Deaths
- 1238 – Duke Henry I of Poland (b. 1163)
- 1263 – Hugh of St Cher, French cardinal
- 1279 – Emperor Bing of Song China (b. 1271)
- 1286 – King Alexander III of Scotland (b. 1241)
- 1330 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1301)
- 1406 – Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (b. 1332)
- 1612 – Sophia Olelkovich Radziwill, Belarusian saint (b. 1585)
- 1623 – Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
- 1637 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570)
- 1649 – Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
- 1683 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
- 1687 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (b. 1643)
- 1697 – Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (b. 1665)
- 1711 – Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
- 1717 – John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist (b. 1636)
- 1721 – Pope Clement XI (b. 1649)
- 1783 – Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1713)
- 1796 – Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
- 1816 – Philip Mazzei, Italian physician (b. 1730)
- 1871 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (b. 1795)
- 1897 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (b. 1810)
- 1900 – John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (b. 1815)
- 1900 – Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (b. 1819)
- 1914 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
- 1916 – Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
- 1930 – Arthur Balfour, British politician and statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
- 1939 – Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist (b. 1911)
- 1942 – Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist (b. 1855)
- 1943 – Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883)
- 1944 – William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
- 1949 – James Somerville, British admiral (b. 1882)
- 1950 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (b. 1875)
- 1950 – Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)
- 1958 – Hellmer Hermandsen, Norwegian rifle shooter (b. 1871)
- 1974 – Anne Klein, American fashion designer (b. 1923)
- 1974 – Edward Platt, American actor (b. 1916)
- 1976 – Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (b. 1889)
- 1976 – Paul Kossoff, English guitarist (Free, Black Cat Bones, and Back Street Crawler) (b. 1950)
- 1978 – Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
- 1979 – Richard Beckinsale, English actor (b. 1947)
- 1981 – Marcel Cadieux, Canadian civil servant and diplomat (b. 1915)
- 1982 – Alan Badel, British actor (b. 1923)
- 1982 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (Quiet Riot) (b. 1956)
- 1984 – Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b. 1928)
- 1987 – Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1892)
- 1988 – Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
- 1989 – Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929)
- 1990 – Andrew Wood, American singer (Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone) (b. 1966)
- 1992 – Cesare Danova, American actor (b. 1926)
- 1995 – Yasuo Yamada, Japanese voice actor (b. 1932)
- 1997 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch-born painter (b. 1904)
- 1997 – Eugène Guillevic, French poet (b. 1907)
- 1998 – E.M.S. Namboodiripad, Indian Communist politician, former Chief Minister of Kerala (b. 1909)
- 1999 – Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
- 1999 – Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)
- 2000 – Joanne Weaver, American baseball player (b. 1935)
- 2000 – Shafiq-ur-Rehman (humorist), Pakistani humorist and writer
- 2001 – Charles K. Johnson, President of the Flat Earth Society (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Émile Genest, Canadian actor (b. 1921)
- 2003 – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (b. 1926)
- 2004 – Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911)
- 2005 – John DeLorean, American automobile engineer (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Calvert DeForest, American actor (b. 1921)
- 2007 – Luther Ingram, American singer and songwriter (b. 1937)
- 2008 – Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English author and inventor (b. 1917)
- 2008 – Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (b. 1929)
- 2008 – Raghuvaran, Indian actor (b. 1958)
- 2008 – Paul Scofield, English actor (b. 1922)
- 2009 – Ion Dolănescu, Romanian singer and politician (b. 1944)
- 2011 – Kym Bonython, Australian radio broadcaster, jazz musician, speedway promoter (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Clancy Lyall, American soldier (b. 1925)
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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)
“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 deaththat is, they attempt suicidetwice as often as men, though men are more successful because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“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)