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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[412]] – [[Theophilus I of Alexandria|Theophilus]], [[Patriarch of Alexandria]] * [[892]] – [[Al-Mu'tamid]], [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid]] [[Caliphate|caliph]] * [[898]] – [[Lambert of Italy]] (b. 880) * [[912]] – [[Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi]], Spanish emir (b. 844) * [[925]] – [[Rhazes]], Persian polymath (b. 864) * [[961]] – [[Abd-ar-Rahman III|Abd-al-Rahman III]], caliph of Córdoba *[[1002]] – [[Henry I, Duke of Burgundy|Otto-Henry]], [[Duke of Burgundy]] (b. 946) *[[1080]] – [[Rudolf of Rheinfelden]] (b. 1025) *[[1173]] – [[Petronilla of Aragon]] (b. 1135) *[[1240]] – [[Razia Sultana]], sultan of [[Delhi]] (b. 1205)<ref>{{cite book |author=K. A. Nizami |author-link=K. A. Nizami |chapter=The Early Turkish Sultans of Delhi |editor1=Mohammad Habib |editor2=Khaliq Ahmad Nizami |title=A Comprehensive History of India: The Delhi Sultanat (A.D. 1206–1526) |volume=5 |edition=Second |year=1992 |publisher=The Indian History Congress / People's Publishing House |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_9cmAQAAMAAJ |oclc=31870180 |page=242 }}</ref> *[[1243]] – [[Hedwig of Silesia]], Polish saint (b. 1174)<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07189a.htm Kirsch, Johann Peter. "St. Hedwig." ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''] Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910, accessdate=2007-02-18</ref> *[[1326]] – [[Walter Stapledon]], bishop and [[Lord High Treasurer]] of England, and his brother Sir [[Richard Stapledon]], judge and politician. *[[1385]] – [[Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow]] *[[1389]] – [[Pope Urban VI]] (b. 1318) *[[1404]] – [[Marie of Valois (1344-1404)|Marie Valois]], French princess (b. 1344)<ref name="Arras234">Jean d'Arras, ''Melusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan'', transl. Donald Maddox, (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012), 234.</ref> *[[1496]] – [[Gilbert, Count of Montpensier]] (b. 1443) *[[1564]] – [[Andreas Vesalius]], Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author (b. 1514) ===1601–1900=== *[[1674]] – [[Robert Herrick (poet)|Robert Herrick]], English poet (b. 1591)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Robert Herrick: A Biographical and Critical Study |last=Moorman |first=Frederic William |year=1910 |location=London, Edinburgh and New York |publisher=Thomas Nelson and Sons |url=https://archive.org/details/robertherrickbio00mooruoft}}</ref> *[[1684]] – [[Géraud de Cordemoy]], French historian, philosopher and lawyer (b. 1626) *[[1690]] – [[Juan de Valdés Leal]], Spanish painter and illustrator (b. 1622) *[[1715]] – [[Humphry Ditton]], English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1675) *[[1788]] – [[Samuel Greig]], Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735) *[[1810]] – [[Alfred Moore]], American captain and judge (b. 1755) *[[1811]] – [[Nathaniel Dance-Holland]], English painter and politician (b. 1735) *[[1817]] – [[Tadeusz Kościuszko]], Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (b. 1746) *[[1819]] – [[Sergey Vyazmitinov]], Russian general and politician, [[Saint Petersburg Governorate|War Governor of Saint Petersburg]] (b. 1744) *[[1820]] – [[Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg]] (b. 1771) *[[1837]] – [[Ivan Dmitriev]], Russian poet and politician, [[List of Ministers of Justice of Imperial Russia|Russian Minister of Justice]] (b. 1760) *[[1838]] – [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]], English poet and novelist (b. 1802)<ref>{{cite web |title=Letitia Elizabeth Landon {{!}} British author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Letitia-Elizabeth-Landon |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=17 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1891]] – [[Gilbert Arthur à Beckett]], English author and songwriter (b. 1837) *[[1900]] – [[Zdeněk Fibich]], Czech pianist and composer (b. 1850) ===1901–present=== *[[1910]] – [[Stanley Ketchel]], American boxer (b. 1886)<ref>{{cite web |title=Stanley Ketchel, "The Michigan Killer" |url=https://www.wbaboxing.com/boxing-news/stanley-ketchel-the-michigan-killer |website=World Boxing Association |access-date=16 September 2024 |date=29 August 2023}}</ref> *[[1917]] – [[Mata Hari]], Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876) *[[1918]] – [[Sai Baba of Shirdi]], Indian guru and saint (b. 1838) *[[1925]] – [[Dolores Jiménez y Muro]], Mexican revolutionary (b. 1848?)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aguascalientes.gob.mx/Aguascalientes2010/1910/personajes.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119120050/http://www.aguascalientes.gob.mx/Aguascalientes2010/1910/personajes.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2018-01-19|title=Gobierno del Estado de Aguascalientes|date=2018-01-19|access-date=2018-08-02}}</ref> *[[1930]] – [[Herbert Henry Dow]], Canadian-American businessman, founded the [[Dow Chemical Company]] (b. 1866) *[[1934]] – [[Raymond Poincaré]], French lawyer and politician, 10th [[President of France]] (b. 1860) *[[1940]] – [[Lluís Companys]], Catalan lawyer and politician, [[President of Catalonia]] (b. 1882) *[[1945]] – [[Pierre Laval]], French lawyer and politician, 101st [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. 1883) *[[1946]] – [[Hermann Göring]], German general and politician (b. 1893) *[[1948]] – [[Edythe Chapman]], American actress (b. 1863) *[[1955]] – [[Fumio Hayasaka]], Japanese composer (b. 1914)<ref>{{cite web |title=Fumio Hayasaka |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba16301b0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160720195301/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba16301b0 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 20, 2016 |website=BFI |access-date=23 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1958]] – [[Asaf Halet Çelebi]], Turkish poet and author (b. 1907) * 1958 – [[Elizabeth Alexander (scientist)|Elizabeth Alexander]], British geologist, academic, and physicist (b. 1908) *[[1959]] – [[Stepan Bandera]], Ukrainian soldier and politician (b. 1909) * 1959 – [[Lipót Fejér]], Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1880) *[[1960]] – [[Clara Kimball Young]], American actress and producer (b. 1890) *[[1961]] – [[Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala']], Indian poet and author (b. 1896) *[[1963]] – [[Horton Smith]], American golfer and captain (b. 1908) *[[1964]] – [[Cole Porter]], American composer and songwriter (b. 1891) *[[1965]] – [[Abraham Fraenkel]], German-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1891) *[[1966]] – [[Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell]], English lieutenant and politician (b. 1876) *[[1968]] – [[Virginia Lee Burton]], American author and illustrator (b. 1909) *[[1976]] – [[Carlo Gambino]], Italian-American mob boss (b. 1902) *[[1978]] – [[W. Eugene Smith]], American photojournalist (b. 1918) * 1978 – [[Rolf Stenersen]], Norwegian businessman (b. 1899)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Rolf E. Stenersen |first= |last= |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |date= 2023|editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Rolf_E._Stenersen |language=no|access-date=18 March 2024}}</ref> *[[1980]] – [[Mikhail Lavrentyev]], Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900) * 1980 – [[Apostolos Nikolaidis (athlete)|Apostolos Nikolaidis]], Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896) *[[1983]] – [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]], American actor (b. 1899) *[[1987]] – [[Thomas Sankara]], Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th [[President of Burkina Faso]] (b. 1949) * 1987 – [[Donald Wandrei]], American author and poet (b. 1908) *[[1988]] – [[Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji]], English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (b. 1892) *[[1989]] – [[Danilo Kiš]], Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (b. 1935)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/17/obituaries/danilo-kis-dead-at-54-wrote-of-the-holocaust.html|title=Danilo Kis Dead at 54; Wrote of the Holocaust|date=17 October 1989|website=New York Times|access-date=15 October 2019}}</ref> *[[1990]] – [[Delphine Seyrig]], French actress and director (b. 1932) *[[1993]] – [[Aydın Sayılı]], Turkish historian and academic (b. 1913) *[[1994]] – [[Sarah Kofman]], French philosopher and academic (b. 1934) *[[1995]] – [[Bengt Åkerblom]], Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1967) * 1995 – [[Marco Campos]], Brazilian racing driver, only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series (b. 1976)<ref>{{cite web|title=Brazilian driver dies after collision|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/brazilian-driver-dies-after-collision-1578252.html|work=The Independent|date=18 October 1995|access-date=27 April 2013}}</ref> *[[1999]] – [[Josef Locke]], British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor (b. 1917) *[[2000]] – [[Konrad Emil Bloch]], Polish-American biochemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1912)<ref>{{cite news |title=Konrad Bloch, Nobel winner, dies at 88 |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2000/10/konrad-bloch-nobel-winner-dies-at-88/ |access-date=10 October 2020 |work=Harvard Gazette |date=19 October 2000}}</ref> * 2000 – [[Vincent Canby]], American journalist and critic (b. 1924) *[[2001]] – [[Zhang Xueliang]], Chinese general and warlord (b. 1901)<ref name="nytobit">{{cite news |first=Nicholas D. |last=Kristof |page=C13 |title = Zhang Xueliang, 100, Dies; Warlord and Hero of China |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/19/world/zhang-xueliang-100-dies-warlord-and-hero-of-china.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=19 October 2001 |access-date=25 July 2021 |archive-date=24 October 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091024100421/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/19/world/zhang-xueliang-100-dies-warlord-and-hero-of-china.html |department=National news |language= en |oclc=1645522 |issn=0362-4331 |url-status=live |editor1-first=Dean |editor1-last=Baquet |editor2-first=Meghan |editor2-last=Louttit |editor3-first=Philip |editor3-last=Corbett |editor4-first=Lian |editor4-last=Chang |editor5-first=Monica |editor5-last=Drake |editor6-first=Joseph |editor6-last=Kahn |editor7-first=Kathleen |editor7-last=Kingsbury |editor8-first=A.G. |editor8-last=Sulzberger |editor9-first=Meredith Kopit |editor9-last=Levien |editor10-first=Roland A. |editor10-last=Caputo |editor11-first=William |editor11-last=Bardeen |editor12-first=Stephen |editor12-last=Dunbar-Johnson |editor13-first=Diane |editor13-last=Brayton |volume=CL |issue=210 }}</ref> *[[2003]] – [[Ben Metcalfe]], Canadian journalist and activist (b. 1919) *[[2004]] – [[Per Højholt]], Danish poet (b. 1928)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fauth |first1=Søren R. |title=Højholt, Per (1928–2004) |journal=Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism |date=2016 |doi=10.4324/9781135000356-REM651-1|isbn=9781135000356 }}</ref> *[[2005]] – [[Jason Collier]], American basketball player (b. 1977) * 2005 – [[Matti Wuori]], Finnish lawyer and politician (b. 1945) *[[2007]] – [[Piet Boukema]], Dutch jurist and politician (b. 1933) *[[2008]] – [[Edie Adams]], American actress and singer (b. 1927) * 2008 – [[Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca]], Turkish soldier and poet (b. 1914) * 2008 – [[Jack Narz]], American game show host and announcer (b. 1922) *[[2009]] – [[Heinz Versteeg]], Dutch-German footballer (b. 1939) *[[2010]] – [[Richard C. Miller]], American photographer (b. 1912) * 2010 – [[Mildred Fay Jefferson]], American physician and activist (b. 1926) * 2010 – [[Johnny Sheffield]], American actor (b. 1931) *[[2011]] – [[Betty Driver]], English actress, singer, and author (b. 1920) *[[2012]] – [[Claude Cheysson]], French lieutenant and politician, [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (France)|French Minister of Foreign Affairs]] (b. 1920) * 2012 – [[Erol Günaydın]], Turkish actor and screenwriter (b. 1933) * 2012 – [[Maria Petrou]], Greek-English computer scientist and academic (b. 1953) * 2012 – [[Norodom Sihanouk]], Cambodian politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Cambodia]] (b. 1922) * 2012 – [[Pat Ward (politician)|Pat Ward]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1957) *[[2013]] – [[Donald Bailey (musician)|Donald Bailey]], American drummer (b. 1933) * 2013 – [[Nevill Drury]], English-Australian journalist and publisher (b. 1947) * 2013 – [[Cancio Garcia]], Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1937) * 2013 – [[Gloria Lynne]], American singer (b. 1931) * 2013 – [[Rudy Minarcin]], American baseball player and coach (b. 1930) * 2013 – [[Hans Riegel]], German businessman (b. 1923) *[[2014]] – [[Giovanni Reale]], Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1931) * 2014 – [[Jiří Reynek]], Czech poet and graphic designer (b. 1929) * 2014 – [[Robert Tiernan]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1929) * 2014 – [[Nobby Wirkowski]], American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926) *[[2015]] – [[Sergei Filippenkov]], Russian footballer and manager (b. 1971) * 2015 – [[Nate Huffman]], American basketball player (b. 1975) * 2015 – [[Neill Sheridan]], American baseball player (b. 1921) * 2015 – [[Kenneth D. Taylor]], Canadian businessman and diplomat (b. 1934) * 2015 – [[Tyrone Young]], American football player (b. 1960) *[[2017]] – [[Chinggoy Alonzo]], Filipino theater, movie & television actor (b. 1950) *[[2018]] – [[Paul Allen]], co-founder of [[Microsoft]], philanthropist, owner of the [[Seattle Seahawks]] (b. 1953)<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/microsoft-co-founder-paul-allen-dies-at-65/281-604572895|title=Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65|date=15 October 2018 }}</ref> *[[2021]] – [[David Amess]], British politician, member of Parliament for [[Southend West (UK Parliament constituency)|Southend West]] (b. 1952)<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-tory-mp-david-amess-25224283|title=Tory MP Sir David Amess, 69, assassinated in Leigh-on-Sea|website=[[Daily Mirror]] |date=15 October 2021 }}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Mike Jackson (British Army officer)|Mike Jackson]], English general (b. 1944)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Former army head General Sir Mike Jackson dies |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8djnnel017o |access-date=2024-10-18 |website=www.bbc.com |date=15 October 2024 |language=en-GB}}</ref> <!-- Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. 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