October 4 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1052 – Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
• 1221 – William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (b. 1179)
• 1250 – Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (b. 1226)
• 1305 – Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
• 1582 – Teresa of Avila, Spanish saint (b. 1515)
• 1597 – Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1550)
• 1646 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (b. 1586)
• 1660 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
• 1661 – Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (b. 1625)
• 1669 – Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (b. 1606)
• 1680 – Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer
• 1743 – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (b. 1678)
• 1749 – Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
• 1754 – Tanacharison, Catawba Indian chief
• 1785 – David Brearly, American statesman (b. 1703)
• 1821 – John Rennie, Scottish engineer (b. 1761)
• 1851 – Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (b. 1767)
• 1852 – James Whitcomb, American politician (b. 1795)
• 1859 – Karl Baedeker, German publisher (b. 1801)
• 1864 – Joseph Montferrand, French Canadian logger and strong man (b. 1802)
• 1867 – Francis Xavier Seelos German-American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1819)
• 1890 – Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1903 – Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)
• 1904 – Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (b. 1834)
• 1904 – Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)
• 1910 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (b. 1850)
• 1935 – Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
• 1935 – Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (b. 1874)
• 1943 – Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish intelligence agent (b. 1906)
• 1944 – Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873)
• 1946 – Barney Oldfield, American automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
• 1947 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1858)
• 1951 – Willie Moretti, American gangster (b. 1894)
• 1951 – Henrietta Lacks, HeLa cells derived from her cervical cancer (b. 1920)
• 1955 – Alexander Papagos, Greek general and political leader (b. 1883)
• 1958 – Ida Wüst, German actress, (b. 1884)
• 1961 – Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (b. 1880)
• 1969 – Natalino Otto, Italian singer (b. 1912)
• 1970 – Janis Joplin, American singer (b. 1943)
• 1974 – Anne Sexton, American poet (b. 1928)
• 1975 – Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress (b. 1903)
• 1977 – José Ber Gelbard, activist and politician, dies in Washington DC of a heart attack (b. 1917).
• 1981 – Freddie Lindstrom, Major League Baseball Hall of famer (b. 1905)
• 1982 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
• 1989 – Graham Chapman, British comedian (b. 1941)
• 1989 – Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)
• 1990 – Alyn Ainsworth, British bandleader (b. 1924)
• 1990 – Avis Bunnage, English actress (b. 1923)
• 1991 – J. Frank Wilson, American singer (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (b. 1941)
• 1992 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver and 1967 Formula One world champion (b. 1936)
• 1994 – Danny Gatton, American guitar virtuoso (b. 1945)
• 1996 – Larry Gene Bell, American child murderer (executed by electric chair) (b. 1949)
• 1997 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game developer (b. 1941)
• 1999 – Erik Brødreskift (aka Grim), Norwegian black metal musician (b. 1969)
• 1999 – Art Farmer, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1928)
• 1999 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Michael Smith, biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
• 2000 – Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
• 2001 – Ahron Soloveichik, Orthodox Jewish rabbi (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Alphonse Chapanis, founder of ergonomics (b. 1917)
• 2002 – André Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Sid McMath, American politician (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Rio Diaz, Filipino actress & TV hosts (b. 1959)
• 2005 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Tom Bell, English actor on stage, television and film (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian General (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Günther Rall, German fighter ace (b. 1918)
• 2010 – Sir Norman Wisdom, English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1915)