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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[223]] – [[Jia Xu]], Chinese politician and strategist (b. 147) * [[353]] – [[Magnentius]], Roman usurper (b. 303) * [[449]] – [[Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople]] * [[632]] – [[Rusticula]], abbess of Arles<ref>Jo Ann McNamara, John E. Halborg and E. Gordon Whatley (eds.), ''Sainted Women of the Dark Ages'' (Duke University Press, 1992), pp. 133–134.</ref> * [[919]] – [[Dhuka al-Rumi]], Abbasid governor of Egypt<ref>{{cite book | last=Halm | first=Heinz | author-link = Heinz Halm | title = Das Reich des Mahdi: Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden | language = de | trans-title = The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids | publisher = C. H. Beck | location = Munich | year = 1991 | isbn = 3-406-35497-1 | page=189}}</ref> * [[979]] – [[Gero, Count of Alsleben]] * [[991]] – [[Byrhtnoth]], English soldier (b. 956) *[[1044]] – [[Sokkate]], king of the [[Pagan dynasty]] of Burma (b. 1001) *[[1204]] – [[Guttorm of Norway]] (b. 1199) *[[1253]] – [[Clare of Assisi]], Italian follower of [[Francis of Assisi]] (b. 1194) *[[1259]] – [[Möngke Khan]], Mongolian emperor (b. 1208) *[[1268]] – [[Agnes of Faucigny]], Dame ruler of Faucigny, Countess consort of Savoy *[[1332]] – [[Domhnall II, Earl of Mar]] * 1332 – [[Robert II Keith, Marischal of Scotland]] * 1332 – [[Thomas Randolph, 2nd Earl of Moray]] * 1332 – [[Murdoch III, Earl of Menteith]] * 1332 – [[Robert Bruce (bastard)|Robert Bruce]], Lord of Liddesdale *[[1456]] – [[John Hunyadi]], Hungarian general and politician (b. 1387) *[[1464]] – [[Nicholas of Cusa]], German cardinal and mystic (b. 1401) *[[1465]] – [[Kettil Karlsson (Vasa)|Kettil Karlsson]], regent of Sweden and Bishop of Linköping (b. 1433) *[[1486]] – [[William Waynflete]], English Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester (b. c. 1398) *[[1494]] – [[Hans Memling]], German-Belgian painter (b. 1430) *[[1519]] – [[Johann Tetzel]], German preacher (b. 1465) *[[1556]] – [[John Bell (bishop of Worcester)|John Bell]], English bishop *[[1563]] – [[Bartolomé de Escobedo]], Spanish composer and educator (b. 1500) *[[1578]] – [[Pedro Nunes]], Portuguese mathematician and academic (b. 1502) *[[1596]] – [[Hamnet Shakespeare]], son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585) ===1601–1900=== *[[1614]] – [[Lavinia Fontana]], Italian painter (b. 1552) *[[1656]] – [[Ottavio Piccolomini]], Austrian-Italian field marshal (b. 1599) *[[1725]] – [[Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy]] (b. 1723) *[[1774]] – [[Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche]], French physician and author (b. 1722) *[[1813]] – [[Henry James Pye]], English poet and politician (b. 1745) *[[1851]] – [[Lorenz Oken]], German botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (b. 1779) *[[1854]] – [[Macedonio Melloni]], Italian physicist and academic (b. 1798) *[[1868]] – [[Halfdan Kjerulf]], Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1815) *[[1886]] – [[Lydia Koidula]], Estonian poet and playwright (b. 1843) *[[1890]] – [[John Henry Newman]], English cardinal and theologian (b. 1801) *[[1892]] – [[Enrico Betti]], Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1813) ===1901–present=== *[[1903]] – [[Eugenio María de Hostos]], Puerto Rican-American sociologist, philosopher, and lawyer (b. 1839) *[[1908]] – [[Khudiram Bose]], Indian Bengali revolutionary (b. 1889) *[[1919]] – [[Andrew Carnegie]], Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the [[Carnegie Steel Company]] and [[Carnegie Hall]] (b. 1835)<ref>{{cite web |title=Andrew Carnegie: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland |url=https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/c/andrewcarnegie.html |website=www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk |access-date=26 October 2020}}</ref> *[[1921]] – [[Mary Sumner]], English philanthropist, founded the [[Mothers' Union]] (b. 1828) *[[1936]] – [[Blas Infante]], Spanish historian and politician (b. 1885) *[[1937]] – [[Edith Wharton]], American novelist and short story writer (b. 1862) *[[1939]] – [[Jean Bugatti]], German-Italian engineer (b. 1909) * 1939 – [[Siegfried Flesch]], Austrian fencer (b. 1872) *[[1945]] – [[Stefan Jaracz]], Polish actor and theater producer (b. 1883) *[[1953]] – [[Tazio Nuvolari]], Italian race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1892) *[[1956]] – [[Jackson Pollock]], American painter (b. 1912) *[[1961]] – [[Antanas Škėma]], Lithuanian-American author, playwright, actor, and director (b. 1910) *[[1963]] – [[Otto Wahle]], Austrian-American swimmer and coach (b. 1879) *[[1965]] – [[Bill Woodfull]], Australian cricketer and educator (b. 1897) *[[1969]] – [[Miriam Licette]], English soprano and educator (b. 1885) *[[1972]] – [[Max Theiler]], South African-American virologist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1899) *[[1974]] – [[Vicente Emilio Sojo]], Venezuelan conductor and composer (b. 1887) *[[1977]] – [[Frederic Calland Williams]], British co-inventor of the [[Williams tube|Williams-Kilborn tube]], used for memory in early computer systems (b. 1911) *[[1978]] – [[Berta Ruck]], Indian-born Welsh romance novelist (b. 1878)<ref>{{cite web |title=Authors : Ruck, Berta : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia |url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ruck_berta |website=www.sf-encyclopedia.com |access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref> *[[1979]] – [[J. G. Farrell]], English author (b. 1935) *[[1980]] – [[Paul Robert (lexicographer)|Paul Robert]], French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910) *[[1982]] – [[Tom Drake]], American actor and singer (b. 1918) *[[1984]] – [[Alfred A. Knopf Sr.]], American publisher, founded [[Alfred A. Knopf|Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.]] (b. 1892) * 1984 – [[Paul Felix Schmidt]], Estonian–American chemist and chess player (b. 1916) *[[1986]] – [[János Drapál]], Hungarian motorcycle racer (b. 1948) *[[1988]] – [[Anne Ramsey]], American actress (b. 1929) *[[1989]] – [[John Meillon]], Australian actor (b. 1934) *[[1991]] – [[J. D. McDuffie]], American race car driver (b. 1938) *[[1994]] – [[Peter Cushing]], English actor (b. 1913) *[[1995]] – [[Phil Harris]], American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1904) *[[1996]] – [[Rafael Kubelík]], Czech conductor and composer (b. 1914) * 1996 – [[Ambrosio Padilla]], Filipino basketball player and politician (b. 1910) *[[2000]] – [[Jean Papineau-Couture]], Canadian composer and academic (b. 1916) *[[2001]] – [[Percy Stallard]], English cyclist and coach (b. 1909) *[[2002]] – [[Galen Rowell]], American photographer and mountaineer (b. 1940) *[[2003]] – [[Armand Borel]], Swiss-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923) * 2003 – [[Herb Brooks]], American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937) *[[2006]] – [[Mike Douglas]], American singer and talk show host (b. 1920) *[[2008]] – [[George Furth]], American actor and playwright (b. 1932) * 2008 – [[Dursun Karataş]], founding leader of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front (DHKP-C) in Turkey (b. 1952) *[[2009]] – [[Eunice Kennedy Shriver]], American activist, founded the [[Special Olympics]] (b. 1921) *[[2010]] – [[James Mourilyan Tanner]], British paediatric endocrinologist (b. 1920)<ref name=NYTObit>Weber, Bruce. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/science/24tanner.html "Dr. James M. Tanner, an Expert in How Children Grow, Is Dead at 90"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 23 August 2010. Retrieved 24 August 2010.</ref> *[[2012]] – [[Red Bastien]], American wrestler, trainer, and promoter (b. 1931) * 2012 – [[Michael Dokes]], American boxer (b. 1958) * 2012 – [[Lucy Gallardo]], Argentinian-Mexican actress and screenwriter (b. 1929) *[[2013]] – [[Raymond Delisle]], French cyclist (b. 1943) * 2013 – [[Zafar Futehally]], Indian ornithologist and author (b. 1919) * 2013 – [[David Howard (ballet teacher)|David Howard]], English ballet dancer and educator (b. 1937) *[[2014]] – [[Vladimir Beara]], Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1928) * 2014 – [[Raymond Gravel]], Canadian priest and politician (b. 1952) * 2014 – [[Kika Szaszkiewiczowa]], Polish author and blogger (b. 1917) * 2014 – [[Robin Williams]], American actor and comedian (b. 1951) * 2014 – [[Sam Hall (diver)|Sam Hall]], American diver, legislator, and mercenary (b. 1937)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-08-14 |title=Dayton native, Olympian Sam Hall has died {{!}} www.whio.com |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814021900/http://www.whio.com/news/news/local/dayton-native-olympian-sam-hall-has-died/ng2S8/ |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref> *[[2015]] – [[Serge Collot]], French viola player and educator (b. 1923) * 2015 – [[Harald Nielsen]], Danish footballer and manager (b. 1941) * 2015 – [[Richard Oriani]], Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (b. 1920) *[[2017]] – [[Yisrael Kristal]], Polish-Israeli supercentenarian; oldest living Holocaust survivor and one of the ten oldest men ever (b. 1903) * 2017 – [[Segun Bucknor]], Nigerian musician and journalist (b. 1946) *[[2018]] – [[V S Naipaul]], British writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1932)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/nobel-prize-winning-author-v-s-naipaul-dies-at-85|title= Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul dies at 85|date=2018-08-12}}</ref> *[[2019]] – [[Sergio Obeso Rivera]], Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1931)<ref>{{citation|newspaper=El Diario de Morelos|location=Cuernavaca|date=August 11, 2019|access-date=August 11, 2019|title=Falleció el Arzobispo Emérito, Sergio Obeso Rivera|language=es|trans-title=Archbishop Emeritus, Sergio Obeso Rivera passes away|url=https://www.diariodemorelos.com/noticias/falleci-el-arzobispo-em-rito-sergio-obeso-rivera}}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[Trini Lopez]], American singer and guitarist (b. 1937)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.onthisday.com/deaths/date/2020?p=3|title=Famous People Who Died in 2020|website=On This Day|access-date=2020-08-22}}</ref> * 2020 – [[Sumner Redstone]], American billionaire businessman (b. 1923)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://in.reuters.com/news/picture/notable-deaths-in-2020-idINRTS30YSX|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406071021/https://in.reuters.com/news/picture/notable-deaths-in-2020-idINRTS30YSX|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-06|title=Notable deaths in 2020|website=Reuters|access-date=2020-09-15}}</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Anne Heche]], American actress (b. 1969)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/anne-heche-dead-catastrophic-brain-173639562.html | title=Anne Heche Dead After Catastrophic Brain Injury | date=12 August 2022 }}</ref> * 2022 – [[Hanae Mori]], Japanese fashion designer (b. 1926)<ref>{{cite news |first1=Veronica |last1=Horwell |title=Hanae Mori obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2022/aug/23/hanae-mori-obituary |access-date=24 August 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=23 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref> *[[2023]] – [[Mike Ahern (Australian politician)|Mike Ahern]], Australian politician, 32nd [[Premier of Queensland]] (b. 1942)<ref name="abcdeath">{{Cite news |last=McKechnie and staff |first=Kirrin |date=11 August 2023 |title=Mike Ahern, former Queensland premier, dead at 81 |work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-11/former-qld-premier-mike-ahern-dead-aged-81/102718558 |access-date=11 August 2023}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Ángel Salazar]], Cuban-American comedian and actor (b. 1956)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kuznikov |first=Selena |date=2024-08-12 |title=Ángel Salazar, ‘Scarface’ Actor, Dies at 68 |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/angel-salazar-dead-scarface-1236104432/ |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> *2024 – [[Noël Treanor]], Irish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1950)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-12 |title=Archbishop Noël Treanor, Apostolic Nuncio to the EU, dies aged 73 - Vatican News |url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-08/apostolic-nuncio-to-the-eu-archbishop-noel-treanor-dies-age-73.html |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=www.vaticannews.va |language=en}}</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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