Died on Monday, 3rd November – Famous Deaths
On 3rd November, 110 remarkable people passed away — from 361 to 2025. Remember the lives and legacies of those we lost on this day.
On 3 November 2025, significant historical figures passed into record. Dick Cheney, the 46th Vice President of the United States, died on this date. His tenure from 2001 to 2009 under President George W. Bush marked one of the most influential and contentious vice presidencies in American history. Cheney’s career spanned decades in politics and business, establishing him as a central figure in early 21st-century American governance. Similarly notable on this date was the death of Tom Graveney, the English cricketer and sportscaster who passed away in 2015, leaving behind a substantial legacy in British cricket and sports commentary.
The list of those who died on 3 November extends across centuries and continents, reflecting humanity’s broad spectrum of achievement and influence. Henri Matisse, the French painter and sculptor, died in 1954 after revolutionising modern art through his innovative use of colour and form. His work fundamentally altered the trajectory of 20th-century artistic practice. Ernst Gombrich, the Austrian-English historian and author, passed away in 2001 having profoundly influenced art historical scholarship through his accessible yet rigorous analyses. The records encompassing this date demonstrate the interconnectedness of cultural, political and artistic history.
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03/11/2025
Dick Cheney, American businessman and politician, 46th Vice President of the United States (born 1941)
Richard Bruce Cheney was an American politician and businessman who was the vice president of the United States under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009. Cheney was a leading advocate for the Iraq War, and has been called the most powerful vice president in the history of the United States.
Kim Yong-nam, North Korean politician (born 1928)
Kim Yong-nam was a North Korean politician who served as the president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, from 1998 until 2019. Due to holding the office, he was considered the head of state of North Korea; the country's constitution was amended once he left office in 2019 to transfer this position to the President of the State Affairs Commission, Kim Jong Un. Previously, he had served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1998. He was elected a member of the Presidium of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in 2010.
03/11/2024
Quincy Jones, American producer (born 1933)
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. was an American record producer, composer, arranger, record executive, conductor, trumpeter, film and television producer, and bandleader. During his seven-decade career, he received dozens of accolades, including 28 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for seven Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.
03/11/2018
Sondra Locke, American actress and director (born 1944)
Sandra Louise Anderson, professionally known as Sondra Locke, was an American actress and director.
03/11/2016
Kay Starr, American singer (born 1922)
Kay Starr was an American singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She was of Iroquois and Irish heritage. Starr performed multiple genres, such as pop, jazz, and country, but her roots were in jazz. Her 1952 song "Wheel of Fortune" was a smash hit, and later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Additionally, she had big hits with "Allez-Vous-En" and "If You Love Me " in 1953 and 1954, respectively.
03/11/2015
Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi businessman and politician (born 1944)
Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi was an Iraqi convicted fraudster and founder of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) who served as the President of the Governing Council of Iraq and a Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq under Ibrahim al-Jaafari. He is believed to have been an Iranian agent.
Howard Coble, American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1931)
John Howard Coble was an American politician who was the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 6th congressional district, serving from 1985 to 2015. He was a member of the Republican Party. The district includes all or portions of ten counties in the northern-central part of the state, including portions of Greensboro and Durham.
Tom Graveney, English cricketer and sportscaster (born 1927)
Thomas William Graveney was an English first-class cricketer, representing his country in 79 Test matches and scoring over 4,800 runs. In a career lasting from 1948 to 1972, he became the 15th player to score one hundred first-class centuries; he was the first batsman beginning his career after the Second World War to reach this milestone. He played for Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, and helped Worcestershire win the county championship for the first time in their history. His achievements for England after being recalled in 1966 have been described as "the stuff of legend." Graveney was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1953, captained England on one occasion and was awarded the OBE while still playing.
Lauretta Ngcobo, South African novelist and essayist (born 1931)
Lauretta Ngcobo was a South African novelist and essayist. After being in exile between 1963 and 1994 – in Swaziland, then Zambia and finally England, where she taught for 25 years – she returned to South Africa and lived in Durban. Ngcobo's writings between the 1960s and early 1990s have been described as offering "significant insights into the experiences of Black women of apartheid's vagaries". As a novelist, she is best known for And They Didn't Die (1990), set in 1950s South Africa and portraying "the particular oppression of women who struggle to survive, work the land and maintain a sense of dignity under the apartheid system while their husbands seek work in the mines and cities."
03/11/2014
Augusto Martelli, Italian composer and conductor (born 1940)
Augusto Martelli was an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and television personality.
Gordon Tullock, American economist and academic (born 1922)
Gordon Tullock was an American professor of law and economics at the George Mason University School of Law. He is best known for his work on public choice theory, the application of economic thinking to political issues. He was one of the founding figures in his field.
Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (born 1950)
Sadashiv Dattatray Amrapurkar was an Indian actor, best known for his performances in Marathi and Hindi films from 1983 to 2013. He acted in more than 300 movies in Hindi, Marathi, and other regional languages. Amrapurkar played a negative role against Dharmendra in Anil Sharma's first successful film Hukumat in 1987.
03/11/2013
Nick Cardy, American soldier and illustrator (born 1920)
Nicholas Viscardi, known professionally as Nick Cardy and Nick Cardi, was an American comics artist best known for his DC Comics work on Aquaman, the Teen Titans and other major characters. Cardy was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2005.
Gerard Cieślik, Polish footballer and manager (born 1927)
Gerard Cieślik, also known as Gienek, was a Polish footballer who played as a striker. Playing for the Poland national team, he is most noted for having scored two goals against the Soviet Union on 20 October 1957 at Stadion Śląski. The rather small striker was capped 45 times and scored 27 goals. He also played for Poland at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Gamani Corea, Sri Lankan economist and diplomat (born 1925)
Deshamanya Gamani Corea was a Sri Lankan economist, civil servant and diplomat. He was also the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1974 to 1984, Ceylon's Ambassador to the EEC, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs of Ceylon and the Senior Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon.
William J. Coyne, American lawyer and politician (born 1936)
William Joseph Coyne was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2003.
Rupert Gerritsen, Australian historian and author (born 1953)
Rupert Gerritsen was an Australian historian and a noted authority on Indigenous Australian prehistory. Coupled with his work on early Australian cartography, he played an influential part in re-charting Australian history prior to its settlement by the British in 1788, and noted evidence of agriculture and settlements on the continent before the arrival of settlers.
Leonard Long, Australian painter and educator (born 1911)
Leonard Hugh Long was an Australian painter of the Australian School of landscape painters.
03/11/2012
Carmélia Alves, Brazilian singer (born 1923)
Carmélia Alves, a Brazilian singer known as the "Queen of Baião", was one of the country's best-known performers of baião, a folk rhythm popular in Northeast Brazil.
George Chesterton, English cricketer and coach (born 1922)
George Herbert Chesterton was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1949 and 1966. The bulk of his appearances were for Worcestershire, whom he represented between 1950 and 1957. He was capped by the county in 1950. Very much a specialist bowler, he never reached 50 in over 100 first-class innings.
Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist and coach (born 1920)
Thomas Charles Godwin was a British track cyclist, active during the 1940s and 1950s. He held national records and raced abroad. He later became a coach, manager, and administrator.
Mükerrem Hiç, Turkish academic, author, and politician (born 1929)
Hüseyin Mükerrem Hiç was a Turkish professor of economics and political economy at Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, with former posts at Harvard University, Princeton University and Columbia University. He also served as a member of Grand National Assembly of Turkey between 1983 and 1987.
Thomas K. McCraw, American historian and academic (born 1940)
Thomas Kincaid McCraw was an American business historian and Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, who won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for History for Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn (1984), which "used biography to explore thorny issues in economics."
Kailashpati Mishra, Indian activist and politician, 18th Governor of Gujarat (born 1923)
Kailashpati Mishra was an Indian politician. He was a leader of Jana Sangh along with Ramdeo Mahto who was founding leader of BJP in Bihar.
03/11/2011
Peeter Kreitzberg, Estonian lawyer and politician (born 1948)
Peeter Kreitzberg was an Estonian politician, member of parliament and a member of the Social Democratic Party. Kreitzberg served as the Estonian Minister of Culture and Education from April to November 1995. He also taught at Tallinn University from 1997 to 2011.
03/11/2010
Jerry Bock, American composer (born 1928)
Jerrold Lewis Bock was an American musical theater composer. He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical Fiorello! and the Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist for the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof with Sheldon Harnick.
Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician and diplomat, 30th Prime Minister of Russia (born 1938)
Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin was a Soviet and Russian politician and businessman. He was the Minister of Gas Industry of the Soviet Union, after which he became first chairman of Gazprom energy company and the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of Russia (1992–1998) based on consecutive years. He was a key figure in Russian politics in the 1990s and a participant in the transition from a planned to a market economy. From 2001 to 2009, he was Russia's ambassador to Ukraine. After that, he was designated as a presidential adviser.
Jim Clench, Canadian bass player (born 1949)
James Patrick Clench was a Canadian bassist, vocalist and songwriter known for his roles in the rock bands April Wine and Bachman–Turner Overdrive.
03/11/2009
Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist, author, and critic (born 1906)
Francisco Ayala García-Duarte was a Spanish writer, the last representative of the Generation of '27.
Archie Baird, Scottish footballer, journalist, and educator (born 1919)
Archibald MacKechnie Baird was a Scottish footballer who played for Aberdeen and St Johnstone. He was also capped once by the Scotland national football team.
Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor (born 1917)
Carl Ballantine was an American magician, comedian and actor. Billing himself as "The Great Ballantine", "The Amazing Ballantine" or "Ballantine: The World's Greatest Magician", his vaudeville-style comedy routine involved transparent or incompetent stage magic tricks, which tended to flop and go "hilariously awry" to the wisecracking Ballantine's mock chagrin. He has been credited with creating comedy magic and has influenced comedians and magicians alike.
03/11/2008
Jean Fournet, French conductor (born 1913)
Jean Fournet was a French flautist and conductor.
03/11/2007
Aleksandr Dedyushko, Belarusian-Russian actor (born 1962)
Aleksandr Viktorovich Dedyushko was a Russian television actor, best known for war dramas and the Russian version of Dancing with the Stars.
Martin Meehan, PIRA volunteer and Irish republican politician (born 1945)
Martin Meehan was a Sinn Féin politician and volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Meehan was the first person to be convicted of membership of the Provisional IRA, and he spent eighteen years in prison during the Troubles.
Ryan Shay, American runner (born 1979)
Ryan Shay was an American professional long-distance runner who won several USA championships titles. He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and attended the University of Notre Dame. He was married to Alicia Craig, also an American distance runner.
03/11/2006
Paul Mauriat, French pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1925)
Paul Julien André Mauriat was a French orchestra leader, conductor of Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat, who specialized in the easy listening genre. He is best known in the United States for his million-selling remake of André Popp's "Love is Blue", which was number 1 for 5 weeks in 1968. Other recordings for which he is known include "El Bimbo", "Toccata", "Love in Every Room/Même si tu revenais", and "Penelope". He co-wrote the song "Chariot" with Franck Pourcel.
Marie Rudisill, American author (born 1911)
Marie Rudisill, also known as the Fruitcake Lady, was a writer and television personality, best known as the nonagenarian woman who appeared in the "Ask the Fruitcake Lady" segments on The Tonight Show on American television. She was an aunt to novelist Truman Capote. Rudisill helped to raise Capote, who lived with her at times during his childhood, both in Alabama and New York City.
Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (born 1937)
Alberto Pedro Spencer Herrera was an Ecuadorian footballer who played as a forward, and is widely regarded as one of the best Ecuadorian men's footballers of all time. He is probably best known for his still-standing record for scoring the most goals in the Copa Libertadores, the premier club tournament in South America. He was elected the 20th best South American footballer of the 20th century in a poll by the IFFHS in 2004. He was known as "Cabeza Mágica".
03/11/2004
Sergejs Žoltoks, Latvian ice hockey player (born 1972)
Sergei Zholtok, also known as Sergejs Žoltoks was a Latvian professional ice hockey centre. He played ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston Bruins, Ottawa Senators, Montreal Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers, Minnesota Wild and Nashville Predators from 1993 to 2004.
03/11/2003
Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet and educator (born 1923)
Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov was a Soviet and Russian poet who wrote in Avar. Among his poems was Zhuravli, which became a well-known Soviet song.
03/11/2002
Lonnie Donegan, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1931)
Anthony James "Lonnie" Donegan was a British skiffle singer, songwriter and musician, referred to as the "King of Skiffle", who influenced 1960s British pop and rock musicians. Born in Scotland and brought up in England, Donegan began his career in the British trad jazz revival, but transitioned to skiffle in the mid-1950s, rising to prominence with a hit recording of the American folk song "Rock Island Line", which helped spur the broader UK skiffle movement.
Jonathan Harris, American actor (born 1914)
Jonathan Daniel Harris was an American character actor whose career included more than 500 television and film appearances, as well as voiceovers. Two of his best-known roles were as the prudent accountant Bradford Webster in the television version of The Third Man and the fussy villain Dr. Zachary Smith of the 1960s science-fiction series Lost in Space. Near the end of his career, he provided voices for the animated features A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2.
03/11/2001
Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-English historian and author (born 1909)
Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich was an Austrian-born art historian who, after settling in England in 1936, became a naturalised British citizen in 1947 and spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom.
03/11/1999
Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (born 1928)
Ian Edmund Bannen was a Scottish stage and screen actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), the first Scots actor to receive the honour. He was also nominated for a BAFTA Award for his performance in Sidney Lumet's The Offence (1973) and John Boorman's Hope and Glory (1987).
03/11/1998
Bob Kane, American author and illustrator, co-created Batman (born 1915)
Robert Kane was an American comic book writer, animator, and artist who co-created Batman and many other early related characters for DC Comics. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996.
03/11/1997
Ronald Barnes, American carillon player and composer (born 1927)
Ronald Montague Barnes was an American carillonist, composer, and musicologist. He first began playing the carillon as a teenager at his hometown's church. In 1952, at 24 years old, he was appointed to play the carillon at the University of Kansas, where he developed as a musician. He was later the carillonist for the Washington National Cathedral from 1963 to 1975 and the University of California, Berkeley, from 1982 until his retirement in 1995. He was an involved member of The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, having served as its president, vice president, and several other roles.
03/11/1996
Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African general and politician, 2nd President of the Central African Republic (born 1921)
Jean-Bédel Bokassa was a Central African politician and military officer who served as the second president of the Central African Republic (CAR), after seizing power in the Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état on 1 January 1966. He later established the Central African Empire (CAE) with himself as emperor, reigning as Bokassa I until his overthrow in a 1979 coup.
03/11/1995
Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician (born 1887)
Gordon Samuel Fahrni, a recipient of the Order of Canada, was a Canadian physician and a leader in the Canadian Medical community. He served as president of the Canadian Medical Association from 1941 to 1942. An expert on goitre surgery, he was a founder of the American Goitre Association. He was a medical practitioner for 54 years, dying at age 108.
03/11/1994
Valter Palm, Estonian-American boxer (born 1905)
Valter Palm was an Estonian welterweight professional boxer, born in Mahtra, who competed in the 1930s. In the 1920s he took part 1924 Summer Olympics and 1928 Summer Olympics.
03/11/1993
Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin (born 1895)
Lev Sergeyevich Termen, better known as Leon Theremin, was a Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. He also worked on early television research. His secret listening device, "The Thing", hung for seven years in plain view in the United States ambassador's Moscow office and enabled Soviet agents to secretly eavesdrop on conversations.
03/11/1991
Chris Bender, American singer (born 1972)
Christopher Lamont Bender was an American R&B singer who reached the national music charts in 1991 with the album entitled Draped before his murder.
03/11/1990
Kenan Erim, Turkish archaeologist and academic (born 1929)
Kenan Tevfik Erim was a Turkish archaeologist who excavated from 1961 until his death at the site of Aphrodisias in Turkey.
Nusret Fişek, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (born 1914)
Hasan Nusret Fişek was a Turkish physician and Minister of Health.
Mary Martin, American actress and singer (born 1913)
Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress and singer. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles on stage over her career, including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (1949), the title character in Peter Pan (1954), and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1959). Over the course of her career, she won four Tony Awards and an Emmy Award. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989. She was the mother of actor Larry Hagman.
03/11/1989
Dorothy Fuldheim, American journalist (born 1893)
Dorothy Fuldheim was an American journalist and news anchor who spent the majority of her career at The Cleveland Press and WEWS-TV, both based in Cleveland, Ohio.
03/11/1988
Henri van Praag, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and educator (born 1916)
Naphthali ben Levi (Henri) van Praag was a Jewish-Dutch writer, teacher, and religious historian, and became known also for his publications in the field of parapsychology.
03/11/1987
Mary Shane, American sportscaster and educator (born 1945)
Mary Shane was the first full-time female play by play broadcaster for a Major League Baseball team in 1977.
03/11/1983
Alfredo Antonini, Italian-American conductor and composer (born 1901)
Alfredo Antonini was a leading Italian-American symphony conductor and composer who was active on the international concert stage as well as on the CBS radio and television networks from the 1930s through the early 1970s. In 1972 he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Religious Programming on television for his conducting of the premiere of Ezra Laderman's opera And David Wept for CBS television during 1971. In addition, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1980.
Jerry Pentland, Australian fighter ace (born 1894)
Alexander Augustus Norman Dudley "Jerry" Pentland, was an Australian fighter ace in World War I.
03/11/1980
Caroline Mytinger, American painter and author (born 1897)
Caroline Mytinger, was an American portrait painter born in Sacramento, California, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She is best known for her paintings of indigenous people in the South Seas during the late 1920s. These paintings are in the custody of the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology on UC Berkeley's campus in Berkeley, CA. Her work was featured in the museum's 2008 exhibition "Face to Face: Looking at Objects That Look at You."
03/11/1976
Solange d'Ayen, French noblewoman, Duchess of Ayen and journalist (born 1898)
Solange Marie Christine Louise de Labriffe, Duchess of Ayen, known professionally as Solange d'Ayen, Solange de Noailles, and Solange de Labriffe, was a French noblewoman and journalist, known for being the fashion editor of French Vogue magazine from the 1920s until the 1940s. She also wrote for American Vogue. She was born into the House of Labriffe and was named Duchess of Ayen by marrying Jean Maurice Paul Jules de Noailles, the 6th Duke of Ayen in 1919, with whom she had two children.
03/11/1975
Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh (born 1925)
Tajuddin Ahmad was a Bangladeshi politician. He led the first government of Bangladesh as its prime minister during the Bangladesh War of Independence in 1971, and is regarded as one of the most instrumental figures in the birth of Bangladesh.
Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi captain and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Bangladesh (born 1919)
Muhammad Mansur Ali was a Bangladeshi politician who was a close confidant of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh. A senior leader of the Awami League, Mansur also served briefly as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh in 1975 until he was assassinated while incarcerated on 3 November 1975.
Syed Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, President of Bangladesh (born 1925)
Syed Nazrul Islam was a Bangladeshi politician and a senior leader of the Awami League. During the Bangladesh War of Independence, he was declared as the Acting President of Bangladesh by the Provisional Government.
Abul Hasnat Muhammad Qamaruzzaman, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (born 1926)
Abul Hasnat Muhammad Qamaruzzaman was a Bangladeshi politician, government minister, and one of the founding leaders of Bangladesh. While serving as the Home Minister to Mujibnagar Government, Qamaruzzaman was murdered along with Syed Nazrul Islam, Muhammad Mansur Ali, and Tajuddin Ahmed in the jail killings in Dhaka Central Jail on 3 November 1975 by a group of army officers on the instruction of President Mostaq.
03/11/1973
Marc Allégret, Swiss-French director and screenwriter (born 1900)
Marc Allégret was a French screenwriter, photographer and film director.
03/11/1969
Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish footballer (born 1898)
Zeki Rıza Sporel was a Turkish football player and a politician. He plied his trade at the striker position for Fenerbahçe and the Turkey national football team. His career started in the Fenerbahçe youth teams until he was promoted to the senior team. Zeki spent his entire career with the club, setting numerous records. He was also a forerunner for Turkey, becoming the first player to score for the team. He is often cited as one of the best strikers in Turkish football history. He was also active in politics as he became a member of the Democrat Party in 1946.
03/11/1968
Vern Stephens, American baseball player (born 1920)
Vernon Decatur Stephens was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1941 through 1955. An eight-time All-Star, Stephens was notable for being the 1945 American League home run champion and was a three-time American League RBI champion. He was the cleanup hitter for the only St. Louis Browns team to win an American League pennant in 1944, and was a top power hitter for the Boston Red Sox. Nicknamed "Little Slug", "Junior", and "Buster", Stephens batted and threw right-handed. He was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2006.
03/11/1962
L. O. Wenckebach, Dutch sculptor and painter (born 1895)
Ludwig Oswald Wenckebach was a Dutch sculptor, painter, and medallist. He was the son of the anatomist Karel Frederik Wenckebach and nephew and pupil of the graphic designer and painter Willem Wenckebach. He started as a painter, but in 1920 switched to sculpting. He is best known for his many war monuments and designing the coins issued in the Netherlands between 1948 and 1980.
03/11/1960
Paul Willis, American actor and director (born 1901)
Paul Gregory Willis was an American actor of the silent film era.
03/11/1957
Wilhelm Reich, Ukrainian-Austrian psychotherapist and author (born 1897)
Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several influential books, The Impulsive Character (1925), The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Character Analysis (1933), and The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), he became one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry.
03/11/1956
Jean Metzinger, French artist, (born 1883)
Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, were influenced by the neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat and Henri-Edmond Cross. Between 1904 and 1907, Metzinger worked in the Divisionist and Fauvist styles with a strong Cézannian component, leading to some of the first proto-Cubist works.
03/11/1954
Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (born 1869)
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
03/11/1949
Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist, founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (born 1861)
Solomon Robert Guggenheim was an American businessman in needlework, gold, silver, copper, and lead and an art collector. He is best known for establishing the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
03/11/1939
Charles Tournemire, French organist and composer (born 1870)
Charles Arnould Tournemire was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant. His compositions include eight symphonies, four operas, twelve chamber works and eighteen piano solos. He is mainly remembered for his organ music, the best known being a set of pieces called L'Orgue mystique.
03/11/1933
Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (born 1853)
Pierre Paul Émile Roux FRS was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist. Roux was one of the closest collaborators of Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), a co-founder of the Pasteur Institute, and responsible for the institute's production of the anti-diphtheria serum, the first effective therapy for this disease. Additionally, he investigated cholera, chicken-cholera, rabies, and tuberculosis. Roux is regarded as a founder of the field of immunology.
03/11/1929
Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and educator (born 1883)
Olav Aukrust was a Norwegian poet and teacher. He popularized the use of Nynorsk as a literary language and is most commonly associated with his poem Himmelvarden (1916).
03/11/1927
Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist and author (born 1860)
Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod was a Czech naturalist writer and a journalist.
03/11/1926
Annie Oakley, American entertainer and target shooter (born 1860)
Annie Oakley was an American exhibition/trick shooter and folk heroine who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
03/11/1918
Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (born 1857)
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. He was the son of the astronomer Mikhail Lyapunov and the brother of the pianist and composer Sergei Lyapunov.
03/11/1917
Léon Bloy, French author and poet (born 1846)
Léon Bloy was a French Catholic novelist, essayist, pamphleteer, and satirist, known additionally for his eventual defense of Catholicism and for his influence within French Catholic circles.
03/11/1914
Georg Trakl, Austrian-Polish pharmacist and poet (born 1887)
Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet and the brother of the pianist Grete Trakl. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists. He is perhaps best known for his poem "Grodek", which he wrote shortly before he died of a cocaine overdose at the age of 27.
03/11/1900
Carrie Steele Logan, American philanthropist, founder of the oldest black orphanage in the United States (born ~1829)
Carrie Steele Logan was an American philanthropist, founder of the oldest black orphanage in the United States. The home, The Colored Orphanage of Atlanta, was officially dedicated on June 20, 1892.
03/11/1891
Louis Lucien Bonaparte, English-Italian philologist and politician (born 1813)
Louis Lucien Bonaparte was a French philologist. The third son of Napoleon's second surviving brother, Lucien Bonaparte, he spent much of his life outside France for political reasons. After a brief political career, he focused on his academic work, which particularly centered on the Basque language and the Celtic languages.
03/11/1890
Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Swiss National Council (born 1811)
Johann Ulrich Ochsenbein, colloquially Ulrich Ochsenbein was a Swiss jurist, military officer, politician who most notably served on the Federal Council (Switzerland) from 1848 to 1854. He previously also served on the National Council (Switzerland) briefly in 1848.
03/11/1869
Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet and playwright (born 1792)
Andreas Kalvos was a Greek poet of the Romantic school.
03/11/1858
Harriet Taylor Mill, English philosopher and author (born 1807)
Harriet Taylor Mill was an English philosopher and women's rights advocate. Her extant corpus of writing can be found in The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Several pieces can also be found in The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, especially volume XXI.
03/11/1850
William E. Shannon, Irish-born American politician (born 1821/1822)
William E. Shannon was an American politician.
03/11/1845
Johan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1776)
Johan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen was a Dutch politician. Between 1825 and 1841 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
03/11/1794
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and diplomat (born 1715)
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, comte de Lyonnais was a French cardinal and diplomat. He was the sixth member elected to occupy Seat 3 of the Académie française in 1744. Bernis was a prominent figure in the autobiography of Giacomo Casanova, Histoire de ma vie, starting from the chapter on "Convent Affairs".
03/11/1793
Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and activist (born 1748)
Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism.
03/11/1787
Robert Lowth, English bishop and academic (born 1710)
Robert Lowth was an English clergyman and academic who served as the Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of St Davids, Professor of Poetry and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar.
03/11/1711
John Ernest Grabe, German theologian and academic (born 1666)
John Ernest Grabe, Anglican divine, was born at Königsberg, where his father, Martin Sylvester Grabe, was professor of theology and history.
03/11/1676
Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Pasha, Ottoman soldier and politician, 110th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1635)
Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha was an Ottoman-Albanian nobleman and statesman, who belonged to the renowned Köprülü family of Albanian origin, which produced six grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire.
03/11/1643
John Bainbridge, English astronomer and academic (born 1582)
John Bainbridge was an English astronomer and mathematician.
Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (born 1577)
Paul Guldin was a Swiss Jesuit mathematician and astronomer. He discovered the Guldinus theorem to determine the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution. Guldin was noted for his association with the German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler. Guldin composed a critique of Cavalieri's method of Indivisibles.
03/11/1639
Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (born 1579)
Martín de Porras Velázquez was a Peruvian lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He is the patron saint of Black people, mixed-race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, all those seeking racial harmony, and animals.
03/11/1600
Richard Hooker, English priest and theologian (born 1554)
Richard Hooker was an English priest in the Church of England and an influential theologian. He was one of the most important English theologians of the sixteenth century. His defence of the role of redeemed reason informed the theology of the seventeenth-century Caroline Divines and later provided many members of the Church of England with a theological method which combined the claims of revelation, reason and tradition.
03/11/1599
Andrew Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (born c. 1563)
Andrew Báthory was the Cardinal-deacon of Sant'Adriano al Foro from 1584 to 1599, Prince-Bishop of Warmia from 1589 to 1599, and Prince of Transylvania in 1599. His father was a brother of Stephen Báthory, who ruled the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1575. He was the childless Stephen Báthory's favorite nephew. He went to Poland at his uncle's invitation in 1578 and studied at the Jesuit college in Pułtusk. He became canon in the Chapter of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Warmia in 1581, and provost of the Monastery of Miechów in 1583.
03/11/1584
Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal and saint (born 1538)
Charles Borromeo was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584. He was made a cardinal in 1560.
03/11/1580
Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian and author (born 1512)
Jerónimo de Zurita y Castro or simply Jerónimo de Zurita was a Spanish historian of the sixteenth century who founded the modern tradition of historical scholarship in Spain.
03/11/1456
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, father of King Henry VII of England (born 1431)
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, also known as Edmund of Hadham, was the father of King Henry VII of England and a member of the Tudor family of Penmynydd. Born to Sir Owen Tudor and the dowager queen Catherine of Valois, Edmund was the half-brother of Henry VI of England. He was raised for several years by Katherine de la Pole, and Henry took an interest in Edmund's upbringing, granting him a title and lands once he came of age. Both Edmund and his brother, Jasper, were made advisers to the King, as they were his closest remaining blood relatives.
03/11/1428
Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English general and politician (born 1388)
Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury, KG of Bisham in Berkshire, was an English nobleman and one of the most important English commanders during the Hundred Years' War.
03/11/1373
Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (born 1343)
Joan of France, also known as Joan or Joanna of Valois, was Queen of Navarre by marriage to Charles II of Navarre. She was the daughter of John II of France, and Bonne of Luxembourg. She served as regent of Navarre during the absence of Charles II between 1369 and 1372.
03/11/1324
Petronilla de Meath, Irish suspected witch (born c. 1300)
Petronilla de Midia was an alleged follower of Dame Alice Kyteler, a wealthy woman of Flemish ancestry who lived in the English colony of Ireland in what is now County Kilkenny. After the death of Kyteler's fourth husband, Kyteler was accused of practicing witchcraft and Petronilla was charged with being one of her accomplices. Petronilla was tortured and forced to proclaim that she and Kyteler were guilty of witchcraft. Kyteler fled to save her life, and Petronilla was then flogged and eventually burnt at the stake on 3 November 1324 in Kilkenny. Hers was the first known case in Ireland or British Isles of death by fire for the crime of heresy.
03/11/1254
John III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine emperor (born 1193)
John III Doukas Vatatzes, Latinized as Ducas Vatatzes, was Emperor of Nicaea from 1221 to 1254. He was succeeded by his son, known as Theodore II Doukas Laskaris.
03/11/1220
Urraca of Castile, Queen of Portugal, spouse of King Afonso II of Portugal (born 1186)
Urraca of Castile was Queen of Portugal by marriage to Afonso II of Portugal. A daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor of England, her maternal grandparents were Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
03/11/1219
Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, English baron and rebel (born c. 1170)
Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester was one of the leaders of the baronial rebellion against John, King of England, and a major figure in both the kingdoms of Scotland and England in the decades around the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
03/11/0753
Saint Pirmin, Spanish-German monk and saint (born 700)
Pirmin, was a Merovingian-era monk and missionary who founded or restored numerous monasteries in Alemannia. He is regarded as a saint in the Catholic Church.
03/11/0361
Constantius II, Roman emperor (born 317)
Constantius II was Roman emperor from 337 to 361. His reign saw constant warfare on the borders against the Sasanian Empire and Germanic peoples, while internally the Roman Empire went through repeated civil wars, court intrigues, and usurpations. His religious policies inflamed domestic conflicts that would continue after his death.