Historical Deaths Today: 10 October

Deaths

• 19 - Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)


• 680 - 10 Muharram 61 AH - Husayn ibn Ali (AS) , Shi'a Imam, Muhammad's grandson (b. 626)


• 732 - Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia


• 833 - al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)


• 1359 - King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)


• 1459 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist and classicist (b. 1380)


• 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer (killed in battle) (b. 1484)


• 1659 - Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)


• 1674 - Thomas Traherne, English poet


• 1691 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)


• 1708 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)


• 1714 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)


• 1720 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)


• 1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)


• 1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)


• 1747 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)


• 1759 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)


• 1765 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)


• 1795 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)


• 1806 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)


• 1827 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer (b. 1778)


• 1837 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)


• 1872 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)


• 1875 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)


• 1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)


• 1893 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)


• 1901 - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)


• 1913 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)


• 1913 - Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)


• 1914 - King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)


• 1927 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)


• 1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)


• 1938 - Ataturk died-The Founder of The Republic of Turkey


• 1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)


• 1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)


• 1948 - Ted Horn, American race car driver (b. 1910)


• 1957 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)


• 1963 - Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)


• 1963 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)


• 1964 - Eddie Cantor, American singer and vaudeville performer (b. 1892)


• 1964 - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)


• 1970 - Édouard Daladier, French politician (b. 1884)


• 1971 - John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)


• 1976 - Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)


• 1977 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)


• 1978 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b. 1910)


• 1978 - Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)


• 1979 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)


• 1979 - Paul Paray, French conductor (b. 1886)


• 1982 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)


• 1983 - Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)


• 1985 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)


• 1985 - Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)


• 1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)


• 1990 - Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)


• 1998 - Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)


• 1998 - Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)


• 2000 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)


• 2001 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)


• 2001 - Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)


• 2002 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)


• 2003 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)


• 2004 - Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)


• 2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)


• 2004 - Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)


• 2004 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)


• 2005 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)


• 2005 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)


• 2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)


• 2006 - Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)


• 2007 - Mehmed Uzun, Contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist. (b. 1953)