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October 10, 2004 Christopher Reeve, director/actor/advocate, Superman, dies at 52 October 10, 2002 Teresa Graves, actress, Laugh-in, dies at 51 October 10, 1998 Clark Clifford, lawyer/DC insider, dies at 91 October 10, 1997 Brian Connolly, lead singer (Sweet), dies of heart failure at 52 October 10, 1996 Dick Pickering, trade unionist, dies at 54 October 10, 1996 Hugh Stirling Mackenzie, submariner, dies at 83 October 10, 1996 John Hillaby, writer/traveller, dies at 79 October 10, 1996 Peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey, dies at 72 October 10, 1996 Siddig El Nigoumi, ceramicist, dies at 65 October 10, 1995 Edward Gill, baseball player, dies at 100 October 10, 1995 Jimmy Nash, record company owner, dies at 47 October 10, 1995 John Rodolph, wheelchair-race world record holder, hit by truck at 31 October 10, 1995 Michelle Francis Bird, campaigner, dies at 30 October 10, 1995 Paolo Gucci, entrepreneur/accessories designer, dies at 64 October 10, 1994 Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95 October 10, 1994 Chaim Raphael, writer, dies at 86 October 10, 1994 Danny Gatton, U.S. guitarist, commits suicide at 48 October 10, 1994 Nikolai Karetnikov, composer, dies at 64 October 10, 1994 Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist, dies at 74 October 10, 1993 Catherine Collard, French pianist (Debussy, Haydn), dies at 46 October 10, 1993 Djillali Belkhenchir, Algerian doctor, murdered at 52 October 10, 1992 James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78 October 10, 1991 Redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford and Sons), dies of heart attack at 68 October 10, 1991 Stephen J Falat, dies after long illness at 34 October 10, 1990 Carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67 October 10, 1990 Dick Jorgensen, NFL referee, dies at 56 October 10, 1990 Michael A Salcido, dies at 39 October 10, 1985 Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70 October 10, 1985 Yul Brynner, [Taidje Khan], actor (King and I), dies of cancer at 65 October 10, 1983 Ralph [David] Richardson, English actor (Richard III), dies at 80 October 10, 1980 Bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies October 10, 1980 William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascal), dies at 49 October 10, 1979 Paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93 October 10, 1978 Gesina Van de Molen, Dutch lawyer, dies at 86 October 10, 1978 Gesina Van der Molen, Dutch WWII resistance fighter/lawyer, dies at 86 October 10, 1978 Ralph H Metcalfe, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 68 October 10, 1976 Connee Boswell, singer (Pete Kelly's Blue), dies at 68 October 10, 1975 Lillian Walker, dies at 88 October 10, 1974 Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer, dies at 73 October 10, 1973 Albe, [Renaut A Joostens], Flemish writer (Paradise Bird), dies at 71 October 10, 1973 Ludwig von Mises, Italian Economist October 10, 1970 Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60 October 10, 1970 Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933..40), dies at 86 October 10, 1968 Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress (Abandoned Child), dies at 71 October 10, 1967 Ervin Major, composer, dies at 66 October 10, 1965 Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov, composer, dies at 63 October 10, 1964 Eddie Cantor, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater), dies at 72 October 10, 1964 Frantisek Picha, composer, dies at 71 October 10, 1964 Konrad Bayer, writer, dies October 10, 1964 Russ Case, orch leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52 October 10, 1959 Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, dies October 10, 1942 Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet and writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68 October 10, 1935 Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934), dies at 72 October 10, 1935 Huey Long, American Politician October 10, 1931 Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente), dies at 84 October 10, 1914 Gijsbert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister, dies at 73 October 10, 1914 Karol I, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King of Romania (1881-1914), dies October 10, 1910 Willem Maris, painter (Hague School), dies at 66 October 10, 1889 Adolph von Henselt, composer, dies at 75 October 10, 1886 David L Yule, 1st Jewish U.S. senator, dies October 10, 1875 Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet and writer, dies at 58 October 10, 1867 Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer, dies at 60 October 10, 1864 David Bullock Harris, U.S. Confederate colonel, dies of yellow fever October 10, 1858 Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author, poet and diplomat, dies at 73 October 10, 1856 Michal Wielhorski, composer, dies at 67 October 10, 1843 Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer, dies at 75 October 10, 1836 Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer, dies at 61 October 10, 1827 Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, dies at 49 October 10, 1797 Carter Braxton, U.S. boer/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 61 October 10, 1791 C F D Schubart, writer, dies October 10, 1789 Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer, dies at 34 October 10, 1745 Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist, dies at 52 October 10, 1727 Alphonse d' Eve, composer, dies at 61 October 10, 1720 Antoine Coyzevox, French sculptor (Nazarin, Le Notre), dies at 80 October 10, 1676 Sebastian Knupfer, composer, dies at 43 October 10, 1674 Thomas Traherne, British Clergyman October 10, 1659 Able J Tasmania, navigator/discovered (Tasmania, NZ), dies at about 56 October 10, 1651 Philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostole, dies at 77 October 10, 1616 Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60 October 10, 680 Hussein, grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded October 10, 413 Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57 October 10, 19 Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33 |