Deaths in History on August 1

30 BC Mark Antony [Marcus Antonius], Roman politician and general, commits suicide after he is defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium at 53

1464 cosimo de' Medici, Italian banker and de facto ruler of Florence, dies at 74

1541 Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
1546 Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (co-founder of Society of Jesus), dies at 39
1557 Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
1580 Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
1589 Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
1630 Federico Cesi, Italian naturalist and founder of the first modern scientific society, the Accademia dei Lincei, dies at 45
1667 Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48

1708 Edward Tyson, British Physician and father of comparative anatomy (The Anatomy of a Pygmy, 1698), dies at 57

1714 Anne Stuart, Queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49

1743 Richard Savage, English poet and playwright, dies at about 46
1787 Alfonso Liguori, Italian bishop and theologian, dies at 90
1796 Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
1798 François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
1812 Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
1834 Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies
1837 Walter Geikie, Scottish painter, dies at 41
1851 William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
1857 Charles Turner, engraver, dies
1866 John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, dies at 75
1882 Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet (Bell Birds), dies of tuberculosis at 43
1883 Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, classic scholar, dies
1884 Heinrich Laube, writer, dies
1887 Joseph Rainey, American politician, 1st African American in US House of Representatives (1870-1879), dies at 55
1892 George Baird Hodge, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 64
1895 Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzugs), dies at 77
1896 William Robert Grove, Welsh physicist and inventor of the first fuel cell, dies at 85
1902 Ludwig Beckmann, painter, dies

1903 Calamity Jane [Martha Jane Canary], American frontierswoman, dies at 51

1911 Konrad Duden, German linguist (Das, grosse Duden Lexicon), dies
1917 Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
1920 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, early Indian nationalist leader, dies at 64
1925 John Pieter Veth, painter/lithographer/etcher/writer, dies at 61
1926 Israel Zangwill, Jewish author (Children of The Ghetto) and Zionist leader, dies at 62
1935 Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist (patented rayon), dies at 71
1943 Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68

1944 Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, Second President of Philippines (1935-42), dies of tuberculosis at 65

1946 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45
1954 Charles-A Cingria, writer, dies
1957 Harvey Glatmin, 1st bondage-photo victim, executed [or 8/18/59]
1962 Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62
1963 Theodore Roethke, American poet (Praise to the end!), dies at 55
1966 Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 16 at U of Texas, shot by cops
1970 Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician (Nobel-1931), dies at 86
1973 Walter Ulbricht, German politician (Head Of State, German Democratic Republic), dies at 80
1974 Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
1977 Francis Gary Powers, US U-2 pilot, dies at 47
1985 Joseph Walker, cameraman, dies at 92
1986 Willem Klein, variety artist, dies at about 73
1986 Robert Wolfgang Schnell, German writer, dies at 70
1988 John Dearden, American cardinal (1969-88) and archbishop of Detroit, dies at 80
1990 Norbert Elias, German/English/Neth philosopher/sociologist, dies
1992 Margarita Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja), dies at 76

1993 Alfred Manessier, French painter (glass-in-lead), dies in car crash at 81
1993 Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered
1993 Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72
1993 Viktor Polyanitshko, governor of Kaukasus, murdered
1994 George Dixon, trumpet/sax, dies at 85
1994 Gerard van de Groenekan, furniture maker/designer, dies at 90
1996 Mohamed Farrah Aidid, President (ANS-CUS)/Somalia, dies
1996 Pierre Lucien Claverie, bishop of Oran, dies at 58
1996 Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99
1996 Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
1997 Ngiratkel Etpison, president of Palau (1989-92), dies
1999 Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
2000 Hugh Hood, Canadian author (White Figure, White Ground), dies at 72
2003 Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
2004 Philip Abelson, American physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 91
2005 Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (1982-2005), dies at 84
2005 Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
2005 WiBo, Dutch cartoonist, dies at 87
2006 Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
2006 Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (Frank and Ernest), dies at 81
2006 Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
2008 Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)

2010 Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican nationalist (b. 1919)
2016 Franciszek Macharski, Polish Cardinal, Archbishop of Krakow (1978-2005), dies at 87
2016 Queen Anne of Romania [Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma], wife of Michael I King of Romania, dies at 92