Deaths
- 955 – Pope Agapetus II
- 1115 – Godfrey of Amiens, French bishop (b. 1066)
- 1171 – Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
- 1195 – Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1135)
- 1226 – Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
- 1246 – Berengaria of Castile (b. 1180)
- 1308 – Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (b. 1266)
- 1517 – Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish cardinal (b. 1436)
- 1527 – Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
- 1599 – Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
- 1600 – Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
- 1605 – Robert Catesby, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (b. 1573)
- 1627 – Jahangir, Mughal emperor (b. 1569)
- 1658 – Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch navy officer (b. 1599)
- 1674 – John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
- 1719 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
- 1817 – Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754)
- 1830 – Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
- 1873 – Breton de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (b. 1796)
- 1887 – Doc Holliday, American dentist (b. 1851)
- 1890 – César Franck, Belgian organist and composer (b. 1822)
- 1895 – Robert Battey, American surgeon (b. 1828)
- 1905 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
- 1917 – Colin Blythe, English cricketer (b. 1879)
- 1921 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
- 1924 – Mike Merlo, Italian-American gangster (b. 1880)
- 1934 – Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
- 1944 – Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German pilot (b. 1920)
- 1945 – August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)
- 1949 – Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish priest (b. 1874)
- 1953 – Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
- 1953 – John van Melle, South African author (b. 1887)
- 1965 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist (b. 1913)
- 1966 – Bernhard Zondek German-Israeli gynecologist (b. 1891)
- 1968 – Wendell Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1968 – Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1898)
- 1970 – Huw T. Edwards, Welsh politician (b. 1892)
- 1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1914)
- 1975 – Jaime Montestrela, Portuguese poet (b. 1925)
- 1977 – Tasos Giannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1931)
- 1977 – Bucky Harris, American baseball player (b. 1896)
- 1978 – Norman Rockwell, American painter (b. 1894)
- 1979 – Yvonne de Gaulle, French wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
- 1983 – James Booker, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
- 1983 – James Hayden, American actor (b. 1953)
- 1983 – Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian-American rabbi and educator (b. 1881)
- 1985 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1899)
- 1985 – Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1915)
- 1986 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)
- 1992 – Larry Levan, American DJ and producer (b. 1954)
- 1993 – Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
- 1994 – Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (b. 1940)
- 1998 – Rumer Godden, English author (b. 1907)
- 1998 – John Hunt, Baron Hunt, English army officer and mountaineer (b. 1910)
- 1998 – Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
- 1999 – Lester Bowie, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1941)
- 1999 – Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
- 2001 – Aristidis Moschos, Greek santouri player (b. 1930)
- 2002 – Jon Elia, Pakistani poet, scholar, and philosopher (b. 1931)
- 2003 – Bob Grant, English actor (b. 1932)
- 2003 – C. Z. Guest, American actress, fashion designer, and author (b. 1920)
- 2003 – Guy Speranza, American singer-songwriter (Riot) (b. 1956)
- 2004 – Peter Mathers, English-Australian author (b. 1931)
- 2005 – David Westheimer, American author (b. 1917)
- 2005 – Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
- 2006 – Basil Poledouris, American composer (b. 1945)
- 2006 – Hannspeter Winter, Austrian physicist (b. 1941)
- 2007 – Aad Nuis, Dutch journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1933)
- 2007 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician (b. 1943)
- 2007 – Chad Varah, English priest, founded The Samaritans (b. 1911)
- 2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
- 2010 – Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (b. 1961)
- 2010 – Alex Fagan, American police officer (b. 1950)
- 2010 – Jack Levine, American painter (b. 1915)
- 2010 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine navy officer (b. 1925)
- 2011 – Heavy D, Jamaican-American rapper, producer, and actor (b. 1967)
- 2011 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Lee MacPhail, American baseball manager and executive (b. 1917)
- 2012 – Patrick Francis Sheehan, Irish-Nigerian bishop (b. 1932)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)