Famous Deaths on 10 Dec

Famous Deaths on 10 Dec

1041 - Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010)
1198 - Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)
1508 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
1603 - William Gilbert, English scientist (b. 1544)
1618 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer
1626 - Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
1665 - Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer
1736 - António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta (b. 1663)
1831 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
1850 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
1865 - King Léopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
1911 - Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817)
1917 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
1920 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturing pioneer (b. 1868)
1926 - Nikola Pašić, Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes prime minister (b. 1845)
1928 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (b. 1868)
1936 - Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
1936 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
1941 - Colin Kelly, American pilot (b. 1915)
1944 - John Henry Cound Brunt, Victoria Cross holder (b. 1922)
1945 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (b. 1913)
1946 - Walter Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1946 - Damon Runyon, American writer (b. 1884)
1951 - Algernon Blackwood, English writer (b. 1869)
1953 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)
1958 - Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder (b.1864)
1967 - Otis Redding, American soul singer (b. 1941)
1968 - Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)
1968 - George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (b. 1921)
1968 - Karl Barth, Swiss theologian (b. 1886)
1973 - Wolf Vishniac, American microbiologist (b. 1922)
1977 - Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
1978 - Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (b. 1924)
1979 - Ann Dvorak, American film actress (b. 1912)
1982 - Freeman Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)
1986 - Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
1986 - Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927)
1987 - Jascha Heifetz, Russian-born violinist (b. 1901)
1988 - Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933)
1990 - Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector (b. 1898)
1991 - Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
1991 - Headman Shabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (b. 1945)
1992 - Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (b. 1908)
1994 - Keith Joseph, English politician (b. 1918)
1994 - Alexander Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905)
1995 - Darren Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (b. 1967)
1996 - Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932)
1999 - Franjo TuÄ'man, President of Croatia (b. 1922)
1999 - Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947)
1999 - Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (b. 1942)
2000 - Marie Windsor, American film actress (b. 1919)
2001 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)
2002 - Andres Küng, Swedish-Estonian politician, journalist (b. 1945)
2005 - Eugene McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1916)
2005 - Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940)
2006 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean President (b. 1915)
2007 - Aqsa Parvez, Canadian victim of an honor crime (b. 1991)
949 - Herman I, Duke of Swabia