October 7 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 336 – Pope Mark
  • 929 – Charles the Simple, French king (b. 879)
  • 1368 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (b. 1338)
  • 1553 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. c.1500)
  • 1555 – Louis of Praet, Belgian diplomat (b. 1488)
  • 1577 – George Gascoigne, English poet (b. 1535)
  • 1612 – Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet and diplomat (b. 1538)
  • 1620 – Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish-Lithuanian military leader (b. 1547)
  • 1637 – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
  • 1651 – Jacques Sirmond, French scholar (b. 1559)
  • 1653 – Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (b. 1581)
  • 1772 – John Woolman, American preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
  • 1780 – Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier (b. 1744)
  • 1787 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (b. 1711)
  • 1792 – George Mason, American politician (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 author and poet (b. 1809)
  • 1894 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809)
  • 1896 – Emma Darwin, English wife of Charles Darwin, (b. 1808)
  • 1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
  • 1904 – Isabella Bird, English explorer and historian (b. 1831)
  • 1906 – Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
  • 1911 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
  • 1919 – Alfred Deakin, Australian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
  • 1925 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880)
  • 1926 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)
  • 1931 – Eugen Schmidt, Danish tug of war competitor (b. 1862)
  • 1939 – Harvey Williams Cushing, American surgeon (b. 1869)
  • 1943 – Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
  • 1943 – Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)
  • 1943 – Archibald Warden, English tennis player (b. 1869)
  • 1944 – Helmut Lent, German pilot (b. 1918)
  • 1951 – Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (b. 1874)
  • 1956 – Clarence Birdseye, American businessman (b. 1886)
  • 1959 – Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b. 1921)
  • 1966 – Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1890)
  • 1966 – Smiley Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1913)
  • 1967 – Norman Angell, English journalist and politician and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
  • 1969 – Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
  • 1970 – Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and academic (b. 1906)
  • 1991 – Harry W. Brown, American pilot (b. 1921)
  • 1991 – Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
  • 1991 – Darren Millane, Australian footballer (b. 1965)
  • 1992 – Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (b. 1930)
  • 1992 – Tevfik Esenç, Turkish last speaker of Ubykh language (b. 1904)
  • 1993 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910)
  • 1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne, English-Danish immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
  • 1995 – Ernest Ingenito, American murderer (b. 1924)
  • 1996 – Lou Lichtveld, Surinamese Dutch politician, playwright, and poet (b. 1903)
  • 1998 – Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player (b. 1915)
  • 1998 – Cees de Vreugd, Dutch strongman and weightlifter (b. 1952)
  • 2001 – Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
  • 2001 – Christopher Adams, English wrestler (b. 1955)
  • 2001 – Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist and businessman (b. 1913)
  • 2002 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
  • 2003 – Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
  • 2003 – Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912)
  • 2003 – Wally George, American talk show host (b. 1931)
  • 2004 – Kenneth Bigley, English engineer (b. 1942)
  • 2005 – Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
  • 2006 – Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish cyclist (b. 1985)
  • 2006 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
  • 2007 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
  • 2007 – George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931)
  • 2008 – Leslie Hardman, Welsh rabbi (b. 1913)
  • 2009 – Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
  • 2010 – T Lavitz, American keyboardist, composer, and producer (Dixie Dregs, Jazz Is Dead, and Widespread Panic) (b. 1956)
  • 2010 – Milka Planinc, Yugoslav politician, 7th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
  • 2011 – Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – Mersad Berber, Bosnian painter (b. 1940)
  • 2012 – Roman Danylak, Canadian-Ukrainian bishop (b. 1930)
  • 2012 – Mervyn M. Dymally, Trinidadian-American politician, 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, Mexican drug lord (b. 1974)
  • 2012 – Ivo Michiels, Belgian author (b. 1923)
  • 2012 – Wiley Reed, American-Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “On almost the incendiary eve
    Of deaths and entrances ...”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)