Famous Deaths on July 21

• 1160 Peterus Lombardus, Italian theologist/bishop of Paris, dies
• 1403 Henry Percy, English knight, sometimes called ‘Harry Hotspur’, killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury at 39
• 1425 Manuel II Paleologus, Byzantine Emperor (1391-1425) and writer, dies at 75

• 1540 John I Zapolyai, Prince of Transslvania and King of Hungary, dies
• 1683 William Russell, Lord Russell, English politician and plotter against Charles II, beheaded for treason at 43
• 1688 James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman, Royalist during civil war and soldier (b. 1610)
• 1717 Niccolo Amenta, Italian poet (La Gostanza), dies
• 1782 Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher, German composer, dies at 63
• 1793 Bruni d’Entrecasteaux, French explorer, dies of scurvy in the Pacific at 55
• 1796 Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer who twice circumnavigated the world for the navy (commanded 1st European ship to discover Pitcairn Island), dies at 63

• 1798 François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal, dies at 64
• 1821 Maurice J M prince de Broglie, bishop of Ghent, dies at about 55
• 1831 Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician and poet (Ritornellen), dies at 55
• 1840 Moses Waddel, American educator, minister and bestselling author (Memoirs of the Life of Miss Caroline Elizabeth Smelt), dies at 70
• 1855 Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish romantic poet (Blommorna (The Flowers), Lycksalighetens Ö (The Island of Bliss)) and historian (Svenska Siare och Skalder), dies at 65
• 1861 Francis Stebbins Bartow, Confederate colonel, dies in battle at 44
• 1876 Thomas Hayward, English cricket batsman (first English tours to North America 1859-60, Australia & NZ 1864-5; Cambridge Town Club), dies at 41
• 1878 Sam Bass, American Old West train robber and outlaw, dies of wounds from a gunfight with Texas Rangers 27
• 1880 Hiram Walden, American politician, dies at 79
• 1888 Matthias Joseph Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade), dies at 53
• 1889 Nelson Dewey, American lawyer, land speculator, and politician, (1st Governor of Wisconsin, 1848-52), dies of complications of a stroke at 75
• 1891 Franco Faccio, Italian composer and conductor, dies at 51
• 1892 Henry Gardner, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (1855-58), dies at 73
• 1899 Robert G. Ingersoll, American writer, orator and agnostic, dies at 65
• 1910 Johan Peter Selmer, Norwegian composer, dies at 66
• 1917 Christopher J. Forster, British RAF pilot and officer, dies in battle at 22
• 1922 Djemal Pasha, Turkish Ottoman military leader (persecuted Armenian people), assassinated by Armenian Revolutionary Federation members at 50
• 1924 Dudley Allen Sargent, American physician and educator (Harvard U gymnasium), dies at 74
• 1927 J. J. Lyons, Australian cricketer (14 Tests for Australia), dies at 64
• 1928 Ellen Alice Terry, British Shakespearean actress and director (Imperial Theatre), dies at 81
• 1932 Bill Gleason, American late 19th century baseball player, dies at 73
• 1938 Owen Wister, American author, ‘father of the Western’ (The Virginian), dies at 78
• 1941 Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet, dies at 68
• 1943 Charley Paddock, American sprinter and 100m record breaker (2x Olympic gold 1920), dies in a plane crash near Sitka, Alaska at 42
• 1944 Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau
• 1944 Henning von Tresckow, German Major General (organized resistance against Hitler in July 20th plot), commits suicide at 43
• 1946 Gualberto Villarroel, Bolivian military officer (President of Bolivia 1943-46), killed and lynched in La Paz riots at 37
• 1948 Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American abstract painter, dies at 43
• 1948 Donald Nichols Tweedy, American composer, dies at 58
• 1950 Albert Riemenschneider, American pianist, educator, musicologist, and founder of America’a oldest Bach Festival, dies at 71
• 1952 Silvio Cator, Haitian athlete and long jumper (Olympic silver 1928), dies at 51
• 1957 Bernard Spooner, US inventor (bulletproof vest), dies at 67 [1]
• 1957 Rockley Wilson, English cricket spin bowler (1 Test, 3 wickets; Cambridge University, Yorkshire CCC), dies at 78
• 1962 G. M. Trevelyan [George Macaulay Trevelyan], British historian and academic, dies at 86
• 1967 Albert J Luthuli, South African teacher, anti-apartheid activist, politician (ANC president) and Nobel laureate, dies when struck by a freight train at about 69 [birth date uncertain]

• 1967 Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (English paint box), dies at 80
• 1968 Ruth St. Denis, American modern dance pioneer and teacher (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91
• 1970 Bob Kalsu, American NFL football player, 1968 (Buffalo Bills), and US Army officer, killed in action in Vietnam at 25
• 1970 Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
• 1972 Jigme Dori Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (1952-72), dies of a heart condition at 45
• 1972 Ralph Craig, American athlete (Olympic gold 100/200m 1912), dies at 83
• 1973 Russell Hardie, American actor (Sequoia, In Old Kentucky), dies after long illness at 69
• 1974 Willem F. K. Hussem, Dutch painter and poet (Steltlopen on Sea), dies at 74
• 1975 Billy West [Roy B Weissburg], Russian actor, Charlie Chaplin impersonator and silent film director (Further Perils of Laurel & Hardy), dies at 82
• 1975 Fie Carelsen [Sophia de Jong], Dutch stage and screen actress (Malle gevallen), dies at 85
• 1975 George Petty, American pin-up artist, dies at 81
• 1976 Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated by the IRA at 54
• 1976 Earle Combs, American Baseball HOF center fielder (9 × World Series 1927, 28, 32, 36–39, 41, 43; New York Yankees), dies at 77
• 1977 Lee Miller, American photographer (War correspondent for Vogue in WWII), dies at 70
• 1979 Ludwig Renn, German writer, dies at 90
• 1981 Lawrence “Snub” Mosley, American jazz trombonist (Alphonso Trent Orchestra; Louis Armstrong), bandleader, and promoter of the slide saxophone (“The Man With The Funny Little Horn”), dies at 75 [1]
• 1982 Dave Garroway, American TV host (Today Show, 1951-61), dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound at 69
• 1982 Jean J A Girault, French director and screenwriter (Gendarme Saint-Tropez), dies of tuberculosis at 58
• 1984 Michael Osborne, American rock guitarist and vocalist (Axe), dies at 34
• 1985 Mickey Shaughnessy, American actor and comedian (Chicago Teddy Bears), dies at 65
• 1985 Vicki Vola, American actress (Miss Miller-Mr District Attorney), dies at 68
• 1986 Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
• 1986 Paulo Correia, Guinea-Bissau colonel and putschist, executed (b. 1942)
• 1986 Virginia Hewitt, American actress (Carol-Space Patrol), dies of cancer at 60
• 1988 Norridge Mayhams, American swing, pop, and gospel singer-songwriter (“We’ll Build a Bungalow”), guitarist, bandleader, and record producer, dies at 84
• 1990 Manuel Puig, Argentine novelist and screenwriter (The Kiss of the Spider Woman; Heartbreak Tango), dies of a heart attack while recovering from gall bladder surgery at 57
• 1990 Rich Vogler, American auto racer (most combined wins in USAC history [171]), dies in a race crash at 39
• 1990 Sacha Piteoff, Swiss-French actor and stage director, dies of heart failure at 70
• 1990 Stanley Shapiro, American screenwriter (Doris Day films), dies of leukemia at 65
• 1991 Theodore Wilson, American actor dies after a stroke at 47
• 1993 Henk Kersting, Dutch journalist (bureau chef Associated Press), dies at 88
• 1993 Richard Tee [Ten Ryk], American jazz and session pianist, and arranger (Paul Simon – “Slip’ Slidin’ Away”; Peter Gabriel – “In Your Eyes”; Grover Washington, Jr – “Just The Two Of Us”), dies of prostate cancer at 49
• 1993 Robert Glass, American film sound engineer (ET), is murdered at 53
• 1994 Dorothy Collins [Marjorie Chandler], Canadian-American singer and actress (Your Hit Parade), dies at 67
• 1994 Hugh Scott, American lawyer and politician (Senate Minority Leader 1969-77), dies at 93
• 1994 John Ernest, American constructionist artist, dies at 72
• 1995 Edwin “Russell” House, American saxophonist, dies at 65
• 1995 Elleston Trevor, English author (The Flight of the Phoenix), dies at 75
• 1996 Francis James Claude Piggott, British soldier, dies at 85
• 1996 Gerald McArthur, British Scotland Yard detective who caught the Great Train Robbers, dies at 80
• 1996 Herb Edelman, American actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5), dies of emphysema 62
• 1996 James Tye, English safety expert (formed British Safety Council), dies at 74
• 1996 John Kevin Moorhouse, British test pilot, dies in a plane crash during an air show at 50 [1]
• 1996 Macha Rosenthal, American critic and poet (Poetry as Confession), dies at 79
• 1996 Wolf Morris, English actor (Padmasambhava-Dr Who), dies at 71

• 1998 Robert Young, American actor (Father Knows Best; Marcus Welby, M.D.), dies of respiratory failure at 91
• 1999 David Ogilvy ‘Father of Advertising’, English advertising whiz (founded Ogilvy & Mathers), dies at 88
• 2000 Stanojlo Rajičić, Serbian composer, educator, and musicologist, dies at 79
• 2001 Sivaji Ganesan, South Indian Tamil actor (b. 1927)
• 2001 Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
• 2002 Gus Dudgeon [Angus Boyd Dudgeon], British pop record producer (Elton John, early David Bowie), dies in a car crash at 59
• 2002 John Cunningham, British Royal Air Force night fighter ace (WW II), dies at 84
• 2003 John Davies, New Zealand sports executive (President NZOC 2000-03) and athlete (Olympic bronze 1500m 1964), dies of melanoma at 65
• 2003 Walter M. “Matt” Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
• 2004 Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1995), dies at 86 [1]
• 2004 Jerry Goldsmith, American pianist and composer (The Twilight Zone; Planet Of The Apes), dies of colon cancer at 75
• 2004 Sir Julian Ridsdale, British long-serving Member of Parliament for Harwich (1954-92), dies at 89
• 2005 Long John Baldry, British blues musician (“Don’t Try to Lay No Boogie”), dies at 64
• 2005 Lord Alfred Hayes, English pro wrestler, manager and commentator (WWF), dies from a stroke at 76
• 2006 Mako, Japanese-American actor (The Sand Pebbles), dies at 72
• 2006 Ta Mok, “The Khmer Rouge Butcher”, war criminal in Democratic Kampuchea (b. 1926)
• 2008 Barbara Ann Teer, American actress, artistic director and founder of the National Black Theatre, dies of natural causes at 71 [1]
• 2008 Lord Stokes [Donald Stokes], English industrialist (British Leyland), dies at 94
• 2010 Luis Corvalán, Chilean communist leader (b. 1916)
• 2010 Ralph Houk, American baseball catcher, coach, manager and executive (World Series champion 1947, 52-53, coach, 58; mgr 1961-62; NY Yankees), dies at 90
• 2012 Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-born American journalist, dies from cancer at 72
• 2012 Don Wilson, English cricket fast bowler (6 Tests, 11 wickets; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 74
• 2012 James D. Ramage, American Naval Aviator in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War, dies at 96
• 2015 E. L. Doctorow, American author (Ragtime, Billy Bathgate), dies at 84
• 2015 Paul Freeman, American conductor and composer (Chicago Sinfonietta, 1987-2011; Czech National Symphony, 1996-2007), dies at 79
• 2015 Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American stage and screen singer and actor (The Sound of Music; Fiddler On The Roof; The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming; 200 Motels), folk singer (co-founder Newport Folk Festival), and political activist, dies at 91
• 2017 John Heard, American actor (Home Alone, Cat People, Big), dies at 71
• 2017 Jon van Rood, Dutch immunologist (Eurotransplant), dies of vascular disease at 91 [1]
• 2017 Peter Doohan, Australian professional tennis player, dies from motor neurone disease at 56
• 2018 Jonathan Gold, American food critic who was the first in his field to win a Pulitzer Prize, dies of pancreatic cancer at 57
• 2019 Ben Johnston [Benjamin Burwell Johnston Jr], American microtonal composer (Gambit), dies at 93
• 2019 Paul Krassner, American comic, satirist (MAD Magazine; The Realist), and social activist (Youth International Party – Yippies; Merry Pranksters), dies at 87
• 2020 Annie Ross, British-American jazz singer (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross – “Twisted”) and actress, dies from emphysema and heart disease, at 89 [1]
• 2020 Mike Sleman, English rugby union winger (31 caps, England; 1 cap British & Irish Lions 1980; Liverpool RUFC), dies at 69
• 2020 Ralph Liguori, American auto racer (NASCAR Grand National Series 30 x Top 10; 5 x Top 5 finishes), dies at 93
• 2022 Ben Stern, American audio engineer (Underdog; Tennessee Tuxedo), and father of radio personality Howard Stern, dies of cancer at 99
• 2022 Jim Lynch, American College Football HOF linebacker (Notre Dame; AFL–NFL World C’ship Game 1970; Kansas City Chiefs), dies at 76
• 2022 Johnny Egan, American basketball point guard (Detroit Pistons, NY Knicks, Baltimore Bullets, LA Lakers, SD/Houston Rockets) and coach (Houston Rockets 1973-76), dies after a fall at 83
• 2022 Milan Dvořák, Czech soccer utility (13 caps Czechoslovakia; Dukla Prague 261 games), dies at 87
• 2022 Paddy Hopkirk, Irish rally driver (Monte Carlo Rally 1964), dies at 89
• 2022 Taurean Blacque [Herbert Middleton Jr], American stage and screen actor (Hill Street Blues – “Det. Neal Washington”), and adoption advocate, dies at 82
• 2022 Uwe Seeler, German soccer striker (72 caps West Germany; Hamburger SV 476 games, 404 goals), dies at 85
• 2023 Brian O’Neill, Canadian sports executive (executive vice president NHL 1977-92), dies at 94
• 2023 Brian Taber, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (16 Tests, 60 dismissals; NSW), dies at 83
• 2023 Jacinto Santos, Portuguese soccer defender (5 caps; Benfica, Leixões, Porto), dies at 82
• 2023 Jane Tehira, New Zealand sportsperson (triple international: basketball, softball, hockey), dies at 95

• 2023 Vince Hill, English pop singer (“Roses of Picardy”; “La Vie en Rose”; “Edelweiss”), dies at 89
• 2024 Joji Yuasa, Japanese contemporary classical composer, and music professor, dies of pneumonia at 94
• 2024 Richie Sandoval, American boxer (Lineal and WBA Bantamweight Champion 1984-86), dies at 63

July 21 Highlights