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===1901–present=== *[[1906]] – [[Hans Auer]], Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the [[Federal Palace of Switzerland]] (b. 1847) *[[1907]] – [[Richard Mansfield]], American actor and manager (b. 1857) *[[1908]] – [[Alexander P. Stewart]], American general (b. 1821) *[[1928]] – [[Wilhelm Wien]], German physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1864) *[[1935]] – [[Henri Barbusse]], French journalist and author (b. 1873) * 1935 – [[Namık İsmail]], Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890) *[[1936]] – [[Ronald Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn]], English peer (b. 1886) *[[1938]] – [[Max Factor, Sr.]], Polish-born American make-up artist and businessman, founded the [[Max Factor|Max Factor Company]] (b. 1877) *[[1940]] – [[J. J. Thomson]], English physicist and mathematician, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1856) *[[1941]] – [[Peder Oluf Pedersen]], Danish physicist and engineer (b. 1874) *[[1943]] – [[Eddy de Neve]], Indonesian-Dutch footballer and lieutenant (b. 1885) * 1943 – [[Eustáquio van Lieshout]], Dutch priest and missionary (b. 1890) *[[1945]] – [[Alfréd Schaffer]], Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1893) *[[1946]] – [[Konstantin Rodzaevsky]], Russian lawyer (b. 1907) *[[1947]] – [[Gunnar Sommerfeldt]], Danish actor and director (b. 1890) *[[1948]] – [[Alice Salomon]], German-American social reformer (b. 1872)<ref>{{cite book|first=Joachim|last=Schlör|title=Das Ich der Stadt: Debatten über Judentum und Urbanität, 1822–1938|language=DE|location=Göttingen|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|year=2005|page=359|isbn=978-3-52556-990-0}}</ref> *[[1949]] – [[Arthur Fielder]], English cricketer (b. 1877) *[[1951]] – [[Konstantin Märska]], Estonian director and cinematographer (b. 1896) *[[1954]] – [[Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster]], Italian cardinal (b. 1880) *[[1961]] – [[Cristóbal de Losada y Puga]], Peruvian mathematician (b. 1894)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mineriaonline.com.pe/pagedeta.asp?idtipo=5&idpage=1943 |title=Cristóbal de Losada y Puga: Matemático por excelencia e ilustre científico peruano |publisher=Revista del Instituto de Ingenieros de Minas del Perú (IIMP)|access-date=18 September 2019|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813040433/http://mineriaonline.com.pe/pagedeta.asp?idtipo=5&idpage=1943|archive-date=13 August 2016}}</ref> * 1961 – [[Charles Coburn]], American actor (b. 1877) *[[1963]] – [[Guy Burgess]], English-Soviet spy (b. 1911) *[[1964]] – [[Salme Dutt]], Estonian-English lawyer and politician (b. 1888) *[[1967]] – [[Ad Reinhardt]], American painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1913) *[[1968]] – [[William Talman (actor)|William Talman]], American actor and screenwriter (b. 1915) *[[1970]] – [[Del Moore]], American comedian and actor (b. 1916) * 1970 – [[Abraham Zapruder]], American clothing manufacturer, witness to the [[assassination of John F. Kennedy]] (b. 1905)<ref>{{Cite news|date=1970-08-31|title=Abraham Zapruder Dies (Published 1970)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/31/archives/abraham-zapruder-dies-filmed-kennedy-death-footage-of-tragedy-in.html|access-date=2021-02-06|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> *[[1971]] – [[Ali Hadi Bara]], Iranian-Turkish sculptor (b. 1906) *[[1979]] – [[Jean Seberg]], American actress (b. 1938) *[[1981]] – [[Vera-Ellen]], American actress and dancer (b. 1921) * 1981 – [[Mohammad-Ali Rajai]], Iranian politician, 2nd [[President of Iran]] (b. 1933) *[[1985]] – [[Taylor Caldwell]], English-American author (b. 1900) *[[1988]] – [[Jack Marshall]], New Zealand colonel, lawyer and politician, 28th [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (b. 1912) *[[1989]] – [[Seymour Krim]], American journalist and critic (b. 1922) *[[1990]] – [[Bernard D. H. Tellegen]], Dutch engineer and academic (b. 1900) *[[1991]] – [[Cyril Knowles]], English footballer and manager (b. 1944) * 1991 – [[Vladimír Padrůněk]], Czech bass player (b. 1952) * 1991 – [[Jean Tinguely]], Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925) *[[1993]] – [[Richard Jordan]], American actor (b. 1938) *[[1994]] – [[Lindsay Anderson]], English director and screenwriter (b. 1923) *[[1995]] – [[Fischer Black]], American economist and academic (b. 1938) * 1995 – [[Sterling Morrison]], American guitarist and singer (b. 1942) *[[1996]] – [[Christine Pascal]], French actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1953) *[[1999]] – [[Reindert Brasser]], Dutch discus thrower (b. 1912) * 1999 – [[Raymond Poïvet]], French illustrator (b. 1910) *[[2001]] – [[Govan Mbeki]], ANC activist and father of President of South Africa [[Thabo Mbeki]] (b. 1910) *[[2002]] – [[J. Lee Thompson]], English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914) *[[2003]] – [[Charles Bronson]], American actor and soldier (b. 1921) * 2003 – [[Donald Davidson (philosopher)|Donald Davidson]], American philosopher and academic (b. 1917) *[[2004]] – [[Fred Lawrence Whipple]], American astronomer and academic (b. 1906) *[[2006]] – [[Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon]], New Zealand lawyer and judge (b. 1926) * 2006 – [[Glenn Ford]], Canadian-American actor and producer (b. 1916) * 2006 – [[Naguib Mahfouz]], Egyptian journalist and author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1911) *[[2007]] – [[Michael Jackson (writer)|Michael Jackson]], English author and journalist (b. 1942) * 2007 – [[Charles Vanik]], American soldier and politician (b. 1918) *[[2008]] – [[Brian Hambly]], Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1937) * 2008 – [[Killer Kowalski]], Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1926) *[[2009]] – [[Klaus-Peter Hanisch]], German footballer (b. 1952) *[[2010]] – [[J. C. Bailey]], American wrestler (b. 1983) * 2010 – [[Alain Corneau]], French director and screenwriter (b. 1943) * 2010 – [[Myrtle Edwards]], Australian cricketer and softball player (b. 1921) * 2010 – [[Francisco Varallo]], Argentine footballer (b. 1910) *[[2013]] – [[William C. Campbell (golfer)|William C. Campbell]], American golfer (b. 1923) * 2013 – [[Howie Crittenden]], American basketball player and coach (b. 1933) * 2013 – [[Allan Gotthelf]], American philosopher and academic (b. 1942) * 2013 – [[Seamus Heaney]], Irish poet and playwright, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1939) * 2013 – [[Leo Lewis (running back)|Leo Lewis]], American football player and coach (b. 1933) *[[2014]] – [[Charles Bowden]], American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist (b. 1945)<ref>[https://lccn.loc.gov/n81090470 Library of Congress Name Authority File]</ref> * 2014 – [[Bipan Chandra]], Indian historian and academic (b. 1928) * 2014 – [[Igor Decraene]], Belgian cyclist (b. 1996) * 2014 – [[Andrew V. McLaglen]], English-American director and producer (b. 1920) * 2014 – [[Felipe Osterling]], Peruvian lawyer and politician (b. 1932) *[[2015]] – [[Wes Craven]], American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1939) * 2015 – [[Edward Fadeley]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1929) * 2015 – [[M. M. Kalburgi]], Indian scholar, author, and academic (b. 1938) * 2015 – [[Marvin Mandel]], American lawyer and politician, 56th [[Governor of Maryland]] (b. 1920) * 2015 – [[Oliver Sacks]], English-American neurologist, author, and academic (b. 1933) *[[2017]] – [[Louise Hay]], American motivational author (b. 1926)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Genzlinger |first1=Neil |title=Louise Hay, Widely Read Self-Help Author, Dies at 90 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/obituaries/louise-hay-dead-widely-read-self-help-author.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/obituaries/louise-hay-dead-widely-read-self-help-author.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited |website=The New York Times |date=September 2017 |access-date=11 December 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * 2017 – [[Skip Prokop]], Canadian drummer, guitarist and keyboardist (b. 1943)<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Bliss |first1=Karen |title=Skip Prokop, Co-Founder of Canadian Jazz-Rock Group Lighthouse, Dies at 73 |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7949898/skip-prokop-dead-lighthouse |magazine=Billboard |access-date=11 December 2019}}</ref> *[[2019]] – [[Valerie Harper]], American actress and writer (b. 1939)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Langer |first1=Emily |title=Valerie Harper, actress beloved as the chronically single, irrepressible funny Rhonda Morgenstern, dies at 80 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/valerie-harper-actress-beloved-as-the-chronically-single-irrepressibly-funny-rhoda-morgenstern-dies-at-80/2019/08/30/8f7114a4-ae20-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html?outputType=amp |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=11 December 2019}}</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], 8th and final [[List of leaders of the Soviet Union|leader]] of the [[Soviet Union]] (b. 1931)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Berger |first1=Marilyn |date=30 August 2022 |title=Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/world/europe/mikhail-gorbachev-dead.html |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=[[The New York Times]] |publisher=}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Tūheitia Paki]], Māori King (b. 1955)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-30 |title=Māori King Tuheitia dies aged 69, just days after Koroneihana |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/526561/maori-king-tuheitia-dies-aged-69-just-days-after-koroneihana |access-date=2024-08-29 |website=[[RNZ]] |language=en-nz}}</ref> * 2024 – [[Fatman Scoop]], American rapper, hype man and radio personality (b. 1971)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/rapper-fatman-scoop-dies-medical-emergency-ct-19735120.php|title=Rapper Fatman Scoop dies at 53 after medical emergency during CT performance|first=Jayden|last=Nguyen|work=ctinsider.com|date=August 31, 2024|access-date=September 6, 2024|archive-date=August 31, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831135602/https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/rapper-fatman-scoop-dies-medical-emergency-ct-19735120.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.-->
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