March 12 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 417 – Pope Innocent I
  • 604 – Pope Gregory I
  • 1289 – King Demetre II of Georgia (b. 1259)
  • 1316 – King Stephen Dragutin of Serbia (b. 1253)
  • 1374 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (b. 1336)
  • 1447 – Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
  • 1507 – Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman (b. 1475)
  • 1608 – Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
  • 1628 – John Bull, English composer
  • 1648 – Tirso de Molina, Spanish writer (b. 1571)
  • 1681 – Frans van Mieris, Sr., Dutch painter (b. 1635)
  • 1699 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
  • 1757 – Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (b. 1696)
  • 1790 – Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1710)
  • 1820 – Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish explorer (b. 1764)
  • 1832 – Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (b. 1786)
  • 1858 – William James Blacklock, British landscape painter (b. 1816)
  • 1872 – Zeng Guofan, Chinese politician and general (b. 1811)
  • 1894 – Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
  • 1898 – Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818)
  • 1908 – Edmondo De Amicis, Italian children's writer (b. 1846)
  • 1909 – Joe Petrosino, American police lieutenant (b. 1860)
  • 1914 – George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (b. 1846)
  • 1916 – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (b. 1830)
  • 1925 – Gergely Luthár, Hungarian Slovene writer (b. 1841)
  • 1925 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and politician (b. 1866)
  • 1929 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
  • 1930 – William George Barker, Canadian fighter ace (b. 1894)
  • 1930 – Alois Jirásek, Czech writer (b. 1851)
  • 1935 – Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and physical chemist (b. 1858)
  • 1937 – Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist (b. 1858)
  • 1937 – Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1844)
  • 1942 – Robert Bosch, German industrialist (b. 1861)
  • 1943 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
  • 1944 – Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (b. 1861)
  • 1945 – Friedrich Fromm, German Army Officer (b. 1861)
  • 1946 – Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian politician (executed) (b. 1897)
  • 1947 – Winston Churchill, American novelist (b. 1871)
  • 1955 – Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)
  • 1973 – Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (b. 1898)
  • 1974 – George D. Sax, American entrepreneur (b. 1904)
  • 1975 – Olga Hepnarová, Czech mass murderer (b. 1951)
  • 1978 – John Cazale, American actor (b. 1935)
  • 1978 – Gene Moore, American baseball player (b. 1909)
  • 1984 – Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (b. 1896)
  • 1985 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (b. 1899)
  • 1987 – Woody Hayes, American football coach (b. 1913)
  • 1989 – Maurice Evans, English-born actor (b. 1901)
  • 1990 – Wallace Breem, British author (b. 1926)
  • 1991 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
  • 1991 – William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist (b. 1900)
  • 1992 – Hans G. Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1921)
  • 1995 – Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949)
  • 1998 – Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
  • 1998 – Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (b. 1924)
  • 1998 – Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramist (b. 1893)
  • 1999 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b. 1916)
  • 2001 – Morton Downey, Jr., American television talk show host (b. 1933)
  • 2001 – Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)
  • 2001 – Victor Westhoff, Dutch botanist (b. 1916)
  • 2002 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician (b. 1932)
  • 2002 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
  • 2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
  • 2003 – Howard Fast, American author (b. 1914)
  • 2003 – Andrei Kivilev, Kazakh cyclist (b. 1973)
  • 2003 – Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948)
  • 2005 – Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist (b. 1943)
  • 2005 – Stavros Koujioumtzis, Greek songwriter (b. 1932)
  • 2006 – Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (b. 1947)
  • 2007 – Hege Nerland, Norwegian politician (b. 1966)
  • 2008 – Jorge Guinzburg, Argentine journalist, producer and media host (b. 1949)
  • 2008 – Lazare Ponticelli, French soldier (b. 1897)
  • 2010 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (b. 1920)
  • 2011 – Olive Dickason, Canadian historian (b. 1920)
  • 2011 – Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (Dave Brubeck Quartet) (b. 1923)
  • 2011 – Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (b. 1919)
  • 2012 – Hasan Gafoor, Indian Director General of Police of Maharashtra (b. 1949 or 1950)
  • 2012 – Michael Hossack, American drummer (Doobie Brothers) (b. 1946)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    This is the 184th Demonstration.
    ...
    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)

    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)