Famous Deaths for 22nd November 2025

1758 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
1799 – Baroness van Dorth, orangist, executed
1902 – Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German steel and arms manufacturer (Krupp AG – supplied the German Navy), dies of suspected suicide after being outed as a homosexual in Italian newspapers and in the German Social Democratic magazine Vorwärts
1941 – Kurt Koffka, German Gestalt psychologist, dies of illness at 55
1986 – (Benjamin) “Scatman” Crothers, American singer, musician (“I’d Rather Be a Hummingbird”), and actor (Chico and the Man – “Louie”; The Shining), dies of lung cancerat 76
1994 – Charles Fortune, South African cricket commentator, dies
2000 – Emil Zátopek, Czech distance runner (4 x Olympic gold 1948, 52), dies of a stroke at 78
2003 – Dick Thomas, American singing cowboy and TV host (Village Barn), dies at 88
2018 – Willie Naulls, American basketball small forward (NBA C’ship 1964, 65, 66 Boston Celtics; 4 × NBA All-Star; NY Knicks), dies from respiratory failure at 84
2024 – Gianfranco Dalla Barba, Italian fencer (Olympic gold Sabre, team 1984; bronze 1988), dies from cardiac arrest at 67

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