Died on Saturday, 8th November – Famous Deaths

08/11/2025

Graham Richardson, Australian politician (born 1949)

Graham Frederick Richardson was an Australian Labor Party politician who was a senator for New South Wales from 1983 to 1994 and served as a cabinet minister in both the Hawke and Keating governments. He was later a media commentator, public speaker and political lobbyist.

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08/11/2024

Elizabeth Nunez, American novelist (born 1944)

Elizabeth Nunez was a Trinidadian-American novelist academic who was a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College, New York City.

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June Spencer, English actress (born 1919)

June Rosalind Spencer was an English actress best known for her long-running role as Peggy Woolley in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers. Spencer played the character from 1950 to 1953, and again from 1962 to 2022.

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Trevor Sorbie, Scottish hairdresser (born 1949)

Trevor John Sorbie was a Scottish celebrity hairdresser and businessman. He is credited as the creator of the wedge haircut and was a four-time winner of British Hairdresser of the Year.

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08/11/2020

Alex Trebek, Canadian-American television personality and longtime host of Jeopardy! (born 1940)

George Alexander Trebek was a Canadian and American game show host and television personality. Regarded as a pop culture icon, he was best known for hosting the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy! for 37 seasons from its revival in 1984 until his death in 2020. Trebek also hosted a number of other game shows, including The Wizard of Odds, Double Dare, High Rollers, Battlestars, Classic Concentration, and To Tell the Truth. He made appearances, usually as himself, in numerous films and television series.

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08/11/2018

Dennis Wrong, Canadian-born American sociologist (born 1923)

Dennis Hume Wrong was a Canadian-born American sociologist and professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University.

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08/11/2015

Rhea Chiles, American philanthropist, founded the Polk Museum of Art (born 1930)

Rhea May Chiles was First Lady of Florida from 1991 to 1998 during the tenure of her husband, Governor Lawton Chiles. In 2009, she was designated a Distinguished Floridian by the Florida Economics Club at an event hosted by former Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Major B. Harding and keynoted by former United States Senator Sam Nunn.

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Joseph Cure, American ice hockey player and actor (born 1984)

Joseph O'Connell Cure was an American ice hockey player and actor. Cure made his film debut in Walt Disney Pictures' Miracle in 2004. Cure was cast as Mike Ramsey, the youngest member of the "Miracle on Ice" U.S. ice hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

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Rod Davies, Australian-English astronomer and academic (born 1930)

Rodney Deane Davies CBE FRS was a professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester. He was the President of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1987–1989, and the Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory in 1988–97. He is best known for his research on the Cosmic microwave background and the 21cm line.

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Om Prakash Mehra, Indian air marshal and politician (born 1919)

Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, PVSM was a former air officer in the Indian Air Force. He served as the Chief of the Air Staff from 1973 to 1976. He received Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM), the highest military award for peace-time service, in 1968. He was awarded Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour, in 1977. He later became Governor of Maharashtra from 1980 to 1982, and Governor of Rajasthan from 1985 to 1987. He married Satya Mehra and has four children with her Sunil, Parveen, Rahul, and Amitava and numerous grand children.

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Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero, Sri Lankan monk and activist (born 1942)

Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera was a Buddhist monk who participated in Sri Lankan politics and supported the 2015 presidential campaign of Maithripala Sirisena. He was the Chief Incumbent of the Kotte Naga Vihara.

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08/11/2014

Phil Crane, American academic and politician (born 1930)

Philip Miller Crane was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 2005, representing the 8th district of Illinois in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago. At the time of his defeat in the 2004 election, Crane was the longest-serving Republican member of the House.

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Luigi Gorrini, Italian soldier and pilot (born 1917)

Luigi Gorrini, MOVM, was an Italian World War II fighter pilot in the Regia Aeronautica and in the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana. During the conflict, he flew with the Corpo Aereo Italiano during the Battle of Britain, fought over Libya and Tunisia, and was involved in the defence of the Italian mainland. Gorrini is believed to have shot down 19 Allied planes, and damaged another 9, of several types: Bristol Beaufighter, Bristol Blenheim, Curtiss P-40, Spitfire, P-38 Lightning, P-47 Thunderbolt, B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator. He piloted the biplane Fiat C.R.42 and monoplanes Macchi C.202 and C.205 Veltro. With the Veltro he shot down 14 Allied planes and damaged six more. At the time of his death, he was the only surviving fighter pilot awarded the Medaglia d'Oro al Valor Militare.

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Don Paul, American football player and sportscaster (born 1925)

Don Paul was an American professional football player who was a linebacker for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL) from 1948 to 1955. He played college football for the UCLA Bruins. He was selected to three Pro Bowls during his years with the Rams.

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Hugo Sánchez Portugal, Spanish-Mexican footballer and sportscaster (born 1984)

Hugo Sánchez Portugal was a Spanish-born Mexican footballer and sports commentator with Televisa Deportes. He was the son of former player and manager of the Mexico national football team, Hugo Sánchez.

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Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-American basketball player and physician (born 1928)

Ernest Maurice Vandeweghe Jr. was a Canadian professional basketball player. Vandeweghe was best known for playing for the New York Knicks of the NBA and for the athletic successes of his family.

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08/11/2013

William C. Davidon, American physicist, mathematician, and academic (born 1927)

William Cooper Davidon was an American professor of physics and mathematics, and a peace activist. As the mastermind of the March 8, 1971, FBI office break-in, in Media, Pennsylvania, Davidon was the informal leader of the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI. The Media break-in resulted in the disclosure of COINTELPRO, which in turn led to subsequent investigations and reforms of the FBI.

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Penn Kimball, American journalist and academic (born 1915)

Penn Townsend Kimball II was an American journalist and college professor at Columbia University, most notable for suing the American government in the mid-1980s after his discovery that the FBI and CIA considered him and his wife a security risk.

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Arnold Rosner, American composer (born 1945)

Arnold Rosner was an American composer of classical music.

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Chiyoko Shimakura, Japanese singer and actress (born 1938)

Chiyoko Shimakura was an Enka singer and TV presenter in Japan. She was considered "the Goddess of Enka".

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Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam, Indian journalist and actor (born 1957)

Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam, better known and credited by his initials AVS, was an Indian actor, comedian, producer, director, and journalist known for his works in Telugu cinema. A.V.S. was known particularly for his comic dialogue delivery, and expressions. He starred in over five hundred feature films and has garnered four state Nandi Awards, including Best Comedian, and Best character actor.

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08/11/2012

Lee MacPhail, American businessman (born 1917)

Leland Stanford MacPhail Jr. was an American front-office executive in Major League Baseball. MacPhail was a baseball executive for 45 years, serving as the director of player personnel for the New York Yankees, the president and general manager of the Baltimore Orioles, chief aide to Commissioner of Baseball William Eckert, executive vice president and general manager of the Yankees, and president of the American League.

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Pete Namlook, German composer and producer (born 1960)

Peter Kuhlmann, known professionally as Pete Namlook was a German ambient and electronic music producer and composer. One music commentator noted that Namlook was "... comfortably the most prolific and arguably the best of the new wave of ambient/house artists of the early 1990s". Namlook himself noted, "I think it's very important to enhance the notion of a global ambient movement, and to realize that a lot of music - which we didn't expect to be ambient is in fact very, very ambient. When you examine other cultures you discover that what we recognize as a very new movement is in fact incredibly ancient".

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Peggy Vaughan, American author (born 1936)

Peggy Vaughan was an American author and speaker on infidelity issues.

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08/11/2011

Heavy D, Jamaican-American rapper, producer, and actor (born 1967)

Dwight Arrington Myers, known professionally as Heavy D, was a Jamaican-American rapper, record producer, and actor. He was the leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, a group that included dancers/hype men G-Whiz and "Trouble" T. Roy, as well as DJ and producer Eddie F. The group maintained a sizeable audience in the United States through most of the 1990s. The five albums the group released included production mainly by Teddy Riley, Marley Marl, DJ Premier, Myers's cousin Pete Rock, and "in-house" beatmaker Eddie F. Myers also released four solo albums and discovered Soul for Real and Monifah.

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Bil Keane, American cartoonist (born 1922)

William Aloysius Keane was an American cartoonist best known for the newspaper comic strip The Family Circus. He began it in 1960 and his son Jeff Keane continues to produce it.

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08/11/2010

Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (born 1961)

Quintin "Q" Dailey was an American professional basketball player. A 6'3" guard who played collegiately at the University of San Francisco, he later went on to a career in the NBA, playing for the Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Clippers, and Seattle SuperSonics over the course of his 10-year tenure in the league.

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Jack Levine, American soldier and painter (born 1915)

Jack Levine was an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives. Levine is considered one of the key artists of the Boston Expressionist movement.

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Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentinian admiral (born 1925)

Emilio Eduardo Massera was an Argentine Naval military officer and a leading participant in the Argentine coup d'état of 1976. In 1981, he was found to be a member of P2, a clandestine Masonic lodge involved in Italy's strategy of tension. Many considered Massera to have masterminded the junta's Dirty War against political opponents, which resulted in over 30,000 deaths and disappearances.

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08/11/2009

Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony Leggett for their "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids."

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08/11/2007

Aad Nuis, Dutch journalist, poet, and politician (born 1933)

Adrianus "Aad" Nuis was a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 (D66) party and political scientist.

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Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician, 10th Filipino Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (born 1943)

Dulce Maramba Quintans-Saguisag was a Filipino politician and former Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development under the administration of former President Joseph Estrada. Saguisag was one of Estrada's eleven cabinet members who withdrew support for Estrada on January 19, 2001, following accusations of massive corruption by the president. Estrada was ousted from office the next day, which is now known in the Philippines as EDSA II.

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Chad Varah, English priest, founded The Samaritans (born 1911)

Edward Chad Varah was an English Anglican priest and social activist from England. In 1953, he founded the Samaritans, the world's first crisis hotline, to provide telephone support to those contemplating suicide.

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08/11/2006

Basil Poledouris, American composer and conductor (born 1945)

Basil Konstantine Poledouris was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores, best known for his long-running collaborations with directors John Milius and Paul Verhoeven. Among his works are scores for the films Conan the Barbarian (1982), Red Dawn (1984), Iron Eagle (1986), RoboCop (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Free Willy (1993), Starship Troopers (1997) and Les Misérables (1998).

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Hannspeter Winter, Austrian physicist and academic (born 1941)

Hannspeter Winter was an Austrian plasma physicist who did research on hollow atoms and held a full professorship at the TU Wien. He won the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class in 2001 and the prestigious German Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize in 2003. He was co-editor of Europhysics Letters, Heavy Ion Physics, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and has published approximately 270 peer-reviewed papers in international scientific journals. He was married to the Austrian judge Renate Winter.

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08/11/2005

Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor and director (born 1928)

Alekos Alexandrakis was a famous Greek actor. He was known for his theatrical work as well as work in film and television. He died of lung cancer.

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David Westheimer, American soldier and author (born 1917)

David Westheimer, was an American novelist best known for writing the 1964 novel Von Ryan's Express, which was adapted into a 1965 film starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard.

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08/11/2004

Peter Mathers, English-Australian author and playwright (born 1931)

Peter Mathers was an English-born Australian author and playwright.

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08/11/2003

Bob Grant, English actor and screenwriter (born 1932)

Robert St Clair Grant was an English actor and writer, best known for playing bus conductor Jack Harper in the television sitcom On the Buses, as well as its film spin-offs and stage version.

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C.Z. Guest, American actress, fashion designer, and author (born 1920)

Lucy Douglas "C.Z." Guest was an American actress, author, columnist, horsewoman, fashion designer, and socialite who achieved a degree of fame as a fashion icon. She was frequently seen wearing elegant designs by designers like Mainbocher. Her unfussy, clean-cut style was seen as typically American, and she was named to the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List in 1959.

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Guy Speranza, American singer-songwriter (born 1956)

Guy Speranza was an American singer best known as New York City-based metal band Riot's original frontman from 1975 to 1981.

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08/11/2002

Jaun Elia, Pakistani poet, philosopher, and scholar (born 1931)

Syed Hussain Sibt-e-Asghar Naqvi, commonly known by his pen name Jaun Elia, was a Pakistani poet.

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08/11/2001

Aristidis Moschos, Greek santouri player and educator (born 1930)

Aristeidis Moschos was a Greek player and teacher of the musical instrument known as the santouri.

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08/11/1999

Lester Bowie, American trumpet player and composer (born 1941)

Lester Bowie was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

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Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast and judge (born 1898)

Leon Štukelj was a Slovene professional gymnast. He was an Olympic gold medalist and athlete who represented Yugoslavia at the Olympics.

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08/11/1998

Rumer Godden, English author and poet (born 1907)

Margaret Rumer Godden was a British author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably Black Narcissus in 1947 and The River in 1951.

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John Hunt, Baron Hunt, English colonel, mountaineer, and academic (born 1910)

Henry Cecil John Hunt, Baron Hunt was a British Army officer who is best known as the leader of the successful 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest.

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Jean Marais, French actor and director (born 1913)

Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais, known professionally as Jean Marais, was a French actor, theatre director, painter, sculptor, visual artist, writer and photographer. In 1937, Marais became the lover of acclaimed poet, playwright and film director Jean Cocteau, who considered him his muse and directed him in multiple plays and films, notably Beauty and the Beast (1946). Following their relationship, Marais and Cocteau remained close friends and Marais later endeavored to keep Cocteau's legacy alive. During the post-war period, Marais was one France's major film stars and performed in various successful swashbuckler films In 1996, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his contributions to French cinema.

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08/11/1994

Michael O'Donoghue, American actor and screenwriter (born 1940)

Michael O'Donoghue was an American writer, actor, editor and comedian.

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08/11/1986

Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1890)

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary. He was one of Joseph Stalin's closest allies and one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet government during his rule. In addition to serving as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars from 1930 to 1941, he held office as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and again from 1953 to 1956.

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08/11/1985

Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourger cyclist (born 1899)

Nikolas Frantz was a Luxembourgish bicycle racer with 60 professional racing victories over his 12-year career. He rode for the Thomann team in 1923 and then for Alcyon-Dunlop from 1924 to 1931. He won the Tour de France in 1927 and 1928.

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Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-American painter and illustrator (born 1915)

Jacques Hnizdovsky was a Ukrainian-born American painter, printmaker, graphic designer, illustrator and sculptor.

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08/11/1983

James Booker, American singer and pianist (born 1939)

James Carroll Booker III was an American New Orleans rhythm and blues keyboardist and singer. Flamboyant in personality and style, and a pianist of extraordinary technical skill, he was dubbed "the Black Liberace."

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Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian-American rabbi and educator (born 1881)

Mordecai Menahem Kaplan was an American Conservative rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian-philosopher, activist, and religious leader who founded the Reconstructionist movement of Judaism with his son-in-law, Rabbi Ira Eisenstein. He has been described as a "towering figure" in the recent history of Judaism for his influential work in adapting it to modern society, contending that Judaism should be a unifying and creative force by stressing the cultural and historical character of the religion as well as theological doctrine.

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08/11/1978

Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (born 1894)

Norman Percevel Rockwell was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, the Four Freedoms series, Saying Grace, and The Problem We All Live With. He is also noted for his 64-year relationship with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), during which he produced covers for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and other illustrations. These works include popular images that reflect the Scout Oath and Scout Law such as The Scoutmaster, A Scout Is Reverent, and A Guiding Hand.

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08/11/1977

Tasos Giannopoulos, Greek actor and producer (born 1931)

Anastasios (Tasos) Giannopoulos was a Greek actor. He was born in 1931 and died of cancer on November 8, 1977, at the age of 46. He was famous as Kitsos in his movies.

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Bucky Harris, American baseball player and manager (born 1896)

Stanley Raymond "Bucky" Harris was an American professional baseball second baseman, manager and executive. While Harris played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers, it was his long managerial career that led to his enshrinement in the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1975.

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08/11/1974

Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1914)

Ivory Joe Hunter was an American rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. After a series of hits on the US R&B chart starting in the mid-1940s, he became more widely known for his hit recording "Since I Met You Baby" (1956). He was billed as The Baron of the Boogie, and also known as The Happiest Man Alive. His musical output ranged from R&B to blues, boogie-woogie, and country music, and Hunter made a name in all of those genres. Uniquely, he was honored at both the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Grand Ole Opry.

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08/11/1973

Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, Turkish poet, author, and politician (born 1898)

Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel was a leading Turkish poet, author and later politician. He is one of the Five Syllabists. Together with Behçet Kemal Çağlar, he wrote the lyrics of the Tenth Anniversary March. He served as a member of parliament for Istanbul during the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th terms of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM).

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08/11/1970

Huw T. Edwards, Welsh poet and politician (born 1892)

Huw Thomas Edwards MBE was a Welsh trade union leader and politician.

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08/11/1968

Wendell Corey, American actor and politician (born 1914)

Wendell Reid Corey was an American stage, film, and television actor. He was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a board member of the Screen Actors Guild, and also served on the Santa Monica City Council.

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Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1898)

Peter Mohr Dam was a Faroe Islands politician who was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Javnaðarflokkurin party in 1926.

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08/11/1965

Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist, television personality, and game show panelist (born 1913)

Dorothy Mae Kilgallen was an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist. After spending two semesters at the College of New Rochelle, she started her career shortly before her 18th birthday as a reporter for the Hearst Corporation's New York Evening Journal. In 1938, she began her newspaper column "The Voice of Broadway", which was eventually syndicated to more than 140 papers. In 1950, she became a regular panelist on the television game show What's My Line?, continuing in the role until her death.

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08/11/1960

Subroto Mukerjee, Indian soldier; Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (born 1911)

Subroto Mukerjee was an Indian military officer who was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the Indian Air Force. He was awarded several honours during the course of a three-decade-long career, ended by his untimely demise in 1960. Mukerjee has been called the "Father of the Indian Air Force."

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08/11/1959

Frank S. Land, American activist, founded the DeMolay International (born 1890)

Frank Sherman "Dad" Land was the Founder of the Order of DeMolay. A business and community leader in Kansas City and a member of Ivanhoe Lodge No. 446, Land served as Imperial Potentate of the Shriners and is revered today as the Founder of the Order of DeMolay.

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08/11/1956

Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (born 1884)

Chika Kuroda was a Japanese chemist whose research focused on natural pigments. She was the first woman in Japan to receive a Bachelor of Science.

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08/11/1953

Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1870)

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as "Bunin brocade", is considered to be one of the richest in the language.

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John van Melle, Dutch-South African author and educator (born 1887)

Jan van Melle was the pen name of a Dutch-born South African writer. His real name was Johannes van Melle.

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08/11/1949

Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (born 1874)

Cyriel Verschaeve was a Flemish nationalist priest and writer who collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War. He was recognised as the spiritual leader of Flemish nationalism by the ideology's adherents and a Nazi propagandist.

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08/11/1945

August von Mackensen, German field marshal (born 1849)

Anton Ludwig Friedrich August Mackensen, was a German field marshal. He commanded Army Group Mackensen during World War I (1914–1918) and became one of the German Empire's most prominent and competent military leaders. After the armistice of 11 November 1918, the victorious Allies interned Mackensen in Serbia for a year. In 1920, he retired from the army. In 1933 Hermann Göring made him a Prussian state councillor. During the Nazi era (1933–1945), Mackensen remained a committed monarchist and sometimes appeared at official functions in his World War I uniform. Senior Nazi Party members suspected him of disloyalty, but nothing was proven against him.

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08/11/1944

Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German soldier and pilot (born 1920)

Walter Nowotny was an Austrian-born fighter ace of the Luftwaffe in World War II. He is credited with 258 aerial victories—that is, 258 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraft—in 442 combat missions. Nowotny achieved 255 of these victories on the Eastern Front and three while flying one of the first jet fighters, the Messerschmitt Me 262, in the Defense of the Reich. He scored most of his victories in the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, and approximately 50 in the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Nowotny scored an "ace in a day" on multiple occasions, shooting down at least five airplanes on the same day, including two occurrences of "double-ace in a day" in mid-1943.

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08/11/1934

Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and bacteriologist (born 1879)

Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist, and microbiologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. Best known for the discovery of an eponymous protozoal infection called Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis, he also discovered the causative fungi of the pneumocystis pneumonia. He described the two pathogens in 1909, while he was working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, and named the former Trypanosoma cruzi to honour his friend Oswaldo Cruz.

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08/11/1921

Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet and playwright (born 1849)

Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator, and for a short time, member of the Czechoslovak parliament. Originally, he wrote in a traditional style, but later became influenced by parnassism and modernism.

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08/11/1917

Colin Blythe, English cricketer and soldier (born 1879)

Colin Blythe, also known as Charlie Blythe, was an English first-class cricketer, active from 1899 to 1914. Born in Deptford, he played for Kent as a slow left arm orthodox (SLA) bowler and a right-handed batsman. He played in nineteen Test matches for England from 1901 to 1910.

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08/11/1905

Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (born 1870)

Victor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov was a Russian painter, prominent for his unique Post-Impressionistic style that mixed Symbolism, pure decorative style and realism. Together with Mikhail Vrubel he is often referred as the creator of Russian Symbolism style.

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08/11/1901

James Agnew, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Tasmania (born 1815)

Sir James Willson Agnew was an Irish-born Australian politician, who was Premier of Tasmania from 1886 to 1887.

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08/11/1895

Robert Battey, American surgeon and academic (born 1828)

Robert Battey was an American physician who is known for pioneering a surgical procedure then called Battey's Operation and now termed radical oophorectomy.

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08/11/1890

César Franck, Belgian organist and composer (born 1822)

César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck was a French Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in present-day Belgium.

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08/11/1887

Doc Holliday, American dentist and poker player (born 1851)

John Henry Holliday, better known as Doc Holliday, was an American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter who was a close friend and associate of lawman Wyatt Earp. Holliday is best known for his role in the events surrounding and his participation in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. He developed a reputation as having killed more than a dozen men in various altercations, but modern researchers have concluded that, contrary to popular myth-making, Holliday killed only between one and three men. Holliday's colorful life and character have been depicted in many books and portrayed by well-known actors in numerous movies and television series.

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08/11/1873

Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (born 1796)

Manuel Bretón de los Herreros was a Spanish dramatist.

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08/11/1830

Francis I of the Two Sicilies (born 1777)

Francis I of the Two Sicilies was King of the Two Sicilies from 1825 to 1830 and regent of the Kingdom of Sicily from 1806 to 1814.

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08/11/1828

Thomas Bewick, English engraver, illustrator and author (born1753)

Thomas Bewick was an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, and illustrating children's books. He gradually turned to illustrating, writing and publishing his own books, gaining an adult audience for the fine illustrations in A History of Quadrupeds.

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08/11/1817

Andrea Appiani, Italian painter and educator (born 1754)

Andrea Appiani was an Italian neoclassical painter. He is known as "the elder", to distinguish him from his great-nephew Andrea Appiani, a historical painter in Rome.

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08/11/1773

Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (born 1721)

Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Seydlitz was a Prussian officer, lieutenant general, and among the most renowned of the Prussian cavalry generals. He commanded one of the first hussar squadrons of Frederick the Great's army and is credited with the development of the Prussian cavalry to its efficient level of performance in the Seven Years' War. His cavalryman father retired and then died while Seydlitz was still young. Subsequently, he was mentored by Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt. Seydlitz's acclaimed horsemanship and recklessness combined to make him a stand-out subaltern, and he emerged as a remarkable Rittmeister in the War of Austrian Succession (1740–1748) during the First and Second Silesian Wars.

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08/11/1719

Michel Rolle, French mathematician and author (born 1652)

Michel Rolle was a French mathematician. He is best known for Rolle's theorem (1691). He is also the co-inventor in Europe of Gaussian elimination (1690).

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08/11/1674

John Milton, English poet and philosopher (born 1608)

John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan, and God's expulsion of them from the Garden of Eden. Paradise Lost elevated Milton's reputation as one of history's greatest poets. He also served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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08/11/1658

Witte de With, Dutch admiral (born 1599)

Witte Corneliszoon de With was a Dutch States Navy officer who served during the Eighty Years' War and the First Anglo-Dutch War.

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08/11/1606

Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and physician (born 1530)

Girolamo Mercuriale or Mercuriali was an Italian philologist and physician, most famous for his work De Arte Gymnastica.

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08/11/1605

Robert Catesby, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (born 1573)

Robert Catesby was the leader of a group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Born in Warwickshire, Catesby was educated at Oxford University. His family were prominent recusant Catholics, and presumably to avoid swearing the Oath of Supremacy he left college before taking his degree. He married a Protestant in 1593 and fathered two children, one of whom survived birth and was baptised in a Protestant church. In 1601 he took part in the Essex Rebellion but was captured and fined, after which he sold his estate at Chastleton.

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08/11/1600

Natsuka Masaie, Japanese daimyō (born 1562)

Natsuka Masaie was a daimyō in the Azuchi-Momoyama period. He served Niwa Nagahide and later Hideyoshi. He was one of the Go-Bugyō, or five commissioners, appointed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

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08/11/1599

Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (born 1528)

Francisco Guerrero was a Spanish Catholic priest and composer of the Renaissance. He was born and died in Seville.

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08/11/1527

Jerome Emser, German theologian and reformer (born 1477)

Jerome Emser, was a German theologian and antagonist of Martin Luther, was born of a good family at Ulm.

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08/11/1517

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish cardinal (born 1436)

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, OFM was a Spanish cardinal, religious figure, and statesman. Starting from humble beginnings he rose to the heights of power, becoming a religious reformer, twice regent of Spain, Cardinal, Grand Inquisitor, promoter of the Crusades in North Africa, and founder of the Alcalá University. Among his intellectual accomplishments during the Renaissance in Spain, he is best known for funding the Complutensian Polyglot Bible, the first polyglot version of the entire Bible, which was mass produced using Johannes Gutenberg's printing press. He also edited and published the first printed editions of the missal and the breviary of the Mozarabic Rite, and established a chapel with a college of thirteen priests to celebrate the Mozarabic Liturgy of the Hours and Eucharist each day in the Toledo Cathedral.

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08/11/1494

Melozzo da Forlì, Italian painter (born c. 1438)

Melozzo da Forlì was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect. His fresco paintings are notable for the use of foreshortening. He was the most important member of the Forlì painting school.

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08/11/1478

Baeda Maryam I, emperor of Ethiopia (born 1448)

Baeda Maryam I, otherwise known as Cyriacus was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1468 to 1478, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. His reign was characterized by a number of military campaigns, most notably against the Dobe'a who lived along the western escarpment of the Ethiopian Highlands.

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08/11/1400

Peter of Aragon, Aragonese infante (born 1398)

Peter was the son and heir apparent of Queen Maria and King Martin I of Sicily. He was a member of the House of Barcelona.

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08/11/1308

Duns Scotus, Scottish priest, philosopher, and academic (born 1266)

John Duns Scotus was a Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher and theologian. He is considered among the most important philosopher-theologians in Western Christendom during the last part of the medieval period, together with Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure and William of Ockham.

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08/11/1263

Matilda of Béthune, French countess

Matilda of Béthune, was a noblewoman from Artois who became countess of Flanders by marriage to Guy, Count of Flanders. She was heiress to her father's titles as Lady of Béthune, of Dendermonde, of Richebourg and of Warneton, as well as Advocatess of the Abbey of Saint Vaast at Arras, and the ruler of these states in 1248–1264. She was the mother of Robert, Count of Flanders, known as Robert of Béthune after his mother.

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08/11/1246

Berengaria of Castile (born 1179)

Berengaria, nicknamed the Great, was the queen of Castile who ascended the throne in 1217, and previously queen of León from 1197 to 1204 as the second wife of King Alfonso IX. As the eldest child and heir presumptive of Alfonso VIII of Castile, she was a sought-after bride, and was engaged to Conrad, the son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I. After Conrad's death, she married her cousin Alfonso IX of León to secure the peace between him and her father. She had five children with him before their marriage was voided by Pope Innocent III.

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08/11/1226

Louis VIII, king of France (born 1187)

Louis VIII, nicknamed The Lion, was King of France from 1223 to 1226. As a prince, he invaded England on 21 May 1216 and was excommunicated by a papal legate on 29 May 1216. On 2 June 1216, Louis was proclaimed "King of England" by rebellious barons in London, though never crowned. With the assistance of allies in England and Scotland he gained control of approximately one third of the English kingdom and part of Southern Wales. He was eventually defeated by English loyalists and those barons who swapped sides following the death of King John. After the Treaty of Lambeth, he was paid 10,000 marks, pledged never to invade England again, and was absolved of his excommunication.

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08/11/1195

Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine (born 1135)

Conrad of Hohenstaufen was the first hereditary Count Palatine of the Rhine.

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08/11/1171

Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (born 1108)

Baldwin IV was count of Hainaut from 1120 to his death.

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08/11/1122

Ilghazi, Artuqid ruler of Mardin

Najm al-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq was the Turkoman Artukid ruler of Mardin from 1107 to 1122. He was born into the Oghuz tribe of Döğer.

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08/11/1115

Godfrey of Amiens, French bishop and saint (born 1066)

Godfrey of Amiens (1066–1115) was a bishop of Amiens. He is a saint in the Catholic Church.

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08/11/1067

Sancha of León, Queen of León (born c. 1018)

Sancha of León was infanta and queen of León. She was married to Ferdinand I, the Count of Castile who later became King of León after having killed Sancha's brother in battle. She and her husband commissioned the Crucifix of Ferdinand and Sancha.

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08/11/0977

Ibn al-Qūṭiyya, Andalusian historian

Ibn al-Qūṭiyya, born Muḥammad Ibn ʿUmar Ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʾIbrāhīm ibn ʿIsā ibn Muzāḥim, also known as Abu Bakr or al-Qurtubi, was an Andalusian historian and considered the greatest philologist at the Umayyad court of caliph Al-Hakam II. His magnum opus, the History of the Conquest of al-Andalus, is one of the earliest Arabic Muslim accounts of the Islamic conquest of Spain.

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08/11/0955

Agapetus II, pope of the Catholic Church

Pope Agapetus II was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 10 May 946 to his death. A nominee of the princeps of Rome, Alberic II of Spoleto, his pontificate occurred during the period known as the Saeculum obscurum.

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08/11/0943

Liu, empress of Qi (Ten Kingdoms) (born 877)

Empress Liu, formally Lady Dowager Xiande of Qin (秦國賢德太夫人), was the wife of Li Maozhen, the only ruler of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Qi. During Li Maozhen's reign as the independent Prince of Qi, she carried the title of empress. After he submitted as the vassal of the new Later Tang dynasty, she became known as the Lady of Qin, and later Lady Dowager of Qin after his death.

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08/11/0940

Yao Yi, Chinese chancellor (born 866)

Yao Yi (姚顗), courtesy name Bozhen (伯真) or Baizhen (百真), was an official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period states Later Liang, Later Tang, and Later Jin, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Later Tang's final emperor Li Congke.

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08/11/0928

Duan Ning, Chinese general

Duan Ning, né Duan Mingyuan (段明遠), known as Li Shaoqin (李紹欽) during the reign of Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang, was a general of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period Later Liang and Later Tang states. He became an official under Later Liang's founder Zhu Wen based on his sister's being a concubine to Emperor Taizu, and later became a major general during the reign of Later Liang's last emperor Zhu Zhen. The failure in his ambitious plan to counterattack against Later Liang's northern rival Later Tang enabled Later Tang to defeat and conquer Later Liang, but despite such failure, he became a trusted general under Later Tang's founder Emperor Zhuangzong as well. After Emperor Zhuangzong's own fall and death, and succession by his adoptive brother Emperor Mingzong of Later Tang, Emperor Mingzong exiled Duan and later forced him to commit suicide.

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08/11/0789

Willehad, bishop of Bremen

Willehad or Willihad ; c. 745 AD – 8 November 789) was a Christian missionary and the Bishop of Bremen from 787 AD.

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08/11/0785

Sawara, Japanese prince

Prince Sawara was the fifth son of Prince Shirakabe, by Takano no Niigasa.

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08/11/0618

Adeodatus I, pope of the Catholic Church

Pope Adeodatus I, also called Deodatus I or Deusdedit, was the bishop of Rome from 19 October 615 to his death on 8 November 618. He was the first priest to be elected pope since John II in 533. The first use of lead seals or bullae on papal documents is attributed to him. His feast day is 8 November.

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08/11/0397

Martin of Tours, Frankish bishop and saint

Martin of Tours was the third bishop of Tours. He is the patron saint of many communities and organizations across Europe, including France's Third Republic. A native of Pannonia, he converted to Christianity at a young age. He served in the Roman cavalry in Gaul, but left military service prior to 361, when he became a disciple of Hilary of Poitiers, establishing the monastery at Ligugé. He was consecrated as Bishop of Caesarodunum (Tours) in 371. As bishop, he was active in the suppression of the remnants of Gallo-Roman religion.

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