August 4 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1060 – Henry I of France (b. 1008)
  • 1113 – Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)
  • 1265 – Killed in the Battle of Evesham:
    • Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (b. 1223)
    • Henry de Montfort (b. 1238)
    • Peter de Montfort (b. 1215)
    • Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (b. 1208)
  • 1306 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
  • 1338 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, English son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)
  • 1526 – Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)
  • 1578 – Sebastian of Portugal (b. 1554)
  • 1578 – Thomas Stukley, English adventurer (b. c. 1520)
  • 1598 – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520)
  • 1612 – Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)
  • 1639 – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist (b. 1581)
  • 1718 – René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French founder of Rimouski (b. 1656)
  • 1727 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
  • 1741 – Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer (b. 1676)
  • 1778 – Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, Canadian-French Governor General of New France (b. 1698)
  • 1792 – John Burgoyne, English general and politician (b. 1723)
  • 1795 – Timothy Ruggles, American politician (b. 1711)
  • 1804 – Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan English navy admiral (b. 1731)
  • 1834 – Dimitrios Panourgias Greek military commander (b. 1754)
  • 1844 – Jacob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)
  • 1849 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi (b. 1821)
  • 1859 – John Vianney, French priest and saint (b. 1786)
  • 1873 – Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)
  • 1875 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
  • 1886 – Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of New York (b. 1814)
  • 1900 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
  • 1914 – Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (b. 1853)
  • 1919 – Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1845)
  • 1922 – Enver Pasha, Ottoman military officer (b. 1881)
  • 1938 – Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
  • 1941 – Mihály Babits, Hungarian writer and poet (b. 1883)
  • 1942 – Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer (b. 1860)
  • 1957 – Washington Luís, Brazilian politician, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1869)
  • 1958 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883)
  • 1959 – József Révai, Hungarian politician (b. 1898)
  • 1967 – Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908)
  • 1976 – Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop (b. 1923)
  • 1976 – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian publisher (b. 1894)
  • 1981 – Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
  • 1982 – Bruce Goff, American architect, designed the Boston Avenue Methodist Church (b. 1904)
  • 1985 – Don Whillans, English mountaineer (b. 1933)
  • 1991 – Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek writer and poet (b. 1912)
  • 1992 – Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (b. 1909)
  • 1993 – Chinmayananda, Indian spiritual leader and teacher (b. 1916)
  • 1993 – Bernard Barrow, American actor (b. 1927)
  • 1996 – Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, broadcaster, and author (b. 1936)
  • 1997 – Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian (b. 1875)
  • 1998 – Yury Artyukhin, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1930)
  • 1999 – Rodney Ansell, Australian hunter, inspiration for Crocodile Dundee (b. 1953)
  • 1999 – Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
  • 2000 – Leslie Glass, American porn actress (b. 1963)
  • 2001 – Lorenzo Music, American actor (b. 1937)
  • 2003 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
  • 2005 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)
  • 2005 – Iván Szabó, Hungarian politician (b. 1934)
  • 2007 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
  • 2007 – Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (b. 1926)
  • 2008 – Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (b. 1985)
  • 2009 – Blake Snyder, American screenwriter (b. 1957)
  • 2011 – Mark Duggan, English shooting victim (b. 1982)
  • 2011 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (b. 1977)
  • 2012 – Johnnie Bassett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935)
  • 2012 – Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and author (b. 1918)
  • 2012 – Metin Erksan, Turkish director (b. 1929)
  • 2012 – Hanley Funderburk, American academic (b. 1931)
  • 2012 – Con Houlihan, Irish journalist (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – Bud Riley, American football coach (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – Arnie Risen, American basketball player (b. 1924)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “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
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    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
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    “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.”
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