Famous Deaths on July 22

• 1035 Robert I “the Magnificent”, Duke of Normandy (1027-35), father of William the Conqueror, dies at 35
• 1362 Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (b. 1324)
• 1387 French Ackerman, Ghent rebel/leader of Reisers, murdered at about 57

• 1461 Charles VII, King of France (1422-61) who drove the English out from Northern France, dies at 58
• 1477 Adolf van Egmond, Duke of Guelders, Count of Zutphen, dies in battle at 39
• 1497 Francesco Botticini, Italian painter, dies at about 52
• 1499 Neithart Fox [Jonker Fox], German passage leader, slain in battle
• 1525 Richard Wingfield, English diplomat
• 1550 Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra, Portuguese illegitimate son of King John II and claimant to the throne, dies at 68
• 1619 Lawrence of Brindisi [Giulio Cesare Russo], Italian theologian, Capuchin monk, and Roman Catholic saint, dies on his 60th birthday
• 1635 Pietro Antonio Tamburini, Italian composer (Missa defunctorum), and percussionist, dies at 45
• 1645 Gaspar de Guzman, premier of Spain (1621-43), dies at 58
• 1676 Clement X [Emilio Altieri], Italian Pope (1670-76), dies at 86
• 1726 Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia
• 1734 Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England
• 1757 Louis-Antoine Dornel, French composer, harpsichordist, organist and violinist, dies at 77

• 1786 Vaclav Kalous [Simon à Scto Bartholomaeo], Czech composer, dies at 71
• 1789 Joseph-François Foulon, French politician, dies at 74
• 1794 Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, French composer, dies at 59

• 1813 George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist, dies at 61
• 1823 William Bartram, American naturalist and writer (1st naturalist to document tropical forests of Florida in “Bartram’s Travels”), dies at 84 [1]
• 1826 Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (found 1st asteroid-Ceres), dies at 80
• 1832 Napoleon II, son of Napoleon Bonaparte, French Prince Imperial and King of Rome (never ruled France), dies of tuberculosis at 21
• 1840 Józef Javurek, Polish-Russian pianist, composer, and educator, dies at 83
• 1848 Karl Guhr, German composer, dies at 60
• 1852 Auguste Marmont, French marshal, dies at 77
• 1861 Barnard Elliott Bee, American military officer (US Army, 1845-61; Confederate Army, 1861), killed in action at 37, at the First Battle of Bull Run
• 1863 Karl Schuberth, German cellist, and composer, dies at 52
• 1864 Ägid Karl Lickl, Austrian guitar virtuoso, pianist, and composer, dies at 60
• 1864 James Birdseye McPherson, US Union general-major, dies in The Battle of Atlanta at 35
• 1864 William H. T. Walker, American Major General (Confederate Army), killed in action at 47 during the Atlanta Campaign
• 1868 Zikmund Kolešovský, Czech composer, dies at 51
• 1869 John Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge), dies of tetanus as the result of an accident at 63 [1]
• 1870 Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42
• 1880 Anna Caroline Oury (née De Belleville), German concert pianist and composer, dies at 74
• 1902 Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal who defended Polish culture against Bismarck’s Kulturkampf, dies at 79
• 1903 Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
• 1904 Wilson Barrett, British manager, actor, and playwright (The Sign of the Cross), dies at 58
• 1908 William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist (International Arbitration League, 1903 Nobel Peace Prize), dies at 80
• 1909 D v Liliencron, writer, dies at 65
• 1915 Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, introduced Universal Standard Time, dies at 88 (b. 1827)
• 1916 James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (The Raggedy Man), dies after a stroke at 66
• 1918 Indra Lal Roy, Indian World War I flying ace, dies at 19
• 1920 William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
• 1922 John Motley Morehead III, American chemist (commercial production of calcium carbide, important for welding), dies at 67
• 1922 Jokichi Takamine, Japanese-American biochemist who isolated adrenalin (epinephrine), which causes the body to respond to emergencies, the first pure hormone isolated from natural sources, dies at 67
• 1929 Bror Beckman, Swedish composer, dies at 63
• 1929 Édouard Empain, Belgian railway builder (Paris Metro; Heliopolis), dies at 76
• 1932 Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist, dies at 78
• 1932 Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., American theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 65
• 1932 Reginald Fessenden, Canadian-American inventor and radio pioneer – reputedly broadcast 1st program of voice and music, dies at 65
• 1932 Roosje Vos, Dutch seamstress, and trade union leader, dies at 71

• 1937 Ted McDonald, Australian cricket fast bowler (11 Tests, 43 wickets, BB 5/32; Tasmania, Victoria, Lancashire CCC), dies in car crash at 46

• 1952 Antonio Maria Valencia, Colombian composer, dies at 49
• 1952 August Balthazar, Belgian politician, dies at 58
• 1953 Cyrus “Cy” Kendall, American actor (Tarzan’s New York Adventure, Mysteries of Chinatown), dies from heart problems at 55
• 1955 Joseph Foley, American actor (Mr Peepers), dies at 45
• 1958 Karl Nunes, cricketer (1st WI Test captain 1928), dies
• 1958 Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian author and satirist, dies at 62
• 1966 Edward Gourdin, American athlete (long jump WR 7.69 m 1921; Olympic silver 1924) and jurist, dies at 68
• 1967 Carl Sandburg, poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), dies at 89
• 1968 Giovannino Guareschi, Italian author (Don Camillo, Peppone, dies at 60
• 1970 Fritz Kortner [Fritz Nathan Kohn], Austrian character actor (Pandora’s Box) and director (A Girl You Don’t Forget), dies of cancer at 78
• 1970 George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist “My Brother Jack”, dies of tuberculosis at 58
• 1972 Hugo Kauder, Austrian composer, dies at 84
• 1972 Pavel Bořkovec, Czech composer (Suite for Piano), dies at 78
• 1974 Edna Lewis Thomas, American actress (A Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 88
• 1974 Lili Darvas, Hungarian actress (Szerelem, Cimmaron), dies at 68
• 1974 Mary Forbes [Ethel Young], British-American stage and screen character actress (Terror by Night; The Picture of Dorian Gray), dies at 91
• 1974 Wayne L Morse, (Sen-D-Oregon), dies at 73
• 1976 Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist who introduced scientific methods, dies at 85
• 1979 Mikhail Soschtschenko, Soviet Russian writer (The Regained Youth; Before the Dawn), dies at 83
• 1979 Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (Budapest Honvéd), dies at 49
• 1979 Tony “Two-Ton” Galento, American heavyweight boxer and actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 69
• 1980 Fred Kaps [Abram Bongers], Dutch magician (ISM World Champion 1950, 1955 & 1961), dies of cancer at 54
• 1982 Lloyd Waner, American Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder (MLB All Star 1938; batting average over .300 x 10; Pittsburgh Pirates), dies from emphysema at 76
• 1982 Sonny Stitt [Edward Hammond Boatner Jr], American jazz saxophonist (Blows the Blues), dies of cancer at 58
• 1985 Matti Järvinen, Finnish javelin thrower (Olympic gold 1932), dies at 76
• 1987 A G Kripal Singh, Indian cricket batsman (14 Tests, 1 x 100, 100no on debut v NZ 1959; Madras, Hyderabad), dies from cardiac arrest at 53
• 1988 Duane Jones, American actor (Night of the Living Dead), and theater director, dies of cardiopulmonary arrest at 51
• 1988 Luigi Lucioni, Italian-American landscape painter (opera stars), dies at 87
• 1989 Martti Talvela, Finnish operatic bass (Bayreuth, 1960-85 ; Metropolitan Opera, 1968–87), dies of a heart attack while dancing at his daughter’s wedding at 54 [1]
• 1990 Otmar Nussio, Swiss conductor and composer (Boccaccio Suite), dies at 87
• 1990 Preben Neergaard, Danish actor (Mordskab), dies of cancer at 70
• 1992 David Wojuarowicz, American artist (U2 single “One” sleeve), dies of AIDS at 37
• 1992 Souleiman Franjieh, president Lebanon (1970-76), dies
• 1992 Wayne McLaren, American stuntman, rodeo performer, model and actor best known for playing the Marlboro Man, dies of lung cancer at 51
• 1995 Dave Clark, American blues music promoter, and songwriter (“Why I Sing The Blues”), dies at 86
• 1995 Harold Larwood, England cricket fast bowler (21 Tests, Bodyline Series v Australia 1932-33), dies at 90
• 1995 Percy Humphrey, American jazz trumpet player and bandleader in New Orleans, Louisiana, dies at 90
• 1995 Roley Jenkins, English cricket spin bowler (9 Tests, 32 wickets), dies at 76
• 1996 Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader, dies at 65
• 1996 Leon Shenandoah, Native American leader (Iroquois Confederacy), dies at 81
• 1996 Peter Ludwig, German businessman and art collector, dies at 71
• 1996 Robert Collins, keyboard player, dies at 33
• 1996 Tamara Danz, German singer (Silly), dies of cancer at 43
• 1998 Antonio Saura, Spanish painter, dies at 67
• 1998 Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone, dies at 69
• 2000 Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author, dies at 74
• 2000 Claude Sautet, French film director (b. 1924)
• 2000 Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916)
• 2000 Raymond Urgel Lemieux, Canadian scientist (first chemical synthesis of sucrose), dies at 80
• 2001 Bernice Neugarten, American physiologist (work on psychology of aging), dies at 85
• 2001 Frances Horwich, American educator and television personality (Ding Dong School), dies at 94
• 2001 Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (History of the Greeks), dies at 92
• 2002 Marion Montgomery [Marian Runnells], American-British jazz singer (“Maybe the Morning”), dies of lung cancer at 67
• 2003 Qusay Hussein, Iraqi politician, military leader, and second son of Saddam Hussein killed by US military during Iraq War at 37
• 2003 Uday Hussein, Iraqi politician, administrator, murderer, and eldest son of Saddam Hussein, killed by US military during Iraq War at 39
• 2003 Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan satirist, newspaper columnist (The Daily Nation – Whispers), and playwright, dies of surgical complications at 48
• 2004 (Jean-Baptiste) Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist (“Flying Home”), dies of a heart attack at 81
• 2004 George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
• 2004 Sacha Distel, French singer (“Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head” cover), dies at 71
• 2005 Eugene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
• 2005 Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician killed by Scotland Yard (b. 1978)
• 2006 Dika Newlin, American composer, Schoenberg expert and punk rocker, dies at 82
• 2006 James E. West, mayor of Spokane, Washington (b. 1950)
• 2006 José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber, is found dead at 41 after being buried in a snowstorm on Nanga Parbat
• 2006 Thomas J. Manton, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1985-99), dies at 73
• 2007 László Kovács, Hungarian-American cinematographer (Easy Rider; Five Easy Pieces; Paper Moon; The Last Waltz), dies at 74 [1]
• 2007 Ulrich Mühe, German actor (Das Leben der Anderen), and stage director, dies of stomach cancer at 54

• 2008 Joe Beck, American session and jazz guitarist (Don Sebesky; Gil Evans; Gato Barbieri; Esther Phillips), and bandleader, dies of lung cancer at 62
• 2009 Peter Krieg [Wilhelm Gladitz], German documentary filmmaker, and writer (September Wheat), dies at 60
• 2009 Richard M. Givan, American jurist (Indiana Supreme Court, 1969-94), dies at 88
• 2010 Phillip Walker, American electric blues guitarist, and singer (“Hello My Darling”), dies at 73
• 2011 Linda Christian, Mexican actress (Athena, VIPs, Battle Zone), dies at 87
• 2011 Tom Aldredge, American actor (The Sopranos, What About Bob, Nurse, Mind Snatchers), dies at 83
• 2012 George A. Miller, American psychologist, dies at 92
• 2012 Nan Merriman, American-Dutch singer (Arturo Toscanini NBC Orchestra), dies at 92
• 2013 Dennis Farina, American actor, dies from a pulmonary embolism at 69
• 2013 Lawrie Reilly, Scottish soccer striker (38 caps; Hibernian 253 games, 185 goals), dies at 84
• 2015 Eddie Hardin [Harding], English rock pianist and singer (Spencer Davis Group, 1967-68 and 1973-74), dies of a heart attack at 66
• 2016 Thomas Sutherland, American hostage (Lebanon) and academic, dies at 85
• 2016 Ursula Franklin, German-born Canadian physicist, educator and activist (developed archaeometry), dies at 94 [1]
• 2017 Bobby Taylor, American singer and producer who discovered “The Jackson 5” (Motown Records), dies of cancer at 83 [1]
• 2017 Jan Stulen, Dutch conductor (Netherlands Radio Symphony, 1976-92), and conducting teacher (Conservatory of Maastricht, 1988-2002), dies at 75
• 2018 Rene Portland, American college basketball coach (Penn State 1980-2007), dies of cancer at 65
• 2018 Tony Sparano, American football coach (Miami Dolphins 2008-11; Oakland Raiders 2014), dies of a heart attack at 56
• 2019 Art Neville, American funk and R&B singer, keyboard player, and songwriter (Neville Brothers; The Funky Meters), dies at 81
• 2019 Li Peng, Chinese leader, Premier of China (1987-98), dies at 90
• 2020 Carlton Haselrig, American football guard (Pro Bowl 1992; Pittsburgh Steelers) and wrestler (6 x NCAA titles; Pitt-Johnstown), dies from liver disease at 54
• 2020 Charles Evers, American civil rights leader (1st Black mayor in Mississippi since Reconstruction), dies at 97
• 2021 Jean-Pierre Jaussaud, French auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1978, 80), dies from a heart attack at 84
• 2022 David Moores, British football executive (Chairman Liverpool FC 1991-2007; Honorary Life President), dies at 76
• 2022 James Lovelock, British scientist and environmentalist (Gaia hypothesis), dies at 103 [1]
• 2023 Adolf Scherer, Slovak soccer striker (36 caps Czechoslovakia; CH Bratislava, Slovnaft Bratislava, VSS Košice, Nîmes, Olympique Avignonais), dies at 85
• 2023 Günther Herrmann, German soccer forward (9 caps West Germany; Karlsruher SC, Schalke 04), dies at 83
• 2023 Hassan Amcharrat, Moroccan soccer forward (39 caps; Africa Cup of Nations gold 1976; SC Chabab Mohammédia, Raja Casablanca), dies at 75
• 2024 Abdul “Duke” Fakir, American rock vocalist (Four Tops), dies at 88 [1]
• 2024 Carolyn Schuler, American swimmer (Olympic gold 100m butterfly, 4x100m medley relay WR 4:41.1 1960), dies at 81
• 2024 John Mayall, British blues musician (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers), dies at 90 [1]
• 2024 Mark Carnevale, American golfer (PGA Tour Rookie of the Year 1992) and broadcaster (Sirius XM PGA Tour Radio), dies at 64

July 22 Highlights