November 4 - Deaths

Deaths

1411 – Khalil Sultan, Timurid ruler (b. 1384)
1652 – Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)
1658 – Antoine Le Maistre, French lawyer and author (b. 1608)
1669 – Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
1698 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
1702 – John Benbow, English admiral (b. 1653)
1704 – Andreas Acoluthus, German scholar (b. 1654)
1781 – Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721)
1801 – William Shippen, American physician and lawyer (b. 1712)
1847 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
1847 – Thieu Tri, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1807)
1856 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (b. 1797)
1893 – Pierre Tirard, French politician, 54th Prime Minister of France (b. 1827)
1906 – John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
1918 – Wilfred Owen, English poet (b. 1893)
1924 – Richard Conner, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1843)
1924 – Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
1930 – Buddy Bolden, American cornet player (b. 1877)
1931 – Luigi Galleani, Italian activist (b. 1861)
1940 – Arthur Rostron, English captain (b. 1869)
1948 – Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, British transport administrator (b. 1874)
1950 – Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1955 – Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
1957 – Shoghi Effendi, Israeli religious leader (b. 1897)
1968 – Michel Kikoine, Belarusian-French painter (b. 1892)
1969 – Carlos Marighella, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1911)
1974 – Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (b. 1909)
1975 – Francis Dvornik, Czech historian (b. 1893)
1975 – Izzat Husrieh, Syrian journalist and publisher (b. 1914)
1980 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian engineer (b. 1905)
1982 – Dominique Dunne, American actress (b. 1959)
1982 – Jacques Tati, French actor and director (b. 1907)
1982 – Gil Whitney, American journalist (b. 1940)
1986 – Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
1988 – Kleanthis Vikelidis, Greek footballer (b. 1916)
1992 – George Klein, Canadian inventor (b. 1904)
1994 – Sam Francis, American painter (b. 1923)
1994 – Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitarist and songwriter (MC5 and Sonic's Rendezvous Band) (b. 1949)
1995 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
1995 – Paul Eddington, English actor (b. 1927)
1995 – Eddie Egan, American actor and police officer (b. 1930)
1995 – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
1995 – Morrie Schwartz, American academic and author (b. 1916)
1996 – Nagarjun, Indian poet (b. 1911)
1997 – Richard Hooker, American author (b. 1924)
1999 – Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer (b. 1958)
2002 – Nakis Avgerinos, Greek politician (b. 1911)
2003 – Charles Causley, Cornish author and poet (b. 1917)
2003 – Ken Gampu, South African actor (b. 1929)
2003 – Richard Wollheim, English philosopher (b. 1923)
2005 – Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist (b. 1980)
2005 – Sheree North, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
2006 – Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
2006 – Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American author (b. 1908)
2007 – Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2008 – Michael Crichton, American author (b. 1942)
2008 – Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (b. 1971)
2009 – Hubertus Brandenburg, Swedish bishop (b. 1923)
2010 – Sparky Anderson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1934)
2010 – Eugénie Blanchard, French super-centenarian (b. 1896)
2010 – Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (b. 1960)
2011 – Andy Rooney, American radio and television host (b. 1919)
2012 – Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni, Indian chef (b. 1974)
2012 – Errol Black, Canadian academic and politician (b. 1939)
2012 – Ted Curson, American trumpet player (b. 1935)
2012 – Jim Durham, American sportscaster (b. 1947)
2012 – Samuel S. Freedman, American jurist (b. 1927)
2012 – Beverley Goodway, English photographer (b. 1943)
2012 – Marit Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1925)
2012 – Reg Pickett, English footballer (b. 1927)
2012 – David Resnick, Brazilian-Israeli architect, designed Yad Kennedy (b. 1924)

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)

“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)

“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)