Famous Deaths on July 23

August 29, 2024

July 23 Calendar

French politician, general of the revolution and first husband of Joséphine de Beauharnais, executed by guillotine at 34

1800 John Rutledge, American 2nd Chief Justice of the United States, dies at 60
1803 Arthur Wolfe, Irish 1st viscount Kilwarden, Chief Justice of Ireland, murdered during Irish Rebellion at 64
1816 Elizabeth Hamilton, British author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68
1829 Wojciech Boguslawski, Polish composer, dies at 72
1840 František Max Kníže, Czech composer, dies at 55
1844 Christian Gobrecht, 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office
1853 Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (Pretoria named after him), dies at 54
1859 Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (Bouquets et prières), dies at 73
1866 Thomas Forbes Walmisley, English composer, dies at 83
1875 Isaac Singer, American inventor of the first practical home sewing machine, dies at 63
1878 Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (b. 1804)
1878 Miguel Hilarion Eslava, Spanish composer and priest (Chapel Master Royal Chapel Madrid), dies at 70

1888 Williams Carter Wickham, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 67
1904 John Simon, British pathologist, public health officer, and 1st Chief Medical Officer (1855-76), dies at 87
1905 Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter, dies at 76
1909 Ernest F. Cambier, Belgian colonial official (built railway in the Congo), dies at 65
1909 Zygmunt Noskowski, Polish composer, conductor, and pedagogue, dies at 63

Scottish chemist who discovered noble gases (Nobel 1904), dies at 63

1920 Conrad Kohrs, German-born cattle rancher in Montana, dies at 84
1923 Charles Dupuy, French statesman, 3 times Prime Minister of France (1893, 1894-95, 1898-99), dies at 71
1924 Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar, dies at 64
1927 Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman, dies at 74
1927 William Ashley, English economic historian (The Economic Organisation of England), dies at 67
1930 Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer and airplane builder, dies at 52
1932 Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian balloonist, airship builder, and aviator (1st plane flight in Europe), dies by suicide at 59
1932 Frank Rankin, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame rover (Toronto Eatons, Toronto St. Michael's Majors) and coach (Toronto Granites-Canada Olympic gold 1924), dies at 41
1932 Tenby Davies, Welsh athlete (world half-mile professional champion 1909), dies at 48
1933 Max Schillings, German composer and conductor (Mona Lisa), dies at 65
1942 Adam Czerniaków, Polish engineer and head of Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Council, dies by suicide at beginning of clearing of the Ghetto at 61
1942 Andrew Ducat, English cricketer (England 1921) and footballer, dies whilst batting at Lords Cricket Ground at 56
1942 Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary, executed by firing squad at 32
1942 Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer who invented devices for radio broadcasting, dies at 72
1943 Emanuel Querido, Dutch author and publisher (N.V. Em. Querido Uitgeversmaatschappij), murdered in the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor at 71
1944 Helmuth James von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed by the Nazis for treason at 37
1944 Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian, dies at 79
1946 James Maxton, Scottish politician, Leader of the Independent Labour Party, dies at 61

French marshal and Chief of the French State (1940-44), dies at 95

1951 Robert Flaherty, American filmmaker and the father of documentary film (Nanook of North), dies at 67
1955 Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Un soir de joie), dies at 55
1955 Cordell Hull, American Secretary of State (1933-44) who established United Nations (Nobel Peace Prize 1945), dies at 83
1957 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italian prince and writer (The Leopard), dies at 61
1961 Esther Dale, American actress (Curly Top; The Egg and I; Ma and Pa Kettle films), dies after surgery at 75
1964 Jan de Vries, Dutch scholar of Germanic linguistics and Germanic mythology, dies at 74
1966 Donald Novis, British singer and actor (Monte Carlo; The Singing Plumber), dies at 60
1966 Douglass Montgomery, American actor (Forbidden, Harmony Lane), dies from spinal cancer at 56
1966 Montgomery Clift, American actor (From Here to Eternity, Judgement at Nuremberg), dies of a heart attack at 45
1968 Henry Hallett Dale, physiologist (1938 Noble Prize for Medicine or Physiology for work on acetylcholine), dies at 93
1969 Dell Floyd, American editor, author and playwright (Little Accident), dies at 82
1970 Leith Stevens, American pianist, composer and conductor of scores for radio (Suspense), film (The Wild Ones; War of the Worlds), and television (Climax!), dies of a heart attack (upon learning his wife was killed in a car accident) at 60
1971 Van Heflin [Emmett Evan Heflin Jr], American stage, screen, and radio actor (Johnny Eager; Shane; Madame Bovary; 3:10 to Yuma), dies of a heart attack at 62
1973 Eddie Rickenbacker, American aviator "Ace of Aces" (WWI), dies at 82
1973 Marius-François Gaillard, French pianist (DeBussy), conductor and composer (La passion noire), dies at 72
1975 Emlen Tunnell, American Pro Football HOF safety (NFL C'ship 1956 NY Giants, 1961 GB Packers; 6 × First-team All-Pro; 9 × Pro Bowl), dies from a heart attack at 51
1976 Martin Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan author (Gamperaliya - The Uprooted/Changing Village), dies at 85
1976 Wilhelmina Von Bremen, American 4X100 relay sprinter (Olympic gold 1932), dies at 64
1977 René de Vos, Dutch actor and composer (Jij Bent Mijn Leven), dies at 79
1979 Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (Army of the Shadows), dies at 81
1980 Keith Godchaux, American pianist, and singer (Grateful Dead, 1971-79 - "Let Me Sing Your Blues Away"), dies in a car accident at 32
1980 Mollie Steimer, American political prisoner and anarchist agitator, dies at 82
1980 Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
1982 Betty Parsons, American artist and art dealer, dies at 82
1982 Vic Morrow [Morozoff], American film and television actor Combat!; Cimmaron; Roots), killed by helicopter crash during the filming of "The Twilight Zone: The Movie" at 53
1983 Georges Auric, French composer (one of Les Six), dies at 84
1984 Lloyd Gough, American actor (Sunset Boulevard, The Front, The Green Hornet), dies of aortic aneurysm at 76
1985 Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
1985 Kay Kyser, bandleader (Kay Kyser's Kollege), dies at 79
1986 Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, Finnish composer, dies at 73
1988 Jahangir Khan, Indian cricket fast bowler (4 Tests India; Pakistan selector), dies at 78
1989 Claude Harmon, American golfer (US Masters 1948), dies of heart failure at 73
1989 Donald Barthelme, American author (b. 1931)
1990 Georges Flamant, actor (La Chienne), dies in Paris at 86
1990 Joe Turner, American jazz pianist, dies of cardiac arrest at 82
1990 Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (b. 1899)
1990 Robert Sommer, singer, dies of liver failure at 42
1992 Arletty [Léonie Bathiat], French fashion model and actress (Hotel du Niord; Children of Paradise; The Longest Day), dies at 94
1992 Maxine Audley, British actress (Peeping Tom, Ricochet, House of Cards), dies at 69
1993 James Jordan, father of NBA star Michael Jordan, found dead near McColl, South Carolina
1994 Aad Ivens, Dutch checkers player, dies at 80
1994 Hans J. Salter, Austrian-American film composer (The Wolf Man; Christmas Holiday; This Love Of Ours), dies at 98
1994 Henry William Collins, English artist, dies at 84
1995 Bob Rundick, American poet and DJ, dies at 52
1995 Floyd McDaniel, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 80
1996 Aliki Vougiouklaki, actress (Madalena), dies at 63
1996 Aliki Vouyouklaki, Greek stage and screen actress (Madalena), dies of pancreatic cancer at 62
1996 Hamilton Fish IV, American politician (Rep-R-NY, 1969-95), dies at 70
1996 Jean Muir, American actress (Fugitive in the Sky, The Aldrich Family) and the 1st performer to be blacklisted for being an alleged communist sympathizer, dies at 85 [1]
1996 Jessica "Decca" Mitford, English author, activist and one of the Mitford sisters, dies at 78
1996 John Corner, scientist, dies at 80
1996 Red Munger, American baseball (MLB All Star 1944, 47, 49; St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 77
1997 Chūhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (Olympic gold triple jump 1932; only person to have held WRs in both long jump & triple jump), dies at 93
1998 John Hopkins, English TV, film and stage writer (Z-Cars), dies at 67
1998 Vladimir Dudintsev, Ukrainian Soviet writer (Not by Bread Alone), dies at 79
1999 Alex Gordon, Welsh architect (RIBA President), dies at 82

2001 Eudora Welty, American novelist (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973), dies at 92
2002 Arnold Weinstock, English industrialist (GEC managing director), dies at 77
2002 Chaim Potok [Herman Potok], American novelist (The Promise; The Chosen), and rabbi, dies at 73
2002 Reginald "Leo" McKern, Australian actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared), dies of health complications at 82
2002 William Luther Pierce, American author and activist, dies at 68
2003 James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) (b. 1962)
2004 Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitar virtuoso and composer, dies at 79
2004 Mehmood [Ali], Indian actor, singer, director and producer (Do Phoo!, Vardaan), dies at 71
2004 Piero Piccioni, Italian jazz pianist, lawyer, film score composer (Swept Away), and conductor, dies at 82
2004 Serge Reggiani, Italian-French actor (Paris Blues), chanson singer ("Les loups sont entrés dans Paris"; "Sarah"), and painter, dies of a heart attack at 82
2005 Myron Floren, American accordionist (The Lawrence Welk Show), dies at 85
2005 Ted Greene, American jazz guitarist and teacher (b. 1946)
2006 Charles E. Brady Jr, American physician, Navy Captain and NASA astronaut (STS-78), commits suicide at 54
2006 Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1927)
2007 Benjamin Libet, American scientist (human consciousness), dies at 91
2007 George Tabori, Hungarian writer, dies at 93
2007 Mohammed Zahir Shah, last King of Afghanistan (1933-73), dies at 92
2007 Ron Miller, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1933)
2007 Tor Kamata, American-Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1937)
2008 Kurt Furgler, Swiss politician, President of the Confederation (1977, 1981 and 1985), dies at 84
2009 Danny McBride, American musician (Sha Na Na, 1975-80), dies at 63
2010 Daniel Schorr, American broadcast journalist (CBS), dies at 93
2010 Willem Breuker, Dutch saxophonist and conductor (WB Collective), dies at 65

British singer-songwriter ("Stronger Than Me"; "Rehab"), dies from alcohol poisoning at 27

2011 John Shalikashvili, Polish-American general (NATO), dies at 75
2011 Johnny Hoes, Dutch musician and producer (Wished I'd Stayed With My Mom), dies at 94
2011 Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, Premier of South Vietnam (1965-67), dies at 80
2012 Robert Cage, American blues guitarist (From Lake Mary), dies at 75

2013 Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer, dies from complications from pneumonia at 84

American boxer, (world welterweight, middleweight & junior middleweight champion), dies of dementia complications at 75

2014 Anne Mackenzie, South African long distance athlete, dies at 88
2014 Dora Bryan [Broadbent], British stage and screen actress (A Taste of Honey), novelty singer ("All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle"), and hotelier dies at 91
2014 Heinz Martin Lonquich, German pianist, conductor, composer (The Silence of John of Nepomuk; Where year and day don't count), and clergyman, dies at 77
2016 Thorbjorn Falldin, Swedish politician, Prime Minister (1976-78, 79-82) and sheep farmer, dies at 90
2017 Mervyn Rose, Australian tennis player (Australian C'ships 1954, French C'ships 1958), dies at 87
2020 Benjamin Mkapa, Tanzanian politician, President of Tanzania (1995-2005), dies at 81
2020 Jean Brankart, Belgian cyclist (Tour de France 1955, Giro d'Italia 1958 runner-up; Belgium national track pursuit champion 1956, 58, 59), dies at 90
2020 Mars Rafikov, Russian cosmonaut (one of the 20 original cosmonauts), dies at 66
2021 John Cornell, Australian screenwriter (Paul Hogan Show; Crocodile Dundee), and director (Crocodile Dundee II),. dies from complications related to Parkinson's disease at 80
2021 Tito Lupini, Italian rugby union prop (11 Tests; Rovigo) and coach (Rovigo), dies from COVID-19 at 65
2022 Bob Rafelson, American Emmy Award-winning television producer (The Monkees), and film maker (Five Easy Pieces; Easy Rider; Head), dies at 89
2022 Rinus Ferdinandusse, Dutch editor, journalist, and author (Nude on Fence), dies at 90
2023 Inga Swenson, American stage and screen actress (110 in the Shade; Benson - "Gretchen"), dies at 90
2023 Pamela Blair American stage actress, singer, and dancer (A Chorus Line), dies at 73
2023 Roy Swetman, English cricket wicket-keeper (11 Tests, 26 dismissals, 1 x 50; Surrey CCC, Nottinghamshire CCC, Gloucestershire CCC), dies at 89

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