Deaths
- 422 – Pope Boniface I
- 799 – Musa al-Kadhim, Shia 7th of the Twelve Imams (b. 745)
- 1037 – Bermudo III of León (b. 1010)
- 1063 – Tughril, Turkish ruler (b. 990)
- 1199 – Joan of England, Queen of Sicily (b. 1165)
- 1537 – Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (b. 1475)
- 1588 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1532)
- 1767 – Charles Townshend, English politician (b. 1725)
- 1780 – John Fielding, English magistrate and reformer (b. 1721)
- 1784 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)
- 1794 – John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)
- 1804 – Richard Somers, American naval officer
- 1821 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and founding father (b. 1785)
- 1852 – William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
- 1864 – John Hunt Morgan, American military leader (b. 1825)
- 1907 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
- 1909 – Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (b. 1865)
- 1940 – George William de Carteret, English author (b. 1869)
- 1944 – General Erich Fellgiebel, German army officer, participated in the 20 July plot (b. 1886)
- 1963 – Robert Schuman, French politician (b. 1886)
- 1965 – Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
- 1974 – Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
- 1974 – Marcel Achard, French playwright (b. 1899)
- 1974 – Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (b. 1884)
- 1977 – E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (b. 1911)
- 1977 – Jean Rostand, French biologist (b. 1894)
- 1977 – Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1899)
- 1979 – Canuplin, Filipino magician (b. 1904)
- 1986 – Otto Glória, Brazilian football coach (b. 1917)
- 1986 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (b. 1911)
- 1987 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer (b. 1908)
- 1989 – Georges Simenon, French author (b. 1903)
- 1989 – Ronald Syme, New Zealand historian (b. 1903)
- 1990 – Irene Dunne American actress (b. 1898)
- 1991 – Charlie Barnet, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1913)
- 1991 – Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (b. 1926)
- 1991 – Dottie West, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
- 1993 – Hervé Villechaize, French actor (b. 1943)
- 1995 – Chuck Greenberg, American musician, composer, and producer (Shadowfax) (b. 1950)
- 1995 – William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
- 1997 – Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (b. 1931)
- 1998 – Elizabeth Kata, Australian author (b. 1912)
- 1999 – Georg Gawliczek, German footballer and manager (b. 1919)
- 2001 – Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (b. 1962)
- 2002 – Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian-French pianist (b. 1904)
- 2003 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1921)
- 2003 – Lola Bobesco, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
- 2004 – Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (b. 1971)
- 2004 – Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (b. 1929)
- 2004 – James O. Page, American paramedic (b. 1936)
- 2006 – Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)
- 2006 – Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host (b. 1962)
- 2006 – Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)
- 2006 – Astrid Varnay, Swedish-American soprano (b. 1918)
- 2007 – John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish politician (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Lee Roy Selmon, American football player (b. 1954)
- 2012 – Abraham Avigdorov, Israeli soldier, recipient of the Hero of Israel award (b. 1929)
- 2012 – André Delelis, French politician (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Albert Marre, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Charlie Rose, American politician (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Hamzah Abu Samah, Malaysian politician (b. 1924)
- 2012 – George Savitsky, American football player (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Milan Vukelić, Serbian footballer (b. 1936)
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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)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“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)