October 2 - Deaths

Deaths

• 939 – Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine
• 1559 – Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)
• 1626 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)
• 1629 – Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)
• 1629 – Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
• 1708 – Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)
• 1724 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)
• 1746 – Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty
• 1764 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720)
• 1775 – Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
• 1780 – John André, British Army officer (executed) (b. 1750)
• 1782 – Charles Lee, British and U.S. general (b. 1732)
• 1786 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1725)
• 1803 – Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (b. 1722)
• 1804 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (b. 1725)
• 1817 – Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)
• 1850 – Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
• 1853 – François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (b. 1786)
• 1920 – Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 – Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)
• 1947 – Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1962 – Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)
• 1968 – Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)
• 1971 – Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer, pianist, and songwriter (b. 1911)
• 1973 – Paul Hartman, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1973 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
• 1974 – Vasily Shukshin, Russian writer, actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1929)
• 1975 – Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian political leader, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1903)
• 1981 – Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902)
• 1981 – Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (b. 1920)
• 1985 – Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1987 – Madeleine Carroll, British-born actress (b. 1906)
• 1987 – Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915)
• 1988 – Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini (b. 1906)
• 1994 – Harriet Hilliard Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)
• 1996 – Robert Bourassa, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
• 1998 – Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (b. 1924)
• 1999 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Franz Biebl, German composer (b. 1906)
• 2002 – Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
• 2003 – John T. Dunlop, U.S. Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian (b. 1918)
• 2005 – August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
• 2006 – Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Charles Carl Roberts, American spree killer (b. 1973)
• 2007 – Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Christopher Derrick, British writer (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Dan Keating, Irish politician (b. 1902)
• 2007 – Tawn Mastrey, American disc jockey (b. 1954)
• 2008 – Rob Guest, New Zealand entertainer (b. 1950)
• 2008 – Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress (b. 1968)
• 2010 – Kwa Geok Choo, Mrs Lee Kuan Yew (b. 1920)