2 October Deaths

Published : 02 Oct 2017, 11:01

Jagoroniya Desk

October 2 is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 90 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).

Deaths

534 – Athalaric, Italian king (b. 516)
829 – Michael II, Byzantine emperor (b. 770)
939 – Eberhard III, duke of Franconia
939 – Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine (b. 890)
1264 – Pope Urban IV
1348 – Alice de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln (b. 1281)
1559 – Jacquet of Mantua, French-Italian composer (b. 1483)
1588 – Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher and scientist (b. 1509)
1626 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, Spanish academic and diplomat (b. 1567)
1629 – Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
1629 – Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and theologian (b. 1575)
1685 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (b. 1638)
1708 – Anne Jules de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)
1709 – Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1639)
1724 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French historian and author (b. 1644)
1746 – Josiah Burchett, English admiral and politician (b. 1666)
1764 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720)
1775 – Fukuda Chiyo-ni, Japanese nun and poet (b. 1703)
1780 – John André, English soldier (b. 1750)
1782 – Charles Lee, English-born American general (b. 1732)
1786 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral and politician (b. 1725)
1803 – Samuel Adams, American philosopher and politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1722)
1804 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French engineer (b. 1725)
1850 – Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
1853 – François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (b. 1786)
1920 – Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
1927 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1938 – Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
1938 – André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
1943 – John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
1947 – P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
1953 – John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
1955 – Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)
1955 – William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)
1962 – Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1859)
1968 – Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
1971 – Jessie Arms Botke, American painter (b. 1883)
1973 – Paul Hartman, American actor and dancer (b. 1904)
1973 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
1974 – Vasily Shukshin, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
1975 – K. Kamaraj, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
1981 – Harry Golden, American journalist and author (b. 1902)
1981 – Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American activist, actress, and musician (b. 1920)
1985 – Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
1987 – Madeleine Carroll, English actress (b. 1906)
1987 – Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1988 – Alec Issigonis, Greek-English car designer, designed the Mini (b. 1906)
1988 – Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician, 2nd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1912)
1991 – Hazen Argue, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
1991 – Demetrios I of Constantinople (b. 1914)
1994 – Harriet Nelson, American actress and singer (b. 1909)
1996 – Robert Bourassa, Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd Premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
1996 – Andrey Lukanov, Bulgarian lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1938)
1998 – Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and guitarist (b. 1907)
1998 – Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (b. 1924)
1999 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German journalist and author (b. 1921)
2000 – David Tonkin, Australian politician, 38th Premier of South Australia (b. 1929)
2001 – Franz Biebl, German composer and academic (b. 1906)
2002 – Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
2003 – John Thomas Dunlop, American scholar and politician, 14th United States Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
2005 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (b. 1918)
2005 – August Wilson, American author and playwright (b. 1945)
2006 – Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
2006 – Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1916)
2007 – Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
2007 – Christopher Derrick, English author and critic (b. 1921)
2007 – George Grizzard, American actor (b. 1928)
2007 – Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer (b. 1902)
2007 – Tawn Mastrey, American radio host and producer (b. 1954)
2010 – Kwa Geok Choo, Singaporean lawyer and scholar (b. 1920)
2011 – Peter L. Benson, American psychologist and academic (b. 1946)
2012 – Nguyễn Chí Thiện, Vietnamese-American poet and activist (b. 1939)
2012 – Charles Roach, Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer and activist (b. 1933)
2012 – J. Philippe Rushton, English-Canadian psychologist, theorist, academic (b. 1943)
2013 – Gottfried Fischer, German psychologist, therapist, and academic (b. 1944)
2013 – Herman Hugg, American painter and sculptor (b. 1921)
2013 – Jonathan Kaufer, American director and screenwriter (b. 1955)
2013 – Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (b. 1918)
2013 – Kaare Ørnung, Norwegian pianist and educator (b. 1931)
2014 – Robert Flower, Australian footballer (b. 1955)
2014 – Vaughn O. Lang, American general (b. 1927)
2014 – Frederic Tamler Sommers, American philosopher and academic (b. 1923)
2015 – Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian lawyer and politician, President of Panama (b. 1937)
2015 – Brian Friel, Irish author, playwright, and director (b. 1929)
2015 – Rodolfo Frigeri, Argentinian economist and politician, Argentinian Minister of Finance (b. 1942)
2015 – Coleridge Goode, Jamaican-English bassist and composer (b. 1914)
2015 – James Mutende, Ugandan veterinarian, economist, and politician (b. 1962)
2015 – Johnny Paton, Scottish footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1923)
2016 – Neville Marriner, British conductor (b. 1924)
2016 – Gary Reed, American comic book writer (b. 1956)

Source: wikipedia

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