Deaths

Deaths

• 30 BC– Marcus Antonius Antyllus, Roman soldier (b. 47 BC)
• 30 BC – Caesarion, Egyptian king (b. 47 BC)
• 93 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (b. 40)
• 406 – Radagaisus, Gothic king
• 634 – Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph (b. 573)
• 818 – Ali ar-Ridha, Islamic 8th of the Twelve Imams (b. 765)
• 1106 – Magnus, Duke of Saxony (b. 1045)
• 1176 – Emperor Rokujō of Japan (b. 1164)
• 1305 – William Wallace, Scottish commander (b. 1272)
• 1329 – Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
• 1387 – Olaf II of Denmark (b. 1370)
• 1507 – Jean Molinet, French poet and composer (b. 1435)
• 1519 – Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot (b. 1465)
• 1540 – Guillaume Budé, French scholar (b. 1467)
• 1574 – Ebussuud Efendi, Ottoman jurist (b. 1490)
• 1591 – Luis de León, Spanish poet and academic (b. 1527)
• 1618 – Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1585)
• 1628 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1592)
• 1652 – John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English politician (b. 1600)
• 1706 – Edward Nott, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
• 1723 – Increase Mather, American minister and author (b. 1639)
• 1806 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736)
• 1813 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (b. 1766)
• 1819 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (b. 1785)
• 1831 – Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author (b. 1759)
• 1831 – August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
• 1838 – Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (b. 1790)
• 1853 – Alexander Calder, American politician (b. 1806)
• 1858 – Antal Reguly, Hungarian linguist and ethnographer (b. 1819)
• 1867 – Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
• 1892 – Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian politician, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
• 1900 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
• 1924 – Heinrich Berté, Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 1926 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 – Nicola Sacco, Italian murderer (b. 1891)
• 1927 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian murderer (b. 1888)
• 1933 – Adolf Loos, Austrian architect, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 – Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)
• 1939 – Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, French fencer (b. 1876)
• 1949 – Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)
• 1944 – Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish art nouveau painter of the Young Poland movement, murdered at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp (b. 1879)
• 1952 – Géza Kiss, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1882)
• 1954 – Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)
• 1955 – Reginald Tate, English actor (b. 1896)
• 1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895)
• 1962 – Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist (b. 1885)
• 1962 – Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1892)
• 1963 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (Casa Loma Orchestra) (b. 1900)
• 1966 – Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1967 – Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1967 – Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and coach (b. 1883)
• 1974 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)
• 1977 – Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (b. 1890)
• 1982 – Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1987 – Didier Pironi, French race car driver (b. 1952)
• 1989 – Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese poet and academic (b. 1944)
• 1989 – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1927)
• 1990 – David Rose, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1995 – Dwayne Goettel, Canadian keyboard player (Skinny Puppy, Psyche, and Hilt) (b. 1964)
• 1996 – Margaret Tucker, Australian activist (b. 1904)
• 1997 – Eric Gairy, Grenadian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1922)
• 1997 – John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1999 – James White, Irish author (b. 1928)
• 2000 – John Anthony Kaiser, American priest (b. 1932)
• 2001 – Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Peter Maas, American author (b. 1929)
• 2002 – Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player and coach (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
• 2003 – Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1913)
• 2003 – John Geoghan, American priest (b. 1935)
• 2003 – Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Brock Peters, American actor and producer (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpet player and bandleader (Big Bop Nouveau) (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Robert Symonds, American actor (b. 1926)
• 2008 – John Russell, English-American author and critic (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Col Campbell, New Zealand radio and television host (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Paul Ch'eng Shih-kuang, Taiwanese bishop (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Jean-Luc Delarue, French television host and producer (b. 1964)
• 2012 – Aubrey Dunn, Sr., American politician (b. 1928)
• 2012 – James Fogle, American author (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist and flute player (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Edith Mastenbroek, Dutch politician (b. 1975)
• 2012 – Bob Myrick, American baseball player (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Merv Neagle, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Josepha Sherman, American anthologist and author (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Steve Van Buren, American football player (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Richard J. Corman, American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (b. 1955)
• 2013 – David Garrick, English singer (b. 1945)
• 2013 – William Glasser, American psychiatrist (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Charles Lisanby, American production designer and set director (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Henry Maxwell, New Zealand rugby player and coach (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Konstanty Miodowicz, Polish politician (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Vesna Rožič, Slovenian chess player (b. 1987)
• 2013 – Gilbert Taylor, English cinematographer (b. 1914)
• 2013 – Vadim Yusov, Russian cinematographer (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist (b. 1927)