Most notably...
65,706 Notable deaths
Jerry Heller
American businessman (1940–2016).
Born October 6th, 1940 in Shaker Heights.
Died September 2nd, 2016 at 75 years old in Thousand Oaks (cancer). [ref]
John Amos
American actor (1939–2024).
Born December 27th, 1939 in Newark. [ref]
Died August 21st, 2024 at 84 years old in Los Angeles, Inglewood (heart failure). [ref]
Robert Johnson
American blues musician (1911–1938).
Born May 8th, 1911 in Hazlehurst.
Died August 16th, 1938 at 27 years old in Paris.
John von Neumann
Hungarian and american mathematician and physicist (1903–1957).
Born December 28th, 1903 in Budapest.
Died February 8th, 1957 at 53 years old in Washington, D.C. (brain cancer).
Lou Gehrig
American baseball player.
Born June 19th, 1903 in Manhattan.
Died June 2nd, 1941 at 37 years old in Riverdale (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).
Toni Morrison
African american novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019).
Born February 18th, 1931 in Lorain. [ref]
Died August 5th, 2019 at 88 years old in New York City, The Bronx (pneumonia). [ref]
Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Advocate for sex trafficking victims (1983–2025).
Born August 9th, 1983 in Sacramento. [ref]
Died April 25th, 2025 at 41 years old in Neergabby. [ref]
Ravi Shankar
Indian sitar player (1920-2012).
Born April 7th, 1920 in Varanasi. [ref]
Died December 11th, 2012 at 92 years old in San Diego (heart failure, respiratory failure). [ref]
Vinod Khanna
Indian actor, director, politician (1946–2017).
Born October 6th, 1946 in Peshawar.
Died April 27th, 2017 at 70 years old in Mumbai (bladder cancer). [ref]
Nelson Rockefeller
Vice president of the united states from 1974 to 1977.
Born July 8th, 1908 in Bar Harbor. [ref]
Died January 26th, 1979 at 70 years old in New York City (myocardial infarction).
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. Samuel Butler