November 7 - Deaths

Deaths

• 644 – Umar, Islamic caliph (b. 590)
• 1225 – Engelbert II of Berg, German archbishop (b. 1186)
• 1550 – Jón Arason, Icelandic bishop (b. 1484)
• 1574 – Solomon Luria, Polish rabbi (b. 1510)
• 1581 – Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar (b. 1505)
• 1599 – Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
• 1633 – Cornelis Drebbel, Dutch inventor, invented the submarine (b. 1572)
• 1639 – Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician (b. 1560)
• 1642 – Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English judge and politician (b. 1563)
• 1713 – Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
• 1837 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister and journalist (b. 1809)
• 1872 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
• 1881 – John MacHale, Irish archbishop (b. 1791)
• 1906 – Heinrich Seidel, German engineer and poet (b. 1842)
• 1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, English biologist and geographer (b. 1823)
• 1919 – Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
• 1922 – Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1930 – Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (b. 1878)
• 1933 – Harold Weber, American golfer (b. 1882)
• 1941 – Frank Pick, English businessman (b. 1878)
• 1943 – Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1944 – Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
• 1944 – Hannah Szenes, Hungarian army officer (b. 1921)
• 1952 – Filippos Karvelas Greek gymnast (b. 1877)
• 1959 – Victor McLaglen, English-American boxer and actor (b. 1883)
• 1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, American politician, 34th First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1965 – Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, Pakistani caliph (b. 1889)
• 1966 – Rube Bressler, American baseball player (b. 1894)
• 1967 – John Nance Garner, American politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1868)
• 1968 – Gordon Coventry, Australian footballer (b. 1901)
• 1968 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
• 1974 – Eric Linklater, Welsh-Scottish author (b. 1899)
• 1978 – Gene Tunney, American boxer (b. 1897)
• 1980 – Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
• 1981 – Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (b. 1885)
• 1983 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
• 1986 – Tracy Pew, Australian bass player (The Birthday Party and The Saints) (b. 1957)
• 1991 – Carter Cornelius, American singer (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (b. 1948)
• 1991 – Tom of Finland, Finnish illustrator (b. 1920)
• 1992 – Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1994 – Shorty Rogers, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Claude Ake, Nigerian academic (b. 1939)
• 1996 – Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Ingrid of Sweden (b. 1910)
• 2001 – Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
• 2002 – Rudolf Augstein, German journalist, co-founded Der Spiegel (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Howard Keel, American actor and singer (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Harry Thompson, English scriptwriter, producer, and author (b. 1960)
• 2006 – Bryan Pata, American football player (b. 1984)
• 2006 – Johnny Sain, American baseball player (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Earl Dodge, American politician (b. 1932)
• 2007 – George W. George, American film producer (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Smaro Stefanidou, Greek actress (b. 1913)
• 2011 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Carmen Basilio, American boxer (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Aleksandr Berkutov, Russian rower (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Heinz-Jürgen Blome, German footballer (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Ellen Douglas, American author (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Kevin O'Donnell, Jr., American author (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Sandy Pearson, Australian army officer (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Darrell Royal, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Arthur K. Snyder, American politician (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Elliott Stein, American journalist and historian (b. 1928)