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History Deaths on October 07


Norman Angell
Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)

#Norman_Angell

Lou Lichtveld
Lou Lichtveld, Surinamese-Dutch author, playwright, and politician (b. 1903)

#Lou_Lichtveld

Harry Gallatin
Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)

#Harry_Gallatin

Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Politkovskaya, American-Russian journalist and activist (b. 1958)

#Anna_Politkovskaya

David E. Jeremiah
David E. Jeremiah, American admiral (b. 1934)

#David_E._Jeremiah

Christy Mathewson
Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)

#Christy_Mathewson

Léon Scieur
Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)

#Léon_Scieur

George Mason
George Mason, American lawyer and politician (b. 1725)

#George_Mason

Jurelang Zedkaia
Jurelang Zedkaia, Marshallese politician, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1950)

#Jurelang_Zedkaia

Isabella Bird
Isabella Bird, English historian and explorer (b. 1831)

#Isabella_Bird

Irving Penn
Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)

#Irving_Penn

Jacques Sirmond
Jacques Sirmond, French scholar (b. 1559)

#Jacques_Sirmond

Leo Durocher
Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)

#Leo_Durocher

Emil Kraepelin
Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (b. 1856)

#Emil_Kraepelin

Alfred Deakin
Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)

#Alfred_Deakin

Willis Carrier
Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer (b. 1876)

#Willis_Carrier

W. R. Mitchell
W. R. Mitchell, English journalist and author (b. 1928)

#W._R._Mitchell

Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid, Scottish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1710)

#Thomas_Reid

Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Italian nobleman (b. 1417)

#Sigismondo_Pandolfo_Malatesta

Bernard Petitjean
Bernard Petitjean, French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (b. 1829)

#Bernard_Petitjean

Iva Withers
Iva Withers, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1917)

#Iva_Withers

Fausto Poli
Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (b. 1581)

#Fausto_Poli

Patrice Chéreau
Patrice Chéreau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)

#Patrice_Chéreau

Charles the Simple
Charles the Simple, French king (b. 879)

#Charles_the_Simple

Joe Rogers (politician)
Joe Rogers, American lawyer and politician, 45th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado (b. 1964)

#Joe_Rogers_(politician)

Rudolf Lipschitz
Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)

#Rudolf_Lipschitz

Grigoris Asikis
Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1890)

#Grigoris_Asikis

George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne, English soldier, courtier, and poet (b. 1535)

#George_Gascoigne

Babu Karam Singh Bal
Babu Karam Singh Bal, Indian businessman and politician (b.1927)

#Babu_Karam_Singh_Bal

Hossein Hamadani
Hossein Hamadani, Iranian general (b. 1951)

#Hossein_Hamadani

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809)

#Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Sr.

Ivo Michiels
Ivo Michiels, Belgian-French author and poet (b. 1923)

#Ivo_Michiels

Helmut Lent
Helmut Lent, German colonel and pilot (b. 1918)

#Helmut_Lent

Stanis?aw ?ó?kiewski
Stanis?aw ?ó?kiewski, Polish-Lithuanian commander (b. 1547)

#Stanis?aw_?ó?kiewski

Anton Philips
Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (b. 1874)

#Anton_Philips

John Hughlings Jackson
John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist and physician (b. 1835)

#John_Hughlings_Jackson

John Woolman
John Woolman, American preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)

#John_Woolman

Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy
Victor Amadeus I, duke of Savoy (b. 1587)

#Victor_Amadeus_I,_Duke_of_Savoy

Ramiz Alia
Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (b. 1925)

#Ramiz_Alia

Pierangelo Bertoli
Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)

#Pierangelo_Bertoli

Norifumi Abe
Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)

#Norifumi_Abe

Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician, President of the Board of Trade (b. 1718)

#Wills_Hill,_1st_Marquess_of_Downshire

George E. Sangmeister
George E. Sangmeister, American lawyer and politician (b. 1931)

#George_E._Sangmeister

Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg
Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, Danish queen consort of Christian III of Denmark (b. 1511)

#Dorothea_of_Saxe-Lauenburg

Cemal Re?it Rey
Cemal Re?it Rey, Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1904)

#Cemal_Re?it_Rey

Niels Kaj Jerne
Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish-English physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

#Niels_Kaj_Jerne

Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b. 1921)

#Mario_Lanza

T Lavitz
T Lavitz, American keyboard player, composer, and producer (b. 1956)

#T_Lavitz

Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, Belgian-English politician (b. 1338)

#Lionel_of_Antwerp,_1st_Duke_of_Clarence

Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (b. 1809)

#Edgar_Allan_Poe

Roger Gaudry
Roger Gaudry, Canadian chemist and businessman (b. 1913)

#Roger_Gaudry

Olga Taussky-Todd
Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian-Czech-American mathematician, attendant of the Vienna Circle (b. 1906)

#Olga_Taussky-Todd

Cristóbal de Morales
Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. 1500)

#Cristóbal_de_Morales

Henry Muhlenberg
Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (b. 1711)

#Henry_Muhlenberg

Emperor Montoku
Montoku, Japanese emperor (b. 826)

#Emperor_Montoku

Ezzelino III da Romano
Ezzelino III da Romano, Italian ruler

#Ezzelino_III_da_Romano

Alexander Peacock
Alexander Peacock, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)

#Alexander_Peacock

Honoré Beaugrand
Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)

#Honoré_Beaugrand

Beatrice Hutton
Beatrice Hutton, Australian architect (b. 1893)

#Beatrice_Hutton

Radclyffe Hall
Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)

#Radclyffe_Hall

Giovanni Battista Guarini
Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, playwright, and diplomat (b. 1538)

#Giovanni_Battista_Guarini

Emperor Juntoku
Juntoku, Japanese emperor (b. 1197)

#Emperor_Juntoku

Jean Poton de Xaintrailles
Jean Poton de Xaintrailles, follower of Joan of Arc (b. c. 1390)

#Jean_Poton_de_Xaintrailles

Guru Gobind Singh
Guru Gobind Singh, Indian 10th Sikh guru (b. 1666)

#Guru_Gobind_Singh

Siegfried Lenz
Siegfried Lenz, Polish-German author and playwright (b. 1926)

#Siegfried_Lenz

Ross Higgins, Australian actor, comedian (b. 1930)
Nika Kiladze, Georgian footballer (b. 1988)
Leandro Mendoza, Filipino police officer and politician, 36th Executive Secretary of the Philippines (b. 1946)
Mick Buckley, English footballer (b. 1953)
Wiley Reed, American-Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944)
Mervyn M. Dymally, Trinidadian-American politician, 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1926)
Andrew Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1926)
Milka Planinc, Croatian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish cyclist (b. 1985)
Charles Rocket, American actor and comedian (b. 1949)
Tony Lanfranchi, English race car driver (b. 1935)
Arthur Berger, American composer and educator (b. 1912)
Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
Christopher Adams, English-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1955)
Herblock, American cartoonist and author (b. 1909)
Cees de Vreugd, Dutch strongman and weightlifter (b. 1952)
Ivan Hutchinson, Australian film critic and author (b. 1928)
Cyril Cusack, South African-born Irish actor (b. 1910)
Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (b. 1930)
Darren Millane, Australian footballer (b. 1965)
Harry W. Brown, American colonel and pilot (b. 1921)
George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor, science popularizer, and skeptic (b. 1927)
Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and academic (b. 1906)
Johnny Kidd, English singer songwriter (b. 1935) [self-published source?][better source needed]
Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)
Harvey Williams Cushing, American neurosurgeon and academic (b. 1869)
Sufi Ali Pasha, Ottoman soldier and politician, Ottoman Governor of Egypt
Eleanor de Bohun, English noblewoman (b. 1304)
Qian Chu, king of Wuyue (b. 929)
Zhen, Chinese Khitan empress consort
Xiao, Chinese Khitan empress dowager
Shi Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (b. 919)
Li, Chinese empress consort
Mark, pope of the Catholic Church