April 12 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 45 BC– Gnaeus Pompeius, Roman general
  • 65 – Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
  • 238 – Gordian I, Roman Emperor
  • 238 – Gordian II
  • 352 – Pope Julius I
  • 434 – Archbishop Maximianus of Constantinople
  • 1125 – Vladislaus I of Bohemia (b. 1065)
  • 1443 – Henry Chichele, English archbishop,
  • 1550 – Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (b. 1496)
  • 1555 – Joanna of Castile, wife of Philip I of Castile (b. 1479)
  • 1675 – Richard Bennett, British politician, Governor of Virginia (b. 1609)
  • 1684 – Nicolò Amati, Italian luthier and member of the Amati family (b. 1596)
  • 1687 – Ambrose Dixon, American Quaker pioneer (b. c. 1619)
  • 1704 – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and writer (b. 1627)
  • 1748 – William Kent, English architect (b. c. 1685)
  • 1782 – Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698)
  • 1788 – Carlo Antonio Campioni, French composer (b. 1719)
  • 1795 – Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (b. 1710)
  • 1814 – Charles Burney, English historian (b. 1726)
  • 1817 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (b. 1730)
  • 1850 – Adoniram Judson, American missionary (b. 1788)
  • 1866 – Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English landowner, developer and Member of Parliament, founded the town of Fleetwood, in Lancashire, England (b. 1801)
  • 1872 – Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (b. 1795)
  • 1878 – William M. Tweed, American politician (b. 1823)
  • 1898 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian archbishop (b. 1820)
  • 1902 – Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist (b. 1842)
  • 1906 – Mahamahopadhyay Pandit Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, CIE, eminent Sanskrit scholar, academic administrator, philanthropist and social reformer (b. 1836)
  • 1912 – Clara Barton, American teacher, patent clerk, nurse, and humanitarian, founder of the American Red Cross(b. 1821)
  • 1933 – Adelbert Ames, American general and politician (b. 1835)
  • 1938 – Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (b. 1873)
  • 1945 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, American politician, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
  • 1953 – Lionel Logue, Australian speech therapist and actor (b. 1880)
  • 1962 – Ron Flockhart, Scottish race car driver (b. 1923)
  • 1968 – Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer (b. 1899)
  • 1971 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
  • 1971 – Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (b. 1871)
  • 1973 – Arthur Freed, American lyricist and producer (b. 1894)
  • 1975 – Josephine Baker, American dancer (b. 1906)
  • 1977 – Phil Wrigley, American manufacturer and baseball executive (b. 1894)
  • 1980 – Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards and snooker player (b. 1895)
  • 1980 – William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian politician (b. 1913)
  • 1981 – Joe Louis, American boxer (b. 1914)
  • 1983 – Carl Morton, American baseball player (b. 1944)
  • 1984 – Edwin T. Layton, American naval officer (b. 1903)
  • 1986 – Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (b. 1897)
  • 1987 – Mike Von Erich, American wrestler (b. 1964)
  • 1988 – Colette Deréal, French actress and singer (b. 1927)
  • 1988 – Alan Paton, South African writer (b. 1903)
  • 1989 – Gerald Flood, British actor (b. 1927)
  • 1989 – Abbie Hoffman, American activist (b. 1936)
  • 1989 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (b. 1921)
  • 1997 – George Wald, American scientist (b. 1906)
  • 1998 – Robert Ford, Canadian poet and diplomat (b. 1815)
  • 1999 – Marion Pruett, American spree killer (b. 1949)
  • 1999 – Boxcar Willie, American singer and songwriter (b. 1931)
  • 2001 – Harvey Ball, American artist and designer (b. 1921)
  • 2002 – George Shevelov, Ukrainian-American linguist and academic (b. 1908)
  • 2003 – Sydney Lassick, American actor (b. 1922)
  • 2005 – Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter, translator, and media personality (b. 1941)
  • 2006 – William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (b. 1924)
  • 2006 – Puggy Pearson, American poker player (b. 1929)
  • 2006 – Rajkumar, Indian actor and singer (b. 1929)
  • 2007 – Kevin Crease, Australian news anchor (b. 1936)
  • 2008 – Cecilia Colledge, British ice skater (b. 1920)
  • 2008 – Patrick Hillery, Irish politician (b. 1923)
  • 2008 – Jerry Zucker, Israeli-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1949)
  • 2009 – Marilyn Chambers, American porn actress (b. 1952)
  • 2010 – Michel Chartrand, Canadian union leader (b. 1916)
  • 2010 – Palito, Filipino comedian (b. 1934)
  • 2011 – Karim Fakhrawi, Bahraini journalist (b. 1962)

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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)

    “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)

    “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)