Death Anniversaries - w/e November 18, 2000
Andrew Evans
NOVEMBER 12
1035 - Cnut (Canute), King of England & Denmark 1014-1035 and of Norway
1030-1035, in Shaftesbury, Dorset aged about 40.
1671 - 3rd Baron Fairfax, English Civil War general, in Nunappleton,
Yorkshire aged 59.
1813 - Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, French-born US essayist and
farmer, in Sarcelles, France aged 78.
1865 - Mrs (Elizabeth) Gaskell, English novelist, in Holybourne, Alton,
Hampshire aged 55.
1916 - Percival Lowell, US astronomer, in Flagstaff, Arizona aged 61.
1947 - Baroness Orczy, Hungarian-born British novelist (The Scarlet
Pimpernel), in London, England aged 82.
1969 - Liu Shaoqi, Chinese political leader, in Kaifeng, Honan Province,
China aged about 71.
1972 - Rudolf Friml, Hungarian-born US pianist and composer, from a
brain haemorrhage in Los Angeles, California aged 92.
1976 - Walter Piston, US composer, in Belmont, Massachusetts aged 82.
1989 - Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionara), Spanish writer and politician,
aged 93.
1990 - Eve Arden, US actress, from heart failure and cancer at her home
in Beverly Hills, California aged 82.
1993 - Anna Sten, Russian-born actress, from cardiac arrest at home in
Manhattan, New York City aged 84.
1995 - Sir Robert Stephens, English actor, following a liver and kidney
transplant in hospital in London aged 64.
NOVEMBER 13
1093 - Malcolm III (Canmore) of Scotland, King 1057-1093, killed, in an
ambush led by Robert Mowbray, earl of Northumberland, near Alnwick,
Northumberland aged 62.
1460 - Henry the Navigator, Portuguese prince, in Vila do Infante,
Portugal aged 66.
1770 - George Grenville, British prime minister 1763-1765, in Bolton
Street, Piccadilly, London aged 58.
1861 - Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet, from malaria in Florence, Italy
aged 42.
1868 - Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, Italian composer, in Passy, near
Paris, France aged 76.
1903 - Camille Pissarro, West Indian-born French Impressionist painter,
in Paris, France aged 73.
1928 - Enrico Cecchetti, Italian dancer and choreographer, in Milan,
Italy aged 78.
1973 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French fashion designer, in Paris, France aged
77.
1973 - Bruno Maderna, Italian composer, in Darmstadt, Germany aged 53.
1974 - Vittorio de Sica, Italian film director, following surgery for
lung cancer in Paris, France aged 72.
1982 - Chesney Allen, English comedian, in Midhurst, Sussex aged 88.
1988 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian-born US composer, in Gerzensee, near
Berne, Switzerland aged 82.
1989 - Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (Olympic 200m breaststroke 1984),
after being struck by a car following an altercation outside a bar aged
25.
1998 - Valerie Hobson, Irish-born British actress, from a heart attack
in hospital in London aged 81.
NOVEMBER 14
1263 - Alexander Nevsky, Russian Grand Prince, in Gorodets, Russia aged
about 43.
1687 - Nell Gwyn, English actress and mistress to King Charles II,
following a stroke in London aged 37.
1716 - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, German philosopher and
mathematician, in Hanover, Germany aged 70.
1734 - Duchess of Portsmouth, French courtesan and another mistress of
King Charles II, in Paris, France aged 85.
1831 - Georg Hegel, German philosopher, from cholera in Berlin, Germany
aged 61.
1841 - 7th Earl of Elgin, British appropriator of Greek marbles, from
"obstruction of the digestive organs" in Paris, France aged 75.
1905 - Robert Whitehead, English inventor of the self-propelling
torpedo, in Beckett, Berkshire aged 82.
1914 - 1st Earl Roberts VC (Frederick Sleigh Roberts), Indian-born
British army commander, in Saint-Omer, France aged 82.
1915 - Booker T Washington, US educationist, in Tuskagee, Alabama aged
59.
1916 - H H Munro (Saki), British writer, in action in the First World
War near Beaumont-Hamel, France aged 45.
1946 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer, in Alta Gracia, Argentina aged
69.
1955 - Robert E Sherwood, US playwright and author, in New York City
aged 59.
1964 - Heinrich von Brentano, German statesman, in Darmstadt, Germany
aged 60.
1977 - Richard Addinsell, English composer, in London, England aged 73.
1991 - Tony Richardson, English film and theatre director, from an AIDS-
related illness in Los Angeles, California aged 63.
1997 - Eddie Arcaro, US jockey, after a long illness at his home in
Miami, Florida aged 81.
NOVEMBER 15
1630 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, in Regensburg, Bavaria,
Germany aged 58.
1781 - Christoph Gluck, German composer, following two strokes in
Vienna, Austria aged 67.
1863 - Frederik VII of Denmark, King 1848-1863, in Glucksburg Castle,
Denmark aged 55.
1916 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish novelist (Nobel literature 1905), in
Vevey, Switzerland aged 70.
1919 - Alfred Werner, French-born Swiss chemist (Nobel chemistry 1913),
in Zurich, Switzerland aged 52.
1934 - Alice Liddell, English inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice in
Wonderland, aged 82.
1954 - Lionel Barrymore, US actor, from a heart attack in Van Nuys,
California aged 76.
1958 - Tyrone Power, US actor, from a heart attack in Madrid, Spain aged
45.
1959 - Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist (Nobel physics 1927), in
Carlops, Peeblesshire, Scotland aged 90.
1976 - Jean Gabin, French actor, from a heart attack in Paris, France
aged 72.
1978 - Margaret Mead, US anthropologist, in New York City aged 76.
1983 - John Le Mesurier, English actor, from an abdominal ailment in
Ramsgate, Kent aged 71.
1996 - Alger Hiss, US diplomat alleged to be a spy, in New York City
aged 92.
1997 - Saul Chaplin, US songwriter, from injuries sustained in a fall at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California aged 85.
1998 - Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), US civil rights activist, from
prostate cancer at his home in Conakry, Guinea aged 57.
NOVEMBER 16
1272 - Henry III of England, King 1216-1272, in Westminster, London aged
65.
1885 - Louis Riel, Canadian politician, hanged for treason in Regina,
Canada aged 41.
1960 - Clark Gable, US actor, from a heart attack in Los Angeles,
California aged 59.
1965 - William Thomas Cosgrave, Irish politician, in Dublin, Ireland
aged 85.
1981 (date body found, had apparently been dead for several days) -
William Holden, US actor, from blood loss after his head was cut in a
fall, in Santa Monica, California aged 63.
1982 - Arthur Askey, English comedian, following an amputation of a leg,
at St Thomas's Hospital, London aged 82.
1988 - Jennie Lee (Baroness Lee), Scottish Labour politician and widow
of Aneurin Bevan, in London aged 84.
1999 - Daniel Nathans, US microbiologist (Nobel phys/med 1978), from
leukaemia at his home in Baltimore, Maryland aged 71.
NOVEMBER 17
1558 - Mary I of England (Mary Tudor), Queen 1553-1558, from influenza
in London aged 42.
1558 - Reginald Pole, English Roman Catholic churchman (Archbishop of
Canterbury 1556-58), in London (12 hours after Queen Mary) aged 58.
1768 - 1st Duke of Newcastle (Thomas Pelham-Holles), British prime
minister 1754-1756 & 1757-1762, in Lincolns Inn Field, London aged 75.
1796 (GC) - Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia 1762-1796, in
Tsarskoye Selo, near St Petersburg, Russia aged 67.
1818 - Charlotte Sophia, wife of King George III of Great Britain from
1761, in Kew, London aged 74.
1858 - Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer, in Newtown, Montgomeryshire,
Wales aged 87.
1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, in Meudon, near Paris, France
aged 77.
1940 - Eric Gill, English sculptor and writer, in Uxbridge, Middlesex
aged 58.
1955 - James P Johnson, US pianist and composer, in New York City aged
61.
1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
aged 72.
1968 - Mervyn Peake, Chinese-born English writer, in Burcot, Oxfordshire
aged 57.
1970 - Naunton Wayne, Welsh-born comedy actor, in Tolworth, Surrey aged
69.
1971 - Dame Gladys Cooper, English actress, from pneumonia in Henley-on-
Thames, Oxfordshire aged 82.
1974 - Erskine Childers, President of Ireland 1973-1974, in Dublin,
Ireland aged 68.
1974 - Clive Brook, English actor, in London aged 87.
1990 - Robert Hofstadter, US physicist (Nobel physics 1961), in
Stanford, California aged 75.
NOVEMBER 18
1886 (5.00am) - Chester Arthur, US president 1881-1885, in New York City
aged 56.
1922 - Marcel Proust, French novelist, from pneumonia in Paris, France
aged 51.
1941 - Walther Hermann Nernst, German chemist (Nobel chemistry 1920), in
Muskau, Germany aged 77.
1952 - Paul Eluard, French poet, after a three-month illness in
Charenton-le-Pont, near Paris, France aged 56.
1962 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (Nobel physics 1922), in Copenhagen,
Denmark aged 77.
1965 - Henry Agard Wallace, US Vice-President 1941-1945, in Danbury,
Connecticut aged 77.
1968 - Walter Wanger, US film producer, in New York City aged 74.
1969 - Ted Heath, English bandleader, in Virginia Water, Surrey aged 69.
1969 - Joseph Patrick Kennedy, US diplomat and businessman, in Hyannis
Port, Massachusetts aged 81.
1971 - Junior Parker, US blues singer and musician, from a brain tumour
in Blue Island, Illinois aged 44.
1976 - Man Ray, US painter and photographer, in Paris, France aged 86.
1977 - Kurt von Schuschnigg, President of Austria 1934-1938, in Mutters,
near Innsbruck, Austria aged 79.
1983 - Ivan Albright, US painter, in Woodstock, Vermont aged 86.
1987 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (Tour de France winner 5 times),
from stomach cancer in hospital in Rouen, France aged 54.
1991 - Gustav Husak, President of Czechoslovakia 1975-1989, from heart,
circulatory and respiratory failure in hospital in Bratislava, Slovakia
aged 78.
1994 - Cab Calloway, US jazz bandleader and singer, from pneumonia
following a stroke in Cokesbury Village, Delaware aged 86.
1999 - Paul Bowles, US author and traveller, from a heart attack in
Tangiers, Morocco aged 88.
1999 - Doug Sahm, US musician, in Taos, New Mexico aged 58.
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Andrew Evans