August 31 - Deaths

Deaths

• 651 – Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary (birth date unknown)
• 683 – Pacal II, ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque (b. 603)
• 1218 – Al-Adil I, Sultan of Egypt, Syria and northern Mesopotamia (b. 1145)
• 1234 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (b. 1212)
• 1372 – Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)
• 1422 – King Henry V of England (b. 1387)
• 1645 – Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566)
• 1654 – Ole Worm, Danish physician (b. 1588)
• 1688 – John Bunyan, English writer (b. 1628)
• 1730 – Gottfried Finger, Czech composer
• 1741 – Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
• 1772 – William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
• 1795 – François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (b. 1726)
• 1799 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720)
• 1814 – Arthur Phillip, British admiral (b. 1738)
• 1817 – John Thomas Duckworth, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1747)
• 1867 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet (b. 1821)
• 1869 – Mary Ward, Irish scientist (b. 1827)
• 1888 – "Polly" Nichols, British victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845)
• 1920 – Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (b. 1832)
• 1920 – Jens Oliver Lisberg, Faroese law student (b. 1896)
• 1924 – Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1881)
• 1940 – Georges Gauthier, French-Canadian religious figure (b. 1871)
• 1941 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)
• 1948 – Billy Laughlin, American actor (b. 1932)
• 1952 – Henri Bourassa, French-Canadian politician (b. 1868)
• 1954 – Elsa Barker, American writer (b. 1869)
• 1963 – Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
• 1967 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891)
• 1969 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
• 1973 – John Ford, American film director (b. 1894)
• 1974 – William Pershing Benedict, American pilot (b. 1928)
• 1974 – Norman Kirk, New Zealand prime minister (b. 1923)
• 1978 – John Wrathall, Rhodesian politician (b. 1913)
• 1979 – Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (b. 1904)
• 1979 – Tiger Smith, England cricketer (b. 1886)
• 1985 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
• 1986 – Henry Moore, English sculptor (b. 1898)
• 1986 – Urho Kekkonen, Finnish politician (b. 1900)
• 1995 – Barry Lee Fairchild, American convicted murderer (b. 1954)
• 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)
• 1997 – Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian film producer (b. 1955)
• 2000 – Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Lucille Fletcher, American screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 2002 – Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Farhad Mehrad, Persian singer, guitarist and pianist (b. 1944)
• 2002 – George Porter, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Carl Wayne, English singer (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-born British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908)
• 2005 – Michael Sheard, British actor (b. 1940)
• 2006 – Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
• 2006 – Tom Delaney, British racing driver (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (b. 1977)
• 2007 – Gay Brewer, American golfer (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Karloff Lagarde, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Ike Pappas, American news correspondent (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Victor Yates, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1939)
• 2009 – Eraño Manalo, Filipino religious figure (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Laurent Fignon, French bicycle racer (b. 1960)