Notable Deaths on August 1st
August 1st Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
30 |
Mark Antony, Roman Politician and General, commits suicide after he is defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium at 53 |
BC AD | |
371 |
St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283) |
527 |
Justin I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies (b. c. 450) |
1137 |
Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37) |
1190 |
Floris III, Count of Holland, dies |
1227 |
Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179) |
1402 |
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341) |
1457 |
Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50 |
1464 |
Cosimo de Medici, ruler of Florence, dies at 74 |
1541 |
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493) |
1546 |
Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506) |
1557 |
Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490) |
1580 |
Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524) |
1589 |
Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567) |
1628 |
Francesco Gonzaga, composer, dies at 37 |
1630 |
Federico Cesi, Italian Naturalist and founder of the first modern scientific society, the Accademia dei Lincei, dies at 45 |
1667 |
Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48 |
1708 |
Edward Tyson, British Physician and father of comparative anatomy (The Anatomy of a Pygmy, 1698), dies at 57 |
1714 |
Anne Stuart, Queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49 |
1743 |
Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46 |
1787 |
Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90 |
1796 |
Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720) |
1798 |
François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753) |
1805 |
Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz, composer, dies at 51 |
1812 |
Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763) |
1813 |
Carl Stenborg, composer, dies at 60 |
1821 |
Elizabeth Inchbald (Simpson), actress/author (Lady Abbess), dies at 68 |
1834 |
Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies |
1837 |
Walter Geikie, painter, dies |
1846 |
Peter Ritter, composer, dies at 83 |
1851 |
William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775) |
1857 |
Charles Turner, engraver, dies |
1866 |
John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790) |
1882 |
Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at 43 |
1883 |
Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, classic scholar, dies |
1884 |
Heinrich Laube, writer, dies |
1884 |
Heinrich Laube, Das alte Gesetz |
1896 |
William Robert Grove, Welsh Physicist and inventor of the first fuel cell, dies at 85 |
1902 |
Ludwig Beckmann, painter, dies |
1903 |
Calamity Jane [Martha Jane Canary], American frontierswoman, dies at 51 |
1907 |
David Christie Murray, The Penniless Millionaire |
1911 |
Konrad Duden, German linguist (Das, grosse Duden Lexicon), dies |
1913 |
Lesya Ukrainka, Lesnaya pesnya. Mavka |
1915 |
James Berry, Richard III |
1916 |
Claude Newberry, South African cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies |
1917 |
Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879) |
1918 |
John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854) |
1920 |
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies |
1921 |
Sid Hatfield, |
1922 |
Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer, dies at 72 |
1925 |
John Pieter Veth, painter/lithographer/etcher/writer, dies at 61 |
1926 |
Israel Zangwill, British zionists writer (Ghetto tragedies), dies |
1926 |
Israel Zangwill, The Verdict |
1929 |
Syd Gregory, cricketer (Australian captain pre-WWI), dies |
1932 |
Arnold Fothergill, cricketer (8 wickets in 2 Tests for Eng 1889), dies |
1932 |
James R. Quirk, Bob Hope Comedy Special |
1934 |
Piotr Maszynski, composer, dies at 79 |
1934 |
Béla Bátori, Tatárjárás |
1938 |
John Aasen, Why Worry? |
1940 |
William Ehfe, The Best Man |
1940 |
Gus Meins, Babes in Toyland |
1941 |
Mai Wells, The Pilgrim |
1942 |
Herbert Selpin, Titanic |
1943 |
Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68 |
1944 |
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, Second President of Philippines (1935-42), dies of tuberculosis at 65 |
1944 |
Manuel Quezón, |
1944 |
Sylvain Itkine, La Grande Illusion |
1944 |
Cecil Mack, The Great Gatsby |
1945 |
Fred Leslie, Trust the Navy |
1945 |
Arthur S. Kane, A Tailor-Made Man |
1945 |
Gyula Csortos, Hyppolit, the Butler |
1946 |
Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45 |
1947 |
Walter DeLeon, Ruggles of Red Gap |
1949 |
George Moran, The Bank Dick |
1951 |
Missouri Royer, The Block Signal |
1953 |
W.A. Andlauer, As the World Rolls On |
1953 |
Zachary Gold, Humoresque |
1953 |
Mannus Franken, Regen |
1953 |
Christian Borgen, Haanden, der griber |
1954 |
Charles-A Cingria, writer, dies |
1955 |
Ormond Ruthven, Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day |
1955 |
Charles Shaw, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison |
1956 |
László Cserépy, Lelki klinika |
1956 |
Ragnar Ring, En vikingafilm |
1956 |
Valdemar Andersen, Kongen af Pelikanien |
1956 |
H.E. Aitken, Home, Sweet Home |
1957 |
Harvey Glatmin, 1st bondage-photo victim, executed [or 8/18/59] |
1958 |
Charles White, Barabbas |
1958 |
Vivien Oakland, Way Out West |
1958 |
Artur A. Kuhnert, Lockende Gefahr |
1958 |
Albert E. Smith, Mysterious Cafe, or Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke Have Troubles with a Waiter |
1959 |
Francis de Miomandre, Cabin of Love |
1961 |
Arthur Lovejoy, Full of Life |
1962 |
Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62 |
1962 |
Vilma Gömöry, Az orvos titka |
1963 |
Theodore Roethke, US poet (Praise to the end!), dies |
1964 |
Premysl Prazský, Dve matky |
1964 |
Maurice Samuels, Black Hand |
1965 |
Kiyoshi Nobutoki, composer, dies at 77 |
1966 |
Bud Powell, US jazz pianist/composer, dies |
1966 |
Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 16 at U of Texas, shot by cops |
1966 |
Leonid Vivyen, Vzyatiye zimnego dvortsa |
1970 |
Frances Farmer, actress (Toast of NY, Come & Get It), dies at 55 |
1970 |
Otto Heinrich Warburg, German Biochemist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86 |
1973 |
Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer, dies at 91 |
1973 |
Walter Ulbricht, pres German DR, dies at 80 |
1974 |
Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898) |
1975 |
Howard Joslin, actor (Quebec, Detective Story), dies at 68 |
1977 |
Francis Gary Powers, US U-2 pilot, dies at 47 |
1979 |
Vandéric, Peace Over the Fields |
1980 |
Strother Martin, actor (Slapshot), dies of heart attack at 61 |
1980 |
Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944) |
1980 |
Clare West, Why Change Your Wife? |
1980 |
Louise Colombet, The Day the Earth Stood Still |
1981 |
Paddy Chayefsky, screenwriter (Network, Hospital) dies of cancer at 58 |
1981 |
Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer, dies at 49 |
1981 |
Paddy Chayefsky, Network |
1981 |
Alfred Metscher, Feinde |
1981 |
Jan Batory, The Two Who Stole the Moon |
1981 |
Timofei Lebeshev, The Girls |
1981 |
Kelly Gordon, Daddy-O |
1981 |
Kelly Gordon, Mary and Max |
1982 |
Feliks Vysotsky, Ori okeanis saidumloeba |
1983 |
Peter Arne, actor (Straw Dogs), bludgeoned to death in London at 62 |
1983 |
Fujio Nagahama, Ikiru |
1983 |
Vicky Lane, The Jungle Captive |
1983 |
Ivan Lutanský, Mezicas |
1984 |
Renato Restier, Areias Ardentes |
1985 |
Joseph Walker, cameraman, dies at 92 |
1985 |
Alois Carigiet, Schellen-Ursli |
1985 |
Joseph Walker, It's a Wonderful Life |
1985 |
Otabek Ganiyev, Zhdem tebya, paren... |
1985 |
George Grandee, Beggar's Holiday |
1985 |
Al Overton, Diamonds Are Forever |
1985 |
Fernando Previtali, Ossessione |
1985 |
Michael Brüel, Hen til kommoden |
1986 |
Willem Klein, variety artist, dies at about 73 |
1986 |
Samuel Colt, The Mating Season |
1986 |
John Tomecko, Project Moon Base |
1986 |
Ronald Wallace, Scotty & Co. |
1986 |
Robert Wolfgang Schnell, Die geheilte Ehe |
1986 |
Paul Detlefsen, The Big Sleep |
1987 |
Benson Fong, actress (Charlie Chan, Purple Heart), dies at 70 |
1987 |
Pola Negri, actress (Forbidden Paradise), dies at 92 |
1987 |
Carl-Michael Runeberg, Fänrik Ståls sägner |
1987 |
Benson Fong, The Love Bug |
1987 |
George Fenaja, Rescue from Gilligan's Island |
1987 |
Janna DeLoos, Destruction from the Sky |
1987 |
Pascual Nacarati, Sons of the Earth |
1987 |
Pola Negri, The Wildcat |
1988 |
Florence Eldridge, Broadway actress (The Swan), dies at 86 |
1988 |
John Cardinal Dearden, US cardinal, dies at 80 |
1988 |
Trindad Silva, actor (Hill St Blues), dies at 38 in an auto accident |
1988 |
Red Coffey, This Is My Ducky Day |
1988 |
Zbigniew Oksza, Black Cross |
1988 |
Gertrude Welcker, Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler |
1988 |
Tony Regan, The Twins |
1988 |
Florence Eldridge, Inherit the Wind |
1988 |
Hélène Vallier, Love and Death |
1989 |
John Ogdon, English pianist/composer, dies at 52 |
1989 |
John Ogdon, John Ogdon |
1989 |
Ted Snyder, Sex for Sale |
1989 |
José Cândido de Carvalho, O Coronel e o Lobisomem |
1989 |
Gloria Payton, The Faith of the Strong |
1990 |
Norbert Elias, German/English/Neth philosopher/sociologist, dies |
1990 |
Ervina Dragman, The Ninth Circle |
1991 |
Stuart Wilson, actor (The Girl Who Had Everything), dies at 87 |
1991 |
Airi Säilä, Sleeping Beauty |
1991 |
Helen Page Camp, Telefon |
1991 |
David Aylott, Suddenly, Last Summer |
1991 |
Stuart Wilson, The Phantom Raiders |
1991 |
Chris Short, 1967 MLB All-Star Game |
1991 |
Nazim Kalkavan, Background to Danger |
1992 |
Chico Alvarez, trumpeteer (Stan Kenton Orch), dies of cancer at 72 |
1992 |
Kenny Sacha, actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), dies of AIDS at 39 |
1992 |
Stanley Dudek, US platform diver (watershows), dies |
1992 |
Krystyna Zywulska, Kochajmy syrenki |
1992 |
Kenny Sacha, The Rose |
1993 |
Alfred Manessier, Fr painter (glass-in-lead), dies in car crash at 81 |
1993 |
Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered |
1993 |
Ewing Kaufman, founder/owner (KC Royals), dies of lung cancer at 76 |
1993 |
Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72 |
1993 |
Viktor Polyanitshko, governor of Kaukasus, murdered |
1993 |
Claire Du Brey, Cinderella |
1993 |
Heinz Coubier, Penelope oder Die Lorbeermaske |
1993 |
B.J. Turner, Scarecrows |
1993 |
Gerry Sundquist, The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
1993 |
Michael Steele, Command Decision |
1994 |
George Dixon, trumpet/sax, dies at 85 |
1994 |
Gerard van de Groenekan, furniture maker/designer, dies at 90 |
1994 |
Tadao Futami, 21 emon: Uchû e irasshai! |
1994 |
Stanislav Barabas, Inferno |
1995 |
Loudi Nijhoff, Dutch actress (Alicia, Van Geluk Gesproken), dies |
1995 |
Robert L "Bob" Talley, pianist, dies at 75 |
1995 |
Loudi Nijhoff, Zwerfsters |
1995 |
Darrell Huntley, Jet Pilot |
1995 |
Carol Dietrich, It Happened in Hollywood |
1995 |
Sári Feleki, Elkésett levél |
1995 |
Phyllis Brooks, Charlie Chan in Honolulu |
1995 |
Esther Muir, A Day at the Races |
1996 |
John Lanigan, tenor, dies at 75 |
1996 |
Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Pres (ANS-CUS)/Somalia, dies |
1996 |
Pierre Lucien Claverie, bishop of Oran, dies at 58 |
1996 |
Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99 |
1996 |
Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940) |
1996 |
Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929) |
1996 |
Frida Boccara, The Eurovision Song Contest |
1996 |
Bill Buchanan, Legend of Crater Mountain |
1996 |
Hans Knötzsch, Zur Kasse, bitte |
1996 |
John Lanigan, Falstaff |
1997 |
Ngiratkel Etpison, president of Palau (1989-92), dies |
1997 |
Svyatoslav Richter, Russian pianist, dies of heart attack at 82 |
1997 |
Halina Jasnorzewska, Warkocze naszych dziewczat beda biale |
1997 |
Svyatoslav Richter, Richter: The Enigma |
1997 |
Johnny Tocco, Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion |
1998 |
Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927) |
1998 |
Carl Neubert, The Catman of Paris |
1998 |
Eva Bartok, Blood and Black Lace |
1999 |
Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897) |
1999 |
Corrin Helliwell, Pat and Margaret |
1999 |
John Lion, The Right Stuff |
1999 |
Sparky O'Toole, The Young Cadets |
2000 |
Hugh Hood, The Red Kite |
2000 |
Kenneth Becker, True Grit |
2000 |
Poppy Wilde, Gold Diggers in Paris |
2000 |
Regine Reginek, Palace |
2000 |
Galina Sergeyeva, Boule de suif |
2001 |
Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974) |
2001 |
Joe Lynch, Thumbelina |
2001 |
Robert H. Rimmer, The Harrad Experiment |
2001 |
Rick Martin Jr., Cultivision (Collapsing Stars) |
2001 |
Lola 'Skip' McNalley, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial |
2001 |
Deacon Dan Towler, Crazylegs |
2002 |
Berge Kalajian, Mission Mars |
2002 |
Mariya Neykova, The Goat Horn |
2002 |
Sumiko Hidaka, Double Suicide |
2003 |
Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922) |
2003 |
Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962) |
2003 |
Thomas J. McCarthy, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze |
2003 |
Marie Trintignant, Deep in the Woods |
2003 |
Mayris Chaney, Hi'ya, Sailor |
2003 |
Peter Hirche, A Lost Life |
2004 |
Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913) |
2004 |
Vivian Austin, Night Club Girl |
2004 |
Sidney Morgenbesser, The American Pragmatists |
2004 |
Alfred Wolf, M'Al Hahuravot |
2004 |
Konstantin Kravinsky, Bezbiletnaya passazhirka |
2004 |
Madeleine Robinson, Camille Claudel |
2005 |
Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928) |
2005 |
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923) |
2005 |
Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920) |
2005 |
Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918) |
2005 |
Anne-Marie Marchand, The Return of Martin Guerre |
2005 |
John Garang, Episode dated 7 January 2004 |
2005 |
Terry Carr, On Golden Pond |
2005 |
Constant Anton Nieuwenhuis, Politically InKorect |
2005 |
John Gower, Evita |
2005 |
Donald Brooks, The Cardinal |
2005 |
Lajos Kránitz, Dream Brigade |
2006 |
Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965) |
2006 |
Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924) |
2006 |
Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949) |
2006 |
Mate Relja, Train in the Snow |
2006 |
Rufus Harley, Pipes of Peace |
2006 |
Esteban Nesich, Pajarito Gómez |
2006 |
Harry Hornisch, The Mysterious Stranger |
2006 |
Sara Flanigan, Wildflower |
2006 |
Jason Rhoades, Montewood Hollyverità |
2006 |
Mario Faustinelli, The World of Topo Gigio |
2006 |
Werner Hamerski, Der Störenfried - Ermittlungen zu Oskar Brüsewitz |
2006 |
Victoria Spark, The Sunday Man |
2007 |
Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932) |
2007 |
Robert Hughes, The Golden Positions |
2007 |
Martin Trettau, Einfach Blumen aufs Dach |
2007 |
Yû Aku, MacArthur's Children |
2007 |
Richard Knotek, Bitka |
2007 |
Tommy Makem, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan |
2008 |
Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916) |
2008 |
Tore Breda Thoresen, Del 3 |
2008 |
Yuri Kazakov, Tulpan |
2008 |
Dick Barrymore, The Last of the Ski Bums |
2008 |
Ray Underhill, The Search for Animal Chin |
2008 |
Louise Ruys, White Madness |
2008 |
Timur Otus, Pushed to the Limit |
2008 |
Dren Mandic, Disaster on K2 |
2008 |
Rolf Bae, Disaster on K2 |
2008 |
Gertan Klauber, Top Secret! |
2008 |
Bertrand Castelli, Richard |
2008 |
Hugues D'Aubarede, Disaster on K2 |
2009 |
Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (1986-1992) (b. 1933) |
2009 |
Corazon Aquino, A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution |
2009 |
Steve Hamilton, Episode #4.11 |
2009 |
Howard Smit, The Birds |
2009 |
René Dupuy, The Fire Within |
2009 |
Rafael Mendizábal, Mala yerba nooo |
2010 |
Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican nationalist (b. 1919) |
2010 |
Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby and cricket international player and referee/umpire (b. 1910) |
2010 |
Helga Roloff, Ein gutes Gewissen... |
2010 |
Anna Sundqvist, Kom till Casino! |
2010 |
Travis Harrelson, Rock That Uke |
2010 |
Regina Gruss, Red Heat |
2010 |
Larry Yachimec, Saw III |
2010 |
Robert F. Boyle, The Thomas Crown Affair |
2010 |
Eric Etcheverry, Manu |
2011 |
Stan Barstow, A Kind of Loving |
2011 |
Ivan Mesquita, Algemas de Ouro |
2011 |
Soo, In Memory of Soo the Cat |
2011 |
Zhanna Prokhorenko, Ballad of a Soldier |
2012 |
DeAndre McCullough, Reformation |
2012 |
Nigel Charnock, Edward II |
2012 |
Fyodor Chekhankov, Lushka |
2012 |
Sam E. Waxman, Coogan's Bluff |
2012 |
Esther Kartiganer, John Kerry/Farewell to the Queen/Doing Business with the Enemy |
2012 |
Douglas Townsend, Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider |
2012 |
Keiko Tsushima, Seven Samurai |
2013 |
Dick Kazmaier, Fox Movietone Sports: Mel Allen's Football Review |
2013 |
Gail Kobe, Guiding Light |
2013 |
John Dengate, Bricks and Mortar |
2014 |
Jesper Find, Arn: The Knight Templar |
2014 |
Mike Smith, Episode dated 1 July 1996 |
2014 |
Gert von Paczensky, Der Tod kam wie bestellt |
2014 |
Hans-Jürgen Degenhardt, Justizmord |
2014 |
Ron Tippe, Space Jam |
2014 |
Michael Johns, I Am |
2014 |
Sa'eed Saleh, Salam Ya Sahby |
2014 |
Szabolcs Cseh, High Tension |
2014 |
Roberto Paiva, O Rei do Samba |
2014 |
Ivan Gorobets, Deystvuy po obstanovke! |
2014 |
Karen X. Gaylord, Cover Girl |
2015 |
Cilla Black, Moment of Truth |
2015 |
Anatoly Kremer, Klop 75 ili Mayakovskiy smeyotsya |
2015 |
Orlando Orfei, Valley of the Lions |
2017 |
Sam Shepard, actor and playwright, dies at age 73 |
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