January 12 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 690 – Benedict Biscop, saint (b. 628)
  • 1167 – Ailred of Rievaulx, saint (b. 1110)
  • 1321 – Maria of Brabant, wife of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
  • 1519 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
  • 1665 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
  • 1674 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (b. 1605)
  • 1700 – Marguerite Bourgeoys, saint (b. 1620)
  • 1705 – Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
  • 1732 – John Horsley, British archaeologist (b. 1685)
  • 1735 – John Eccles, English composer (b. 1668)
  • 1759 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1709)
  • 1765 – Johann Melchior Molter, German composer (b. 1696)
  • 1777 – Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1726)
  • 1781 – Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (b. 1691)
  • 1829 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (b. 1772)
  • 1833 – Marie-Antoine Carême, French chef (b. 1784)
  • 1834 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
  • 1856 – Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language, (b. 1815)
  • 1861 – Václav Hanka, Czech philologist, (b. 1791)
  • 1892 – William Reeves, bishop, antiquarian (b. 1815)
  • 1897 – Isaac Pitman, British inventor (Pitman Shorthand) (b. 1813)
  • 1899 – Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816)
  • 1909 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)
  • 1911 – Andreas Papagiannakopoulos, Greek judge and politician (b. 1845)
  • 1921 – Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
  • 1926 – Sir Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
  • 1934 – Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist, composer and arranger (b. 1887)
  • 1938 – Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (b. 1890)
  • 1940 – Edward Smith, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1899)
  • 1943 – Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1902)
  • 1944 – Lance C. Wade, American pilot (b. 1915)
  • 1956 – Norman Kerry, American actor (b. 1894)
  • 1958 – Charles Mallory Hatfield, U.S. rainmaker (b. 1875)
  • 1960 – Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
  • 1962 – Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian writer and feminist (b. 1869)
  • 1965 – Lorraine Hansberry, American writer (b. 1936)
  • 1971 – John Tovey, English Royal Navy admiral (b. 1885)
  • 1974 – Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
  • 1976 – Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
  • 1977 – Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
  • 1983 – Rebop Kwaku Baah, Ghanaian percussionist (b. 1944)
  • 1983 – Nikolai Podgorny, President of the USSR (b. 1903)
  • 1988 – Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925)
  • 1990 – Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-born educator and writer (b. 1919)
  • 1991 – Mary Francis Shura, American writer (b. 1923)
  • 1996 – Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician (b. 1926)
  • 1997 – Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (b. 1936)
  • 1997 – Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1901)
  • 1999 – Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (b. 1914)
  • 1999 – Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1961)
  • 2000 – Marc Davis, American animator (b. 1913)
  • 2000 – Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
  • 2001 – Affirmed, American racehorse (b. 1975)
  • 2001 – Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
  • 2001 – William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (b. 1913)
  • 2002 – Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911)
  • 2002 – Cyrus Vance, 57th U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1917)
  • 2003 – Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (b. 1912)
  • 2003 – Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese director (b. 1930)
  • 2003 – Leopoldo Galtieri, dictator of Argentina (b. 1926)
  • 2003 – Maurice Gibb, British musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
  • 2003 – Alan Nunn May, English physicist and Soviet spy (b. 1911)
  • 2004 – Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
  • 2004 – Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
  • 2005 – Alessia di Matteo, first survivor of eight transplants in one operation (b. 2003)
  • 2005 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
  • 2005 – Edmund S. Valtman, Estonian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
  • 2007 – Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
  • 2007 – James Killen, Australian politician (b. 1925)
  • 2009 – Claude Berri, French movie director (b. 1934)
  • 2009 – Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (b. 1912)
  • 2010 – Daniel Bensaid, French philosopher (b. 1946)
  • 2010 – Hasib Sabbagh, Palestinian businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Consolidated Contractors Company (b. 1920)

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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)