Deaths
- 350 – Nepotianus, Roman ruler
- 1181 – Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
- 1224 – Adolf of Osnabrück, German monk and bishop (b. 1185)
- 1364 – Arnošt of Pardubice, Polish Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
- 1538 – Charles II, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)
- 1579 – Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. 1506)
- 1607 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
- 1660 – William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
- 1666 – Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)
- 1670 – Princess Henrietta of England (b. 1644)
- 1704 – John Quelch, English pirate (b. 1665)
- 1708 – Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
- 1709 – Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
- 1785 – James Oglethorpe, English general and politician, founder of the U.S. state of Georgia (b. 1696)
- 1796 – Abraham Yates, American politician (b. 1724)
- 1857 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
- 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher, writer, and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
- 1882 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
- 1890 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819)
- 1913 – Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer (b. 1873)
- 1917 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
- 1919 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)
- 1932 – Bruno Kastner, German actor (b. 1890)
- 1934 – Karl Ernst, German nazi officer (b. 1904)
- 1934 – Erich Klausener, German politician (b. 1885)
- 1934 – Gustav Ritter von Kahr, German politician, Prime Minister of Bavaria (b. 1862)
- 1934 – Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
- 1934 – Gregor Strasser, German nazi politician (b. 1892)
- 1941 – Yefim Fomin, Soviet political commissar (b. 1909)
- 1943 – Carlo Wieth, Danish actor (b. 1885)
- 1949 – Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player (b. 1868)
- 1953 – Charles William Miller, Brazilian sportsman and civil servant (b. 1874)
- 1954 – Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1873)
- 1956 – Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (b. 1880)
- 1959 – José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
- 1961 – Lee De Forest, American inventor, invented the audion tube (b. 1873)
- 1966 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (b. 1906)
- 1971 – Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1943)
- 1971 – Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter and director (b. 1900)
- 1971 – Georgi Dobrovolski Soviet astronaut (b. 1928)
- 1971 – Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1938)
- 1971 – Viktor Patsayev Soviet astronaut (b. 1933)
- 1971 – Vladislav Volkov Soviet astronaut (b. 1935)
- 1973 – Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (b. 1903)
- 1974 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
- 1976 – Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1984 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
- 1985 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)
- 1993 – Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, producer, composer, and actor (Beyond) (b. 1962)
- 1993 – George McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
- 1995 – Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet astronaut (b. 1921)
- 1995 – Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906)
- 1995 – Phyllis Hyman, American singer-songwriter and actress(b. 1949)
- 1996 – Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1932)
- 1997 – Larry O'Dea, Australian wrestler (b. 1944)
- 2001 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1924)
- 2001 – Joe Henderson, American saxophonist (b. 1937)
- 2002 – Chico Xavier, Brazilian author and medium (b. 1910)
- 2003 – Buddy Hackett, American comedian and actor (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Robert McCloskey, American writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
- 2004 – Jamal Abro, Pakistani writer (b. 1924)
- 2005 – Clancy Eccles, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Robert Gernhardt, German writer (b. 1937)
- 2007 – Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
- 2009 – Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
- 2009 – Robert DePugh, American activist (b. 1923)
- 2010 – Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer (b. 1977)
- 2011 – Barry Bremen, American businessman (b. 1947)
- 2012 – Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun (b. 1942)
- 2012 – Richard Eardley, American politician (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Miguel S. Demapan, American jurist (b. 1953)
- 2012 – Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
- 2012 – Yomo Toro, Puerto Rican musician and television host (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Ivan Sekyra, Czech rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, director and screenwriter (b. 1952)
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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)
“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)
“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 soldier’s 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)