October 10 - Deaths

Deaths

• 19 – Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
• 680 – Hussein ibn Ali, Islamic Shi'a Imam (b. 626)
• 732 – Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Yemeni general
• 1359 – Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
• 1459 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian scholar (b. 1380)
• 1659 – Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
• 1691 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
• 1708 – David Gregory, Scottish mathematician (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, English politician (b. 1665)
• 1725 – Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, French politician, Governor of New France (b. 1643)
• 1747 – John Potter, English archbishop (b. 1674)
• 1759 – Granville Elliott, English military officer (b. 1713)
• 1765 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, English politician (b. 1688)
• 1795 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
• 1806 – Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (b. 1772)
• 1827 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian author and poet (b. 1778)
• 1837 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
• 1857 – George Washington Parke Custis, American orator and playwright (b. 1781)
• 1872 – William H. Seward, American politician, 24th United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
• 1875 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1817)
• 1876 – Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
• 1893 – Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
• 1901 – Lorenzo Snow, American religious leader, 5th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
• 1911 – Jack Daniel, American businessman, founded Jack Daniel's (b. 1849)
• 1913 – Adolphus Busch, German-American brewer and businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (b. 1839)
• 1913 – Katsura Tarō, Japanese politician, 6th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
• 1914 – Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)
• 1922 – Andreas Karkavitsas, Greek author (b. 1866)
• 1927 – Gustave Whitehead, German-American aviator (b. 1874)
• 1930 – Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
• 1940 – Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
• 1948 – Ted Horn, American race car driver (b. 1910)
• 1953 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand judge (b. 1884)
• 1957 – Karl Genzken, German nazi physician (b. 1885)
• 1962 – Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect (b. 1891)
• 1963 – Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer (b. 1893)
• 1964 – Eddie Cantor, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1892)
• 1964 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
• 1966 – Charlotte Cooper, English tennis player (b. 1870)
• 1970 – Édouard Daladier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1884)
• 1971 – John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
• 1973 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (b.1881)
• 1976 – Silvana Armenulić, Bosnian singer and actress (b. 1939)
• 1976 – Mirsada Mirjana Bajraktarević, Bosnian singer (b. 1951)
• 1977 – Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
• 1978 – Ralph Marterie, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1914)
• 1978 – Ralph Metcalfe, American runner and politician (b. 1910)
• 1979 – Christopher Evans, English psychologist, computer scientist, and author (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Paul Paray, French conductor, organist, and composer (b. 1886)
• 1982 – Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
• 1983 – Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Yul Brynner, Russian-American actor (b. 1920)
• 1985 – Orson Welles, American actor, director, scriptwriter, and producer (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
• 1990 – Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
• 1990 – Nikolaos Pavlopoulos, Greek sculptor (b. 1909)
• 1991 – Nickolaus Hirschl, Austrian wrestler (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Clark Clifford, American lawyer, 9th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
• 2000 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician, 6th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Vasily Mishin, Soviet engineer (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
• 2003 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
• 2004 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
• 2004 – Christopher Reeve, American actor, director, producer, and author (b. 1952)
• 2004 – Arthur H. Robinson, American geographer (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand author and playwright (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Wayne C. Booth, American critic (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Milton Obote, Ugandan politician, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Mehmed Uzun, Turkish author (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Stephen Gately, Irish singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (Boyzone) (b. 1976)
• 2010 – Solomon Burke, American singer-songwriter and preacher (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Jagjit Singh, Indian singer-songwriter and activist (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Beano Cook, American sportscaster (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Kevin Curran, Zimbabwean cricketer (b. 1959)
• 2012 – Sam Gibbons, American politician (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Marina Golub, Russian actress (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Jos Huysmans, Belgian cyclist (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Alex Karras, American football player, wrestler, and actor (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Piotr Lenartowicz, Polish philosopher (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Carla Porta Musa, Italian poet (b. 1902)
• 2012 – Leo O'Brien, American actor (b. 1970)
• 2012 – Basil L. Plumley, American soldier (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Mark Poster, American philosopher (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Malcolm Sampson, English rugby player (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Amanda Todd, Canadian suicide victim (b. 1996)
• 2012 – Kyaw Zaw, Burmese military officer and politician (b. 1919)