Famous Deaths for 4th December 2025

1334 – Pope John XXII (1316-1334), dies at about 90
1915 – Gustav Hollaender, German violinist, conductor, and composer, dies at 60
1944 – Roger Bresnahan, American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher, outfielder and manager (World Series 1905 NY Giants; St. Louis Cardinals; first shin guards and batting helmet), dies at 65
1969 – Alceo Toni, Italian arranger (Vivaldi’s “Four Season’s” for piano four-hands), composer (Elegiac Quintet), and musicologist, dies at 85
1983 – Bruce Drake, American Basketball Hall of Fame coach (University of Oklahoma 1938-55, 200-181), dies at 77
1985 – Marcel Boereboom, Belgian pianist, critic, educator, and musicologist (Handbook of Music History), dies at 83
1994 – Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73
1995 – Adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham and Diane Zamora, at 16
2005 – Gregg Hoffman, American film producer (b.1963)
2017 – Mary Louise Hancock, American politician and activist, dies at 97

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