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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[744]] – [[Yazid III]], Umayyad caliph (born 701) * [[863]] – [[Turpio]], Frankish [[Nobility|nobleman]] *[[1052]] – [[Vladimir of Novgorod]] (born 1020) *[[1160]] – [[Constance of Castile]], Queen of France (born 1141) *[[1189]] – [[Gerard de Ridefort]], [[Grand Masters of the Knights Templar|Grand Master of the Knights Templar]] *[[1221]] – [[William IV, Count of Ponthieu|William IV Talvas]], Count of Ponthieu (born 1179) *[[1227]] – [[Abdallah al-Adil|Caliph al-Adil]] of Morocco<ref>Kennedy, Hugh (1996) ''Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus''. London: Addison-Wesley-Longman {{ISBN?}}{{page needed|date=October 2024}}</ref> *[[1250]] – [[Herman VI, Margrave of Baden]] (born 1226) *[[1305]] – [[Emperor Kameyama]] of Japan (born 1249) *[[1361]] – [[John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray]], English baron (born 1310) *[[1497]] – [[John, Prince of Asturias]], only son of [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] and [[Isabella I of Castile]] (born 1478) *[[1582]] – [[Teresa of Ávila]], Spanish nun and saint (born 1515) *[[1597]] – [[Sarsa Dengel]], Ethiopian emperor (born 1550) ===1601–1900=== *[[1646]] – [[Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel]], English courtier and politician, [[Earl Marshal|Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom]] (born 1586) *[[1660]] – [[Francesco Albani]], Italian painter (born 1578) *[[1661]] – [[Jacqueline Pascal]], French nun and composer (born 1625) *[[1669]] – [[Rembrandt]], Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1606)<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC - History - Historic Figures: Rembrandt (1606-1669) |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/rembrandt.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=11 May 2025}}</ref> *[[1680]] – [[Pierre-Paul Riquet]], French engineer, designed the [[Canal du Midi]] (born 1609) *[[1743]] – [[John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll]], Scottish commander and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Surrey]] (born 1678) *[[1747]] – [[Amaro Pargo]], Spanish corsair (born 1678)<ref>{{cite web |title=340 aniversario del nacimiento del corsario tinerfeño Amaro Pargo |url=https://www.santacruzdetenerife.es/web/noticias-y-agenda/noticias/detalle-noticia/340-aniversario-del-nacimiento-del-corsario-tinerfeno-amaro-pargo |website=SantaCruzDeTenerife.es |publisher=Ayuntamiento de Santa Cruz de Tenerife |access-date=25 January 2021 |date=25 May 2018}}</ref> *[[1749]] – [[Baron Franz von der Trenck]], Austrian soldier (born 1711) *[[1755]] – [[Samuel von Cocceji]], Prussian jurist and statesman (born 1679)<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers |year=2016 |isbn=9781474255981 |editor-last=Klemme |editor-first=Heiner F. |pages=138–139 |chapter=Cocceji, Samuel von |publisher=Bloomsbury |editor-last2=Kuehn |editor-first2=Manfred |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YH6fCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA138}}</ref> *[[1821]] – [[John Rennie the Elder]], Scottish engineer, designed the [[Waterloo Bridge]] (born 1761) *[[1827]] – [[Grigorios Zalykis]], Greek-French lexicographer and scholar (born 1785) *[[1851]] – [[Manuel Godoy]], Spanish general and politician, [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (born 1767) *[[1852]] – [[James Whitcomb]], American lawyer and politician, 8th [[Governor of Indiana]] (born 1795) *[[1859]] – [[Karl Baedeker]], German publisher, founded [[Baedeker]] (born 1801) *[[1864]] – [[Joseph Montferrand]], Canadian logger and strongman (born 1802) *[[1867]] – [[Francis Xavier Seelos]], German-American priest and missionary (born 1819) *[[1871]] – [[Sarel Cilliers]], South African spiritual leader and preacher (born 1801) *[[1890]] – [[Catherine Booth]], English theologian and saint, co-founded [[The Salvation Army]] (born 1829) ===1901–present=== *[[1903]] – [[Otto Weininger]], Austrian philosopher and author (born 1880) *[[1904]] – [[Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi]], French sculptor, designed the [[Statue of Liberty]] (born 1834) * 1904 – [[Carl Josef Bayer]], Austrian chemist and academic (born 1847) *[[1910]] – [[Sergey Muromtsev]], Russian lawyer and politician (born 1850) *[[1935]] – [[Jean Béraud]], French painter and academic (born 1849) * 1935 – [[Marie Gutheil-Schoder]], German soprano, actress, and director (born 1874) *[[1943]] – [[Irena Iłłakowicz]], German-Polish lieutenant (born 1906) *[[1944]] – [[Al Smith]], American lawyer and politician, 42nd [[Governor of New York]] (born 1873) *[[1946]] – [[Barney Oldfield]], American race car driver and actor (born 1878) *[[1947]] – [[Max Planck]], German physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1858) *[[1951]] – [[Henrietta Lacks]], American medical patient (born 1920) *[[1955]] – [[Alexander Papagos]], Greek general and politician, 152nd [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (born 1883) *[[1958]] – [[Ida Wüst]], German actress and screenwriter (born 1884) *[[1961]] – [[Benjamin (Fedchenkov)|Benjamin]], Russian metropolitan (born 1880) *[[1963]] – [[Alar Kotli]], Estonian architect (born 1904) *[[1970]] – [[Janis Joplin]], American singer-songwriter (born 1943) *[[1974]] – [[Anne Sexton]], American poet and author (born 1928) *[[1975]] – [[Friedrich Lutz (economist)|Friedrich Lutz]], German economist (born 1901)<ref>{{cite magazine |first1=Lachezar |last1=Grudev |title=Friedrich Lutz: A Forgotten Monetary Economist and Social Philosopher |date=Fall 2023 |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=225–236 |magazine=The Independent Review |issn=1086-1653 |url=https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=1881 |access-date=26 March 2024}}</ref> * 1975 – [[Joan Whitney Payson]], American businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1903) *[[1977]] – [[José Ber Gelbard]], Argentinian activist and politician (born 1917) *[[1980]] – [[Pyotr Masherov]], First Secretary of the [[Communist Party of Byelorussia]] (born 1918) *[[1981]] – [[Freddie Lindstrom]], American baseball player and coach (born 1905) *[[1982]] – [[Glenn Gould]], Canadian pianist and conductor (born 1932) * 1982 – [[Stefanos Stefanopoulos]], Greek politician, 165th [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (born 1898) *[[1988]] – [[Zlatko Grgić]], Croatian-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (born 1931) *[[1989]] – [[Graham Chapman]], English actor and screenwriter (born 1941) *[[1990]] – [[Mārtiņš Zīverts]], Latvian playwright (born 1903) *[[1992]] – [[Denny Hulme]], New Zealand race car driver (born 1936) *[[1994]] – [[Danny Gatton]], American guitarist (born 1945) *[[1997]] – [[Otto Ernst Remer]], German general (born 1912) * 1997 – [[Gunpei Yokoi]], Japanese game designer, created the [[Game Boy]] (born 1941) *[[1998]] – [[S. Arasaratnam]], Sri Lankan historian and academic (born 1930) *[[1999]] – [[Bernard Buffet]], French painter and illustrator (born 1928) * 1999 – [[Art Farmer]], American trumpet player and composer (born 1928) *[[2000]] – [[Yu Kuo-hwa]], Chinese politician, 32nd [[Premier of the Republic of China]] (born 1914) * 2000 – [[Michael Smith (chemist)|Michael Smith]], English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1932) *[[2001]] – [[Blaise Alexander]], American race car driver (born 1976) * 2001 – [[John Collins (jazz guitarist)|John Collins]], American guitarist (born 1913) * 2001 – [[Ahron Soloveichik]], Russian rabbi and scholar (born 1917) *[[2002]] – [[André Delvaux]], Belgian-Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1926) *[[2003]] – [[Sid McMath]], American lawyer and politician, 34th [[Governor of Arkansas]] (born 1912) *[[2004]] – [[Gordon Cooper]], American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (born 1927) *[[2005]] – [[Stanley K. Hathaway]], American lawyer and politician, 40th [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] (born 1924) *[[2007]] – [[Qassem Al-Nasser]], Jordanian general (born 1925) *[[2009]] – [[Gerhard Kaufhold]], German footballer (born 1928) * 2009 – [[Günther Rall]], German general and pilot (born 1918) *[[2010]] – [[Norman Wisdom]], English actor, comedian, and singer-songwriter (born 1915) *[[2011]] – [[Doris Belack]], American actress (born 1926) *[[2012]] – [[David Atkinson (baritone)|David Atkinson]], Canadian actor and singer (born 1921) * 2012 – [[Stan Mudenge]], Zimbabwean historian and politician, [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Zimbabwe)|Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs]] (born 1941) * 2012 – [[Tom Stannage]], Australian footballer, historian, and academic (born 1944) *[[2013]] – [[John Cloudsley-Thompson]], Pakistani-English commander (born 1921) * 2013 – [[Ulric Cross]], Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat (born 1917) * 2013 – [[Akira Miyoshi]], Japanese composer (born 1933) * 2013 – [[Diana Nasution]], Indonesian singer (born 1958) * 2013 – [[Võ Nguyên Giáp]], Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd [[Minister of Defence (Vietnam)|Minister of Defence for Vietnam]] (born 1911) * 2013 – [[Nicholas Oresko]], American sergeant, [[Medal of Honor]] recipient (born 1917) *[[2014]] – [[Konrad Boehmer]], German-Dutch composer and educator (born 1941) * 2014 – [[Hugo Carvana]], Brazilian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1937) * 2014 – [[Fyodor Cherenkov]], Russian footballer and manager (born 1959) * 2014 – [[Jean-Claude Duvalier]], Haitian politician, 41st [[President of Haiti]] (born 1951) *[[2015]] – [[Dave Pike]], American [[vibraphone]] player and songwriter (born 1938) * 2015 – [[Edida Nageswara Rao]], Indian director and producer (born 1934) * 2015 – [[Neal Walk]], American basketball player (born 1948)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/college/sec/university-of-florida/article38025903.html|title=Former Florida Gators and NBA standout Neal Walk dies at 67|date=7 October 2015|author=Michelle Kaufman|website=Miami Herald|access-date=6 October 2019}}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[Clark Middleton]], American actor (born 1957)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Oganesyan |first1=Natalie |title=Clark Middleton, Actor in 'The Blacklist,' 'Twin Peaks,' Dies at 63 |url=https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/clark-middleton-dead-the-blacklist-twin-peaks-kill-bill-2-1234793399/ |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=5 October 2020 }}</ref> * 2020 – [[Kenzō Takada]], Japanese-French fashion designer (born 1939)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54410063|title=Kenzo Takada: Japanese designer dies after catching Covid-19|date=4 Oct 2020|website=BBC News}}</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Loretta Lynn]], American singer-songwriter and musician (born 1932)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/loretta-lynn-country-music-icon-dead-90| title=Loretta Lynn, country music icon, dead at 90 |website=[[Fox News]]| date=4 October 2022 }}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Christopher Ciccone]], American artist (born 1960)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-06 |title=Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, has died at 63 |url=https://apnews.com/article/christopher-ciccone-dead-c2369c46f5c98292068b2bf51774f652 |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref> *2024 – [[Billy Shaw]], American football player (born 1938)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-05 |title=HOF guard Shaw, 'driving force' for Bills, dies |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41612623/billy-shaw-bills-great-star-afl-guard-dies-85 |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}</ref>
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