July 19 - Deaths

Deaths

514 – Pope Symmachus
931 – Emperor Uda of Japan (b. 867)
1374 – Petrarch, Italian scholar and poet (b. 1304)
1415 – Philippa of Lancaster (b. 1359)
1543 – Mary Boleyn, English sister of Anne Boleyn (b. c. 1499)
1631 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
1687 – Laura Martinozzi, Italian wife of Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena (b. 1637)
1692 – Sarah Good, American woman accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials (b. 1653)
1692 – Susannah Martin, American woman accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials (b. 1621)
1742 – William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
1810 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1776)
1814 – Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (b. 1774)
1824 – Agustín de Iturbide, Mexican general and emperor (b. 1783)
1838 – Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (b. 1785)
1850 – Margaret Fuller, American writer (b. 1810)
1857 – Stefano Franscini, Swiss politician (b. 1796)
1868 – Okita Sōji, Japanese samurai (b. 1844)
1896 – Abraham H. Cannon, American publisher and religious figure (b. 1859)
1913 – Clímaco Calderón, Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th President of Colombia (b. 1852)
1919 – Walter Brack, German backstroke and breaststroke swimmer (b. 1880)
1939 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850)
1943 – Yekaterina Budanova, Russian pilot (b. 1916)
1947 – U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
1947 – Aung San, Burmese general and nationalist (b. 1915)
1947 – Yuh Woon-Hyung, Korean politician (b. 1886)
1965 – Syngman Rhee, South Korean politician, 1st President of South Korea (b. 1875)
1969 – Stratis Myrivilis, Greek writer (b. 1890)
1974 – Joe Flynn, American actor (b. 1924)
1974 – Ernő Schwarz, Hungarian-American soccer player and coach (b. 1904)
1975 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
1980 – Nihat Erim, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912)
1980 – Hans Morgenthau, German philosopher (b. 1904)
1981 – Roger Doucet, Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
1982 – Hugh Everett III, American physicist (b. 1930)
1982 – John Harvey, English actor (b. 1911)
1984 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1985 – Janusz Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
1989 – Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish politician (b. 1913)
1990 – Eddie Quillan, American actor (b. 1907)
1992 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge (b. 1940)
1998 – Elmer Valo, Slovak-American baseball player (b. 1921)
2002 – Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer) (b. 1952)
2002 – Alan Lomax, American historian, activist, writer, and scholar (b. 1915)
2003 – Bill Bright, American evangelist and author, founded the Campus Crusade for Christ (b. 1921)
2003 – Pierre Graber, Swiss politician (b. 1908)
2004 – Francis A. Marzen, American priest (b. 1924)
2004 – Zenkō Suzuki, Japanese politician, 70th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
2005 – Edward Bunker, American writer (b. 1933)
2005 – John Tyndall, English politician (b. 1934)
2006 – Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 – A. K. Faezul Huq, Bangladeshi lawyer, politician, and journalist (b. 1945)
2007 – Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist and writer (b. 1944)
2008 – Anastasia Blue, American porn actress (b. 1980)
2008 – Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedian and actress (b. 1907)
2009 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (b. 1930)
2009 – Henry Surtees, English race car driver (b. 1991)
2010 – Lorenzen Wright, American basketball player (b. 1975)
2012 – Humayun Ahmed, Bangladeshi director and author (b. 1948)
2012 – Tom Davis, American comedian, actor, and writer (b. 1952)
2012 – Mohammad Hassan Ganji, Iranian meteorologist and academic (b. 1912)
2012 – Hans Nowak, German footballer (b. 1937)
2012 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general and politician, 16th Vice President of Egypt (b. 1935)
2012 – E. V. Thompson, English author (b. 1931)
2012 – Sylvia Woods, American businesswoman, co-founded Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem (b. 1926)
2012 – Valiulla Yakupov, Islamic cleric (b. 1963)

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)

“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)