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Deaths

238 – Maximinus Thrax, Roman Emperor (b. 173)
803 – Higbald of Lindisfarne, English bishop
1314 – Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester, English military commander (b. 1291)
1314 – Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford, English soldier, Lord Warden of the Marches (b. 1274)
1398 – Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty (b. 1328)
1439 – Frederick IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1382)
1519 – Lucrezia Borgia, Italian wife of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (b. 1480)
1520 – Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)
1604 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English peer and courtier (b. 1550)
1637 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580)
1643 – John Hampden, English politician (b. 1595)
1766 – Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier (b. 1678)
1778 – Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist (b. 1714)
1803 – Matthew Thornton, Irish-American politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1714)
1817 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician (b. 1734)
1835 – Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1769)
1894 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (b. 1837)
1908 – Grover Cleveland, American politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (b. 1837)
1909 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
1922 – Walther Rathenau, German industrialist, politician, and writer, Foreign Minister of Germany (b. 1867)
1931 – Otto Mears, Russian-American railroad builder and entrepreneur (b. 1840)
1931 – Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese politician, 2nd General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1880)
1935 – Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1890)
1946 – Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)
1947 – Emil Seidel, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (b. 1864)
1968 – Tony Hancock, English comedian and actor (b. 1924)
1976 – Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1883)
1977 – André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician (b. 1943)
1978 – Robert Charroux, French writer (b. 1909)
1984 – Clarence Campbell, Canadian 3rd president of the National Hockey League (b. 1905)
1987 – Jackie Gleason, American actor and singer (b. 1916)
1989 – Hibari Misora, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1937)
1991 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American novelist (b. 1917)
1991 – Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (b. 1899)
1997 – Don Hutson, American football player (b. 1913)
1997 – Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
2000 – Vera Atkins, Romanian-English intelligence officer (b. 1908)
2000 – Rodrigo Bueno, Argentine singer-songwriter {b. 1973}
2000 – David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917)
2002 – Pierre Werner, Luxembourgian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
2003 – Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (b. 1987)
2004 – Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter and author (b. 1957)
2005 – Yedidia Shofet, Iranian rabbi (b. 1908)
2005 – Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
2006 – Patsy Ramsey, American mother of JonBenét Ramsey (b. 1956)
2007 – Byron Baer, American politician (b. 1929)
2007 – Chris Benoit, Canadian wrestler (b. 1967)
2007 – Derek Dougan, Irish footballer (b. 1938)
2007 – Natasja Saad, Danish rapper and singer (b. 1974)
2008 – Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1919)
2008 – Ira Tucker, American singer (The Dixie Hummingbirds) (b. 1925)
2009 – Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (b. 1927)
2009 – Ed Thomas, American educator and football coach (b. 1951)
2011 – Tomislav Ivić, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1933)
2012 – Darrel Akerfelds, American baseball player (b. 1962)
2012 – Gad Beck, German educator, author, and Holocaust survivor (b. 1923)
2012 – Gu Chaohao, Chinese mathematician (b. 1926)
2012 – Jean Cox, American tenor (b. 1922)
2012 – Franz Crass, German singer (b. 1928)
2012 – Youssef Dawoud, Egyptian actor (b. 1938)
2012 – Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player (b. 1926)
2012 – Ted Luckenbill, American basketball player (b. 1939)
2012 – Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (b. 1988)
2012 – Ann C. Scales, American lawyer, educator, and activist (b. 1952)
2012 – Rudolf Schmid, German bishop (b. 1914)

Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

“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)

“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

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