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Deaths

1397 – Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier and nobleman (b. 1358)
1468 – Jean Le Fevre de Saint-Remy, Burgundian chronicler (b. 1395)
1622 – Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1555)
1623 – Christian the Younger of Brunswick (b. 1599)
1666 – Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet, English poet, translator, and diplomat (b. 1608)
1671 – Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (b. 1630)
1707 – Marie de Nemours, sovereign princess and writer (b. 1625)
1722 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
1749 – Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian salt trader (b. 1672)
1752 – Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
1752 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
1777 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1778 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
1779 – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1712)
1792 – Benjamin Tupper, American general (b. 1738)
1804 – Johann Adam Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
1824 – Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French statesman (b. 1739)
1849 – Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian and scholar (b. 1780)
1850 – William Lawson, English explorer (b. 1774)
1855 – John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
1858 – John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813)
1862 – Hidenoyama Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 9th Yokozuna (b. 1808)
1866 – Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
1869 – Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
1872 – Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
1878 – Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
1881 – Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (b. 1801)
1881 – Josiah Mason, English businessman (b. 1795)
1885 – Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
1902 – Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
1925 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian politician and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
1925 – Emmett Hardy, American musician (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1903)
1928 – Mark Keppel, American educator (b. 1867)
1929 – Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
1930 – Ezra Fitch, American lawyer and businessman, co-founder of Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1866)
1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, co-inventor of the gyrocompass (b. 1860)
1939 – Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1905)
1940 – DuBose Heyward, American novelist (b. 1885)
1944 – Marc Bloch, French historian (b. 1886)
1945 – Aris Velouchiotis, Greek military leader (b. 1905)
1946 – Gordon Brewster, Irish cartoonist (b 1889)
1952 – Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, educator, and writer (b. 1861)
1953 – Margaret Bondfield, English politician (b. 1873)
1955 – Ozias Leduc, Canadian painter (b. 1864)
1958 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
1959 – George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914)
1961 – Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
1967 – Reginald Denny, English actor (b. 1891)
1969 – Harold Alexander, English military commander (b. 1891)
1970 – Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (b. 1888)
1970 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer (b. 1887)
1970 – Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
1971 – John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcaster, co-founded BBC (b. 1889)
1973 – Louise Latimer, American actress (b. 1913)
1977 – Wernher von Braun, German-American scientist (b. 1912)
1979 – Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Ghanaian general, 6th Head of state of Ghana (b. 1931)
1979 – Nicholas Ray, American director (b. 1911)
1981 – Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (b. 1917)
1982 – James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (The Pretenders) (b. 1956)
1984 – Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
1986 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
1988 – Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright and actor, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café (b. 1946)
1990 – Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer of Sylvia Likens (b. 1929)
1990 – Megan Leigh, American porn actress (b. 1964)
1993 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
1994 – Kristen Pfaff, American singer-songwriter and musician (Hole, Janitor Joe, and Palm) (b. 1967)
1996 – Mel Allen, American sportscaster (b. 1913)
1997 – Dal Stivens, Australian author (b. 1911)
1999 – Screaming Lord Sutch, English musician and politician (b. 1940)
2000 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
2003 – Pierre Bourgault, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2003 – Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
2004 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai field marshal and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
2005 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
2006 – Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist (b. 1942)
2006 – Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (b. 1917)
2007 – Mohammad Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (b. 1931)
2007 – Mikhail Kononov, Soviet actor (b. 1940)
2008 – Tom Compernolle, Belgian runner (b. 1975)
2008 – Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian author (b. 1921)
2010 – Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti (b. 1932)
2010 – Ronald Neame, English cinematographer, producer, screenwriter, and director (b. 1911)
2011 – Östen Mäkitalo, Swedish engineer (b. 1938)
2012 – Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1934)
2012 – Howie Chizek, American radio host (b. 1947)
2012 – Dan Dorfman, American journalist (b. 1931)
2012 – Nils Karlsson, Swedish skier (b. 1917)
2012 – Jorge Lankenau, Mexican banker and businessman (b. 1944)
2012 – Sławomir Petelicki, Polish army officer (b. 1946)
2012 – Thierry Roland, French sportscaster (b. 1937)
2012 – Susan Tyrrell, American actress (b. 1945)

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 (1913–1992)

“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)

“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 death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

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