December 10 - Deaths

Deaths

949 – Herman I, Duke of Swabia
1041 – Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010)
1198 – Averroes, Cordoban philosopher and polymath (b. 1126)
1508 – René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
1603 – William Gilbert, English physicist and physician (b. 1544)
1618 – Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (b. 1551)
1626 – Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
1665 – Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer
1677 – Samuel Gorton, English activist and writer (b. 1593)
1736 – António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese prince and military leader (b. 1663)
1831 – Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
1850 – François Sulpice Beudant, French geologist (b. 1787)
1850 – Józef Bem, Polish general (b. 1794)
1865 – King Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
1896 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor, Nobel Prize founder (b. 1833)
1909 – Red Cloud, Native American Sioux chief (b. 1822)
1911 – Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817)
1914 – Robert Williams, American archer (b. 1841)
1917 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Canadian politician (b. 1823)
1920 – Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1868)
1922 – Clement Lindley Wragge, English-born meteorologist (b. 1852)
1926 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician (b. 1845)
1928 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and illustrator (b. 1868)
1936 – Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
1936 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
1939 – John Grieb, American gymnast and athlete (b. 1879)
1941 – Colin Kelly, American bomber pilot (b. 1915)
1944 – John Brunt, English military officer (b. 1922)
1945 – Theodor Dannecker, German Nazi officer (b. 1913)
1946 – Walter Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1946 – Damon Runyon, American writer (b. 1884)
1948 – Na Hye-sok, Korean poeter, feminist writer and painter, educators, journalists. (b. 1896)
1951 – Algernon Blackwood, English writer (b. 1869)
1953 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)
1956 – David Shimoni, Israeli poet and writer (b. 1891)
1958 – Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder (b. 1864)
1967 – Otis Redding, American singer (b. 1941)
1967 – Ronnie Caldwell, American musician (b. 1948)
1967 – Phalon Jones, American musician (b. 1949)
1968 – Karl Barth, Swiss theologian (b. 1886)
1968 – George Forrest, Northern Irish politician (b. 1921)
1968 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)
1973 – Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (b. 1922)
1977 – Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
1978 – Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (b. 1924)
1979 – Ann Dvorak, American actress (b. 1912)
1982 – Freeman Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)
1986 – Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927)
1986 – Kate Wolf, American singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
1987 – Jascha Heifetz, Russian violinist (b. 1901)
1988 – Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933)
1988 – Johnny Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1911)
1990 – Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector (b. 1898)
1991 – Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
1991 – Headman Shabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (b. 1945)
1992 – Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (b. 1908)
1993 – Alice Tully, American music promoter and philanthropist (b. 1902)
1994 – Keith Joseph, English politician (b. 1918)
1994 – Alex Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905)
1995 – Darren Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (b. 1967)
1996 – Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932)
1999 – Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (b. 1942)
1999 – Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor (b. 1913)
1999 – Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947)
1999 – Franjo Tuđman, Croate politician (b. 1922)
2000 – Marie Windsor, American film actress (b. 1919)
2001 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)
2002 – Andres Küng, Swedish politician and journalist (b. 1945)
2004 – Gary Webb, American journalist (b. 1955)
2005 – Eugene McCarthy, America politician (b. 1916)
2005 – Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940)
2006 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator (b. 1915)
2007 – Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian actress (b. 1981)
2007 – Aqsa Parvez, Pakastani-born Canadian crime victim (b. 1991)
2008 – Didith Reyes, Filipino singer (b. 1948)
2009 – Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian physicist (b. 1925)
2010 – John Bennett Fenn, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
2010 – J. Michael Hagopian, Turkish-born American documentarian (b. 1913)
2010 – MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1921)

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)

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