1619 – Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
1631 – Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Queen of Denmark and Norway, dies at 74
1857 – Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, Polish composer, dies of tuberculosis at 33
1977 – Bing Crosby [Harry Lillis Crosby], American singer and actor (Going My Way), dies of a heart attack at 74
1985 – Emil Gilels, Soviet concert pianist (Brussels Competition – 1st prize, 1938), dies at 68
1986 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor), dies at 70
1986 – Mary Lund, American women first to receive an artificial heart, dies at 40
1987 – Rodolfo Halffter, Spanish composer, and music critic, dies at 86
1988 – Mary Morris, actress (Agitator, Double Door), dies
2006 – Jared Anderson, American bassist (b. 1975)
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 13th October 2021
1282 – Nichiren Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (b. 1222)
1673 – Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617)
1759 – John Henley, English clergyman, dies at 64
1819 – Giovanni Battista Gaiani, Italian organist and composer, dies at 61
1822 – Antonio Canova, Italian Neoclassical sculptor (The Three Graces), dies at 64
1882 – Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (b. 1816)
1959 – Rudolf Mengelberg, Dutch composer and musicologist (Concert Amsterdam), dies at 67
1989 – Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (Ladri di Biciclette), dies at 87
2000 – Gus Hall, American union organizer and head of the U.S. Communist Party, dies at 90
2011 – Barbara Kent, Canadian born – U.S. silent film actress and WAMPAS Baby Stars (b.1907)
Famous Deaths for 12th October 2021
1646 – François de Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies at 67
1694 – Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies
1864 – Roger Taney, 5th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1836-64), dies at 87
1926 – Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (Flatland), dies at 87
1969 – Serge Poliakoff, Russ/French painter, dies
1970 – Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani Urdu poet, dies at 40
1995 – Eleanor Aller, cellist, dies at 78
2001 – Witold Szalonek, Polish composer (Satire), educator, and musicologist, dies at 74
2011 – Heinz Bennent, German actor (Possession, The Serpent’s Egg), dies at 90
2018 – Takehisa Kosugi, Japanese violinist and experimental music composer (Group Ongaku; Taj Mahal Travellers), dies at 80
Famous Deaths for 11th October 2021
1347 – Louis IV, Duke of Bayern/Romania-Germany King/emperor, dies
1617 – Franchois Vranck, economist/writer (Deduction), dies at about 62
1896 – Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
1991 – Redd Foxx, American comedian (Sanford and Sons), dies of heart attack at 68
1991 – Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (b. 1950)
1992 – Willem RJ Wittkampf, journalist/writer (Liner, Cannon), dies
1994 – Maja Bulgakova, Ukrainian actress (Krylja), dies in auto-accident at 62
2000 – Donald Campbell Dewar, Scottish politician (1st minister of Scotland’s first Parliament in almost 300yrs), dies from health complications at 63
2007 – Sri Chinmoy [Chinmoy Kumar Ghose], Indian guru, dies at 76
2020 – Ângelo Martins, Portuguese soccer defender (20 caps; Benfica 231 games), dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 10th October 2021
1617 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician and writer, dies at 64
1877 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist, dies at 76
1959 – Prince Friedrich Aloys Johannes Maria, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania, dies at 88
1970 – Edouard Daladier, 72nd Prime Minister of France (1933, 1934 and 1938-40) and PM at the start of World War II, dies at 86
1973 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian-American Economist (The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality), dies at 92
1975 – Lillian Walker, American silent era actress, dies at 88
1979 – Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
1993 – Djillali Belkhenchir, Algerian doctor, murdered at 52
2002 – Teresa Graves, American actress (Laugh-in, Get Christie Love!), dies in a fire at her home at 54
2004 – Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
Famous Deaths for 9th October 2021
1688 – Claude Perrault, French Architect and Physician, dies at 75
1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
1769 – Marianus Königsperger, German composer, dies at 60
1918 – Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev, Imperial Russian general and WW I Chief of Staff, murdered at 60
1960 – Howard Glenn, NY Titan, dies of injuries sustain in this day’s game
1976 – Walter Warlimont, German General WWII, dies at 82
1999 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)
2015 – N. Ramani, Indian flutist, dies at 80
2016 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (Ashes and Diamonds, Man of Iron), dies at 90
2019 – Andrés Gimeno, Spanish tennis player (French Open 1972), dies from cancer at 82
Famous Deaths for 8th October 2021
1735 – Yongzheng, 4th Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1722-35), dies at 56
1945 – Felix Salten [Siegmund Salzmann], Austrian author (Bambi, a Life in the Woods), dies at 76
1967 – Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd), dies at 61
1970 – Lucien Goldmann, Romanian-French sociologist and philosopher, dies at 57
1970 – Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75
1971 – Christopher Dark [Alfred Francis DeLeo], American actor, (World Without End, The Time Tunnel), dies of a heart attack at 51
1984 – Frederick Brisson, Danish-born film and theater producer, dies at 71 after a stroke
1991 – Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75
1996 – Susan Gautier-Smith, British TV producer, dies of heart failure at 33
2008 – Bob Friend (newscaster), British newscaster (b. 1938)
Famous Deaths for 7th October 2021
1553 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer, dies at about 53
1943 – Eugeniusz Bodo [Bohdan Eugène Junod], Polish film director, producer and comedic actor, dies in the Gulag at 43
1990 – Juan Jose Arevalo, President of Guatemala (1945-51), dies
1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
1996 – Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser, dies at 86
2001 – Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
2004 – Hildy Park, American actress and writer (To Tell the Truth), dies of a stroke at 78
2008 – Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)
2011 – Ramiz Alia, the former communist leader and first president of the Albanian pluralist (b. 1925)
2012 – John Tchicai, Danish jazz saxophonist and composer (New York Art Quartet), dies at 76
Famous Deaths for 6th October 2021
1214 – Alfonso VIII the Noble, King of Castile and Toledo (1158-1214), dies at 58
1585 – Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter and sculptor, dies at 57
1841 – George Childress, American lawyer and statesman (author of Texas Declaration of Independence), commits suicide at 37
1860 – Stephen Elvey, English composer, dies at 55
1874 – Thomas Tellefsen, Norwegian pianist and composer, dies at 50
1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), dies at 70
1999 – Francis Turner, American civil engineer (oversaw the Interstate Highway System), dies at 90
2003 – Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist (Grizzly Man), dies mauled and eaten by bears in Katmai National Park, Alaska at 46
2007 – Eric McCredie, Scottish pop bassist (Middle Of The Road – “Chirpy, Chirpy, Cheep Cheep”), dies at 62
2015 – Sandra Spuzich, American golfer (US Open 1966), dies of leukemia at 78
Famous Deaths for 5th October 2021
1813 – Etienne Ozi, French composer, dies at 58
1880 – Jacques Offenbach, German-French composer (Tales of Hoffman), dies at 61
1924 – Joseph Vezina, composer, dies at 75
1965 – Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson, Swedish composer, dies at 79
1983 – Earl Tupper, American-born Costa Rican inventor and businessman (Tupperware), dies of a heart attack at 76
1985 – Brian Keenan, American rock drummer (The Chamber Brothers), dies of a heart attack at 42
2002 – Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
2004 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (Caddyshack), dies at 82
2004 – William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 nominee), dies at 62
2010 – Mary Leona Gage, American beauty pageant winner and actress (b. 1939)