Dead Socialist Watch

An eclectic archive of dead socialists, originally compiled and published by The Virtual Stoa.

January
01Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1881, aged 76), Harriet Clisby (1931, aged 100 or 101), Nicos Poulantzas (1979, aged 42), Desmond Greaves (1988, aged 74 or 75), Harry Magdoff (2006, aged 92)
02Jean de Boe (1974, aged 84 or 85)
03Jaroslav Hasek (1923, aged 40)
04Betty Reid (2004, aged 89)
05Andrei Platonov (1951, aged 51), Merlyn Rees (2006, aged 85), Rachel Squire (2006, aged 51)
06Joe Slovo (1995, aged 69), Eileen Desmond (2005, aged 72)
08Enlai Zhou (1976, aged 78), Fran�ois Mitterrand (1996, aged 79), Tony Banks (2006, aged 63)
09Louise Michel (1905, aged 75), Norberto Bobbio (2004, aged 94)
10Jaroslav Seifert (1986, aged 84), James Forman (2005, aged 75 or 76)
11Naomi Mitchison (1999, aged 101)
12Nikolai Podgorny (1983, aged 80), James Joyce (1941, aged 59)
14Georgy Malenkov (1988, aged 86), Michael Young (2002, aged 86)
15Karl Liebknecht (1919), Rosa Luxemburg (1919), G. D. H. Cole (1959, aged 69)
16R. H. Tawney (1962, aged 81)
17Patrice Lumumba (1961, aged 36), Zhao Ziyang (2005, aged 85)
18Sylvain MarŽchal (1803), Hugh Gaitskell (1963, aged 57)
19Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1865, aged 56)
20John Ruskin (1900, aged 81)
21V. I. Lenin (1924, aged 54), George Orwell (1950, aged 47)
23Paul Robeson (1976, aged 78), Pierre Bourdieu (2002, aged 71)
26Raymond Williams (1988), Ben Tillett (1943, aged 82)
29Franz Mehring (1919)
30Kawakami Hajime (1946, aged 66), James Larkin (1947, aged 71)
February
02Rudolf Hilferding (1941, aged 63)
05G E M de ste Croix (2000, aged 90)
06Pyotr Lavrov (1900), Ellen Wilkinson (1947), Filemon Lagman (2001)
09Paul Levi (1930)
12Jean Renoir (1979)
19Georg BŸchner (1837)
21Malcolm X (1965), Anthony Crosland (1977, aged 58)
24Tommy Douglas (1986, aged 81), Christopher Hill (2003)
26Bill Hicks (1994, aged 32)
27Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (1939, aged 70), Paul Sweezy (2004), Linda Smith (2006, aged 48)
28Friedrich Ebert (1925), Olof Palme (1986, aged 59)
March
02Marcel Liebman (1986, aged 57)
05Sergei Prokofiev (1953, aged 62), Josef Stalin (1953, aged 73)
08Abram Deborin (1963)
09Alexandra Kollontai (1952, aged 80)
10Konstantin Chernenko (1985, aged 73)
11Slobodan Milosevic (2006, aged 65)
12Zoran Dindic (2003, aged 51)
14Karl Marx (1883, aged 65)
15Nikolai Bukharin (1938)
20C Wright Mills (1962, aged 46)
23H. N. Brailsford (1958, aged 84)
24Harold Laski (1950, aged 57)
25Michael Kidron (2003, aged 73)
27B. Traven (1969, aged 79)
29Jean van Heijenoort (1986, aged 74)
30Leon Blum (1950, aged 78)
31Eleanor Marx (1898, aged 43)
April
04Julius Martov (1923)
06Richard Titmuss (1973)
07Alexandre Millerand (1943)
08Pablo Picasso (1973, aged 91)
09Tony Cliff (2000, aged 83)
10Ben Pimlott (2004)
11Jacques PrŽvert (1982)
14Vladimir Mayakovsky (1930, aged 37)
14Ernest Bevin (1951, aged 70)
14Simone de Beauvoir (1986, aged 78)
15Jean-Paul Sartre (1980, aged 75)
16JosŽ Carlos Mariategui (1930)
17Joseph Dietzgen (1888), Albert Einstein (1955), Koken Nosaka (2004, aged 78 or 79)
21Stafford Cripps (1952, aged 63)
23Karl Polanyi (1964, aged 78)
24Oliver Tambo (1993), Brian Manning (2004, aged 77)
27Antonio Gramsci (1937, aged 46)
28Anton Pannekoek (1960, aged 87)
30Beatrice Webb (1943, aged 85)
May
03Barbara Castle (2002)
04Edith Nesbit (1924, aged 66), Josip Broz Tito (1980)
05Irving Howe (1993)
06Alfred Rosmer (1964), Ian Mikardo (1993, aged 85)
07Margaret Cole (1980)
08John Stuart Mill (1873, aged 67)
12James Connolly (1916, aged 48)
12John Smith (1994)
14Emma Goldman (1940), Jiang Qing (1991, aged 76 or 77)
17Georgi Plekhanov (1918, aged 61)
19Henri Saint-Simon (1825, aged 65), Stephen Jay Gould (2002)
21Ralph Miliband (1994), Noel Browne (1997, aged 81)
23Paul Nizan (1940), David Lewis (1981, aged 72)
24Harold Wilson (1995)
27Gracchus Babeuf (1797)
29Erich Honecker (1994)
31C L R James (1989)
01John Dewey (1952)
June
03Arthur Ransome (1967)
04Gyorgy Lukacs (1971)
05Will Crooks (1921, aged 69)
07Alan Turing (1954, aged 42)
10Frank Ryan (1944, aged 41 or 42)
11Enrico (?) Berlinguer (1984)
13Stuart Hampshire (2004, aged 90), Sonja Davies (2005)
16Imre Nagy (1958), Harry Pollitt (1960)
17Paul Hirst (2003, aged 57)
18Maxim Gorky (1936, aged 68)
20Clara Zetkin (1933)
28Alexander Berkman (1936, aged 66), Anthony Buckeridge (2004, aged 90)
29Henri Lefebvre (1991)
July
01Mikhail Bakunin (1876, aged 62)
July
01Joshua Nkomo (1999)
July
04Mansur Hekmat (2002)
05Otto Bauer (1938, aged 57)
06Thomas More (1535, aged 57)
06Aneurin Bevan (1960, aged 63), Konni Zilliacus (1967)
07Max Horkheimer (1973), Louis Sinclair (1990, aged 81)
11Maurice Thorez (1964)
20Ernest Mandel (1995)
23Amadeo Bordiga (1970, aged 81)
28Jules Guesde (1922, aged 77)
29Herbert Marcuse (1979), Luis Bu–uel (1983, aged 83)
31Jean Jaures (1914, aged 55)
August
02Edward Aveling (1898), Wang Hongwen (1992)
05Friedrich Engels (1895, aged 75)
05Joan Robinson (1983, aged 80)
06Wilhelm Liebknecht (1900, aged 74)
06Theodor Adorno (1969, aged 66), Robin Cook (2005, aged 59)
07Tamara Deutscher (1990)
12Tom Driberg (1976, aged 71)
13August Bebel (1913, aged 73)
13H. G. Wells (1946, aged 80)
14Berthold Brecht (1956, aged 59)
17Ruth First (1982)
19Isaac Deutscher (1967, aged 60), Mo Mowlam (2005, aged 56)
21Leon Trotsky (1940, aged 61), Palmiro Togliatti (1964, aged 71), George L. Jackson (1971), Kathy Wilkes (2003)
22Huey P. Newton (1989)
25Lev Kamenev (1936, aged 53), Grigory Zinoviev (1936, aged 53)
27W E B Du Bois (1963, aged 96)
28E P Thompson (1993, aged 70)
29John Lilburne (1657, aged 42 or 43)
31Ferdinand Lassalle (1864, aged 39)
September
03Ho Chi Minh (1969, aged 79)
04Evangelos Yiannopoulos (2003, aged 85 or 86)
06Olaf Stapledon (1950, aged 64), Hanns Eisler (1962)
07A. J. P. Taylor (1990, aged 84)
08Peter Sedgwick (1983)
09Mao Zedong (1976, aged 83)
10Gerrard Winstanley (1676, aged 67), Christian Rakovsky (1941, aged 68), Nikita Krushchev (1971, aged 77), Salvador Allende (1973, aged 65), Anna Lindh (2003)
15J D Bernal (1971, aged 70), Sergio Ortega (2003, aged 66)
16Osugi Sakae (1923, aged 39), Victor Jara (1973), Livio Maitan (2004)
19Duncan Hallas (2002, aged 77 or 78)
20Dorothy Emmet (2000, aged 96)
23Pablo Neruda (1973, aged 69)
25Keir Hardie (1915, aged 59)
27Walter Benjamin (1940, aged 48), Sylvia Pankhurst (1960, aged 79)
28Victor Grayson (1920, aged 39), AndrŽ Breton (1966, aged 71)
October
03William Morris (1896, aged 63)
08Clement Attlee (1967, aged 85), Willy Brandt (1992, aged 79)
09Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1967, aged 39)
10Charles Fourier (1837, aged 66)
10Orson Welles (1985, aged 70)
11Donald Dewar (2000, aged 63)
13Sidney Webb (1947, aged 88)
14Julius Nyerere (1999)
15Thomas Sankara (1987), LŽvy Benny (aka Pierre Victor) (2003, aged 58)
17Karl Kautsky (1938, aged 88)
19John Reed (1920, aged 33)
20Eugene Debs (1926, aged 71), Arthur Henderson (1935, aged 72)
20Samora Machel (1986)
23Louis Althusser (1990, aged 72)
26David Widgery (1992, aged 46)
November
02George Bernard Shaw (1950, aged 94), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975)
03Lucio Colletti (2001)
05Katayama Sen (1933, aged 74)
07Harry Fleischman (2004, aged 90)
08Etienne Cabet (1856), Leo Huberman (1968)
10Leonid Brezhnev (1982, aged 76), Canaan Banana (2003, aged 68)
11Victor Adler (1918)
12Dolores (La Pasionara) Ibarruri (1989), Bessie Braddock (1970)
16Jennie Lee (1988, aged 84)
17Robert Owen (1858, aged 88), Victor Serge (1947)
18Francesco de Martino (2002, aged 95)
19Joe Hill (1915, aged 36)
20Leo Tolstoy (1910), Henry Hyndman (1921)
21Robert Simpson (1997, aged 77)
22Jack London (1916, aged 41), Caroline Benn (2000, aged 74), Al Richardson (2003, aged 62)
24Diego Rivera (1957, aged 71)
26Paul Lafargue (1911, aged 70), Laura Marx (1911, aged 66)
30Oscar Wilde (1900, aged 46), Bela Kun (1939, aged 54), Guy Debord (1994, aged 63)
December
01J B S Haldane (1964, aged 72)
02Jenny Marx (1881, aged 68), Daniel Singer (2000, aged 74)
06Louis Blanc (1882, aged 71), Frantz Fanon (1961, aged 36)
08Edouard Vaillant (1915, aged 76)
09Raphael Samuel (1996)
13Jill Craigie (1999)
16Lelio Basso (1978), Stuart Adamson (2001, aged 44)
17William Winter (1955, aged 57)
18Eduard Bernstein (1932)
22Randolph Bourne (1918)
24Louis Aragon (1982)
26Anatoly Lunacharsky (1933, aged 58)
31Karl Renner (1950, aged 80), Phillip Whitehead (2005, aged 69)

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