Famous Deaths on 10 Nov

Famous Deaths on 10 Nov

1241 - Pope Celestine IV
1444 - King Vladislaus III of Varna is killed in battle (b. 1424)
1549 - Pope Paul III (b. 1468)
1556 - Richard Chancellor, English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland
1596 - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
1605 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522)
1617 - Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
1624 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
1644 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
1673 - Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (b. 1640)
1727 - Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
1728 - Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admirals (b. 1661)
1772 - Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
1777 - Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
1808 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
1848 - Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (b. 1786)
1865 - Henry Wirz, Swiss-American Confederate commandant of POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia, by hanging (b. 1822)
1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, (b. 1854)
1909 - Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
1909 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
1912 - Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
1917 - Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (b. 1866)
1936 - Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881)
1964 - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (b. 1910)
1973 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American country music banjo player (b. 1915)
1975 - Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
1981 - Abel Gance, French film director, producer, and actor (b. 1889)
1982 - Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
1985 - Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959)
1986 - Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
1986 - King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (b. 1903)
1990 - Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban baseball player (b. 1943)
1990 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
1991 - William Afflis, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1992 - Chuck Connors, American actor, baseball and basketball player (b. 1921)
1994 - Carmen McRae, American singer (b. 1920)
1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist (b. 1941)
1997 - Tommy Tedesco, American musician (b. 1930)
1998 - Mary Millar, English actress (b. 1936)
2000 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
2001 - Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
2002 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (b. 1921)
2003 - Irv "Kup" Kupcinet, American columnist and television personality (b. 1912)
2003 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
2004 - Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (b. 1907)
2006 - Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
2006 - Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
2006 - Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
2006 - Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
2006 - Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
2007 - Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
2007 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. 1907)
2007 - Norman Mailer, American author (b. 1923)
627 - Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
901 - Adelaide of Paris, Queen of Western Francia