June 17 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 900 – Fulk the Venerable, French Archbishop of Rheims
  • 1025 – Bolesław I Chrobry (b. 967)
  • 1091 – Dirk V, Count of Holland (b. 1052)
  • 1463 – Infanta Catherine of Portugal (b. 1436)
  • 1565 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (b. 1536)
  • 1694 – Philip Howard, English cardinal (b. 1629)
  • 1696 – John III Sobieski of Poland (b. 1629)
  • 1719 – Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (b. 1672)
  • 1734 – Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Duke of Villars (b. 1653)
  • 1740 – Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1687)
  • 1762 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (b. 1674)
  • 1771 – Daskalogiannis, Cretan rebel
  • 1775 – John Pitcairn, English military officer (b. 1722)
  • 1797 – Mohammad Khan Qajar of Persia (b. 1742)
  • 1813 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (b. 1726)
  • 1821 – Martín Miguel de Güemes, Argentine military leader (b. 1785)
  • 1839 – Lord William Bentinck, English soldier and statesman (b. 1774)
  • 1858 – Rani Lakshmibai Indian queen (b. 1828)
  • 1898 – Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
  • 1904 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov, Russian politician (b. 1839)
  • 1939 – Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (b. 1893)
  • 1940 – Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
  • 1941 – Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer and organist (b. 1862)
  • 1942 – Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician (b. 1853)
  • 1952 – John Whiteside Parsons, American scientist (b. 1914)
  • 1956 – Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)
  • 1956 – Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (b. 1926)
  • 1957 – Dorothy Richardson, English writer (b. 1873)
  • 1961 – Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918)
  • 1963 – Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician (b. 1882)
  • 1968 – José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
  • 1969 – Rita Abatzi, Greek singer (b. 1914)
  • 1974 – Pamela Britton, American actress (b. 1923)
  • 1979 – Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (b. 1888)
  • 1981 – Richard O'Connor, English general (b. 1889)
  • 1981 – Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (b. 1889)
  • 1982 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)
  • 1983 – Peter Mennin, American composer and teacher (b. 1923)
  • 1984 – Milbourne Christopher, American illusionist (b. 1914)
  • 1984 – John Murray, American playwright (b. 1906)
  • 1985 – John Boulting, English director, writer, and producer (b. 1913)
  • 1986 – Kate Smith, American singer (b. 1907)
  • 1987 – Dick Howser, American baseball player and manager (b. 1936)
  • 1996 – Thomas Kuhn, American historian and philosopher (b. 1922)
  • 1999 – Basil Hume, English cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster (b. 1923)
  • 2000 – Ismail Mahomed, South African jurist (b. 1931)
  • 2001 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
  • 2001 – Thomas Winning, Scottish cardinal, Archbishop of Glasgow (b. 1925)
  • 2002 – Willie Davenport, American athlete (b. 1943)
  • 2002 – Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)
  • 2004 – Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
  • 2005 – Sam Loeb, American writer and illustrator (b. 1988)
  • 2005 – Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (b. 1962)
  • 2006 – Bussunda, Brazilian comedian and actor (b. 1962)
  • 2006 – Arthur Franz, American actor (b. 1920)
  • 2007 – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (b. 1944)
  • 2007 – Serena Wilson, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1933)
  • 2008 – Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (b. 1922)
  • 2008 – Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
  • 2009 – Ralf Dahrendorf, German-English sociologist and politician (b. 1929)
  • 2009 – Darrell Powers, American army officer (b. 1923)
  • 2012 – Stéphane Brosse, French ski mountaineer (b. 1971))
  • 2012 – Chen Din Hwa, Chinese businessman and philanthropist (b. 1923)
  • 2012 – Nathan Divinsky, Canadian mathematician and chess player (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – Raivo Järvi, Estonian artist and politician (b. 1954)
  • 2012 – Rodney King, American victim of police brutality (b. 1965)
  • 2012 – R. C. Owens, American football player (b. 1934)
  • 2012 – Fauzia Wahab, Pakistani politician (b. 1956)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “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)

    “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)