Deaths in History on August 3

1780 Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism), dies at 64

Richard Arkwright (1732-1792)

English industrialist and inventor (created the spinning frame, built Cromford Mill), dies at 59

1797 Jeffrey Amherst, English army general (commanded British forces in North America) and Royal Governor of Virginia (1759-1768), dies at 80
1802 Henry, Prince of Prussia and diplomat (led armies during Silesian Wars and the Seven Years' War), dies at 76
1805 Christopher Anstey, English poet (The New Bath Guide), dies at 80
1811 Sebastiaan C. Nederburgh, Dutch director-general of East Indies Co, dies at 49
1823 Jacob Abraham de Mist, Dutch statesman, dies at 74
1833 Stoffel Muller, Dutch sect leader, dies
1839 Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (Florentin), dies at 74
1857 Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
1867 Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1877 William Butler Ogden, American real estate investor, politician (1st Mayor of Chicago, 1837-38), railroad executive (president of Union Pacific, 1862-63), and philanthropist, dies at 72
1879 Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
1894 George Inness, American landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69
1907 August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59
1910 Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies
1916 Roger Casement, Irish diplomat, ardent Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916) and poet, hanged after conviction for treason by the British at 51
1917 Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (Frobenius–Stickelberger formulae), dies at 67
1918 Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies at 41

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

Polish-English novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness), dies at 66

1929 Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
1929 Thorstein Veblen, American economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899), dies at 72
1938 Alexander Malyschkin, writer, dies
1942 Richard Willstätter, German chemist (Nobel 1915), dies at 69
1944 Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz
1944 Felka Platek, wife of painter Felix Nussbaum, dies in Auschwitz
1948 Albert Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78
1955 Lida Durdikova, Czech children's author (Children with extinguished eyes) and publisher (Père Castor), dies at 56
1957 John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier, father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer
1964 Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39
1968 Constantine Rokossovski, vice-premier of Poland (1952-56), dies at 71
1973 Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)
1977 Makarios III [Michail Mouskos], Greek Cypriot clergyman and politician, dies at 63
1978 Ezzedin Kalak, Palestinian PLO representative in Paris, murdered
1979 Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)
1981 Roberto Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered at 25
1984 Vladimir Tendryakov, Russian writer (Three, Seven, Ace), dies at 60
1986 Beryl Markham (née Clutterbuck), British-Kenyan; racehorse trainer, aviator, and memoirist, dies at 83
1986 Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician (CPN) and editor (The Truth), dies at 87
1990 Florida Edwards, dies of pneumonia at 79
1992 Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Comm Party (1973-76), dies
1994 Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter, dies at 77
1994 Christy Henrich, US turnster, dies of anorexia nervosa at 22
1994 Hidalgo Moya, American architect and designer (Skylon), dies at 74
1994 John van Raay [John Oradi], radio-imitator (Paul Flanders)
1995 Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)
1995 Marcus Chenault, killer of Martin Luther King Jr's mother, dies at 54
1997 Pietro Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian politician (Senator for Repentigny, Quebec, 1976-97), dies at 83
1999 Rodney William "Rod" Ansell, Australian bushman and inspiration for "Crocodile Dundee", dies following a shootout with police officers at 44
2000 Michael Meyer, English novelist and translator, dies at 79

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

French photographer famous for 'The Decisive Moment', dies at 95

2005 Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920)
2007 John Gardner, British author (b. 1926)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)

Russian writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel Prize for Literature 1970), dies at 89

2008 Skip Caray, American TV and radio broadcaster (b. 1939)
2013 Farman Fatehpuri [Syed Dildar Ali], Urdu scholar, linguist, critic and author, dies of natural causes at 87
2015 Les Munro, New Zealand WWII pilot (Dambusters), dies at 96
2015 Robert Conquest, English historian and poet (The Great Terror), dies at 98
2017 Theodore "Ted" Stanley, American anesthesiologist and medical entrepreneur (created the fentanyl lollipop), dies at 77
2020 John Hume, Northern Irish politician (jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize for Good Friday Agreement), dies at 83 [1]
2020 Ralph Barbieri, American sports radio personality (KNBR San Francisco; 'The Razor and Mr. T' 1996-2012), dies of Parkinson's disease at 74
2020 Shirley Ann Grau, American Pulitzer winning author (Keepers of the House), dies at 91
2022 Jackie Walorski, American politician (Rep-R-Indiana 2013-22), dies in a car accident at 58 [1]