November 2 - Deaths

Deaths

• 943 – Queen Emma of France, (b. 894)
• 1083 – Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort (b. 1031)
• 1285 – King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
• 1327 – King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
• 1483 – Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1454)
• 1610 – Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)
• 1618 – Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)
• 1716 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651)
• 1807 – Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)
• 1846 – Esaias Tegnér, Swedish writer, educator, and bishop (b. 1782)
• 1852 – Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
• 1863 – Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)
• 1877 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
• 1887 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
• 1898 – George Goyder, English surveyor (b. 1826)
• 1905 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)
• 1935 – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
• 1944 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
• 1945 – Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)
• 1949 – Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
• 1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1856)
• 1958 – Jean Couzy, French mountaineer (b. 1923)
• 1959 – Michael Considine, Australian politician (b. 1885)
• 1960 – Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
• 1961 – James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)
• 1963 – Ngô Đình Diệm, South Vietnamese politician (b. 1901)
• 1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)
• 1966 – Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (b. 1892)
• 1970 – Richard Cushing, cardinal and archbishop of Boston (b. 1895)
• 1975 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
• 1979 – Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (b. 1936)
• 1982 – Lester Roloff, American religious personality (b. 1914)
• 1984 – Velma Barfield, American convicted murderer (b. 1932)
• 1986 – Paul Frees, American voice actor (b. 1920)
• 1991 – Irwin Allen, American film producer (b. 1916)
• 1992 – Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)
• 1996 – Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
• 1998 – Vincent Winter, British actor (b. 1957)
• 2000 – Robert Cormier, American author, columnist and reporter (b. 1925)
• 2002 – Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896)
• 2002 – Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)
• 2003 – Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, United Arab Emiratesian politician (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957)
• 2004 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (b. 1951)
• 2005 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and coach (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (b. 1978)
• 2007 – Witold Kiełtyka, Polish metal drummer (b. 1984)
• 2007 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
• 2007 – Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Henry Cele, South African actor (b. 1949)
• 2010 – Andy Irons, American professional surfer (b. 1978)
• 2010 – Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)