Deaths
- 451 – Theodoric I, Roman emperor
- 537 – Silverius, pope of Rome
- 840 – Louis the Pious, Roman emperor (b. 778)
- 885 – Bernard Plantapilosa, French son of Bernard of Septimania (b. 841)
- 1176 – Mikhail of Vladimir
- 1597 – Willem Barentsz, Dutch navigator and explorer (b. 1550)
- 1605 – Feodor II of Russia (b. 1589)
- 1668 – Heinrich Roth, German scholar (b. 1620)
- 1776 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (b. 1704)
- 1787 – Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (b. 1723)
- 1800 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (b. 1719)
- 1810 – Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish statesman (b. 1755)
- 1820 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentine general and politician (b. 1770)
- 1837 – William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
- 1840 – Pierre Claude François Daunou, French statesman (b. 1761)
- 1847 – Juan Larrea, Argentine politician and businessman (b. 1782)
- 1869 – Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese military leader (b. 1835)
- 1870 – Jules de Goncourt, French writer (b. 1830)
- 1872 – Elie Frédéric Forey, French general (b. 1804)
- 1875 – Joseph Meek, American police officer and politician (b. 1810)
- 1888 – Johannes Zukertort, Polish chess player (b. 1842)
- 1906 – John Clayton Adams, English artist (b. 1840)
- 1925 – Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (b. 1842)
- 1929 – Emmanuel Benakis, Greek merchant and politician (b. 1843)
- 1945 – Luís Fernando de Orleans y Borbón, Spanish prince (b. 1888)
- 1945 – Bruno Frank, German author (b. 1878)
- 1947 – Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (b. 1906)
- 1952 – Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
- 1958 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1963 – Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (b. 1898)
- 1965 – Bernard Baruch, American financier and statesman (b. 1870)
- 1966 – Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1894)
- 1972 – Howard Deering Johnson, American businessman, founded Howard Johnson's (b. 1897)
- 1974 – Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker and billiards player (b. 1912)
- 1976 – Lou Klein, American baseball player (b. 1918)
- 1978 – Mark Robson, Canadian director and producer (b. 1913)
- 1984 – Estelle Winwood, English actress (b. 1883)
- 1995 – Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher (b. 1911)
- 1996 – Jim Ellison, American musician (Material Issue) (b. 1964)
- 1997 – Lawrence Payton, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Four Tops) (b. 1938)
- 1998 – Conrad Schumann, German soldier (b. 1942)
- 1999 – Clifton Fadiman, American author (b. 1902)
- 2002 – Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (b. 1905)
- 2002 – Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916)
- 2003 – Bob Stump, American politician (b. 1927)
- 2005 – Larry Collins, American writer (b. 1929)
- 2005 – Jack Kilby, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Billy Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1918)
- 2007 – Trevor Henry, New Zealand lawyer and judge (b. 1902)
- 2009 – Neda Agha-Soltan, Iranian student and protester (b. 1982)
- 2010 – Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (b. 1943)
- 2010 – Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist (b. 1916)
- 2011 – Ryan Dunn, American stuntman and actor (b. 1977)
- 2012 – Judy Agnew, American wife of Spiro Agnew (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Alcides Mendoza Castro, Peruvian archbishop (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Robert J. Kelleher, American tennis player (b. 1913)
- 2012 – LeRoy Neiman, American painter (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Andrew Sarris, American critic and writer (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Ramaz Shengelia, Georgian footballer (b. 1957)
- 2012 – Alexander Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th Marquess of Londonderry, English nobleman (b. 1937)
- 2012 – Michael Westmacott, English mountaineer (b. 1925)
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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 (19131992)
“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)
“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)