February 22 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 556 – Maximianus of Ravenna, bishop (b. 499)
  • 965 – Otto, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
  • 1071 – Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (b. c. 1055)
  • 1111 – Roger Borsa, king of Sicily
  • 1371 – King David II of Scotland (b. 1324)
  • 1511 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, son of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
  • 1512 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1454)
  • 1627 – Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
  • 1674 – Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
  • 1680 – Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c. 1640)
  • 1690 – Charles Le Brun, French artist (b. 1619)
  • 1727 – Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b. 1661)
  • 1731 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
  • 1732 – Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
  • 1742 – Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)
  • 1797 – Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
  • 1799 – Heshen, Qing Dynasty Chinese official (b. 1750)
  • 1816 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723)
  • 1875 – Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
  • 1875 – Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (b. 1797)
  • 1888 – Anna Kingsford, English doctor, seer and women's rights campaigner (b. 1846)
  • 1890 – John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
  • 1890 – Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)
  • 1892 – Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)
  • 1897 – Charles Blondin, French tightrope walker and acrobat (b. 1824)
  • 1903 – Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
  • 1904 – Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
  • 1913 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (b. 1857)
  • 1914 – Thillaiaadi Valliammai, South African activist (b. 1898)
  • 1921 – Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
  • 1923 – Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (b. 1852)
  • 1930 – William Jeremiah Tuttle, American freestyle swimmer and water polo player (b. 1882)
  • 1934 – Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (b. 1856)
  • 1939 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
  • 1942 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (b. 1881)
  • 1943 – Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (b. 1919)
  • 1943 – Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1918)
  • 1943 – Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)
  • 1944 – Kasturba Gandhi,Indian Freedom Fighter, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
  • 1945 – Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
  • 1956 – Alexandros Svolos, Greek legal expert and politician (b. 1892)
  • 1958 – Abul Kalam Azad, Indian independence movement leader (b. 1888)
  • 1960 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian painter (b. 1905)
  • 1961 – Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (Original Dixieland Jass Band) (b. 1889)
  • 1965 – Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
  • 1968 – Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)
  • 1970 – Edward Selzer American film producer (b. 1893)
  • 1973 – Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
  • 1973 – Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
  • 1974 – Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
  • 1976 – Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)
  • 1976 – Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943)
  • 1979 – Sigrid Schauman, Finnish painter (b. 1877)
  • 1980 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist (b. 1886)
  • 1981 – Michael Maltese, American screenwriter (b. 1908)
  • 1982 – Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
  • 1983 – Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
  • 1983 – Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
  • 1984 – David Vetter, The Boy in the Bubble (b. 1971)
  • 1985 – Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
  • 1985 – Alexander Scourby, American actor (b. 1913)
  • 1985 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (b. 1889)
  • 1987 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)
  • 1989 – Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese politician, Timorese Democratic Union President (b. 1938)
  • 1994 – Papa John Creach, American musician (Jefferson Airplane and The Dinosaurs) (b. 1917)
  • 1995 – Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
  • 1997 – Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
  • 1998 – Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
  • 1999 – Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
  • 2000 – Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)
  • 2001 – Les Medley, English footballer (b.1920)
  • 2002 – Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)
  • 2002 – Chuck Jones, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
  • 2002 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
  • 2002 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel and political leader (b. 1934)
  • 2003 – Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
  • 2004 – Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
  • 2004 – Andy Seminick, American baseball player (b. 1920)
  • 2005 – Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish artist (b. 1929)
  • 2005 – Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (b. 1980)
  • 2005 – Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
  • 2006 – Atwar Bahjat, Iraqi journalist (b. 1976)
  • 2006 – Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (the Kingsmen Quartet) (b. 1961)
  • 2007 – George Jellicoe, English politician and Royal Navy officer (b. 1918)
  • 2007 – Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
  • 2007 – Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
  • 2007 – Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
  • 2008 – Henk Bruna, Dutch publisher and businessman (b. 1916)
  • 2008 – Nunzio Gallo, Italian singer (b. 1928)
  • 2009 – Candido Cannavò, Italian journalist (b. 1930)
  • 2010 – Fred Chaffart, Belgian businessman (b. 1936)
  • 2010 – Steffi Sidney, American actress (b. 1935)
  • 2010 – Robin Davies, Welsh actor (b. 1954)
  • 2011 – Nicholas Courtney, British actor (b. 1929)
  • 2012 – Frank Carson, British Northern Irish comedian (b. 1926)


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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 (1874–1963)

    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)