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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[659 BC]] – [[Pradyota]], King of Avanti and Magadha<ref name="a673">{{cite web |last=LLP |first=Adarsh Mobile Applications |title=Lakshmi Puja Timings for Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India |website=Drikpanchang |date=20 July 2024 |url=https://www.drikpanchang.com/festivals/lakshmipuja/festivals-lakshmipuja-timings.html?year=-0659 |access-date=20 July 2024}}</ref> * [[578]] – [[Justin II]], Byzantine emperor (born 520) * [[610]] – [[Phocas]], Byzantine emperor * [[989]] – [[Henry III, Duke of Bavaria|Henry III]], duke of Bavaria (born 940)<ref name="ndb">{{cite book |last1=Reindel |first1=Kurt |title=Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB), Band 8 |date=1969 |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |location=Berlin |isbn=3-428-00189-3 |page=341}}</ref> *[[1056]] – [[Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry III]], Holy Roman Emperor (born 1016) *[[1111]] – [[Robert II, Count of Flanders|Robert II]], count of Flanders (born 1065) *[[1112]] – [[Sigebert of Gembloux]], French monk, historian, and author (born 1030) *[[1214]] – [[Alfonso VIII of Castile|Alfonso VIII]], king of Castile and Toledo (born 1155) *[[1225]] – [[Al-Nasir]], Abbasid caliph (born 1158) *[[1285]] – [[Philip III of France|Philip III]], king of France (born 1245) *[[1354]] – [[Giovanni Visconti (archbishop of Milan)|Giovanni Visconti]], Italian cardinal (born 1290)<ref name="Melegnano">{{cite web |url=http://www.melegnano.net/rif0006.htm |title=Giovanni Visconti |first1=Ettore |last1=Rossoni |date=September 22, 2005 |work=I Personaggi storici |location=Melegnano |language=it |access-date=July 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612100924/http://www.melegnano.net/rif0006.htm |archive-date=2010-06-12 |url-status=dead}}</ref> *[[1398]] – [[Blanche of Navarre, Queen of France|Blanche of Navarre]], queen of France (born 1330) *[[1399]] – [[Raymond of Capua]], Italian priest and [[Master of the Order of Preachers|Master General]] (born c. 1330) *[[1524]] – [[Joachim Patinir]], Flemish landscape painter (born c. 1480) *[[1528]] – [[Richard Foxe]], English bishop and academic (born 1448) *[[1540]] – [[Helius Eobanus Hessus]], German poet and educator (born 1488) *[[1564]] – [[Pierre de Manchicourt]], Flemish composer and educator (born 1510) *[[1565]] – [[Lodovico Ferrari]], Italian mathematician and academic (born 1522) ===1601–1900=== *[[1606]] – [[Philippe Desportes]], French poet and author (born 1546) *[[1629]] – [[Heribert Rosweyde]], Jesuit hagiographer (born 1569) *[[1714]] – [[Kaibara Ekken]], Japanese botanist and philosopher (born 1630) *[[1740]] – [[Jean-Philippe Baratier]], German astronomer and scholar (born 1721) *[[1777]] – [[Johann Andreas Segner]], Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (born 1704) *[[1802]] – [[Sanité Bélair]], Haitian freedom fighter (born 1781)<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Black Jacobins; Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. |last=James |first=C. L. R |date=1963 |publisher=Vintage Books |isbn=0394702425 |location=New York |pages=252 |language=en |oclc=362702}}</ref> *[[1805]] – [[Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis]], English general and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] (born 1738) *[[1813]] – [[Tecumseh]], American tribal leader (born 1768) *[[1827]] – [[William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry]], Anglo-Irish politician and peer (born 1761) *[[1848]] – [[Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg]], Austrian-German historian and politician (born 1781) *[[1861]] – [[Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski]], Polish archbishop (born 1778) *[[1880]] – [[Jacques Offenbach]], German-French cellist and composer (born 1819) *[[1885]] – [[Thomas C. Durant]], American railroad tycoon (born 1820) *[[1895]] – [[Ralph Tollemache]], English priest (born 1826) ===1901–present=== *[[1913]] – [[Hans von Bartels]], German painter and educator (born 1856) *[[1914]] – [[Albert Solomon]], Australian politician, 23rd [[Premier of Tasmania]] (born 1876) *[[1918]] – [[Roland Garros (aviator)|Roland Garros]], French soldier and pilot (born 1888) *[[1921]] – [[John Storey (politician)|John Storey]], Australian politician, 20th [[Premier of New South Wales]] (born 1869) *[[1927]] – [[Sam Warner]], Polish-American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded [[Warner Bros.]] (born 1887) *[[1929]] – [[Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly]], Indian priest, founded the [[Sisters of the Destitute]] (born 1876) *[[1930]] – [[Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson]], Indian-English soldier and politician, [[Secretary of State for Air]] (born 1875) *[[1933]] – [[Renée Adorée]], French-American actress (born 1898) * 1933 – [[Nikolai Yudenich]], Russian general (born 1862) *[[1936]] – [[J. Slauerhoff]], Dutch poet and author (born 1898) *[[1938]] – [[Faustina Kowalska]], Polish nun and saint (born 1905) * 1938 – [[Albert Ranft]], Swedish actor and director (born 1858) *[[1940]] – [[Ballington Booth]], English-American activist, co-founded the [[Volunteers of America]] (born 1857) * 1940 – [[Lincoln Loy McCandless]], American rancher and politician (born 1859) * 1940 – [[Silvestre Revueltas]], Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1889) *[[1941]] – [[Louis Brandeis]], American lawyer and jurist (born 1856) *[[1942]] – [[Dorothea Klumpke]], American astronomer (born 1861) *[[1943]] – [[Leon Roppolo]], American clarinet player and composer (born 1902) *[[1950]] – [[Frederic Lewy]], German-American neurologist and academic (born 1885) *[[1952]] – [[Joe Jagersberger]], Austrian racing driver (born 1884) *[[1967]] – [[Clifton Williams]], American astronaut (born 1932) *[[1976]] – [[Barbara Nichols]], American actress (born 1928) * 1976 – [[Lars Onsager]], Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1903) *[[1981]] – [[Gloria Grahame]], American actress (born 1923) *[[1983]] – [[Humberto Mauro]], Brazilian director and screenwriter (born 1897) * 1983 – [[Earl Tupper]], American inventor and businessman, founded the [[Tupperware|Tupperware Corporation]] (born 1907) *[[1985]] – [[Karl Menger]], Austrian-American mathematician from the Vienna Circle (born 1902) *[[1986]] – [[Mike Burgmann]], Australian racing driver and accountant (born 1947) * 1986 – [[Hal B. Wallis]], American film producer (born 1898) * 1986 – [[James H. Wilkinson]], English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1919) *[[1992]] – [[Eddie Kendricks]], American singer-songwriter (born 1939) *[[1996]] – [[Seymour Cray]], American engineer and businessman, founded [[Cray|CRAY Inc]] (born 1925) *[[1997]] – [[Brian Pillman]], American football player and wrestler (born 1962) *[[2000]] – [[Johanna Döbereiner]], Brazilian agronomist (born 1924) * 2000 – [[Cătălin Hîldan]], Romanian footballer (born 1976) *[[2001]] – [[Mike Mansfield]], American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 22nd [[United States Ambassador to Japan]] (born 1903) *[[2002]] – [[Chuck Rayner]], Canadian ice hockey player (born 1920) *[[2003]] – [[Dan Snyder (ice hockey)|Dan Snyder]], Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1978) * 2003 – [[Timothy Treadwell]], American environmentalist, director, and producer (born 1957) *[[2004]] – [[Rodney Dangerfield]], American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921) * 2004 – [[William H. Dobelle]], American biologist and academic (born 1941) * 2004 – [[Maurice Wilkins]], New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1916) *[[2006]] – [[Antonio Peña]], Mexican wrestling promoter, founded [[Lucha Libre AAA World Wide]] (born 1953) *[[2010]] – [[Bernard Clavel]], French journalist and author (born 1923) * 2010 – [[Mary Leona Gage]], American model and actress, [[Miss USA 1957]] (born 1939) * 2010 – [[Steve Lee (singer)|Steve Lee]], Swiss singer-songwriter (born 1963) *[[2011]] – [[Derrick Bell]], American academic and scholar (born 1930) * 2011 – [[Bert Jansch]], Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943) * 2011 – [[Steve Jobs]], American businessman, co-founder of [[Apple Inc.]] (born 1955) * 2011 – [[Charles Napier (actor)|Charles Napier]], American actor and singer (born 1936) * 2011 – [[Fred Shuttlesworth]], American activist, co-founded the [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference]] (born 1922) * 2011 – [[Gökşin Sipahioğlu]], Turkish photographer and journalist (born 1926) *[[2012]] – [[Keith Campbell (biologist)|Keith Campbell]], English biologist and academic (born 1954) * 2012 – [[Vojin Dimitrijević]], Croatian-Serbian lawyer and activist (born 1932) * 2012 – [[James W. Holley III]], American dentist and politician (born 1926) * 2012 – [[Edvard Mirzoyan]], Georgian-Armenian composer and educator (born 1921) * 2012 – [[Claude Pinoteau]], French director and screenwriter (born 1925) *[[2013]] – [[Ruth R. Benerito]], American chemist and academic (born 1916) * 2013 – [[Carlo Lizzani]], Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922) * 2013 – [[Yakkun Sakurazuka]], Japanese voice actress and singer (born 1976) *[[2014]] – [[David Chavchavadze]], English-American [[CIA]] officer and author (born 1924) * 2014 – [[Andrea de Cesaris]], Italian racing driver (born 1959) * 2014 – [[Geoffrey Holder]], Trinidadian-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (born 1930) * 2014 – [[Yuri Lyubimov]], Russian actor and director (born 1917) *[[2015]] – [[Chantal Akerman]], Belgian-French actress, director, and producer (born 1950) * 2015 – [[Joker Arroyo]], Filipino lawyer and politician (born 1927) * 2015 – [[Grace Lee Boggs]], American philosopher, author, and activist (born 1915) * 2015 – [[Henning Mankell]], Swedish author and playwright (born 1948) *[[2016]] – [[Brock Yates]], American journalist and author (born 1933) *[[2017]] – [[Eberhard van der Laan]], Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam (born 1955)<ref>{{cite web |title=Eberhard van der Laan, Popular Mayor of Amsterdam, Dies at 62 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/obituaries/eberhard-van-der-laan-dead-mayor-of-amsterdam.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=24 January 2023 |date=6 October 2017}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Robert Coover]], American novelist (born 1932)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=John |date=October 6, 2024 |title=Robert Coover, Inventive Novelist in Iconoclastic Era, Dies at 92 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/books/robert-coover-dead.html |access-date=October 7, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
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