October 2 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 534 – Athalaric, Italian king (b. 516)
  • 939 – Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine (b. 890)
  • 1559 – Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)
  • 1626 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)
  • 1629 – Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal (b. 1575)
  • 1629 – Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
  • 1708 – Anne Jules de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)
  • 1709 – Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian military officer (b. 1639)
  • 1724 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French author (b. 1644)
  • 1746 – Josiah Burchett, English admiral (b. 1666)
  • 1764 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720)
  • 1775 – Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
  • 1780 – John André, English army officer (b. 1750)
  • 1782 – Charles Lee, English-American general (b. 1732)
  • 1786 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral (b. 1725)
  • 1803 – Samuel Adams, American politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1722)
  • 1804 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French engineer (b. 1725)
  • 1817 – Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian 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)
  • 1955 – William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)
  • 1962 – Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)
  • 1968 – Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculpture (b. 1887)
  • 1971 – Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1911)
  • 1973 – Paul Hartman, American actor (b. 1904)
  • 1973 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
  • 1974 – Vasily Shukshin, Russian actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1929)
  • 1975 – K. Kamaraj, Indian politician (b. 1903)
  • 1981 – Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902)
  • 1981 – Hazel Scott, Trinidadian singer and actress (b. 1920)
  • 1985 – Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
  • 1987 – Madeleine Carroll, English actress (b. 1906)
  • 1987 – Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
  • 1988 – Alec Issigonis, Greek-English car designer, developer of the Mini (b. 1906)
  • 1991 – Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople (b. 1914)
  • 1994 – Harriet Hilliard Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)
  • 1996 – Robert Bourassa, Canadian politician, 22nd Premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
  • 1996 – Andrey Lukanov, Bulgarian politician (b. 1938)
  • 1998 – Gene Autry, American singer and actor (b. 1907)
  • 1998 – Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (b. 1924)
  • 1999 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (b. 1921)
  • 2001 – Franz Biebl, German composer (b. 1906)
  • 2002 – Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
  • 2003 – John Thomas Dunlop, American administrator and scholar (b. 1914)
  • 2005 – Bert Eriksson, Belgian activist (b. 1931)
  • 2005 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (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-American mathematician (b. 1916)
  • 2006 – Charles Carl Roberts, American murderer (b. 1973)
  • 2007 – Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
  • 2007 – Christopher Derrick, English author (b. 1921)
  • 2007 – Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (b. 1913)
  • 2007 – Dan Keating, Irish politician (b. 1902)
  • 2007 – Tawn Mastrey, American radio host and producer (b. 1954)
  • 2008 – Rob Guest, English-Australian actor and singer (b. 1950)
  • 2008 – Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress (b. 1968)
  • 2010 – Kwa Geok Choo, Singaporean wife of Lee Kuan Yew (b. 1920)
  • 2012 – Nguyen Chi Thien, Vietnamese poet (b. 1939)
  • 2012 – Mohammed Mushaima, Bahraini activist (b. 1988)
  • 2012 – Charles Roach, Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer (b. 1933)
  • 2012 – J. Philippe Rushton, Canadian academic and theorist (b. 1943)
  • 2012 – Big Jim Sullivan, English guitarist (James Last Orchestra) (b. 1941)

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