December 14 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1460 – Guarino da Verona (b. 1370)
  • 1476 – Vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431)
  • 1510 – Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
  • 1542 – King James V of Scotland (b. 1512)
  • 1553 – Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485)
  • 1591 – Saint John of the Cross, Spanish friar and poet (b. 1542)
  • 1624 – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)
  • 1651 – Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)
  • 1713 – Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)
  • 1715 – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)
  • 1735 – Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)
  • 1741 – Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)
  • 1788 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (b. 1714)
  • 1788 – King Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)
  • 1799 – George Washington, First President of the United States (b. 1732)
  • 1831 – Martin Baum, American businessman and politician (b. 1765)
  • 1838 – Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician (b. 1806)
  • 1860 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, British statesman (b. 1784)
  • 1861 – Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, consort of Queen Victoria (b. 1819)
  • 1865 – Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)
  • 1873 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
  • 1878 – Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (b. 1843)
  • 1902 – Julia Dent-Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant (b. 1826)
  • 1912 – Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, British Army lieutenant (b. 1887)
  • 1920 – George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
  • 1927 – Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)
  • 1935 – Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (b. 1902)
  • 1937 – Fabian de la Rosa, Filipino painter (b. 1869)
  • 1940 – Anton Korošec, Slovenian political leader (b. 1872)
  • 1943 – John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon and breakfast food manufacturer (b. 1852)
  • 1947 – Stanley Baldwin, British statesman (b. 1867)
  • 1947 – Edward Higgins, American evangelical (b. 1864)
  • 1953 – Marjorie Rawlings, American author (b. 1896)
  • 1954 – Emil Rausch, German freestyle swimmer (b. 1883)
  • 1956 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish politician (b. 1870)
  • 1957 – Fred Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1872)
  • 1963 – Otto Fickeisen, German rower (b. 1879)
  • 1963 – Dinah Washington, American singer (b. 1924)
  • 1964 – William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)
  • 1966 – Shailendra, Indian lyricist (b. 1923)
  • 1970 – Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (b. 1876)
  • 1971 – Dick Tiger, Nigerian-born boxer (b. 1929)
  • 1974 – Walter Lippmann, American journalist and political commentator (b. 1889)
  • 1975 – Arthur Treacher, English actor (b. 1894)
  • 1978 – Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat (b. 1886)
  • 1984 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel laureate (b. 1898)
  • 1985 – Catherine Doherty, Russian-born Canadian social activist (b. 1896)
  • 1985 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (b. 1934)
  • 1989 – Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (b. 1919)
  • 1989 – Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1921)
  • 1990 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
  • 1993 – Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968)
  • 1993 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
  • 1994 – Orval Faubus, American politician (b. 1910)
  • 1996 – Gaston Miron, French-Canadian poet and editor (b. 1928)
  • 1997 – Stubby Kaye, American actor (b. 1918)
  • 1997 – Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (The Guess Who) (b. 1946)
  • 1998 – Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
  • 1998 – Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights activist and author (b. 1928)
  • 1998 – Annette Strauss, American philanthropist (b. 1924)
  • 2001 – W. G. Sebald, German writer (b. 1944)
  • 2003 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
  • 2003 – Blas Ople, Filipino diplomat (b. 1927)
  • 2003 – Frank Sheeran, American labor union official (b. 1920)
  • 2004 – Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b. 1934)
  • 2004 – Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and politician (b. 1939)
  • 2005 – Trevanian, American author (b. 1931)
  • 2006 – Anton Balasingham, Sri Lankan political strategist (b. 1938)
  • 2006 – Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish-born American music executive (b. 1923)
  • 2006 – Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)
  • 2009 – Alan A'Court, English footballer (b. 1934)
  • 2010 – Timothy Davlin, American politician (b. 1957)
  • 2010 – Neva Patterson, American actress (b. 1920)
  • 2010 – Dale Roberts, English footballer (b. 1986)
  • 2011 – Joe Simon, American comic book artist (b. 1913)

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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)

    “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)

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