May 12 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1003 – Pope Silvester II (b. 946)
  • 1012 – Pope Sergius IV
  • 1382 – Joan I of Naples (b. 1327)
  • 1465 – Thomas Palaeologus, Byzantine emperor (b. 1409)
  • 1634 – George Chapman, English writer (b. 1559)
  • 1641 – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (b. 1593)
  • 1684 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (b. 1620)
  • 1699 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
  • 1700 – John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631)
  • 1708 – Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
  • 1748 – Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (b. 1692)
  • 1759 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
  • 1784 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
  • 1792 – Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710)
  • 1796 – Johann Peter Uz, German poet (b. 1720)
  • 1801 – Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734)
  • 1842 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Polish painter (b. 1799)
  • 1845 – János Batsányi, Hungarian poet (b. 1763)
  • 1856 – Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786)
  • 1859 – Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1791)
  • 1860 – Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795)
  • 1864 – J.E.B. Stuart, American soldier and Confederate Army general (b. 1833)
  • 1867 – Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795)
  • 1878 – Anselme Payen, French chemist (b. 1795)
  • 1876 – Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1843)
  • 1884 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (b. 1824)
  • 1889 – John Cadbury, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Cadbury (b. 1801)
  • 1907 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
  • 1916 – James Connolly, Irish socialist and leader of the Easter Rising (b. 1868)
  • 1925 – Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
  • 1931 – Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1858)
  • 1935 – Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman (b. 1867)
  • 1944 – Max Brand, American author (b. 1892)
  • 1944 – Arthur Quiller-Couch, English writer (b. 1863)
  • 1956 – Louis Calhern, American actor (b. 1895)
  • 1957 – Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
  • 1957 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian director and actor (b. 1885)
  • 1963 – Richard Girulatis, German football manager (b. 1878)
  • 1963 – Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter (b. 1882)
  • 1966 – Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (b. 1896)
  • 1967 – John Masefield, English writer (b. 1878)
  • 1970 – Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
  • 1971 – Heinie Manush, American baseball player (b. 1901)
  • 1973 – Art Pollard, American race car driver (b. 1927)
  • 1978 – Robert Coogan, American actor (b. 1924)
  • 1985 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter (b. 1901)
  • 1986 – Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b. 1897)
  • 1986 – Alicia Moreau de Justo, Argentine physician, politician, and activist (b. 1885)
  • 1990 – Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912)
  • 1992 – Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (b. 1911)
  • 1992 – Lenny Montana, American actor (b. 1926)
  • 1992 – Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)
  • 1993 – Omond Solandt, Canadian scientist (b. 1909)
  • 1994 – Erik Erikson, German psychoanalyst (b. 1902)
  • 1994 – John Smith, English politician (b. 1938)
  • 1995 – Mia Martini, Italian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1947)
  • 1999 – Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah ibn Baaz, Saudi Arabian scholar (b. 1910)
  • 1999 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (b. 1914)
  • 2000 – Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
  • 2001 – Perry Como, American singer and actor (b. 1912)
  • 2001 – Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1925)
  • 2002 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American gangster (b. 1905)
  • 2003 – Khalid al-Juhani, Saudi Arabian terrorist (b. 1975)
  • 2003 – Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)
  • 2005 – Martin Lings, English-Islamic scholar (b. 1909)
  • 2005 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish singer and actress (b. 1937)
  • 2006 – Hussein Maziq, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1918)
  • 2006 – Gillespie V. Montgomery, American politician (b. 1920)
  • 2007 – Dadullah, Afghan-Taliban military commander
  • 2007 – Teddy Infuhr, American actor (b. 1936)
  • 2008 – Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925)
  • 2008 – Irena Sendler, Polish social worker and humanitarian (b. 1910)
  • 2009 – Antonio Vega, Spanish singer-songwriter (Nacha Pop) (b. 1957)
  • 2012 – Tor Marius Gromstad, Norwegian footballer (b. 1989)
  • 2012 – Neil McKenty, English-Canadian broadcaster and author (b. 1924)
  • 2012 – Eddy Paape, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1920)

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    “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.”
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