November 7 - Deaths

Deaths

• 644 – Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam
• 1225 – Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
• 1550 – Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland (b. 1484)
• 1574 – Solomon Luria, Maharshal (b. 1510)
• 1581 – Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
• 1599 – Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
• 1620 – Hetman Stanisław Żólkiewski Polish commander in the Battle of Ţuţora (1620) (b. 1547)
• 1633 – Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
• 1639 – Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
• 1642 – Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
• 1713 – Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
• 1837 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
• 1872 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
• 1881 – John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791)
• 1906 – Heinrich Seidel, German engineer, poet and writer (b. 1842)
• 1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
• 1919 – Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
• 1922 – Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1930 – Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23^rd Yokozuna (b. 1878)
• 1943 – Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1944 – Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
• 1944 – Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
• 1959 – Victor McLaglen, British-born actor (b. 1883)
• 1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1966 – Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
• 1967 – John Nance Garner, U.S. Congressman and Vice President (b. 1868)
• 1968 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
• 1968 – Gordon Coventry, Australian rules footballer (b. 1901)
• 1974 – Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
• 1978 – Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion (b. 1897)
• 1980 – Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
• 1983 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
• 1986 – Tracy Pew, Australian musician (The Birthday Party) (b. 1957)
• 1991 – Carter Cornelius, American R&B musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (b. 1948)
• 1991 – Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
• 1992 – Alexander Dubček, Slovakian politician (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1994 – Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)
• 1996 – Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist (b. 1939)
• 2000 – Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Queen Ingrid, Queen Dowager of Denmark (b. 1910)
• 2001 – Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
• 2002 – Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Harry Thompson, English-born comedian and novelist (b. 1960)
• 2006 – Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1984)
• 2006 – Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Earl Dodge, American politician (Prohibition Party) (b. 1932)
• 2007 – George W. George, American theater, Broadway and film producer (b. 1920)