December 2 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1348 – Emperor Hanazono of Japan (b. 1297)
• 1381 – John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic
• 1463 – Archduke Albert VI of Austria (b. 1418)
• 1469 – Piero di Cosimo de' Medici of Florence (b. 1416)
• 1515 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (b. 1453)
• 1547 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror (b. 1485)
• 1594 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (b. 1512)
• 1615 – Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, French general
• 1665 – Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (b. 1588)
• 1694 – Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (b. 1622)
• 1719 – Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (b. 1634)
• 1726 – Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (b. 1665)
• 1747 – Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695)
• 1748 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1662)
• 1774 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist (b. 1720)
• 1814 – Marquis de Sade, French writer (b. 1740)
• 1844 – Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
• 1849 – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
• 1859 – John Brown, American abolitionist (b. 1800)
• 1860 – Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (b. 1796)
• 1888 – Namık Kemal, Turkish poet (b. 1840)
• 1892 – Jay Gould, American entrepreneur (b. 1836)
• 1899 – Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (b. 1875)
• 1918 – Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (b. 1868)
• 1924 – Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879)
• 1931 – Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851)
• 1935 – Albert Jean Louis Ayat, French fencer (b. 1875)
• 1936 – John Ringling, American circus owner (b. 1866)
• 1943 – Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian author and journalist (b. 1902)
• 1944 – Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (b. 1874)
• 1944 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer (b. 1876)
• 1944 – Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player (b. 1917)
• 1950 – Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (b. 1917)
• 1953 – Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (b. 1884)
• 1953 – Tran Trong Kim, Vietnamese scholar and politician (b. 1883)
• 1957 – Harrison Ford, American actor (b. 1884)
• 1957 – Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (b. 1902)
• 1963 – Sabu Dastagir, Indian-born American actor (b. 1924)
• 1963 – Thomas Hicks, British-born American runner (b. 1875)
• 1966 – Giles Cooper, Anglo-Irish playwright (b. 1918)
• 1967 – Billy Chapman, English footballer (b. 1902)
• 1968 – Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson), Estonian painter (b. 1902)
• 1969 – José María Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist (b. 1911)
• 1969 – Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Russian politician (b. 1881)
• 1972 – Yip Man, Chinese martial artist (b. 1893)
• 1974 – Max Weber, Swiss politician (b. 1897)
• 1976 – Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
• 1980 – Roza Eskenazi, Greek singer (b. 1890s)
• 1980 – Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Pakistani politician (b. 1905)
• 1980 – Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (b. 1914)
• 1982 – Marty Feldman, British comedian, writer and actor (b. 1933)
• 1983 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (b. 1904)
• 1985 – Aniello Dellacroce, American organized crime figure (b. 1914)
• 1985 – Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic (b. 1922)
• 1986 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor and band leader (b. 1917)
• 1986 – John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (b. 1912)
• 1987 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
• 1987 – Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914)
• 1988 – Karl-Heinz Bürger, German SS-Oberführer (b. 1904)
• 1988 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (b. 1922)
• 1990 – Aaron Copland, American composer (b. 1900)
• 1990 – Robert Cummings, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1992 – Michael Gothard, English actor (b. 1939)
• 1993 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug trafficker (b. 1949)
• 1995 – Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b. 1913)
• 1995 – Roxie Roker, American actress (b. 1929)
• 1997 – Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler (b. 1930)
• 1997 – Michael Hedges, American guitarist (b. 1953)
• 2000 – Gail Fisher, American actress (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Arno Peters, German historian (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Alan Davidson, British author (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Alicia Markova, British ballerina (b. 1910)
• 2004 – Leonid Telyatnikov, Kazakhstani fire chief at Chernobyl (b. 1951)
• 2005 – Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Van Tuong Nguyen, Thai-born Australian drug smuggler (b. 1980)
• 2005 – Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (b. 1919)
• 2005 – William P. Lawrence, American naval officer (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (Shocking Blue) (b. 1947)
• 2007 – Jennifer Alexander, Canadian ballet dancer (b. 1972)
• 2008 – Edward Samuel Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Kathleen Baskin-Ball, American religious figure (b. 1958)
• 2008 – Odetta, American singer (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Maggie Jones, English actress (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer and producer (The Alan Parsons Project) (b. 1945)
• 2009 – Foge Fazio, American college football coach (b. 1938)