996 - Deaths

Deaths

  • March or April – Pope John XV
  • October 24 – Hugh Capet, King of France (b. 938)
  • November 20 – Richard I of Normandy
  • Abu Mansoor Nizar al-Aziz Billah, fifth Fatimid Caliph in Egypt
  • Li Fang, Chinese scholar and encyclopedist (b. 925)

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    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)

    This is the 184th Demonstration.
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    I sang of death but had I known
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    Before he came to meet his own!
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