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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 (b. 520) * [[610]] – [[Phocas]], Byzantine emperor * [[989]] – [[Henry III, Duke of Bavaria|Henry III]], duke of Bavaria (b. 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 (b. 1016) *[[1111]] – [[Robert II, Count of Flanders|Robert II]], count of Flanders (b. 1065) *[[1112]] – [[Sigebert of Gembloux]], French monk, historian, and author (b. 1030) *[[1214]] – [[Alfonso VIII of Castile|Alfonso VIII]], king of Castile and Toledo (b. 1155) *[[1225]] – [[Al-Nasir]], Abbasid caliph (b. 1158) *[[1285]] – [[Philip III of France|Philip III]], king of France (b. 1245) *[[1354]] – [[Giovanni Visconti (archbishop of Milan)|Giovanni Visconti]], Italian cardinal (b. 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 (b. 1330) *[[1399]] – [[Raymond of Capua]], Italian priest and [[Master of the Order of Preachers|Master General]] (b. c. 1330) *[[1524]] – [[Joachim Patinir]], Flemish landscape painter (b. c. 1480) *[[1528]] – [[Richard Foxe]], English bishop and academic (b. 1448) *[[1540]] – [[Helius Eobanus Hessus]], German poet and educator (b. 1488) *[[1564]] – [[Pierre de Manchicourt]], Flemish composer and educator (b. 1510) *[[1565]] – [[Lodovico Ferrari]], Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1522) ===1601–1900=== *[[1606]] – [[Philippe Desportes]], French poet and author (b. 1546) *[[1629]] – [[Heribert Rosweyde]], Jesuit hagiographer (b. 1569) *[[1714]] – [[Kaibara Ekken]], Japanese botanist and philosopher (b. 1630) *[[1740]] – [[Jean-Philippe Baratier]], German astronomer and scholar (b. 1721) *[[1777]] – [[Johann Andreas Segner]], Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704) *[[1802]] – [[Sanité Bélair]], Haitian freedom fighter (b. 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]] (b. 1738) *[[1813]] – [[Tecumseh]], American tribal leader (b. 1768) *[[1827]] – [[William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry]], Anglo-Irish politician and peer (b. 1761) *[[1848]] – [[Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg]], Austrian-German historian and politician (b. 1781) *[[1861]] – [[Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski]], Polish archbishop (b. 1778) *[[1880]] – [[Jacques Offenbach]], German-French cellist and composer (b. 1819) *[[1885]] – [[Thomas C. Durant]], American railroad tycoon (b. 1820) *[[1895]] – [[Ralph Tollemache]], English priest (b. 1826) ===1901–present=== *[[1913]] – [[Hans von Bartels]], German painter and educator (b. 1856) *[[1914]] – [[Albert Solomon]], Australian politician, 23rd [[Premier of Tasmania]] (b. 1876) *[[1918]] – [[Roland Garros (aviator)|Roland Garros]], French soldier and pilot (b. 1888) *[[1921]] – [[John Storey (politician)|John Storey]], Australian politician, 20th [[Premier of New South Wales]] (b. 1869) *[[1927]] – [[Sam Warner]], Polish-American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded [[Warner Bros.]] (b. 1887) *[[1929]] – [[Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly]], Indian priest, founded the [[Sisters of the Destitute]] (b. 1876) *[[1930]] – [[Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson]], Indian-English soldier and politician, [[Secretary of State for Air]] (b. 1875) *[[1933]] – [[Renée Adorée]], French-American actress (b. 1898) * 1933 – [[Nikolai Yudenich]], Russian general (b. 1862) *[[1936]] – [[J. Slauerhoff]], Dutch poet and author (b. 1898) *[[1938]] – [[Faustina Kowalska]], Polish nun and saint (b. 1905) * 1938 – [[Albert Ranft]], Swedish actor and director (b. 1858) *[[1940]] – [[Ballington Booth]], English-American activist, co-founded the [[Volunteers of America]] (b. 1857) * 1940 – [[Lincoln Loy McCandless]], American rancher and politician (b. 1859) * 1940 – [[Silvestre Revueltas]], Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1889) *[[1941]] – [[Louis Brandeis]], American lawyer and jurist (b. 1856) *[[1942]] – [[Dorothea Klumpke]], American astronomer (b. 1861) *[[1943]] – [[Leon Roppolo]], American clarinet player and composer (b. 1902) *[[1950]] – [[Frederic Lewy]], German-American neurologist and academic (b. 1885) *[[1952]] – [[Joe Jagersberger]], Austrian racing driver (b. 1884) *[[1967]] – [[Clifton Williams]], American astronaut (b. 1932) *[[1976]] – [[Barbara Nichols]], American actress (b. 1928) * 1976 – [[Lars Onsager]], Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1903) *[[1981]] – [[Gloria Grahame]], American actress (b. 1923) *[[1983]] – [[Humberto Mauro]], Brazilian director and screenwriter (b. 1897) * 1983 – [[Earl Tupper]], American inventor and businessman, founded the [[Tupperware|Tupperware Corporation]] (b. 1907) *[[1985]] – [[Karl Menger]], Austrian-American mathematician from the Vienna Circle (b. 1902) *[[1986]] – [[Mike Burgmann]], Australian racing driver and accountant (b. 1947) * 1986 – [[Hal B. Wallis]], American film producer (b. 1898) * 1986 – [[James H. Wilkinson]], English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1919) *[[1992]] – [[Eddie Kendricks]], American singer-songwriter (b. 1939) *[[1996]] – [[Seymour Cray]], American engineer and businessman, founded [[Cray|CRAY Inc]] (b. 1925) *[[1997]] – [[Brian Pillman]], American football player and wrestler (b. 1962) *[[2000]] – [[Johanna Döbereiner]], Brazilian agronomist (b. 1924) * 2000 – [[Cătălin Hîldan]], Romanian footballer (b. 1976) *[[2001]] – [[Mike Mansfield]], American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 22nd [[United States Ambassador to Japan]] (b. 1903) *[[2002]] – [[Chuck Rayner]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920) *[[2003]] – [[Dan Snyder (ice hockey)|Dan Snyder]], Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1978) * 2003 – [[Timothy Treadwell]], American environmentalist, director, and producer (b. 1957) *[[2004]] – [[Rodney Dangerfield]], American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921) * 2004 – [[William H. Dobelle]], American biologist and academic (b. 1941) * 2004 – [[Maurice Wilkins]], New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1916) *[[2006]] – [[Antonio Peña]], Mexican wrestling promoter, founded [[Lucha Libre AAA World Wide]] (b. 1953) *[[2010]] – [[Bernard Clavel]], French journalist and author (b. 1923) * 2010 – [[Mary Leona Gage]], American model and actress, [[Miss USA 1957]] (b. 1939) * 2010 – [[Steve Lee (singer)|Steve Lee]], Swiss singer-songwriter (b. 1963) *[[2011]] – [[Derrick Bell]], American academic and scholar (b. 1930) * 2011 – [[Bert Jansch]], Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943) * 2011 – [[Steve Jobs]], American businessman, co-founder of [[Apple Inc.]] (b. 1955) * 2011 – [[Charles Napier (actor)|Charles Napier]], American actor and singer (b. 1936) * 2011 – [[Fred Shuttlesworth]], American activist, co-founded the [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference]] (b. 1922) * 2011 – [[Gökşin Sipahioğlu]], Turkish photographer and journalist (b. 1926) *[[2012]] – [[Keith Campbell (biologist)|Keith Campbell]], English biologist and academic (b. 1954) * 2012 – [[Vojin Dimitrijević]], Croatian-Serbian lawyer and activist (b. 1932) * 2012 – [[James W. Holley III]], American dentist and politician (b. 1926) * 2012 – [[Edvard Mirzoyan]], Georgian-Armenian composer and educator (b. 1921) * 2012 – [[Claude Pinoteau]], French director and screenwriter (b. 1925) *[[2013]] – [[Ruth R. Benerito]], American chemist and academic (b. 1916) * 2013 – [[Carlo Lizzani]], Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922) * 2013 – [[Yakkun Sakurazuka]], Japanese voice actress and singer (b. 1976) *[[2014]] – [[David Chavchavadze]], English-American [[CIA]] officer and author (b. 1924) * 2014 – [[Andrea de Cesaris]], Italian racing driver (b. 1959) * 2014 – [[Geoffrey Holder]], Trinidadian-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1930) * 2014 – [[Yuri Lyubimov]], Russian actor and director (b. 1917) *[[2015]] – [[Chantal Akerman]], Belgian-French actress, director, and producer (b. 1950) * 2015 – [[Joker Arroyo]], Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1927) * 2015 – [[Grace Lee Boggs]], American philosopher, author, and activist (b. 1915) * 2015 – [[Henning Mankell]], Swedish author and playwright (b. 1948) *[[2016]] – [[Brock Yates]], American journalist and author (b. 1933) *[[2017]] – [[Eberhard van der Laan]], Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam (b. 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 (b. 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> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. Do not rely on "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.-->
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