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Deaths on October 08

1094 : St Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice
1253 : Robert Grosseteste, English Bishop/expert (optica), dies
1604 : Janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], literature/politician, dies at 58
1606 : Jan, the Aged, count of Nassau/fathered 24, dies
1613 : Sebasti n de Covarrubias bon Horozco, lexicographer, dies at 74
1651 : Isaac Elsevier, book publisher, dies at 55
1656 : Johan Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71
1680 : Elisabeth, abbess, dies at 61
1683 : Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer, dies at 76
1686 : Adriaen Paets, Rotterdams regent/diplomat, dies at about 55
1722 : Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral, dies at 80
1728 : Anne Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 47
1754 : Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47
1771 : John E Loovens, lawyer, dies at 76
1772 : Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer, dies at 60
1793 : John Hancock, US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 56
1803 : Vittoria A Alfieri, Italian earl/writer (Filippo), dies at 54
1834 : Fran‡ois-Adrien Boieldieu, composer, dies at 58
1842 : Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68
1862 : James Streshley Jackson, attorney/Union-brig-gen, dies in battle at 39
1862 : William Rufus Terrill, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28
1864 : Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, US Union-brig-general, dies at about 34
1865 : Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51
1869 : Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857), dies in Concord NH at 64
1888 : Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian Minister of Justice, dies
1895 : Charles Oberthur, composer, dies at 76
1897 : Martin Pluddemann, composer, dies at 43
1904 : Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria sociologist/philosopher, dies at 62
1907 : Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65
1912 : Wilhelm Kuhe, composer, dies at 88
1919 : EugŠne Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la Robe), dies
1925 : Abraham PC of Karnebeek, liberal foreign minister (1918-27), dies
1927 : Ricardo Giraldes, Argentine poet/writer (Don Segundo Sombra), dies
1940 : Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78
1944 : Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician, dies at 52
1945 : Herman T Colenbrander, historian, dies at 73
1947 : Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria writer (Bambi), dies at 78
1953 : Kathleen Ferrier, English alto singer, dies at 41
1953 : Nigel Bruce, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman), dies at 58
1956 : Dirk Koster, literary (New noises), dies at 69
1964 : Charles Hodge, NYU professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69
1967 : Clement R Attlee, premier pf Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84
1967 : [Ernesto] Che Guevara [Serna], Arg/Cuban revolutionary, dies
1969 : Eduardo Ciannelli, actor (Waldo-Johnny Staccato), dies at 81
1970 : Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75
1970 : Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies
1971 : Christopher Dark, actor (Man Behind the Badge), dies at 51
1971 : Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer, dies at 79
1973 : Gabriel Marcel, writer, dies
1975 : Alberto Hemsi, composer, dies at 78
1978 : Jim Gilliam, coach (LA Dodgers), dies at 49
1978 : Karl Swenson, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie), dies at 70
1978 : Tibor Serly, Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76
1979 : June Nash, actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68
1982 : Fernando Lamas, actor/director (Lost World), dies of cancer at 67
1982 : Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92
1983 : Joan Hackett, actress (Group, Flicks, Rivals), dies of cancer at 49
1984 : Frederick Brisson, producer, dies at 71 after a stroke
1985 : Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat
1985 : Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright/poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94
1988 : Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer, dies at 82
1991 : Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75
1992 : Willy Brandt, chancellor of W Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78
1993 : Manke Nelis, [Cornelis Pieters], singer (Aunt Saar), dies at 73
1994 : Brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55
1994 : Diana Churchill, actress (Spider, Sally Bishop), dies at 81
1994 : John the King, CDA-minister of Social Businesses, dies at 68
1994 : Manual Pina, fashion Designer, dies at 50
1995 : Christopher Keene, musician, dies at 48
1995 : Frederick Harry Baines, painter, dies at 85
1995 : John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man), dies at 82
1995 : Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45
1996 : Geoffrey Finsberg, politician, dies at 70
1996 : Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist, dies at 85
1996 : Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot, dies at 81
1996 : Susan Gautier TV producer-Smith, dies at 33
1996 : William Prince, actor (Ken Baxter-Another World), dies at 83
1997 : Brown Meggs, CEO (Capitol Records), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 66

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