August 1 - Deaths

Deaths

• 30 BC – Mark Antony, Roman politician and general (b. 83 BC)
• 371 – St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. 283)
• 527 – Emperor Justin I (b. 450)
• 1137 – King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
• 1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
• 1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian explorer (b. c.1180)
• 1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
• 1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (b. c.1406)
• 1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
• 1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
• 1546 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
• 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)
• 1675 – Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts, a band of the Wampanoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip's War (b. 1635)
• 1714 – Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
• 1787 – Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
• 1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist(b. 1735)
• 1796 – Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
• 1798 – François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
• 1807 – John Walker, British lexicographer (b. 1732)
• 1812 – Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
• 1851 – William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
• 1866 – John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
• 1903 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (b. 1853)
• 1911 – Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (b. 1843)
• 1911 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (b. 1852)
• 1917 – Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
• 1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
• 1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
• 1929 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1938 – John Aasen, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Soviet female flying ace (b. 1921)
• 1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, First President of the Philippine Commonwealth (b. 1878)
• 1966 – Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. 1941)
• 1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
• 1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883)
• 1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
• 1973 – Walter Ulbricht, German communist statesman (b. 1893)
• 1974 – Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
• 1980 – Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
• 1980 – Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
• 1989 – John Ogdon, British pianist (b. 1937)
• 1990 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
• 1990 – Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
• 1996 – Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
• 1996 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
• 1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
• 1997 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
• 2001 – Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
• 2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
• 2004 – Philip Abelson, American physicist, (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
• 2005 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
• 2006 – Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
• 2007 – Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Corazon Aquino, Former President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican nationalist (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby and cricket international player and referee/umpire (b. 1910)