1512 – Antoon Keldermans, Brabant builder (Middelburg town hall), dies at 72
1889 – Edward Aylesworth Perry, American soldier and politician (General under Lee for Confederate Army, 14th Governor of Florida 1885-89), dies of a stroke at 58
1891 – Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English writer (Punch), dies at 54
1891 – William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 54
1910 – Larkin Goldsmith Mead, American sculptor who worked in Florence, dies at 75
1955 – Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese film score composer (Rashomon; Seven Samurai), dies of tuberculosis at 41
1969 – Abdirashid Shermake, President of Somali Republic, shot by one of his bodyguards at 50
1978 – W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (Saipan, Walk to Paradise Garden), dies of a stroke at 59
2006 – Derek Bond, British actor (Nicholas Nickelby, Armchair Theatre), dies at 86
2013 – Gloria Lynne [Wilson], American jazz vocalist (Dell Tones), dies of a heart attack at 83
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 14th October 2023
1092 – Aboe Ali Hasan ibn Nizam al-Moelk, writer (Sijasetname), assassinated
1790 – William Hooper, American attorney and signer of U.S. Declaration of Independence, dies at 48
1976 – Edith Evans, English actress (Tom Jones, Scrooge, Chalk Garden), dies at 88
1998 – Cleveland Amory, American animal rights activist and TV critic (TV Guide), dies at 81
1999 – Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician and 1st President of Tanzania (1964-1985), dies at 77
2003 – Patrick Dalzel-Job, English soldier and inspiration for James Bond (b. 1913)
2007 – Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (Woman of Rome), dies at 82
2008 – Barrington J. Bayley, English sci-fi author (Collision Course), dies at 71
2010 – Simon MacCorkindale, English actor (Falcon Crest, Manimal), dies of bowel cancer at 58
2022 – Stanislav Kropilák, Slovak basketball power forward-center (4 × FIBA European Selection; 5 × Czech Player of the Year; BK Inter Bratislava), dies at 67
Famous Deaths for 13th October 2023
1687 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)
1855 – Gottfried Rieger, Czech composer, dies at 91
1919 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1965 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist (1948 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering effects of DDT), dies at 66
1981 – Nils Asther ‘the male Greta Garbo’, Swedish actor (Son of Lassie, Wild Orchids), dies at 84
1991 – Daniel Oduber Quiros, president of Costa Rica (1974-1978), dies at 70
1993 – Gwen Wells, American actress (Nashville), dies of cancer at 42
1997 – Adil Carcani, prime minister of Albania (1982-91), dies
2009 – Stephen Barnett, American legal scholar who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 (b. 1935)
2012 – Marc Awodey, American artist and writer, dies at 51
Famous Deaths for 12th October 2023
1343 – Reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies
1678 – Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)
1758 – Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)
1858 – Ando Hiroshige, Japanese painter, dies at 61
1887 – Dinah Craik, English writer (John Halifax, Gentleman), dies at 61
1940 – Tom Mix, American silent screen cowboy actor (Texan, Hidden Gold), dies at 60
1972 – (Wilfred) “Billy” Williams, American pop singer (“I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter”), dies at 61
1983 – Ernie Roth, American wrestling manager (ring name “The Grand Wizard of Wrestling”), dies at 57
1992 – Alexander Pola [Abraham Polak], Dutch actor and writer (Farce Major), dies at 78
2002 – Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (Ray Conniff Singers), dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 11th October 2023
1598 – Joachim Camerarius, German botanist (horticulture catalog) and physician, dies at 63
1809 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer, soldier and public administrator who helped lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies of gunshot wounds at 35 under mysterious circumstances that could have been murder or suicide along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee at an inn called Grinder’s Stand
1811 – Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician, naturalist, and instructor of non-verbal deaf persons, dies at 86
1897 – Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer (Variations Symphoniques; Suite Gothique), dies at 35
1946 – Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer, dies at 35
1984 – K. M. Rangnekar, Indian cricketer (33 runs at 5 50 for India), dies at 67
1996 – Arthur Walter Lucas, first Chief Restorer of the National Gallery, London, dies at 80
1996 – Johnny Costa [Costanza], American jazz pianist, celeste and accordion player, and musical director (Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood), dies at 74
2008 – Jörg Haider, Austrian far-right politician (b. 1950)
2014 – Mats Rondin, Swedish cellist, conductor, and educator, dies at 54
Famous Deaths for 10th October 2023
1617 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician and writer, dies at 64
1691 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet, dies at 77
1720 – Antoine Coysevox, French Baroque sculptor (Palace of Versailles), dies at 80
1858 – Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, German biographer, diplomat and soldier (Die Sterner), dies at 73
1864 – David Bullock Harris, US Confederate colonel, dies of yellow fever
1872 – William H. Seward, American politician (Secretary of State, 1861-69, Governor of New York, 1839-42), dies at 71
1877 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist, dies at 76
1964 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (The Art of Piano Playing), dies at 76
1978 – Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete, politician (Rep-D-Ill; joint world record 100m, Olympic gold 4x100m relay 1936), dies of a heart attack at 68
2008 – Sid Hudson, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1941, 42; Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 9th October 2023
1806 – Benjamin Banneker, African American astronomer, mathematician and surveyor of Washington, D.C., dies at 74
1868 – Howell Cobb, American politician (U.S. Secretary of Treasury), dies at 53
1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1941 – Helen Morgan, American stage and screen actress, and singer (Show Boat), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 41
1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist (Nobel Prize 1902 for Zeeman effect), dies at 78
1953 – James Finlayson, Scottish-American stage, and silent and “talkie” film actor (Laurel and Hardy films), dies of a heart attack at 66
1954 – Robert H. Jackson, American lawyer and politician (84th Supreme Court justice 1941-54), dies at 62
1974 – Oskar Schindler, Austrian businessman and subject of the novel “Schindler’s Ark” and the film “Schindler’s List”, dies at 66
1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1963-64), dies at 92
2012 – Theo Olof, German-Dutch violinist and concert master, dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 8th October 2023
1652 – John Greaves, English mathematician and astronomer (attempted to survey the pyramids) (b. 1602)
1656 – John Georg I, Elector of Saxony (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71
1895 – Charles Oberthür, German composer and harpist, dies at 76
1967 – Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd), dies at 61
1978 – Karl Swenson, American actor (Lars Hanson-Little House on the Prairie), dies of a heart attack at 70
1979 – June Nash, American actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68
1983 – Joan Hackett, American stage and screen actress (Will Penny; Only When I Laugh; Mourning Becomes Electra),, dies of cancer at 49
1997 – Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (b. 1913)
1997 – Robin Lee, American figure skater, dies at 77
2011 – Antonio Iglesias Álvares, Spanish pianist, composer, educator and critic, dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 7th October 2023
1911 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
1944 – Helmut Lent, German night-fighter ace in World War II, dies at 26
1951 – Anton Philips, Co-Founder of Royal Philips Electronics N.V., dies at 77
1985 – Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish composer, dies at 81
1986 – Cheryl Crawford, American actress and producer (Touch of Venus, Brigadoon), dies at 84
1994 – Paul Swift, American actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60
1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
1995 – Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59
1995 – Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91
2010 – Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor (b. 1966)
Famous Deaths for 6th October 2023
1868 – Léon Kreutzer, French composer and music critic, dies at 51
1919 – Ricardo Palma, Peruvian writer and poet (Tradiciones Peruanas), dies at 86
1924 – Jacques Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer and jurist, dies at 75
1951 – Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated
1970 – Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Sruby), dies at 69
1981 – Anwar Sadat, 3rd President of Egypt (1970-81, Nobel 1978), assassinated by fundamentalist army officers at 62
1991 – Wendell Phillips, dies at 83 [or 10/13]
2010 – Colette Renard, French actress and singer (b. 1924)
2020 – Johnny Nash, American pop-reggae-soul singer-songwriter and record producer (I Can See Clearly Now), dies at 80
2022 – Judy Tenuta, American stand-up comedienne and accordion player, dies of ovarian cancer at 72