October 4 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1052 – Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
• 1250 – Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (b. 1226)
• 1305 – Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
• 1582 – Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1515)
• 1597 – Sarsa Dengel, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1550)
• 1646 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (b. 1586)
• 1660 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
• 1661 – Jacqueline Pascal, French nun (b. 1625)
• 1669 – Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (b. 1606)
• 1680 – Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer, designed the Canal du Midi (b. 1609)
• 1743 – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (b. 1678)
• 1749 – Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
• 1754 – Tanacharison, American tribal chief (b. 1700)
• 1785 – David Brearley, American politician, signed the United States Constitution (b. 1703)
• 1821 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (b. 1761)
• 1827 – Grigorios Zalykis, Greek diplomat and lexicographer (b. 1785)
• 1851 – Manuel de Godoy, Prince of the Peace, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1767)
• 1852 – James Whitcomb, American politician, 8th Governor of Indiana (b. 1795)
• 1859 – Karl Baedeker, German publisher, founded Baedeker (b. 1801)
• 1864 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
• 1867 – Francis Xavier Seelos German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1871 – Sarel Cilliers South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)
• 1890 – Catherine Booth, English co-founder of The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1903 – Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)
• 1904 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
• 1904 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)
• 1910 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
• 1935 – Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
• 1935 – Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (b. 1874)
• 1943 – Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish lieutenant and intelligence agent (b. 1906)
• 1944 – Al Smith, American politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873)
• 1946 – Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (b. 1878)
• 1947 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1951 – Henrietta Lacks, American patient, HeLa cells derived from her cervical cancer (b. 1920)
• 1951 – Willie Moretti, Italian-American gangster (b. 1894)
• 1955 – Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
• 1958 – Ida Wüst, German actress (b. 1884)
• 1961 – Metropolitan Benjamin, Russian bishop and missionary (b. 1880)
• 1969 – Natalino Otto, Italian singer (b. 1912)
• 1970 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (Big Brother and the Holding Company) (b. 1943)
• 1974 – Anne Sexton, American poet (b. 1928)
• 1975 – Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903)
• 1977 – José Ber Gelbard, Argentine activist and politician (b. 1917).
• 1981 – Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player (b. 1905)
• 1982 – The Amazing Criswell, American psychic and actor (b. 1907)
• 1982 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
• 1982 – Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
• 1989 – Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)
• 1989 – Graham Chapman, English comedian and actor (b. 1941)
• 1990 – Alyn Ainsworth, English singer and bandleader (b. 1924)
• 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 (b. 1936)
• 1994 – Danny Gatton, American guitarist (b. 1945)
• 1996 – Larry Gene Bell, American murderer (b. 1949)
• 1997 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created Game Boy (b. 1941)
• 1999 – Erik Brødreskift, Norwegian drummer (Immortal and Borknagar) (b. 1969)
• 1999 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928)
• 1999 – Art Farmer, American trumpet player (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
• 2001 – Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
• 2001 – John Collins, American guitarist (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (b. 1917)
• 2002 – André Delvaux, Belgian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Sid McMath, American politician (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Rio Diaz, Filipino actress (b. 1959)
• 2005 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Tom Bell, English actor (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian general (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Günther Rall, German pilot (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer and activist (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Norman Wisdom, English actor and singer (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Günter Böttcher, German handball player (b. 1954)
• 2012 – K. C. N. Gowda, Indian film producer (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Tom Stannage, Australian historian and academic (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Pramote Teerawiwatana, Thai badminton player (b. 1967)
• 2012 – Erhard Wunderlich, German handball player (b. 1956)