Deaths
- 918 – William I, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 875)
- 966 – Berengar II of Italy (b. 900)
- 1017 – Genshin, Japanese scholar (b. 942)
- 1189 – Henry II of England (b. 1133)
- 1218 – Odo III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
- 1249 – Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198)
- 1415 – Jan Hus, Bohemian priest, philosopher, and reformer (b. 1369)
- 1476 – Regiomontanus, German astronomer (b. 1436)
- 1480 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)
- 1533 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)
- 1535 – Thomas More, English lawyer, author, and philosopher (b. 1478)
- 1553 – Edward VI of England (b. 1537)
- 1583 – Edmund Grindal, English Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1519)
- 1585 – Thomas Aufield, English priest and martyr (b. 1552)
- 1684 – Peter Gunning, English bishop (b. 1614)
- 1758 – George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, English general (b. 1725)
- 1762 – Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)
- 1768 – Conrad Beissel, German-American religious leader (b. 1690)
- 1802 – Daniel Morgan, American general and politician (b. 1736)
- 1809 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French general (b. 1775)
- 1813 – Granville Sharp, English abolitionist (b. 1735)
- 1835 – John Marshall, American politician, 4th United States Secretary of State (b. 1755)
- 1854 – Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
- 1863 – Ernst Merck, German businessman and politician (d. 1811)
- 1868 – Harada Sanosuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1840)
- 1883 – Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (b. 1853)
- 1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
- 1901 – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German statesman, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
- 1902 – Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (b. 1890)
- 1904 – Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
- 1907 – August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German linguist and theologian (b. 1826)
- 1916 – Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
- 1922 – Maria Teresia Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian nun and missionary (b. 1863)
- 1930 – Cormic Cosgrove, American soccer player (b. 1869)
- 1932 – Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
- 1934 – Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian guerrilla leader and army commander (b. 1888)
- 1950 – Fats Navarro, American trumpet player (b. 1923)
- 1952 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian politician (b. 1867)
- 1952 – Gertrud Wolle, German actress (b. 1891)
- 1959 – George Grosz, German painter (b. 1893)
- 1960 – Aneurin Bevan, English politician (b. 1897)
- 1961 – Scott LaFaro, American bassist (b. 1936)
- 1961 – Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890)
- 1962 – William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- 1962 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1872)
- 1963 – George, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1899)
- 1964 – Claude V. Ricketts, American navy admiral (b. 1906)
- 1966 – Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
- 1968 – Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (b. 1906)
- 1971 – Louis Armstrong, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1901)
- 1972 – Brandon deWilde, American actor (b. 1942)
- 1973 – Otto Klemperer, German conductor and composer (b. 1885)
- 1975 – Otto Skorzeny, German SS commandor (b. 1908)
- 1976 – Zhu De, Chinese general and politician (b. 1886)
- 1976 – Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (b. 1887)
- 1977 – Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer (b. 1907)
- 1979 – Van McCoy, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
- 1982 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
- 1986 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
- 1989 – János Kádár, Hungarian politician (b. 1912)
- 1991 – Muda Lawal, Nigerian footballer (b. 1954)
- 1994 – Geoff McQueen, English screenwriter (b. 1947)
- 1994 – Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
- 1995 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish humorist and author (b. 1915)
- 1996 – Kathy Ahern, American golfer (b. 1949)
- 1997 – Chetan Anand, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
- 1998 – Roy Rogers, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
- 1999 – Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)
- 1999 – Gary M. Heidnik, American convicted rapist and murderer (b. 1943)
- 1999 – Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
- 1999 – Barry Winchell, American soldier (b. 1977)
- 2000 – Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist, composer, and author (b. 1911)
- 2002 – Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman, founded Reliance Industries (b. 1932)
- 2002 – John Frankenheimer, American director (b. 1930)
- 2003 – Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)
- 2004 – Thomas Klestil, Austrian politician, 10th President of Austria (b. 1932)
- 2004 – Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
- 2005 – Bruno Augenstein, German mathematician (b. 1923)
- 2005 – L. Patrick Gray, American FBI director (b. 1916)
- 2005 – Evan Hunter, American novelist (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
- 2006 – Kasey Rogers, American actress (b. 1926)
- 2006 – Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (b. 1914)
- 2007 – Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American novelist (b. 1939)
- 2008 – Bobby Durham, American drummer (b. 1937)
- 2009 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (b. 1932)
- 2009 – Johnny Collins, English singer (b. 1938)
- 2009 – Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1916)
- 2009 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian-Canadian artist (b. 1915)
- 2010 – Tilly Armstrong, English author (b. 1927)
- 2010 – Harvey Fuqua, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Moonglows and New Birth) (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Hani al-Hassan, Palestinian engineer and politician (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Ibrahim Balandiya, Sudanese politician
- 2012 – Charles Drake American football player (b. 1981)
- 2012 – Bruce Biers Kendall, American businessman and politician (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Bill Norrie, Manitoban politician, 39th Mayor of Winnipeg (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Angelo Paternoster, American football player (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Sebastijan Pecjak, Slovenian darts player
- 2012 – Anthony Sedlak, Canadian chef (b. 1983)
- 2012 – Al Ulbrickson, American rower (b. 1930)
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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)
“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)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (18741963)