October 7 - Deaths

Deaths

• 336 – Pope Mark
• 929 – Charles the Simple, French king (b. 879)
• 1368 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (b. 1338)
• 1553 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. c.1500)
• 1555 – Louis of Praet, Belgian diplomat (b. 1488)
• 1577 – George Gascoigne, English poet (b. 1535)
• 1612 – Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet and diplomat (b. 1538)
• 1620 – Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish-Lithuanian military leader (b. 1547)
• 1637 – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
• 1651 – Jacques Sirmond, French scholar (b. 1559)
• 1653 – Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (b. 1581)
• 1772 – John Woolman, American preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
• 1780 – Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier (b. 1744)
• 1787 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (b. 1711)
• 1792 – George Mason, American politician (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 author and poet (b. 1809)
• 1894 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809)
• 1896 – Emma Darwin, English wife of Charles Darwin, (b. 1808)
• 1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
• 1904 – Isabella Bird, English explorer and historian (b. 1831)
• 1906 – Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
• 1911 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
• 1919 – Alfred Deakin, Australian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
• 1925 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880)
• 1926 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)
• 1931 – Eugen Schmidt, Danish tug of war competitor (b. 1862)
• 1939 – Harvey Williams Cushing, American surgeon (b. 1869)
• 1943 – Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
• 1943 – Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1943 – Archibald Warden, English tennis player (b. 1869)
• 1944 – Helmut Lent, German pilot (b. 1918)
• 1951 – Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (b. 1874)
• 1956 – Clarence Birdseye, American businessman (b. 1886)
• 1959 – Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b. 1921)
• 1966 – Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1890)
• 1966 – Smiley Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1913)
• 1967 – Norman Angell, English journalist and politician and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
• 1969 – Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and academic (b. 1906)
• 1991 – Harry W. Brown, American pilot (b. 1921)
• 1991 – Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
• 1991 – Darren Millane, Australian footballer (b. 1965)
• 1992 – Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (b. 1930)
• 1992 – Tevfik Esenç, Turkish last speaker of Ubykh language (b. 1904)
• 1993 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne, English-Danish immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Ernest Ingenito, American murderer (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Lou Lichtveld, Surinamese Dutch politician, playwright, and poet (b. 1903)
• 1998 – Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Cees de Vreugd, Dutch strongman and weightlifter (b. 1952)
• 2001 – Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Christopher Adams, English wrestler (b. 1955)
• 2001 – Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist and businessman (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 2003 – Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Wally George, American talk show host (b. 1931)
• 2004 – Kenneth Bigley, English engineer (b. 1942)
• 2005 – Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
• 2006 – Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish cyclist (b. 1985)
• 2006 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
• 2007 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
• 2007 – George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Leslie Hardman, Welsh rabbi (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
• 2010 – T Lavitz, American keyboardist, composer, and producer (Dixie Dregs, Jazz Is Dead, and Widespread Panic) (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Milka Planinc, Yugoslav politician, 7th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Mersad Berber, Bosnian painter (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Roman Danylak, Canadian-Ukrainian bishop (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Mervyn M. Dymally, Trinidadian-American politician, 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, Mexican drug lord (b. 1974)
• 2012 – Ivo Michiels, Belgian author (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Wiley Reed, American-Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944)