December 1 - Deaths

Deaths

1135 – Henry I of England
1241 – Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1214)
1377 – King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316)
1433 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith (b. 1378)
1521 – Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
1530 – Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (b. 1480)
1580 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
1581 – Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (b. 1540)
1581 – Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (b. 1550)
1581 – Alexander Briant, English Jesuit and martyr (b. 1556)
1602 – Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese warlord (b. 1582)
1633 – Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (b. 1566)
1640 – Miguel de Vasconcelos, last Secretary of State of the Kingdom of Portugal, during the Iberian Union (b. c. 1590)
1660 – Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1592)
1707 – Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (b. 1674)
1709 – Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (b. 1644)
1723 – Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress (b. 1667)
1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (b. 1665)
1750 – Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
1755 – Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696)
1767 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (b. 1710)
1825 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
1830 – Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
1865 – Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (b. 1796)
1866 – George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (b. 1790)
1884 – William Swainson, British attorney and Attorney General of New Zealand (b. 1809)
1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
1916 – Charles de Foucauld, French religious figure (b. 1858)
1917 – John January, American soccer player (b. 1882)
1923 – Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1836)
1928 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
1934 – Sergey Kirov, Russian revolutionary (b. 1886)
1943 – Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (b. 1862)
1947 – Aleister Crowley, English occultist (b. 1875)
1947 – G. H. Hardy, English mathematician (b. 1877)
1950 – E. J. Moeran, English composer (b. 1894)
1954 – Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive (b. 1897)
1964 – J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (b. 1892)
1964 – Charilaos Vasilakos, Greek athlete, the first man to win a marathon race (b. 1877)
1968 – Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer (b. 1887)
1968 – Darío Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (b. 1921)
1969 – Magic Sam, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
1973 – David Ben-Gurion, Israeli statesman (b. 1886)
1975 – Nellie Fox, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1975 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (b. 1906)
1984 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b. 1911)
1986 – Lee Dorsey, American R&B singer (b. 1924)
1986 – Frank McCarthy, American producer (b. 1912)
1987 – James Baldwin, American writer (b. 1924)
1987 – Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager (b. 1918)
1989 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1931)
1991 – George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1911)
1993 – Ray Gillen, American rock singer (Badlands, Black Sabbath) (b. 1959)
1995 – Maxwell R. Thurman, United States Army general (b. 1931)
1995 – Colin Tapley, British actor (b. 1907)
1995 – Hopper Levett, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1996 – Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928)
1997 – Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (b. 1908)
1997 – Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker (b. 1929)
1997 – Endicott Peabody, American politician (b. 1920)
1998 – Freddie Young, British cinematographer (b. 1902)
2001 – Ellis R Dungan, American-born Indian film director (b. 1909)
2002 – Dave McNally, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2003 – Clark Kerr, American academic (b. 1911)
2003 – Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder (b. 1928)
2004 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
2005 – Gust Avrakotos, American intelligence case officer (b. 1938)
2005 – Mary Hayley Bell, English dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills (b. 1911)
2005 – Freeman V. Horner, United States Army officer (b. 1922)
2006 – Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
2006 – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist (b. 1937)
2007 – Anton Rodgers, British actor (b. 1933)
2008 – Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
2008 – Joseph B. Wirthlin, American religious figure (b. 1917)
2008 – Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938)
2009 – Gustavo Adolfo Palma, Guatemalan singer (b. 1920)
2010 – Hillard Elkins, American theatre and film producer (b. 1929)
2010 – Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (b. 1914)
2011 – Christa Wolf, German writer (b. 1929)

Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

“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)

“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)