Famous Deaths on 1 Nov

Famous Deaths on 1 Nov

1296 - Guillaume Durand, French writer (b. 1230)
1391 - Amadeus VII of Savoy (b. 1360)
1399 - John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
1546 - Giulio Romano, Italian painter
1588 - Jean Daurat, French poet (b. 1508)
1596 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
1642 - Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598)
1676 - Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (b. 1589)
1678 - William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
1700 - Charles II of Spain (b. 1661)
1814 - Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
1888 - Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1838)
1894 - Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)
1903 - Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)
1907 - Alfred Jarry, French writer (b.1873)
1942 - Hugo Distler, German composer (b. 1908)
1947 - Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1917)
1955 - Dale Carnegie, American writer (b. 1888)
1962 - Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1942)
1968 - George Papandreou, Greek politician (b. 1888)
1972 - Ezra Pound, American poet (b. 1885)
1979 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (b. 1896)
1982 - King Vidor, American film director (b. 1894)
1982 - James Broderick, American actor (b. 1927)
1983 - Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (b. 1887)
1985 - Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (b. 1911)
1986 - Serge Garant, French-Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1929)
1987 - René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (b. 1922)
1993 - A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (b. 1911)
1993 - Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1994 - Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Theodore Alvin Hall, Atomic Spy (b. 1925)
1999 - Jean Coutu, Canadian actor (b. 1925)
2000 - Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (b. 1934)
2004 - Mac Dre, American rapper (b. 1970)
2004 - Terry Knight, American music promoter (b. 1943)
2005 - Michael Piller, American screenwriter (b. 1948)
2005 - Skitch Henderson, English-born bandleader (b. 1918)
2006 - William Styron, American author (b. 1925)
2006 - Adrienne Shelly, American actress (b. 1966)
2007 - Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General (b. 1915)
2007 - S. Ali Raza, Bollywood Screenwriter (b. 1922)
921 - Richard, Duke of Burgundy
955 - Henry I, Duke of Bavaria

Famous Deaths on 31 Oct

Famous Deaths on 31 Oct

1147 - Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (bc. 1090)
1214 - Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1162)
1448 - John VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1390)
1517 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (b. 1472)
1641 - Cornelis Jol, Dutch admiral and privateer (b. 1597)
1659 - John Bradshaw, English judge (b. 1602)
1723 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
1732 - Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (b. 1666)
1733 - Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1676)
1744 - Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (b. 1694)
1765 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (b. 1721)
1768 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (b. 1690)
1860 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (b. 1775)
1879 - Jacob Abbott, American author (b. 1803)
1879 - Joseph Hooker, American General (b. 1814)
1883 - Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj
1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (b. 1858)
1913 - William Evans-Gordon, British politician (b. 1857)
1916 - Charles Taze Russell, American founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1852)
1918 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890)
1920 - Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (b. 1854)
1925 - Max Linder, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1883)
1926 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874)
1929 - António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
1939 - Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (b. 1884)
1943 - Max Reinhardt, German film director (b. 1873)
1952 - U Chit Hlaing, Burmese politician (b. 1879)
1959 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)
1972 - Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
1975 - SD Burman, Indian musician (b. 1906)
1983 - George Halas, American football player, coach, and team owner (b. 1895)
1984 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1917)
1984 - Eduardo de Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1985 - Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913)
1985 - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (b. 1907)
1985 - Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (b. 1918)
1986 - Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1896)
1987 - Joseph Campbell, American author and expert on mythology (b. 1904)
1988 - Alfred Pellan, Québécois painter (b. 1906)
1988 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and director (b. 1902)
1991 - Joseph Papp, American theatrical producer (b. 1921)
1991 - Gene Anderson, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1993 - Federico Fellini, Italian director (b. 1920)
1993 - River Phoenix, American actor (b. 1970)
1995 - Rosalind Cash, American actress (b. 1938)
1996 - Marcel Carné, French film director (b. 1906)
1998 - Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1935)
1999 - Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975)
2000 - Watanabe Kazuki Japanese musician (Raphael) (b. 1981)
2000 - Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2001 - Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (b. 1970)
2002 - Lionel Poilâne, French baker and entrepreneur (b. 1945)
2002 - Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician, former president of Greece (b. 1903)
2002 - Raf Vallone, Italian actor (b. 1916)
2003 - Richard Neustadt, American political historian (b. 1919)
2003 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (b. 1908)
2005 - Mary Wimbush, English actress (b. 1924)
2005 - John "Beatz" Holohan, American drummer (Bayside) (b. 1974)
2005 - Hal Anger, American biophysicist (b. 1920)
2006 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa (b. 1916)
2007 - Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby union footballer (b. 1951)

Famous Deaths on 30 Oct

Famous Deaths on 30 Oct

1459 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (b. 1380)
1522 - Jean Mouton, French composer
1553 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
1611 - King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
1626 - Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)
1632 - Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (b. 1595)
1654 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
1680 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
1685 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
1809 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
1816 - Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
1842 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784)
1853 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)
1883 - Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
1893 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
1894 - Honoré Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
1899 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)
1910 - Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
1912 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
1915 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
1923 - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
1957 - Fred Beebe, baseball player (b. 1880)
1966 - Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (b. 1906)
1968 - Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)
1968 - Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (b. 1899)
1968 - Conrad Richter, American writer (b. 1890)
1969 - Pops Foster, American musician (b. 1892)
1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1979 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
1979 - Sir Barnes Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (b. 1887)
1985 - Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
1988 - T. Hee, American animator (b. 1911)
1993 - Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
1997 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (b. 1912)
2000 - Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
2002 - Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (b. 1965)
2002 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2004 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
2005 - Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (b. 1908)
2005 - Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942)
2006 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
2006 - Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
2007 - Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)
2007 - Linda Stein, Ramones manager and real estate broker (b. 1945)
2007 - Washoe, chimpanzee trained in American Sign Language (b. 1965)
2007 - John Woodruff, American athlete (b. 1915)

Famous Deaths on 29 Oct

Famous Deaths on 29 Oct

1038 - Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
1138 - Bolesław III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086)
1268 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252)
1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (beheaded) (b. 1249)
1590 - Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician (b. 1522)
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed) (b. 1554)
1650 - David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)
1666 - Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)
1666 - James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)
1783 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
1829 - Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (b. 1751)
1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
1901 - Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (b. 1873)
1905 - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher (b. 1847)
1919 - A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
1932 - Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (b. 1857)
1933 - Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician (b. 1853)
1933 - Albert Calmette, French physician (b. 1863)
1939 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)
1941 - Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
1950 - King Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858)
1953 - William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
1957 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (b. 1885)
1957 - Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)
1958 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)
1963 - Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890)
1971 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1971 - Duane Allman, American musician (b. 1946)
1981 - Georges Brassens, French singer (b. 1921)
1986 - Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1987 - Woody Herman, American musician (b. 1913)
1995 - Terry Southern, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
1997 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
1998 - Paul Misraki, French songwriter (b. 1908)
1999 - Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (b. 1931)
2002 - Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
2003 - Franco Corelli, tenor (b. 1921)
2003 - Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
2004 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923)
2004 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (b. 1936)
2004 - Peter Twinn, English mathematician (b. 1916)
2006 - Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928)

Famous Deaths on 28 Oct

Famous Deaths on 28 Oct

1225 - Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155)
1312 - Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen
1412 - Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)
1485 - Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist (b. 1443)
1520 - Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter
1568 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
1627 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1569)
1639 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
1646 - William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
1661 - Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
1676 - Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
1703 - John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616)
1704 - John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
1708 - Prince George of Denmark, Consort of Queen Anne of England (b. 1653)
1716 - Stephen Fox, British politician (b. 1627)
1740 - Empress Anna of Russia (b. 1693)
1754 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
1755 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689)
1763 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (b. 1700)
1768 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (b. 1700)
1792 - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
1792 - John Smeaton, British civil engineer (b. 1724)
1800 - Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (b. 1727)
1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
1818 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
1841 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
1857 - Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
1877 - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
1899 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (tuberculosis) (b. 1854)
1900 - Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823)
1916 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
1916 - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
1918 - Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
1929 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
1939 - Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
1952 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1957 - Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist (b. 1881)
1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
1965 - Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
1969 - Constance Dowling, American actress (b. 1920)
1973 - Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
1973 - Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
1975 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
1975 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (b. 1932)
1986 - John Braine, British novelist (b. 1922)
1987 - André Masson, French artist (b. 1896)
1997 - Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
1998 - Ted Hughes, British poet (b. 1930)
2000 - Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
2000 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (b. 1914)
2001 - Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
2002 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
2002 - Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1917)
2004 - Jimmy McLarnin, Northern Irish-born boxer (b. 1907)
2005 - Bob Broeg, American sports writer (b. 1918)
2005 - Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
2005 - Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (b. 1922)
2005 - Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
2005 - Raymond Hains, French artist (b. 1926)
2005 - Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (b. 1926)
2005 - Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
2006 - Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1917)
2006 - Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (b. 1920)
2006 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
2007 - Porter Wagoner, American country singer (b. 1927)
312 - Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278)

Famous Deaths on 27 Oct

Famous Deaths on 27 Oct

1271 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
1312 - John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
1327 - Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
1331 - Abu al-Fida, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273)
1430 - Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)
1439 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)
1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
1505 - Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
1553 - Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (burned at the stake) (b. 1511)
1561 - Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)
1573 - Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
1605 - Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (born 1542)
1617 - Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
1670 - Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
1674 - Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
1675 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1789 - John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
1917 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
1935 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
1942 - Helmuth Hubener, Youth Political Activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925)
1949 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
1949 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
1953 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
1962 - Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
1975 - Rex Stout, American novelist (b. 1886)
1977 - James M. Cain, American novelist (b. 1892)
1980 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
1980 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
1990 - Elliott Roosevelt, American war hero, author, and advertising executive (b. 1910)
1990 - Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1901)
1990 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
1990 - Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
1990 - Jacques Demy, French film director (b. 1931)
1991 - George Barker, English poet (b. 1913)
1992 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
1996 - Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
1996 - Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
1999 - Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
1999 - Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
2000 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
2002 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (b. 1925)
2003 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
2004 - Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
2006 - Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2006 - Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)
939 - King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)

Famous Deaths on 26 Oct

Famous Deaths on 26 Oct

1235 - King Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1175)
1440 - Gilles de Rais, French serial killer (b. 1404)
1633 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
1671 - Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
1675 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
1679 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
1686 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)
1717 - Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
1751 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702)
1764 - William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
1773 - Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
1803 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (b. 1721)
1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
1817 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
1864 - "Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
1866 - John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
1890 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (b. 1826)
1896 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)
1909 - Hirobumi Ito, Japanese Prime Minister (b. 1841)
1930 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)
1937 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
1941 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904)
1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (b. 1862)
1944 - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
1944 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
1945 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
1945 - Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895)
1956 - Walter Gieseking, French pianist (b. 1895)
1957 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883)
1957 - Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1896)
1962 - Louise Beavers, American actress (b. 1902)
1965 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
1966 - Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
1971 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
1972 - Igor Sikorsky, Kiev, Russian Empire (currently Ukraine) born inventor (b. 1889)
1978 - Alexander Gerschenkron, Russian-born economic historian (b. 1904)
1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917)
1984 - Gus Mancuso, baseball player (b. 1905)
1986 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
1989 - Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
1994 - Wilbert Harrison, American singer (b. 1929)
1995 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)
1997 - Joe Cinque, Civil Engineer (b 1978)
1999 - Hoyt Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
2002 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (b. 1979)
2002 - Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
2004 - Bobby Avila, Major League Baseball player (b. 1924)
2005 - Keith Parkinson, fantasy artist (b. 1958)
2006 - Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (b. 1924)
2007 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase (b. 1918)
2007 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (b. 1943)
2007 - Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947)
2007 - Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
899 - Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (b. 849)

Famous Deaths on 25 Oct

Famous Deaths on 25 Oct

1047 - King Magnus I of Norway (b. 1024)
1154 - King Stephen of England (b. 1096)
1200 - Conrad of Wittelsbach, German Archbishop
1230 - Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1180)
1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet
1415 - Killed in the Battle of Agincourt:
304 - Pope Marcellinus (martyred)
625 - Pope Boniface V

Famous Deaths on 24 Oct

Famous Deaths on 24 Oct

1260 - Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt
1375 - King Valdemar IV of Denmark (bc. 1320)
1537 - Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England
1572 - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (bc. 1508)
1601 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
1655 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592)
1669 - William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600)
1672 - John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
1708 - Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
1725 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
1799 - Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (b. 1739)
1821 - Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
1852 - Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician (b. 1782)
1875 - Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer
1898 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
1912 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1842)
1915 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828)
1922 - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
1935 - Dutch Schultz, American gangster (b. 1902)
1938 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870)
1943 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (b. 1912)
1944 - Louis Renault, French automobile manufacturer (b. 1877)
1945 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier, politician and convicted traitor, by execution (b. 1887)
1948 - Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
1957 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
1966 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
1971 - Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
1972 - Jackie Robinson, American baseball player, and the first black player in Major League Baseball (b. 1919)
1972 - Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897)
1974 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
1975 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (b. 1888)
1985 - Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905)
1985 - Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (b. 1941)
1991 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921)
1994 - Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1940)
1997 - Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
2001 - Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (b. 1937)
2002 - Herman Gaviria, Colombian football player (b. 1969)
2002 - Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
2002 - Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)
2003 - Rosie Nix Adams, Stepdaughter of Johnny Cash (b. 1958)
2004 - Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (b. 1954)
2004 - Ricky Hendrick, American race car team owner (b. 1980)
2004 - James Cardinal Hickey, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1920)
2005 - Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
2005 - Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history (b. 1923)
2005 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
2005 - Robert Sloman, writer (b. 1926)
2005 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2006 - Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
2006 - William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies scholar, orientalist and historian (b. 1909)
2007 - Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyz journalist
2007 - Petr Eben, Czech organ composer (b. 1929)
2007 - Ian Middleton, New Zealand novelist (b. 1928)
996 - King Hugh Capet of France (b. 938)

Famous Deaths on 23 Oct

Famous Deaths on 23 Oct

1456 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1386)
1550 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1480)
1581 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
1616 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
1688 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610)
1730 - Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683)
1764 - Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
1774 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715)
1869 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
1872 - Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811)
1885 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (b. 1829)
1910 - Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (b. 1853)
1915 - W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1848)
1921 - John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (b. 1840)
1939 - Zane Grey, American author (b. 1872)
1942 - Ralph Rainger, American composer (b. 1901)
1944 - Hana Brady, Holocaust victim
1944 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1950 - Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)
1959 - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
1978 - Maybelle Carter, American guitarist and musical innovator (b. 1909)
1983 - Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
1984 - James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (b. 1892)
1984 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
1986 - Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
1989 - Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film actress (b. 1911)
1990 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher (b. 1918)
1994 - Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
1996 - Bob Grim, baseball player (b. 1930)
1997 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916)
1998 - Barnett Slepian, American physician (b. 1946)
2000 - Rodney Anoa'i aka Yokozuna, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2001 - Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (b. 1917)
2001 - Ronald William Kirby, British artist (b. 1928)
2002 - Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1915)
2003 - Soong May-ling, wife of the President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1897)
2003 - Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician (b. 1944)
2004 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (b. 1919)
2005 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady (b. 1945)
2005 - William Hootkins, American actor (b. 1948)
2005 - John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
2006 - Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977)
2007 - John Ilhan, Australian entrepreneur, Crazy John's mobile phones (b. 1965)
2007 - Lim Goh Tong, Founder of Genting Group (b. 1918)
42 BC - Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BCE)
930 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (b. 885)

Famous Deaths on 22 Oct

Famous Deaths on 22 Oct

1383 - King Fernando I of Portugal (b. 1345)
1565 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
1613 - Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer
1625 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b. 1561)
1674 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
1708 - Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (b. 1636)
1751 - William IV, Prince of Orange (b. 1711)
1755 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (b. 1694)
1792 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
1847 - Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa
1859 - Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784)
1883 - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (b. 1818)
1891 - Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b. 1846)
1906 - Paul Cezanne, French painter (b. 1839)
1917 - Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (b. 1863)
1918 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (b. 1891)
1927 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
1928 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1934 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904)
1935 - Komitas, Armenian composer (b. 1869)
1941 - Guy Môquet, French hero of the resistance(executed)(b. 1924)
1952 - Ernst Rüdin, Swiss nazi physician (b. 1874)
1954 - Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet (b. 1899)
1969 - Tommy Edwards, American signer (b. 1922)
1973 - Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
1978 - John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b. 1937)
1979 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b. 1887)
1985 - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (b. 1894)
1986 - Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician
1986 - Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
1986 - Jane Dornacker, musician, actress, and traffic reporter for WNBC Radio.
1987 - Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (b. 1919)
1989 - Ewan MacColl, English folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer (b. 1915)
1992 - Cleavon Little, American actor (b. 1939)
1993 - Innes Ireland, Scottish racing driver (b. 1930)
1995 - Sir Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922)
1997 - Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (b. 1905)
1998 - Eric Ambler, English novelist (b. 1909)
2001 - Prof. Dr. Dkfm. Helmut Krackowizer, journalist and motorcycle racer (b. 1922)
2002 - Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)
2005 - Tony Adams, Irish film producer (b. 1953)
2005 - Arman, French-born artist (b. 1928)
2005 - Franky Gee, American singer (Captain Jack) (b. 1962)
2006 - Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (b. 1922)
2007 - Ève Curie French writer (b. 1904)
741 - Charles Martel, leader of the Franks (b. 686)

Famous Deaths on 21 Oct

Famous Deaths on 21 Oct

1125 - Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer
1204 - Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman
1221 - Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201)
1266 - Birger jarl, Swedish statesman (b. 1210)
1422 - King Charles VI of France (b. 1368)
1500 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442)
1505 - Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician
1558 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian scholar (b. 1484)
1600 - Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)
1623 - William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (b. 1546)
1662 - Henry Lawes, English composer (b. 1595)
1687 - Sir Edmund Waller, English poet (b. 1606)
1765 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (b. 1691)
1775 - Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
1777 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720)
1805 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (b. 1758)
1872 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (b. 1794)
1873 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807)
1896 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
1904 - Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (b. 1877)
1931 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian writer (b. 1862)
1940 - William G. Conley, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
1944 - Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)
1965 - Bill Black, American musician (b. 1926)
1969 - Jack Kerouac, American novelist (b. 1922)
1969 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (b. 1882)
1973 - Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver (b. 1932)
1975 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1887)
1978 - Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician (b. 1895)
1980 - Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906)
1984 - François Truffaut, French film director (b. 1932)
1986 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge (b. 1922)
1989 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (b. 1910)
1990 - Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1921)
1992 - Jim Garrison, American attorney (b. 1921)
1995 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (b. 1967)
1995 - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (b. 1919)
1995 - Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (b. 1916)
1998 - Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1915)
2003 - Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
2003 - Louise Day Hicks, American politician (b. 1916)
2003 - Luis A. Ferré, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1940)
2003 - Fred Berry, American actor (b. 1951)
2005 - Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress (b. 1989)
2007 - Paul Fox, English musician and singer (The Ruts) (b. 1951)

Famous Deaths on 20 Oct

Famous Deaths on 20 Oct

1139 - Henry X, Duke of Bavaria
1570 - João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
1631 - Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
1640 - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
1652 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611)
1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
1740 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
1842 - Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
1865 - Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerrilla (b. 1821)
1890 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
1900 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
1907 - Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b.1834)
1910 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843)
1926 - Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
1935 - Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
1936 - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
1940 - Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (b. 1885)
1953 - Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (b. 1916)
1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
1967 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
1968 - Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (b. 1896)
1972 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)
1977 - Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash:
460 - Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress

Famous Deaths on 19 Oct

Famous Deaths on 19 Oct

1187 - Pope Urban III
1216 - King John
1432 - John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
1587 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
1608 - Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551)
1636 - Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician
1682 - Thomas Browne, English writer (b. 1605)
1723 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (b. 1646)
1745 - Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b. 1667)
1790 - Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1724)
1813 - Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince and Marshal of France (friendly fire) (b. 1763)
1842 - Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808)
1851 - Marie Thérèse Charlotte (b. 1778)
1856 - William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (b. 1799)
1889 - King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838)
1897 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
1901 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
1918 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
1936 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881)
1937 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1871)
1943 - Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864)
1950 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892)
1956 - Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894)
1960 - George Wallace, Australian vaudevillian and film comedian (b. 1895)
1973 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
1978 - Gig Young, American actor (b. 1913)
1983 - Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
1985 - Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
1986 - Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
1986 - Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist
1987 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
1987 - Jacqueline Du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
1988 - Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
1994 - Martha Raye, American comedian and actress (b. 1916)
1995 - Don Cherry, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1936)
1997 - Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947)
1999 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer (b. 1900)
1999 - James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
2000 - Hortense Ellis, Jamaican reggae singer (b. 1941)
2003 - Michael Hegstrand, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
2003 - Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902)
2003 - Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925)
2004 - Elliott Smith, American Singer Songwriter(b. 1969)
2005 - Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
2005 - Corinne Lévesque, wife of Quebec premier René Lévesque (b. 1943)
2006 - James Glennon, American cinematographer (b. 1942)
2007 - Michael Maidens, English footballer with Hartlepool United (b. 1987)
2007 - Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (b. 1943)
2007 - LaLa Brown, American singer (b. 1986)
2007 - Jan Wolkers, Dutch writer (b. 1925)
727 - Saint Frideswide

Famous Deaths on 18 Oct

Famous Deaths on 18 Oct

1035 - Sancho III of Navarre
1101 - Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053)
1141 - Margrave Leopold IV of Austria
1417 - Pope Gregory XII
1503 - Pope Pius III (b. 1439)
1541 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (b. 1489)
1545 - John Taverner, English composer
1558 - Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1505)
1564 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
1570 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)
1604 - Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
1646 - Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1607)
1667 - Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia
1678 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593)
1739 - Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (b. 1705)
1744 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1660)
1770 - John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
1775 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
1865 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (b. 1791)
1886 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
1889 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
1893 - Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818)
1911 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (b. 1857)
1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
1932 - Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
1941 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
1942 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
1948 - Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1959 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
1961 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1892)
1965 - Henry Travers, British actor (b. 1874)
1966 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (b. 1867)
1966 - Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (b. 1878)
1973 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
1973 - Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher (b. 1899)
1975 - Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928)
1976 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (b. 1895)
1977 - Jan-Carl Raspe (b. 1944)
1977 - Gudrun Ensslin (b. 1940)
1977 - Andreas Baader (b. 1943)
1977 - Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides
1978 - Ramón Mercader, Assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
1982 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
1982 - Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (b. 1907)
1982 - Dwain Esper, American film director (b. 1892)
1982 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
1983 - Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
1983 - Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (b. 1897)
1984 - Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
1984 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)
2000 - Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
2000 - Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (b. 1925)
2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (b. 1922)
2002 - Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (b. 1950)
2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932)
2003 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
2003 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1939)
2004 - Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler (b. 1945)
2005 - Bill King, American sports broadcaster (b. 1927)
2005 - Johnny Haynes, English footballer (b. 1934)
2005 - John Hollis, British actor (b. 1931)
2006 - Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda (b. 1929)
2006 - Anna Russell, English music satirist (b. 1911)
2007 - Alan Coren, English writer and satirist (b. 1938)
2007 - William J. Crowe, American admiral and ambassador (b. 1925)
2007 - Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (b. 1915)
2007 - Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964)

Famous Deaths on 17 Oct

Famous Deaths on 17 Oct

1174 - Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
1586 - Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (killed in battle) (b. 1554)
1616 - John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)
1660 - Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
1673 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
1776 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
1780 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
1786 - Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
1806 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian independence leader (b. 1758)
1836 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
1837 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer (b. 1778)
1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (b. 1810)
1868 - Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)
1887 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824)
1889 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
1910 - Julia Ward Howe, American composer and abolitionist (b. 1819)
1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852)
1938 - Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (b. 1854)
1943 - Stefan Starzyński, Polish politician (b. 1893)
1956 - Anne Crawford, British film actor (b. 1920)
1958 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
1958 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
1962 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882)
1963 - Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (b. 1865)
1965 - John Barton King, Philadelphian cricketer (b. 1873)
1966 - Wieland Wagner, German stage director (b. 1917)
1967 - Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China (b. 1906)
1970 - Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
1970 - Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921)
1972 - Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
1972 - Prince George of Yugoslavia (b. 1887)
1972 - Billy Williams, American singer (b. 1910)
1973 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (b. 1926)
1979 - John Stuart, Scottish actor (b. 1898)
1979 - S. J. Perelman, American writer (b. 1904)
1981 - Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895)
1983 - Raymond Aron, French philosopher (b. 1905)
1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and television performer (b. 1919)
1992 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
1992 - Orestis Laskos, Greek film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1908)
1993 - Criss Oliva, American musician (Savatage) (b. 1963)
1996 - Chris Acland, English drummer (Lush) (b. 1966)
1998 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist
1998 - Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
1999 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (b. 1915)
2000 - Leo Nomellini, wrestler (b. 1924)
2001 - Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician (b. 1926)
2001 - Jay Livingston, American songwriter (b. 1915)
2002 - Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (b. 1906)
2002 - Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) (b. 1935)
2004 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (b. 1952)
2005 - Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
2005 - Franky Gee, European techno artist (b. 1962)
2006 - Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924)
2006 - Christopher Glenn, American newscaster (b. 1938)
2007 - Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (b. 1918)
2007 - Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (b. 1931)
532 - Pope Boniface II

Famous Deaths on 16 Oct

Famous Deaths on 16 Oct

1355 - Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death
1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
1555 - Hugh Latimer, English Protestant (martyred)
1555 - Nicholas Ridley, English Protestant (martyred)
1591 - Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535)
1594 - William Cardinal Allen, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1532)
1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562)
1628 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
1649 - Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
1680 - Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)
1750 - Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687)
1755 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)
1781 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
1791 - Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian general and statesman (b. 1739)
1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)
1793 - John Hunter, eminent doctor and philosopher (b. 1728
1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
1810 - Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)
1822 - Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (b. 1724)
1865 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)
1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
1888 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
1893 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
1909 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
1937 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
1946 - Nuremberg trial executions

Famous Deaths on 15 Oct

Famous Deaths on 15 Oct

412 - Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria

Famous Deaths on 14 Oct

Famous Deaths on 14 Oct

1066 - Harold Godwinson, King of England
1092 - Nizam al-Mulk, Persian vizier (b. 1018)
1256 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)
1318 - Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland
1552 - Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
1565 - Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521)
1568 - Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer
1610 - Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
1619 - Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
1637 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)
1660 - Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier (b. 1606)
1669 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (b. 1623)
1703 - Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (b. 1634)
1711 - Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1708)
1758 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
1831 - Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)
1911 - John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833)
1944 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshall (b. 1891)
1958 - Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1882)
1959 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)
1960 - Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist (b. 1880)
1961 - Paul Ramadier, French politician (b. 1888)
1961 - Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (b. 1876)
1967 - Marcel Aymé, French novelist and playwright (b. 1902)
1973 - Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b. 1897)
1976 - Dame Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888)
1977 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1903)
1983 - Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist
1984 - Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
1985 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916)
1986 - Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
1989 - Michael Carmine, American actor (b.1959)
1990 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1918)
1997 - Harold Robbins, American novelist (b. 1915)
1998 - Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)
1998 - Cleveland Amory, American writer and animal rights activist (b. 1917)
1999 - Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician (b. 1922)
2002 - Norbert Schultze, American composer and songwriter (b. 1911)
2003 - Patrick Dalzel-Job, English soldier and inspiration for James Bond (b. 1913)
2004 - Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek singer, actor and entertainer (b. 1949)
2005 - Jody Dobrowski, English murder victim (b. 1981)
2006 - Gerry Studds, American politician (b. 1937)
2006 - Nancy Lynn, American aviator (b. 1956)
2006 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
2006 - Freddy Fender, American musician (b. 1937)
2006 - Jared Anderson, American bassist (b. 1975)
2007 - Big Moe, American rapper (b. 1974)

Famous Deaths on 13 Oct

Famous Deaths on 13 Oct

1093 - Robert I, Count of Flanders
1282 - Nichiren Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (b. 1222)
1415 - Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1381)
1508 - Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1446)
1605 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (b. 1519)
1673 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617)
1687 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)
1694 - Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (b. 1632)
1706 - Iyasus the Great, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1682)
1715 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)
1759 - John Henley, English minister (b. 1692)
1788 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)
1812 - Sir Isaac Brock, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1769)
1815 - Joachim Murat, French marshal and King of Naples (executed) (b. 1767)
1825 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria (b. 1756)
1869 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b. 1804)
1882 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (b. 1816)
1890 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1816)
1904 - Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (b. 1870)
1905 - Sir Henry Irving, the first British actor to be knighted (b. 1838)
1909 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (b. 1849)
1917 - Florence La Badie, American actress
1919 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1926 - Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (b. 1865)
1931 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)
1938 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (b. 1894)
1945 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (b. 1857)
1950 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
1955 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (b. 1897)
1966 - Clifton Webb, American actor (b. 1889)
1968 - Bea Benaderet, American actress (b. 1906)
1971 - Stafford Smythe, Canadian NHL executive (b. 1921)
1974 - Ed Sullivan, American television personality (b. 1901)
1979 - Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (b. 1886)
1987 - Kishore Kumar, Indian Singer (b.1929)
1987 - Walter Brattain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1988 - Mike Venezia, jockey (b. 1945)
1990 - Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
1992 - Dantrell Davis, victim of gang crossfire in Cabrini-Green (b. 1985)
1995 - Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter
2000 - Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
2001 - Peter Doyle, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers) (b. 1949)
2002 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)
2003 - Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
2004 - Enrique Fernando, Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court (b. 1915)
2005 - Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)
2006 - Wang Guangmei, Chinese first lady (b. 1921)
2007 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
54 - Claudius, Roman Emperor (b. 10 BC)

Famous Deaths on 12 Oct

Famous Deaths on 12 Oct

1095 - Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050)
1176 - William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician
1320 - Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor
1491 - Fritz Herlen, German artist
1492 - Piero della Francesca, Italian painter
1565 - Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)
1576 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527)
1590 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)
1600 - Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)
1632 - Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)
1646 - François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France (b. 1579)
1678 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)
1679 - William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)
1685 - Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628)
1730 - King Frederick IV of Denmark (b. 1671)
1758 - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)
1845 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)
1870 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1807)
1875 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
1896 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817)
1898 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816)
1915 - Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
1924 - Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
1940 - Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880)
1946 - Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general (b. 1883)
1948 - Susan Sutherland Isaacs, educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885).
1954 - George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918)
1956 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b. 1872)
1958 - Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
1960 - Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (b. 1898)
1965 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
1967 - Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader
1969 - Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912)
1970 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930)
1971 - Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1893)
1971 - Gene Vincent, pioneering American rock'n'roll musician (b. 1935)
1978 - Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious (b. 1958)
1983 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager
1984 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (b. 1925)
1985 - Ricky Wilson, American musician; member of The B-52's (b. 1953)
1985 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910)
1987 - Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
1988 - Ruth Manning-Sanders, author of children's books (b. 1895)
1989 - Jay Ward, American animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.) (b. 1920)
1991 - Arkady Strugatsky, Russian novelist (b. 1925)
1993 - Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (b. 1926)
1993 - Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902)
1994 - Gérald Godin, Québécois poet and politician (b. 1938)
1996 - Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (b. 1911)
1996 - René Lacoste, French tennis player (b. 1904)
1997 - John Denver, American singer (b. 1943)
1998 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
1998 - Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (b. 1930)
1999 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)
1999 - Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice and Royal Commissioner (b. 1919)
2001 - Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (b. 1907)
2002 - Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)
2002 - Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)
2003 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914)
2003 - Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
2003 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)
2005 - C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1927)
2006 - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919)
2007 - Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
632 - Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda
638 - Pope Honorius I
642 - Pope John IV

Famous Deaths on 11 Oct

Famous Deaths on 11 Oct

1188 - Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France
1303 - Pope Boniface VIII
1347 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)
1424 - Jan Žižka, leader of the Hussites (b. 1360)
1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (b. 1484)
1705 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
1708 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b. 1651)
1721 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1636)
1725 - Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (b. 1639)
1779 - Kazimierz Pułaski, Polish fighter for American independence (b. 1745)
1809 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (b. 1774)
1811 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724)
1821 - John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer (b. 1754)
1852 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823)
1889 - James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)
1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
1896 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
1935 - Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
1940 - Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
1940 - Lluís Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (b. 1882)
1961 - Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
1963 - Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
1963 - Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (b. 1915)
1965 - Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884)
1965 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
1971 - Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (b. 1898)
1976 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)
1977 - MacKinlay Kantor, American author (b. 1904)
1988 - Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)
1989 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1904)
1991 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (b. 1950)
1991 - Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1922)
1993 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)
1996 - Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
1996 - Joe Morris, C.C., LL.D., Canadian trade unionist (b. 1913)
1996 - Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
1998 - Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
2002 - Dina Pathak, Indian Actress (b. 1922)
2004 - Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
2005 - Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan (b. 1917)
2005 - Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b. 1915)
2006 - Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (b. 1972)
2006 - Howard Kerzner, Chief Executive Officer of Kerzner International (b. 1964)
2006 - Benito Martínez, Cuban who claimed to be the oldest person, died mildly ironically. Family didn't mourn - mostly dead also. (b. ?1880)
2007 - Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (b. 1915)
2007 - David Lee "Tex" Hill, World War Two fighter pilot, flying ace, 1st American Volunteer Group (b. 1915)

Famous Deaths on 10 Oct

Famous Deaths on 10 Oct

1359 - King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
1459 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist and classicist (b. 1380)
1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer (killed in battle) (b. 1484)
1659 - Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
1674 - Thomas Traherne, English poet
1691 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
1708 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)
1714 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
1720 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
1747 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
1759 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
1765 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
1795 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
1806 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)
1827 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer (b. 1778)
1837 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
1872 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
1875 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
1893 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
19 - Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
1901 - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
1913 - Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
1913 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
1914 - King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)
1927 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
1938 - Ataturk died-The Founder of The Republic of Turkey
1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)
1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
1948 - Ted Horn, American race car driver (b. 1910)
1957 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
1963 - Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
1963 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)
1964 - Eddie Cantor, American singer and vaudeville performer (b. 1892)
1964 - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
1970 - Édouard Daladier, French politician (b. 1884)
1971 - John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
1976 - Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
1977 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
1978 - Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
1978 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b. 1910)
1979 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
1979 - Paul Paray, French conductor (b. 1886)
1982 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
1983 - Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
1985 - Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
1985 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)
1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
1990 - Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
1998 - Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
1998 - Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
2000 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
2001 - Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
2001 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
2002 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
2003 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
2004 - Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
2004 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
2004 - Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2005 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
2005 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
2006 - Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
2007 - Mehmed Uzun, Contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist. (b. 1953)
680 - 10 Muharram 61 AH - Husayn ibn Ali (AS) , Shi'a Imam, Muhammad's grandson (b. 626)
732 - Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
833 - al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)

Famous Deaths on 9 Oct

Famous Deaths on 9 Oct

1047 - Pope Clement II (b. 1005)
1253 - Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
1390 - King John I of Castile (b. 1358)
1555 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
1562 - Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523)
1569 - Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
1597 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
1691 - William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
1709 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
1729 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
1797 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720)
1806 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731)
1831 - John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
1873 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1924 - Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1934 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b. 1888)
1934 - Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862)
1940 - Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
1941 - Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
1943 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1950 - George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
1955 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1875)
1956 - Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
1958 - Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (b. 1876)
1962 - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
1967 - André Maurois, French author (b. 1885)
1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1967 - Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)
1968 - Pierre Mulele, Congolese revolutionary (b. 1929)
1972 - Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
1974 - Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
1976 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)
1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1929)
1985 - Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
1987 - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
1987 - Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
1987 - William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
1989 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903))
1996 - Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)
1999 - Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
1999 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)
2000 - David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
2000 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
2001 - Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
2001 - Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)
2002 - Aileen Wournos, American Serial Killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)
2002 - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
2005 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
2006 - Paul Hunter, professional snooker player (b. 1978)
2006 - Raymond Noorda, co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)
2007 - Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922)

Famous Deaths on 8 Oct

Famous Deaths on 8 Oct

1286 - John I of Dreux, Duke of Brittany (b. 1217)
1317 - Fushimi, Emperor of Japan (b. 1265)
1621 - Antoine de Montchrétien, French dramatist
1647 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
1652 - John Greaves, English mathematician (b. 1602)
1656 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1585)
1659 - Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary
1735 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)
1754 - Henry Fielding, English author (b. 1707)
1772 - Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (b. 1711)
1793 - John Hancock, American revolutionary (b. 1737)
1795 - Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman (b. 1725)
1809 - James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (b. 1721)
1834 - François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
1847 - Rose Scott, Social Reformer
1869 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
1879 - Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian Admiral (b. 1834)
1886 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (b. 1819)
1897 - Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (b. 1830)
1928 - Larry Semon, comedian (b. 1889)
1931 - Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (b. 1865)
1936 - William Henry Stark, American business leader (b. 1851)
1936 - Red Ames, American baseball player (b. 1882)
1942 - Sergei Chaplygin, Soviet engineer
1944 - Wendell Willkie, American politician (b. 1892)
1945 - Felix Salten, Austrian author (b. 1869)
1952 - Joe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1877)
1953 - Nigel Bruce, British actor (b. 1895)
1953 - Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (b. 1912)
1958 - Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886)
1962 - Solomon Linda, South African singer and composer
1967 - Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)
1970 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor (b. 1934)
1970 - Jean Giono, French author (b. 1895)
1973 - Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher (b. 1889)
1977 - Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer , composer , lyricist (b. 1902 )
1982 - Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist, Nobel laureate (b. 1889)
1982 - Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (b. 1915)
1983 - Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
1985 - Malcolm Ross, American balloonist and atmospheric physicist (b. 1919)
1990 - B.J. Wilson, English musician (Procol Harum) (b. 1947)
1992 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
1995 - Christopher Keene, American conductor (b. 1946)
1997 - Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (b. 1913)
1999 - John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2002 - Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
2004 - James Chace, American historian (b. 1931)
2004 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)
2005 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
2006 - Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1975)
2007 - John Henry, American race horse (b. 1975)
976 - Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen

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)

Famous Deaths on 6 Oct

Famous Deaths on 6 Oct

1014 - Samuil, Emperor of the Bulgarian Empire (b. 958)
1101 - Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order
1413 - Dawit I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
1542 - Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
1641 - Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
1644 - Elisabeth of Bourbon, wife of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
1660 - Paul Scarron, French writer
1661 - Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru
1688 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
1762 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (b. 1684)
1819 - Charles Emmanuel IV, king of Sardinia (b. 1751)
1829 - Pierre Derbigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
1873 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
1891 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
1892 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (b. 1809)
1912 - Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Belgian statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1829)
1945 - Leonardo Conti, Nazi physician (b. 1900)
1947 - Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887)
1951 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
1951 - Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (b. 1860)
1959 - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
1962 - Tod Browning, American film director (b. 1880)
1968 - Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (b. 1917)
1973 - Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)
1973 - François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
1974 - Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1948)
1976 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
1980 - Hattie Jacques, British comedy actress (b. 1922)
1980 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
1981 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)
1983 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1921)
1985 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
1986 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
1989 - Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
1992 - Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
1992 - Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
1993 - Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot (b. 1949)
1997 - Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player (b. 1914)
1998 - Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1999 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
1999 - Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler/commentator (b. 1937)
2000 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1930)
2001 - Arne Harris, American television sports director (b. 1934)
2002 - Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
2003 - Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist (b. 1957)
2006 - Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)
2006 - Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)
2006 - Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
2006 - Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2007 - Bud Ekins, American stuntman (b. 1930)
877 - Charles the Bald (b. 823)

Famous Deaths on 5 Oct

Famous Deaths on 5 Oct

1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
1112 - Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
1214 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
1285 - King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
1528 - Richard Foxe, English churchman
1540 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (b. 1488)
1564 - Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
1565 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)
1606 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
1714 - Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)
1740 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
1777 - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
1791 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
1805 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
1813 - Tecumseh, Shawnee leader
1848 - Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (b. 1781)
1861 - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)
1880 - Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
1913 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
1918 - Roland Garros, French pilot (shot down) (b. 1888)
1930 - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
1933 - Renée Adorée, French actress (b. 1898)
1933 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862)
1936 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (tuberculosis) (b. 1898)
1938 - Saint Faustina, Polish saint (b. 1905)
1940 - Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican musician (b. 1889)
1940 - Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (b. 1859)
1940 - Ballington Booth, Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of Volunteers of America (b. 1857)
1941 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1856)
1943 - Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)
1950 - Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
1952 - Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1884 or 1885)
1976 - Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929)
1976 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1981 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)
1983 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (b. 1907)
1983 - Humberto Mauro, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
1986 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
1986 - James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
1986 - Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (b. 1947)
1992 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
1995 - Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
1996 - Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer (b. 1925)
1997 - Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2000 - Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (b. 1976)
2001 - Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
2002 - Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
2003 - Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1978)
2003 - Timothy Treadwell, American bear enthusiast featured in Grizzly Man (b. 1957)
2003 - Denis Quilley, English actor (b. 1927)
2004 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
2004 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine nominee (b. 1941)
2006 - Antonio Peña, Mexican founder of lucha libre promotion AAA (b. 1953)
2006 - Jennifer Moss, English Actress (b. 1945)
2007 - Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (b. 1898)
578 - Justin II, Byzantine Emperor

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)

Famous Deaths on 3 Oct

Famous Deaths on 3 Oct

1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi (b. 1181)
1283 - David ap Gruffydd, Welsh prince of Gwynedd (executed)
1369 - Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
1568 - Elizabeth of Valois, wife of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
1596 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)
1611 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
1629 - Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (b. 1570)
1649 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1576)
1653 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (b. 1612)
1656 - Myles Standish, English-born soldier
1690 - Robert Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1648)
1701 - Joseph Williamson, English politician (b. 1633)
1801 - Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (b. 1724)
1833 - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (b. 1754)
1838 - Black Hawk (chief), Leader of the Sauk Native American tribe (b. 1767)
1867 - Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer (b. 1819)
1873 - Captain Jack, Modoc tribal leader
1877 - James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (b. 1814)
1881 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811)
1890 - Joseph Hergenröther, German historian (b. 1824)
1891 - Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
1896 - William Morris, English writer & poet (b. 1834)
1929 - Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
1929 - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
1931 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865)
1936 - John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
1953 - Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1883)
1965 - Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
1967 - Woody Guthrie, American musician (b. 1912)
1967 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
1969 - Skip James, American blues musician (b. 1902)
1986 - Vince DiMaggio, American Baseball Player (b. 1912)
1987 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947)
1987 - Jean Anouilh, French writer (b. 1910)
1988 - Franz Josef Strauß, Bavarian politician (b. 1915)
1990 - Stefano Casiraghi, husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco (b. 1960)
1993 - Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1960)
1993 - Sgt. First Class Randy Shughart, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1958)
1994 - Dub Taylor, American actor (b. 1907)
1998 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (b. 1928)
1999 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)
2000 - Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (b. 1947)
2000 - John Grant, British politician (b. 1932)
2002 - Bruce Paltrow, American television and film producer (b. 1943)
2002 - Robert Krausz, Stock market advisor and investor (b. 1936)
2003 - William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author (b. 1907)
2003 - Florence Stanley, American actress (b. 1924)
2004 - John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (b. 1960)
2004 - Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)
2005 - Ronnie Barker, English comic actor (b. 1929)
2006 - Alberto Ramento, Filipina bishop (b. 1937)
2006 - Peter Norman, Australian track star (b. 1942)
2006 - John Crank, British mathematician (b. 1913)
2007 - M.N. Vijayan, Indian writer, orator, and academic
42 BC - Gaius Cassius Longinus

Famous Deaths on 2 Oct

Famous Deaths on 2 Oct

1559 - Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)
1626 - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)
1629 - Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)
1629 - Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
1708 - Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)
1724 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)
1746 - Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty
1764 - William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1775 - Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
1780 - John André, British Army officer (executed) (b. 1750)
1782 - Charles Lee, British and U.S. general (b. 1732)
1786 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (b. 1725)
1803 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (b. 1722)
1804 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (b. 1725)
1817 - Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)
1850 - Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
1853 - François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (b. 1786)
1927 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1938 - Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)
1947 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
1962 - Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)
1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)
1971 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer, pianist, and songwriter (b. 1911)
1973 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
1973 - Paul Hartman, American actor (b. 1904)
1974 - Vasily Shukshin, Russian writer, actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1929)
1975 - Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian political leader, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1903)
1981 - Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902)
1981 - Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (b. 1920)
1985 - Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
1987 - Madeleine Carroll, British-born actress (b. 1906)
1987 - Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915)
1988 - Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini (b. 1906)
1994 - Harriet Hilliard Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)
1996 - Robert Bourassa, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
1998 - Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
1998 - Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (b. 1924)
1999 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (b. 1921)
2001 - Franz Biebl, German composer (b. 1906)
2002 - Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
2003 - John T. Dunlop, U.S. Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
2005 - August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)
2005 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian (b. 1918)
2005 - Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (b. 1931)
2006 - Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
2006 - Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
2006 - Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
2007 - Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
2007 - Dan Keating, Irish politician (b. 1902)
2007 - Christopher Derrick, British writer (b. 1921)
939 - Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine