November 12 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 607 – Pope Boniface III
  • 1035 – Cnut the Great, Danish king (b. 985)
  • 1094 – Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
  • 1434 – Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
  • 1555 – Stephen Gardiner, English bishop (b. 1497)
  • 1567 – Anne de Montmorency, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1493)
  • 1595 – John Hawkins, English navy officer and shipbuilder (b. 1532)
  • 1667 – Hans Nansen, Danish politician (b. 1598)
  • 1671 – Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b. 1612)
  • 1742 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
  • 1757 – Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
  • 1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
  • 1836 – Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1773)
  • 1865 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (b. 1810)
  • 1902 – William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)
  • 1916 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1855)
  • 1933 – John Cady, American golfer (b. 1866)
  • 1933 – F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (b. 1864)
  • 1939 – Norman Bethune, Canadian physician and humanitarian (b. 1890)
  • 1941 – Abe Reles, American mobster (b. 1907)
  • 1944 – Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
  • 1945 – Jaro Fürth, Austrian actor (b. 1871)
  • 1946 – Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer (b. 1875)
  • 1946 – Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian activist and politician, founded Banaras Hindu University (b. 1861)
  • 1948 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
  • 1950 – Lesley Ashburner, American hurdler (b. 1883)
  • 1955 – Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
  • 1958 – Gustaf Söderström, Swedish tug of war competitor (b. 1865)
  • 1965 – Taher Saifuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 51st Dā‘ī l-Muṭlaq (b. 1888)
  • 1969 – Iskander Mirza, Pakistani politician, 1st President of Pakistan (b. 1899)
  • 1969 – Liu Shaoqi, Chinese politician, 2nd Chairman of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
  • 1972 – Rudolf Friml, Czech composer (b. 1879)
  • 1976 – Mikhail Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer, co-founded Mikoyan (b. 1893)
  • 1976 – Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
  • 1981 – William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
  • 1984 – Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909)
  • 1987 – Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter, poet, and actor (b. 1937)
  • 1990 – Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
  • 1993 – H. R. Haldeman, American diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1926)
  • 1994 – Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)
  • 1997 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
  • 2000 – Franck Pourcel, French orchestra leader (b. 1913)
  • 2000 – Leah Rabin, German-Israeli wife of Yitzhak Rabin (b. 1928)
  • 2001 – Albert Hague, German-American actor and composer (b. 1920)
  • 2001 – Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955)
  • 2003 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
  • 2003 – Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (b. 1986)
  • 2003 – Kay E. Kuter, American actor (b. 1925)
  • 2003 – Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
  • 2003 – Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic and Power Station) (b. 1954)
  • 2005 – William G. Adams, Canadian politician (b. 1923)
  • 2006 – Jacob E. Smart, American general (b. 1909)
  • 2007 – Khanmohammad Ibrahim, Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
  • 2007 – Ira Levin, American author (b. 1929)
  • 2008 – Catherine Baker Knoll, American politician, 30th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1930)
  • 2008 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Riot Squad, The Dirty Mac, and Ramatam) (b. 1947)
  • 2010 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
  • 2010 – Karl Plutus, Estonian lawyer and jurist (b. 1904)
  • 2012 – Angela Cropper, Trinidadian diplomat and politician (b. 1946)
  • 2012 – Bob French, American drummer and radio host (b. 1928)
  • 2012 – Hans Hammarskiöld, Swedish photographer (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – Michel Hrynchyshyn, Canadian-French bishop (b. 1929)
  • 2012 – Sergio Oliva, Cuban-American bodybuilder (b. 1941)
  • 2012 – Fred Ridgeway, Irish actor (b. 1953)
  • 2012 – Daniel Stern, American psychologist (b. 1934)
  • 2012 – Ronald Stretton, English cyclist (b. 1930)
  • 2012 – John Winter, English architect (b. 1930)

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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 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)