Famous Deaths on 10 Jul

Famous Deaths on 10 Jul

1099 - El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
1103 - King Eric I of Denmark
1290 - King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
138 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
1460 - Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
1480 - King René I of Naples (b. 1410)
1559 - King Henry II of France (b. 1519)
1584 - William I of Orange (b. 1533)
1590 - Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
1594 - Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)
1621 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571)
1653 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
1680 - Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
1683 - François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
1686 - John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
1776 - Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
1806 - George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
1851 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)
1881 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)
1884 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
1908 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
1920 - Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
1941 - Jelly Roll Morton, American musician (b. 1890)
1954 - Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1877)
1956 - Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1963 - Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
1970 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. 1908)
1972 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
1978 - John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
1978 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
1979 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
1981 - Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b. 1936)
1987 - John H. Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
1989 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
1993 - Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
2000 - Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
2000 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
2002 - Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
2003 - Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician
2003 - Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
2003 - Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
2005 - Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin, airshow performers
2005 - A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
2005 - Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
2005 - Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
2006 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
2007 - Doug Marlette, American cartoonist (b. 1949)
2007 - Abdul Rashid Ghazi, radical Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
2007 - Zheng Xiaoyu, director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China (b. 1944)
2008 - Hiroaki Aoki, founder of Benihana (b. 1938)
2008 - Mike Souchak, professional golfer (b. 1927)
649 - Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b.599)