Deaths
- 450 – Theodosius II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
- 1057 – Pope Victor II (b. 1018)
- 1128 – William Clito, English son of Sybilla of Conversano (b. 1102)
- 1230 – Leopold VI, Duke of Austria (b. 1176)
- 1285 – Keran, Queen of Armenia
- 1527 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish explorer (b. 1460)
- 1540 – Thomas Cromwell, English statesman (b. 1495)
- 1631 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish playwright (b. 1569)
- 1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619)
- 1667 – Abraham Cowley, English poet (b. 1618)
- 1675 – Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
- 1685 – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
- 1718 – Étienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
- 1741 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
- 1750 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
- 1762 – George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
- 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre, French lawyer and politician (b. 1758)
- 1794 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French military officer and politician (b. 1767)
- 1809 – Richard Beckett, English soldier (b.1772)
- 1818 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
- 1835 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
- 1836 – Nathan Mayer Rothschild, English banker and financier (b. 1777)
- 1842 – Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
- 1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, French brother of Napoleon (b. 1768)
- 1849 – Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
- 1869 – Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist and physiologist (b. 1787)
- 1878 – George Law Curry, American publisher and politician (b. 1820)
- 1895 – Edward Beecher, American theologian (b. 1803)
- 1917 – Waldemar Tietgens, German rower (b. 1879)
- 1930 – John DeWitt, American athlete (b. 1881)
- 1930 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- 1933 – Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, 30th Yokozuna (b. 1890)
- 1934 – Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (b. 1868)
- 1934 – Louis Tancred, South African cricketer (b. 1876)
- 1935 – John Rahm, American golfer (b. 1854)
- 1942 – Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
- 1957 – Edith Abbott, American economist, social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
- 1957 – Isaac Heinemann, German-Israeli scholar (b. 1876)
- 1965 – Edogawa Rampo, Japanese author (b. 1894)
- 1965 – Attallah Suheimat, Arab-Jordanian politician (b. 1875)
- 1967 – Karl W. Richter, American air force officer (b. 1942)
- 1968 – Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
- 1969 – Ramón Grau, Cuban politician (b. 1882)
- 1970 – Baba Bujha Singh, Indian revolutionary
- 1971 – Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, Canadian soldier and diplomat (b. 1890)
- 1971 – Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
- 1971 – Charles E. Pont, American painter (b. 1898)
- 1972 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
- 1972 – Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
- 1979 – Don Miller, American football player (b. 1902)
- 1979 – Charles Shadwell, English bandleader (b. 1898)
- 1981 – Stanley Rother, American priest and missionary (b. 1935)
- 1982 – Keith Green, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1953)
- 1990 – Jill Esmond, English actress (b. 1908)
- 1996 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and educator (b. 1908)
- 1997 – Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (b. 1920)
- 1997 – Seni Pramoj, Thai politician (b. 1905)
- 1998 – Lenny McLean, English boxer, actor, and author (b. 1949)
- 1999 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- 2000 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
- 2001 – Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi writer (b. 1943)
- 2002 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
- 2003 – Valerie Goulding, Irish politician and activist (b. 1918)
- 2004 – Francis Crick, English biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
- 2004 – Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
- 2004 – Eugene Roche, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2004 – Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
- 2006 – Patrick Allen, English voice actor (b. 1927)
- 2006 – David Gemmell, English writer (b. 1948)
- 2007 – Karl Istaz, Belgian wrestler (b. 1924)
- 2007 – Jim LeRoy, American pilot (b. 1961)
- 2008 – Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer (b. 1977)
- 2009 – Jim Johnson, American football player and coach (b. 1941)
- 2009 – Reverend Ike, American minister (b. 1935)
- 2010 – Ivy Bean, English internet celebrity (b. 1905)
- 2010 – George P. Lee, American missionary and criminal (b. 1943)
- 2011 – Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan military officer (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Adam Cullen, Australian artist (b. 1965)
- 2012 – Amos Degani, Israeli politician (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Colin Horsley, New Zealand pianist (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Carol Kendall, American author (b. 1917)
- 2012 – Sepp Mayerl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1937)
- 2012 – William F. Milliken, Jr., American race car driver and engineer (b. 1911)
- 2012 – David Thomas, English cricketer (b. 1959)
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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 (1874–1963)
“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)