November 2 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 943 – Emma of France, (b. 894)
  • 1083 – Matilda of Flanders (b. 1031)
  • 1285 – Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
  • 1327 – James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
  • 1483 – Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1454)
  • 1610 – Richard Bancroft, English archbishop (b. 1544)
  • 1618 – Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria (b. 1568)
  • 1716 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician (b. 1651)
  • 1807 – Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French politician (b. 1730)
  • 1846 – Esaias Tegnér, Swedish bishop (b. 1782)
  • 1852 – Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
  • 1863 – Theodore Judah, American engineer (b. 1826)
  • 1877 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
  • 1887 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
  • 1898 – George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (b. 1826)
  • 1905 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (b. 1817)
  • 1930 – Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, target shooter, and gymnast (b. 1874)
  • 1935 – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
  • 1944 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist (b. 1889)
  • 1945 – Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1868)
  • 1945 – Princess Thyra of Denmark (b. 1880)
  • 1949 – Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
  • 1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
  • 1952 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general (b. 1862)
  • 1958 – Jean Couzy, French mountaineer (b. 1923)
  • 1959 – Michael Considine, Irish-Australian politician (b. 1885)
  • 1960 – Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
  • 1961 – James Thurber, American author and illustrator (b. 1894)
  • 1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1901)
  • 1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
  • 1966 – Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1892)
  • 1970 – Richard Cushing, American archbishop (b. 1895)
  • 1971 – Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)
  • 1975 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian director (b. 1922)
  • 1979 – Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (b. 1936)
  • 1982 – Lester Roloff, American preacher (b. 1914)
  • 1984 – Velma Barfield, American murderer (b. 1932)
  • 1986 – Paul Frees, American voice actor (b. 1920)
  • 1991 – Irwin Allen, American director and producer (b. 1916)
  • 1992 – Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)
  • 1996 – Eva Cassidy, American singer an guitarist (b. 1963)
  • 1996 – John G. Crommelin, American navy officer and politician (b. 1902)
  • 1998 – Vincent Winter, Scottish actor (b. 1957)
  • 2000 – Robert Cormier, American author and journalist (b. 1925)
  • 2000 – Eva Morris, English super-centenarian (b. 1885)
  • 2002 – Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896)
  • 2002 – Charles Sheffield, American physicist and author (b. 1935)
  • 2003 – Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)
  • 2004 – Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Emirati prince (b. 1918)
  • 2004 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (b. 1951)
  • 2004 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch actor, director, and producer (b. 1957)
  • 2005 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1919)
  • 2007 – Henry Cele, South African actor (b. 1949)
  • 2007 – Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (b. 1978)
  • 2007 – Witold Kiełtyka, Polish drummer (Decapitated) (b. 1984)
  • 2007 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
  • 2007 – The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (b. 1923)
  • 2010 – Andy Irons, American surfer (b. 1978)
  • 2010 – Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
  • 2011 – Sickan Carlsson, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1915)
  • 2012 – Milt Campbell, American decathlete (b. 1933)
  • 2012 – Robert Morton Duncan, American judge (b. 1927)
  • 2012 – Joe Ginsberg, American baseball player (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – Hans Lindgren, Swedish actor, screenwriter and producer (b. 1932)
  • 2012 – Pino Rauti, Italian politician (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – János Rózsás, Hungarian author (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – Han Suyin, Chinese-English author (b. 1917)
  • 2012 – John C. Tyson, American judge (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – Roger Wood, Belgian-American journalist (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, Indian politician (b. 1957)

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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)

    “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)

    “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)