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)