November 15 - Deaths

Deaths

655 – Penda of Mercia
1136 – Leopold III, Margrave of Austria (b. 1073)
1280 – Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1193)
1463 – Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Italian son of Mary of Enghien (b. 1386)
1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian preacher, founded the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (b. 1510)
1628 – Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr (b. 1576)
1630 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
1670 – John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop, educator, and philosopher (b. 1592)
1691 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
1706 – 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683)
1712 – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish politician (b. 1658)
1712 – Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)
1787 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)
1794 – John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1723)
1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
1819 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
1832 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist (b. 1767)
1853 – Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819)
1908 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China (b. 1835)
1910 – Wilhelm Raabe, German author (b. 1831)
1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
1917 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (b. 1858)
1919 – Mohammad Farid, Egyptian politician (b. 1868)
1919 – Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1922 – Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1866)
1922 – Georgios Hatzianestis, Greek general (b. 1863)
1922 – Petros Protopapadakis, Greek politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1854)
1922 – Nikolaos Stratos, Greek politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1872)
1945 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist (b. 1864)
1949 – Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (b. 1911)
1949 – Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (b. 1910)
1954 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1878)
1958 – Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914)
1959 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
1960 – Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)
1961 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
1963 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888)
1965 – Dawn Powell, American poet (b. 1896)
1966 – Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter (b. 1877)
1967 – Michael J. Adams, American pilot (b. 1930)
1971 – Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher, Soviet intelligence officer (b. 1903)
1976 – Jean Gabin, French actor (b. 1904)
1978 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (b. 1901)
1981 – Steve Macko, American baseball player (b. 1954)
1981 – Enid Markey, American actress (b. 1894)
1981 – Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (b. 1938)
1982 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian actvist (b. 1895)
1982 – Martín de Álzaga, Argentine race car driver (b. 1901)
1983 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1983 – John Le Mesurier, English actor (b. 1912)
1988 – Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer (b. 1915)
1988 – Archbishop Ieronymos I of Athens (b. 1905)
1994 – Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)
1996 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer, diplomat, and author (b. 1904)
1997 – Saul Chaplin, American composer and director (b. 1912)
1998 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (b. 1941)
1998 – Ludvik Danek, Czech discus thrower (b. 1937)
2002 – Myra Hindley, English murderer (b. 1942)
2003 – Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (b. 1910)
2003 – Dorothy Loudon, American actress (b. 1933)
2003 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman (b. 1923)
2003 – Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (b. 1924)
2004 – Elmer L. Andersen, American politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909)
2004 – John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1930)
2005 – Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author (b. 1931)
2005 – Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1959)
2006 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model (b. 1985)
2006 – David K. Wyatt, American historian and author (b. 1937)
2007 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1928)
2009 – Patriarch Pavle of Serbia (b. 1914)
2010 – Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (b. 1932)
2010 – Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2010 – William Edwin Self, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1921)
2012 – Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1954)
2012 – Luis Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
2012 – Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (b. 1983)
2012 – K. C. Pant, Indian politician (b. 1931)
2012 – Keith Ripley, English footballer (b. 1935)
2012 – José Song Sui-Wan, Chinese-Brazilian bishop (b. 1941)
2012 – Frode Thingnæs, Norwegian trombone player, composer, and conductor (b. 1940)
2012 – Khin Maung Toe, Burmese singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)

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)

“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“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)