October 7 - Deaths

Deaths

• 336 – Pope Mark
• 929 – Charles the Simple, King of France (b. 879)
• 1368 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)
• 1553 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. c.1500)
• 1555 – Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b. 1488)
• 1577 – George Gascoigne, English poet
• 1612 – Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat, (b. 1538)
• 1620 – Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547)
• 1637 – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
• 1651 – Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559)
• 1653 – Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1581)
• 1708 – Guru Gobind Singh, tenth Sikh Guru (b. 1666)
• 1772 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
• 1787 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
• 1792 – George Mason, American statesman (b. 1725)
• 1793 – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718)
• 1796 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
• 1849 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (b. 1809)
• 1894 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
• 1896 – Emma Wedgwood, English naturalist, wife of Charles Darwin, (b. 1808)
• 1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
• 1906 – Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
• 1911 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
• 1919 – Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
• 1925 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880)
• 1926 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)
• 1939 – Harvey Cushing, Father of Modern Neurosurgery (b. 1869)
• 1943 – Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
• 1943 – Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)
• 1944 – Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (b. 1918)
• 1956 – Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
• 1959 – Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
• 1966 – Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer and songwriter. (b. 1890)
• 1966 – Smiley Lewis, American musician (b. 1913)
• 1967 – Norman Angell, British politician and Nobel Laureate (b. 1872)
• 1969 – Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest, educator and academic executive (b. 1906)
• 1991 – Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
• 1992 – Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (b. 1930)
• 1992 – Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)
• 1993 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born Danish immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955)
• 2001 – Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
• 2003 – Izzy Asper, Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931)
• 2004 – Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942)
• 2005 – Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
• 2006 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
• 2006 – Abraham Afewerki, Eritrean singer (b.1966)
• 2006 – Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish Basque cyclist (b. 1985)
• 2007 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
• 2007 – George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor (b. 1966)
• 2010 – Milka Planinc, former PM of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
• 2010 – T Lavitz, American musician (b. 1956)