February 29 - Deaths

Deaths

992 – Oswald of Worcester, archbishop of York (b. c.925)
1212 – Hōnen, Japanese religious reformer (b. 1133)
1528 – Patrick Hamilton, Scottish religious reformer (b. 1504)
1592 – Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer (b. 1540)
1600 – Caspar Hennenberger, German Lutheran pastor, historian and cartographer (b. 1529)
1604 – John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1530)
1740 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (b. 1667)
1744 – John Theophilus Desaguliers, French philosopher (b. 1683)
1792 – Johann Andreas Stein, German piano builder (b. 1728)
1820 – Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German literary critic (b. 1743)
1848 – Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, French general and painter (b. 1775)
1868 – Ludwig I of Bavaria (b. 1786)
1880 – Sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1812)
1908 – Pat Garrett, American gunslinger (b. 1850)
1908 – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, first Governor-General of Australia (b. 1860)
1920 – Ernie Courtney, American baseball player (b. 1875)
1928 – Ina Coolbrith, first poet laureate of California (b. 1841)
1928 – Adolphe Appia, Swiss stage designer (b. 1862)
1940 – Edward Frederic Benson, English writer (b. 1867)
1944 – Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, President of Finland (b. 1861)
1948 – Rebel Oakes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1883)
1952 – Quo Tai-chi, Chinese diplomat (b. 1888)
1956 – Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines (b. 1890)
1960 – Walter Yust, American journalist and writer (b. 1894)
1960 – Melvin Purvis, American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of Investigation agent (b. 1903)
1964 – Frank Albertson, American actor (b. 1909)
1968 – Lena Blackburne, American baseball player and manager (b. 1886)
1968 – Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (b. 1886)
1972 – Tom Davies, American footballer (b. 1896)
1976 – Florence Dwyer, American politician (b. 1902)
1980 – Gil Elvgren, American artist (b. 1914)
1980 – Yigal Allon, Israeli politician and soldier (b. 1918)
1984 – Ludwik Starski, Polish lyricist (b. 1903)
1988 – Sidney Harmon, American film producer (b. 1907)
1992 – Ruth Pitter, English poet (b. 1897)
1992 – Earl Scheib, American car repainter (b. 1908)
1992 – La Lupe, Cuban-American singer (b. 1939)
1996 – Wes Farrell, American songwriter and musician (b. 1939)
1996 – Shams Pahlavi, Persian princess (b. 1917)
1996 – Ralph Rowe, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
2000 – Dennis Danell, American guitarist (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)
2004 – Jerome Lawrence, American playwright (b. 1915)
2004 – Lorrie Wilmot, South African cricketer (b. 1943)
2004 – Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna (b. 1923)
2004 – Toni Onley, Canadian landscape painter (b. 1928)
2004 – Harold Bernard St. John, Barbadian politician, (b. 1931)
2008 – Janet Kagan, American author (b. 1946)
2008 – Erik Ortvad, Danish artist (b. 1917)
2012 – Davy Jones, English singer, songwriter and actor (The Monkees) (b. 1945)
2012 – Sheldon Moldoff, Golden Age and Silver Age comic book artist (b. 1920)

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)

“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)

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