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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== *[[AD 707|707]] – [[Emperor Monmu]] of Japan (b. 683) * [[715]] – [[Muhammad bin Qasim]], Umayyad general (b. 695) * [[912]] – [[Zhu Wen]], Chinese emperor (b. 852) * [[924]] – [[Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat]], Abbasid vizier (b. 855) * [[928]] – [[Stephen II of Constantinople|Stephen II]], patriarch of [[Constantinople]] * [[984]] – [[Dietrich I of Metz|Dietrich I]], bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz|Metz]]<ref name="theo">{{cite web |title=Theoderich I. von Metz |url=https://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienD/Dietrich_von_Metz.html |website=heiligenlexikon.de |access-date=30 September 2018}}</ref> *[[1100]] – [[Godfrey of Bouillon]], Frankish knight (b. 1016) *[[1185]] – [[Stefan (archbishop of Uppsala)|Stefan]], first [[Archbishop of Uppsala]] (b. before 1143) *[[1194]] – [[Guy of Lusignan]], king consort of Jerusalem (b. c. 1150) *[[1232]] – [[John de Braose]], Marcher Lord of Bramber and Gower *[[1270]] – [[Boniface of Savoy (bishop)|Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury]] *[[1300]] – [[Gerard Segarelli]], Italian religious leader, founded the [[Apostolic Brethren]] (b. 1240) *[[1450]] – [[Francis I, Duke of Brittany]] (b. 1414) *[[1488]] – [[Alvise Cadamosto]], Italian explorer (b. 1432) *[[1566]] – [[Bartolomé de las Casas]], Spanish bishop and historian (b. c.1484)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Parish |first1=Helen Rand |last2=Weidman |first2=Harold E. |title=The Correct Birthdate of Bartolomé de las Casas |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2514372 |journal=The Hispanic American Historical Review |access-date=12 July 2021 |pages=385–403 |doi=10.2307/2514372 |date=1976|volume=56 |issue=3 |jstor=2514372 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Clayton |first1=Lawrence A. |title=Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas |date=23 November 2010 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4443-9273-9 |page=150 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NP1WfJFLePsC&pg=PA150 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1591]] – [[Jacobus Gallus]], Slovenian composer (b. 1550) ===1601–1900=== *[[1608]] – [[Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg]] (b. 1546) *[[1610]] – [[Caravaggio]], Italian painter (b. 1571) *[[1639]] – [[Bernard of Saxe-Weimar]], German general (b. 1604) *[[1650]] – [[Robert Levinz]], English Royalist, hanged in London by Parliamentary forces as a spy (b. 1615)<ref>{{DNB |wstitle=Levinz, Robert |first=Emily Tennyson |last=Bradley |author-link=Emily Tennyson Bradley |volume=33 |page=161}}</ref> *[[1695]] – [[Johannes Camphuys]], Dutch politician, [[Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies]] (b. 1634) *[[1698]] – [[Johann Heinrich Heidegger]], Swiss theologian and author (b. 1633) *[[1721]] – [[Jean-Antoine Watteau]], French painter (b. 1684) *[[1730]] – [[François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy]], French general (b. 1644) *[[1756]] – [[Pieter Langendijk]], Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1683) *[[1792]] – [[John Paul Jones]], Scottish-American admiral and diplomat (b. 1747) *[[1817]] – [[Jane Austen]], English novelist (b. 1775)<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Gambino |first1=Megan |title=The Top 10 Books Lost to Time |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-top-10-books-lost-to-time-83373197/ |access-date=12 September 2023 |magazine=Smithsonian Magazine |date=19 September 2011}}</ref> *[[1837]] – [[Vincenzo Borg]], Maltese merchant and rebel leader (b. 1777) *[[1863]] – [[Robert Gould Shaw]], American colonel (b. 1837) *[[1872]] – [[Benito Juárez]], Mexican lawyer and politician, 26th [[President of Mexico]] (b. 1806) *[[1884]] – [[Ferdinand von Hochstetter]], Austrian geologist and academic (b. 1829) *[[1890]] – [[Lydia Becker]], English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the ''[[Women's Suffrage Journal]]'' (b. 1827)<ref>{{cite book|first=Michelle Elizabeth|last=Tusan|title=Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain|location=Urbana|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2005|page=263|isbn=978-0-2520-3015-4}}</ref> *[[1892]] – [[Thomas Cook]], English travel agent, founded the [[Thomas Cook Group]] (b. 1808)<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Cook {{!}} British businessman {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Cook |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=11 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1899]] – [[Horatio Alger]], American novelist and journalist (b. 1832) ===1901–present=== *[[1916]] – [[Benjamin C. Truman]], American journalist and author (b. 1835) *[[1925]] – [[Louis-Nazaire Bégin]], Canadian cardinal (b. 1840) *[[1932]] – [[Jean Jules Jusserand]], French author and diplomat, [[List of French ambassadors to the United States|French Ambassador to the United States]] (b. 1855) *[[1937]] – [[Julian Bell]], English poet and academic (b. 1908) *[[1938]] – [[Marie of Romania]] (b. 1875)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pakula |first1=Hannah |title=The Last Romantic |date=1985 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |location=New York |isbn=0671463640 |page=418}}</ref> *[[1944]] – [[Thomas Sturge Moore]], English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1870) *[[1947]] – [[Evald Tipner]], Estonian footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1906) *[[1948]] – [[Herman Gummerus]], Finnish historian, academic, and politician (b. 1877) *[[1949]] – [[Vítězslav Novák]], Czech composer and educator (b. 1870) * 1949 – [[Francisco Javier Arana]], Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (b. 1905) *[[1950]] – [[Carl Clinton Van Doren]], American critic and biographer (b. 1885) *[[1952]] – [[Paul Saintenoy]], Belgian architect and historian (b. 1862) *[[1954]] – [[Machine Gun Kelly (gangster)|Machine Gun Kelly]], American gangster (b. 1895) *[[1966]] – [[Bobby Fuller]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942) *[[1968]] – [[Corneille Heymans]], Belgian physiologist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1892) *[[1969]] – [[Mary Jo Kopechne]], American educator and secretary (b. 1940) *[[1973]] – [[Jack Hawkins]], English actor (b. 1910) *[[1975]] – [[Vaughn Bodē]], American illustrator (b. 1941) *[[1981]] – [[Sonja Branting-Westerståhl]], Swedish lawyer (b. 1890)<ref>{{cite book|last=Harnesk|first=Paul|title=Vem är Vem?|location=Stockholm|publisher=Vem är Vem Bokförlag|year=1945|url=https://runeberg.org/vemarvem/sthlm45/0131.html|access-date=6 September 2019}}</ref> *[[1982]] – [[Roman Jakobson]], Russian–American linguist and theorist (b. 1896) *[[1984]] – [[Lally Bowers]], English actress (b. 1914) * 1984 – [[Grigori Kromanov]], Estonian director and screenwriter (b. 1926) *[[1987]] – [[Gilberto Freyre]], Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (b. 1907) *[[1988]] – [[Nico]], German singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actress (b. 1938) * 1988 – [[Joly Braga Santos]], Portuguese composer and conductor (b. 1924) *[[1989]] – [[Donnie Moore]], American baseball player (b. 1954) * 1989 – [[Rebecca Schaeffer]], American model and actress (b. 1967)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.franksreelreviews.com/shorttakes/shaeffer/shaeffer.htm|last=Williams|first=Frank|title=The Stalking Death that Changed the Law: Rebecca Schaeffer Never Lived to Realize Her Success|website=frankseelreviews.com|access-date=20 July 2019}}</ref> *[[1990]] – [[Karl Menninger]], American psychiatrist and author (b. 1896) * 1990 – [[Yun Posun]], South Korean politician, 2nd [[President of South Korea]] (b. 1897) *[[2001]] – [[Mimi Fariña]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945) *[[2002]] – [[Metin Toker]], Turkish journalist and author (b. 1924) *[[2004]] – [[André Castelot]], Belgian-French historian and author (b. 1911) * 2004 – [[Émile Peynaud]], French wine maker (b. 1912) *[[2005]] – [[Amy Gillett]], Australian cyclist and rower (b. 1976) * 2005 – [[William Westmoreland]], American general (b. 1914) *[[2006]] – [[Henry Hewes (critic)|Henry Hewes]], American theater writer (b. 1917)<ref>{{cite news |title=Henry Hewes, Theater Critic, 89, Is Dead|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Isherwood, Charles|author-link=Charles Isherwood|date=July 20, 2006|access-date=March 11, 2020| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/20/theater/20hewes.html?ex=1311048000&en=b9f130d20a9f31a3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss}}</ref> *[[2007]] – [[Jerry Hadley]], American tenor (b. 1952) * 2007 – [[Kenji Miyamoto (politician)|Kenji Miyamoto]], Japanese politician (b. 1908) *[[2009]] – [[Henry Allingham]], English soldier (b. 1896)<ref>{{cite web |title=Henry William Allingham, 6 June 1896 - 18 July 2009 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/entries/7e185c19-18d1-3267-a230-705aa674f52a |website=BBC |access-date=11 January 2020 |language=en |date=19 July 2009}}</ref> * 2009 – [[Jill Balcon]], English actress (b. 1925) *[[2012]] – [[Yosef Shalom Eliashiv]], Lithuanian-Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1910) * 2012 – [[Jean François-Poncet]], French politician and diplomat, [[Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (France)|French Minister of Foreign Affairs]] (b. 1928) * 2012 – [[Dawoud Rajiha]], Syrian general and politician, [[Ministry of Defense (Syria)|Syrian Minister of Defense]] (b. 1947) * 2012 – [[Assef Shawkat]], Syrian general and politician (b. 1950) * 2012 – [[Hasan Turkmani]], Syrian general and politician, [[Ministry of Defense (Syria)|Syrian Minister of Defense]] (b. 1935) * 2012 – [[Rajesh Khanna]], Indian actor (b. 1942) *[[2013]] – [[Vaali (poet)|Vaali]], Indian poet, songwriter, and actor (b. 1931) * 2013 – [[Olivier Ameisen]], French-American cardiologist and academic (b. 1953) *[[2014]] – [[Andreas Biermann]], German footballer (b. 1980) * 2014 – [[João Ubaldo Ribeiro]], Brazilian journalist, author, and academic (b. 1941) * 2014 – [[Dietmar Schönherr]], Austrian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926) *[[2015]] – [[Alex Rocco]], American actor (b. 1936) *[[2018]] – [[Jonathan Gold]], American food critic (b. 1960)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/notable-deaths-in-2018/2/|title= Notable deaths in 2018 : Jonathan Gold|newspaper=CBS News|access-date=August 11, 2018}}</ref> * 2018 – [[Adrian Cronauer]], American radio personality (b. 1938)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/notable-deaths-in-2018/4/|title= Notable deaths in 2018 : Adrian Cronauer|newspaper=CBS News|access-date=August 13, 2018 }}</ref> *[[2021]] – [[Tom O'Connor (comedian)|Tom O'Connor]], English comedian (b. 1939)<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Shafer|first1=Ellise|date=2021-07-18|title=Tom O'Connor, Comedian and Veteran Game Show Host, Dies at 81|url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/tom-oconnor-dead-dies-comedian-game-show-host-1235022362/|access-date=2021-07-19|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|language=en-US}}</ref> *[[2023]] – [[Oommen Chandy]], Indian politician, former [[Chief Minister of Kerala]] (b. 1943)<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 July 2023 |title=Oommen Chandy's death due to complications from cancer |language=en |newspaper=Deccan Herald |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/national/south/oommen-chandys-death-due-to-complications-from-cancer-1238193.html |access-date=18 July 2023}}</ref> * [[2024]] – [[Lou Dobbs]], American political commentator and television host (b. 1945)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjjwy5dxdy2o|title= Former US news anchor Lou Dobbs dies at 78|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=July 19, 2024}}</ref> * 2024 – [[Abner Haynes]], American football player (b. 1937)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-19 |title=Ex-AFL MVP, Chiefs star RB Haynes dies at 86 |url=https://www.espn.ph/nfl/story/_/id/40593994/chiefs-hall-famer-abner-haynes-1960-afl-mvp-dies-86 |access-date=2024-07-23 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}</ref> * 2024 – [[Bob Newhart]], American comedian and actor (b. 1929)<ref>{{cite web |last=Barnes |first=Mike |date=July 18, 2024 |title=Bob Newhart, Dean of the Deadpan Delivery, Dies at 94 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/bob-newhart-dead-sitcom-legend-1235952438/ |accessdate=July 18, 2024 |publisher=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref> <!-- Do not add yourself or other people without Wikipedia articles to this list. 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