta. From 1967 to 1971 he was the editor of Harper's Magazine. He published more than 20 titles, works of both fiction and nonfiction, the best known of which are North Toward Home and My Dog Skip.

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02/08/1998

Shari Lewis, American television host and puppeteer (born 1933)

Shari Lewis was a Peabody-winning American ventriloquist, puppeteer, children's entertainer, television show host, dancer, singer, actress, author, and symphony conductor. She famously created and performed the sock puppet Lamb Chop for Captain Kangaroo in March 1956.

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02/08/1997

William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1914)

William Seward Burroughs II was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced both underground and popular culture and literature. Much of Burroughs's work is highly experimental and features unreliable narrators. Also noted as semi-autobiographical, his work often drew from his experiences with drug addiction, and featured his various places of residence as settings in much of his work. With Brion Gysin, Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique. His writing also engaged frequent mystical, occult, or otherwise magical themes, constant preoccupations in both his fiction and real life.

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Harald Kihle, Norwegian painter and illustrator (born 1905)

Harald Kihle was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. He is particularly known for his pictures with motifs from Telemark.

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Fela Kuti, Nigerian singer-songwriter and activist (born 1938)

Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì was a Nigerian musician and political activist. He is regarded as the principal innovator of Afrobeat, a Nigerian music genre that combines West African music with American funk and jazz. At the height of his popularity, he was referred to as one of Africa's most "challenging and charismatic music performers". AllMusic described him as "a musical and sociopolitical voice" of international significance.

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02/08/1996

Michel Debré, French lawyer and politician, 150th prime minister of France (born 1912)

Michel Jean-Pierre Debré was the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France. He served under President Charles de Gaulle from 1959 to 1962. In terms of political personality, Debré was intense and immovable and had a tendency for rhetorical extremism.

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Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer and manager (born 1917)

Obdulio Jacinto Muiños Varela was a Uruguayan football player. He was the captain of the Uruguay national team that won the 1950 World Cup after beating Brazil in the decisive final round match popularly known as the Maracanazo. He was nicknamed "El Negro Jefe" because of his dark skin and the influence he had on the pitch, especially during the unlikely victory over Brazil. He was of African, Spanish and Greek ancestry. Commonly regarded as one of the greatest classic holding midfielders, Varela was adept in defence and was renowned for his tenacity and leadership. He is regarded as one of the greatest captains in football history, and "he remains one of the biggest sporting heroes in Uruguay".

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Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th president of Somalia (born 1934)

Mohamed Farrah Hasan Garad, popularly known as General Aidid or Aideed, was a Somali military officer, diplomat, and warlord.

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Sergey Golovkin, Russian serial killer and rapist, last person executed by Russia (born 1959)

Sergey Aleksandrovich Golovkin was a Soviet-Russian serial killer, rapist and necrophile, convicted for the killing of 11 boys between the ages of 10 and 16 in the Moscow area between 1986 and 1992. Golovkin, also known as Fisher and The Boa, tortured, raped and killed young boys in his garage basement and the forests outside Moscow.

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02/08/1992

Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter and producer (born 1947)

Michel Jean Hamburger, known professionally as Michel Berger, was a French singer and songwriter. He was a figure of France's pop music scene for two decades as a singer. As a songwriter he wrote for artists such as his wife France Gall, Françoise Hardy or Johnny Hallyday. He died of a heart attack at age 44.

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02/08/1990

Norman Maclean, American short story writer and essayist (born 1902)

Norman Fitzroy Maclean was an American professor at the University of Chicago who, following his retirement, became a major figure in American literature. Maclean is known for his collection of novellas A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (1976), and the creative nonfiction book Young Men and Fire (1992).

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Edwin Richfield, English actor and screenwriter (born 1921)

Edwin Richfield was an English actor.

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02/08/1988

Joe Carcione, American activist and author (born 1914)

Joseph Carcione was a consumer advocate known as "The Green Grocer."

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Raymond Carver, American short story writer and poet (born 1938)

Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976. His breakout collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), received immediate acclaim and established Carver as an important figure in the literary world. It was followed by Cathedral (1983), which Carver considered his watershed and is widely regarded as his masterpiece. The definitive collection of his stories, Where I'm Calling From, was published shortly before his death in 1988. In their 1989 nomination of Carver for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the jury concluded, "The revival in recent years of the short story is attributable in great measure to Carver's mastery of the form."

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02/08/1986

Roy Cohn, American lawyer and politician (born 1927)

Roy Marcus Cohn was an American lawyer and prosecutor. He first gained fame as a prosecutor of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in their trials (1952–53) and as Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954. Cohn had been assisting McCarthy's investigations of suspected communists. In the 1970s and during the 1980s, he became a prominent legal and political fixer in New York City. He represented and mentored Donald Trump during Trump's early business career.

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02/08/1983

James Jamerson, American bass player (born 1936)

James Lee Jamerson was an American bassist. He was the uncredited bassist on most of the Motown Records hits in the 1960s and early 1970s, and is now regarded as one of the greatest and most influential bass players in modern music history. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. As a session musician he played on twenty-three Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits, as well as fifty-six R&B number-one hits.

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02/08/1981

Kieran Doherty, Irish hunger striker and politician (born 1955)

Kieran Doherty was an Irish republican hunger striker and politician who served as a TD for Cavan–Monaghan from June 1981 to August 1981. He was a volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).

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Stefanie Clausen, Danish diver (born 1900)

Anna Stefanie Nanna Fryland Clausen was a Danish diver. She was a gold medalist at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

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02/08/1979

Thurman Munson, American baseball player (born 1947)

Thurman Lee Munson was an American professional baseball catcher who played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Yankees, from 1969 until his death in 1979. A seven-time All-Star, Munson had a career batting average of .292 with 113 home runs and 701 runs batted in (RBIs). Known for his outstanding fielding, he won the Gold Glove Award in three consecutive years (1973–1975).

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02/08/1978

Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer and conductor (born 1899)

Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by native Mexican cultures. Of his six symphonies, the second, or Sinfonía india, which uses native Yaqui percussion instruments, is probably the most popular.

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Antony Noghès, French businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix (born 1890)

Antony Noghès was the founder of the Monaco Grand Prix.

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02/08/1976

László Kalmár, Hungarian mathematician and academic (born 1905)

László Kalmár was a Hungarian mathematician and Professor at the University of Szeged. Kalmár is considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science in Hungary.

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Fritz Lang, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1890)

Friedrich Christian Anton Lang, better known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked in Germany and later the United States. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. He has been cited as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time.

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02/08/1974

Douglas Hawkes, English race car driver and businessman (born 1893)

Wallace Douglas Hawkes was a British motor car designer, businessman and racing driver. He was born in Barton, Gloucestershire, married Gwenda Stewart in 1937, and died, aged 80, in Athens, Greece.

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02/08/1973

Ismail Abdul Rahman, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia (born 1915)

Ismail bin Abdul Rahman was a Malaysian politician who served as the second Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia from September 1970 to his death in August 1973. A member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), he previously held several ministerial posts.

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Jean-Pierre Melville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1917)

Jean-Pierre Grumbach, known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville, was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual godfather of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969).

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02/08/1972

Brian Cole, American bass player (born 1942)

Brian Leslie Cole was an American musician. He was the bass guitarist, bass vocalist and one of the founding members of the 1960s folk rock band the Association.

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Paul Goodman, American psychotherapist and author (born 1911)

Paul Goodman was an American writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism. Goodman was prolific across numerous literary genres and non-fiction topics, including the arts, civil rights, decentralization, democracy, education, media, politics, psychology, technology, urban planning, and war. As a humanist and self-styled man of letters, his works often addressed a common theme of the individual citizen's duties in the larger society, and the responsibility to exercise autonomy, act creatively, and realize one's own human nature.

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Helen Hoyt, American poet and author (born 1887)

Helen Lyman , commonly known as Helen Hoyt or Helen Hoyt Lyman, was an American poet.

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02/08/1970

Angus MacFarlane-Grieve, English academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier (born 1891)

Alexander Angus MacFarlane-Grieve, was a British academic, mathematician, rower, and decorated British Army officer. He served with the Highland Light Infantry during World War I. He was Master of University College, Durham from 1939 to 1954, and additionally Master of Hatfield College, Durham from 1940 to 1949.

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02/08/1967

Walter Terence Stace, English-American epistemologist, philosopher, and academic (born 1886)

Walter Terence Stace was a British civil servant, educator, public philosopher and epistemologist, who wrote on Hegel, mysticism, and moral relativism. He worked with the Ceylon Civil Service from 1910 to 1932, and from 1932 to 1955 he was employed by Princeton University in the Department of Philosophy. He is most renowned for his work in the philosophy of mysticism, and for books like Mysticism and Philosophy (1960) and Teachings of the Mystics (1960). These works have been influential in the study of mysticism, but they have also been severely criticised for their lack of methodological rigor and their perennialist pre-assumptions.

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02/08/1963

Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and author (born 1901)

Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge II was an American writer and anthropologist. In 1925 he explored early Olmec sites in Mexico, and later studied additional sites in Central America and the American Southwest. He wrote more than 15 scholarly works on this work, mostly about Native American culture.

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02/08/1955

Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1901)

Joseph Alfred Pierre Hormisdas "Pit" Lépine was a Canadian ice hockey forward and coach. He was born in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.

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Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator (born 1879)

Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.

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02/08/1945

Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and educator (born 1863)

Pietro Mascagni was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. While it was often held that Mascagni, like Ruggero Leoncavallo, was a "one-opera man" who could never repeat his first success, L'amico Fritz and Iris have remained in the repertoire in Europe since their premieres.

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02/08/1939

Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic and author (born 1883)

Harvey Spencer Lewis was an American Rosicrucian writer, mystic and the founder of AMORC. He led AMORC as its first leader (imperator) from its creation in 1915 until his death.

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02/08/1937

Artur Sirk, Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1900)

Artur Sirk was an Estonian political and military figure. A veteran of the country's struggle for independence, Sirk later became a leading figure within the right-wing Vaps Movement and an outspoken opponent of the government.

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02/08/1934

Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and politician, 2nd president of Germany (born 1847)

Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was a German military officer and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I and later became President of Germany from 1925 until his death in 1934. Though ideologically opposed to Nazism, he played a key role in the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 through his appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.

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02/08/1923

Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th president of the United States (born 1865)

Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular presidents at the time of his death. After that, a number of scandals were exposed that greatly damaged his reputation.

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Joseph Whitty, Irish Republican died on hunger strike during the 1923 Irish Hunger Strikes (born 1904)

Michael Joseph Whitty was an Irish militant and Republican activist who was the youngest of the 22 Irish republicans who died while on hunger strike in the 20th century. Whitty was one of four Irish Republicans to die during the 1923 Irish hunger strikes. Decades after his death another Volunteer also died on 2 August during the 1981 Irish hunger strike. Volunteer Whitty fought with the IRA in the Irish War of Independence, on the Anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and died while under internment by the Irish Free State government.

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02/08/1922

Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-Canadian engineer, invented the telephone (born 1847)

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.

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02/08/1921

Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor and actor (born 1873)

Enrico Caruso was an Italian operatic tenor, who sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. Generally recognized as the first international recording star, Caruso made around 250 commercially released recordings from 1902 to 1920.

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02/08/1917

Jaan Mahlapuu, Estonian military pilot (born 1894)

Jaan Mahlapuu was an Estonian fighter pilot for the Imperial Russian Air Service in World War I. He is known for being the first ace of Estonian origin.

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02/08/1915

John Downer, Australian politician, 16th premier of South Australia (born 1843)

Sir John William Downer, KCMG, KC was an Australian politician who served two terms as Premier of South Australia, from 1885 to 1887 and again from 1892 to 1893. He later entered federal politics and served as a Senator for South Australia from 1901 to 1903. He was the first of four Australian politicians from the Downer family dynasty.

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02/08/1913

Ferenc Pfaff, Hungarian architect and academic, designed Zagreb Central Station (born 1851)

Ferenc Pfaff was a Hungarian chief architect of the MÁV and professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

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02/08/1911

Ioryi Mucitano, Aromanian revolutionary

Ioryi Mucitano, nicknamed Kasapcheto ("Butcher"), was an Ottoman-born Aromanian revolutionary during the Macedonian Struggle. He was the first leader of the first Aromanian band of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).

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02/08/1903

Eduard Magnus Jakobson, Estonian missionary and engraver (born 1847)

Eduard Magnus Jakobson was an Estonian wood engraver and Baptist missionary. He illustrated many books and designed the masthead logo for Sakala, a newspaper founded by his older brother, Carl Robert Jakobson.

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Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian and microbiologist (born 1850)

Edmond Isidore Étienne Nocard, was a French veterinarian and microbiologist, born in Provins.

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02/08/1890

Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet and author (born 1813)

Louise-Victorine Ackermann was a French Parnassian poet.

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02/08/1889

Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (born 1851)

Eduardo Gutiérrez was an Argentine writer. His works of gauchoesque nature acquired great popularity, specially Juan Moreira, a novel successfully adapted to the stage in 1884 that popularized the gaucho as a protagonist in Argentine theatre.

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02/08/1876

"Wild Bill" Hickok, American sheriff (born 1837)

James Butler Hickok, better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights. He earned a great deal of notoriety in his own time, much of it bolstered by the many outlandish and often fabricated tales he told about himself. Some contemporaneous reports of his exploits are known to be fictitious, but they remain the basis of much of his fame and reputation.

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02/08/1859

Horace Mann, American educator and politician (born 1796)

Horace Mann was an American educational reformer, slavery abolitionist and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education; he is thus also known as The Father of American Education. In 1848, after public service as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann was elected to the United States House of Representatives (1848–1853). From September 1852 to his death in 1859, he served as President of Antioch College.

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02/08/1854

Heinrich Clauren, German author (born 1771)

Carl Gottlieb Samuel Heun, better known by his pen name Heinrich Clauren, was a German author.

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02/08/1849

Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Ottoman Albanian commander (born 1769)

Muhammad Ali was the Ottoman viceroy and governor of Albanian origin, who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule in 1840, he controlled Egypt, Sudan, Hejaz, the Levant, Crete and parts of Greece and transformed Cairo from a mere Ottoman provincial capital to the center of an expansive empire.

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02/08/1834

Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (born 1793)

Harriet Arbuthnot was an early 19th-century English diarist, social observer and political hostess on behalf of the Tory party. During the 1820s she was the closest woman friend of the hero of Waterloo and British Prime Minister, the 1st Duke of Wellington. She maintained a long correspondence and association with the Duke, all of which she recorded in her diaries, which are consequently extensively used in all authoritative biographies of the Duke of Wellington.

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02/08/1823

Lazare Carnot, French mathematician, general, and politician, president of the National Convention (born 1753)

Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Comte Carnot was a French mathematician, physicist, military officer, politician and a leading member of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution. His military reforms, which included the introduction of mass conscription, were instrumental in transforming the French Revolutionary Army into an effective fighting force.

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02/08/1815

Guillaume Brune, French general and politician (born 1763)

Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, 1st Count Brune was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

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02/08/1799

Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (born 1745)

The Montgolfier brothers – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier – were aviation pioneers, balloonists and paper manufacturers from the commune Annonay in Ardèche, France. They invented the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique, which launched the first confirmed piloted ascent by humans in 1783, carrying Jacques-Étienne.

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02/08/1788

Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (born 1727)

Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes.

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02/08/1769

Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1689)

Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea and 3rd Earl of Nottingham,, of Burley House near Oakham in Rutland and of Eastwell Park near Ashford in Kent, was a British peer and politician.

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02/08/1696

Robert Campbell of Glenlyon (born 1630)

Robert Campbell, 5th Laird of Glenlyon, was a minor member of Scottish nobility and is best known as one of the commanding officers at the Massacre of Glencoe.

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02/08/1667

Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect, designed San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Agnese in Agone (born 1599)

Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli, was an Italian architect born in the modern Swiss canton of Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

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02/08/1611

Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese daimyō (born 1562)

Katō Kiyomasa was a Japanese daimyō of the Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods. His court title was Higo no Kami . His name as a child was Yashamaru, and first name was Toranosuke. He was one of Hideyoshi's Seven Spears of Shizugatake.

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02/08/1605

Richard Leveson, English admiral (born c. 1570)

Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Leveson was a Royal Navy officer, politician and landowner. His origins were in the landed gentry of Shropshire and Staffordshire. A client and son-in-law of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, he became a vice-admiral under him. He served twice as MP for Shropshire in the House of Commons of England. He was ruined by the burden of debt built up by his father.

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02/08/1589

Henry III of France (born 1551)

Henry III was King of France from 1574 until his assassination in 1589 and, as Henry of Valois, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1573 to 1575. Before he came to these thrones he was known as the Duke of Angoulême and Duke of Orléans from 1560, then as Duke of Anjou from 1566.

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02/08/1512

Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher (born 1463)

Alessandro Achillini was an Italian philosopher and physician. He is known for the anatomic studies that he was able to publish, made possible by a 13th-century edict putatively by Emperor Frederick II allowing for dissection of human cadavers, and which previously had stimulated the anatomist Mondino de Luzzi at Bologna.

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02/08/1511

Andrew Barton, Scottish admiral (born 1466)

Sir Andrew Barton was a Scottish sailor from Leith. He gained notoriety as a privateer, making raids against Portuguese ships. He was killed in battle and memorialised in English and Scottish folk songs.

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02/08/1451

Elizabeth of Görlitz (born 1390)

Elisabeth of Görlitz reigned as Duchess of Luxembourg from 1411 to 1443.

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02/08/1445

Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian poet and composer (born 1376)

Oswald von Wolkenstein was a poet, composer and diplomat. In his diplomatic capacity, he traveled through much of Europe to as far as Georgia.

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02/08/1415

Thomas Grey, English conspirator (born 1384)

Sir Thomas Grey, of Heaton Castle in the parish of Norham, Northumberland, was one of the three conspirators in the failed Southampton Plot against King Henry V in 1415, for which he was executed.

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02/08/1332

King Christopher II of Denmark (born 1276)

Christopher II was King of Denmark from 1320 to 1326 and again from 1329 until his death. He was a younger son of Eric V. His name is connected with national disaster, as his rule ended in a near-total dissolution of the Danish state.

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02/08/1330

Yolande of Dreux, Queen consort of Scotland and Duchess consort of Brittany (born 1263)

Yolande of Dreux was the countess of Montfort-l'Amaury from 1311 until 1322. Between 1285 and 1286, she was Queen of Scotland through her first marriage to Alexander III of Scotland. Through her second marriage to Arthur II, Duke of Brittany, she was Duchess of Brittany.

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02/08/1316

Louis of Burgundy (born 1297)

Louis of Burgundy was a member of the Capetian House of Burgundy who ruled the Principality of Achaea and claimed the defunct Kingdom of Thessalonica.

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02/08/1277

Mu'in al-Din Sulaiman Pervane, Chancellor and Regent of the Sultanate of Rum

Muʿīn al-Dīn Sulaymān Parwāna, simply known as Parwāna, was a Persian statesman, who was for a time a key player in Anatolian politics involving the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm, the Mongol Ilkhanate and the Mamluks under Baybars.

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02/08/1222

Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (born 1156)

Raymond VI was Count of Toulouse and Marquis of Provence from 1194 to 1222. He was also Count of Melgueil from 1173 to 1190. Raymond's conflicts with Pope Innocent III over his tolerance of the Cathars led into his excommunication and the beginning of the Albigensian Crusade.

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02/08/1100

William II of England (born 1056)

William II was King of England from 26 September 1087 until his death in 1100, with powers over Normandy and influence in Scotland. He was less successful in extending his control into Wales. The third son of William the Conqueror, he is commonly referred to as William Rufus, perhaps because of his ruddy appearance or, more likely, because he had red hair.

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02/08/1075

Patriarch John VIII of Constantinople

John VIII of Constantinople, a native of Trebizond, was a Byzantine intellectual, jurist, and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1064 to 1075. He was the uncle of John Xiphilinus, the Epimator. He is considered "an innovator in the field of the methodology of jurisprudential research".

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02/08/0924

Ælfweard of Wessex (born 904)

Ælfweard was the second son of Edward the Elder, the eldest born to his second wife Ælfflæd.

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02/08/0855

Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Arab theologian and jurist (born 780)

Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Arabic: أحمد ابن حنبل, romanized: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal; was an Arab jurist and founder of the Hanbali school who is widely recognized as the scholar who memorized the most Hadiths in Islamic history. One of the most venerated Islamic intellectual figures, ibn Hanbal is notable for his unmatched memorization of over one million prophetic narrations, an unprecedented number that has never been claimed by any other muhaddith. Ibn Hanbal also compiled the largest hadith collection, al-Musnad, which has continued to exercise considerable influence on the field of hadith studies up to the present time, shaping the methodological framework later employed in both Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. Imam al-Dhahabi described him as “the true Imam, the proof of the religion, the master of hadith, and the leader of the Sunnah”. Imam Ali ibn al-Madini said: “Truly, Allah supported this religion through two men, to whom there is no third: Abu Bakr during the Ridda Wars, and Ahmad ibn Hanbal during the Mihna”.

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02/08/0686

Pope John V

Pope John V was the bishop of Rome from 23 July 685 to his death on 2 August 686. He was the first pope of the Byzantine Papacy consecrated without prior imperial consent, and the first in a line of ten consecutive popes of Eastern origin. His papacy was marked by reconciliation between the city of Rome and the Empire.

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02/08/0640

Pope Severinus

Pope Severinus was the bishop of Rome elected in October 638. He was caught up in a power struggle with Byzantine Emperor Heraclius, who pressured him to accept Monothelitism. Severinus refused, which for over eighteen months hindered his efforts to obtain imperial recognition of his election. His pontificate was finally sanctioned on 28 May 640, but he died two months later.

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02/08/0575

Ahudemmeh, Syriac Orthodox Grand Metropolitan of the East.

Ahudemmeh was the Grand Metropolitan of the East in the Syriac Orthodox Church from 559 until his execution in 575. He was known as the Apostle of the Arabs, and is commemorated as a saint by the Syriac Orthodox Church.

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02/08/0257

Pope Stephen I

Pope Stephen I was the Bishop of Rome from 12 May 254 to his death on 2 August 257. He was later canonized as a saint and some accounts say he was killed while celebrating Mass.

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01/01/1970

Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, Roman consul

Gnaeus Servilius Geminus was a Roman consul, serving as both general and admiral of Roman forces, during the Second Punic War.

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Lucius Aemilius Paullus, Roman consul and general

Lucius Aemilius Paullus, also spelled Paulus, was a consul of the Roman Republic twice, in 219 and 216 BC. He is primarily remembered for being one of the commanders of the Roman army at the Battle of Cannae, and for his death in the same battle.

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Marcus Minucius Rufus, Roman consul

Marcus Minucius Rufus was a Roman consul in 221 BC. He was also Magister Equitum during the dictatorship of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus known as Cunctator.

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