February 29 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 992 – Oswald of Worcester, archbishop of York (b. c.925)
  • 1212 – Hōnen, Japanese religious reformer (b. 1133)
  • 1528 – Patrick Hamilton, Scottish religious reformer (b. 1504)
  • 1592 – Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer (b. 1540)
  • 1600 – Caspar Hennenberger, German Lutheran pastor, historian and cartographer (b. 1529)
  • 1604 – John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1530)
  • 1740 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (b. 1667)
  • 1744 – John Theophilus Desaguliers, French philosopher (b. 1683)
  • 1792 – Johann Andreas Stein, German piano builder (b. 1728)
  • 1820 – Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German literary critic (b. 1743)
  • 1848 – Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, French general and painter (b. 1775)
  • 1868 – Ludwig I of Bavaria (b. 1786)
  • 1880 – Sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1812)
  • 1908 – Pat Garrett, American gunslinger (b. 1850)
  • 1908 – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, first Governor-General of Australia (b. 1860)
  • 1920 – Ernie Courtney, American baseball player (b. 1875)
  • 1928 – Ina Coolbrith, first poet laureate of California (b. 1841)
  • 1928 – Adolphe Appia, Swiss stage designer (b. 1862)
  • 1940 – Edward Frederic Benson, English writer (b. 1867)
  • 1944 – Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, President of Finland (b. 1861)
  • 1948 – Rebel Oakes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1883)
  • 1952 – Quo Tai-chi, Chinese diplomat (b. 1888)
  • 1956 – Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines (b. 1890)
  • 1960 – Walter Yust, American journalist and writer (b. 1894)
  • 1960 – Melvin Purvis, American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of Investigation agent (b. 1903)
  • 1964 – Frank Albertson, American actor (b. 1909)
  • 1968 – Lena Blackburne, American baseball player and manager (b. 1886)
  • 1968 – Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (b. 1886)
  • 1972 – Tom Davies, American footballer (b. 1896)
  • 1976 – Florence Dwyer, American politician (b. 1902)
  • 1980 – Gil Elvgren, American artist (b. 1914)
  • 1980 – Yigal Allon, Israeli politician and soldier (b. 1918)
  • 1984 – Ludwik Starski, Polish lyricist (b. 1903)
  • 1988 – Sidney Harmon, American film producer (b. 1907)
  • 1992 – Ruth Pitter, English poet (b. 1897)
  • 1992 – Earl Scheib, American car repainter (b. 1908)
  • 1992 – La Lupe, Cuban-American singer (b. 1939)
  • 1996 – Wes Farrell, American songwriter and musician (b. 1939)
  • 1996 – Shams Pahlavi, Persian princess (b. 1917)
  • 1996 – Ralph Rowe, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
  • 2000 – Dennis Danell, American guitarist (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)
  • 2004 – Jerome Lawrence, American playwright (b. 1915)
  • 2004 – Lorrie Wilmot, South African cricketer (b. 1943)
  • 2004 – Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna (b. 1923)
  • 2004 – Toni Onley, Canadian landscape painter (b. 1928)
  • 2004 – Harold Bernard St. John, Barbadian politician, (b. 1931)
  • 2008 – Janet Kagan, American author (b. 1946)
  • 2008 – Erik Ortvad, Danish artist (b. 1917)
  • 2012 – Davy Jones, English singer, songwriter and actor (The Monkees) (b. 1945)
  • 2012 – Sheldon Moldoff, Golden Age and Silver Age comic book artist (b. 1920)

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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
    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)

    “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)