Deaths
- 253 – Pope Cornelius
- 635 – Emperor Gaozu of Tang (b. 566)
- 1134 – Niels, King of Denmark (b. 1064)
- 1218 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)
- 1291 – Eleanor of Provence, (b. 1223)
- 1483 – Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer (b. 1440)
- 1522 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
- 1533 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (b. 1496)
- 1579 – Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)
- 1593 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)
- 1622 – Péter Révay, Hungarian poet, soldier, and historian (b. 1568)
- 1634 – John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
- 1638 – Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
- 1665 – Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria (b. 1630)
- 1669 – François de Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
- 1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
- 1673 – Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, French Musketeer (b. c. 1611)
- 1686 – Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
- 1715 – Jean du Casse, French admiral (b. 1646)
- 1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
- 1792 – Thomas Peters, Sierra Leonean revolutionary (b. 1738)
- 1798 – Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721)
- 1822 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German writer (b. 1776)
- 1838 – François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general (b. 1774)
- 1861 – Abdülmecid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
- 1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
- 1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
- 1870 – David Heaton, American politician (b. 1823)
- 1875 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)
- 1875 – Katherine McKinley, American daughter of William McKinley (b. 1871)
- 1876 – James Calhoun, American lieutenant (b. 1845)
- 1876 – Boston Custer, American soldier (b. 1848)
- 1876 – George Armstrong Custer, American army officer (b. 1839)
- 1876 – Thomas Custer, American army officer, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1845)
- 1876 – Myles Keogh, Irish soldier (b. 1840)
- 1882 – François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
- 1884 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)
- 1906 – Stanford White, American architect, designed the Washington Square Arch (b. 1853)
- 1916 – Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
- 1917 – Géza Gyóni, Hungarian poet (b. 1884)
- 1918 – Jake Beckley, American baseball player (b. 1867)
- 1922 – Satyendranath Dutta, Bengali poet (b. 1882)
- 1932 – Howard Valentine, American track and field athlete (b. 1881)
- 1937 – Colin Clive, English actor (b. 1900)
- 1944 – Dénes Berinkey, Hungarian jurist and politician (b. 1871)
- 1944 – Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
- 1948 – William C. Lee, American army general (b. 1895)
- 1949 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871)
- 1949 – James Steen, American water polo player (b. 1876)
- 1950 – Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Irish author (b. 1904)
- 1958 – Alfred Noyes, English poet (b. 1880)
- 1959 – Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (b. 1938)
- 1960 – Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869)
- 1971 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
- 1972 – Jan Matulka, American painter (b. 1890)
- 1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
- 1976 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
- 1977 – Endre Szervánszky, Hungarian composer (b. 1911)
- 1979 – Dave Fleischer, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1894)
- 1979 – Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906)
- 1983 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
- 1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
- 1985 – Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
- 1987 – Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920)
- 1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (Red Hot Chili Peppers and What Is This?) (b. 1962)
- 1990 – Ronald Gene Simmons, American murderer (b. 1940)
- 1992 – Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
- 1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and diplomat (b. 1914)
- 1997 – Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer and explorer (b. 1910)
- 1998 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian singer, guitarist, and poet (b. 1956)
- 1999 – Fred Feast, English actor (b. 1929)
- 2002 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
- 2003 – Lester Maddox, American politician (b. 1915)
- 2005 – John Fiedler, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2005 – Kâzım Koyuncu, Turkish singer-songwriter and activist (b. 1971)
- 2006 – Jaap Penraat, Dutch resistance fighter (b. 1918)
- 2007 – Jeeva, Indian director (b. 1963)
- 2007 – Mahasti, Iranian singer (b. 1946)
- 2007 – J. Fred Duckett, American sportscaster and educator (b. 1933)
- 2008 – Lyall Watson, South African anthropologist and writer (b. 1939)
- 2009 – Yasmine, Belgian singer (b. 1972)
- 2009 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
- 2009 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (The Jackson 5) (b. 1958)
- 2009 – Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Seeds) (b. 1937)
- 2009 – Anil Wilson, Indian educationist (b. 1947)
- 2010 – Alan Plater, English playwright (b. 1935)
- 2010 – Richard B. Sellars, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1915)
- 2011 – Margaret Tyzack, English actress (b. 1931)
- 2011 – Goff Richards, English composer and arranger
- 2012 – Shigemitsu Dandō, Japanese jurist (b. 1913)
- 2012 – George Randolph Hearst, Jr., American businessman (b. 1927)
- 2012 – John Koko, American musician (Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau) (b. 1961)
- 2012 – Vyacheslav Ionov, Russian sprinter (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Doris Schade, German actress (b. 1924)
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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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“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)