Deaths
- 816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750)
- 918 – Æthelflæd, Mercian daughter of Alfred the Great (b. 870)
- 1020 – Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 999)
- 1036 – Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo (b. 990)
- 1418 – Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac (b. 1360)
- 1435 – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)
- 1560 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
- 1560 – Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
- 1565 – Adrianus Turnebus, French scholar (b. 1512)
- 1567 – Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, English lord chancellor (b. 1490)
- 1647 – Thomas Farnaby, English schoolmaster and scholar (b. 1575)
- 1675 – Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1634)
- 1734 – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military commander (b. 1670)
- 1758 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia (b. 1722)
- 1772 – Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
- 1778 – Philip Livingston, American merchant and statesman, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1716)
- 1816 – Pierre Augereau, French marshal (b. 1757)
- 1818 – Egwale Seyon of Ethiopia
- 1904 – Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian nobleman, entrepreneur, and author (b. 1836)
- 1912 – Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822)
- 1917 – Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan singer, pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1853)
- 1932 – Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
- 1937 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Russian marshal and commander (b. 1893)
- 1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American musician, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (b. 1904)
- 1962 – John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879)
- 1963 – Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
- 1966 – Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (b. 1891)
- 1969 – Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (b. 1899)
- 1978 – Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (b. 1892)
- 1980 – Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
- 1980 – Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company (b. 1899)
- 1980 – Masayoshi Ohira, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)
- 1982 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
- 1982 – Ian McKay, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1953)
- 1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902)
- 1989 – Lou Monte, Italian-American singer (b. 1917)
- 1990 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Irish politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1914)
- 1994 – Toma Bebić, Dalmatian artist, journalist, and educator (b. 1935)
- 1994 – Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (b. 1949)
- 1994 – Ronald Goldman, American waiter (b. 1968)
- 1994 – Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-French rabbi (b. 1902)
- 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim, ex-wife of O.J. Simpson (b. 1959)
- 1995 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
- 1997 – Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter, musician, and author (b. 1924)
- 2000 – P. L. Deshpande, Marathi writer (b. 1919)
- 2002 – Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922)
- 2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
- 2005 – Scott Young, Canadian journalist and novelist (b. 1918)
- 2006 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (b. 1921)
- 2006 – György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Nijiro Tokuda, Japanese super-centenarian (b. 1895)
- 2007 – Don Herbert, American television host and producer (b. 1917)
- 2008 – Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Pahiño, Spanish footballer (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Marwan Arafat, Syrian footballer and referee (b. 1945)
- 2012 – Jung Ayul, South Korean actress (b. 1987)
- 2012 – Philip H. Corboy, American lawyer (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Henry Hill, American mobster (b. 1943)
- 2012 – Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, German psychoanalyst (b. 1917)
- 2012 – Elinor Ostrom, American economist (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Frank Walker, Australian politician and judge (b. 1942)
- 2012 – Don Woods, American meteorologist and cartoonist (b. 1927)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)