Deaths
- 323 BC–Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (b. 356 BC)
- 1075 – Ernest, Margrave of Austria (b. 1027)
- 1190 – Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1122)
- 1424 – Ernest, Duke of Austria (b. 1377)
- 1552 – Alexander Barclay, English poet (b. 1476)
- 1556 – Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486)
- 1580 – Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (b. c. 1524)
- 1607 – John Popham, English politician (b. 1531)
- 1654 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
- 1680 – Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
- 1692 – Bridget Bishop, English-American first person to be executed during the Salem witch trials (b. 1632)
- 1735 – Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)
- 1776 – Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (b. 1736)
- 1776 – Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
- 1791 – Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
- 1831 – Hans Karl von Diebitsch, German-Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
- 1836 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
- 1849 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French marshal and politician (b. 1784)
- 1896 – Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829)
- 1898 – Tuone Udaina, Croatian-Italian barber, last speaker of the Dalmatian language
- 1899 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
- 1901 – Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish poet and novelist (b. 1841)
- 1902 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
- 1909 – Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
- 1912 – Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (b. 1856)
- 1918 – Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (b. 1842)
- 1923 – Pierre Loti, French sailor (b. 1850)
- 1924 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (b. 1885)
- 1926 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish-Catalan architect, designed the Park Güell (b. 1852)
- 1929 – Hélène Smith, French psychic (b. 1861)
- 1930 – Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
- 1934 – Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862)
- 1937 – Robert Borden, Canadian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
- 1940 – Marcus Garvey, Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, and activist, founded the Black Star Line (b. 1887)
- 1944 – Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
- 1946 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
- 1947 – Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
- 1949 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
- 1955 – Margaret Abbott, American golfer (b. 1876)
- 1958 – Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
- 1959 – Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian politician (b. 1883)
- 1963 – Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist (b. 1936)
- 1967 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
- 1971 – Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
- 1973 – William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
- 1974 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
- 1976 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (b. 1873)
- 1982 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor and director (b. 1945)
- 1982 – Addie Harris McPherson, American singer (The Shirelles) (b. 1940)
- 1986 – Merle Miller, American author (b. 1919)
- 1987 – Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943)
- 1988 – Louis L'Amour, American author (b. 1908)
- 1991 – Jean Bruller, French writer (b. 1902)
- 1992 – Zak Hernández, American soldier (b. 1970)
- 1992 – Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese composer and pianist (b. 1931)
- 1993 – Arleen Auger, American soprano (b, 1939)
- 1993 – Les Dawson, English comedian (b. 1934)
- 1996 – George Hees, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
- 1996 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914)
- 1998 – Jim Hearn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
- 1998 – Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
- 2000 – Hafez al-Assad, Syrian politician, President of Syria (b. 1930)
- 2000 – Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
- 2001 – Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951
- 2001 – Leila Pahlavi, Iranian daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (b. 1970)
- 2002 – John Gotti, American mobster (b. 1940)
- 2003 – Donald Regan, American businessman and politician, 66th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
- 2003 – Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939)
- 2004 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (b. 1930)
- 2004 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
- 2005 – Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer, designed the Pitts Special (b. 1915)
- 2007 – Augie Auer, New Zealand scientist and meteorologist (b. 1940)
- 2008 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani-Soviet author (b. 1928)
- 2009 – Tenniel Evans, English actor (b. 1926)
- 2009 – Stelios Skevofilakas, Greek footballer (b. 1940)
- 2010 – Basil Schott, American Archbishop (b. 1939)
- 2011 – Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish Politician (b. 1959)
- 2012 – Piero Bellugi, Italian conductor (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Will Hoebee, Dutch songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
- 2012 – Georges Mathieu, French painter (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Joshua Orwa Ojode, Kenyan politician (b. 1958)
- 2012 – Elvis J. Perrodin, American jockey (b. 1956)
- 2012 – George Saitoti, Kenyan politician, mathematician, and businessman, founded the African Mathematical Union (b. 1945)
- 2012 – Sudono Salim, Chinese-Indonesian businessman, founded Bank Central Asia (b. 1916)
- 2012 – Eugene Selznick, American volleyball player and coach (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Gordon West, English footballer (b. 1943)
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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 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)
“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 deaththat is, they attempt suicidetwice as often as men, though men are more successful because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“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)