Deaths
- 1036 – Ali az-Zahir, Islamic ruler (b. 1005)
- 1231 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint (b. 1195)
- 1256 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
- 1636 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
- 1645 – Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman and author (b. 1584)
- 1665 – Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
- 1760 – Antoine Court, French minister (b. 1696)
- 1784 – Henry Middleton, American politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
- 1881 – Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
- 1886 – Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
- 1898 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
- 1904 – Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
- 1918 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1878)
- 1930 – Henry Segrave, English race car driver (b. 1896)
- 1931 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
- 1943 – Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
- 1951 – Ben Chifley, Australian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
- 1954 – Henry Blogg, English fisherman and lifeboatman (b. 1876)
- 1957 – Irving Baxter, American athlete (b. 1876)
- 1958 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (b. 1887)
- 1965 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher (b. 1878)
- 1965 – David Drummond, Australian politician (b. 1890)
- 1972 – Clyde McPhatter, American musician (b. 1932)
- 1972 – Dündar Taşer, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1925)
- 1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
- 1972 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
- 1977 – Matthew Garber, English actor (b. 1956)
- 1979 – Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931)
- 1979 – Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and musician (I Ribelli and Area) (b. 1945)
- 1980 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
- 1982 – Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
- 1982 – Peter Maivia, American-Samoan wrestler (b. 1935)
- 1982 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
- 1984 – António Variações, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
- 1986 – Benny Goodman, American clarinetist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1909)
- 1987 – Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
- 1989 – Fran Allison, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
- 1993 – Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
- 1993 – Deke Slayton, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1924)
- 1997 – Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer (b. 1909)
- 1998 – Alfred Gerrard, British sculptor (b. 1899)
- 1998 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1911)
- 1998 – Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (b. 1917)
- 2002 – John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
- 2003 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
- 2004 – Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
- 2004 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)
- 2005 – Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
- 2005 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)
- 2005 – David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
- 2005 – Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
- 2006 – Charles Haughey, Irish politician (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Walid Eido, Lebanese politician (b. 1942)
- 2008 – Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)
- 2008 – Tim Russert, American journalist and lawyer (b. 1950)
- 2009 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (b. 1962)
- 2009 – Fathi Yakan, Lebanese politician (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Sam T. Beddingfield, American pilot and engineer (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Graeme Bell, Australian pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1914)
- 2012 – Luiz Gonzaga Bergonzini, Brazilian bishop (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and author (b. 1913)
- 2012 – Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani singer and composer (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Jože Humer, Slovenian composer (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Erica Kennedy, American author and journalist (b. 1970)
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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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (19131992)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)