Saturday, October 31, 2009

Famous Deaths on 1 Nov

Famous Deaths on 1 Nov

1296 - Guillaume Durand, French writer (b. 1230)
1391 - Amadeus VII of Savoy (b. 1360)
1399 - John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
1546 - Giulio Romano, Italian painter
1588 - Jean Daurat, French poet (b. 1508)
1596 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
1642 - Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598)
1676 - Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (b. 1589)
1678 - William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
1700 - Charles II of Spain (b. 1661)
1814 - Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
1888 - Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1838)
1894 - Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)
1903 - Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)
1907 - Alfred Jarry, French writer (b.1873)
1942 - Hugo Distler, German composer (b. 1908)
1947 - Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1917)
1955 - Dale Carnegie, American writer (b. 1888)
1962 - Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1942)
1968 - George Papandreou, Greek politician (b. 1888)
1972 - Ezra Pound, American poet (b. 1885)
1979 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (b. 1896)
1982 - King Vidor, American film director (b. 1894)
1982 - James Broderick, American actor (b. 1927)
1983 - Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (b. 1887)
1985 - Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (b. 1911)
1986 - Serge Garant, French-Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1929)
1987 - René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (b. 1922)
1993 - A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (b. 1911)
1993 - Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1994 - Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Theodore Alvin Hall, Atomic Spy (b. 1925)
1999 - Jean Coutu, Canadian actor (b. 1925)
2000 - Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (b. 1934)
2004 - Mac Dre, American rapper (b. 1970)
2004 - Terry Knight, American music promoter (b. 1943)
2005 - Michael Piller, American screenwriter (b. 1948)
2005 - Skitch Henderson, English-born bandleader (b. 1918)
2006 - William Styron, American author (b. 1925)
2006 - Adrienne Shelly, American actress (b. 1966)
2007 - Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General (b. 1915)
2007 - S. Ali Raza, Bollywood Screenwriter (b. 1922)
921 - Richard, Duke of Burgundy
955 - Henry I, Duke of Bavaria

Friday, October 30, 2009

Famous Deaths on 31 Oct

Famous Deaths on 31 Oct

1147 - Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (bc. 1090)
1214 - Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1162)
1448 - John VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1390)
1517 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (b. 1472)
1641 - Cornelis Jol, Dutch admiral and privateer (b. 1597)
1659 - John Bradshaw, English judge (b. 1602)
1723 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
1732 - Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (b. 1666)
1733 - Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1676)
1744 - Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (b. 1694)
1765 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (b. 1721)
1768 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (b. 1690)
1860 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (b. 1775)
1879 - Jacob Abbott, American author (b. 1803)
1879 - Joseph Hooker, American General (b. 1814)
1883 - Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj
1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (b. 1858)
1913 - William Evans-Gordon, British politician (b. 1857)
1916 - Charles Taze Russell, American founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1852)
1918 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890)
1920 - Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (b. 1854)
1925 - Max Linder, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1883)
1926 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874)
1929 - António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
1939 - Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (b. 1884)
1943 - Max Reinhardt, German film director (b. 1873)
1952 - U Chit Hlaing, Burmese politician (b. 1879)
1959 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)
1972 - Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
1975 - SD Burman, Indian musician (b. 1906)
1983 - George Halas, American football player, coach, and team owner (b. 1895)
1984 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1917)
1984 - Eduardo de Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1985 - Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913)
1985 - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (b. 1907)
1985 - Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (b. 1918)
1986 - Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1896)
1987 - Joseph Campbell, American author and expert on mythology (b. 1904)
1988 - Alfred Pellan, Québécois painter (b. 1906)
1988 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and director (b. 1902)
1991 - Joseph Papp, American theatrical producer (b. 1921)
1991 - Gene Anderson, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1993 - Federico Fellini, Italian director (b. 1920)
1993 - River Phoenix, American actor (b. 1970)
1995 - Rosalind Cash, American actress (b. 1938)
1996 - Marcel Carné, French film director (b. 1906)
1998 - Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1935)
1999 - Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975)
2000 - Watanabe Kazuki Japanese musician (Raphael) (b. 1981)
2000 - Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2001 - Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (b. 1970)
2002 - Lionel Poilâne, French baker and entrepreneur (b. 1945)
2002 - Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician, former president of Greece (b. 1903)
2002 - Raf Vallone, Italian actor (b. 1916)
2003 - Richard Neustadt, American political historian (b. 1919)
2003 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (b. 1908)
2005 - Mary Wimbush, English actress (b. 1924)
2005 - John "Beatz" Holohan, American drummer (Bayside) (b. 1974)
2005 - Hal Anger, American biophysicist (b. 1920)
2006 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa (b. 1916)
2007 - Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby union footballer (b. 1951)

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Famous Deaths on 30 Oct

Famous Deaths on 30 Oct

1459 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (b. 1380)
1522 - Jean Mouton, French composer
1553 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
1611 - King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
1626 - Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)
1632 - Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (b. 1595)
1654 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
1680 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
1685 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
1809 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
1816 - Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
1842 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784)
1853 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)
1883 - Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
1893 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
1894 - Honoré Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
1899 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)
1910 - Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
1912 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
1915 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
1923 - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
1957 - Fred Beebe, baseball player (b. 1880)
1966 - Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (b. 1906)
1968 - Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)
1968 - Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (b. 1899)
1968 - Conrad Richter, American writer (b. 1890)
1969 - Pops Foster, American musician (b. 1892)
1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1979 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
1979 - Sir Barnes Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (b. 1887)
1985 - Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
1988 - T. Hee, American animator (b. 1911)
1993 - Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
1997 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (b. 1912)
2000 - Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
2002 - Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (b. 1965)
2002 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2004 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
2005 - Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (b. 1908)
2005 - Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942)
2006 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
2006 - Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
2007 - Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)
2007 - Linda Stein, Ramones manager and real estate broker (b. 1945)
2007 - Washoe, chimpanzee trained in American Sign Language (b. 1965)
2007 - John Woodruff, American athlete (b. 1915)

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Famous Deaths on 29 Oct

Famous Deaths on 29 Oct

1038 - Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
1138 - Bolesław III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086)
1268 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252)
1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (beheaded) (b. 1249)
1590 - Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician (b. 1522)
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed) (b. 1554)
1650 - David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)
1666 - Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)
1666 - James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)
1783 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
1829 - Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (b. 1751)
1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
1901 - Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (b. 1873)
1905 - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher (b. 1847)
1919 - A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
1932 - Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (b. 1857)
1933 - Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician (b. 1853)
1933 - Albert Calmette, French physician (b. 1863)
1939 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)
1941 - Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
1950 - King Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858)
1953 - William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
1957 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (b. 1885)
1957 - Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)
1958 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)
1963 - Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890)
1971 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1971 - Duane Allman, American musician (b. 1946)
1981 - Georges Brassens, French singer (b. 1921)
1986 - Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1987 - Woody Herman, American musician (b. 1913)
1995 - Terry Southern, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
1997 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
1998 - Paul Misraki, French songwriter (b. 1908)
1999 - Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (b. 1931)
2002 - Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
2003 - Franco Corelli, tenor (b. 1921)
2003 - Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
2004 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923)
2004 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (b. 1936)
2004 - Peter Twinn, English mathematician (b. 1916)
2006 - Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928)

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Famous Deaths on 28 Oct

Famous Deaths on 28 Oct

1225 - Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155)
1312 - Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen
1412 - Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)
1485 - Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist (b. 1443)
1520 - Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter
1568 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
1627 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1569)
1639 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
1646 - William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
1661 - Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
1676 - Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
1703 - John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616)
1704 - John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
1708 - Prince George of Denmark, Consort of Queen Anne of England (b. 1653)
1716 - Stephen Fox, British politician (b. 1627)
1740 - Empress Anna of Russia (b. 1693)
1754 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
1755 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689)
1763 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (b. 1700)
1768 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (b. 1700)
1792 - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
1792 - John Smeaton, British civil engineer (b. 1724)
1800 - Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (b. 1727)
1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
1818 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
1841 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
1857 - Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
1877 - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
1899 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (tuberculosis) (b. 1854)
1900 - Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823)
1916 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
1916 - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
1918 - Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
1929 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
1939 - Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
1952 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1957 - Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist (b. 1881)
1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
1965 - Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
1969 - Constance Dowling, American actress (b. 1920)
1973 - Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
1973 - Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
1975 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
1975 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (b. 1932)
1986 - John Braine, British novelist (b. 1922)
1987 - André Masson, French artist (b. 1896)
1997 - Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
1998 - Ted Hughes, British poet (b. 1930)
2000 - Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
2000 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (b. 1914)
2001 - Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
2002 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
2002 - Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1917)
2004 - Jimmy McLarnin, Northern Irish-born boxer (b. 1907)
2005 - Bob Broeg, American sports writer (b. 1918)
2005 - Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
2005 - Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (b. 1922)
2005 - Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
2005 - Raymond Hains, French artist (b. 1926)
2005 - Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (b. 1926)
2005 - Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
2006 - Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1917)
2006 - Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (b. 1920)
2006 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
2007 - Porter Wagoner, American country singer (b. 1927)
312 - Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278)

Monday, October 26, 2009

Famous Deaths on 27 Oct

Famous Deaths on 27 Oct

1271 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
1312 - John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
1327 - Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
1331 - Abu al-Fida, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273)
1430 - Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)
1439 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)
1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
1505 - Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
1553 - Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (burned at the stake) (b. 1511)
1561 - Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)
1573 - Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
1605 - Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (born 1542)
1617 - Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
1670 - Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
1674 - Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
1675 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1789 - John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
1917 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
1935 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
1942 - Helmuth Hubener, Youth Political Activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925)
1949 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
1949 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
1953 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
1962 - Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
1975 - Rex Stout, American novelist (b. 1886)
1977 - James M. Cain, American novelist (b. 1892)
1980 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
1980 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
1990 - Elliott Roosevelt, American war hero, author, and advertising executive (b. 1910)
1990 - Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1901)
1990 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
1990 - Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
1990 - Jacques Demy, French film director (b. 1931)
1991 - George Barker, English poet (b. 1913)
1992 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
1996 - Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
1996 - Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
1999 - Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
1999 - Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
2000 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
2002 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (b. 1925)
2003 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
2004 - Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
2006 - Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2006 - Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)
939 - King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Famous Deaths on 26 Oct

Famous Deaths on 26 Oct

1235 - King Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1175)
1440 - Gilles de Rais, French serial killer (b. 1404)
1633 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
1671 - Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
1675 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
1679 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
1686 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)
1717 - Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
1751 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702)
1764 - William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
1773 - Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
1803 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (b. 1721)
1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
1817 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
1864 - "Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
1866 - John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
1890 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (b. 1826)
1896 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)
1909 - Hirobumi Ito, Japanese Prime Minister (b. 1841)
1930 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)
1937 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
1941 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904)
1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (b. 1862)
1944 - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
1944 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
1945 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
1945 - Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895)
1956 - Walter Gieseking, French pianist (b. 1895)
1957 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883)
1957 - Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1896)
1962 - Louise Beavers, American actress (b. 1902)
1965 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
1966 - Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
1971 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
1972 - Igor Sikorsky, Kiev, Russian Empire (currently Ukraine) born inventor (b. 1889)
1978 - Alexander Gerschenkron, Russian-born economic historian (b. 1904)
1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917)
1984 - Gus Mancuso, baseball player (b. 1905)
1986 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
1989 - Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
1994 - Wilbert Harrison, American singer (b. 1929)
1995 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)
1997 - Joe Cinque, Civil Engineer (b 1978)
1999 - Hoyt Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
2002 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (b. 1979)
2002 - Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
2004 - Bobby Avila, Major League Baseball player (b. 1924)
2005 - Keith Parkinson, fantasy artist (b. 1958)
2006 - Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (b. 1924)
2007 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase (b. 1918)
2007 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (b. 1943)
2007 - Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947)
2007 - Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
899 - Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (b. 849)

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Famous Deaths on 25 Oct

Famous Deaths on 25 Oct

1047 - King Magnus I of Norway (b. 1024)
1154 - King Stephen of England (b. 1096)
1200 - Conrad of Wittelsbach, German Archbishop
1230 - Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1180)
1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet
1415 - Killed in the Battle of Agincourt:
304 - Pope Marcellinus (martyred)
625 - Pope Boniface V

Friday, October 23, 2009

Famous Deaths on 24 Oct

Famous Deaths on 24 Oct

1260 - Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt
1375 - King Valdemar IV of Denmark (bc. 1320)
1537 - Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England
1572 - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (bc. 1508)
1601 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
1655 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592)
1669 - William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600)
1672 - John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
1708 - Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
1725 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
1799 - Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (b. 1739)
1821 - Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
1852 - Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician (b. 1782)
1875 - Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer
1898 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
1912 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1842)
1915 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828)
1922 - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
1935 - Dutch Schultz, American gangster (b. 1902)
1938 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870)
1943 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (b. 1912)
1944 - Louis Renault, French automobile manufacturer (b. 1877)
1945 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier, politician and convicted traitor, by execution (b. 1887)
1948 - Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
1957 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
1966 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
1971 - Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
1972 - Jackie Robinson, American baseball player, and the first black player in Major League Baseball (b. 1919)
1972 - Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897)
1974 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
1975 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (b. 1888)
1985 - Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905)
1985 - Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (b. 1941)
1991 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921)
1994 - Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1940)
1997 - Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
2001 - Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (b. 1937)
2002 - Herman Gaviria, Colombian football player (b. 1969)
2002 - Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
2002 - Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)
2003 - Rosie Nix Adams, Stepdaughter of Johnny Cash (b. 1958)
2004 - Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (b. 1954)
2004 - Ricky Hendrick, American race car team owner (b. 1980)
2004 - James Cardinal Hickey, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1920)
2005 - Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
2005 - Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history (b. 1923)
2005 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
2005 - Robert Sloman, writer (b. 1926)
2005 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2006 - Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
2006 - William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies scholar, orientalist and historian (b. 1909)
2007 - Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyz journalist
2007 - Petr Eben, Czech organ composer (b. 1929)
2007 - Ian Middleton, New Zealand novelist (b. 1928)
996 - King Hugh Capet of France (b. 938)

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Famous Deaths on 23 Oct

Famous Deaths on 23 Oct

1456 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1386)
1550 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1480)
1581 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
1616 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
1688 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610)
1730 - Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683)
1764 - Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
1774 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715)
1869 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
1872 - Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811)
1885 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (b. 1829)
1910 - Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (b. 1853)
1915 - W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1848)
1921 - John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (b. 1840)
1939 - Zane Grey, American author (b. 1872)
1942 - Ralph Rainger, American composer (b. 1901)
1944 - Hana Brady, Holocaust victim
1944 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1950 - Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)
1959 - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
1978 - Maybelle Carter, American guitarist and musical innovator (b. 1909)
1983 - Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
1984 - James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (b. 1892)
1984 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
1986 - Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
1989 - Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film actress (b. 1911)
1990 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher (b. 1918)
1994 - Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
1996 - Bob Grim, baseball player (b. 1930)
1997 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916)
1998 - Barnett Slepian, American physician (b. 1946)
2000 - Rodney Anoa'i aka Yokozuna, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2001 - Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (b. 1917)
2001 - Ronald William Kirby, British artist (b. 1928)
2002 - Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1915)
2003 - Soong May-ling, wife of the President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1897)
2003 - Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician (b. 1944)
2004 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (b. 1919)
2005 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady (b. 1945)
2005 - William Hootkins, American actor (b. 1948)
2005 - John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
2006 - Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977)
2007 - John Ilhan, Australian entrepreneur, Crazy John's mobile phones (b. 1965)
2007 - Lim Goh Tong, Founder of Genting Group (b. 1918)
42 BC - Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BCE)
930 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (b. 885)

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Famous Deaths on 22 Oct

Famous Deaths on 22 Oct

1383 - King Fernando I of Portugal (b. 1345)
1565 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
1613 - Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer
1625 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b. 1561)
1674 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
1708 - Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (b. 1636)
1751 - William IV, Prince of Orange (b. 1711)
1755 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (b. 1694)
1792 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
1847 - Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa
1859 - Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784)
1883 - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (b. 1818)
1891 - Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b. 1846)
1906 - Paul Cezanne, French painter (b. 1839)
1917 - Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (b. 1863)
1918 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (b. 1891)
1927 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
1928 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1934 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904)
1935 - Komitas, Armenian composer (b. 1869)
1941 - Guy Môquet, French hero of the resistance(executed)(b. 1924)
1952 - Ernst Rüdin, Swiss nazi physician (b. 1874)
1954 - Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet (b. 1899)
1969 - Tommy Edwards, American signer (b. 1922)
1973 - Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
1978 - John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b. 1937)
1979 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b. 1887)
1985 - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (b. 1894)
1986 - Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician
1986 - Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
1986 - Jane Dornacker, musician, actress, and traffic reporter for WNBC Radio.
1987 - Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (b. 1919)
1989 - Ewan MacColl, English folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer (b. 1915)
1992 - Cleavon Little, American actor (b. 1939)
1993 - Innes Ireland, Scottish racing driver (b. 1930)
1995 - Sir Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922)
1997 - Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (b. 1905)
1998 - Eric Ambler, English novelist (b. 1909)
2001 - Prof. Dr. Dkfm. Helmut Krackowizer, journalist and motorcycle racer (b. 1922)
2002 - Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)
2005 - Tony Adams, Irish film producer (b. 1953)
2005 - Arman, French-born artist (b. 1928)
2005 - Franky Gee, American singer (Captain Jack) (b. 1962)
2006 - Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (b. 1922)
2007 - Ève Curie French writer (b. 1904)
741 - Charles Martel, leader of the Franks (b. 686)

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Famous Deaths on 21 Oct

Famous Deaths on 21 Oct

1125 - Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer
1204 - Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman
1221 - Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201)
1266 - Birger jarl, Swedish statesman (b. 1210)
1422 - King Charles VI of France (b. 1368)
1500 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442)
1505 - Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician
1558 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian scholar (b. 1484)
1600 - Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)
1623 - William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (b. 1546)
1662 - Henry Lawes, English composer (b. 1595)
1687 - Sir Edmund Waller, English poet (b. 1606)
1765 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (b. 1691)
1775 - Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
1777 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720)
1805 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (b. 1758)
1872 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (b. 1794)
1873 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807)
1896 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
1904 - Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (b. 1877)
1931 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian writer (b. 1862)
1940 - William G. Conley, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
1944 - Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)
1965 - Bill Black, American musician (b. 1926)
1969 - Jack Kerouac, American novelist (b. 1922)
1969 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (b. 1882)
1973 - Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver (b. 1932)
1975 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1887)
1978 - Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician (b. 1895)
1980 - Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906)
1984 - François Truffaut, French film director (b. 1932)
1986 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge (b. 1922)
1989 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (b. 1910)
1990 - Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1921)
1992 - Jim Garrison, American attorney (b. 1921)
1995 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (b. 1967)
1995 - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (b. 1919)
1995 - Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (b. 1916)
1998 - Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1915)
2003 - Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
2003 - Louise Day Hicks, American politician (b. 1916)
2003 - Luis A. Ferré, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1940)
2003 - Fred Berry, American actor (b. 1951)
2005 - Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress (b. 1989)
2007 - Paul Fox, English musician and singer (The Ruts) (b. 1951)

Monday, October 19, 2009

Famous Deaths on 20 Oct

Famous Deaths on 20 Oct

1139 - Henry X, Duke of Bavaria
1570 - João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
1631 - Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
1640 - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
1652 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611)
1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
1740 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
1842 - Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
1865 - Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerrilla (b. 1821)
1890 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
1900 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
1907 - Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b.1834)
1910 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843)
1926 - Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
1935 - Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
1936 - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
1940 - Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (b. 1885)
1953 - Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (b. 1916)
1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
1967 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
1968 - Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (b. 1896)
1972 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)
1977 - Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash:
460 - Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Famous Deaths on 19 Oct

Famous Deaths on 19 Oct

1187 - Pope Urban III
1216 - King John
1432 - John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
1587 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
1608 - Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551)
1636 - Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician
1682 - Thomas Browne, English writer (b. 1605)
1723 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (b. 1646)
1745 - Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b. 1667)
1790 - Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1724)
1813 - Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince and Marshal of France (friendly fire) (b. 1763)
1842 - Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808)
1851 - Marie Thérèse Charlotte (b. 1778)
1856 - William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (b. 1799)
1889 - King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838)
1897 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
1901 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
1918 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
1936 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881)
1937 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1871)
1943 - Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864)
1950 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892)
1956 - Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894)
1960 - George Wallace, Australian vaudevillian and film comedian (b. 1895)
1973 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
1978 - Gig Young, American actor (b. 1913)
1983 - Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
1985 - Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
1986 - Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
1986 - Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist
1987 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
1987 - Jacqueline Du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
1988 - Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
1994 - Martha Raye, American comedian and actress (b. 1916)
1995 - Don Cherry, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1936)
1997 - Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947)
1999 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer (b. 1900)
1999 - James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
2000 - Hortense Ellis, Jamaican reggae singer (b. 1941)
2003 - Michael Hegstrand, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
2003 - Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902)
2003 - Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925)
2004 - Elliott Smith, American Singer Songwriter(b. 1969)
2005 - Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
2005 - Corinne Lévesque, wife of Quebec premier René Lévesque (b. 1943)
2006 - James Glennon, American cinematographer (b. 1942)
2007 - Michael Maidens, English footballer with Hartlepool United (b. 1987)
2007 - Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (b. 1943)
2007 - LaLa Brown, American singer (b. 1986)
2007 - Jan Wolkers, Dutch writer (b. 1925)
727 - Saint Frideswide

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Famous Deaths on 18 Oct

Famous Deaths on 18 Oct

1035 - Sancho III of Navarre
1101 - Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053)
1141 - Margrave Leopold IV of Austria
1417 - Pope Gregory XII
1503 - Pope Pius III (b. 1439)
1541 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (b. 1489)
1545 - John Taverner, English composer
1558 - Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1505)
1564 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
1570 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)
1604 - Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
1646 - Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1607)
1667 - Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia
1678 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593)
1739 - Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (b. 1705)
1744 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1660)
1770 - John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
1775 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
1865 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (b. 1791)
1886 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
1889 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
1893 - Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818)
1911 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (b. 1857)
1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
1932 - Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
1941 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
1942 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
1948 - Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1959 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
1961 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1892)
1965 - Henry Travers, British actor (b. 1874)
1966 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (b. 1867)
1966 - Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (b. 1878)
1973 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
1973 - Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher (b. 1899)
1975 - Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928)
1976 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (b. 1895)
1977 - Jan-Carl Raspe (b. 1944)
1977 - Gudrun Ensslin (b. 1940)
1977 - Andreas Baader (b. 1943)
1977 - Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides
1978 - Ramón Mercader, Assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
1982 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
1982 - Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (b. 1907)
1982 - Dwain Esper, American film director (b. 1892)
1982 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
1983 - Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
1983 - Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (b. 1897)
1984 - Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
1984 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)
2000 - Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
2000 - Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (b. 1925)
2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (b. 1922)
2002 - Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (b. 1950)
2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932)
2003 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
2003 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1939)
2004 - Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler (b. 1945)
2005 - Bill King, American sports broadcaster (b. 1927)
2005 - Johnny Haynes, English footballer (b. 1934)
2005 - John Hollis, British actor (b. 1931)
2006 - Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda (b. 1929)
2006 - Anna Russell, English music satirist (b. 1911)
2007 - Alan Coren, English writer and satirist (b. 1938)
2007 - William J. Crowe, American admiral and ambassador (b. 1925)
2007 - Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (b. 1915)
2007 - Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964)

Friday, October 16, 2009

Famous Deaths on 17 Oct

Famous Deaths on 17 Oct

1174 - Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
1586 - Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (killed in battle) (b. 1554)
1616 - John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)
1660 - Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
1673 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
1776 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
1780 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
1786 - Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
1806 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian independence leader (b. 1758)
1836 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
1837 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer (b. 1778)
1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (b. 1810)
1868 - Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)
1887 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824)
1889 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
1910 - Julia Ward Howe, American composer and abolitionist (b. 1819)
1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852)
1938 - Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (b. 1854)
1943 - Stefan Starzyński, Polish politician (b. 1893)
1956 - Anne Crawford, British film actor (b. 1920)
1958 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
1958 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
1962 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882)
1963 - Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (b. 1865)
1965 - John Barton King, Philadelphian cricketer (b. 1873)
1966 - Wieland Wagner, German stage director (b. 1917)
1967 - Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China (b. 1906)
1970 - Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
1970 - Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921)
1972 - Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
1972 - Prince George of Yugoslavia (b. 1887)
1972 - Billy Williams, American singer (b. 1910)
1973 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (b. 1926)
1979 - John Stuart, Scottish actor (b. 1898)
1979 - S. J. Perelman, American writer (b. 1904)
1981 - Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895)
1983 - Raymond Aron, French philosopher (b. 1905)
1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and television performer (b. 1919)
1992 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
1992 - Orestis Laskos, Greek film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1908)
1993 - Criss Oliva, American musician (Savatage) (b. 1963)
1996 - Chris Acland, English drummer (Lush) (b. 1966)
1998 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist
1998 - Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
1999 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (b. 1915)
2000 - Leo Nomellini, wrestler (b. 1924)
2001 - Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician (b. 1926)
2001 - Jay Livingston, American songwriter (b. 1915)
2002 - Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (b. 1906)
2002 - Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) (b. 1935)
2004 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (b. 1952)
2005 - Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
2005 - Franky Gee, European techno artist (b. 1962)
2006 - Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924)
2006 - Christopher Glenn, American newscaster (b. 1938)
2007 - Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (b. 1918)
2007 - Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (b. 1931)
532 - Pope Boniface II

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Famous Deaths on 16 Oct

Famous Deaths on 16 Oct

1355 - Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death
1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
1555 - Hugh Latimer, English Protestant (martyred)
1555 - Nicholas Ridley, English Protestant (martyred)
1591 - Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535)
1594 - William Cardinal Allen, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1532)
1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562)
1628 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
1649 - Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
1680 - Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)
1750 - Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687)
1755 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)
1781 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
1791 - Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian general and statesman (b. 1739)
1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)
1793 - John Hunter, eminent doctor and philosopher (b. 1728
1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
1810 - Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)
1822 - Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (b. 1724)
1865 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)
1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
1888 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
1893 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
1909 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
1937 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
1946 - Nuremberg trial executions

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Famous Deaths on 15 Oct

Famous Deaths on 15 Oct

412 - Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Famous Deaths on 14 Oct

Famous Deaths on 14 Oct

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 - Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)
1998 - Cleveland Amory, American writer and animal rights activist (b. 1917)
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 - Gerry Studds, American politician (b. 1937)
2006 - Nancy Lynn, American aviator (b. 1956)
2006 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
2006 - Freddy Fender, American musician (b. 1937)
2006 - Jared Anderson, American bassist (b. 1975)
2007 - Big Moe, American rapper (b. 1974)

Monday, October 12, 2009

Famous Deaths on 13 Oct

Famous Deaths on 13 Oct

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 - Kishore Kumar, Indian Singer (b.1929)
1987 - Walter Brattain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
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)
54 - Claudius, Roman Emperor (b. 10 BC)

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Famous Deaths on 12 Oct

Famous Deaths on 12 Oct

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 - Ricky Wilson, American musician; member of The B-52's (b. 1953)
1985 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910)
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 - Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (b. 1926)
1993 - Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902)
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 - Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)
2002 - Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)
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)
632 - Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda
638 - Pope Honorius I
642 - Pope John IV

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Famous Deaths on 11 Oct

Famous Deaths on 11 Oct

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 - Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
1940 - Lluís Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (b. 1882)
1961 - Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
1963 - Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
1963 - Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (b. 1915)
1965 - Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884)
1965 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
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 - Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
1996 - Joe Morris, C.C., LL.D., Canadian trade unionist (b. 1913)
1996 - Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
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 - Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan (b. 1917)
2005 - Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b. 1915)
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)

Friday, October 9, 2009

Famous Deaths on 10 Oct

Famous Deaths on 10 Oct

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)
19 - Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
1901 - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
1913 - Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
1913 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
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 Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
1978 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b. 1910)
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 - Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
1985 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)
1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
1990 - Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
1998 - Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
1998 - Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
2000 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
2001 - Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
2001 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
2002 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
2003 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
2004 - Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
2004 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
2004 - Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2005 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
2005 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
2006 - Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
2007 - Mehmed Uzun, Contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist. (b. 1953)
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)

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Famous Deaths on 9 Oct

Famous Deaths on 9 Oct

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 - André Maurois, French author (b. 1885)
1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1967 - Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)
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 - Aileen Wournos, American Serial Killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)
2002 - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
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)

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Famous Deaths on 8 Oct

Famous Deaths on 8 Oct

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 - Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist, Nobel laureate (b. 1889)
1982 - Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (b. 1915)
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 - James Chace, American historian (b. 1931)
2004 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)
2005 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
2006 - Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1975)
2007 - John Henry, American race horse (b. 1975)
976 - Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Famous Deaths on 7 Oct

Famous Deaths on 7 Oct

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 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)
1943 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
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 - Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
2001 - Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955)
2001 - Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
2003 - Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931)
2003 - Izzy Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (b. 1932)
2003 - Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912)
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)
336 - Pope Mark
929 - Charles the Simple, King of France (b. 879)

Monday, October 5, 2009

Famous Deaths on 6 Oct

Famous Deaths on 6 Oct

1014 - Samuil, Emperor of the Bulgarian Empire (b. 958)
1101 - Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order
1413 - Dawit I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
1542 - Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
1641 - Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
1644 - Elisabeth of Bourbon, wife of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
1660 - Paul Scarron, French writer
1661 - Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru
1688 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
1762 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (b. 1684)
1819 - Charles Emmanuel IV, king of Sardinia (b. 1751)
1829 - Pierre Derbigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
1873 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
1891 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
1892 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (b. 1809)
1912 - Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Belgian statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1829)
1945 - Leonardo Conti, Nazi physician (b. 1900)
1947 - Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887)
1951 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
1951 - Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (b. 1860)
1959 - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
1962 - Tod Browning, American film director (b. 1880)
1968 - Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (b. 1917)
1973 - Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)
1973 - François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
1974 - Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1948)
1976 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
1980 - Hattie Jacques, British comedy actress (b. 1922)
1980 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
1981 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)
1983 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1921)
1985 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
1986 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
1989 - Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
1992 - Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
1992 - Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
1993 - Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot (b. 1949)
1997 - Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player (b. 1914)
1998 - Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1999 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
1999 - Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler/commentator (b. 1937)
2000 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1930)
2001 - Arne Harris, American television sports director (b. 1934)
2002 - Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
2003 - Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist (b. 1957)
2006 - Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)
2006 - Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)
2006 - Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
2006 - Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2007 - Bud Ekins, American stuntman (b. 1930)
877 - Charles the Bald (b. 823)

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Famous Deaths on 5 Oct

Famous Deaths on 5 Oct

1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
1112 - Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
1214 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
1285 - King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
1528 - Richard Foxe, English churchman
1540 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (b. 1488)
1564 - Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
1565 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)
1606 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
1714 - Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)
1740 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
1777 - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
1791 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
1805 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
1813 - Tecumseh, Shawnee leader
1848 - Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (b. 1781)
1861 - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)
1880 - Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
1913 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
1918 - Roland Garros, French pilot (shot down) (b. 1888)
1930 - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
1933 - Renée Adorée, French actress (b. 1898)
1933 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862)
1936 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (tuberculosis) (b. 1898)
1938 - Saint Faustina, Polish saint (b. 1905)
1940 - Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican musician (b. 1889)
1940 - Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (b. 1859)
1940 - Ballington Booth, Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of Volunteers of America (b. 1857)
1941 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1856)
1943 - Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)
1950 - Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
1952 - Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1884 or 1885)
1976 - Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929)
1976 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1981 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)
1983 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (b. 1907)
1983 - Humberto Mauro, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
1986 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
1986 - James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
1986 - Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (b. 1947)
1992 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
1995 - Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
1996 - Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer (b. 1925)
1997 - Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2000 - Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (b. 1976)
2001 - Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
2002 - Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
2003 - Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1978)
2003 - Timothy Treadwell, American bear enthusiast featured in Grizzly Man (b. 1957)
2003 - Denis Quilley, English actor (b. 1927)
2004 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
2004 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine nominee (b. 1941)
2006 - Antonio Peña, Mexican founder of lucha libre promotion AAA (b. 1953)
2006 - Jennifer Moss, English Actress (b. 1945)
2007 - Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (b. 1898)
578 - Justin II, Byzantine Emperor

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Famous Deaths on 4 Oct

Famous Deaths on 4 Oct

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 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)
1904 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (b. 1834)
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 IÅ‚Å‚akowicz, 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 - André Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2002 - Alphonse Chapanis, founder of ergonomics (b. 1917)
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)

Friday, October 2, 2009

Famous Deaths on 3 Oct

Famous Deaths on 3 Oct

1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi (b. 1181)
1283 - David ap Gruffydd, Welsh prince of Gwynedd (executed)
1369 - Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
1568 - Elizabeth of Valois, wife of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
1596 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)
1611 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
1629 - Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (b. 1570)
1649 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1576)
1653 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (b. 1612)
1656 - Myles Standish, English-born soldier
1690 - Robert Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1648)
1701 - Joseph Williamson, English politician (b. 1633)
1801 - Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (b. 1724)
1833 - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (b. 1754)
1838 - Black Hawk (chief), Leader of the Sauk Native American tribe (b. 1767)
1867 - Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer (b. 1819)
1873 - Captain Jack, Modoc tribal leader
1877 - James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (b. 1814)
1881 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811)
1890 - Joseph Hergenröther, German historian (b. 1824)
1891 - Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
1896 - William Morris, English writer & poet (b. 1834)
1929 - Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
1929 - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
1931 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865)
1936 - John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
1953 - Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1883)
1965 - Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
1967 - Woody Guthrie, American musician (b. 1912)
1967 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
1969 - Skip James, American blues musician (b. 1902)
1986 - Vince DiMaggio, American Baseball Player (b. 1912)
1987 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947)
1987 - Jean Anouilh, French writer (b. 1910)
1988 - Franz Josef Strauß, Bavarian politician (b. 1915)
1990 - Stefano Casiraghi, husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco (b. 1960)
1993 - Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1960)
1993 - Sgt. First Class Randy Shughart, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1958)
1994 - Dub Taylor, American actor (b. 1907)
1998 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (b. 1928)
1999 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)
2000 - Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (b. 1947)
2000 - John Grant, British politician (b. 1932)
2002 - Bruce Paltrow, American television and film producer (b. 1943)
2002 - Robert Krausz, Stock market advisor and investor (b. 1936)
2003 - William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author (b. 1907)
2003 - Florence Stanley, American actress (b. 1924)
2004 - John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (b. 1960)
2004 - Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)
2005 - Ronnie Barker, English comic actor (b. 1929)
2006 - Alberto Ramento, Filipina bishop (b. 1937)
2006 - Peter Norman, Australian track star (b. 1942)
2006 - John Crank, British mathematician (b. 1913)
2007 - M.N. Vijayan, Indian writer, orator, and academic
42 BC - Gaius Cassius Longinus

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Famous Deaths on 2 Oct

Famous Deaths on 2 Oct

1559 - Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)
1626 - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)
1629 - Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)
1629 - Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
1708 - Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)
1724 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)
1746 - Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty
1764 - William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1775 - Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
1780 - John André, British Army officer (executed) (b. 1750)
1782 - Charles Lee, British and U.S. general (b. 1732)
1786 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (b. 1725)
1803 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (b. 1722)
1804 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (b. 1725)
1817 - Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)
1850 - Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
1853 - François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (b. 1786)
1927 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1938 - Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)
1947 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
1962 - Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)
1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)
1971 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer, pianist, and songwriter (b. 1911)
1973 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
1973 - Paul Hartman, American actor (b. 1904)
1974 - Vasily Shukshin, Russian writer, actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1929)
1975 - Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian political leader, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1903)
1981 - Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902)
1981 - Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (b. 1920)
1985 - Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
1987 - Madeleine Carroll, British-born actress (b. 1906)
1987 - Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915)
1988 - Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini (b. 1906)
1994 - Harriet Hilliard Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)
1996 - Robert Bourassa, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
1998 - Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
1998 - Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (b. 1924)
1999 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (b. 1921)
2001 - Franz Biebl, German composer (b. 1906)
2002 - Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
2003 - John T. Dunlop, U.S. Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
2005 - August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)
2005 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian (b. 1918)
2005 - Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (b. 1931)
2006 - Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
2006 - Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
2006 - Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
2007 - Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
2007 - Dan Keating, Irish politician (b. 1902)
2007 - Christopher Derrick, British writer (b. 1921)
939 - Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine