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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== *[[30 BC]] – [[Cleopatra]], Egyptian queen (b. 69 BC) * [[792]] – [[Jænberht]], archbishop of Canterbury * [[875]] – [[Louis II of Italy|Louis II]], Holy Roman Emperor (b. 825) * [[960]] – [[Li Gu (Later Zhou)|Li Gu]], chancellor of Later Zhou (b. 903) * [[961]] – [[Li Jing (Southern Tang)|Yuan Zong]], emperor of Southern Tang (b. 916) *[[1222]] – [[Vladislaus III, Duke of Bohemia|Vladislaus III]], duke of Bohemia *[[1295]] – [[Charles Martel of Anjou|Charles Martel]], king of Hungary (b. 1271) *[[1319]] – [[Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria|Rudolf I]], duke of Bavaria (b. 1274) *[[1315]] – [[Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick]], English nobleman *[[1335]] – [[Prince Moriyoshi]], Japanese shōgun (b. 1308) *[[1399]] – [[Demetrius I Starshy]], Prince of Trubczewsk (in battle) (b. 1327) *[[1424]] – [[Yongle Emperor|Yongle]], emperor of the Ming Empire (b. 1360) *[[1484]] – [[Pope Sixtus IV|Sixtus IV]], pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1414)<ref>{{cite web |title=Sixtus IV {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sixtus-IV |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=26 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1546]] – [[Francisco de Vitoria]], Spanish theologian (b. 1492) *[[1577]] – [[Thomas Smith (diplomat)|Thomas Smith]], English scholar and diplomat (b. 1513) *[[1588]] – [[Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder]], Italian-English composer (b. 1543) ===1601–1900=== *[[1602]] – [[Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak]], Mughal vizier and historian (b. 1551) *[[1612]] – [[Giovanni Gabrieli]], Italian organist and composer (b. 1557) *[[1638]] – [[Johannes Althusius]], German jurist and philosopher (b. 1557) *[[1674]] – [[Philippe de Champaigne]], Belgian-French painter and educator (b. 1602) *[[1689]] – [[Pope Innocent XI]] (b. 1611) *[[1778]] – [[Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven]], English general and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire]] (b. 1714) *[[1809]] – [[Mikhail Kamensky]], Russian field marshal (b. 1738) *[[1810]] – [[Étienne Louis Geoffroy]], French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725) *[[1822]] – [[Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh]], Irish-English politician, [[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (UK)|Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]] (b. 1769) *[[1827]] – [[William Blake]], English poet and painter (b. 1757)<ref>{{cite web |title=William Blake |url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/william-blake/ |website=Westminster Abbey |access-date=27 August 2024 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1829]] – [[Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie]], French general (b. 1760) *[[1848]] – [[George Stephenson]], English engineer and academic (b. 1781) *[[1849]] – [[Albert Gallatin]], Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]] (b. 1761) *[[1861]] – [[Eliphalet Remington]], American inventor and businessman, founded [[Remington Arms]] (b. 1793) *[[1864]] – [[Sakuma Shōzan]], Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811) *[[1865]] – [[William Jackson Hooker]], English botanist and academic (b. 1785) *[[1891]] – [[James Russell Lowell]], American poet and critic (b. 1819) *[[1896]] – [[Thomas Chamberlain (soldier)|Thomas Chamberlain]], American colonel (b. 1841) *[[1900]] – [[Wilhelm Steinitz]], Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836) ===1901–present=== *[[1901]] – [[Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld]], Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832) *[[1904]] – [[William Renshaw]], English tennis player (b. 1861) *[[1914]] – [[John Philip Holland]], Irish engineer, designed {{HMS|Holland 1}} (b. 1840) *[[1918]] – [[William Thompson (archer)|William Thompson]], American archer (b. 1848) *[[1921]] – [[Pyotr Boborykin]], Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836) *[[1922]] – [[Arthur Griffith]], Irish journalist and politician, 3rd [[President of Dáil Éireann]] (b. 1871) *[[1924]] – [[Sándor Bródy (writer)|Sándor Bródy]], Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1863) *[[1928]] – [[Leoš Janáček]], Czech composer and educator (b. 1854) *[[1934]] – [[Hendrik Petrus Berlage]], Dutch architect, designed the [[Beurs van Berlage]] (b. 1856) *[[1935]] – [[Friedrich Schottky]], German mathematician and academic (b. 1851) *[[1940]] – [[Nikolai Triik]], Estonian painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1884) *[[1941]] – [[Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon]], English soldier and politician, 56th [[Governor General of Canada]] (b. 1866) * 1941 – [[Bobby Peel]], English cricketer and umpire (b. 1857) *[[1943]] – [[Vittorio Sella]], Italian photographer and mountaineer (b. 1859) *[[1944]] – [[Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.]], American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1915) * 1944 – [[Jacques Pellegrin]], French [[Zoology|zoologist]] (b. 1873)<ref>[http://www.kmae-journal.org/articles/kmae/pdf/1944/04/kmae194413504.pdf KMAE Journal] Bull. Fr. Piscic. (1944) 135 : 94–96 DOI: 10.1051/kmae:1944004</ref> *[[1952]] – [[David Bergelson]], Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1884) *[[1955]] – [[Thomas Mann]], German author and critic, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1875) * 1955 – [[James B. Sumner]], American chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1887) *[[1959]] – [[Mike O'Neill (baseball)|Mike O'Neill]], Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877) *[[1964]] – [[Ian Fleming]], English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)<ref>{{cite web |title=Ian Fleming {{!}} Biography, Novels, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ian-Fleming |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=9 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1966]] – [[Artur Alliksaar]], Estonian poet and author (b. 1923) *[[1967]] – [[Esther Forbes]], American historian and author (b. 1891)<ref>{{cite book|last=Kingman|first=Lee|chapter=Forbes, Esther|editor-first=D.L.|editor-last=Kirkpatrick|title=Twentieth-century Children's Writers|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=1978|isbn=978-0-33323-414-3|page=466}}</ref> *[[1973]] – [[Walter Rudolf Hess]], Swiss physiologist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1881) * 1973 – [[Karl Ziegler]], German chemist and engineer, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1898) *[[1976]] – [[Tom Driberg]], British politician/journalist (b. 1905)<ref name= Hines>{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31047|title= Tom Driberg|last=Davenport-Hines|first=Richard|year=2004|doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/31047|access-date=12 February 2010}}{{subscription required}}</ref> *[[1978]] – [[John Williams (motorcyclist)|John Williams]], English motorcycle racer (b. 1946) *[[1979]] – [[Ernst Boris Chain]], German-Irish biochemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1906) *[[1982]] – [[Henry Fonda]], American actor (b. 1905) * 1982 – [[Salvador Sánchez]], Mexican boxer (b. 1959) *[[1983]] – [[Theodor Burchardi]], German admiral (b. 1892) *[[1984]] – [[Ladi Kwali]], Nigerian potter (b. 1925)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thistrend.com.ng/2017/03/15-facts-about-ladi-kwali-pottery-woman.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317101452/http://www.thistrend.com.ng/2017/03/15-facts-about-ladi-kwali-pottery-woman.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2017-03-17|title=15 Facts about Ladi Kwali: The Pottery Woman on N20 Note – ThisTrend Blog|date=2017-03-17|access-date=2018-08-06}}</ref> *[[1985]] – [[Kyu Sakamoto]], Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1941) * 1985 – [[Manfred Winkelhock]], German race car driver (b. 1951) *[[1986]] – [[Evaline Ness]], American author and illustrator (b. 1911) *[[1988]] – [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]], American painter (b. 1960) *[[1989]] – [[Aimo Koivunen]], Finnish soldier and corporal (b. 1917)<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.sotapolku.fi/henkilot/koivunen_aimo-allan_1917-11-14_alastaro/|title= Aimo Allan Koivunen|author=<!--Not stated--> |date= 2016|website= www.sotapolku.fi|publisher= |access-date= 19 October 2018|language=fi}}</ref> * 1989 – [[William Shockley]], American physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1910) *[[1990]] – [[Dorothy Mackaill]], English-American actress (b. 1903) *[[1992]] – [[John Cage]], American composer and theorist (b. 1912) *[[1996]] – [[Victor Ambartsumian]], Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1908) * 1996 – [[Mark Gruenwald]], American author and illustrator (b. 1953) *[[1997]] – [[Jack Delano]], American photographer and composer (b. 1914) *[[1999]] – [[Jean Drapeau]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th [[Mayor of Montreal]] (b. 1916) *[[2000]] – [[Gennady Lyachin]], Russian captain (b. 1955) * 2000 – [[Loretta Young]], American actress (b. 1913)<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC News {{!}} Americas {{!}} Elegant beauty Loretta Young dies |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/849409.stm |website=news.bbc.co.uk |access-date=26 June 2020}}</ref> *[[2002]] – [[Enos Slaughter]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1916) *[[2004]] – [[Godfrey Hounsfield]], English biophysicist and engineer, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1919) *[[2005]] – [[John Loder (sound engineer)|John Loder]], English sound engineer and producer, founded [[Southern Studios]] (b. 1946) *[[2006]] – [[Victoria Gray Adams]], American civil rights activist (b. 1926) *[[2007]] – [[Merv Griffin]], American actor, singer, and producer, created ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' and ''[[Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' (b. 1925) * 2007 – [[Mike Wieringo]], American author and illustrator (b. 1963) *[[2008]] – [[Christie Allen]], English-Australian singer (b. 1954) * 2008 – [[Helge Hagerup]], Norwegian playwright, poet and novelist (b. 1933) *[[2009]] – [[Les Paul]], American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1915) *[[2010]] – [[Isaac Bonewits]], American [[Druid]], author, and activist; founded [[Ár nDraíocht Féin]] (b. 1949) * 2010 – [[Guido de Marco]], Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th [[President of Malta]] (b. 1931) * 2010 – [[Richie Hayward]], American drummer and songwriter (b. 1946) * 2010 – [[André Kim]], South Korean fashion designer (b. 1935) *[[2011]] – [[Robert Robinson (broadcaster)|Robert Robinson]], English journalist and author (b. 1927) *[[2012]] – [[Jimmy Carr (American football)|Jimmy Carr]], American football player and coach (b. 1933) * 2012 – [[Jerry Grant]], American race car driver (b. 1935) * 2012 – [[Joe Kubert]], Polish-American illustrator, founded [[The Kubert School]] (b. 1926) * 2012 – [[Édgar Morales Pérez]], Mexican engineer and politician * 2012 – [[Alf Morris]], English politician and activist (b. 1928)<ref>{{cite web |title=Lord Morris of Manchester obituary {{!}} Politics |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/aug/14/lord-morris-of-manchester |website=The Guardian |access-date=27 February 2021}}</ref> *[[2013]] – [[Tereza de Arriaga]], Portuguese painter (b. 1915) * 2013 – [[Hans-Ekkehard Bob]], German soldier and pilot (b. 1917) * 2013 – [[Pauline Maier]], American historian and academic (b. 1938) * 2013 – [[David McLetchie]], Scottish lawyer and politician (b. 1952) * 2013 – [[Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov]], Russian ecologist and journalist (b. 1930) *[[2014]] – [[Lauren Bacall]], American model, actress, and singer (b. 1924) * 2014 – [[Futatsuryū Jun'ichi]], Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1950) * 2014 – [[Kongō Masahiro]], Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1948) *[[2015]] – [[Jaakko Hintikka]], Finnish philosopher and academic (b. 1929) * 2015 – [[Stephen Lewis (actor)|Stephen Lewis]], English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926) * 2015 – [[Meshulim Feish Lowy]], Hungarian-Canadian rabbi and author (b. 1921) * 2015 – [[John Scott (organist)|John Scott]], English organist and conductor (b. 1956) *[[2016]] – [[Juan Pedro de Miguel]], Spanish handball player (b. 1958) *[[2017]] – [[Bryan Murray (ice hockey)|Bryan Murray]], Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1942) *[[2019]] – [[DJ Arafat]], Ivorian DJ and singer (b. 1986) *[[2020]] – [[Bill Yeoman]], American college football player and coach (b. 1927)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.onthisday.com/deaths/date/2020/august|title=Famous People Who Died in August 2020|website=On This Day|date=August 2020 |access-date=2020-08-23}}</ref> *[[2021]] – [[Una Stubbs]], English actress, TV personality, and dancer (b. 1937)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Chung|first=Gabrielle|date=2021-08-12|title=Sherlock Actress Una Stubbs Dies at 84: 'What a Talent'|url=https://people.com/tv/sherlock-actress-una-stubbs-dead/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814202922/https://people.com/tv/sherlock-actress-una-stubbs-dead/|archive-date=2021-08-14|access-date=2021-08-20|website=[[People (magazine)|People]]|language=en}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Kim Kahana]], American actor and stunt performer (b. 1929)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barnes |first=Mike |date=2024-08-13 |title=Kim Kahana, Stuntman Who Starred in 'Danger Island' and Doubled for Charles Bronson, Dies at 94 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kim-kahana-dead-stuntman-danger-island-charles-bronson-1235973467/ |access-date=2024-08-18 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref> <!-- Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. 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