Historical Deaths Today: 15 October

Deaths

• 412 - Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria

Historical Deaths Today: 14 October

Deaths

• 1066 - Harold Godwinson, King of England


• 1092 - Nizam al-Mulk, Persian vizier (b. 1018)


• 1256 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)


• 1318 - Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland


• 1552 - Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)


• 1565 - Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521)


• 1568 - Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer


• 1610 - Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)


• 1619 - Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)


• 1637 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)


• 1660 - Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier (b. 1606)


• 1669 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (b. 1623)


• 1703 - Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (b. 1634)


• 1711 - Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1708)


• 1758 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)


• 1831 - Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)


• 1911 - John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833)


• 1944 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshall (b. 1891)


• 1958 - Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1882)


• 1959 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)


• 1960 - Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist (b. 1880)


• 1961 - Paul Ramadier, French politician (b. 1888)


• 1961 - Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (b. 1876)


• 1967 - Marcel Aymé, French novelist and playwright (b. 1902)


• 1973 - Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b. 1897)


• 1976 - Dame Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888)


• 1977 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1903)


• 1983 - Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist


• 1984 - Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)


• 1985 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916)


• 1986 - Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)


• 1989 - Michael Carmine, American actor (b.1959)


• 1990 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1918)


• 1997 - Harold Robbins, American novelist (b. 1915)


• 1998 - Cleveland Amory, American writer and animal rights activist (b. 1917)


• 1998 - Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)


• 1999 - Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician (b. 1922)


• 2002 - Norbert Schultze, American composer and songwriter (b. 1911)


• 2003 - Patrick Dalzel-Job, English soldier and inspiration for James Bond (b. 1913)


• 2004 - Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek singer, actor and entertainer (b. 1949)


• 2005 - Jody Dobrowski, English murder victim (b. 1981)


• 2006 - Jared Anderson, American bassist (b. 1975)


• 2006 - Freddy Fender, American musician (b. 1937)


• 2006 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)


• 2006 - Nancy Lynn, American aviator (b. 1956)


• 2006 - Gerry Studds, American politician (b. 1937)


• 2007 - Big Moe, American rapper (b. 1974)

Historical Deaths Today: 13 October

Deaths

• 54 - Claudius, Roman Emperor (b. 10 BC)


• 1093 - Robert I, Count of Flanders


• 1282 - Nichiren Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (b. 1222)


• 1415 - Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1381)


• 1508 - Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1446)


• 1605 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (b. 1519)


• 1673 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617)


• 1687 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)


• 1694 - Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (b. 1632)


• 1706 - Iyasus the Great, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1682)


• 1715 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)


• 1759 - John Henley, English minister (b. 1692)


• 1788 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)


• 1812 - Sir Isaac Brock, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1769)


• 1815 - Joachim Murat, French marshal and King of Naples (executed) (b. 1767)


• 1825 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria (b. 1756)


• 1869 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b. 1804)


• 1882 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (b. 1816)


• 1890 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1816)


• 1904 - Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (b. 1870)


• 1905 - Sir Henry Irving, the first British actor to be knighted (b. 1838)


• 1909 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (b. 1849)


• 1917 - Florence La Badie, American actress


• 1919 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)


• 1926 - Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (b. 1865)


• 1931 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)


• 1938 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (b. 1894)


• 1945 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (b. 1857)


• 1950 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)


• 1955 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (b. 1897)


• 1966 - Clifton Webb, American actor (b. 1889)


• 1968 - Bea Benaderet, American actress (b. 1906)


• 1971 - Stafford Smythe, Canadian NHL executive (b. 1921)


• 1974 - Ed Sullivan, American television personality (b. 1901)


• 1979 - Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (b. 1886)


• 1987 - Walter Brattain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)


• 1987 - Kishore Kumar, Indian Singer (b.1929)


• 1988 - Mike Venezia, jockey (b. 1945)


• 1990 - Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)


• 1992 - Dantrell Davis, victim of gang crossfire in Cabrini-Green (b. 1985)


• 1995 - Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter


• 2000 - Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)


• 2001 - Peter Doyle, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers) (b. 1949)


• 2002 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)


• 2003 - Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)


• 2004 - Enrique Fernando, Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court (b. 1915)


• 2005 - Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)


• 2006 - Wang Guangmei, Chinese first lady (b. 1921)


• 2007 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)

Historical Deaths Today: 12 October

Deaths

• 632 - Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda


• 638 - Pope Honorius I


• 642 - Pope John IV


• 1095 - Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050)


• 1176 - William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician


• 1320 - Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor


• 1491 - Fritz Herlen, German artist


• 1492 - Piero della Francesca, Italian painter


• 1565 - Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)


• 1576 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527)


• 1590 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)


• 1600 - Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)


• 1632 - Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)


• 1646 - François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France (b. 1579)


• 1678 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)


• 1679 - William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)


• 1685 - Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628)


• 1730 - King Frederick IV of Denmark (b. 1671)


• 1758 - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)


• 1845 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)


• 1870 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1807)


• 1875 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)


• 1896 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817)


• 1898 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816)


• 1915 - Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)


• 1924 - Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)


• 1940 - Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880)


• 1946 - Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general (b. 1883)


• 1948 - Susan Sutherland Isaacs, educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885).


• 1954 - George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918)


• 1956 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b. 1872)


• 1958 - Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)


• 1960 - Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (b. 1898)


• 1965 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)


• 1967 - Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader


• 1969 - Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912)


• 1970 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930)


• 1971 - Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1893)


• 1971 - Gene Vincent, pioneering American rock'n'roll musician (b. 1935)


• 1978 - Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious (b. 1958)


• 1983 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager


• 1984 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (b. 1925)


• 1985 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910)


• 1985 - Ricky Wilson, American musician; member of The B-52's (b. 1953)


• 1987 - Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)


• 1988 - Ruth Manning-Sanders, author of children's books (b. 1895)


• 1989 - Jay Ward, American animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.) (b. 1920)


• 1991 - Arkady Strugatsky, Russian novelist (b. 1925)


• 1993 - Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902)


• 1993 - Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (b. 1926)


• 1994 - Gérald Godin, Québécois poet and politician (b. 1938)


• 1996 - Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (b. 1911)


• 1996 - René Lacoste, French tennis player (b. 1904)


• 1997 - John Denver, American singer (b. 1943)


• 1998 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)


• 1998 - Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (b. 1930)


• 1999 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)


• 1999 - Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice and Royal Commissioner (b. 1919)


• 2001 - Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (b. 1907)


• 2002 - Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)


• 2002 - Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)


• 2003 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914)


• 2003 - Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)


• 2003 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)


• 2005 - C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1927)


• 2006 - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919)


• 2007 - Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)

Historical DeathsToday: 11 October

Deaths

• 1188 - Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France


• 1303 - Pope Boniface VIII


• 1347 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)


• 1424 - Jan Žižka, leader of the Hussites (b. 1360)


• 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (b. 1484)


• 1705 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)


• 1708 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b. 1651)


• 1721 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1636)


• 1725 - Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (b. 1639)


• 1779 - Kazimierz Pułaski, Polish fighter for American independence (b. 1745)


• 1809 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (b. 1774)


• 1811 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724)


• 1821 - John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer (b. 1754)


• 1852 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823)


• 1889 - James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)


• 1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)


• 1896 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)


• 1935 - Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)


• 1940 - Lluís Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (b. 1882)


• 1940 - Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)


• 1961 - Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)


• 1963 - Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)


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


• 1965 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)


• 1965 - Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884)


• 1971 - Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (b. 1898)


• 1976 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)


• 1977 - MacKinlay Kantor, American author (b. 1904)


• 1988 - Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)


• 1989 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1904)


• 1991 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (b. 1950)


• 1991 - Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1922)


• 1993 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)


• 1996 - Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)


• 1996 - Joe Morris, C.C., LL.D., Canadian trade unionist (b. 1913)


• 1996 - Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (b. 1960)


• 1998 - Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)


• 2000 - Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)


• 2002 - Dina Pathak, Indian Actress (b. 1922)


• 2004 - Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)


• 2005 - Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b. 1915)


• 2005 - Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan (b. 1917)


• 2006 - Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (b. 1972)


• 2006 - Howard Kerzner, Chief Executive Officer of Kerzner International (b. 1964)


• 2006 - Benito Martínez, Cuban who claimed to be the oldest person, died mildly ironically. Family didn't mourn - mostly dead also. (b. ?1880)


• 2007 - Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (b. 1915)


• 2007 - David Lee "Tex" Hill, World War Two fighter pilot, flying ace, 1st American Volunteer Group (b. 1915)

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)

Historical Deaths Today: 09 October

Deaths

• 1047 - Pope Clement II (b. 1005)


• 1253 - Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop


• 1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany


• 1390 - King John I of Castile (b. 1358)


• 1555 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)


• 1562 - Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523)


• 1569 - Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)


• 1597 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)


• 1691 - William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)


• 1709 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)


• 1729 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)


• 1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)


• 1797 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720)


• 1806 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731)


• 1831 - John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)


• 1873 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)


• 1924 - Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)


• 1934 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b. 1888)


• 1934 - Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862)


• 1940 - Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).


• 1941 - Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)


• 1943 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)


• 1950 - George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)


• 1955 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1875)


• 1956 - Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)


• 1958 - Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (b. 1876)


• 1962 - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)


• 1967 - Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)


• 1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)


• 1967 - André Maurois, French author (b. 1885)


• 1968 - Pierre Mulele, Congolese revolutionary (b. 1929)


• 1972 - Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)


• 1974 - Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)


• 1976 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)


• 1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1929)


• 1985 - Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)


• 1987 - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)


• 1987 - Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)


• 1987 - William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)


• 1989 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)


• 1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903))


• 1996 - Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)


• 1999 - Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)


• 1999 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)


• 2000 - David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)


• 2000 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)


• 2001 - Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)


• 2001 - Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)


• 2002 - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)


• 2002 - Aileen Wournos, American Serial Killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)


• 2005 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)


• 2006 - Paul Hunter, professional snooker player (b. 1978)


• 2006 - Raymond Noorda, co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)


• 2007 - Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922)

Historical Deaths Today: 08 October

Deaths

• 976 - Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen


• 1286 - John I of Dreux, Duke of Brittany (b. 1217)


• 1317 - Fushimi, Emperor of Japan (b. 1265)


• 1621 - Antoine de Montchrétien, French dramatist


• 1647 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)


• 1652 - John Greaves, English mathematician (b. 1602)


• 1656 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1585)


• 1659 - Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary


• 1735 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)


• 1754 - Henry Fielding, English author (b. 1707)


• 1772 - Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (b. 1711)


• 1793 - John Hancock, American revolutionary (b. 1737)


• 1795 - Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman (b. 1725)


• 1809 - James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (b. 1721)


• 1834 - François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer (b. 1775)


• 1847 - Rose Scott, Social Reformer


• 1869 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)


• 1879 - Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian Admiral (b. 1834)


• 1886 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (b. 1819)


• 1897 - Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (b. 1830)


• 1928 - Larry Semon, comedian (b. 1889)


• 1931 - Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (b. 1865)


• 1936 - William Henry Stark, American business leader (b. 1851)


• 1936 - Red Ames, American baseball player (b. 1882)


• 1942 - Sergei Chaplygin, Soviet engineer


• 1944 - Wendell Willkie, American politician (b. 1892)


• 1945 - Felix Salten, Austrian author (b. 1869)


• 1952 - Joe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1877)


• 1953 - Nigel Bruce, British actor (b. 1895)


• 1953 - Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (b. 1912)


• 1958 - Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886)


• 1962 - Solomon Linda, South African singer and composer


• 1967 - Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)


• 1970 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor (b. 1934)


• 1970 - Jean Giono, French author (b. 1895)


• 1973 - Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher (b. 1889)


• 1977 - Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer , composer , lyricist (b. 1902 )


• 1982 - Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (b. 1915)


• 1982 - Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist, Nobel laureate (b. 1889)


• 1983 - Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)


• 1985 - Malcolm Ross, American balloonist and atmospheric physicist (b. 1919)


• 1990 - B.J. Wilson, English musician (Procol Harum) (b. 1947)


• 1992 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)


• 1995 - Christopher Keene, American conductor (b. 1946)


• 1997 - Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (b. 1913)


• 1999 - John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915)


• 2002 - Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)


• 2004 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)


• 2004 - James Chace, American historian (b. 1931)


• 2005 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)


• 2006 - Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1975)


• 2007 - John Henry, American race horse (b. 1975)