Historical Deaths Today: 07 October

Deaths

• 336 - Pope Mark


• 929 - Charles the Simple, King of France (b. 879)


• 1368 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)


• 1553 - Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (bc. 1500)


• 1555 - Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b. 1488)


• 1577 - George Gascoigne, English poet


• 1612 - Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat, (b. 1538)


• 1620 - Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547)


• 1637 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)


• 1651 - Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559)


• 1653 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1581)


• 1708 - Guru Gobind Singh, tenth Sikh Guru (b. 1666)


• 1772 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)


• 1787 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)


• 1792 - George Mason, American statesman (b. 1725)


• 1793 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718)


• 1796 - Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)


• 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)


• 1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)


• 1903 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)


• 1906 - Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)


• 1911 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)


• 1919 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)


• 1925 - Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880)


• 1926 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)


• 1943 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)


• 1943 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)


• 1944 - Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (b. 1918)


• 1956 - Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)


• 1959 - Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)


• 1966 - Smiley Lewis, American musician (b. 1913)


• 1967 - Norman Angell, British politician and Nobel Laureate (b. 1872)


• 1969 - Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)


• 1981 - Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (b. 1895)


• 1991 - Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)


• 1992 - Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (b. 1930)


• 1992 - Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)


• 1993 - Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910)


• 1994 - Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born Danish immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)


• 1996 - Grigoris Asikis, Greek hero and God. A singer and songwriter. (b. 1890)


• 1998 - Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915)


• 2001 - Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955)


• 2001 - Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909)


• 2001 - Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)


• 2003 - Izzy Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (b. 1932)


• 2003 - Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912)


• 2003 - Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931)


• 2004 - Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942)


• 2005 - Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)


• 2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)


• 2007 - Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)


• 2007 - George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931)