July 10 - Deaths

Deaths

• 138 – Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
• 649 – Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b. 599)
• 1099 – El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
• 1103 – King Eric I of Denmark
• 1290 – King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
• 1460 – Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
• 1480 – King René I of Naples (b. 1410)
• 1559 – King Henry II of France (b. 1519)
• 1584 – William I of Orange (b. 1533)
• 1590 – Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
• 1594 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)
• 1621 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (b. 1571)
• 1653 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
• 1680 – Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
• 1683 – François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
• 1686 – John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
• 1776 – Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
• 1794 – Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary (d. 1754)
• 1806 – George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
• 1848 – Karoline Jagemann, German actor (b. 1777)
• 1851 – Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)
• 1881 – Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)
• 1884 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
• 1908 – Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
• 1920 – Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
• 1941 – Jelly Roll Morton, American musician (b. 1890)
• 1954 – Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1877)
• 1956 – Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1962 – Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and government minister (b. 1875)
• 1963 – Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
• 1970 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. 1908)
• 1971 – Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (b. 1924)
• 1972 – Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
• 1978 – John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
• 1978 – Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
• 1980 – Joseph Krumgold, American writer (b. 1908)
• 1981 – Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b. 1936)
• 1985 – Fernando Pereira, Portuguese-Dutch photographer and victim of the Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior (b. 1950)
• 1986 – Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1940)
• 1987 – John H. Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
• 1989 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
• 2002 – Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
• 2003 – Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
• 2003 – Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician
• 2004 – Pati Behrs, Russian-born American actress, grandniece of Leo Tolstoy and first wife of American actor John Derek (b. 1922)
• 2005 – A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
• 2005 – Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
• 2006 – Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
• 2007 – Abdul Rashid Ghazi, radical Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
• 2007 – Doug Marlette, American cartoonist (b. 1949)
• 2007 – Zheng Xiaoyu, director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China (b. 1944)
• 2008 – Hiroaki Aoki, founder of Benihana (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Mike Souchak, American golfer (b. 1927)