October 10 - Deaths

Deaths

• 19 – Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
• 680 – Husayn ibn Ali, Shi'a Imam, Muhammad's grandson (b. 626)
• 732 – Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
• 833 – al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)
• 1359 – King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
• 1459 – Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist and classicist (b. 1380)
• 1659 – Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
• 1674 – Thomas Traherne, English poet
• 1691 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
• 1708 – David Gregory, Scottish mathematician (b. 1659)
• 1714 – Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
• 1720 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
• 1723 – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
• 1725 – Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
• 1747 – John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
• 1759 – Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
• 1765 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
• 1795 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
• 1806 – Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)
• 1827 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer (b. 1778)
• 1837 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
• 1872 – William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
• 1875 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
• 1876 – Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
• 1893 – Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
• 1901 – Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
• 1911 – Jack Daniel, American Distiller and the founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery (b. 1846 or 1850)
• 1913 – Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
• 1913 – Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
• 1914 – King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)
• 1922 – Andreas Karkavitsas, Greek writer (b. 1866)
• 1927 – Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
• 1930 – Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
• 1940 – Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
• 1948 – Ted Horn, American race car driver (b. 1910)
• 1953 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand judge (b. 1884)
• 1957 – Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
• 1963 – Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)
• 1964 – Eddie Cantor, American singer and vaudeville performer (b. 1892)
• 1964 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Édouard Daladier, French politician (b. 1884)
• 1971 – John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
• 1976 – Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
• 1977 – Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
• 1978 – Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b. 1910)
• 1978 – Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
• 1979 – Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Paul Paray, French conductor (b. 1886)
• 1982 – Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
• 1983 – Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)
• 1985 – Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
• 1990 – Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
• 1990 – Nikolaos Pavlopoulos, Greek sculptor and writer (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
• 2000 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
• 2003 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
• 2004 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
• 2004 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
• 2004 – Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Mehmed Uzun, contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Stephen Gately, Irish singer (Boyzone) (b. 1976)
• 2010 – Solomon Burke, American singer (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (b. 1926)