Deaths
- 19 – Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
- 680 – Hussein ibn Ali, Islamic Shi'a Imam (b. 626)
- 732 – Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Yemeni general
- 1359 – Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
- 1459 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian scholar (b. 1380)
- 1659 – Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
- 1691 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
- 1708 – David Gregory, Scottish mathematician (b. 1659)
- 1714 – Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
- 1720 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
- 1723 – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, English politician (b. 1665)
- 1725 – Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, French politician, Governor of New France (b. 1643)
- 1747 – John Potter, English archbishop (b. 1674)
- 1759 – Granville Elliott, English military officer (b. 1713)
- 1765 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, English politician (b. 1688)
- 1795 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
- 1806 – Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (b. 1772)
- 1827 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian author and poet (b. 1778)
- 1837 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
- 1857 – George Washington Parke Custis, American orator and playwright (b. 1781)
- 1872 – William H. Seward, American politician, 24th United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
- 1875 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1817)
- 1876 – Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
- 1893 – Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
- 1901 – Lorenzo Snow, American religious leader, 5th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
- 1911 – Jack Daniel, American businessman, founded Jack Daniel's (b. 1849)
- 1913 – Adolphus Busch, German-American brewer and businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (b. 1839)
- 1913 – Katsura Tarō, Japanese politician, 6th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
- 1914 – Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)
- 1922 – Andreas Karkavitsas, Greek author (b. 1866)
- 1927 – Gustave Whitehead, German-American aviator (b. 1874)
- 1930 – Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
- 1940 – Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
- 1948 – Ted Horn, American race car driver (b. 1910)
- 1953 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand judge (b. 1884)
- 1957 – Karl Genzken, German nazi physician (b. 1885)
- 1962 – Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect (b. 1891)
- 1963 – Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer (b. 1893)
- 1964 – Eddie Cantor, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1892)
- 1964 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
- 1966 – Charlotte Cooper, English tennis player (b. 1870)
- 1970 – Édouard Daladier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1884)
- 1971 – John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
- 1973 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (b.1881)
- 1976 – Silvana Armenulić, Bosnian singer and actress (b. 1939)
- 1976 – Mirsada Mirjana Bajraktarević, Bosnian singer (b. 1951)
- 1977 – Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
- 1978 – Ralph Marterie, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1914)
- 1978 – Ralph Metcalfe, American runner and politician (b. 1910)
- 1979 – Christopher Evans, English psychologist, computer scientist, and author (b. 1931)
- 1979 – Paul Paray, French conductor, organist, and composer (b. 1886)
- 1982 – Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
- 1983 – Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
- 1985 – Yul Brynner, Russian-American actor (b. 1920)
- 1985 – Orson Welles, American actor, director, scriptwriter, and producer (b. 1915)
- 1986 – Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
- 1990 – Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
- 1990 – Nikolaos Pavlopoulos, Greek sculptor (b. 1909)
- 1991 – Nickolaus Hirschl, Austrian wrestler (b. 1906)
- 1998 – Clark Clifford, American lawyer, 9th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
- 1998 – Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
- 2000 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician, 6th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
- 2001 – Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
- 2001 – Vasily Mishin, Soviet engineer (b. 1917)
- 2002 – Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
- 2003 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
- 2004 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
- 2004 – Christopher Reeve, American actor, director, producer, and author (b. 1952)
- 2004 – Arthur H. Robinson, American geographer (b. 1915)
- 2004 – Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand author and playwright (b. 1932)
- 2005 – Wayne C. Booth, American critic (b. 1921)
- 2005 – Milton Obote, Ugandan politician, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
- 2006 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
- 2006 – Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
- 2007 – Mehmed Uzun, Turkish author (b. 1953)
- 2008 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)
- 2009 – Stephen Gately, Irish singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (Boyzone) (b. 1976)
- 2010 – Solomon Burke, American singer-songwriter and preacher (b. 1940)
- 2010 – Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Jagjit Singh, Indian singer-songwriter and activist (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Beano Cook, American sportscaster (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Kevin Curran, Zimbabwean cricketer (b. 1959)
- 2012 – Sam Gibbons, American politician (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Marina Golub, Russian actress (b. 1957)
- 2012 – Jos Huysmans, Belgian cyclist (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Alex Karras, American football player, wrestler, and actor (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Piotr Lenartowicz, Polish philosopher (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Carla Porta Musa, Italian poet (b. 1902)
- 2012 – Leo O'Brien, American actor (b. 1970)
- 2012 – Basil L. Plumley, American soldier (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Mark Poster, American philosopher (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Malcolm Sampson, English rugby player (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Amanda Todd, Canadian suicide victim (b. 1996)
- 2012 – Kyaw Zaw, Burmese military officer and politician (b. 1919)
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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)