Deaths
- 312 – Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. 278)
- 457 – Ibas of Edessa, Syrian bishop
- 1225 – Jien, Japanese monk, poet, and historian (b. 1155)
- 1312 – Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (b. 1262)
- 1412 – Margaret I of Denmark (b. 1353)
- 1485 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist (b. 1443)
- 1568 – Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
- 1639 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
- 1646 – William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
- 1661 – Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
- 1676 – Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
- 1703 – John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616)
- 1704 – John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
- 1708 – Prince George of Denmark (b. 1653)
- 1716 – Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627)
- 1740 – Anna of Russia (b. 1693)
- 1754 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
- 1755 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689)
- 1763 – Heinrich von Brühl, German politician (b. 1700)
- 1768 – Michel Blavet, French flute player and composer (b. 1700)
- 1792 – Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
- 1792 – John Smeaton, English engineer (b. 1724)
- 1800 – Artemas Ward, American politician and general (b. 1727)
- 1806 – Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and author (b. 1749)
- 1818 – Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
- 1841 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
- 1857 – Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1802)
- 1877 – Robert Swinhoe, English naturalist (b. 1835)
- 1879 – Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
- 1899 – Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American inventor, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
- 1900 – Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
- 1914 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
- 1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
- 1916 – Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
- 1917 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
- 1917 – Dimitrios Votsis, Greek politician (b. 1841)
- 1918 – Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
- 1929 – Bernhard von Bülow, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
- 1939 – Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
- 1952 – Billy Hughes, Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
- 1957 – Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist (b. 1881)
- 1959 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary leader (b. 1932)
- 1965 – Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
- 1969 – Constance Dowling, American actress (b. 1920)
- 1970 – Baby Huey, American singer (Baby Huey & the Babysitters) (b. 1944)
- 1973 – Taha Hussein, Egyptian author (b. 1889)
- 1973 – Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
- 1975 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
- 1975 – Oliver Nelson, American composer (b. 1932)
- 1986 – John Braine, English author (b. 1922)
- 1987 – André Masson, French painter (b. 1896)
- 1989 – Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1898)
- 1990 – Erich Göstl German SS officer (b. 1925)
- 1997 – Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
- 1998 – Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930)
- 1999 – Antonios Katinaris, Greek singer (b. 1931)
- 2000 – Lída Baarová, Czech actress (b. 1914)
- 2000 – Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
- 2000 – Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
- 2001 – Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
- 2002 – Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
- 2002 – Erling Persson, Swedish businessman, founded H&M (b. 1917)
- 2004 – Jimmy McLarnin, Irish boxer (b. 1907)
- 2005 – Eugene K. Bird, American army officer (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Bob Broeg, American journalist (b. 1918)
- 2005 – Raymond Hains, French photographer (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
- 2005 – Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
- 2005 – Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
- 2005 – Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
- 2006 – Red Auerbach, American basketball coach (b. 1917)
- 2006 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
- 2006 – Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (b. 1920)
- 2007 – Jimmy Makulis, Greek singer (b. 1935)
- 2007 – Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1927)
- 2010 – Liang Congjie, Chinese historian and activist, founded Friends of Nature (b. 1932)
- 2010 – Gerard Kelly, Scottish actor (b. 1959)
- 2010 – James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937)
- 2010 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938)
- 2010 – Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Gordon Bilney, Australian politician (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Jack Dellal, English businessman (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Ernst Heinrich Karlen, Swiss-Zimbabwean archbishop (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Kevin Reilly, American politician (b. 1928)
- 2012 – George Riashi, Greek bishop (b. 1933)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)