February 10 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1126 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)
• 1162 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
• 1242 – Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
• 1278 – Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
• 1576 – Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
• 1645 – Dorothea Sophia, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1587)
• 1686 – William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
• 1722 – Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
• 1755 – Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
• 1758 – Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1682)
• 1782 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
• 1829 – Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
• 1837 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)
• 1857 – David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
• 1865 – Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
• 1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
• 1904 – John A. Roche, American politician (b. 1844)
• 1906 – Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
• 1912 – Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827)
• 1917 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
• 1918 – Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)
• 1918 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1833)
• 1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
• 1932 – Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
• 1939 – Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
• 1944 – Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer (b. 1870)
• 1945 – Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
• 1950 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
• 1952 – Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist (b. 1880)
• 1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
• 1960 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
• 1966 – Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
• 1975 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
• 1979 – Edvard Kardelj, Yugoslav communist leader (b. 1910)
• 1984 – David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
• 1985 – Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)
• 1987 – Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
• 1990 – Bill Sherwood, American filmmaker/composer (b. 1952)
• 1992 – Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
• 1995 – Paul Monette, American author and gay rights activist (b. 1945)
• 1997 – Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts (b. 1996)
• 2000 – Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
• 2001 – Abraham Beame, American politician (b. 1906)
• 2001 – George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936)
• 2003 – Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
• 2003 – Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1959)
• 2003 – Clark MacGregor, American politician (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Al Ruffo, American politician (b. 1908)
• 2003 – Ron Ziegler, American press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Guy Provost, Quebec actor (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
• 2006 – J Dilla, American rapper/producer (b. 1974)
• 2006 – Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947)
• 2007 – Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
• 2007 – Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Steve Gerber, American comics writer (b. 1947)
• 2008 – Adeline Jay Geo-Karis, American politician (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Jeremy Lusk, American freestyle motocross racer (b. 1984)
• 2009 – Leila Hadley, American travel writer and socialite (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Charles Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Fred Schaus, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1925)