Deaths
- 749 – Saint John of Damascus
- 765 – Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702)
- 771 – Carloman, King of the Franks (b. 751)
- 1075 – Archbishop Anno II of Cologne
- 1123 – Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)
- 1214 – William I of Scotland (a.k.a. William the Lion; b. abt.1143)
- 1270 – Theobald V of Champagne, King of Navarre
- 1334 – Pope John XXII (b. 1249)
- 1340 – Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292)
- 1459 – Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)
- 1576 – Rheticus, Austrian mathematician (b. 1514)
- 1585 – John Willock, Scottish reformer
- 1609 – Alexander Hume, Scottish poet
- 1642 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (b. 1585)
- 1649 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (b. 1585)
- 1679 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)
- 1680 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)
- 1696 – Empress Meishō, Japan (b. 1624)
- 1732 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist (b. 1685)
- 1798 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (b. 1737)
- 1828 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
- 1841 – David Daniel Davis, British politician (b. 1777)
- 1850 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (b. 1783)
- 1893 – John Tyndall, Irish physicist (b. 1820)
- 1897 – Griffith Rhys Jones, Welsh conductor (b. 1834)
- 1902 – Charles Dow, American journalist (b. 1851)
- 1926 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian-born painter (b. 1861)
- 1933 – Stefan George, German poet (b. 1868)
- 1935 – Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (b. 1864)
- 1935 – Charles Richet, French physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1850)
- 1938 – Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna (b. 1903)
- 1944 – Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player (b. 1879)
- 1945 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
- 1948 – Frank Benford, American electrical engineer and physicist (b. 1883)
- 1955 – József Galamb, Hungarian mechanical engineer (b. 1881)
- 1956 – Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (b. 1891)
- 1967 – Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1895)
- 1969 – Fred Hampton, American activist (b. 1948)
- 1975 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b. 1906)
- 1976 – Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (b. 1951)
- 1976 – Benjamin Britten, English composer (b. 1913)
- 1976 – W. F. McCoy, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)
- 1980 – Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
- 1984 – Jack Mercer, American voice-actor (b. 1910)
- 1980 – Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-born athlete (b. 1911)
- 1987 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director (b. 1897)
- 1988 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (b. 1899)
- 1992 – Henry Clausen, author of the Clausen report (b. 1905)
- 1993 – Frank Zappa, American musician and composer (b. 1940)
- 1993 – Margaret Landon, American writer (b. 1903)
- 1995 – Lionel Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler (b. 1935)
- 1997 – Richard Vernon, English actor (b. 1925)
- 1999 – Rose Bird, American judge (b. 1936)
- 2003 – Iggy Katona, American race car driver (b. 1916)
- 2004 – Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (b. 1943)
- 2004 – Teo Peter, Romanian rock musician and bass player (b. 1954)
- 2005 – Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (b. 1924)
- 2005 – Gregg Hoffman, American film producer (b. 1963)
- 2005 – Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (b. 1922)
- 2006 – James Kim, American television personality (b. 1971)
- 2006 – Ross A. McGinnis, American soldier (b. 1987)
- 2007 – Norval Morrisseau, Canadian artist (b. 1932)
- 2007 – Chip Reese, American professional poker player (b. 1951)
- 2007 – Pimp C, American rapper (b. 1973)
- 2009 – Eddie Fatu, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1973)
- 2009 – Liam Clancy, Irish singer (b. 1935)
- 2011 – Sócrates, Brazilian footballer (b. 1954)
- 2011 – Hubert Sumlin, American blues guitarist (b. 1931)
- 2011 – Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer (b. 1923)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (19131992)
“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 soldiers 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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)