Famous Deaths for 7th October 2018

1793 – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718)
1890 – John Hill Hewitt, American songwriter (A Minstrel’s Return from the War), dies at 89
1924 – Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71
1966 – Smiley Lewis [Overton Amos Lemons], American singer (The Bells Are Ringing, I Hear You Knocking), dies at 46
1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
1999 – Deryck Guyler, British actor (Please Sir!, Sykes), dies at 85
2005 – Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
2010 – T Lavitz, American musician (b. 1956)
2010 – Milka Planinc, former PM of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
2012 – Mervyn Dymally, Trinidadian-born American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1981-93), dies at 86

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