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Today's Deaths in History

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)

Flemish physician and anatomist (De humani corporis fabrica), dies after being shipwrecked at 49

1588 Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies
1617 Isaac Oliver, miniature painter, dies
1626 Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, Spanish diplomat, dies at 58
1678 Wu San-kuei, gen, invited Manchus to China, dies trying to expel them
1708 Anne Jules de Noailles, French general under Louis XIV (marshal of France), dies at 58
1721 Benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies
1724 François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (Quatre dialogues sur l'immortalité de l'âme), dies at on his 80th birthday
1729 Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter, dies at 60
1746 Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty
1764 William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, 5th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1756-57), dies at 44
1775 Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
1780 John Andre, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold) at 30
1782 Charles Lee, British and U.S. general (b. 1732)
1786 Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral, dies at 61

Samuel Adams (1722-1803)

American revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party) and politician (Lt Gov-Mass, 1789-94), dies at 81

1804 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French inventor who designed & built 1st automobile, dies at 79
1809 Wybo Fijnje, Dutch politician, and journalist, dies at 59
1817 Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)
1842 William Ellery Channing, American Unitarian preacher and clergyman, dies at 62
1846 Benjamin Waterhouse, American physician co-founder of Harvard Medical School, and smallpox vaccine pioneer, dies at 92
1850 Sarah Biffin [Beffin], English limbless miniature painter, dies at 65 or 66
1853 François Arago, French astronomer, physicist (chromosome) and politician, dies at 67
1860 Louis Hersent, painter, dies
1863 Justinus van de Brugghen, lawyer/minister of Justice, dies
1872 Eberhard Friedrich Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt A/M), dies at 78
1873 Cornelius Varley, water-color painter, dies
1883 Joshua Ratoon Sands, American Rear Admiral (Union Navy), dies at 88
1892 Ernest Renan, French philosopher, historian and scholar of religion, dies at 69
1901 Rudolph Koenig, German physicist, dies at 68
1905 José Maria de Heredia, Cuban-French sonnet poet (Les Trophées), dies at 62
1916 Benjamin Kidd, English sociologist (Social Evolution), dies of heart disease at 58
1920 Winthrop M. Crane, American politician, 40th Governor of Massachusetts, dies at 67
1927 Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist (1903 Nobel Prize for Chemistry), dies at 68
1938 Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)
1944 Rudolf Schmundt, German gen/Hitlers army adjunct, dies from injuries
1947 Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
1958 Marie Stopes, British birth control pioneer, dies at 77
1960 Claro Mayo Recto, Filipino politician, nationalist (opponent of US colonialism) and poet, dies at 70
1962 Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

French sculptor and painter (Nude Descending a Staircase), dies at 81

1969 Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian novelist (Black Opal), dies at 85
1974 Ina Seidel, German poet and novelist, dies at 89
1975 Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian political leader, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1903)
1980 Valentin Varlamov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46
1981 Harry Golden, Jewish-American journalist and writer (Only in America), dies at 79
1982 William Bernbach, American advertising creative director, dies at 71
1987 Peter Medawar, British biologist (1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"), dies at 72

Alec Issigonis (1906-1988)

Greek-British automotive designer who designed the Mini, dies at 81

1989 Liesbeth Ribbius Peletier, Neth's 1st female advisor of State, dies
1991 Dimitrios I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1973-91), dies at 77
1991 Jan H Christianse, political chairman (CDA), dies
1993 Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), dies at 83
1994 Faith Davis, American triplets, world's oldest surviving triplets (Charity & Hope survive), dies at 95
1994 Ron Herron, English architect (Archigram), dies at 64
1995 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67
1996 Andrey Lukanov, Bulgarian politician (40th Prime Minister of Bulgaria), assassinated at 58
1996 Ivan Mark Waller, English mountaineer, dies at 89
1996 Robert Bourassa, Prime Minister of Quebec province (1970-76, 85-93), dies at 63
1996 Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman, dies at 79
1996 Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian, dies at 93
1998 D. French Slaughter Jr, American politician (Rep-R-VA, 1985-91), dies at 73
1999 Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (b. 1921)
2002 Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
2003 John T. Dunlop, U.S. Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)

August Wilson (1945-2005)

American playwright (Fences, Pulitzer 1987), dies at 60

2005 Bert Eriksson, Flemish neo-Nazi, dies at 74
2006 Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
2006 Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
2007 Christopher Derrick, British writer, dies at 86
2007 Dan Keating, Irish politician (b. 1902)
2007 Lady Katherine Brandram, Princess of Greece, the last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, dies at 94
2008 Rob Guest, New Zealand entertainer (b. 1950)
2010 Kwa Geok Choo, wife of Singapore PM Lee Kuan Yew (b. 1920)
2015 Brian Friel, Irish dramatist "Irish Chekhov" (Dancing at Lughnasa), dies at 86

Saudi Arabian dissident, author, Washington Post columnist and editor in chief (Al-Arab News Channel), assassinated in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul at 59, reportedly on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman