July 11 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 472 – Anthemius, Roman Emperor (b. 420)
  • 937 – Rudolph II of Burgundy
  • 969 – Olga of Kiev (b. 890)
  • 1174 – Amalric I of Jerusalem (b. 1136)
  • 1183 – Otto I of Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1117)
  • 1302 – Robert II, Count of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250)
  • 1535 – Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
  • 1581 – Peder Skram, Danish senator and soldier (b. 1503)
  • 1593 – Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (b. 1527)
  • 1599 – Chōsokabe Motochika, Japanese daiymo (b.1539)
  • 1679 – William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
  • 1688 – Narai Thai king (b. 1629)
  • 1766 – Elisabeth Farnese, Spanish wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
  • 1774 – Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-English commander (b. 1715)
  • 1775 – Simon Boerum, American politician (b. 1724)
  • 1797 – Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Romanian poet, historian, and philologist (b. 1740)
  • 1806 – James Smith, Irish-American signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1719)
  • 1825 – Thomas P. Grosvenor, American soldier (b. 1744)
  • 1844 – Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
  • 1905 – Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian jurist and scholar (b. 1849)
  • 1908 – Friedrich Traun, German athlete and tennis player (b. 1876)
  • 1909 – Simon Newcomb, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
  • 1920 – Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III (b. 1826)
  • 1929 – Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
  • 1936 – James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
  • 1937 – George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
  • 1959 – Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882)
  • 1966 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b. 1913)
  • 1967 – Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge (b. 1917)
  • 1971 – John W. Campbell, American writer and editor (b. 1910)
  • 1971 – Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican race car driver (b. 1940)
  • 1974 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
  • 1976 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet (b. 1895)
  • 1979 – Claude Wagner, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1925)
  • 1983 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
  • 1987 – Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
  • 1987 – Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, American scholar and Rabbi (b. 1901)
  • 1989 – Laurence Olivier,English actor (b. 1907)
  • 1991 – Hitoshi Igarashi, English-Japanese scholar and translator (b. 1947)
  • 1994 – Savannah, American porn actress (b. 1970)
  • 1994 – Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research (b. 1942)
  • 1998 – Panagiotis Kondylis, Greek writer and translator (b. 1943)
  • 1999 – Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917)
  • 2000 – Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
  • 2000 – Robert Runcie, English Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
  • 2001 – Herman Brood, Dutch singer, musician, and actor (b. 1946)
  • 2001 – Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian doctor and author (b. 1926)
  • 2004 – Laurance Rockefeller, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1910)
  • 2005 – Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
  • 2005 – Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (b. 1965)
  • 2005 – Jesús Iglesias, Argentine race car driver (b. 1922)
  • 2005 – Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1914)
  • 2005 – Don Starr, American actor (b. 1917)
  • 2006 – Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)
  • 2006 – John Spencer, English snooker player (b. 1935)
  • 2007 – Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939)
  • 2007 – Lady Bird Johnson, American businesswoman, 38th First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
  • 2007 – Alfonso López Michelsen, Colombian politician, lawyer and journalist, 32nd President of Colombia (b. 1913)
  • 2007 – Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded Honest Ed's (b. 1914)
  • 2008 – Michael E. DeBakey, Lebanese-American surgeon, scientist, and inventor, developed the Peristaltic pump (b. 1908)
  • 2009 – Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer (b. 1972)
  • 2009 – Go Mi-Young, South Korean mountaineer (b. 1967)
  • 2009 – Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (b. 1911)
  • 2010 – Walter Hawkins, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and pastor (b. 1949)
  • 2010 – Bob Sheppard, American sportscaster (b. 1910)
  • 2011 – Rob Grill, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Grass Roots) (b. 1943)
  • 2012 – Dewayne Bunch, American politician and educator (b. 1962)
  • 2012 – Marion Cunningham, American author (b. 1922)
  • 2012 – Joe McBride, Scottish footballer (b. 1938)
  • 2012 – André Simon, French race car driver (b. 1920)
  • 2012 – Donald Sobol, American children's author (b. 1924)
  • 2012 – Marvin Traub, American businessman and author (b. 1925)

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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)

    “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)