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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[756]] – [[Yang Guifei]], consort of [[Emperor Xuanzong of Tang|Xuan Zong]] (b. 719) * [[998]] – [[Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī]], Persian mathematician and astronomer (b. 940) *[[1015]] – [[Vladimir the Great]], [[Grand prince]] of [[Kievan Rus']] (b. c. 958) *[[1274]] – [[Bonaventure]], Italian bishop and saint (b. 1221) *[[1291]] – [[Rudolf I of Germany]] (b. 1218) *[[1299]] – King [[Eric II of Norway]] (b. c. 1268) *[[1381]] – [[John Ball (priest)|John Ball]], English [[Lollardy|Lollard]] priest *[[1388]] – [[Agnes of Durazzo]], titular Latin empress consort of Constantinople (b. 1313) *[[1397]] – [[Catherine of Henneberg]], German ruler (b. c. 1334) *[[1406]] – [[William, Duke of Austria]] *[[1410]] – [[Ulrich von Jungingen]], German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (b. 1360) *[[1445]] – [[Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland]] *[[1542]] – [[Lisa del Giocondo]], subject of Leonardo da Vinci's painting ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' (b. 1479) *[[1544]] – [[René of Châlon]] (b. 1519) *[[1571]] – [[Shimazu Takahisa]], Japanese daimyō (b. 1514) ===1601–1900=== *[[1609]] – [[Annibale Carracci]], Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1560) *[[1614]] – [[Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme]], French soldier, historian and author (b. 1540) *[[1655]] – [[Girolamo Rainaldi]], Italian architect (b. 1570) *[[1685]] – [[James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth]], Dutch-born English general and claimant to the throne, executed (b. 1649) *[[1750]] – [[Vasily Tatishchev]], Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1686) *[[1765]] – [[Charles-André van Loo]], French painter (b. 1705) *[[1789]] – [[Jacques Duphly]], French [[harpsichord]] player and composer (b. 1715) *[[1828]] – [[Jean-Antoine Houdon]], French sculptor (b. 1741) *[[1839]] – [[Winthrop Mackworth Praed]], English poet and politician (b. 1802) *[[1844]] – [[Claude Charles Fauriel]], French philologist and historian (b. 1772) *[[1851]] – [[Anne-Marie Javouhey]], French nun, founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny (b. 1779)<ref>{{cite book|editor-first1= Thomas|editor-last1=Carson|editor-first2=Joann|editor-last2=Cerrito|title=New Catholic encyclopedia, Volume 7|location=London|publisher=Gale|year=2003|page=748|isbn=978-0-78764-004-0}}</ref> * 1851 – [[Juan Felipe Ibarra]], Argentinian general and politician (b. 1787) *[[1857]] – [[Carl Czerny]], Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1791) *[[1858]] – [[Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov]], Russian painter (b. 1806) *[[1883]] – [[General Tom Thumb]], American circus performer (b. 1838) *[[1885]] – [[Rosalía de Castro]], Spanish author and poet (b. 1837) *[[1890]] – [[Gottfried Keller]], Swiss author, poet and playwright (b. 1819) *[[1898]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Salpointe]], French-American archbishop (b. 1825) ===1901–present=== *[[1904]] – [[Anton Chekhov]], Russian playwright and short story writer (b. [[1860]])<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anton-Chekhov | title=Anton Chekhov | Biography, Plays, Short Stories, & Facts | Britannica | date=25 January 2024 }}</ref> *[[1919]] – [[Emil Fischer]], German chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1852]])<ref>[https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1902/fischer/biographical/ Emil Fischer – Biographical.] NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2023. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1902/fischer/biographical/</ref> *[[1929]] – [[Hugo von Hofmannsthal]], Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. [[1874]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special Cable to THE NEW YORK |title=AUSTRIAN POET DIES AFTER SON'S SUICIDE; Hugo von Hoffmannsthal Succumbs to Heart Attack When Dressing for the Funeral. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/07/16/archives/austrian-poet-dies-after-sons-suicide-hugo-von-hoffmannsthal.html |access-date=17 March 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=16 July 1929}}</ref> *[[1930]] – [[Leopold Auer]], Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1845) * 1930 – [[Leonora Barry]], Irish-born American social activist (b. 1849)<ref>{{cite book|first=Eleanor|last=Fexner|chapter=Barry, Leonora Marie Kearney|editor-first=Edward T.|editor-last=James|title=Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary|volume=1|year=1971|isbn=978-0-67462-734-5|page=101}}</ref> *[[1931]] – [[Ladislaus Bortkiewicz]], Russian-German economist and mathematician (b. 1868) *[[1932]] – [[Bahíyyih Khánum]], Iranian writer and leader in the Baha'i faith (b. 1846) <ref>{{Cite book|title=Prophet's daughter : the life and legacy of Bahíyyih Khánum : outstanding heroine of the Baháʼí Faith|last=Khan|first=Janet A.|date=2005|publisher=Baháʼí Pub|isbn=1931847142|location=Wilmette, Ill.|pages=211|oclc=57531427}}</ref> * 1932 – [[Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven]], South African poet and politician (b. 1873) *[[1933]] – [[Irving Babbitt]], American scholar, critic, and academic (b. 1865) * 1933 – [[Freddie Keppard]], American cornet player (b. 1890) *[[1940]] – [[Eugen Bleuler]], Swiss psychiatrist and physician (b. 1857) * 1940 – [[Robert Wadlow]], American giant, 8"11' 271 cm (b. 1918) *[[1942]] – [[Wenceslao Vinzons]], Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1910) *[[1944]] – [[Marie-Victorin Kirouac]], Canadian botanist and academic (b. 1885) *[[1946]] – [[Razor Smith]], English cricketer and coach (b. 1877) *[[1947]] – [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]], American soldier and songwriter (b. 1893) *[[1948]] – [[John J. Pershing]], American general (b. 1860) *[[1953]] – [[Geevarghese Mar Ivanios]], Indian archbishop, founded the [[Order of the Imitation of Christ]] (b. 1882) *[[1957]] – [[James M. Cox]], American publisher and politician, 46th [[Governor of Ohio]] (b. [[1870]])<ref>{{cite web|last1=Cebula|first1=James|title=Cox, James Middleton|url=https://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-us1918-45&month=0312&msg=jQiWjjDXUqQVkOBFX4BQhw|publisher=Oxford University Press|work=[[American National Biography Online]]|access-date=1 October 2015|archive-date=29 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121229104304/http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 1957 – [[Vasily Maklakov]], a Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1869) *[[1959]] – [[Ernest Bloch]], Swiss-American composer and academic (b. 1880) * 1959 – [[Vance Palmer]], Australian author and critic (b. [[1885]])<ref name=adb>[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/palmer-edward-vivian-vance-7946 Australian Dictionary of Biography - Palmer, Edward Vivian (Vance) (1885–1959) by Geoffrey Serle]</ref> *[[1960]] – [[Set Persson]], Swedish politician (b. 1897) * 1960 – [[Lawrence Tibbett]], American singer and actor (b. 1896) *[[1961]] – [[John Edward Brownlee]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th [[Premier of Alberta]] (b. 1884) * 1961 – [[Nina Bari]], Russian mathematician (b. 1901)<ref>{{cite book | first1=Joan | last1=Spetich | first2=Douglas E. | last2=Cameron | chapter=Nina Karlovna Bari | editor-last1=Grinstein | editor-first1=Louise S. | editor-last2=Campbell | editor-first2=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=[https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/6 6] | chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/6 }}</ref> *[[1965]] – [[Francis Cherry (governor)|Francis Cherry]], American lawyer and politician, 35th [[Governor of Arkansas]] (b. 1908) *[[1966]] – [[Seyfi Arkan]], Turkish architect (b. 1903) *[[1969]] – [[Grace Hutchins]], American labor reformer and researcher (b. 1885)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Whitman |editor1-first=Alden |title=American Reformers: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary |date=1985 |publisher=H.W. Wilson Company |location=New York |isbn=9780824207052 |page=460}}</ref> *[[1974]] – [[Christine Chubbuck]], American journalist (b. [[1944]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://people.com/crime/christine-chubbuck-colleagues-recall-shock-after-on-air-suicide/ |title=Colleagues Recall Shock and Horror After Journalist Committed Suicide on Live TV: 'I Didn't See the Gun' |work=People|first=Christine |last=Pelisek |date=February 10, 2016 |access-date=November 17, 2018}}</ref> *[[1976]] – [[Paul Gallico]], American journalist and author (b. 1897) *[[1977]] – [[Donald Mackay (anti-drugs campaigner)|Donald Mackay]], Australian businessman and activist (b. 1933) *[[1979]] – [[Gustavo Díaz Ordaz]], Mexican academic and politician, 29th [[President of Mexico]] (b. 1911)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/6789/Gustavo%20Diaz%20Ordaz|title=Gustavo Díaz Ordaz|publisher=Busca Biografias |language=es|access-date=May 30, 2019}}</ref> *[[1981]] – [[Frédéric Dorion]], Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1898) *[[1982]] – [[Bill Justis]], American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1926) *[[1986]] – [[Billy Haughton]], American harness racer and trainer (b. 1923) *[[1988]] – [[Eleanor Estes]], American librarian, author, and illustrator (b. 1906) *[[1989]] – [[Laurie Cunningham]], English footballer (b. 1956) *[[1990]] – [[Zaim Topčić]], Yugoslav and Bosnian writer (b. 1920) * 1990 – [[Margaret Lockwood]], English actress (b. 1916) * 1990 – [[Omar Abu Risha]], Syrian poet and diplomat, 4th [[Ambassador of Syria to the United States|Syrian Ambassador to the United States]] (b. 1910) *[[1991]] – [[Bert Convy]], American actor, singer, and game show host (b. 1933) *[[1992]] – [[Hammer DeRoburt]], Nauruan educator and politician, 1st [[President of Nauru]] (b. 1922) * 1992 – [[Chingiz Mustafayev (journalist)|Chingiz Mustafayev]], Azerbaijani journalist and author (b. 1960) *[[1997]] – [[Justinas Lagunavičius]], Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1924) * 1997 – [[Gianni Versace]], Italian fashion designer, founded [[Versace]] (b. 1946) *[[1998]] – [[S. Shanmuganathan (Sri Lankan politician)|S. Shanmuganathan]], Sri Lankan politician (b. 1960) *[[2000]] – [[Louis Quilico]], Canadian opera singer and educator (b. 1925) *[[2001]] – [[C. Balasingham]], Sri Lankan lawyer and civil servant (b. 1917) *[[2003]] – [[Roberto Bolaño]], Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist (b. 1953) * 2003 – [[Elisabeth Welch]], American actress and singer (b. 1904) *[[2006]] – [[Robert H. Brooks]], American businessman, founder of [[Hooters]] and [[Naturally Fresh, Inc.]] (b. 1937) * 2006 – [[Alireza Shapour Shahbazi]], Iranian archaeologist and academic (b. 1942) *[[2008]] – [[György Kolonics]], Hungarian canoe racer (b. 1972) *[[2010]] – [[James E. Akins]], American politician and diplomat, [[United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia]] (b. 1926) *[[2011]] – [[Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler]], German landowner and politician (b. 1928) * 2011 – [[Googie Withers]], British-Australian actress (b. 1917) *[[2012]] – [[Boris Cebotari]], Moldovan footballer (b. 1975) * 2012 – [[Tsilla Chelton]], Israeli-French actress (b. 1919) * 2012 – [[Grant Feasel]], American football player (b. 1960) * 2012 – [[David Fraser (British Army officer)|David Fraser]], English general (b. 1920) * 2012 – [[Celeste Holm]], American actress and singer (b. 1917) * 2012 – [[Yoichi Takabayashi]], Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1931)<ref>{{cite web |title=Takabayashi Yōichi kantoku shikyo |url=http://www.47news.jp/localnews/kyoto/2012/07/post_20120716014619.html |publisher=47News |access-date=16 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130111185020/http://www.47news.jp/localnews/kyoto/2012/07/post_20120716014619.html |archive-date=11 January 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> *[[2013]] – [[Ninos Aho]], Syrian-American poet and activist (b. 1945) * 2013 – [[Henry Braden]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1944) * 2013 – [[Tom Greenwell]], American lawyer and judge (b. 1956) * 2013 – [[Earl Gros]], American football player (b. 1940) * 2013 – [[Noël Lee]], Chinese-American pianist and composer (b. 1924) * 2013 – [[Meskerem Legesse]], Ethiopian runner (b. 1986) * 2013 – [[John T. Riedl]], American computer scientist and academic (b. 1962) *[[2014]] – [[Óscar Acosta]], Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933) * 2014 – [[James MacGregor Burns]], American historian, political scientist, and author (b. 1918) * 2014 – [[Edward Perl]], American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1926) * 2014 – [[Robert A. Roe]], American soldier and politician (b. 1924) *[[2015]] – [[Masahiko Aoki]], Japanese-American economist and academic (b. 1938) * 2015 – [[Wan Li]], Chinese politician, 4th [[List of vice premiers of the People's Republic of China|Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China]] (b. 1916) * 2015 – [[Aubrey Morris]], British actor (b. 1926) * 2015 – [[Dave Somerville]], Canadian singer (b. 1933) *[[2017]] – [[Martin Landau]], American film and television actor (b. 1928) *[[2021]] – [[Peter R. de Vries]], Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter (b. 1956)<ref>{{Cite news|last=Henley|first=Jon|date=15 July 2021|title=Dutch crime reporter Peter de Vries dies after shooting|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/dutch-reporter-peter-de-vries-dies-after-shooting|access-date=22 September 2021|work=The Guardian|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. 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