April 10 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 879 – Louis the Stammerer of the West Franks (b. 846)
  • 948 – Hugh of Italy
  • 1533 – Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471)
  • 1545 – Costanzo Festa, Italian composer
  • 1585 – Pope Gregory XIII (b. 1502)
  • 1599 – Gabrielle d'Estrée, French mistress of Henry IV of France (b. 1571)
  • 1601 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (b. 1562)
  • 1619 – Thomas Jones, Dublin archbishop (b. c. 1550)
  • 1640 – Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer (b. 1578)
  • 1646 – Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
  • 1667 – Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian doctor and scientist (b. 1595)
  • 1704 – William Egon of Fürstenberg, German clergyman Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629)
  • 1706 – Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1666)
  • 1756 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (d. 1661)
  • 1760 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian (b. 1687)
  • 1786 – John Byron, British naval officer (b. 1723)
  • 1806 – Horatio Gates, British-American general (b. 1727)
  • 1813 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician (b. 1736)
  • 1823 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (b. 1757)
  • 1871 – Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentine military (b. 1789)
  • 1882 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b. 1828)
  • 1904 – Isabella II of Spain (b. 1830)
  • 1909 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet and critic (b. 1837)
  • 1919 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general (b. 1879)
  • 1920 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1829)
  • 1931 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
  • 1938 – Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz cornet player and bandleader (b. 1885)
  • 1942 – Carl Schenstrøm, Danish actor (b. 1881)
  • 1945 – Charles Nordhoff, English writer (b. 1887)
  • 1945 – H.N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (b. 1882)
  • 1954 – Auguste Lumière, French filmmaker (b. 1862)
  • 1954 – Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1888)
  • 1955 – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian (b. 1881)
  • 1958 – Chuck Willis, American singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
  • 1960 – André Berthomieu, French director and screenwriter (b. 1903)
  • 1962 – Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American director (b. 1886)
  • 1962 – Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish musician (The Beatles) (b. 1940)
  • 1965 – Lloyd Casner, American race car driver and owner (b. 1928)
  • 1965 – Linda Darnell, American actress (b. 1923)
  • 1966 – Evelyn Waugh, English writer (b. 1903)
  • 1968 – Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b. 1899)
  • 1969 – Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (b. 1893)
  • 1975 – Marjorie Main, American actress (b. 1890)
  • 1979 – Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)
  • 1980 – Kay Medford, American actress (b. 1914)
  • 1983 – Issam Sartawi, Palestine Liberation Organization figure (b. 1935)
  • 1986 – Linda Creed, American singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
  • 1991 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (b. 1955)
  • 1991 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
  • 1992 – Sam Kinison, American comedian (b. 1953)
  • 1993 – Chris Hani, South African activist (b. 1942)
  • 1994 – Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
  • 1995 – Morarji Desai, Indian statesman (b. 1896)
  • 1997 – Michael Dorris, American author (b. 1945)
  • 1998 – Jack Clemmons, American police officer (b. 1924)
  • 1998 – Archbishop Seraphim of Athens (b. 1913)
  • 1999 – Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German biochemist (b. 1910)
  • 2000 – Peter Jones, English actor (b. 1920)
  • 2000 – Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)
  • 2000 – Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (b. 1928)
  • 2003 – Little Eva, American singer (b. 1943)
  • 2005 – Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (Amadeus Quartet) (b. 1923)
  • 2005 – Archbishop Iakovos of America (b. 1911)
  • 2005 – Scott Gottlieb, American drummer (Bleed the Dream) (b. 1970)
  • 2005 – Al Lucas, American football player (b. 1978)
  • 2007 – Charles Philippe Leblond, Canadian pioneer of cell biology (b. 1910)
  • 2007 – Dakota Staton, American singer (b. 1930)
  • 2009 – Deborah Digges, American poet (b. 1950)
  • 2010 – Passengers in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash, including:
    • Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman (b. 1919)
    • Maria Kaczyńska, Polish economist and First Lady of Poland (b. 1942)
    • Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, President of Poland (b. 1949)
    • Anna Walentynowicz, Polish activist (b. 1929)
    • Janusz Zakrzeński, Polish actor (b. 1936)
  • 2010 – Dixie Carter, American actress (b. 1939)
  • 2010 – Arthur Mercante, Sr., American referee (b. 1920)
  • 2011 – Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer (b. 1964)
  • 2011 – Homer Smith, American football coach (b. 1931)
  • 2012 – Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican archbishop (b. 1922)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “This is the 184th Demonstration.
    ...
    What we do is not beautiful
    hurts no one makes no one desperate
    we do not break the panes of safety glass
    stretching between people on the street
    and the deaths they hire.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)