Deaths on 10 October
2000s
John Lodge (musician)
2025
British rock musician (1943β2025)
Fleur Adcock
2024
New Zealand poet (1934β2024)
Ethel Kennedy
2024
American human rights advocate (1928β2024)
Mulayam Singh Yadav
2022
Indian politician (1939β2022)
Abdul Qadeer Khan
2021
Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936β2021)
Donn Fendler
2016
American lost child (1926β2016)
Diepreye Alamieyeseigha
2015
Nigerian politician (1952β2015)
Hilla Becher
2015
German conceptual photographer
Manorama (Tamil actress)
2015
Indian actress
Steve Mackay
2015
Musical artist
Sybil Stockdale
2015
American activist
Olav Dale
2014
Norwegian composer, orchestra leader and saxophonist
Damiana Eugenio
2014
Filipino writer (1921β2014)
Valeri Karpov
2014
Soviet ice hockey player (1971β2014)
Lari Ketner
2014
American basketball player (1977β2014)
Pavel LandovskΓ½
2014
Czech actor, playwright, and director (1936β2014)
Ed Nimmervoll
2014
Australian music journalist
Scott Carpenter
2013
American astronaut and aquanaut (1925β2013)
Jay Conrad Levinson
2013
American business writer (1933β2013)
Sohei Miyashita
2013
Japanese politician (1927β2013)
Cal Smith
2013
American country music singer (1932β2013)
Sam Gibbons
2012
American politician
Alex Karras
2012
American football player, sportscaster and actor (1935β2012)
Piotr Lenartowicz
2012
Polish philosopher (1934β2012)
Basil L. Plumley
2012
United States Army soldier
Mark Poster
2012
American philosopher
Kyaw Zaw
2012
Burmese political and military leader (1919β2012)
Jagjit Singh
2011
Indian singer (1941β2011)
Solomon Burke
2010
American preacher and singer (1940β2010)
Joan Sutherland
2010
Australian soprano (1926β2010)
Stephen Gately
2009
Irish pop singer (1976β2009)
Kazuyoshi Miura (businessman)
2008
Japanese businessman (1947β2008)
Michael John Rogers
2006
English ornithologist
Ian Scott (Ontario politician)
2006
Canadian lawyer and politician
Wayne C. Booth
2005
American academic (1921β2005)
Milton Obote
2005
Ugandan politician (1925β2005)
Ken Caminiti
2004
American baseball player (1963β2004)
Christopher Reeve
2004
American actor and activist (1952β2004)
Arthur H. Robinson
2004
American geographer and cartographer
Maurice Shadbolt
2004
New Zealand writer (1932β2004)
Eila Hiltunen
2003
Finnish sculptor (1922β2003)
Eugene Istomin
2003
American pianist (1925β2003)
Eddie Futch
2001
American boxer, boxing trainer
Vasily Mishin
2001
Soviet aerospace engineer
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
2000
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1916β2000)
1900s
Clark Clifford
1998
American public official (1906β1998)
Marvin Gay Sr.
1998
American minister, father of Marvin Gaye (1914β1998)
Tommy Quaid
1998
Irish hurler
Michael J. S. Dewar
1997
American chemist
Nickolaus Hirschl
1991
Austrian wrestler (1906β1991)
Tom Murton
1990
American activist
Nikolaos Pavlopoulos
1990
Greek sculptor and writer
Dorothy Stanley
1990
American educator and activist (1924β1990)
Behice Boran
1987
Turkish politician (1910β1987)
Gleb Wataghin
1986
Italian physicist (1899β1986)
Yul Brynner
1985
Russian-American actor (1920β1985)
Orson Welles
1985
American actor and filmmaker (1915β1985)
Ralph Richardson
1983
English actor (1902β1983)
Jean Effel
1982
French painter (1908β1982)
Christopher Evans (computer scientist)
1979
British computer scientist and author
Paul Paray
1979
French conductor, organist and composer (1886β1979)
Ralph Marterie
1978
Italian big-band leader (1914β1978)
Ralph Metcalfe
1978
American athlete and politician (1910β1978)
Angelo Muscat
1977
Maltese actor (1930β1977)
Silvana ArmenuliΔ
1976
Yugoslav singer (1939β1976)
Mirjana BajraktareviΔ
1976
Musical artist (1951β1976)
Joseph Wulf
1974
German-Polish Jewish historian (1912β1974)
Ludwig von Mises
1973
AustrianβAmerican political economist (1881β1973)
John Beaglehole
1971
New Zealand historian
Γdouard Daladier
1970
French radical socialist politician
Charlotte Cooper (tennis)
1966
English tennis player (1870β1966)
Louise Thuliez
1966
French schoolteacher, resistance fighter and author (1881β1966)
Eddie Cantor
1964
American comedian and actor (1892β1964)
Heinrich Neuhaus
1964
Soviet pianist (1888β1964)
Roy Cazaly
1963
Australian rules footballer (1893β1963)
Γdith Piaf
1963
French singer (1915β1963)
Stancho Belkovski
1962
Bulgarian architect
Karl Genzken
1957
WW2 SS Doctor & war criminal
Erima Northcroft
1953
New Zealand lawyer, judge and military leader
Chikuhei Nakajima
1949
Japanese politician
Ted Horn
1948
American racing driver (1910β1948)
Arnold Majewski
1942
Finnish soldier
Berton Churchill
1940
Canadian actor (1876β1940)
Abul Kasem (politician, born 1872)
1936
Bengali politician
Gustave Loiseau
1935
French painter
Adolf Engler
1930
German botanist (1844β1930) noted for taxonomy
August Kitzberg
1927
Estonian writer
Gustave Whitehead
1927
19/20th-century German-American aviator
AndrΓ©s Avelino CΓ‘ceres
1923
27th and 30th President of Peru
Andreas Karkavitsas
1922
Greek writer
Henry Dobson
1918
Australian politician (1841β1918)
Carol I of Romania
1914
Monarch of Romania from 1866 to 1914
Adolphus Busch
1913
German-born co-founder of Anheuser-Busch (1839β1913)
Katsura TarΕ
1913
Japanese general and politician (1848β1913)
Lorenzo Snow
1901
American LDS Church leader (1814β1901)
1800s
Lip Pike
1893
American baseball player and manager (1845β1893)
Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville
1876
French geologist and meteorologist
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
1875
Russian poet, novelist, and playwright
William H. Seward
1872
American politician (1801β1872)
George Washington Parke Custis
1857
Step-grandson of George Washington (1781β1857)
Charles Fourier
1837
French utopian socialist and philosopher (1772β1837)
Ugo Foscolo
1827
Italian writer, revolutionary and poet (1778β1827)
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772β1806)
1806
Prince of Prussia and composer
Gabriel's Rebellion
1800
Slave rebellion in Virginia, United States (1800)
Before 1800
Francesco Antonio Zaccaria
1795
Italian theologian, historian and writer
Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset
1765
British politician
Granville Elliott
1759
British military officer
John Potter (bishop)
1747
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1737 to 1747
Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil
1725
French politician (1643β1725)
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper
1723
17th- and 18-century English politician and first Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Antoine Coysevox
1720
French sculptor (1640β1720)
Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert
1714
French law-maker and Jansenist
David Gregory (mathematician)
1708
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
Isaac de Benserade
1691
Abel Tasman
1659
Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant (1603β1659)
Bayinnaung
1581
Emperor of the Toungoo dynasty
Peter II, Duke of Bourbon
1503
French noble (1438β1503)
Hugh IV of Cyprus
1359
King of Cyprus from 1324 to 1358
Patrick IV, Earl of March
1308
13th-century Anglo-Scottish earl and claimant to the throne
Frederick II, Duke of Lorraine
1213
Duke of Lorraine from 1206 to 1213
Adela of Ponthieu, Countess of Surrey
1174
Al-Hafiz
1149
Fatimid Dynasty caliph from 1132 to 1149
Wang Lingmou
937
Pope Valentine
827
Head of the Catholic Church in 827
Abbas ibn Ali
680
Son of Ali ibn Abi Talib (died in 680)
Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn
680
Great-grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (c. 655β680)
Habib ibn Muzahir
680
Companion of Ali
Husayn ibn Ali
680
Grandson of Muhammad and the 3rd Imam
Paulinus of York
644
Christian missionary and saint, first bishop of York (died 644)
AD 19
19
Calendar year