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)