February 24 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 616 – King Ethelbert of Kent
  • 1525 – Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
  • 1563 – Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (b. 1519)
  • 1588 – Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist
  • 1666 – Nicholas Lanier, English composer (b. 1588)
  • 1674 – Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)
  • 1685 – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)
  • 1704 – Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (b. 1643)
  • 1714 – Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b. 1637)
  • 1721 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
  • 1732 – Colonel Francis Charteris, known as "The Rape-Master General". (b. 1675)
  • 1777 – King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
  • 1779 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encyclopedist (b. 1704)
  • 1781 – Edward Capell, English critic (b. 1713)
  • 1799 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (b. 1742)
  • 1810 – Henry Cavendish, English scientist (b. 1731)
  • 1812 – Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
  • 1815 – Robert Fulton, American inventor (b. 1765)
  • 1824 – Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1755)
  • 1825 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and editor (b. 1754)
  • 1856 – Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1792)
  • 1876 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st President of Liberia (b. 1809)
  • 1879 – Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (b. 1825)
  • 1914 – Eugène Balme, French shooter (b. 1874)
  • 1914 – Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg (b. 1828)
  • 1925 – Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
  • 1927 – Sir Edward Marshall Hall, English barrister (b. 1858)
  • 1927 – Frank MacKey, American polo player (b. 1852)
  • 1929 – André Messager, French composer and conductor (b. 1853)
  • 1953 – Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)
  • 1970 – Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897)
  • 1975 – Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
  • 1982 – Virginia Bruce, American actress and singer (b. 1910)
  • 1984 – Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (b. 1912)
  • 1986 – Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
  • 1987 – Jim Connors, American radio personality (b. 1940)
  • 1989 – Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894)
  • 1990 – Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (b. 1945)
  • 1990 – Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (b. 1917)
  • 1990 – Sandro Pertini, Italian politician (b. 1896)
  • 1990 – Johnnie Ray, American singer (b. 1927)
  • 1991 – John Charles Daly, American news broadcaster and game show host (b. 1914)
  • 1991 – George Gobel, American comedian (b. 1919)
  • 1991 – Webb Pierce, American music singer (b. 1921)
  • 1993 – Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (b. 1917)
  • 1993 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)
  • 1994 – Jean Sablon, French singer (b. 1906)
  • 1994 – Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1916)
  • 1998 – Clara Fraser, American feminist and activist (b. 1923)
  • 1998 – Antonio Prohías, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921)
  • 1998 – Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (b. 1906)
  • 1999 – Andre Dubus, American writer (b. 1936)
  • 1999 – David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, British politician and peer (b. 1904)
  • 1999 – Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916)
  • 2001 – Theodore Marier, KCSG, American composer, founder of the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (b. 1912)
  • 2001 – Claude E. Shannon, American information theorist (b. 1916)
  • 2002 – Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932)
  • 2002 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (b. 1912)
  • 2003 – John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (b. 1912)
  • 2003 – Bernard Loiseau, French chef (b. 1951)
  • 2004 – John Randolph, American actor (b. 1915)
  • 2005 – Dan McIvor, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1911)
  • 2006 – Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)
  • 2006 – Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
  • 2006 – John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947)
  • 2006 – Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
  • 2006 – Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
  • 2007 – Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906)
  • 2007 – Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (b. 1932)
  • 2007 – Lamar Lundy, American football player (b. 1935)
  • 2007 – Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982)
  • 2008 – Larry Norman, American musician, singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
  • 2009 – C. R. Johnson, American freestyle skier (b. 1983)
  • 2011 – Anant Pai, Indian educationalist and creator of comics (b. 1929)

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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)

    “I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “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)