Deaths
- 1440: Cennino D'Andrea Cennini – Florentine painter (born 1370)
- 1441: Jan van Eyck – Early Netherlandish painter (born 1385)
- 1444: Robert Campin – Early Netherlandish painter (born 1375)
- 1444: Guo Chun – imperial Chinese painter in the early Ming Dynasty (born 1370)
- 1444: Ottaviano Nelli - Italian quattrocento painter (born 1375)
- 1445: Henri Bellechose – painter from the South Netherlands (b. unknown)
- 1445: Michelino Molinari da Besozzo – Italian painter (born 1385)
- 1445/1446: Konrad Witz – German painter, especially of altarpieces (born 1400-1410)
- 1446/1447: Mir Ali Tabrizi – Persian calligrapher and inventor of the Nastaʿlīq script (born unknown)
- 1447: Masolino da Panicale – Italian painter (born 1383)
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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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)