June 23 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 79 – Vespasian, Roman emperor (b. 9)
  • 1018 – Henry I, Margrave of Austria
  • 1222 – Constance of Aragon (b. 1179)
  • 1314 – Henry de Bohun, English knight
  • 1555 – Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer, discovered the island of Diego Garcia (b. 1470)
  • 1582 – Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537)
  • 1615 – Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
  • 1677 – William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
  • 1686 – William Coventry, English statesman (b. 1628)
  • 1707 – John Mill, English theologian (b. 1645)
  • 1733 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672)
  • 1770 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
  • 1775 – Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692)
  • 1779 – Mikael Sehul, Ethiopian warlord (b. 1691)
  • 1806 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and philosopher (b. 1723)
  • 1811 – Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida, Portuguese poet and satirist (b. 1740)
  • 1832 – Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
  • 1836 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1773)
  • 1856 – Ivan Kireevsky, Russian critic and philosopher (b. 1806)
  • 1881 – Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist, and co-founder of the cell theory (b. 1804)
  • 1891 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
  • 1891 – Samuel Newitt Wood, American politician (b. 1825)
  • 1893 – Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African statesman (b. 1817)
  • 1945 – Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian resistance member (b. 1923)
  • 1949 – Aristidis Stergiadis, Greek governor-general of Smyrna (b. 1861)
  • 1956 – Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875)
  • 1959 – Boris Vian, French polymath (b. 1920)
  • 1969 – Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (b. 1907)
  • 1970 – Roscoe Turner, American aviator (b. 1895)
  • 1980 – Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician, son of Indira Gandhi (b. 1946)
  • 1980 – V. V. Giri, Indian politician, 4th President of India (b. 1894)
  • 1980 – Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
  • 1981 – Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1907)
  • 1982 – Vincent Chin, Chinese-American murder victim (b. 1955)
  • 1989 – Werner Best, German jurist and Nazi party leader (b. 1903)
  • 1992 – Eric Andolsek, American football player (b. 1966)
  • 1995 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (b. 1914)
  • 1995 – Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (b. 1918)
  • 1996 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (b. 1919)
  • 1997 – Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist, wife of Malcolm X (b. 1936)
  • 1998 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911)
  • 1999 – Buster Merryfield, English actor (b. 1920)
  • 2000 – Peter Dubovský, Slovak footballer (b. 1972)
  • 2000 – Peter L. Pond, American activist and philanthropist (b. 1933)
  • 2001 – Yvonne Dionne, Canadian model and actress (b. 1934)
  • 2002 – Pedro Alcázar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)
  • 2005 – Shana Alexander, American journalist (b. 1926)
  • 2005 – Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (b. 1925)
  • 2006 – Aaron Spelling, American actor and producer, founded Spelling Television (b. 1923)
  • 2006 – Grady Johnson, American wrestler (b. 1940)
  • 2007 – Rod Beck, American baseball player (b. 1968)
  • 2008 – Claudio Capone, Italian-Scottish voice actor (b. 1952)
  • 2008 – Arthur Chung, Guyanan politician (b. 1918)
  • 2008 – Marian Glinka, Polish actor (b. 1943)
  • 2008 – Judith Holzmeister, Austrian actress (b. 1920)
  • 2009 – John Callaway, American journalist (b. 1936)
  • 2009 – Hanne Hiob, German actress (b. 1923)
  • 2009 – Ed McMahon, American comedian and television host(b. 1923)
  • 2009 – Jerri Nielsen, American physician (b. 1952)
  • 2009 – Manuel Saval, Mexican actor (b. 1956)
  • 2011 – Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)
  • 2011 – Dennis Marshall, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1985)
  • 2012 – Robin de la Lanne-Mirrlees, English author and soldier (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – James Durbin, English statistician and econometrician (b. 1923)
  • 2012 – Brigitte Engerer, French pianist (b. 1952)
  • 2012 – Ken Hargreaves, English politician (b. 1939)
  • 2012 – Alan McDonald, Irish footballer (b. 1963)
  • 2012 – Walter J. Zable, American football player and businessman, founder of the Cubic Corporation (b. 1915)

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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 (1913–1992)

    “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)

    “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)