August 1 - Deaths

Deaths

30 BC– Mark Antony, Roman politician and general (b. 83 BC)
371 – Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop and saint (b. 283)
946 – Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah, Abbasid vizier (b. 859)
527 – Justin I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 450)
1137 – Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian explorer (b. 1180)
1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (b. 1341)
1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (b. 1406)
1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1386)
1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
1546 – Peter Faber, French theologian (b. 1506)
1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
1580 – Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
1675 – Weetamoo, Native American noblewoman (b. 1635)
1714 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1665)
1787 – Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Italian bishop, philosopher, and saint (b. 1696)
1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1735)
1796 – Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet, English army officer (b. 1720)
1798 – François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral (b. 1753)
1807 – John Walker, English lexicographer (b. 1732)
1812 – Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (b. 1763)
1851 – William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
1866 – John Ross, Native American chief (b. 1790)
1903 – Calamity Jane, American frontier and scout (b. 1853)
1911 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (b. 1852)
1911 – Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (b. 1843)
1917 – Frank Little, American labor organizer (b. 1879)
1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (b. 1854)
1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian lawyer, reformer, and educator (b. 1856)
1922 – Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer and inventor (b. 1856)
1929 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
1938 – John Aasen, American actor (b. 1890)
1938 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter (b. 1862)
1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Soviet pilot (b. 1921)
1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
1945 – Gyula Csortos, Hungarian actor (b. 1883)
1966 – Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941)
1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883)
1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
1973 – Walter Ulbricht, German politician (b. 1893)
1974 – Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898)
1977 – Francis Gary Powers, American pilot (b. 1929)
1980 – Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (b. 1944)
1980 – Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
1983 – Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla and activist (b. 1954)
1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
1990 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
1990 – Graham Young, English serial killer (b. 1947)
1996 – Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and diplomat, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
1996 – Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
1996 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician (b. 1929)
1997 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian actress (b. 1927)
1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bengali−English writer (b. 1897)
2001 – Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
2004 – Philip Abelson, American physicist (b. 1913)
2004 – Alexandra Scott, American cancer patient, founder of Alex's Lemonade Stand (b. 1996)
2005 – Al Aronowitz, American journalist (b. 1928)
2005 – Wim Boost, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
2005 – Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
2006 – Jason Rhoades, American artist (b. 1965)
2006 – Ferenc Szusza, Hungarian footballer (b. 1923)
2006 – Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
2006 – Iris Marion Young, American theorist and activist (b. 1949)
2007 – Tommy Makem, Irish singer and poet (b. 1932)
2008 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
2009 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
2010 – Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican politician and attempted murderer (b. 1919)
2010 – Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer (b. 1910)
2012 – Don Erickson, American baseball player (b. 1931)
2012 – Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer (b. 1953)
2012 – Riccardo Ruotolo, Italian bishop (b. 1928)
2012 – Abel Salinas, Peruvian politician (b. 1930)
2012 – Douglas Townsend, American composer (b. 1921)
2012 – Barry Trapnell, English cricketer (b. 1924)
2012 – Keiko Tsushima, Japanese actress (b. 1926)

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)

“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)