Famous Deaths on 3rd August

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808 - P'ang Yun, [Layman P'ang], Exemplary Zen practitioner, dies in China
1387 - Olaf V Haakonsson, King of Denmark (1376-87)/Norway (1380-87), dies
1460 - King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
1527 - Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
1530 - Philibert Chalon, prince of Orange/viceroy of Naples, dies
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)
1716 - Sebastian Duron, composer, dies at 56
1720 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
1721 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)
1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
1773 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700)
1779 - Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist, dies at 27
1780 - Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism), dies at 64
1784 - Giovanni Battista Martini, composer, dies at 78
1792 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)
1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America, dies at 80
1800 - Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer, dies at 63
1802 - Henry DFL, prince of Prussia/general/diplomat, dies
1805 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)
1811 - Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, Dutch dir-gen of East Indies Co, dies at 49
1823 - Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist, Dutch politician/colonial dir, dies at 74
1825 - Ambrogio Minoja, composer, dies at 72
1833 - Stoffel Muller, Dutch sect leader, dies
1835 - Wenzel Muller, composer, dies at 67
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 - Karl Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 75
1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
1886 - Per August Olander, composer, dies at 62
1890 - Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author (Journal), dies at 76
1894 - George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69
1902 - August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer, dies at 54
1907 - August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59
1910 - Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies
1916 - Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51
1918 - Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies at 41
Novelist Joseph Conrad (1924) 1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66
1925 - William Bruce, cricketer (drowns 14 Tests for Australia 1885-95), dies
1929 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
1929 - Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
1933 - Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet), dies at 69
1934 - Carl F baron von Langen-Parow, German equestrian (Olympic-gold-1928)
1938 - Alexander Malyschkin, writer, dies
1939 - Eugust Enna, composer, dies at 80
1940 - Willard Hershberger, catcher (Cin Reds), commits suicide
1944 - Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz
1944 - Felka Platek, wife of painter Felix Nussbaum, dies in Auschwitz
1948 - Albert F Pollard, Brit historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78
1951 - Neville Tufnell, cricket wicket keeper (Test for England 1910), dies
1954 - Colette, [Sidonie-Gabrielle], French novelist (Vagabonde), dies at 81
1957 - "Black Jack" Bouvier, father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer
Novelist and Performer Colette (1954) 1958 - Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931)
1964 - Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39
1966 - Lenny Bruce, comedian, dies of a morphine overdose at 39
1968 - Constantine Rokossovski, vice-premier of Poland (1952-56), dies at 71
1973 - Ariantje "Jeanne" Leg, actress (It Vijgeblaadje/It Hippie), dies at 84
1973 - Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)
1974 - Almira Sessions, actress (Oklahoma Annie), dies at 85
1975 - Ruth Lee, actress (Middleton Family at 1939 World's Fair), dies at 79
1977 - Alfred Lunt, actor (Guardsman, Sally of Sawdust), dies at 83
1977 - Makarios III, [Michail Mouskos], archbishop/pres (Cyprus), dies at 63
1978 - Ezzedin Kalak, Palestinian PLO representative in Paris, murdered
1979 - Renato Fasano, composer, dies at 76
1979 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)
1981 - Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered
1983 - Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), dies at 54 of cancer
1986 - Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87
1986 - Rupert de Smidt, cricketer (Western Province 1911-13), dies at 102
1986 - Willem Ruis, Dutch TV host (Willem Ruis Show), dies at 41
1990 - Florida Edwards, dies of pneumonia at 79
1992 - Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Comm Party (1973-76), dies
1993 - James Donald, actor (In Which We Serve, Way Ahead), dies at 76
1994 - Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter, dies at 77
1994 - Christy Henrich, US turnster, dies of anorexia nervosa at 22
1994 - Innokenti Smoktunovski, Russian actor (Hamlet), dies at 69
1994 - John Hidalgo Moya, architect, Designer of Skylon, dies at 74
1994 - John van Raay, [John Oradi], radio-imitator (Paul Flanders)
1995 - Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields, drummer, dies at 79
1995 - Harry Craft, baseball manager, dies at 80
1995 - Ida Lupino, actress/director (Hard Way, High Sierra), dies at 77
1995 - Jose B M Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader, dies at 88
1995 - Marcus Chenault, killer of Martin Luther King Jr's mother, dies at 54
1995 - Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)
1996 - Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman, dies at 87
1997 - Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
1998 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)
2001 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (b. 1922)
2002 - Carmen Silvera, British actress (b. 1922)
2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954)
Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (2004) 2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer, dies at 95
2005 - Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920)
2006 - Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945)
2006 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, singer (b. 1915)
2007 - John Gardner, British author (b. 1926)
2008 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, dies at 89
2008 - Skip Caray, American TV and radio broadcaster (b. 1939)
2011 - Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (b. 1945)