Historical Deaths Today: 02 October

Deaths

• 939 - Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine


• 1559 - Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)


• 1626 - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)


• 1629 - Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)


• 1629 - Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)


• 1708 - Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)


• 1724 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)


• 1746 - Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty


• 1764 - William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom


• 1775 - Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)


• 1780 - John André, British Army officer (executed) (b. 1750)


• 1782 - Charles Lee, British and U.S. general (b. 1732)


• 1786 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (b. 1725)


• 1803 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (b. 1722)


• 1804 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (b. 1725)


• 1817 - Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)


• 1850 - Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)


• 1853 - François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (b. 1786)


• 1927 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)


• 1938 - Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)


• 1947 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)


• 1962 - Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)


• 1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)


• 1971 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer, pianist, and songwriter (b. 1911)


• 1973 - Paul Hartman, American actor (b. 1904)


• 1973 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)


• 1974 - Vasily Shukshin, Russian writer, actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1929)


• 1975 - Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian political leader, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1903)


• 1981 - Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902)


• 1981 - Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (b. 1920)


• 1985 - Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)


• 1987 - Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915)


• 1987 - Madeleine Carroll, British-born actress (b. 1906)


• 1988 - Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini (b. 1906)


• 1994 - Harriet Hilliard Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)


• 1996 - Robert Bourassa, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1933)


• 1998 - Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (b. 1907)


• 1998 - Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (b. 1924)


• 1999 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (b. 1921)


• 2001 - Franz Biebl, German composer (b. 1906)


• 2002 - Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)


• 2003 - John T. Dunlop, U.S. Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)


• 2005 - Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (b. 1931)


• 2005 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian (b. 1918)


• 2005 - August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)


• 2006 - Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)


• 2006 - Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)


• 2006 - Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)


• 2007 - Dan Keating, Irish politician (b. 1902)


• 2007 - Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)


• 2007 - Christopher Derrick, British writer (b. 1921)