Historical Deaths

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - December 23, 2024

1959 Edward FLW Halifax, English viscount/viceroy of India, dies at 78

1908 Eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72

1938 Robert Herrick, US writer (Chimes), dies at 70

1116 Ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies

1939 Anthony H G Fokker, Dutch airplane builder (Spider), dies at 49

1959 Lord Irwin, ambassador to US (1940-46), dies at 78

1975 Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead

1982 Jack Webb, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet), dies of a heart attack at 62

1985 James Vance (20) & Raymond Belknap (18), commit suicide, sparking their families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages

1967 Karen Verne, actress (Ships of Fools, Underground), dies at 49

1962 Luis Alberni, actor (Topaze), dies at 76

1995 David Land, impressario, dies at 77

1502 Margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57

0918 Conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies

1995 Gabrielle Keiller, collector/golfer, dies at 87

1997 Keith Bentley, international racing cyclist, dies at 72

1994 Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor (High Season, Ace of Spades), dies at 89

1973 Arthur Richardson, cricketer (9 Tests 1924-26), dies

1992 Eddie Hazel, US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-Knee Deep), dies at 42

1991 Byron Q Griffith, producer/actor, dies at 73

1994 Didier Rocher, son of French cosmetic maker Yves Rocher, dies at 41

1959 Lester Lonergan Jr, actor (Growing Paynes), dies at 65

1696 Johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60

1997 Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist, dies at 90

1966 Robert Keith, actor (Battle Circus, Men in War), dies at 68

1950 Vincenzo Tommasini, composer, dies at 72

1812 Michel Delalande, composer, dies at 73

1996 Ronnie Scott, musician/club-owner, dies at 69

1915 Roland Leighton, dies at 20

1588 Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37

1982 Norman Dinnerstein, composer, dies at 45

1619 Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47

1951 Alfreds Kalnins, composer, dies at 72

1688 Jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21

1891 Holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81

1976 Frank Forest, actor (Big Broadcast of 1937, Champagne Waltz), dies

1789 Charles-Michel abb‚ de l'Ep‚‚, (school for the deaf), dies at 77

1997 Stanlye Cortez, cinematographer, dies at 89

1971 Carlo Jachino, composer, dies at 84

1993 Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom, actress, shot to death at about 92

1925 A S C Wallis, [AdЉle von Antal-Opzoomer], writer (Vorstengunst), dies

1972 Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder, dies at 84

1943 Theo[dorus J] Thijssen, Dutch writer (Kees de Jongen), dies at 64

1569 St Philip, metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible

1995 Patric Reginald Lawrence Knowles, actor (Chisum, Mutiny), dies at 84

1948 Hideki Tojo, Japan PM (1941-44) & 6 Japs, hanged for war crimes at 64

1967 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, head of 1st Zen Institute of America, dies at 75

1908 Fran‡ois A Gevaert, Belg/Dutch composer (Diable au Moulin), dies at 68

0558 Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62

1976 Walter Bauer, writer, dies at 72

1997 Brian Malzard Foss, psychologist, dies at 76

1911 Karl L Hoschna, composer, dies at 34

1990 Frank King, cricketer (WI fast bowler played 14 Tests 1953-56), dies

1962 George Saiko, writer, dies at 70

1994 Nora Dunfree, US actress (Grass Harp), dies at 78

1964 Arrigo Pedrollo, composer, dies at 86

1996 Rina Ketty, singer, dies at 85

1989 Josef Alexander, composer, dies at 82

0679 Dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered

1992 Cyril Walters, cricketer (11 Tests for England, 784 runs), dies

1913 James Middleton, cricketer (24 wkt of lefty pace S Af 1895-1903), dies

1930 Johannes H Been, Brielle archivist, dies at 71

1953 Lavrenti P Beria, soviet minister of internal security, executed

1951 Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Palo Verde), dies at 66

1969 Donald Foster, actor (Scaramouche), dies after long illness at 80

1966 Hv Doderer, writer, dies at 70

1652 John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68

1997 Donald Gunn MacRae, sociologist, dies at 76

1997 Stanley Cortez, cinematographer (Magnificent Ambersons), dies at 92

1967 Richard Flury, composer, dies at 71

1994 Charles Shirley, jazz arranger, dies at 74

1997 Hrvoje Horvatic, video artist, dies at 39

1236 Philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies

1976 Paul M Frank Forest, dies at 80

1970 Charlie Ruggles, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 84

1972 Charles Atlas, [Angelo Siciliano], body builder, dies at 79

1945 Mogens Klitgaard, Danish author (Brunkul), dies at 39

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