November 29 - Deaths

Deaths

521 – Jacob of Serugh, Syrian poet and theologian
561 – Chlothar I, king of the Franks (b. c. 497)
741 – Pope Gregory III
1253 – Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1206)
1268 – Pope Clement IV
1314 – Philip IV of France (b. 1268)
1330 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (b. 1287)
1342 – Michael of Cesena, Italian Franciscan leader (b. 1270)
1378 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1316)
1530 – Thomas Wolsey, English religious figure (b. c. 1470)
1590 – Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547)
1595 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533)
1600 – Nanda, King of Burma (b. 1535)
1626 – Ernst, Graf von Mansfield, German soldier (b. c. 1580)
1632 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine (b. 1596)
1643 – William Cartwright, English dramatist (b. 1611)
1643 – Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b. 1567)
1646 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (b. 1565)
1661 – Brian Walton, English clergyman and scholar (b. 1600)
1682 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine (b. 1619)
1694 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (b. 1628)
1695 – James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (b. 1619)
1699 – Patrick Gordon, Scottish general (b. 1635)
1759 – Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687)
1780 – Queen Maria Theresa of Austria (b. 1717)
1797 – Samuel Langdon, American university president (b. 1723)
1830 – John Maurice Hauke, Polish professional soldier, general (b. 1775)
1847 – Marcus Whitman, Washington state pioneer (b. 1802)
1883 – Emperor Hiep Hoa, the sixth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn Dynasty (b. 1847)
1924 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (b. 1858)
1927 – George Giffen, Australian cricketer (b. 1859)
1939 – Philipp Scheidemann, German statesman (b. 1865)
1941 – Frank Waller, American athlete (b. 1884)
1942 – Boyd Wagner, American World War II fighter pilot (b. 1916)
1953 – Alfons Fryland, Austrian actor (b. 1888)
1953 – Sam De Grasse, American actor (b. 1875)
1953 – Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895)
1954 – Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892)
1957 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (b. 1897)
1967 – Ferenc Münnich, Hungarian Communist politician (b. 1886)
1972 – Carl Stalling, American composer (b. 1888)
1974 – James J. Braddock, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1905)
1975 – Graham Hill, English race car driver (b. 1929)
1980 – Dorothy Day, American journalist (b. 1897)
1980 – George J. Maloof, Sr., American businessman (b. 1923)
1981 – Fredric Wertham, German psychologist (b. 1895)
1981 – Natalie Wood, American actress (b. 1938)
1982 – Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (b. 1908)
1984 – Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (b. 1900)
1986 – Cary Grant, British-born American actor (b. 1904)
1987 – Irene Handl, English actress (b. 1901)
1991 – Ralph Bellamy, American actor (b. 1904)
1991 – Frank Yerby, African-American writer (b. 1916)
1992 – Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (b. 1906)
1993 – J. R. D. Tata, Indian businessman, Industrialist, and pilot (b.1904)
1996 – Dan Flavin, American artist (b. 1933)
1998 – Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (b. 1947)
1998 – Frank Latimore, American actor (b. 1925)
1999 – Gene Rayburn, American game show host (b. 1917)
1999 – Kazuo Sakamaki, Japanese naval officer (b. 1918)
2001 – Mic Christopher, Irish singer and songwriter (b. 1969)
2001 – George Harrison, English musician, actor, songwriter. (The Beatles) (b. 1943)
2001 – John Knowles, American author (b. 1926)
2002 – Daniel Gélin, French actor (b. 1921)
2002 – George "Two Ton" Harris, American professional wrestler (b. 1927)
2003 – Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
2004 – Anne Samson, Canadian Nun and supercentenarian (b. 1891)
2004 – Harry Danning, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2004 – John Drew Barrymore, American actor (b. 1932)
2005 – Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (b. 1958)
2005 – David Di Tommaso, French footballer (b. 1979)
2006 – Allen Carr, English anti-smoking campaigner (b. 1934)
2007 – Henry Hyde, American politician (b. 1924)
2007 – James Barber, Canadian chef and writer (b. 1923)
2007 – Ralph Beard, American basketball player (b. 1927)
2007 – Roger Bonham Smith, American automobile executive (b. 1925)
2007 – Tom Terrell, American musicologist (b. 1950)
2008 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (b. 1918)
2009 – Robert Holdstock, English author (b. 1948)
2010 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (b. 1937)
2010 – Mario Monicelli, Italian film director (b. 1915)
2010 – Stephen J. Solarz, American politician (b. 1940)
2010 – Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (b. 1913)
2010 – Alfred Masini, American television producer (b. 1930)
2011 – Patrice O'Neal, American stand-up comedian (b. 1969)

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)

“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“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)