August 31 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 651 – Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary
  • 1158 – Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
  • 1218 – Al-Adil I, Egyptian general and sultan (b. 1145)
  • 1234 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (b. 1212)
  • 1372 – Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)
  • 1422 – Henry V of England (b. 1386)
  • 1645 – Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566)
  • 1654 – Ole Worm, Danish physician (b. 1588)
  • 1688 – John Bunyan, English writer and preacher (b. 1628)
  • 1730 – Gottfried Finger, Czech composer (b. 1660)
  • 1741 – Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
  • 1772 – William Borlase, English geologist and naturalist (b. 1695)
  • 1795 – François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (b. 1726)
  • 1799 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect, desighned the Bernstorff Palace and Marienlyst Castle (b. 1720)
  • 1811 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer (b. 1729)
  • 1814 – Arthur Phillip, English admiral, 1st Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738)
  • 1817 – Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet, English navy admiral (b. 1747)
  • 1867 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet (b. 1821)
  • 1869 – Mary Ward, Irish scientist (b. 1827)
  • 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845)
  • 1912 – Jean, duc Decazes, French sailor (b. 1864)
  • 1920 – Jens Oliver Lisberg, Faroese designer of the Flag of the Faroe Islands (b. 1896)
  • 1920 – Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (b. 1832)
  • 1924 – Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian freedom fighter (b. 1881)
  • 1927 – William Frank Carver, American target shooter and showman (b. 1851)
  • 1927 – Andranik Ozanian, Armenian military commander (b. 1865)
  • 1940 – Georges Gauthier, Canadian archbishop (b. 1871)
  • 1941 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)
  • 1948 – Billy Laughlin, American actor (b. 1932)
  • 1952 – Henri Bourassa, Canadian politician (b. 1868)
  • 1954 – Elsa Barker, American author and poet (b. 1869)
  • 1963 – Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
  • 1967 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer, journalist, and translator (b. 1891)
  • 1969 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
  • 1973 – John Ford, American director (b. 1894)
  • 1974 – William Pershing Benedict, American pilot (b. 1928)
  • 1974 – Norman Kirk, New Zealand politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1923)
  • 1978 – John Wrathall, Rhodesian accountant and politician, 2nd President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
  • 1979 – Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (b. 1904)
  • 1979 – Tiger Smith, England cricketer (b. 1886)
  • 1984 – Audrey Wagner, American baseball player (b. 1927)
  • 1985 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
  • 1986 – Urho Kekkonen, Finnish politician, 8th President of Finland (b. 1900)
  • 1986 – Henry Moore, English sculptor (b. 1898)
  • 1990 – Nathaniel Clifton, American basketball player (b. 1922)
  • 1992 – Wolfgang Güllich, German climber (b. 1960)
  • 1995 – Barry Lee Fairchild, American convicted murderer (b. 1954)
  • 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)
  • 1997 – Dodi Fayed, Egyptian film producer (b. 1955)
  • 1997 – Henri Paul, French security guard (b. 1956)
  • 2000 – Lucille Fletcher, American screenwriter (b. 1912)
  • 2000 – Dolores Moore, American baseball player (b. 1932)
  • 2000 – Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (b. 1925)
  • 2002 – Lionel Hampton, American musician, bandleader, actor, and composer (b. 1908)
  • 2002 – Farhad Mehrad, Persian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist (b. 1944)
  • 2002 – George Porter, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
  • 2004 – Carl Wayne, English singer and actor (The Move and The Hollies) (b. 1943)
  • 2005 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
  • 2005 – Michael Sheard, Scottish actor (b. 1940)
  • 2006 – Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
  • 2006 – Tom Delaney, English race car driver (b. 1911)
  • 2006 – Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (b. 1977)
  • 2007 – Gay Brewer, American golfer (b. 1932)
  • 2007 – Karloff Lagarde, Mexican wrestler (b. 1928)
  • 2008 – Ike Pappas, American journalist (b. 1933)
  • 2007 – Jean Jacques Paradis Canadian general (b.1928)
  • 2008 – Victor Yates, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1939)
  • 2009 – Eraño Manalo, Filipino minister (b. 1925)
  • 2010 – Laurent Fignon, French cyclist (b. 1960)
  • 2011 – Ali Jawad al-Sheikh, Bahraini protester (b. 1997)
  • 2011 – Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1976)
  • 2012 – Max Bygraves, English singer and actor (b. 1922)
  • 2012 – Joe Lewis, American martial artist and actor (b. 1944)
  • 2012 – Carlo Maria Martini, Italian archbishop (b. 1927)
  • 2012 – Melva Radcliffe, American super-centenarian (b. 1901)
  • 2012 – Kashiram Rana, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
  • 2012 – John C. Shabaz, American judge (b. 1931)
  • 2012 – Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, Soviet military commander (b. 1911)
  • 2012 – Norbert Walter, German economist (b. 1944)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “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)

    “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)