Deaths October 31 | History by KabAstro

Victor Amadeus II (1666-1732)

Duke of Savoy (1675-1730) and King of Sardinia (1720-30), dies at 66

1733 Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg, dies at 57
1744 Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, Italian opera composer, dies at 50
1765 Duke of Cumberland, English politician/uncle of George III, dies
1768 Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer, dies at 78
1786 Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain, second daughter of King George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach, dies at 75
1793 Pierre-Victurnien Vergniaud, French politician and police leader, guillotined at 40
1806 Sophie Mereau, German writer, dies at 36
1806 Utamaro Kitagawa, Japanese painter and printmaker of the ukiyo-e movement, dies at about 53
1815 Daniel Belknap, American composer, dies at 44
1834 Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French-American chemist and industrialist (E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company), dies at 63
1851 Peter II, prince-bishop of Montenegro (1830-51) and poet (The Ray of The Microcosm), dies at 37
1860 Johannes Nathan, Dutch murderer, the last ordinary execution in the Netherlands, hanged for killing his mother-in-law
1860 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral, dies at 84
1863 Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US brigadier general (Union), dies at 51
1865 William Parson, 3rd Earl of Rosse & maker of large telescopes, dies
1870 Mihály Mosonyi, Hungarian composer, dies at 55
1879 Big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies
1879 Jacob Abbott, American author (b. 1803)
1879 Joseph Hooker, American General (b. 1814)
1881 George Washington De Long, American Arctic Explorer whose disastrous expedition provided evidence to support the theory of trans-Arctic oceanic drift, dies during his disastrous expedition to the North Pole at 37
1883 Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj
1884 Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian diarist and painter, dies at 25
1887 George Alexander Macfarren, British composer and musicologist, dies at 74
1895 Franz Hedrich, Austria writer, dies at about 62
1902 Jean-Baptist Colyns, Belgian violinist and composer, dies at 67
1913 William Evans-Gordon, British politician (b. 1857)

Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916)

American religious leader (founder of the Bible School Movement that led to Jehovah's Witnesses), dies at 64

1917 Tibby Cotter, Australian cricket fast bowler and soldier (21 Tests, 49 wickets), dies in world's last successful cavalry charge, 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba at 33
1918 Egon Schiele, Austrian painter and graphic artist, dies at 28
1918 [Stephen] István Tisza, Hungarian PM (1903-05, 1913-17), assassinated by soldiers at 57
1920 Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins, dies at 65

Harry Houdini (1874-1926)

Famous magician and escape artist, dies at 52 in Detroit of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured

1927 Elizabeth Harrison, American educator (National Congress of Parents & Teachers), dies at 78
1928 José Méndez, Cuban Baseball HOF pitcher (NgL World Series 1924; 3 × NgL NL pennants; Kansas City Monarchs), dies at 43
1929 António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
1939 Otto Rank [Rosenfeld], Austria psychoanalyst (Trauma of Geburt), dies
1941 Herwarth Walden, German art writer and critic, dies in a Soviet prison at 63
1943 Max Reinhardt [Goldmann], Austrian theatrical director (Oedipus Rex) and founder of the Salzburg Festival, dies at 70
1945 Henry Ainley, English actor (As You Like It), dies at 66
1945 Wincenty Witoz, Polish politician (Prime Minister of Poland 1920-21, 1923, 1926), dies at 71
1948 Cissy van Marxfield [Setske Beek-de Han], Dutch children's writer, dies at 58
1949 Edward Stettinius Jr. 48th US Secretary of State (1944-45) and diplomat, dies at 49
1950 Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet and writer (Lost Paradise), dies at 72
1950 Jozef C Bittremieux, Belgian theologist (Virgin & Mother of God), dies at 72
1952 U Chit Hlaing, Burmese politician (b. 1879)
1955 Alban Collignon, Belgian sport journalist, dies at 74
1955 William Woodward Jr., American businessman and horse breeder (Hanover National Bank), is shot by his wife after being mistaken for an intruder at 35
1959 Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)
1960 H L Davis, American writer (Honey in the Horn, Pulitzer prize), dies at 64
1963 Henry Daniell, British actor (The Great Dictator, Camille, Philadelphia Story, Body Snatchers), dies at 69
1964 Theodore Freeman, American aeronautical engineer. US Air Force officer, and NASA astronaut, dies in a T-38 jet crash, NASA's 1st flight related fatality, at 34
1965 Rita Johnson, American actress (Honolulu, All Mine to Give), dies from a brain hemorrhage at 53
1967 Jan Mens, Dutch writer (Honor to God Alone), dies at 70
1968 Malcolm Hale, American musician (Spanky and Our Gang), dies of monoxide poisoning at 27
1969 Hugo Pfister, Swiss classical and stage composer, dies at 55
1971 Gerhard von Rad, German old testament expert (Deuteronomium), dies at 70
1972 Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
1973 Lucha Reyes 'Morena de Oro', Peruvian singer (Siempre criolla), dies of a heart attack at 37 [1]
1975 Joseph Calleia, Maltese-American stage, screen, and radio actor (The Book; Gilda; Touch of Evil), dies at 78
1975 SD Burman, Indian singer and film music composer (Zindagi Zindagi), dies at 69
1976 Linda Watkins, American actress (From Hell it Came, Harpy), dies at 68
1977 Joan Tetzel, American actress (Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning), dies of cancer at 56

American Pro Football HOF coach (NFL C'ship 1921, 32, 33, 40, 41, 43, 46, 63; NFL Coach of the Year 1963, 65 Chicago Bears) and executive (owner Chicago Bears 1921-83), dies of pancreatic cancer at 88

1984 Eduardo De Filippo, Italian playwright, director, actor and poet (7 Deadly Sins, Shoot Loud), dies at 84

Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)

4th Prime Minister of India (1966-77, 1980-84), assassinated by two of her bodyguards at 66

1985 Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (NBA light heavyweight title 1941), dies of a heart attack at 68
1985 Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek surrealist painter and poet (Do Not Distract the Driver), dies of a heart attack at 78
1985 Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (Soldaten og Jenny, Det gælder os alle), dies at 72
1986 Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist and physicist (Nobel 1966), dies at 90
1987 Joseph Campbell, American professor of comparative mythology (Mythic Image), dies at 83
1988 Alfred Pellan, Québécois modernist painter, dies of leukemia at 82
1988 John Houseman, Romanian actor (The Paper Chase, Rollerball, The Fog), dies of spinal cancer at 86
1989 Conrad Beck, Swiss composer, dies at 88
1990 Graig Russel, Canadian travel expert/transvestite, dies
1990 Hugh McPhillips, dies at 70
1991 Bert Bertram, Australian actor (How to Steal a Million, Shamus), dies of cancer at 97
1991 Gene Anderson, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1991 Johan Schmitz, actor (Gysbregt van Aemstel/Soldat van Orange), dies
1991 Joseph Papp, American stage producer and director (Pirates of Penzance; A Chorus Line), dies of cancer at 70
1991 Willem Pelemans, Flemish composer, and music critic, dies at 90
1993 Adriaan Venema, Dutch journalist/art dealer, commits suicide at 52
1993 Edwin A Walker, US Maj-Gen, dies of lung cancer at 84

Federico Fellini (1920-1993)

Italian film director and scriptwriter (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita), dies of stroke at 73

River Phoenix (1970-1993)

American actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me), dies of a drug overdose at 23

1994 John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian and director of British Museum (1974-76), dies at 80
1994 Jole Silvani [Niobe Quaiatti], Italian actress (La citta' Delle), dies
1994 Lester Sill, American pioneer music publisher (Leiber and Stoller; Lee Hazlewood), and record label executive (Philles Records; Colpix; Colgems), dies at 76
1994 William John Readings, literary theorist, dies at 34
1995 Alan Bush, British composer pianist and teacher, dies at 94
1995 Derek Anthony Enright, British Labour politician, dies at 60
1995 Dr. Hepcat [Lavad Durst], American blues piano player and singer-songwriter, radio DJ and baseball broadcaster, dies at 82
1995 Henry Percy, British peer, 11th Duke of Northumberland, dies after a drug overdose at 42
1995 Leonard Ernest John Chant, social worker, dies at 57
1995 Lloyd Lambert, American bassist (Guitar Slim), dies at 67
1995 Lou Levy, American 'Tin Pan Alley' music publisher (Leeds Music Corp - Sammy Cahn, Adler & Ross, Bob Dylan), dies at 84
1995 Rosalind Cash, American actress (Emma-Go Tell It on the Mountain), dies of cancer at 56
1995 Wallace Edward Rowling, Prime Minister of NZ (1974-1975), dies at 68
1996 Andrew Hutchings, British trade union leader, dies at 88
1996 Arthur Peterson, American actor (Soap, Mission: Impossible, Crisis), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 83
1996 John Gorman, printer and socialist historian, dies at 66
1996 Peter Doig, British Labour Party politician, dies at 85
1997 Wilfrid Oulton, British Royal Air Force officer, dies at 86
1998 Bernard J. Dwyer, American politician (Rep-D-NJ 1981-93), dies at 77
1998 Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1935)
1998 Kenneth Darling, British Army Commander-in-chief Allied Forces, dies at 89
1999 Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975)
1999 Howard Ferguson, British-Irish pianist, composer, teacher and musicologist, dies at 91
2000 Ring Lardner Jr., American journalist and screenwriter (Woman of the Year, M A S H), dies at 75
2000 Watanabe Kazuki Japanese progressive rock guitarist and songwriter (Raphael), dies of an accidental sedative overdose at 19
2001 Art Wall Jr, American golfer (Masters 1959), dies of respiratory failure at 77
2001 Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (b. 1970)
2002 Lionel Poilâne, French baker and entrepreneur, dies at 57
2002 Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician and 1st President of Greece, dies at 99
2002 Raf Vallone, Italian actor (A View From the Bridge), dies at 86
2003 Gordon Weir, New Zealand cricket batsman (11 Tests, 3 x 50; Auckland CA), dies at 93
2003 Richard Neustadt, American political historian (b. 1919)
2003 Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian Carnatic vocalist, dies at 95
2005 Hal Anger, American biophysicist and electrical engineer who invented the gamma camera, dies at 85
2005 John "Beatz" Holohan, American drummer (Bayside), dies in an auto accident at 31
2005 Mary Wimbush, British actress (Oh! What a Lovely War, The Archers), dies at 81

P. W. Botha (1916-2006)

South African politician (President of South Africa, 1984-89; Prime Minister, 1977-84), dies at 90

2007 Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby union footballer (Wales and the British Lions), dies of a heart attack at 56
2008 Studs Terkel, American writer, historian and radio host (Stud's Place, Working), dies at 96
2009 Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project and who pioneered engineering cybernetics, dies at 97
2009 Ron Gowans, Australian jazz saxophonist, dies of cancer at 83
2009 Tom Wheatcroft, English businessman and car collector (Donington Grand Prix Collection), dies at 87
2010 Maurice Lucas, American basketball player, dies at 58
2010 Theodore Sorenson, American presidential advisor to JFK and author (Kennedy), dies at 82
2011 Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (European Footballer of the Year 1967), dies at 70
2011 Liz Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter (Mama Spank, The Game of Triangles), dies of heart and lung disease at 81
2011 Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian Indo-European philologist (Indo-Iranian languages), dies at 85
2012 Brian Cobby, British actor (Evita, The Nudist Story) and the first male voice of the British speaking clock, dies from health complications at 83
2012 Konstantin Vyrupayev, Soviet wrestler (Greco-Roman Bantamweight Olympic Gold 1956), dies at 82
2014 Henry Harris, British cell biologist (identified genes capable of suppressing cancers), dies at 89 [1]
2014 Käbi Laretei, Estonian-Swedish concert pianist, dies at 92
2015 Gregg Palmer [Palmer Edvind Lee], American actor (Scream, To Hell & Back), dies at 88
2015 Gus Savage, American politician (Rep-D-IL, 1981- 93), dies at 90
2016 James Galanos, American fashion designer (Coty Hall of Fame 1959), dies at 92
2016 Natalie Babbitt, American children's writer (Tuck Everlasting), dies of lung cancer at 84
2016 Tammy Grimes, American stage actress (Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 82

Willie McCovey (1938-2018)

American Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman (6 x MLB All Star; NL MVP 1969; NL home run leader 1963, 68, 69; SF Giants), dies of an infection at 80

2019 (Elizabeth) Ann Crumb, American stage and screen actress and singer, dies of ovarian cancer at 69
2020 Marius Žaliūkas, Lithuanian soccer centre back (25 caps; Hearts, Leeds, Rangers), dies from motor neurone disease at 36
2020 MF Doom [Daniel Dumile], American rapper and hip hop artist, dies at 49 [1]
2020 Rance Allen, American gospel singer and musician (Rance Allen Group - Miracle Worker), dies at 71

Sean Connery (1930-2020)

Scottish actor and producer (James Bond films; Indiana Jones), dies at 90

2021 Dorothy Manley, British 100m sprinter (Olympic silver, 1948), dies at 94
2021 Joan Carlyle, Welsh operatic soprano (Covent Garden, 1955-76), dies at 90
2021 Peter Philpott, Australian cricket spin bowler (8 Tests, 26 wickets, best 5/90; NSW CA), dies due to complications from a fall at 86
2022 Alan "Froggy" Thomson, Australian cricket fast bowler (4 Tests, 12 wickets; Victoria CA), dies at 76
2022 John McVay, American football coach (NY Giants 1976-78) and executive (AD Uni of Dayton 1972, 73; GM SF 49ers 1998-99), dies at 91
2023 Donald Longmore, British cardiac surgeon (part of first UK heart transplant team), dies at 95
2023 José Luis Dolgetta, Venezuelan soccer forward (20 caps; Carabobo FC), dies of a heart attack at 53
2023 Ken Mattingly, American USN naval officer, and NASA astronaut (Apollo 16; STS-4, -51-C), dies at 87 [1]
2023 Oleg Protopopov, Russian figure skater (Olympic gold USSR pairs 1964, 68; World C'ship gold pairs 1965, 66, 67, 68 [Ludmila Belousova]), dies at 91
2023 Ronnie Rees, Welsh soccer winger (39 caps; Coventry City, WBA, Nottingham Forest), dies at 79