August 3 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1460 – King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
• 1527 – Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
• 1546 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)
• 1546 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)
• 1604 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
• 1621 – Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556)
• 1667 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (b. 1599)
• 1712 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
• 1720 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
• 1721 – Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born English woodcarver (b. 1648)
• 1761 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
• 1773 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700)
• 1780 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (b. 1715)
• 1792 – Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)
• 1797 – Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
• 1805 – Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)
• 1835 – Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1767)
• 1839 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)
• 1857 – Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
• 1867 – Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
• 1877 – William Butler Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1879 – Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1916 – Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged) (b. 1864)
• 1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849)
• 1924 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British writer (b. 1857)
• 1925 – William Bruce, Australian cricketer (b. 1864)
• 1929 – Emile Berliner, German-born American telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
• 1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
• 1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1872)
• 1954 – Colette, French writer (b. 1873)
• 1958 – Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931)
• 1964 – Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925)
• 1966 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
• 1972 – Giannis Papaioannou, Turkey-born Greek musician and composer (b. 1913)
• 1973 – Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1977 – Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (b. 1913)
• 1979 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1899)
• 1983 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
• 1990 – Betty Amann, German-born American actress (b. 1905)
• 1993 – Chinmayananda, Indian Vedanta Swami (b. 1916)
• 1995 – Ida Lupino, English actress and director (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)
• 1996 – Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (b. 1939)
• 1997 – Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 1998 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)
• 1999 – Byron Farwell, American military historian (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Christopher Hewett, British actor (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Niculiţă Secrieriu, Romanian painter (b. 1938)
• 2002 – Carmen Silvera, British actress (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954)
• 2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
• 2004 – Bob Murphy, American TV and radio broadcaster (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (Love) (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born British opera singer (b. 1915)
• 2007 – John Gardner, British author (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Skip Caray, American TV and radio broadcaster (b. 1939)
• 2008 – Erik Darling, American folk singer-songwriter (b. 1933)