Deaths
- 461 – Majorian, Roman emperor (b. 420)
- 479 – Emperor Yūryaku of Japan
- 1106 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
- 1485 – Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. 1454)
- 1613 – Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
- 1616 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect, designed Teatro Olimpico (b. 1548)
- 1635 – Friedrich Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
- 1639 – Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist (b. 1605)
- 1661 – Jin Shengtan, Chinese writer, editor, and critic (b. 1608)
- 1817 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (b. 1739)
- 1834 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)
- 1848 – Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)
- 1855 – Mariano Arista, Mexican politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
- 1864 – Li Xiucheng, Chinese general (b. 1823)
- 1893 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (b. 1854)
- 1899 – Jacob Maris, Dutch painter (b. 1837)
- 1904 – Louis Dutfoy, French target shooter (b. 1860)
- 1912 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss scientist (b. 1841)
- 1917 – Edwin Harris Dunning, English pilot (b. 1891)
- 1938 – Constantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
- 1941 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
- 1946 – George Wilkinson, English water polo player (b. 1879)
- 1948 – Charles Bryant, English actor and director (b. 1879)
- 1953 – Abner Powell, American baseball player (b. 1860)
- 1957 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892)
- 1960 – Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine Boxer (b. 1894)
- 1969 – Joseph Kosma, French composer (b. 1905)
- 1970 – Harold Haley, American judge (b. 1904)
- 1970 – Jonathan P. Jackson, bodyguard and negotiator of the Marin County Civic Center shootout (b. 1953)
- 1972 – Joi Lansing, American model and actress (b. 1929)
- 1972 – Aspasia Manos, Greek wife of king Alexander of Greece (b. 1896)
- 1973 – Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1895)
- 1974 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (b. 1925)
- 1974 – Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
- 1984 – Esther Phillips, American singer (b. 1935)
- 1985 – Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1923)
- 1987 – Camille Chamoun, Lebanese politician, 7th President of Lebanon (b. 1900)
- 1989 – Mickey Leland, American politician (b. 1944)
- 1991 – Billy T. James, New Zealand comedian and actor (b. 1944)
- 1992 – John Anderson, American actor (b. 1922)
- 1994 – Larry Martyn, English actor (b. 1934)
- 1995 – Brigid Brophy, English author (b. 1929)
- 1999 – Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
- 2003 – Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (b. 1929)
- 2004 – Red Adair, American firefighter (b. 1915)
- 2004 – Colin Bibby, English ornithologist (b. 1948)
- 2005 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist (b. 1938)
- 2006 – Mary Anderson Bain, American politician (b. 1911)
- 2007 – Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, and producer (b. 1917)
- 2007 – Hal Fishman, American journalist (b. 1931)
- 2007 – Angus Tait, New Zealand businessman, founded Tait Communications (b. 1919)
- 2008 – Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (b. 1931)
- 2008 – Andrea Pininfarina, Italian engineer (b. 1957)
- 2009 – Louis E. Saavedra, American politician, 48th Mayor of Albuquerque (b. 1933)
- 2009 – Mike Seeger, American singer-songwriter and musician (New Lost City Ramblers) (b. 1933)
- 2010 – Roberto Cantoral, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1935)
- 2011 – Mark Hatfield, American politician, 29th Governor of Oregon (b. 1922)
- 2011 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English war agent (b. 1912)
- 2011 – Joe Yamanaka, Japanese singer and actor (Flower Travellin' Band and The Wailers Band) (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Murtuz Alasgarov, Azerbaijani politician (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Judith Crist, American critic (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Vladimir Vasilyevich Kobzev, Russian footballer and coach (b. 1959)
- 2012 – Anna Piaggi, Italian writer (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Veljko Rogošić, Croatian swimmer (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Hans Hammond Rossbach, Norwegian politician (b. 1931)
- 2012 – John Joseph Swaine, Hong Kong politician (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Marvin Lee Wilson, American convicted murderer (b. 1958)
- 2012 – Mayer Zald, American sociologist
- 2012 – Dušan Zbavitel, Czech indologist and author (b. 1925)
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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)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)