December 4 - Deaths

Deaths

• 749 – Saint John of Damascus
• 765 – Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702)
• 771 – Carloman, King of the Franks (b. 751)
• 1075 – Archbishop Anno II of Cologne
• 1123 – Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)
• 1214 – William I of Scotland
• 1270 – Theobald V of Champagne, King of Navarre
• 1334 – Pope John XXII (b. 1249)
• 1340 – Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292)
• 1459 – Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)
• 1576 – Rheticus, Austrian mathematician (b. 1514)
• 1585 – John Willock, Scottish reformer
• 1609 – Alexander Hume, Scottish poet
• 1642 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (b. 1585)
• 1649 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (b. 1585)
• 1679 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)
• 1680 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)
• 1696 – Empress Meishō, Japan (b. 1624)
• 1732 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist (b. 1685)
• 1798 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (b. 1737)
• 1828 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
• 1841 – David Daniel Davis, British politician (b. 1777)
• 1850 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (b. 1783)
• 1893 – John Tyndall, Irish physicist (b. 1820)
• 1897 – Griffith Rhys Jones, Welsh conductor (b. 1834)
• 1902 – Charles Dow, American journalist (b. 1851)
• 1926 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian-born painter (b. 1861)
• 1933 – Stefan George, German poet (b. 1868)
• 1935 – Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (b. 1864)
• 1935 – Charles Richet, French physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1850)
• 1938 – Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32^ndYokozuna (b. 1903)
• 1944 – Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player (b. 1879)
• 1945 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
• 1948 – Frank Benford, American electrical engineer and physicist (b. 1883)
• 1955 – József Galamb, Hungarian mechanical engineer (b. 1881)
• 1956 – Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (b. 1891)
• 1967 – Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1969 – Fred Hampton, American activist (b. 1948)
• 1975 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b. 1906)
• 1976 – Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (b. 1951)
• 1976 – Benjamin Britten, English composer (b. 1913)
• 1976 – W. F. McCoy, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)
• 1980 – Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
• 1980 – Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-born athlete (b. 1911)
• 1987 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director (b. 1897)
• 1988 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (b. 1899)
• 1993 – Frank Zappa, American musician and composer (b. 1940)
• 1993 – Margaret Landon, American writer (b. 1903)
• 1995 – Lionel Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler (b. 1935)
• 1997 – Richard Vernon, English actor (b. 1925)
• 1999 – Rose Bird, American judge (b. 1936)
• 2003 – Iggy Katona, American race car driver (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Gregg Hoffman, American film producer (b. 1963)
• 2005 – Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (b. 1922)
• 2006 – James Kim, American television personality (b. 1971)
• 2006 – Ross A. McGinnis, American soldier (b. 1987)
• 2007 – Norval Morrisseau, Canadian artist (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Chip Reese, American professional poker player (b. 1951)
• 2007 – Pimp C, American rapper (b. 1973)
• 2009 – Richard Todd Irish-born British actor (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Eddie Fatu, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1973)
• 2009 – Liam Clancy, Irish singer (b. 1935)