December 23 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 484 – Huneric, king of the Vandals
  • 668 – Mor Gabriel, Syriac Orthodox Saint (b. 594)
  • 679 – King Dagobert II of Austrasia (b. c. 650)
  • 910 – Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar
  • 918 – Conrad I of Germany
  • 1230 – Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England
  • 1556 – Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)
  • 1568 – Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England
  • 1575 – Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese military commander (b. 1531)
  • 1588 – Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (b. 1550)
  • 1631 – Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)
  • 1646 – François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)
  • 1652 – John Cotton, English-born American minister (b. 1585)
  • 1675 – Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)
  • 1722 – Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)
  • 1771 – Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)
  • 1761 – Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy
  • 1779 – Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)
  • 1789 – Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712)
  • 1763 – Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (b. 1697)
  • 1795 – Sir Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)
  • 1805 – Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)
  • 1834 – Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)
  • 1846 – Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)
  • 1884 – John Chisum, American Cattle Baron (b. 1824)
  • 1902 – Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)
  • 1912 – Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850)
  • 1926 – Swami Shraddhanand,(b.1856)
  • 1931 – Wilson Bentley, American scientist (b. 1865)
  • 1939 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer (b. 1890)
  • 1944 – Peder Lykkeberg, Danish swimmer (b. 1878)
  • 1946 – John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (b. 1873)
  • 1946 – Kiki Preston, American socialite (b. 1898)
  • 1948 – Akira Muto, Japanese army commander (b. 1883)
  • 1948 – Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1884)
  • 1950 – Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (b. 1878)
  • 1953 – Lavrenty Beria, Soviet politician (b. 1899)
  • 1954 – René Iché, French sculptor (b. 1897)
  • 1961 – Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (b. 1910)
  • 1970 – Charles Ruggles, American actor (b. 1886)
  • 1971 – Pasha Hristova, Bulgarian singer (b. 1946)
  • 1972 – Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer (b. 1888)
  • 1973 – Charles Atlas, Italian-born American bodybuilder (b. 1892)
  • 1973 – Irna Phillips, American television writer, director, and producer (b. 1901)
  • 1979 – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b. 1898)
  • 1982 – Jack Webb, American actor, producer, and director (b. 1920)
  • 1983 – Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
  • 1984 – Joan Lindsay, Australian author (b. 1896)
  • 1992 – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (b. 1934)
  • 1992 – Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (Funkadelic) (b. 1950)
  • 1994 – Sebastian Shaw, English actor (b. 1905)
  • 1997 – Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (b. 1908)
  • 1998 – Michelle Thomas, American actress (b. 1968)
  • 2000 – Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924)
  • 2000 – Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (b. 1909)
  • 2000 – Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (b. 1926)
  • 2001 – Bola Ige, Nigerian politician (b. 1930)
  • 2004 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (b. 1921)
  • 2005 – Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and coach (b. 1914)
  • 2005 – Norman D. Vaughan, American polar explorer and musher (b. 1905)
  • 2006 – Charlie Drake, English comedian (b. 1925)
  • 2006 – Timothy J. Tobias, American composer and musician (b. 1952)
  • 2006 – Marilyn Waltz, American actress and model (b. 1931)
  • 2006 – Johnny Vincent, English footballer (b. 1947)
  • 2007 – William Francis Ganong, American physiologist (b. 1924)
  • 2007 – Michael Kidd, American film and stage choreographer (b. 1915)
  • 2007 – Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist and composer (b. 1925)
  • 2009 – Robert L. Howard, American Vietnam War soldier; Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1939)
  • 2009 – Edward Schillebeeckx, Belgian Roman Catholic theologian (b. 1914)
  • 2009 – Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Tibetan official (b. 1910)
  • 2010 – K. Karunakaran, Indian politician (b. 1918)
  • 2010 – Fred Hargesheimer, American World War II pilot (b. 1916)

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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)

    “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)