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Deaths on October 04

1072 : Sancho II, king of Castili‰/bro of Alfonso VI, murdered at about 35
1540 : Helius Eobanus Hessus, German humanist/poet (Silvae), dies
1564 : Pietro P Vergerio, Italian theologist/bishop of Croatia, dies
1571 : Claude Togniel d'Espence, French theologist (Sorbonne), dies at 60
1582 : Theresia van Avila, Spanish mystic writer, dies
1590 : Cujacius, [Jacques Cujas], French lawyer, dies at about 68
1669 : Rembrandt H van R˜n, painter/etcher (Steel Masters), dies
1713 : Valentin Molitor, composer, dies at 76
1721 : Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36
1743 : John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal, dies at 64
1755 : Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer, dies
1830 : Hans DL earl Yorck von Wartenburg, gov-gen of E-Prussia, dies at 71
1838 : Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer, dies at 79
1848 : Louis Massonneau, composer, dies at 82
1859 : Karl Baedeker, German tour guide (Die Schweiz), dies at 57
1862 : William Duncan Smith, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 36
1863 : Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam, dies at 69
1880 : William Lassell, English astronomer (1st moon of Neptune), dies
1892 : Guillaume Van Kerckhoven, Belgian captain, dies at 39
1893 : Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, MP (AR), dies at 88
1904 : Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, French sculptor (Statue of Liberty), dies
1907 : Alfredo Kiel, composer, dies at 57
1912 : Gen Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of US occupation, is executed
1929 : John Metzelaar, Dutch/US writer (Report on the Fishes), dies at 37
1943 : Richard T Ely, US economist (Ground under our feet), dies
1947 : Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies
1949 : Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, dies at 75
1955 : Alexander Papagos, Greek fieldmarshal, dies
1961 : Max Weber, Polish/Russ/US painter, dies
1962 : E H Hendren, cricketer (57,611 1st-class runs, 3rd-best ever), dies
1962 : John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder, dies at 79
1966 : Sherman Billingsley, talk show host (Stork Club), dies at 66
1969 : Vibart Wight, cricketer (member of WI 1st Test touring 1928), dies
1970 : George Frederick McKay, composer, dies at 71
1970 : Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27
1971 : Edit Angold, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel), dies at 76
1972 : Colin Gordon, actor (John-Baron), dies at 61
1972 : Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 68
1974 : Anne Sexton, US poetess (Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45
1975 : Joan Whitney Payson, owner of New York Mets, dies at 72
1976 : Alexander Gray, singer (This is Music), dies at 74
1979 : Christina Spierenburg, Dutch singer, dies at 56
1982 : Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier, dies
1982 : Glenn H Gould, Canadian pianist, dies at 50
1989 : Graham Chapman, comedian (Monty Python), dies of cancer at 48
1989 : Norman Yardley, cricketer (England captain 1947-50), dies
1990 : Avis Bunnage, actor (Loneliness of Long Distance Runner), dies at 67
1990 : Jill Bennett, actress (Skull, Hawks), dies of undisclosed causes at 58
1991 : Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83
1992 : Itzhak Fuks, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
1992 : Laurie Anders, singer, dies of cancer
1992 : Ohad Arnon, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
1993 : Fran Carlon, dies of cancer at 80
1994 : Bill Challis, arranger/Pianist, dies at 90
1994 : Daniel Wood Gatton, guitarist, dies at 49
1994 : Heinz Rhmann, German actor/dir (Brave Soldier Schwejk), dies at 92
1995 : Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer, dies at 81
1996 : Martyn Harris, journalist, dies at 43
1996 : Silvio Piola, footballer, dies at 83
1996 : Tim N Gidal Gidalewitsch, photojournalist, dies at 87

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