July 4 - Deaths

Deaths

• 907 – Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria
• 943 – Taejo of Goryeo (b. 877)
• 965 – Pope Benedict V
• 973 – Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890)
• 1187 – Raynald of Châtillon, French knight (b. 1125)
• 1541 – Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish explorer (b. 1495)
• 1546 – Hayreddin Barbarossa, Greek-Turkish navy officer (b. 1478)
• 1551 – Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (b. 1514)
• 1603 – Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (b. 1521)
• 1623 – William Byrd, English composer (b. 1540)
• 1641 – Pedro Teixeira, Portuguese explorer
• 1642 – Marie de' Medici, French wife of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
• 1648 – Antoine Daniel, French missionary (b. 1601)
• 1742 – Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
• 1754 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author (b. 1680)
• 1761 – Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
• 1780 – Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (b. 1712)
• 1787 – Charles, Prince of Soubise (b. 1715)
• 1821 – Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
• 1826 – John Adams, American politician, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
• 1826 – Thomas Jefferson American politician,3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
• 1831 – James Monroe, American politician, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758)
• 1848 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer (b. 1768)
• 1850 – William Kirby, English entomologist (b. 1759)
• 1854 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (b. 1781)
• 1857 – William L. Marcy, American politician, 21st United States Secretary of State (b. 1786)
• 1881 – Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish philosopher and statesman (b. 1806)
• 1882 – Joseph Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
• 1891 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States (b. 1809)
• 1901 – Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b. 1843)
• 1902 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian monk (b. 1863)
• 1905 – Élisée Reclus, French geographer, writer, and anarchist (b. 1830)
• 1910 – Melville Weston Fuller, American jurist (b. 1833)
• 1910 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)
• 1916 – Alan Seeger, American poet (b. 1888)
• 1918 – Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868)
• 1922 – Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1894)
• 1926 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian activist and saint (b. 1901)
• 1931 – Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta (b. 1869)
• 1931 – Buddie Petit, American cornettist (b. 1895)
• 1934 – Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1867)
• 1938 – Otto Bauer, Austrian politician (b. 1881)
• 1938 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
• 1941 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
• 1946 – Gerda Steinhoff, German concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
• 1948 – Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
• 1949 – François Brandt, Dutch rower (b. 1874)
• 1963 – Bernard Freyberg, New Zealander soldier and statesman (b. 1889)
• 1964 – Henry (Hank) Sylvern, American organist (b. 1908)
• 1970 – Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
• 1970 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American industrialist (b. 1884)
• 1971 – August Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
• 1971 – Thomas C. Hart, American admiral (b. 1877)
• 1975 – Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Haj Amin al-Husseini, Palestinian Muslim nationalist (b. 1895 or 1897)
• 1976 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier and commander (b. 1946)
• 1976 – Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
• 1979 – Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (b. 1905)
• 1980 – Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
• 1982 – Terry Higgins, English AIDS victim (b. 1945)
• 1984 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1949)
• 1986 – Flor Peeters, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1903)
• 1986 – Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899)
• 1988 – Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (b. 1954)
• 1989 – Jack Haig, English actor (b. 1913)
• 1991 – Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
• 1991 – Art Sansom, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
• 1992 – Ástor Piazzolla, Argentinian composer (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Bona Arsenault, French-Canadian politician and historian (b. 1903)
• 1994 – Joey Marella, American wrestling referee (b. 1964)
• 1995 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (b. 1919)
• 1995 – Bob Ross, American painter (b. 1942)
• 1997 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (b. 1934)
• 1997 – John Zachary Young, English zoologist (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Leo Garel, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
• 2000 – Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Polish writer (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Keenan Milton, American skateboarder (b. 1974)
• 2002 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American Air Force general (b. 1912)
• 2002 – Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
• 2002 – Winnifred Quick, American RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
• 2003 – André Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Barry White, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Larry Burkett, American author and radio host (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), English street entertainer (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Hank Stram, American football coach (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer, guitarist, and actor (b. 1979)
• 2007 – Bill Pinkney, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
• 2008 – Terrence Kiel, American football player (b. 1980)
• 2008 – Charles Wheeler, English journalist (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Brenda Joyce, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2009 – Allen Klein, American businessman and talent agent (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Drake Levin, American guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders) (b. 1946)
• 2009 – Steve McNair, American football player (b. 1973)
• 2009 – Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish writer (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese politician (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Jim Chapin, American drummer (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor (b. 1935)
• 2011 – Otto von Habsburg, Austrian-Hungarian prince (b. 1912)
• 2012 – Scamper, American rodeo horse (b. 1977)
• 2012 – Peter Bennett, Australian footballer (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Hiren Bhattacharyya, Indian poet (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Jimmy Bivins, American boxer (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Vinzenz Guggenberger, German bishop (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Jeong Min-Hyeong, South Korean footballer (b. 1987)
• 2012 – Eric Sykes, English actor, writer, and director (b. 1923)