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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[353]] – [[Decentius]], Roman usurper * [[440]] – [[Pope Sixtus III]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hughes |first1=Philip |title=History of the Church: Volume 2: The Church In The World The Church Created: Augustine To Aquinas |date=1 January 1979 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-7220-7982-9 |page=447 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OiTUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA447 |language=en}}</ref> * [[472]] – [[Ricimer]], Roman general and politician (b. 405) * [[670]] – [[Saint Fiacre|Fiacre]], Irish [[Recluse|hermit]] * [[673]] – [[Kim Yu-shin]], general of [[Silla]] (b. 595) * [[849]] – [[Walafrid Strabo]], German monk and theologian (b. 808) *[[AD 911|911]] – [[Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya]], first [[Zaydi]] [[Imam of Yemen]] (b. 859)<ref>{{EI2|volume=12|last=Madelung|first=W.|authorlink=Wilferd Madelung|title=al-Ḥādī Ila ’l-Ḥaḳḳ|pages=334–335|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_8582}}</ref> *[[1095]] – King [[Olaf I of Denmark]] *[[1211]] – [[Narapatisithu]], king of Burma (b. 1150) *[[1258]] – [[Theodore II Laskaris]], emperor of Nicea ([[Byzantine emperor]] in exile) *[[1276]] – [[Pope Adrian V]] (b. 1220) *[[1318]] – [[Clare of Montefalco]], Italian nun and saint (b. 1268) *[[1430]] – [[Thomas de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros]], English soldier and politician (b. 1406) *[[1500]] – [[Alfonso of Aragon (1481–1500)|Alfonso of Aragon]], Spanish prince (b. 1481) *[[1502]] – [[Knut Alvsson]], Norwegian nobleman and politician (b. 1455) *[[1503]] – [[Pope Alexander VI]] (b. 1431) *[[1550]] – [[Antonio Ferramolino]], Italian architect and military engineer *[[1559]] – [[Pope Paul IV]] (b. 1476)<ref>{{cite web |title=Paul IV {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-IV |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=13 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1563]] – [[Étienne de La Boétie]], French judge and philosopher (b. 1530) *[[1600]] – [[Sebastiano Montelupi]], Italian businessman (b. 1516) ===1601–1900=== *[[1613]] – [[Giovanni Artusi]], Italian composer and theorist (b. 1540) *[[1620]] – [[Wanli Emperor]] of China (b. 1563) *[[1625]] – [[Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche]], English diplomat (b. 1556) *[[1634]] – [[Urbain Grandier]], French priest (b. 1590) *[[1642]] – [[Guido Reni]], Italian painter and educator (b. 1575) *[[1648]] – [[Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire]] (b. 1615) *[[1683]] – [[Charles Hart (17th-century actor)|Charles Hart]], English actor (b. 1625) *[[1707]] – [[William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire]], English soldier and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire]] (b. 1640) *[[1712]] – [[Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers]], English general and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Essex]] (b. 1660) *[[1765]] – [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. 1708) *[[1815]] – [[Chauncey Goodrich]], American lawyer and politician, 8th [[Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut]] (b. 1759) *[[1823]] – [[André-Jacques Garnerin]], French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (b. 1769) *[[1842]] – [[Louis de Freycinet]], French explorer and navigator (b. 1779) *[[1850]] – [[Honoré de Balzac]], French novelist and playwright (b. 1799) *[[1852]] – [[James Finlayson (industrialist)|James Finlayson]], Scottish [[Quaker]] (b. 1772)<ref>Brian D. J. Denoon: ''Finlayson, James (1772–1852)'', [[ODNB|Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004.</ref> *[[1886]] – [[Eli Whitney Blake]], American inventor, invented the [[Mortise lock]] (b. 1795) ===1901–present=== *[[1919]] – [[Joseph E. Seagram]], Canadian businessman and politician, founded the [[Seagram|Seagram Company]] (b. 1841) *[[1940]] – [[Walter Chrysler]], American businessman, founded [[Chrysler]] (b. 1875) *[[1942]] – [[Erwin Schulhoff]], Austro-Czech composer and pianist (b. 1894)<ref name="Ross">{{cite book |last=Ross |first=Alex |date=2008 |title=The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers]] |isbn=978-0-312-42771-9 |page=363 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u_g_uPZO-tkC&pg=PA363}}</ref> *[[1943]] – [[Ali-Agha Shikhlinski]], Azerbaijani general (b. 1865) *[[1944]] – [[Ernst Thälmann]], German soldier and politician (b. 1886) *[[1945]] – [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], Indian activist and politician (b. 1897) *[[1946]] – [[Che Yaoxian]], Chinese communist (b. 1894)<ref name="Annals">{{Cite web |url=http://scdfz.sc.gov.cn/scyx/scrw/scszrwz/content_8060 |script-title=zh:罗世文 |trans-title=Luo Shiwen |language=Chinese |work=Sichuan Annals |date=7 December 2017 |publisher=Sichuan Provincial Government |accessdate=18 October 2024 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20241018114343/http://scdfz.sc.gov.cn/scyx/scrw/scszrwz/content_8060 |archivedate=18 October 2024 }}</ref> * 1946 – [[Luo Shiwen]], Chinese communist (b. 1904)<ref name="Annals"/> *[[1949]] – [[Paul Mares]], American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1900) *[[1950]] – [[Julien Lahaut]], Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884) *[[1952]] – [[Alberto Hurtado]], Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901) *[[1961]] – [[Learned Hand]], American lawyer, jurist, and philosopher (b. 1872)<ref>{{citation |last=Gunther |first=Gerald |title=Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge |year=1994 |publisher=Knopf |place=New York |isbn=978-0-394-58807-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/learnedhandmanan00gunt}} </ref> *[[1964]] – [[Hildegard Trabant]], [[Berlin Wall]] [[List of deaths at the Berlin Wall|victim]] (b. 1927) *[[1968]] – [[Arthur Marshall (composer)|Arthur Marshall]], American pianist and composer (b. 1881) *[[1975]] – [[Odd Lindbäck-Larsen]], Norwegian Army general and war historian (b. 1897)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Odd Lindbäck-Larsen |first1=Aksel Schreiner |last1=Brakestad |first2=Dag |last2=Leraand |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |date=23 August 2023 |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Odd_Lindbäck-Larsen |language=no|access-date=15 March 2024}}</ref> *[[1979]] – [[Vasantrao Naik]], Indian politician (b. 1913) *[[1981]] – [[Anita Loos]], American author and screenwriter (b. 1889) *[[1983]] – [[Nikolaus Pevsner]], German-English historian and scholar (b. 1902) *[[1986]] – [[Harun Babunagari]], Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist (b. 1902)<ref name="m.dailyinqilab.com">{{Cite news |last=Pratibedak |first=Nijaswa |date=4 October 2016 |script-title=bn:ওলিয়ে কামেল হযরত মাওলানা হারুন বাবুনগরী রহ.|url=https://www.dailyinqilab.com/article/41021/%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A4-%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%80-%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B9 |work=[[Daily Inqilab]] |language=bn |access-date=2020-07-23}}</ref> *[[1990]] – [[B. F. Skinner]], American psychologist and philosopher, invented the [[Skinner box]] (b. 1904) *[[1994]] – [[Francis Raymond Shea]], American bishop (b. 1913) *[[1998]] – [[Persis Khambatta]], Indian model and actress, [[Femina Miss India|Femina Miss India 1965]] (b. 1948)<ref>{{cite news |title='Star Trek' actress Persis Khambatta, 49 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5AxbAAAAIBAJ&pg=5217,917115&dq=persis+khambatta+miss+india |access-date=July 13, 2018 |work=Bangor Daily News |date=August 20, 1998}}</ref> *[[2001]] – [[David Peakall]], English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931) *[[2002]] – [[Dean Riesner]], American actor and screenwriter (b. 1918) *[[2003]] – [[Tony Jackson (singer)|Tony Jackson]], English singer and bassist (b. 1938) *[[2004]] – [[Elmer Bernstein]], American composer and conductor (b. 1922) * 2004 – [[Hiram Fong]], American soldier and politician (b. 1906) *[[2005]] – [[Chri$ Ca$h]], American wrestler (b. 1982) *[[2006]] – [[Ken Kearney]], Australian rugby player (b. 1924) *[[2007]] – [[Michael Deaver]], American soldier and politician, [[White House Deputy Chief of Staff]] (b. 1938) * 2007 – [[Magdalen Nabb]], English author (b. 1947) *[[2009]] – [[Kim Dae-jung]], South Korean lieutenant and politician, 15th [[President of South Korea]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1925) * 2009 – [[Rose Friedman]], Ukrainian-American economist and author (b. 1910) * 2009 – [[Robert Novak]], American journalist and author (b. 1931) *[[2010]] – [[Hal Connolly]], American hammer thrower and coach (b. 1931) * 2010 – [[Benjamin Kaplan]], American scholar and jurist (b. 1911) *[[2012]] – [[Harrison Begay]], American painter (b. 1917) * 2012 – [[John Kovatch]], American football player (b. 1920) * 2012 – [[Scott McKenzie]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939) * 2012 – [[Ra. Ki. Rangarajan]], Indian journalist and author (b. 1927) * 2012 – [[Jesse Robredo]], Filipino public servant and politician, 23rd [[Secretary of the Interior and Local Government]] (b. 1958) *[[2013]] – [[Josephine D'Angelo]], American baseball player (b. 1924) * 2013 – [[Jean Kahn]], French lawyer and activist (b. 1929) * 2013 – [[Albert Murray (writer)|Albert Murray]], American author and critic (b. 1916) *[[2014]] – [[Gordon Faber]], American soldier and politician, 39th [[List of mayors of Hillsboro, Oregon|Mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon]] (b. 1930) * 2014 – [[Jim Jeffords]], American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1934) * 2014 – [[Levente Lengyel]], Hungarian chess player (b. 1933) * 2014 – [[Don Pardo]], American radio and television announcer (b. 1918) *[[2015]] – [[Khaled al-Asaad]], Syrian archaeologist and author (b. 1932) * 2015 – [[Roger Smalley]], English-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1943) * 2015 – [[Suvra Mukherjee]], Wife of former Indian president [[Pranab Mukherjee]] (b. 1940) * 2015 – [[Louis Stokes]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1925) * 2015 – [[Bud Yorkin]], American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926) *[[2016]] – [[Ernst Nolte]], German historian (b. 1923) *[[2017]] – [[Bruce Forsyth]], English television presenter and entertainer (b. 1928) * 2017 – [[Zoe Laskari]], Greek actress and beauty pageant winner (b. 1944) *[[2018]] – [[Denis Edozie]], Nigerian Supreme Court judge (b. 1935)<ref>{{cite news |title=Former Justice of the Supreme Court, Denis Edozie, is dead |url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/280696-former-justice-of-the-supreme-court-denis-edozie-is-dead.html |access-date=28 December 2019 |publisher=PREMIUM TIMES |date=18 August 2018}}</ref> * 2018 – [[Kofi Annan]], Ghanaian diplomat and seventh [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]] (b. 1938)<ref name=BBC>{{Cite news|date=2018-08-18|title=Kofi Annan, former UN chief, dies at 80|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45232892|access-date=2022-04-15}}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[Ben Cross]], English stage and film actor (b. 1947) *[[2023]] – [[Lolita (orca)|Lolita]], the second-oldest [[orca]] in captivity (b. ca. 1966)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/orca-death-lolita-seaquarium-007e82ed0afb5cb44fa686188963efb2|title=Lolita the orca dies at Miami Seaquarium after half-century in captivity|date=18 August 2023|website=apnews.com}}</ref> * 2023 – [[Al Quie]], American politician, 35th [[Governor of Minnesota]] (b. 1923)<ref name="startribune1">{{cite web | url=https://www.startribune.com/former-minnesota-gov-al-quie-dies-at-age-99/600298294/ | author=Emma Nelson | date=August 19, 2023 | website=Minneapolis Star Tribune | title=Former Minnesota Governor Al Quie Dies at Age 99}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Ruth Johnson Colvin]], American author and educator, founded [[ProLiteracy Worldwide]] (b. 1916)<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 19, 2024 |title=Ruth Johnson Colvin, who founded Literacy Volunteers of America, has died at 107 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ruth-johnson-colvin-founded-literacy-volunteers-america-died-112960561 |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=ABC News |language=en}}</ref> *2024 – [[Alain Delon]], French-Swiss actor (b. 1935)<ref>[https://www.lefigaro.fr/cinema/alain-delon-la-legende-du-cinema-est-mort-20240818 Alain Delon, la légende du cinéma, est mort]{{in lang|fr}}</ref> *2024 – [[Phil Donahue]], American talk show host and producer (b. 1935)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-19 |title=Phil Donahue, talk show host pioneer and husband of Marlo Thomas, dies at 88 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/phil-donahue-talk-show-host-pioneer-dies-rcna129601 |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref> <!-- Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. 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