November 24 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 654 – Emperor Kōtoku of Japan (b. 596)
  • 1072 – King Bagrat IV of Georgia (b. 1018)
  • 1265 – Magnus Olafsson, King of Mann and the Isles
  • 1326 – Hugh Despenser the Younger, English nobleman and favourite of Edward II of England (b. abt. 1296)
  • 1468 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
  • 1531 – Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (b. 1482)
  • 1572 – John Knox, Scottish reformer (b. 1510)
  • 1583 – René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
  • 1615 – Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556)
  • 1650 – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (b. 1566)
  • 1675 – Guru Tegh Bahadur, Indian religious figure (b. 1621)
  • 1722 – Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (b. 1623)
  • 1741 – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b. 1688)
  • 1770 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b. 1685)
  • 1775 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703)
  • 1781 – James Caldwell, American Revolution figure (b. 1734)
  • 1793 – Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)
  • 1801 – Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
  • 1807 – Joseph Brant, American Indian tribal leader (b. 1742)
  • 1848 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
  • 1870 – Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (b. 1846)
  • 1885 – Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentine president (b. 1837)
  • 1890 – August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816)
  • 1916 – Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840)
  • 1920 – Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (b. 1854)
  • 1920 – Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Georgian theatre actor and director (b. 1857)
  • 1922 – Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (b. 1870)
  • 1929 – Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (b. 1841)
  • 1936 – Lucio Godina, Filipino conjoined twin (b. 1908)
  • 1943 – Doris Miller, American navy cook (b. 1919)
  • 1948 – Anna Jarvis, American founder of Mother's Day (b. 1864)
  • 1956 – Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
  • 1957 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
  • 1958 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British politician, Nobel laureate (b. 1864)
  • 1959 – Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (b. 1883)
  • 1960 – Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
  • 1960 – Roscoe Lockwood, American rower (b. 1875)
  • 1961 – Ruth Chatterton, American actress (b. 1893)
  • 1963 – Marotrao Kannamwar, Indian politician
  • 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
  • 1965 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
  • 1967 – Louis Fratto, American gangster (b. 1908)
  • 1968 – d.a. levy, American poet (b. 1942)
  • 1973 – John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881)
  • 1980 – George Raft, American actor (b. 1895)
  • 1980 – Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
  • 1980 – Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador (b. 1917)
  • 1985 – Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)
  • 1987 – Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)
  • 1990 – Fred Shero, National Hockey League player and coach (b. 1925)
  • 1990 – Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)
  • 1990 – Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
  • 1991 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (b. 1946)
  • 1991 – Eric Carr, American drummer (KISS) (b. 1950)
  • 1993 – Albert Collins, American blues guitarist (b. 1932)
  • 1996 – Sorley MacLean, British poet (b. 1911)
  • 1997 – Monique Andrée Serf, French singer (b. 1930)
  • 1999 – Hilary Minster, British actor (b. 1944)
  • 2001 – Melanie Thornton, American dance/pop singer (b. 1967)
  • 2002 – John Rawls, political philosopher (b. 1921)
  • 2003 – Floquet de Neu, Ecuato Guinean albino gorilla (b. 1964)
  • 2003 – Warren Spahn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
  • 2004 – Wong Jim, Hong Kong songwriter (b. 1940)
  • 2004 – Arthur Hailey, British-born author (b. 1920)
  • 2004 – Joseph Hansen, American writer (b. 1923)
  • 2005 – Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
  • 2006 – Juice Leskinen, Finnish rock singer (b. 1950)
  • 2006 – George W. S. Trow, American writer (b. 1943)
  • 2006 – Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist (b. 1938)
  • 2007 – Casey Calvert, American guitarist (Hawthorne Heights) (b. 1981)
  • 2008 – Cecil H. Underwood, American politician (b. 1922)
  • 2008 – Kenny MacLean, Scottish musician (Platinum Blonde) (b. 1956)
  • 2009 – Abe Pollin, American professional sports team owner (b. 1923)
  • 2009 – Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician (b. 1935)
  • 2009 – Chan Hung Lit, Hong Kong actor (b. 1943)
  • 2010 – Huang Hua, Chinese statesman (b. 1913)
  • 2012 – Héctor Camacho, Puerto Rican professional boxer

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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)

    “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)