Famous Deaths on 10 Feb

Famous Deaths on 10 Feb

1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071)
1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
1242 - Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
1278 - Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
1576 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
1686 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
1758 - Thomas Ripley, English architect
1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)
1857 - David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
1891 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
1904 - John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
1906 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician (b. 1827)
1912 - Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827)
1917 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)
1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1833)
1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
1932 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
1939 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
1944 - Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870)
1945 - Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
1952 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)
1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
1964 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
1966 - Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
1975 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
1984 - David Von Erich, professional wrestler (b. 1958)
1985 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)
1987 - Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
1992 - Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
1993 - Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
1997 - Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts (b. 1996)
2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
2001 - Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
2001 - George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913)
2002 - Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936)
2002 - Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary (b. 1920)
2003 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
2003 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1959)
2003 - Clark MacGregor, United States Congressman from Minnesota (b. 1922)
2003 - Al Ruffo, Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908)
2003 - Ron Ziegler, press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
2004 - Guy Provost, Quebec actor (b. 1925)
2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
2006 - J Dilla, American rapper/producer (b. 1974)
2006 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947)
2007 - Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
2007 - Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)
2008 - Roy Scheider, American Actor (b. 1932)
2008 - Steve Gerber, American comics writer (b. 1947)