ThisDayThatYear.com - Deaths on December 07

Deaths on December 07

xxxx : Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman philosopher, murdered at 63
xxxx : II the Red, German king/emperor (973-83), dies at about 28
1254 : Innocent IV, [Sinibaldo dei Fieschi], Pope (1243-54), dies
1383 : Wenceslaus, duke of Brabant, dies
1811 : Ignaz Spangler, composer, dies at 54
1815 : Michel Ney, French marshal (Waterloo), murdered at 46
1817 : William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame, dies at 63
1823 : Johann Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 79
1826 : John Flaxman, Engl sculptor (tombs at St Paul's Cathedral), dies at 71
1829 : Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer, dies at 45
1834 : Ludwig Schuncke, composer, dies at 23
1839 : Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer, dies at 69
1841 : Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer, dies at 83
1860 : Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet, dies at 43
1862 : Sylvester Churchill, US Union brig-general, dies
1867 : Rudolf Viole, composer, dies at 42
1881 : Julius FA Bahnsen, Ger philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51
1894 : Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89
1899 : Antoni Katski, composer, dies at 82
1902 : Thomas Nast, political cartoonist, dies
1912 : George Darwin, theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies
1917 : Leon Minkus, composer, dies at 91
1938 : Harry Moses, cricketer (6 Tests for Australia 1887-95), dies
1941 : Cecil Forsyth, composer, dies at 71
1941 : Iida, Japanese pilot/lt, dies in battle at 28
1943 : John Bouber, [Blom], actor/author (Bluejackets), dies at 22
1948 : Godfrey Turner, composer, dies at 35
1962 : Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano (Wagner), dies at 67
1967 : House Peters, silent film actor (Kansas Territory), dies at 87
1969 : Eric Portman, actor (Naked Edge), dies from heart ailment at 66
1969 : Hugh Williams, actor (Human Monster), dies after surgery at 65
1970 : Rube Goldberg, US cartoonist (Mike & Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87
1971 : Milton Rosmer, director (Murder in the Red Barn), dies at 90
1972 : Adrian J Zoetmulder, author (God's Hour), dies at 91
1975 : Hardie Albright, actress (Silver Streak, Scarlet Letter), dies at 71
1975 : Thornton N Wilder, US writer (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 78
1977 : Paul Gibb, cricketer (England batsman, 8 Tests), dies
1979 : Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies
1979 : Mari Andriessen, sculptor (Docker), Amsterdam, dies at 82
1979 : Nicolas Born, writer, dies at 41
1979 : Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran's nephew, murdered in Paris
1980 : Darby Crash, rocker, dies at 22
1982 : Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st US prisoner to be
1982 : executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas
1983 : Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA
1984 : Jeanne Cagney, actress (Quicksand, Kentucky Rifle), dies at 65
1985 : Potter Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice (1958-81), dies in NH at 70
1985 : Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus), dies at 90
1988 : Andrei P Ershov, Russian computer pioneer, dies
1988 : Christopher Connelly, actor (Liar's Moon, Hawmps), dies at 47
1988 : Peter Langan, Irish restaurateur (Langans London), dies in fire
1990 : Delecta "Dee" Clark, US singer (Raindrops), dies at 52
1990 : Horst Bienek, writer, dies at 60
1990 : Joan Bennett, US actress (House Across the Bay), dies at 80
1992 : Maurice Coutinho, writer/translator (Silent Struggle), dies at 79
1992 : Ruth Corbett Thom, dies after long illness at 78
1992 : Vincent Gardenia, actor (Moonstruck, LA Law), dies at 71
1993 : F‚lix Houphouet-Boigny, pres of Ivory Coast (1960-93), dies at 88
1993 : Janet Margolin, actress (David & Lisa), dies of ovarian cancer at 50
1994 : Elga Andersen, German/French model/actress (Global Affair), dies at 58
1995 : Larry Bartlett, photographer, dies at 42
1995 : Tom Burns, editor, dies at 89
1996 : Eugene Izzi, mystery writer, hangs himself at 43
1996 : Jose Donoso, writer, dies at 72

Birthdays

Death Days

Events