Historical Deaths Today: 04 October

Deaths

• 1052 - Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)


• 1221 - William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (b. 1179)


• 1250 - Herman VI, Margrave of Baden


• 1305 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)


• 1582 - Teresa of Avila, Spanish saint (b. 1515)


• 1597 - Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1550)


• 1646 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (b. 1586)


• 1660 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)


• 1661 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (b. 1625)


• 1669 - Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (b. 1606)


• 1680 - Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer


• 1743 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (b. 1678)


• 1749 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)


• 1754 - Tanacharison, Catawba Indian chief


• 1785 - David Brearly, American statesman (b. 1703)


• 1821 - John Rennie, Scottish engineer (b. 1761)


• 1851 - Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (b. 1767)


• 1859 - Karl Baedeker, German publisher (b. 1801)


• 1864 - Joseph Montferrand, French Canadian logger and strong man (b. 1802)


• 1867 - Francis Xavier Seelos German-American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1819)


• 1890 - Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (b. 1829)


• 1903 - Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)


• 1904 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (b. 1834)


• 1904 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)


• 1910 - Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (b. 1850)


• 1935 - Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)


• 1935 - Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (b. 1874)


• 1943 - Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence (b. 1906)


• 1944 - Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873)


• 1946 - Barney Oldfield, American automobile pioneer (b. 1878)


• 1947 - Max Planck, German Nobel laureate (b. 1858)


• 1951 - Willie Moretti, American gangster (b. 1894)


• 1955 - Alexander Papagos, Greek general and political leader (b. 1883)


• 1961 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (b. 1880)


• 1969 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer (b. 1912)


• 1970 - Janis Joplin, American singer (b. 1943)


• 1974 - Anne Sexton, American poet (b. 1928)


• 1975 - Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress (b. 1903)


• 1981 - Freddie Lindstrom, Major League Baseball Hall of famer (b. 1905)


• 1982 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)


• 1989 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (b. 1941)


• 1989 - Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)


• 1990 - Avis Bunnage, English actress (b. 1923)


• 1991 - J. Frank Wilson, American singer (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (b. 1941)


• 1992 - Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver and 1967 Formula One world champion (b. 1936)


• 1993 - Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)


• 1994 - Danny Gatton, American guitar virtuoso (b. 1945)


• 1996 - Larry Gene Bell, American child murderer (executed by electric chair)


• 1997 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game developer (b. 1941)


• 1999 - Erik Brødreskift (aka Grim), Norwegian black metal musician (b. 1969)


• 1999 - Art Farmer, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1928)


• 1999 - Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928)


• 2000 - Michael Smith, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)


• 2000 - Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan (b. 1914)


• 2001 - Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)


• 2002 - Alphonse Chapanis, founder of ergonomics (b. 1917)


• 2002 - André Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (b. 1926)


• 2003 - Sid McMath, American politician (b. 1912)


• 2004 - Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)


• 2004 - Rio Diaz, Filipino actress & TV hosts (b. 1959)


• 2005 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (b. 1924)


• 2006 - Tom Bell, English actor on stage, television and film (b. 1933)