Deaths
- 1425 BC – Thutmose III, Egyptian pharaoh
- 222 – Elagabalus, Roman Emperor (b. 203)
- 222 – Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180)
- 859 – Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish martyr
- 1198 – Marie de Champagne, French noble (b. 1145)
- 1486 – Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1414)
- 1514 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
- 1575 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)
- 1602 – Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer
- 1607 – Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer (b. 1543 or 1544)
- 1722 – John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)
- 1759 – John Forbes, English general (b. 1710)
- 1786 – Charles Humphreys, American politician (b. 1714)
- 1801 – Paul I of Russia, Russian Emperor (b. 1754)
- 1820 – Benjamin West, English-American painter (b. 1738)
- 1851 – George McDuffie, American politician (b. 1790)
- 1854 – Willard Richards, American religious figure (b. 1804)
- 1856 – James Beatty, Irish railway engineer (b. 1820)
- 1863 – Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)
- 1866 – Ulysses F. Doubleday, American congressman (b. 1792)
- 1869 – Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1803)
- 1870 – Moshoeshoe I, King of Lesotho
- 1874 – Charles Sumner, American politician (b. 1811)
- 1898 – William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
- 1898 – Dikran Tchouhadjian, Armenian composer and activist (b. 1837)
- 1907 – Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847)
- 1908 – Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839)
- 1915 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (b. 1826)
- 1920 – Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
- 1931 – Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German director (b. 1888)
- 1937 – Joseph S. Cullinan, American industrialist (b. 1860)
- 1944 – Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-born American historian (b. 1882)
- 1949 – Anastasios Charalambis, Greek interim Prime Minister (b. 1862)
- 1951 – János Zsupánek, Slovene poet and writer (b. 1861)
- 1952 – Pierre Renoir, French actor and director (b. 1885)
- 1955 – Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
- 1955 – Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American entrepreneur (b. 1859)
- 1957 – Richard E. Byrd, American admiral and explorer (b. 1888)
- 1958 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (b. 1891)
- 1960 – Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer and adventurer (b. 1884)
- 1967 – Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)
- 1969 – John Daly, Irish athlete (b. 1880)
- 1969 – John Wyndham, English author (b. 1903)
- 1970 – Erle Stanley Gardner, American novelist (b. 1889)
- 1970 – Russell van Horn, American lightweight boxer (b. 1885)
- 1971 – Philo T. Farnsworth, American inventor (b. 1906)
- 1971 – Whitney Young, American civil rights activist (b. 1921)
- 1977 – Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist (b. 1893)
- 1977 – Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
- 1978 – Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)
- 1978 – Sofia Vembo, Greek singer and actress (b. 1910)
- 1982 – Edmund Cooper, English author (b. 1926)
- 1982 – Horace Gregory, American poet (b. 1898)
- 1984 – Kostas Roukounas, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1903)
- 1986 – Sonny Terry, American blues musician (b. 1911)
- 1987 – Joe Gladwin, English actor (b. 1906)
- 1989 – James Kee, American politician (b. 1917)
- 1989 – John J. McCloy, American politician (b. 1895)
- 1990 – Dean Horrix, English footballer (b. 1961)
- 1992 – Richard Brooks, American film director (b. 1912)
- 1993 – Dino Bravo, Italian-born wrestler (b. 1949),
- 1995 – Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (b. 1945)
- 1996 – Vince Edwards, American actor and director (b. 1928)
- 1999 – Herbert Jasper, Canadian psychologist, anatomist and neurologist (b. 1906)
- 1999 – Camille Laurin, Canadian psychiatrist and politician (b. 1922)
- 2002 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Brian Cleeve, Irish author (b. 1921)
- 2003 – Ivar Hansen, Danish politician (b. 1938)
- 2006 – Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player (b. 1931)
- 2006 – Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)
- 2007 – Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
- 2008 – Nils Taube, Estonian-born English fund manager (b. 1928)
- 2009 – Charles Lewis, Jr., American businessman, co-founder of Tapout Clothing (b. 1963)
- 2010 – Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician (b. 1931)
- 2010 – Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor (b. 1940)
- 2010 – Leena Peltonen-Palotie, Finnish human geneticist (b. 1952)
- 2011 – Gary Wichard, American sports agent (b. 1950)
- 2011 – Jack Hardy, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
- 2012 – Ian Turpie, Australian television & radio entertainer (b. 1943)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)