December 10 - Deaths

Deaths

• 949 – Herman I, Duke of Swabia
• 1041 – Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010)
• 1198 – Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)
• 1508 – René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
• 1603 – William Gilbert, English scientist (b. 1544)
• 1618 – Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (b. 1551)
• 1626 – Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
• 1665 – Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer
• 1736 – António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese Grand Master of theKnights Hospitaller (b. 1663)
• 1831 – Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
• 1850 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
• 1850 – Józef Bem, Polish general (b. 1794)
• 1865 – King Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
• 1896 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• 1909 – Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief (b. 1822)
• 1911 – Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817)
• 1917 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Canadian politician (b. 1823)
• 1920 – Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1868)
• 1926 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician (b. 1845)
• 1928 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (b. 1868)
• 1936 – Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
• 1936 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
• 1941 – Colin Kelly, American pilot (b. 1915)
• 1944 – John Brunt, British military officer (b. 1922)
• 1945 – Theodor Dannecker, German Nazi officer (b. 1913)
• 1946 – Walter Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1887)
• 1946 – Damon Runyon, American writer (b. 1884)
• 1951 – Algernon Blackwood, English writer (b. 1869)
• 1953 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)
• 1956 – David Shimoni, Israeli poet and writer (b. 1891)
• 1958 – Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder (b. 1864)
• 1967 – Otis Redding, American soul singer (b. 1941)
• 1967 – Ronnie Caldwell, American soul and R&B musician (b. 1948)
• 1967 – Phalon Jones, American soul and R&B musician (b. 1949)
• 1968 – Karl Barth, Swiss theologian (b. 1886)
• 1968 – George Forrest, Northern Irish politician (b. 1921)
• 1968 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)
• 1973 – Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (b. 1922)
• 1977 – Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
• 1978 – Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (b. 1924)
• 1979 – Ann Dvorak, American film actress (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Freeman Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1986 – Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927)
• 1986 – Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
• 1987 – Jascha Heifetz, Russian violinist (b. 1901)
• 1987 – Nikos Stavridis, Greek actor (b. 1910)
• 1988 – Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933)
• 1988 – Johnny Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1911)
• 1990 – Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector (b. 1898)
• 1991 – Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
• 1991 – Headman Shabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (b. 1945)
• 1992 – Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Keith Joseph, English politician (b. 1918)
• 1994 – Alexander Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905)
• 1995 – Darren Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (b. 1967)
• 1996 – Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932)
• 1999 – Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (b. 1942)
• 1999 – Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947)
• 1999 – Franjo Tuđman, Croate politician (b. 1922)
• 2000 – Marie Windsor, American film actress (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)
• 2002 – Andres Küng, Swedish-born Estonian politician and journalist (b. 1945)
• 2004 – Gary Webb, American journalist (b. 1955)
• 2005 – Eugene McCarthy, America politician (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940)
• 2006 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian actress (b. 1981)
• 2007 – Aqsa Parvez, Pakastani-born Canadian honor killing victim (b. 1991)
• 2008 – Didith Reyes, Filipino singer (b. 1948)
• 2009 – Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian physicist (b. 1925)
• 2010 – John Bennett Fenn, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
• 2010 – J. Michael Hagopian, Turkish-born American documentarian (b. 1913)
• 2010 – MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1921)