Deaths on 7 October
2000s
Cissy Houston
2024
American singer and mother of Whitney Houston (1933–2024)
Arie L. Kopelman
2024
American businessman (1938–2024)
Zaw Myint Maung
2024
Burmese politician (1951–2024)
Lore Segal
2024
American writer (1928–2024)
Lior Asulin
2023
Israeli footballer (1980–2023)
Jayar Davidov
2023
Israeli police officer (died 2023)
Asaf Hamami
2023
Israeli military officer (1982–2023)
Hayim Katsman
2023
Israeli peace activist (1991–2023)
Ofir Libstein
2023
Israeli politician (1973–2023)
Roi Levy
2023
Israeli Defense Force colonel (1979–2023)
Killing of Shani Louk
2023
2023 killing of Nova music festival attendee in Israel
Killing of Omer Neutra
2023
American-Israeli killed during October 7 attacks (2001–2023)
Izhar Peled
2023
Israeli police officer (1961–2023)
Killing of Aner Shapira
2023
2023 killing during the October 7 attacks
Vivian Silver
2023
Canadian-Israeli peace activist (1949–2023)
Yonatan Steinberg
2023
Israeli Defense Force colonel
Yahav Winner
2023
Israeli filmmaker (1986–2023)
Terence Davies
2023
English filmmaker (1945–2023)
Arun Bali
2022
Indian television actor (1942–2022)
Mario Molina
2020
Mexican chemist (1943–2020)
Ross Higgins
2016
Australian actor
Harry Gallatin
2015
American basketball player and coach (1927–2015)
Hossein Hamadani
2015
Islamic revolutionary guard corps commander
Jurelang Zedkaia
2015
President of the Marshall Islands from 2009 to 2012
Nika Kiladze
2014
Georgian footballer (1988–2014)
Siegfried Lenz
2014
German writer
Iva Withers
2014
American actress and singer
Mick Buckley (English footballer)
2013
English footballer (1953–2013)
Terry Burnham
2013
American former child performer
Patrice Chéreau
2013
French opera and theatre director
David E. Jeremiah
2013
US Navy admiral (1934-2013)
Leandro Mendoza
2013
Filipino public official and retired police officer (1946–2013)
Joe Rogers (politician)
2013
American politician (1964–2013)
Mervyn Dymally
2012
American politician (1926–2012)
Ivo Michiels
2012
Belgian writer (1923–2012)
Wiley Reed
2012
Musical artist
Ramiz Alia
2011
Head of state of Albania from 1982 to 1992
Andrew Laszlo
2011
Hungarian-American cinematographer
T Lavitz
2010
Musical artist
Milka Planinc
2010
Croatian politician (1924–2010)
Irving Penn
2009
American photographer (1917-2009)
Norifumi Abe
2007
Japanese motorcycle racer (1975–2007)
George Sangmeister
2007
American politician (1931-2007)
Julen Goikoetxea
2006
Spanish cyclist
Anna Politkovskaya
2006
Russian journalist (1958–2006)
Charles Rocket
2005
American actor and comedian (1949–2005)
Miki Matsubara
2004
Japanese singer and songwriter (1959–2004)
Tony Lanfranchi
2004
British racing driver (1935–2004)
Izzy Asper
2003
Canadian businessperson (1932–2003)
Arthur Berger (composer)
2003
American composer and music critic (1912-2003)
Pierangelo Bertoli
2002
Italian singer-songwriter (1942–2002)
Herblock
2001
American editorial cartoonist and author (1909–2001)
Chris Adams (wrestler)
2001
English judoka and professional wrestler
Roger Gaudry
2001
Canadian chemist
1900s
Cees de Vreugd
1998
Lou Lichtveld
1996
Dutch-Surinamese writer and politician (1903–1996)
Ivan Hutchinson
1995
Film critic and television personality
Olga Taussky-Todd
1995
Austrian and American mathematician (1906–1995)
Niels Kaj Jerne
1994
Danish immunologist (1911–1994)
Cyril Cusack
1993
Irish actor (1910–1993)
Allan Bloom
1992
American philosopher, classicist, and academician (1930–1992)
Babu Karam Singh Bal
1992
Harry W. Brown (pilot)
1991
Leo Durocher
1991
American baseball player and manager (1905–1991)
Darren Millane
1991
Australian rules footballer
Beatrice Hutton
1990
Australian architect (1893–1990)
Chiara Badano
1990
Italian Blessed
Grim Natwick
1990
American artist, animator and film director (1890–1990)
Cemal Reşit Rey
1985
Turkish composer, pianist, script writer and conductor (1904–1985)
George O. Abell
1983
American astronomer (1927-1983)
Alphonse-Marie Parent
1970
Canadian priest, educator and academic administrator
Léon Scieur
1969
Belgian cyclist
Norman Angell
1967
British politician and Nobel Laureate
Grigoris Asikis
1966
Musical artist
Oking Jaya Atmaja
1963
Mario Lanza
1959
American tenor and actor (1921–1959)
Clarence Birdseye
1956
American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist
Anton Philips
1951
Dutch industrialist (1874–1951)
Willis Carrier
1950
American inventor (1876–1950)
Helmut Lent
1944
German fighter ace (1918–1944)
Radclyffe Hall
1943
British poet and author (1880–1943)
Harvey Cushing
1939
American neurosurgeon (1869–1939)
Alexander Peacock
1933
Australian politician (1861–1933)
Emil Kraepelin
1926
German psychiatrist (1856–1926)
Christy Mathewson
1925
American baseball player (1880–1925)
Alfred Deakin
1919
Prime Minister of Australia (1903–1904; 1905–1908; 1909–1910)
John Hughlings Jackson
1911
English neurologist (1835–1911)
Honoré Beaugrand
1906
French Canadian journalist and politician (1848-1906)
Isabella Bird
1904
English explorer and writer (1831–1904)
Rudolf Lipschitz
1903
German mathematician (1832–1903)
1800s
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
1894
American poet, essayist, physician (1809–1894)
Bernard Petitjean
1884
Roman Catholic missionary to Japan
Edgar Allan Poe
1849
American writer and critic (1809–1849)
Before 1800
Thomas Reid
1796
Scottish philosopher (1710–1796)
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire
1793
British politician (1718–1793)
George Mason
1792
American Founding Father and Bill of Rights advocate (1725–1792)
Henry Muhlenberg
1787
German-born clergyman and missionary (1711–1787)
John Woolman
1772
American Quaker preacher and writer
Giulia Lama
1747
Italian artist (1681–1747)
Guru Gobind Singh
1708
Tenth Sikh guru from 1675 to 1708
Fausto Poli
1653
Roman Catholic prelate (1581–1653)
Jacques Sirmond
1651
French scholar and Jesuit (1559–1651)
Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy
1637
Duke of Savoy from 1630 to 1637
Stanisław Żółkiewski
1620
Polish noble (1547–1620)
Giovanni Battista Guarini
1612
Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat (1538–1612)
George Gascoigne
1577
16th-century English poet and courtier
Müezzinzade Ali Pasha
1571
Ottoman governor and admiral
Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg
1571
Queen of Denmark from 1534 to 1559
Cristóbal de Morales
1553
Spanish composer (c. 1500 – 1553)
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
1468
Italian nobleman and condottiero (1417–1468)
Jean Poton de Xaintrailles
1461
15th-century French noble
Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence
1368
English prince and nobleman (1338–1368)
Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde
1363
Ezzelino III da Romano
1259
Italian feudal lord (1194–1259)
Emperor Juntoku
1242
Emperor of Japan (r. 1210–1221)
Qian Chu
988
King of Wuyue from 948 to 978
Emperor Shizong of Liao
951
Emperor of the Liao dynasty from 947 to 951
Empress Dowager Xiao (Shizong)
951
Empress Zhen (Liao dynasty)
951
Empress Li (Later Jin)
950
Charles the Simple
929
King of West Francia from 898 to 922
Emperor Montoku
858
Emperor of Japan from 850 to 858
Pope Mark
336
Head of the Catholic Church in 336