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History Deaths on October 04


José Ber Gelbard
José Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician (b. 1917)

#José_Ber_Gelbard

Catherine Booth
Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)

#Catherine_Booth

John Rennie the Elder
John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer, designed the Waterloo Bridge (b. 1761)

#John_Rennie_the_Elder

Irena I??akowicz
Irena I??akowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (b. 1906)

#Irena_I??akowicz

Otto Ernst Remer
Otto Ernst Remer, German general (b. 1912)

#Otto_Ernst_Remer

Norman Wisdom
Norman Wisdom, English actor, comedian, and singer-songwriter (b. 1915)

#Norman_Wisdom

Manuel Godoy
Manuel Godoy, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1767)

#Manuel_Godoy

Rembrandt
Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1606)

#Rembrandt

Karl Baedeker
Karl Baedeker, German publisher, founded Baedeker (b. 1801)

#Karl_Baedeker

Sergey Muromtsev
Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)

#Sergey_Muromtsev

Neal Walk
Neal Walk, American basketball player (b. 1948)

#Neal_Walk

Francesco Albani
Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)

#Francesco_Albani

Baron Franz von der Trenck
Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)

#Baron_Franz_von_der_Trenck

Gordon Cooper
Gordon Cooper, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927)

#Gordon_Cooper

Jacqueline Pascal
Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer (b. 1625)

#Jacqueline_Pascal

Glenn Gould
Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1932)

#Glenn_Gould

Jean-Claude Duvalier
Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (b. 1951)

#Jean-Claude_Duvalier

Barney Oldfield
Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and actor (b. 1878)

#Barney_Oldfield

Denny Hulme
Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936)

#Denny_Hulme

Danny Gatton
Danny Gatton, American guitarist (b. 1945)

#Danny_Gatton

Emperor Kameyama
Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)

#Emperor_Kameyama

Wang Mang
Wang Mang, Emperor of China

#Wang_Mang

Teresa of Ávila
Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1515)

#Teresa_of_Ávila

Qassem Al-Nasser
Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian general (b. 1925)

#Qassem_Al-Nasser

Herman VI, Margrave of Baden
Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (b. 1226)

#Herman_VI,_Margrave_of_Baden

Al Smith
Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873)

#Al_Smith

Hugo Carvana
Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)

#Hugo_Carvana

Sid McMath
Sid McMath, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)

#Sid_McMath

Abdallah al-Adil
Caliph al-Adil of Morocco

#Abdallah_al-Adil

Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)

#Janis_Joplin

Yazid III
Yazid III, Umayyad caliph (b. 701)

#Yazid_III

Erik Brødreskift
Erik Brødreskift, Norwegian drummer (b. 1969)

#Erik_Brødreskift

James Whitcomb
James Whitcomb, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Indiana (b. 1795)

#James_Whitcomb

Pyotr Masherov
Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1918)

#Pyotr_Masherov

Francis Xavier Seelos
Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)

#Francis_Xavier_Seelos

Marie Gutheil-Schoder
Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director (b. 1874)

#Marie_Gutheil-Schoder

Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi (b. 1182)

#Francis_of_Assisi

Stefanos Stefanopoulos
Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)

#Stefanos_Stefanopoulos

Võ Nguyên Giáp
Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (b. 1911)

#Võ_Nguyên_Giáp

Gerard de Ridefort
Gerard de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar

#Gerard_de_Ridefort

John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish commander and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Surrey (b. 1678)

#John_Campbell,_2nd_Duke_of_Argyll

Jean Béraud
Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)

#Jean_Béraud

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)

#Frédéric_Auguste_Bartholdi

John, Prince of Asturias
John, Prince of Asturias, only son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (b. 1478)

#John,_Prince_of_Asturias

Max Planck
Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)

#Max_Planck

Freddie Lindstrom
Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)

#Freddie_Lindstrom

Constance of Castile
Constance of Castile, Queen of France (b. 1141)

#Constance_of_Castile

Otto Weininger
Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)

#Otto_Weininger

Art Farmer
Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1928)

#Art_Farmer

Günther Rall
Günther Rall, German general and pilot (b. 1918)

#Günther_Rall

Ida Wüst
Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (b. 1884)

#Ida_Wüst

Sarel Cilliers
Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)

#Sarel_Cilliers

Nicholas Oresko
Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1917)

#Nicholas_Oresko

Bernard Buffet
Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (b. 1928)

#Bernard_Buffet

Stanley K. Hathaway
Stanley K. Hathaway, American lawyer and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1924)

#Stanley_K._Hathaway

Pierre-Paul Riquet
Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer, designed the Canal du Midi (b. 1609)

#Pierre-Paul_Riquet

Dave Pike, American vibraphone player and songwriter (b. 1938)
Edida Nageswara Rao, Indian director and producer (b. 1934)
William A. Culpepper, American general, lawyer, and judge (b. 1916)
Jewel Joseph Newman, American sergeant and politician (b. 1921)
Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1959)
Konrad Boehmer, German-Dutch composer and educator (b. 1941)
Diana Nasution, Indonesian singer (b. 1958)
Akira Miyoshi, Japanese composer (b. 1933)
Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat (b. 1917)
John Cloudsley-Thompson, Pakistani-English commander (b. 1921)
Tom Stannage, Australian footballer, historian, and academic (b. 1944)
Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean historian and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1941)
David Atkinson, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1921)
Doris Belack, American actress (b. 1926)
Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer (b. 1928)
André Delvaux, Belgian-Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (b. 1917)
John Collins, American guitarist (b. 1913)
Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 32nd Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1914)
S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian and academic (b. 1930)
Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created Game Boy (b. 1941)
M?rti?š Z?verts, Latvian playwright (b. 1903)
Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
Zlatko Grgi?, Croatian-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903)
Anne Sexton, American poet and author (b. 1928)
Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (b. 1904)
Benjamin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1880)
Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (b. 1920)
Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
Grigorios Zalykis, Greek-French lexicographer and scholar (b. 1785)
Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier and politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (b. 1586)
Sarsa Dengel, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1550)
John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray, English baron (b. 1310)
William IV Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (b. 1179)
Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
Turpio, Frankish nobleman