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)