February 5 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 523 – Avitus, archbishop of Vienne
  • 1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)
  • 1578 – Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter (b. c.1520-24)
  • 1705 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635)
  • 1754 – Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch cartographer (b. 1678)
  • 1766 – Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
  • 1775 – Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692)
  • 1790 – William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
  • 1807 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (b. 1725)
  • 1881 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795)
  • 1882 – Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish traveler, writer and diplomat (b. 1841)
  • 1892 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (b. 1807)
  • 1915 – Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)
  • 1917 – Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860)
  • 1922 – Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)
  • 1922 – Christiaan De Wet, South African general (b. 1854)
  • 1927 – Inayat Khan, Indian sufi (b. 1882)
  • 1931 – Athanasios Eftaxias, Greek politician (b. 1849)
  • 1933 – Joseph Roffo, French rugby player (b. 1879)
  • 1933 – Josiah Thomas, Australian politician (b. 1863)
  • 1937 – Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (b. 1861)
  • 1938 – Hans Litten, German jurist (b. 1903)
  • 1941 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (b. 1864)
  • 1946 – George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868)
  • 1948 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)
  • 1952 – Adela Verne, English pianist (b. 1877)
  • 1955 – Victor Houteff, Bulgarian religious reformer and author (b. 1885)
  • 1957 – Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (b. 1890)
  • 1962 – Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890)
  • 1967 – Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)
  • 1967 – Violeta Parra, Chilean folklorist and visual artist (b. 1917)
  • 1969 – Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1902)
  • 1970 – Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913)
  • 1972 – Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887)
  • 1976 – Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926)
  • 1977 – Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)
  • 1981 – Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
  • 1984 – Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, Mexican wrestler and film actor (b. 1917)
  • 1985 – Georges-Émile Lapalme, French-Canadian politician (b. 1907)
  • 1987 – William Collier, American film and stage actor (b. 1902)
  • 1991 – Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
  • 1992 – Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913)
  • 1993 – Seán Flanagan, Irish Gaelic footballer and politician (b. 1922)
  • 1993 – Marcel Léger, Quebec politician (b. 1930)
  • 1993 – Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer, and director (b. 1909)
  • 1993 – Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (parachuting accident) (b. 1958)
  • 1995 – Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
  • 1997 – Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat (b. 1920)
  • 1997 – René Huyghe, French writer (b. 1906)
  • 1998 – Tim Kelly, American musician (Slaughter) (b. 1963)
  • 1999 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906)
  • 2000 – Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901)
  • 2001 – Jean Davy, French voice actor (b. 1911)
  • 2003 – Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer (b. 1970)
  • 2004 – John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)
  • 2005 – Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)
  • 2005 – Henri Rochon, Canadian tennis player (b. 1912)
  • 2006 – Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930)
  • 2006 – Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)
  • 2007 – Fred Ball, American movie studio executive, actor, and the brother of comedienne Lucille Ball (b. 1915)
  • 2007 – Leo T. McCarthy, American politician and 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (1983–1995) (b. 1930)
  • 2007 – Alfred Worm, Austrian investigative journalist (b. 1945)
  • 2008 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (b. c. 1917)
  • 2010 – Brendan Burke, Gay rights activist, son of Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke (b. 1988)
  • 2010 – Ian Carmichael, English actor (b. 1920)
  • 2010 – Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid movement (b. 1924)
  • 2011 – Brian Jacques, English author (b. 1939)
  • 2011 – Peggy Rea, American actress (b. 1921)
  • 2012 – Blaine, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1937)
  • 2012 – Sam Coppola, American actor (b. 1932)
  • 2012 – Al De Lory, American musician, producer, and conductor (b. 1930)
  • 2012 – Bill Hinzman, American actor and director (b. 1936)
  • 2012 – John Turner Sargent, Sr., American publisher (b. 1924)
  • 2012 – Jiang Ying, Chinese singer (b. 1919)
  • 2012 – Jo Zwaan, Dutch sprinter (b. 1922)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “On almost the incendiary eve
    Of deaths and entrances ...”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “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)