January 30 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1030 – William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
  • 1181 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
  • 1384 – Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
  • 1574 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
  • 1606 – Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
  • 1649 – King Charles I of England (b. 1600)
  • 1730 – Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
  • 1836 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
  • 1849 – Jonathan Alder, American settler (b. 1773)
  • 1858 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
  • 1867 – Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
  • 1869 – William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
  • 1889 – Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (b. 1858)
  • 1926 – Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
  • 1928 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
  • 1929 – La Goulue, French dancer (b. 1866)
  • 1934 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
  • 1937 – Alfred Grütter, Swiss sports shooter (b. 1860)
  • 1948 – Arthur Coningham, New Zealand air commander (b. 1895)
  • 1948 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Father of Nation, India (b. 1869)
  • 1948 – Orville Wright, American aviator (b. 1871)
  • 1951 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875)
  • 1958 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
  • 1958 – Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b. 1888)
  • 1962 – Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
  • 1963 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
  • 1969 – Dominique Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
  • 1980 – Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
  • 1982 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
  • 1984 – Luke Kelly, Irish singer (The Dubliners) (b. 1940)
  • 1984 – Lee McCall, South African bank robber (b. 1950)
  • 1987 – Harold Loeffelmacher, Polka musician (Six Fat Dutchmen) (b. 1905)
  • 1989 – Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, Spanish pretender to the French throne (b. 1936)
  • 1991 – John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
  • 1991 – Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)
  • 1991 – John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
  • 1994 – Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
  • 1995 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist and television presenter (b. 1925)
  • 1998 – Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b. 1927)
  • 1999 – Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
  • 1999 – Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (b. 1909)
  • 2001 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
  • 2001 – Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (b. 1915)
  • 2001 – Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (b. 1915)
  • 2005 – Martyn Bennett, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
  • 2005 – Wes Wehmiller, American musician (Missing Persons) (b. 1971)
  • 2006 – Coretta Scott King, American activist; widow of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
  • 2007 – Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor (b. 1934)
  • 2007 – Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
  • 2008 – Jeremy Beadle, British television host (b. 1948)
  • 2008 – Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious figure (b. 1920)
  • 2008 – Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)
  • 2009 – John Gordy, American football player (b. 1935)
  • 2009 – H. Guy Hunt, American politician (b. 1933)
  • 2009 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (b. 1932)
  • 2009 – Neiliezhü Üsou, Indian Baptist preacher (b. 1941)
  • 2010 – Bernard Arcand, French-Canadian anthropologist (b. 1945)
  • 2010 – Aaron Ruben, American television director (b. 1914)
  • 2011 – John Barry, English film score composer (b. 1933)
  • 2012 – Doeschka Meijsing, Dutch novelist (b. 1947)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “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)

    “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)

    “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)