Deaths
- 783 – Bertrada of Laon (b. 720)
- 1441 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (b. 1394)
- 1536 – Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher (b. 1466)
- 1584 – Steven Borough, English explorer (b. 1525)
- 1645 – Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)
- 1664 – Stefano della Bella, Italian print-maker (b. 1610)
- 1682 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
- 1693 – John Ashby, English admiral (b. 1640)
- 1712 – Richard Cromwell, English son of Oliver Cromwell (b. 1626)
- 1742 – Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italian composer (b. 1675)
- 1749 – Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, French navy officer (b. 1671)
- 1773 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist and composer (b. 1697)
- 1804 – Alexander Hamilton, American soldier, economist, philosopher, and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1755)
- 1845 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (b. 1808)
- 1849 – Dolley Madison, American wife of James Madison, 4th First Lady of the United States (b. 1768)
- 1870 – John A. Dahlgren, American navy admiral (b. 1809)
- 1892 – Alexander Cartwright, American fireman, inventor of baseball (b. 1820)
- 1910 – Charles Rolls, English engineer and aviator, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (b. 1887)
- 1918 – Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864)
- 1926 – Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (b. 1868)
- 1931 – Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1866)
- 1934 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and industrialist, invented the outboard motor (b. 1877)
- 1935 – Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (b. 1859)
- 1944 – Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general (b. 1887)
- 1945 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871)
- 1945 – Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (b. 1895)
- 1947 – Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
- 1949 – Douglas Hyde, Irish politician (b. 1860)
- 1950 – Elsie de Wolfe, American actress, author, and interior decorator (b. 1865)
- 1961 – Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (b. 1879)
- 1962 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American musician, composer, and bandleader (b. 1907)
- 1965 – Christfried Burmeister, Estonian speed skater (b. 1898)
- 1966 – D. T. Suzuki, Japanese author (b. 1870)
- 1969 – Henry George Lamond, Australian novelist (b. 1885)
- 1971 – Yvon Robert, Canadian wrestler (b. 1914)
- 1973 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (b. 1906)
- 1975 – James Ormsbee Chapin, American painter and illustrator (b. 1887)
- 1979 – Minnie Riperton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
- 1982 – Kenneth More, English actor (b. 1914)
- 1983 – Chris Wood, English saxophonist (Traffic and Ginger Baker's Air Force) (b. 1944)
- 1990 – João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (b. 1917)
- 1993 – Dan Eldon,English photographer and journalist (b. 1970)
- 1994 – Elder Paisios of Mount Athos, Greek monk (b. 1924)
- 1996 – John Chancellor, American journalist (b. 1927)
- 1996 – Jonathan Melvoin, American keyboardist (The Smashing Pumpkins) (b. 1961)
- 1998 – Jimmy Driftwood, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1907)
- 1998 – Serge Lemoyne, Canadian painter (b. 1941)
- 1999 – Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1929)
- 1999 – Bill Owen, English actor (b. 1914)
- 2000 – Charles Merritt, Canadian army officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1908)
- 2001 – Fred Marcellino, American illustrator (b. 1939)
- 2003 – Benny Carter, American musician, bandleader, and composer (b. 1907)
- 2004 – Betty Oliphant, Canadian ballerina, co-founder of the National Ballet School of Canada (b. 1918)
- 2005 – John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, English businessman (b. 1917)
- 2006 – Adamantios Lemos, Greek actor (b. 1916)
- 2007 – Robert Burås, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (My Midnight Creeps and Madrugada) (b. 1975)
- 2007 – Mr. Butch, American guitar player (b. 1951)
- 2007 – Stan Zemanek, Australian radio host (b. 1947)
- 2008 – Bobby Murcer, American baseball player (b. 1946)
- 2008 – Tony Snow, American journalist, 26th White House Press Secretary (b. 1955)
- 2010 – Paulo Moura, Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist (b. 1932)
- 2010 – Pius Njawé, Cameroonian journalist (b. 1957)
- 2010 – Harvey Pekar, American writer and critic (b. 1939)
- 2011 – Sherwood Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1916)
- 2012 – Alimuddin, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Eddy Brown, English footballer (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Maita Gomez, Filipino model and activist (b. 1947)
- 2012 – Else Holmelund Minarik, Danish-American author (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Roger Payne, English mountaineer (b. 1956)
- 2012 – Hamid Samandarian, Iranian director (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Dara Singh, Indian wrestler and actor (b. 1928)
- 2012 – George C. Stoney, American director and producer (b. 1916)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“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 soldiers 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)