Deaths

Deaths

• 1214 – Patriarch Michael IV of Constantinople
• 1278 – Ottokar II of Bohemia (b. 1233)
• 1346 – Killed in the Battle of Crécy:
  • Charles II, Count of Alençon (b. 1297)
  • Louis I, Count of Flanders (b. 1304)
  • Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)
  • John of Bohemia (b. 1296)
• 1349 – Thomas Bradwardine, English archbishop, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1290)
• 1462 – Catherine Zaccaria, Despotess of the Morea
• 1551 – Margaret Leijonhufvud, Swedish wife of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
• 1572 – Petrus Ramus, French logician and philosopher (b. 1515)
• 1595 – António, Prior of Crato (b. 1531)
• 1666 – Frans Hals, Dutch painter (b. 1580)
• 1714 – Edward Fowler, English bishop (b. 1632)
• 1723 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist and biologist (b. 1632)
• 1785 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, English soldier and politician, 3rd Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1716)
• 1810 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish navy officer and politician, 10th Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (b. 1753)
• 1813 – Theodor Körner, German soldier and author (b. 1791)
• 1850 – Louis Philippe I of France (b. 1773)
• 1865 – Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (b. 1791)
• 1908 – Tony Pastor, American actor, singer, and manager (b. 1837)
• 1910 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)
• 1921 – Sándor Wekerle, Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1848)
• 1930 – Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1944 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat (b. 1909)
• 1945 – Franz Werfel, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1890)
• 1946 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
• 1956 – Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist (b. 1881)
• 1958 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
• 1968 – Kay Francis, American actress, singer, and producer (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Francis Chichester, English pilot and sailor (b. 1901)
• 1974 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer (b. 1902)
• 1976 – Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
• 1977 – H. A. Rey, German-American author and illustrator, created Curious George (b. 1898)
• 1978 – Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1899)
• 1978 – José Manuel Moreno, Argentinian footballer (b. 1916)
• 1979 – Mika Waltari, Finnish author (b. 1908)
• 1980 – Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
• 1980 – Tex Avery, American animator, director, and voice actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 – Roger Nash Baldwin, American union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
• 1981 – Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (The Weavers) (b. 1914)
• 1986 – Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1987 – John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer (b. 1919)
• 1987 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1988 – Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
• 1989 – Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913)
• 1992 – Bob de Moor, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1925)
• 1993 – Reima Pietilä, Finnish architect, co-designed the Kaleva Church (b. 1923)
• 1995 – John Brunner, English-Scottish author (b. 1934)
• 1998 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Akbar Adibi, Iranian engineer (b. 1939)
• 2001 – Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter (b. 1904)
• 2001 – Marita Petersen, Faroese educator and politician, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1940)
• 2003 – Jim Wacker, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Laura Branigan, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1957)
• 2005 – Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (Voivod) (b. 1960)
• 2005 – Robert Denning, American interior designer (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Rainer Barzel, Polish-German lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer and coach (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician, 20th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Ramon Zamora, Filipino actor and director (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Dominick Dunne, American journalist (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Sadie Corré, English actress and dancer (b. 1918)
• 2010 – Raimon Panikkar, Catalan priest and scholar (b. 1918)
• 2011 – George Band, English mountaineer (b. 1929)
• 2011 – Patrick C. Fischer, American computer scientist (b. 1935)
• 2011 – John McAleese, Scottish sergeant (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Russ Alben, American businessman (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Reginald Bartholomew, American diplomat (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Jacques Bensimon, Canadian director and producer (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Gérard Bitsindou, Congolese politician (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Alix de Lannoy, Belgian mother of Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1941)
• 2012 – George Gunther, American politician (b. 1919)
• 2012 – A. K. Hangal, Indian actor (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Krzysztof Wilmanski, Polish-German physicist (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Hélie de Saint Marc, French soldier (b. 1922)
• 2013 – John J. Gilligan, American politician, 62nd Governor of Ohio (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Kauko Hänninen, Finnish rower (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Luigi Lucchini, Italian businessman (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Gerard Murphy, Irish-English actor (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Bill Schmitz, American football player and coach (b. 1954)
• 2013 – Jack Sinagra, American politician (b. 1950)
• 2013 – Clyde A. Wheeler, American politician (b. 1921)