July 10 - Deaths

Deaths

• 138 – Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
• 649 – Emperor Taizong of Tang (b. 599)
• 1099 – El Cid, Castilian military leader, and diplomat (b. 1044)
• 1103 – Eric I of Denmark (b. 1060)
• 1290 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
• 1460 – Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military commander (b. 1402)
• 1480 – René of Anjou (b. 1410)
• 1559 – Henry II of France (b. 1519)
• 1584 – William the Silent, French prince (b. 1533)
• 1590 – Charles II, Archduke of Austria (b. 1540)
• 1594 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)
• 1603 – Joan Terès i Borrull, Spanish bishop (b. 1538)
• 1621 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, Roman military commander (b. 1571)
• 1653 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
• 1680 – Louis Moréri, French priest and encyclopedist (b. 1643)
• 1683 – François Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
• 1686 – John Fell, English clergyman (b. 1625)
• 1776 – Richard Peters, English clergyman (b. 1704)
• 1794 – Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French general (d. 1754)
• 1806 – George Stubbs,English painter (b. 1724)
• 1848 – Karoline Jagemann, German actor (b. 1777)
• 1851 – Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787)
• 1881 – Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and educator (b. 1812)
• 1884 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
• 1908 – Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (b. 1839)
• 1920 – John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, English admiral (b. 1841)
• 1941 – Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, bandleader, and composer (Red Hot Peppers) (b. 1890)
• 1950 – Richard Maury, American-Argentine engineer (b. 1882)
• 1954 – Calogero Vizzini, Italian mafia boss (b. 1877)
• 1956 – Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1962 – Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and politician (b. 1875)
• 1963 – Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1893)
• 1970 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1908)
• 1971 – Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (b. 1924)
• 1971 – George Kenner, German artist, made 110 paintings and drawings during the First World War while interned as a POW (b. 1888)
• 1972 – Lovie Austin, American pianist, bandleader, and composer (b. 1887)
• 1972 – Francis Gailey, Australian born American freestyle swimmer (b. 1882)
• 1978 – Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
• 1978 – John D. Rockefeller III, American businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Asia Society (b. 1906)
• 1979 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
• 1980 – Joseph Krumgold, American writer (b. 1908)
• 1981 – Ken McElroy, American criminal and murder victim (b. 1936)
• 1985 – Fernando Pereira, Portuguese-Dutch photographer, victim of the Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior (b. 1950)
• 1986 – Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1940)
• 1987 – John H. Hammond, American record producer, critic, and actvist (b. 1910)
• 1989 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
• 2002 – Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Evangelos Florakis, Greek military officer (b. 1943)
• 2003 – Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
• 2003 – Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician (b. 1942)
• 2003 – Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, English lawyer and politician (b. 1902)
• 2004 – Pati Behrs, Russian-American ballerina (b. 1922)
• 2005 – A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
• 2005 – Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio personality (b. 1955)
• 2006 – Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel leader (b. 1965)
• 2007 – Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
• 2007 – Doug Marlette, American cartoonist and author (b. 1949)
• 2007 – Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese director of the State Food and Drug Administration (b. 1944)
• 2008 – Hiroaki Aoki, Japanese-American wrestler and businessman, founder of Benihana (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Mike Souchak, American golfer (b. 1927)
• 2011 – Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Roland Petit, French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Dolphy, Filipino comedian and actor (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Lol Coxhill, English saxophonist (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Maria Hawkins Ellington, American singer (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Cheryll Heinze, American politician (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Peter Kyros, American politician (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Fritz Langanke, German SS lieutenant (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Pappu Yadav, Indian politician (b. 1962)