Welcome! Check out today's deaths, recent deaths, or our deaths stats.

Feeling experimental? Head on over to our newest (and darkest) feature: Next-2-Die™ predictions

Deaths in...

1,918 Notable deaths
 in Moscow

Arseny Tarkovsky

Soviet poet and translator.

Born June 24th, 1907 in Kropyvnytskyi. [ref]

Died May 27th, 1989 at 81 years old in Moscow (disease). [ref]

Vladimir Menshov

Soviet film director and actor (1939–2021).

Born September 17th, 1939 in Baku.

Died July 5th, 2021 at 81 years old in Moscow (COVID-19). [ref]

Anna Ulyanova

Russian revolutionary.

Born August 26th, 1864 in Nizhny Novgorod.

Died October 19th, 1935 at 71 years old in Moscow.

Leonid Gaidai

Soviet film director (1923-1993).

Born January 30th, 1923 in Svobodny.

Died November 19th, 1993 at 70 years old in Moscow (pulmonary embolism).

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Soviet ukrainian screenwriter, film producer and director (1894–1956).

Born September 10th, 1894 in Sosnytsia.

Died November 25th, 1956 at 62 years old in Moscow (myocardial infarction).

Maria Ulyanova

Soviet politician (1878–1937).

Born February 18th, 1878 in Ulyanovsk.

Died June 12th, 1937 at 59 years old in Moscow (atherosclerosis).

Markian Popov

Soviet general (1902-1969).

Born November 15th, 1902 in Serafimovich.

Died April 22nd, 1969 at 66 years old in Moscow.

Vladimir Vetrov

Soviet spy for france (1932-1985).

Born October 10th, 1932 in Moscow.

Died January 23rd, 1985 at 52 years old in Moscow. [ref]

Alexander Zinoviev

Russian writer (1922–2006).

Born October 29th, 1922 in Chukhlomskoy Uyezd.

Died May 10th, 2006 at 83 years old in Moscow (brain cancer).

Evgeny Lifshitz

Soviet physicist (1915-1985).

Born February 21st, 1915 in Kharkiv.

Died October 29th, 1985 at 70 years old in Moscow.

Deaths 241 to 250 of 1918

 

Want more? View other places of notable deaths.

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel