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
Most notably...
64,106 Notable deaths
Billy Drago
American actor (1945-2019).
Born November 30th, 1945 in Hugoton.
Died June 24th, 2019 at 73 years old in Los Angeles (stroke). [ref]
Cy Young
American baseball player.
Born March 29th, 1867 in Gilmore.
Died November 4th, 1955 at 88 years old in Newcomerstown.
Yuan Shikai
Chinese military and government official (1859–1916).
Born September 16th, 1859 in Xiangcheng City.
Died June 6th, 1916 at 56 years old in Beijing (uremia).
Richard Rodgers
American composer of songs and broadway musicals (1902–1979).
Born June 28th, 1902 in Queens. [ref]
Died December 30th, 1979 at 77 years old in New York City. [ref]
V. S. Naipaul
British novelist and non-fiction writer (1932–2018).
Born August 17th, 1932 in Chaguanas. [ref]
Died August 11th, 2018 at 85 years old in London. [ref]
Joss Ackland
English actor.
Born February 29th, 1928 in Kensington.
Died November 19th, 2023 at 95 years old in Clovelly. [ref]
John Wojtowicz
American bank robber.
Born March 9th, 1945 in New York City.
Died January 2nd, 2006 at 60 years old in New York City (cancer). [ref]
Salvatore Riina
Sicilian mafia boss (1930–2017).
Born November 16th, 1930 in Corleone.
Died November 17th, 2017 at 87 years old in Parma (renal cell carcinoma). [ref]
Cokie Roberts
American journalist (1943–2019).
Born December 27th, 1943 in New Orleans.
Died September 17th, 2019 at 75 years old in Washington, D.C. (metastatic breast cancer). [ref]
Rip Taylor
American actor and comedian (1931–2019).
Born January 13th, 1935 in Washington, D.C.. [ref]
Died October 6th, 2019 at 84 years old in Los Angeles (epilepsy). [ref]
Deaths 3391 to 3400 of 64106
I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. Jimi Hendrix