Deaths
- 395 – Theodosius I, Roman Emperor (b. 347)
- 1229 – Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier
- 1369 – King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
- 1468 – George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405)
- 1598 – Feodor I of Russia (b. 1557)
- 1617 – Faust Vrančić, Croatian inventor (b. 1551)
- 1654 – Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (b. 1625)
- 1705 – John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
- 1718 – Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader
- 1737 – Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
- 1738 – Jean-François Dandrieu, French composer (b. 1682)
- 1751 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (b. 1671)
- 1826 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
- 1834 – Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
- 1861 – Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
- 1863 – Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
- 1869 – Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)
- 1874 – Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins (b. 1811)
- 1878 – Sir Edward Creasy, English historian (b. 1812)
- 1884 – Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)
- 1887 – William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
- 1891 – George Bancroft, U.S. historian (b. 1800)
- 1893 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
- 1903 – Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
- 1908 – Ferdinand IV Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835)
- 1909 – Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819)
- 1911 – Sir Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist (b. 1822)
- 1927 – Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
- 1931 – Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (b. 1864)
- 1932 – Albert Jacka, VC, Australian soldier (b. 1893)
- 1933 – Ruurd Leegstra, Dutch rower (b. 1877)
- 1933 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
- 1936 – Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885)
- 1942 – Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)
- 1947 – Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)
- 1947 – Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883)
- 1951 – Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright, film maker (b. 1903)
- 1952 – Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (b. 1877)
- 1956 – Blind Alfred Reed, American folk, country, and old-time musician (b. 1880)
- 1960 – Andrew Kennaway Henderson, New Zealand illustrator, cartoonist, and pacifist (b. 1879)
- 1961 – Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
- 1963 – Henri Masson, French fencer (b. 1872)
- 1964 – T.H. White, English author (b. 1906)
- 1967 – Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (b. 1884)
- 1970 – Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890)
- 1970 – Billy Stewart, American singer (b. 1937)
- 1972 – Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896)
- 1973 – Takis Hristoforidis, Greek actor (b. 1914)
- 1977 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)
- 1977 – Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (b. 1940)
- 1981 – Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (b. 1899)
- 1983 – Doodles Weaver, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1984 – George Rigaud, Argentinian actor (b. 1905)
- 1987 – Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (b. 1908)
- 1988 – Percy Qoboza, South African journalist (b. 1938)
- 1991 – King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
- 1992 – Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (b. 1915)
- 1993 – Albert Hourani, English historian (b. 1915)
- 1994 – Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918)
- 1994 – Yevgeni Ivanov, Soviet spy involved in the Profumo affair (b. 1926)
- 1996 – Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system (b. 1986)
- 1996 – Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
- 1996 – Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
- 1997 – Bert Kelly, Australian politician (b. 1912)
- 1997 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)
- 1998 – Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (b. 1930)
- 1999 – Robert Eads, American transsexual (b. 1945)
- 1999 – Samantha Reid, American girl killed by GHB overdose (b. 1984)
- 2000 – Philip Jones, British trumpeter (b. 1928)
- 2001 – Gregory Corso, American poet (b. 1930)
- 2002 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
- 2002 – Bishop Karas, Sudanese-born American religious leader (b. 1955)
- 2002 – Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905)
- 2003 – Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
- 2003 – Balint Vazsonyi, Hungarian pianist (b. 1936)
- 2004 – Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (b. 1914)
- 2004 – Czesław Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939)
- 2004 – Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (b. 1915)
- 2004 – Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931)
- 2005 – Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive (b. 1960)
- 2005 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Zhao Ziyang, Former Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
- 2006 – Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
- 2008 – Bobby Fischer, American chess grandmaster and author (b. 1943)
- 2008 – Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948)
- 2008 – Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (b. 1943)
- 2010 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914)
- 2010 – Daisuke Gouri, Japanese voice actor (b. 1952)
- 2010 – Michalis Papakonstantinou, Greek politician and author (b. 1919)
- 2010 – Gaines Adams, American football player (b. 1983)
- 2011 – Don Kirshner, American composer (b. 1934)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)