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Deaths on October 07

1488 : Andrea del Verrochio, sculptor/painter/goldsmith, dies at about 52
1571 : Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in battle
1612 : Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist, dies at 70
1639 : John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), dies at 68
1660 : Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique), dies at 50
1681 : Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philological/diplomat, dies at 61
1766 : Andre Cheron, composer, dies at 71
1777 : Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle
1780 : Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle at 36
1800 : Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged
1811 : August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist, dies at 68
1849 : Edgar Allen Poe, poet (Raven), dies in Balt at 40
1864 : Alexander Gardiner, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
1864 : John Gregg, US judge/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 36
1887 : George James Webb, composer, dies at 84
1890 : John Hill Hewitt, composer, dies at 89
1915 : Samuel Prowse Warren, composer, dies at 74
1918 : C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70
1924 : Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71
1925 : Hubert Platt Main, composer, dies at 86
1939 : Harvey (William) Cushing, US neurologist, dies at 70
1951 : Anton F Philips, CEO (Philips), dies at 77
1959 : Mario Lanza, opera singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack
1959 : PM Kassem of Iraq, assassinated
1962 : Mauritius Dekker, [Boris Robazki], writer (Boots in Jail), dies at 66
1963 : Grace Darmond, silent screen actress (Below the Surface), dies at 69
1963 : Gustaf Grndgens, actor/director/theatre director (M), dies at 63
1964 : Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician, dies at 84
1966 : Johnny Kidd, rocker (Johnny Kidd & Pirates), dies at 26 in a car crash
1966 : Smiley Lewis, [Overton Amos Lemons], rocker, dies at 46
1967 : Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies
1969 : Wim of Nuland, [Willem C M”hlmann], priest/writer (Doorstep), dies
1976 : Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer, dies at 73
1981 : Wouter Paap, composer, dies at 73
1988 : Billy Daniels, singer, dies of cancer at 73
1990 : J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies
1990 : John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84
1990 : Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies
1991 : Leo Durocher, baseball coach/manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86
1992 : Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62
1992 : Ed Blackwell, US jazz drummer (Quartet), dies
1993 : Agnes de Mille, choreographer (Oklahoma!, Rodeo), dies at 88
1993 : Cyril Cusack, actor (Fahrenheit 451), dies of neuron disease at 82
1993 : Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band), dies at 63
1994 : James Hill, director, dies at 75
1994 : Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
1994 : Paul Swift, US actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60
1995 : Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59
1995 : Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91
1996 : Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser, dies at 86

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