Deaths
- 270 – St. Valentine marking Valentine's Day
- 869 – Saint Cyril, Greek monk, scholar, theologian and linguist (b. 827)
- 1229 – Raghnall mac Gofraidh, King of the Isles.
- 1317 – Marguerite of France, queen of Edward I of England (b. 1282)
- 1400 – King Richard II of England (murdered) (b. 1367)
- 1405 – Timur, Mongol conqueror (b. 1336)
- 1571 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (b. 1517)
- 1676 – Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist
- 1714 – Maria Luisa of Savoy, Queen Consort of Spain (b. 1688)
- 1737 – Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685)
- 1744 – John Hadley, inventor (b. 1682)
- 1779 – James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (b. 1728)
- 1780 – William Blackstone, English jurist (b. 1723)
- 1782 – Singu Min, King of Burma (b. 1756)
- 1808 – John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)
- 1831 – Vicente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero (b. 1782)
- 1831 – Henry Maudslay, English inventor (b. 1771)
- 1870 – St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General (b. 1815)
- 1881 – Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (b. 1812)
- 1884 – Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, Mother of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
- 1885 – Jules Vallès, French writer (b. 1832)
- 1891 – William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War General (b. 1820)
- 1894 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (b. 1814)
- 1910 – Giovanni Passannante, Italian anarchist (b. 1849)
- 1919 – Pál Luthár, Slovene writer, teacher and cantor in Hungary (b. 1839)
- 1922 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (assassinated) (b. 1880)
- 1929 – Thomas Burke, American sprinter (b. 1875)
- 1929 – Frank Gusenberg, American gangster (b. 1892)
- 1929 – Peter Gusenberg, American gangster (b. 1889)
- 1937 – Franz Böckli, Swiss sports shooter (b. 1858)
- 1942 – Adnan Bin Saidi, Officer of the Malay Regiment killed in the defense of Singapore (b. 1915)
- 1943 – Dora Gerson, German actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (b. 1899)
- 1943 – David Hilbert, German mathematician (b. 1862)
- 1948 – Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (b. 1876)
- 1949 – Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
- 1950 – Karl Guthe Jansky, American Discoverer of cosmic radio waves (b. 1905)
- 1952 – Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (b. 1896)
- 1954 – Henri Laurent, French fencer (b. 1881)
- 1958 – Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (b. 1899)
- 1959 – Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (b. 1898)
- 1967 – Sig Ruman, German-American actor (b. 1884)
- 1969 – Vito Genovese, American gangster (b. 1897)
- 1970 – Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (b. 1880).
- 1974 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1903)
- 1975 – Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)
- 1975 – P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)
- 1978 – Paul Governali, American football player (b. 1921)
- 1979 – Adolph Dubs, American diplomat (b. 1920)
- 1980 – Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor (b. 1926)
- 1983 – Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
- 1986 – Edmund Rubbra, English Composer (b. 1901)
- 1987 – Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b. 1904)
- 1987 – Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (b. 1908)
- 1988 – Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (b. 1901)
- 1989 – James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
- 1990 – Tony Holiday, German singer (b. 1951)
- 1992 – Helen Vela, Filipina TV host/journalist and actress (b. 1946)
- 1994 – Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936)
- 1994 – Christopher Lasch, American historian and social critic (b. 1932)
- 1994 – Rodney Orr American racing driver (b. 1962)
- 1995 – Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (b. 1923)
- 1995 – U Nu, Burmese politician (b. 1907)
- 1996 – Bob Paisley, English football manager (b. 1919)
- 1999 – John Ehrlichman, American presidential advisor (b. 1925)
- 1999 – Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
- 2002 – Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
- 2002 – Mick Tucker, English drummer (Sweet)
- 2003 – Dolly, first cloned mammal (b. 1996)
- 2003 – Johnny Longden, English jockey (b. 1907)
- 2004 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
- 2005 – Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, Greek novelist and journalist (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Rafic Hariri, Lebanese businessman and politician (b. 1944)
- 2005 – Najai Turpin, American boxer (b. 1981)
- 2006 – Darry Cowl, French musician and actor (b. 1925)
- 2006 – Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Lynden David Hall, British singer (b. 1974)
- 2007 – Ryan Larkin, Canadian animated filmmaker (b. 1943)
- 2007 – Gareth Morris, British flautist (b. 1920)
- 2009 – Sir Bernard Ashley, Welsh businessman (b. 1926)
- 2009 – Louie Bellson, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
- 2009 – John McGlinn, American conductor (b. 1953)
- 2010 – Doug Fieger, American musician (The Knack) (b. 1952)
- 2010 – Dick Francis, British jockey-turned-novelist (b. 1920)
- 2011 – Ali Abdulhadi Mushaima, Bahraini protester killed by security forces (b.1989)
- 2011 – Sir George Shearing, Anglo-American jazz pianist (b. 1919)
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“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (19131992)
“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 deaththat is, they attempt suicidetwice as often as men, though men are more successful because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
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