February 10 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1126 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)
  • 1162 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
  • 1242 – Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
  • 1278 – Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
  • 1576 – Guilielmus Xylander, German scholar (b. 1532)
  • 1645 – Dorothea Sophia, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1587)
  • 1686 – William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
  • 1722 – Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
  • 1755 – Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
  • 1758 – Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1682)
  • 1782 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
  • 1829 – Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
  • 1837 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)
  • 1857 – David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
  • 1865 – Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
  • 1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
  • 1904 – John A. Roche, American politician (b. 1844)
  • 1906 – Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
  • 1907 – Claude Whittindale, British rugby player (b. 1881)
  • 1912 – Joseph Lister, Englis surgeon (b. 1827)
  • 1913 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1888)
  • 1917 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
  • 1918 – Abdul Hamid II Ottoman sultan (b. 1842)
  • 1918 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel laureate (b. 1833)
  • 1920 – Amedee Reyburn, American freestyle swimmer and water polo player (b. 1879)
  • 1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
  • 1932 – Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
  • 1939 – Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
  • 1944 – Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer (b. 1870)
  • 1945 – Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
  • 1950 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
  • 1950 – Herbert Nicol, British rugby player (b. 1873)
  • 1952 – Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American biochemist (b. 1880)
  • 1956 – Wilbert Coffin, Canadian prospector and murderer (b. 1915)
  • 1956 – Emmanouil Tsouderos, Greek banker and politician (b. 1882)
  • 1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
  • 1960 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
  • 1964 – Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
  • 1966 – Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
  • 1975 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
  • 1979 – Edvard Kardelj, Yugoslav communist leader (b. 1910)
  • 1984 – David Von Erich, American wrestler (b. 1958)
  • 1985 – Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (b. 1895)
  • 1987 – Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
  • 1990 – Bill Sherwood, American producer and composer (b. 1952)
  • 1992 – Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
  • 1993 – Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
  • 1995 – Paul Monette, American author and activist (b. 1945)
  • 1998 – Yorgos Vrasivanopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1924)
  • 2000 – Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
  • 2001 – Abraham Beame, American politician (b. 1906)
  • 2001 – George "Buddy" Tate, American musician (b. 1913)
  • 2002 – Ramón Arellano Félix, Mexican drug trafficker (b. 1964)
  • 2002 – Traudl Junge, German secretary (b. 1920)
  • 2002 – Dave Van Ronk, American singer and songwriter (b. 1936)
  • 2003 – Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
  • 2003 – Curt Hennig, American wrestler (b. 1959)
  • 2003 – Clark MacGregor, American politician (b. 1922)
  • 2003 – Al Ruffo, American politician (b. 1908)
  • 2003 – Ron Ziegler, American politician (b. 1939)
  • 2004 – Guy Provost, Canadian actor (b. 1925)
  • 2005 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
  • 2006 – J Dilla, American rapper and producer (b. 1974)
  • 2006 – Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947)
  • 2006 – Beko Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian doctor and activist (b. 1940)
  • 2007 – Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)
  • 2007 – Jeong Da-bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
  • 2008 – Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)
  • 2008 – Steve Gerber, American comics writer (b. 1947)
  • 2008 – Adeline Jay Geo-Karis, American politician (b. 1918)
  • 2009 – Leila Hadley, American writer (b. 1926)
  • 2009 – Jeremy Lusk, American freestyle motocross racer (b. 1984)
  • 2010 – Fred Schaus, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1925)
  • 2010 – Charles Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)

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