May 1 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 408 – Arcadius, Roman emperor (b. 337/338)
  • 1118 – Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c.1080)
  • 1277 – Stephen Uroš I of Serbia (b. 1223)
  • 1308 – Albert I of Habsburg (b. 1255)
  • 1539 – Isabella of Portugal (b. 1503)
  • 1555 – Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501)
  • 1572 – Pope Pius V (b. 1504)
  • 1731 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677)
  • 1738 – Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (b. c.1669)
  • 1772 – Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (b. 1719)
  • 1813 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (b. 1768)
  • 1856 – John Wilbur, American minister (b. 1774)
  • 1873 – David Livingstone, Scottish missionary (b. 1813)
  • 1899 – Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (b. 1824)
  • 1904 – Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
  • 1913 – John Barclay Armstrong, American lieutenant and Marshal (b. 1850)
  • 1920 – Princess Margaret of Connaught (b. 1882)
  • 1935 – Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
  • 1937 – Snitz Edwards, American actor (b. 1868)
  • 1943 – Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian Christian leader, founder of Brunstad Christian Church (b. 1871)
  • 1945 – Joseph Goebbels, German Nazi politician (b. 1897)
  • 1945 – Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels (b. 1901)
  • 1956 – LeRoy Samse, American athlete (b. 1883)
  • 1960 – Charles Holden, British architect (b. 1875)
  • 1963 – Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and politician, father of the Filipino language (b. 1879)
  • 1965 – Spike Jones, American bandleader and musician (b. 1911)
  • 1968 – Harold Nicolson, English diplomat, author, and politician (b. 1886)
  • 1968 – Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1895)
  • 1970 – Yi Un, Korean prince (b. 1897)
  • 1973 – Asger Jorn, Danish painter (b. 1914)
  • 1976 – Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet (b. 1939)
  • 1976 – T.R.M. Howard, American civil rights leader, entrepreneur, and surgeon (b. 1908)
  • 1978 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (b. 1903)
  • 1982 – William Primrose, Scottish violist and teacher (b. 1903)
  • 1985 – Denise Robins, English journalist and novelist (b. 1897)
  • 1986 – Hylda Baker, English actress (b. 1905)
  • 1986 – Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and producer (b. 1916)
  • 1989 – Sally Kirkland, American editor and manager (b. 1912)
  • 1989 – Patrice Tardif, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
  • 1989 – Douglass Watson, American actor (b. 1921)
  • 1990 – Sergio Franchi, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1926)
  • 1991 – Richard Thorpe, American director (b. 1896)
  • 1992 – Sharon Redd, American singer and actress (Harlettes) (b. 1945)
  • 1993 – Pierre Bérégovoy, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1925)
  • 1993 – Ranasinghe Premadasa, Sri Lankan politician, 3rd President of Sri Lanka (b. 1924)
  • 1994 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1960)
  • 1996 – Luana Patten, American actress (b. 1938)
  • 1997 – Fernand Dumont, French-Canadian sociologist, philosopher, and poet (b. 1927)
  • 1998 – Eldridge Cleaver, American writer and activist (b. 1935)
  • 1999 – Jos LeDuc, Canadian wrestler (b. 1944)
  • 2000 – Steve Reeves, American actor (b. 1926)
  • 2000 – Jukka Tapanimäki, Finnish game programmer (b. 1961)
  • 2002 – John Nathan-Turner, English television producer (b. 1947)
  • 2003 – Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler (b. 1960)
  • 2004 – Larkin Kerwin, Canadian physicist (b. 1924)
  • 2006 – Big Hawk, American rapper (Screwed Up Click) (b. 1969)
  • 2006 – Rob Lacey, English actor and author (b. 1962)
  • 2006 – Johnny Paris, American saxophonist (Johnny and the Hurricanes) (b. 1940)
  • 2008 – Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, member of the 20 July Plot (b. 1917)
  • 2008 – Anthony Mamo, Maltese politician, 1st President of Malta (b. 1909)
  • 2008 – Deborah Jeane Palfrey, American prostitution service owner (b. 1956)
  • 2009 – Danny Gans, American singer and comedian (b. 1956)
  • 2010 – Rob McConnell, Canadian trombonist, composer, and arranger (b. 1935)
  • 2010 – Helen Wagner, American actress (b. 1918)
  • 2011 – Ted Lowe, English sports commentator (b. 1920)
  • 2012 – Shanmugasundari, Indian actress (b. 1937)
  • 2012 – Charles Pitts, American guitarist (The Bo-Keys) (b. 1947)
  • 2012 – Mordechai Virshubski, Israeli politician (b. 1930)

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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)

    “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)