Deaths
- 976 – Helen of Zadar
- 1286 – John I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1217)
- 1317 – Emperor Fushimi of Japan (b. 1265)
- 1621 – Antoine de Montchrestien, French soldier and economist (b. 1575)
- 1647 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
- 1652 – John Greaves, English mathematician (b. 1602)
- 1656 – John George I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1585)
- 1659 – Jean de Quen, French missionary, priest, and historian (b. 1603)
- 1735 – Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)
- 1754 – Henry Fielding, English author (b. 1707)
- 1772 – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (b. 1711)
- 1793 – John Hancock, American politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1737)
- 1795 – Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (b. 1725)
- 1804 – Thomas Cochran, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1777)
- 1809 – James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (b. 1721)
- 1834 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
- 1869 – Franklin Pierce, American politician, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
- 1879 – Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian navy officer (b. 1834)
- 1886 – Austin F. Pike, American politician (b. 1819)
- 1897 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (b. 1830)
- 1928 – Larry Semon, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1889)
- 1931 – John Monash, Australian engineer and general (b. 1865)
- 1936 – Premchand, Indian author (b. 1880)
- 1936 – Red Ames, American baseball player (b. 1882)
- 1936 – William Henry Stark, American businessman (b. 1851)
- 1942 – Sergey Chaplygin, Soviet physicist, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1869)
- 1944 – Wendell Willkie, American lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
- 1945 – Felix Salten, Austrian author (b. 1869)
- 1952 – Joe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1877)
- 1953 – Nigel Bruce, Mexican-English actor (b. 1895)
- 1953 – Kathleen Ferrier, English soprano (b. 1912)
- 1955 – Iry LeJeune, American accordion player (b. 1928)
- 1958 – Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886)
- 1962 – Solomon Linda, South African singer-songwriter (b. 1909)
- 1967 – Clement Attlee, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)
- 1970 – Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (b. 1934)
- 1970 – Jean Giono, French author (b. 1895)
- 1973 – Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher (b. 1889)
- 1977 – Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1902)
- 1979 – Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian activist and politician (b. 1902)
- 1982 – Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (b. 1915)
- 1982 – Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English runner and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
- 1983 – Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
- 1985 – Malcolm Ross, American captain and physicist (b. 1919)
- 1987 – Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek politician, 2nd President of Greece (b. 1899)
- 1990 – B.J. Wilson, English drummer (Procol Harum) (b. 1947)
- 1992 – Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
- 1995 – Christopher Keene, American conductor (b. 1946)
- 1997 – Bertrand Goldberg, American architect, designed the Marina City Building (b. 1913)
- 1999 – John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
- 2000 – Charlotte Lamb, English author (b. 1937)
- 2002 – Phyllis Calvert, English actress (b. 1915)
- 2002 – Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
- 2004 – James Chace, American historian (b. 1931)
- 2006 – Mark Porter, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1974)
- 2007 – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1917)
- 2008 – Bob Friend, English journalist (b. 1938)
- 2008 – Eileen Herlie, Scottish-American actress (b. 1918)
- 2008 – George Emil Palade, Romanian biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
- 2010 – Frank Bourgholtzer, American journalist (b. 1919)
- 2011 – Al Davis, American football coach and manager (b. 1929)
- 2011 – Roger Williams, American pianist (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Varsha Bhosle, Indian singer and journalist (b. 1956)
- 2012 – Donnie Butcher, American basketball player and coach (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Filipino director (b. 1955)
- 2012 – Rafael Lesmes, Spanish footballer (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Eric Lomax, Scottish army officer and author (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Ken Sansom, American voice actor (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Nawal Kishore Sharma, Indian politician (b. 1925)
- 2012 – John Tchicai, Danish-French saxophonist and composer (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Sita Ramaiah Gudiseva, Indian politician (b. 1950)
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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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)