Deaths on 31 August
2000s
Sol Bamba
2024
Football player and manager (1985–2024)
Mahal (actress)
2021
Filipino actress, comedian, and vlogger (1974–2021)
Francesco Morini
2021
Italian footballer (1944–2021)
Michael Constantine
2021
American actor (1927–2021)
Geronimo (alpaca)
2021
Alpaca in the United Kingdom
Pranab Mukherjee
2020
President of India from 2012 to 2017
Tom Seaver
2020
American baseball player (1944–2020)
Anthoine Hubert
2019
French racing driver (1996–2019)
Alec Holowka
2019
Canadian video game developer (1983–2019)
Carole Shelley
2018
British actress (1939–2018)
Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu
2015
English Conservative politician (1926–2015)
Tom Scott (linebacker)
2015
American football player (1930–2015)
Bapu (director)
2014
India director and artist (1933–2014)
Ștefan Andrei
2014
Romanian politician
Stan Goldberg
2014
American comics artist (1932–2014)
Carol Vadnais
2014
Canadian ice hockey player (1945–2014)
Alan Carrington
2013
British chemist (1934–2013)
David Frost
2013
British television host and journalist (1939–2013)
Jimmy Greenhalgh
2013
English football player, coach and manager (1923–2013)
Jan Camiel Willems
2013
Max Bygraves
2012
British entertainer (1922–2012)
Joe Lewis (martial artist)
2012
American martial artist and actor (1944–2012)
Carlo Maria Martini
2012
Italian Jesuit and cardinal of the Catholic Church (1927–2012)
Kashiram Rana
2012
Indian politician
John C. Shabaz
2012
American federal judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
Sergei Sokolov (marshal)
2012
Defense Minister of the Soviet Union
Wade Belak
2011
Canadian ice hockey player (1976–2011)
Laurent Fignon
2010
French cyclist (1960–2010)
Eraño Manalo
2009
Filipino religious minister (1925–2009)
Ken Campbell
2008
British actor, director and writer (1941–2008)
Ike Pappas
2008
American journalist
Victor Yates (rugby)
2008
NZ international rugby union & league footballer
Gay Brewer
2007
American professional golfer (1932–2007)
Jean Jacques Paradis
2007
Sulev Vahtre
2007
Estonian historian (1926–2007)
Mohamed Abdelwahab
2006
Egyptian footballer (1983–2006)
Tom Delaney (racing driver)
2006
Joseph Rotblat
2005
Polish physicist (1908–2005)
Lionel Hampton
2002
American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader (1908–2002)
Farhad Mehrad
2002
Iranian singer and guitarist (1944–2002)
George Porter
2002
British chemist (1920–2002)
Lucille Fletcher
2000
American dramatist (1912–2000)
Dolores Moore
2000
Baseball player
1900s
Diana, Princess of Wales
1997
Member of the British royal family (1961–1997)
Dodi Fayed
1997
Egyptian film producer (1955–1997)
Cliff Lumsdon
1991
Canadian swimmer
Nat Clifton
1990
American basketball player and coach (1922–1990)
Elizabeth Coatsworth
1986
American poet
Urho Kekkonen
1986
President of Finland from 1956 to 1982
Henry Moore
1986
English sculptor (1898–1986)
Macfarlane Burnet
1985
Australian virologist (1899–1985)
Audrey Wagner
1984
Baseball player
Sally Rand
1979
American burlesque performer and actress (1904–1979)
Tiger Smith
1979
English cricketer
John Wrathall
1978
Former President of Rhodesia
William Pershing Benedict
1974
20th-century decorated fighter pilot and polar explorer
Norman Kirk
1974
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1972 to 1974
John Ford
1973
American film director (1894–1973)
Rocky Marciano
1969
American boxer (1923–1969)
John Hartle
1968
British motorcycle racer
Ilya Ehrenburg
1967
Soviet writer (1891–1967)
E. E. Smith
1965
Food engineer and science-fiction author (1890–1965)
Georges Braque
1963
French painter and sculptor (1882–1963)
Elsa Barker
1954
American writer
Henri Bourassa
1952
Canadian politician (1868–1952)
Paul Demel
1951
Czech actor (1903–1951)
Andrei Zhdanov
1948
Soviet politician (1896–1948)
Stefan Banach
1945
Polish mathematician (1892–1945)
Thomas Bavin
1941
Australian politician
Marina Tsvetaeva
1941
Russian poet (1892–1941)
Georges Gauthier
1940
French Canadian archbishop
DeLancey W. Gill
1940
American painter and photographer (1859–1940)
Ruth Baldwin (socialite)
1937
English socialite (1905-1937)
Andranik
1927
Armenian military leader (1865–1927)
Todor Aleksandrov
1924
Bulgarian revolutionary (1881–1924)
Wilhelm Wundt
1920
German founder of psychology (1832–1920)
Jean, duc Decazes
1912
French yacht racer
Emīls Dārziņš
1910
Latvian composer, conductor and music critic
Leslie Green
1908
English architect
1800s
Robert Richard Torrens
1884
Irish-born parliamentarian (1812–1884)
Mary Ward (scientist)
1869
Anglo-Irish scientist and writer
Charles Baudelaire
1867
French poet and critic (1821–1867)
Ferdinand Lassalle
1864
German jurist and socialist (1825–1864)
Chief Oshkosh
1858
Menominee Native American leader
Robert Calder
1818
Royal Navy Admiral (1745–1818)
Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet
1817
Royal Navy officer, colonial administrator and politician (1748–1817)
Arthur Phillip
1814
Royal Navy Admiral and colonial administrator (1738–1814)
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
1811
French military officer and explorer (1729–1811)
Before 1800
Nicolas-Henri Jardin
1799
French architect
François-André Danican Philidor
1795
French composer and chess master (1726–1795)
William Borlase
1772
18th-century English antiquary and naturalist
Johann Gottlieb Heineccius
1741
German jurist (1681–1741)
Gottfried Finger
1730
Moravian baroque composer and violoncellist (c1655-1730)
John Bunyan
1688
English writer and preacher (1628–1688)
Ole Worm
1654
Danish scientist (1588–1654)
Francesco Bracciolini
1645
Italian poet (1566–1645)
Matthias Grünewald
1528
German Renaissance painter (c.1470–1528)
Thomas Wood (judge)
1502
English judge (died 1502)
Isabella of Navarre, Countess of Armagnac
1450
Countess of Armagnac
Henry V of England
1422
King of England from 1413 to 1422
Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford
1372
14th-century English nobleman
Henry II of Cyprus
1324
King of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1270-1324)
Konrad von Würzburg
1287
13th century German poet
Emperor Go-Horikawa
1234
Emperor of Japan from 1221 to 1232
Sancho III of Castile
1158
King of Castile and Toledo from 1157 to 1158
Turgot of Durham
1115
Theodora Porphyrogenita
1056
Byzantine empress from 1042 to 1056
Kunigunde of Altdorf
1054
German noble (c. 1020 – 1054)
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Ta'i
894
Ōtomo no Tabito
731
Japanese poet
Aidan of Lindisfarne
651
Irish monk and saint (died 651)
John Scholasticus
577
Patriarch of Constantinople from 565 to 577
Liu Cong (Han-Zhao)
318
Emperor of Han-Zhao