Died on Friday, 3rd October – Famous Deaths

03/10/2025

Patricia Routledge, English actress and singer (born 1929)

Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge was an English actress and singer. She was best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC One comedy series Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995), for which she was twice nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance.

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03/10/2024

Michel Blanc, French actor, writer and director (born 1952)

Michel Blanc was a French actor, writer and director. He is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs. He is frequently associated with Le Splendid, which he co-founded, along with Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel and Gérard Jugnot. He also appeared in more serious roles, such as the title role in the Patrice Leconte film Monsieur Hire.

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Pierre Christin, French comics creator and writer (born 1938)

Pierre Christin was a French comics creator and writer.

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Cid Moreira, Brazilian journalist and television anchor (born 1927)

Cid Moreira was a Brazilian journalist and television anchor who was active from 1947 onwards. He was born in Taubaté, São Paulo, and was mostly recognized for his work as the main anchor on Rede Globo's primetime news program Jornal Nacional between 1969 and 1996. He became widely known by his grave, resonating voice. Moreira was also a narrator, having recorded several audiobook versions of Biblical works. He died in Petrópolis on 3 October 2024, at the age of 97 due to a multiple organ failure after a nearly one-month hospital stay, initially due to chronic kidney failure. Moreira was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

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Mary O'Rourke, Irish politician (born 1937)

Mary O'Rourke was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Leader of the Seanad and Leader of Fianna Fáil in the Seanad from 2002 to 2007, Deputy leader of Fianna Fáil from 1994 to 2002, Minister for Public Enterprise from 1997 to 2002, Minister for Health from 1991 to 1992 and Minister for Education from 1987 to 1991. She also served as a Minister of State from 1992 to 1994. She served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1982 to 2002 and 2007 to 2011. She served as a Senator for the Cultural and Educational Panel from 1981 to 1982 and from 2002 to 2007, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.

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03/10/2023

Thomas Gambino, American mobster, Gambino crime family (born 1929)

Thomas Francis Gambino was an Italian-American New York City mobster and a longtime caporegime of the Gambino crime family who successfully controlled lucrative trucking rackets in the New York City Garment District. He was the son of Carlo Gambino, second cousin of Paul Castellano and son-in-law of Tommy Lucchese.

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03/10/2021

Todd Akin, American politician (born 1947)

William Todd Akin was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 2nd congressional district from 2001 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party. Born in New York City, Akin grew up in the Greater St. Louis area. After receiving his bachelor's degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, Akin served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and worked in the computer and steel industries. In 1988, he was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives. He served in the state house until 2000, when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, in which he served until 2013.

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Dan Petrescu, Romanian businessman and billionaire (born 1953)

Dan Petrescu was a Romanian businessman and billionaire, among the richest people in Romania. Born in 1953 in Bucharest, Petrescu studied at the Politehnica University of Bucharest. After graduating, Petrescu married his wife Regina Dorotea Petrescu Balzat, with whom he had a son, Dan Ștefan Petrescu, and emigrated to West Germany. There, he met who would be his economic partner for years, Ion Țiriac, another Romanian businessman. They were involved in several businesses together and returned to Romania following the Romanian Revolution.

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03/10/2015

Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1917)

Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970; he remains the longest-serving Defence Secretary to date. He was a Member of Parliament from 1952 to 1992, and was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983. To the public at large, Healey became well known for his bushy eyebrows, his avuncular manner and his creative turns of phrase.

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Muhammad Nawaz Khan, Pakistani historian and author (born 1943)

Major (Retd.) Muhammad Nawaz Khan, was a Pakistani writer, historian, columnist, and poet of the English, Pashto and Urdu languages. His work had mostly been focused on history of the Pashtuns, the Gandhara civilization and the British legacy in Pakistan.

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Javed Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher and judge (born 1925)

Javid Iqbal was a Pakistani writer, philosopher and senior justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He was internationally known for his acclaimed publications on philosophy of law and modern Islamic philosophy in international and national journals.

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03/10/2014

Ewen Gilmour, New Zealand comedian and television host (born 1963)

David Ewen Gilmour, commonly known as Ewen Gilmour, was a New Zealand comedian and television presenter. Usually sporting long brown hair with a goatee and wearing a jacket and jeans, he was a self-described Westie.

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Benedict Groeschel, American priest, psychologist, and talk show host (born 1933)

Benedict Joseph Groeschel, C.F.R. was an American Franciscan friar, Catholic priest, retreat master, author, psychologist, activist, and television host. He hosted the television talk program Sunday Night Prime on the Eternal Word Television Network, as well as several serial religious specials.

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Jean-Jacques Marcel, French footballer (born 1931)

Jean-Jacques Lucien Élie Antoine Marcel was a French footballer who played defender. He was an integral part of the French national teams of the 1950s.

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Kevin Metheny, American businessman (born 1954)

Kevin Metheny was an American radio and cable network executive who began his career as on-air talent and went on to direct programming and audience research at many radio stations and in a number of broadcast conglomerates. During the 1980s, Metheny helped develop cable entertainment networks MTV and VH1 as vice-president in charge of Music Programming and Production; he later served as vice-president of VH1 before returning to broadcast radio. Metheny received fame for his reputation as the nemesis of Howard Stern, earning him the nickname "Pig Virus."

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Ward Ruyslinck, Belgian author (born 1929)

Raymond De Belser, pseudonym Ward Ruyslinck, was a Belgian writer. He is the son of Leo De Belser and Germaine Nauwelaers. His father was a librarian at an oil company, and Ward Ruyslinck grew up in a Roman Catholic family. During the Second World War, the family moved to Mortsel.

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03/10/2013

Sari Abacha, Nigerian footballer (born 1978)

Sanni Sari Abacha was a Nigerian footballer who played as a sweeper. He died in 2013.

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Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player and coach (born 1944)

Sergei Alexandrovich Belov was a Russian professional basketball player, most noted for playing for CSKA Moscow and the senior Soviet Union national basketball team. He is considered to be one of the best European basketball players of all time, and was given the honour of lighting the Olympic Cauldron with the Olympic flame during the 1980 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, in Moscow.

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Joan Thirsk, English cryptologist, historian, and academic (born 1922)

Irene Joan Thirsk was a British economic and social historian, specialising in the history of agriculture. She was the leading British early modern agrarian historian of her era, as well as an important social and economic historian. Her work highlighted the regional differences in agricultural practices in England. She also had an interest in food history and local English history, in particular of Hadlow, Kent.

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03/10/2012

Abdul Haq Ansari, Indian theologian and scholar (born 1931)

Muhammad Abdul Haq Ansari was an Islamic scholar from India. He was the Amir (president) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) from 2003 to 2007. He was the member of Central Advisory Council of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. He was also the Chancellor of Al Jamia Al Islamia, Shantapuram, Kerala. His book Sufism and Shariah is a synthesis of Sufi and Shariah thought, especially a Tatbiq of Shaikh Ahmed Sir Hindi and Shah Waliullah's thought. It grew out of his in-depth engagement with kalam, tasawwuf and fiqh in Islamic history. His other major contributions are a book on Mishkawah's philosophy and an English translation of Ibn Taymiyyah's fatwas with an introduction. He also wrote 'Learning the Language of Quran' it is one of the best English guides for the beginners learning to read the Qur'an. In New Delhi he established the Islami Academy, aimed at training graduates from secular educational background in Islamic Sciences based on the madrasa curriculum.

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Robert F. Christy, American physicist and astrophysicist (born 1916)

Robert Frederick Christy was a Canadian-American theoretical physicist and later astrophysicist who was one of the last surviving people to have worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He briefly served as acting president of California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

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Albie Roles, English footballer (born 1921)

Albert James "Albie" Roles was an English footballer who played as a full back for Southampton. His career was interrupted by the Second World War and, as a result, he only made one Football League and four FA Cup appearances.

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03/10/2010

Ben Mondor, Canadian-American businessman (born 1925)

Bernard Georges "Ben" Mondor was a Canadian-born American business executive and baseball executive, best known as the owner of the Pawtucket Red Sox from 1977 until his death.

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Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino lawyer and jurist (born 1921)

Abraham Florendo Sarmiento Sr. was a Filipino jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1987 to 1991. An active figure in the political opposition against the martial law government of President Ferdinand Marcos, he was appointed to the Court by Marcos' successor, President Corazon Aquino.

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03/10/2009

Vladimir Beekman, Estonian poet and translator (born 1929)

Vladimir Beekman was an Estonian writer, poet and translator.

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03/10/2007

M. N. Vijayan, Indian journalist, author, and academic (born 1930)

Moolayil Narayana Vijayan, popularly known as Vijayan Mash was an Indian academic, orator, columnist and writer of Malayalam literature. Known for his leftist ideals and oratorical skills, Vijayan was the president of the Purogamana Kala Sahitya Sangham and served as the editor of Deshabhimani. He published a number of books of which Chithayile Velicham received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism in 1982.

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03/10/2006

Lucilla Andrews, Egyptian-Scottish nurse and author (born 1919)

Lucilla Matthew Andrews Crichton was a British writer of 33 romance novels from 1954 to 1996. As Lucilla Andrews she specialised in hospital romances, and under the pen names Diana Gordon and Joanna Marcus wrote mystery romances.

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John Crank, English mathematician and physicist (born 1916)

John Crank was a mathematical physicist, best known for his work on the numerical solution of partial differential equations.

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Peter Norman, Australian runner (born 1942)

Peter George Norman was an Australian track athlete. He won the silver medal in the 200 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, with a time of 20.06 seconds, which remained the Oceania 200 m record for more than 56 years. He was a five-time national 200-metre champion.

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Alberto Ramento, Filipino bishop (born 1937)

Alberto Baldovino Ramento was the ninth supreme bishop and a former chairperson of the Supreme Council of Bishops of the Philippine Independent Church or Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI). He was known by the moniker, "The Bishop of the Poor Peasants and Workers". A known vocal critic against human rights abuses in the Philippines, he was murdered by unknown assailants in 2006, with his case currently remains unsolved.

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03/10/2005

Ronnie Barker, English actor and screenwriter (born 1929)

Ronald William George Barker was an English actor, comedian and writer. He was known for roles in British comedy television series such as The Frost Report, The Two Ronnies, Porridge, and Open All Hours.

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Nurettin Ersin, Turkish general (born 1918)

Nurettin Ersin was a Turkish general. He was the Commander of the 6th Corps during the 1974 invasion of Cyprus, and the Commander of the Turkish Army during the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. After the coup he was a member of the Presidential Council, and was Chief of the General Staff of Turkey in the second half of 1983.

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03/10/2004

John Cerutti, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1960)

John Joseph Cerutti was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays and Detroit Tigers between 1985 and 1991, and was later a broadcaster for the Blue Jays.

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Janet Leigh, American actress (born 1927)

Jeanette Helen Morrison, known professionally as Janet Leigh, was an American actress, businesswoman and author. Leigh was established as one of the earliest scream queens for starring in horror films, and is also known for starring in dramatic productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). She amassed several screen and stage credits over five decades, and received accolades such as a Golden Globe Award and nominations for an Academy Award.

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03/10/2003

Florence Stanley, American actress (born 1924)

Florence Stanley was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best known for her roles in Barney Miller (1975–1977) and its spinoff Fish (1977–1978), My Two Dads (1987–1990), and Nurses (1991–1994), and the voice of Wilhelmina Bertha Packard in the franchise of Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

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William Steig, American sculptor, author, and illustrator (born 1907)

William Steig was an American cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books, best known for the picture book Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name, as well as others that included Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto. He was the U.S. nominee for the biennial and international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as both a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988.

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03/10/2002

Bruce Paltrow, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1943)

Bruce Weigert Paltrow was an American television and film director and producer. He was the husband of actress Blythe Danner, and the father of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and screenwriter/director Jake Paltrow.

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03/10/2001

Costas Hajihristos, Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)

Kostas Hatzichristos or Costas Hajihristos was a Greek actor.

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03/10/2000

Benjamin Orr, American singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1947)

Benjamin Orr was an American musician. He was best known as the bassist, co-lead vocalist, and co-founder of the band the Cars. He sang lead vocals on several of their hits, including "Just What I Needed", "Let's Go", "Moving in Stereo", and "Drive". He also had the solo hit "Stay the Night".

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03/10/1999

Akio Morita, Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony (born 1921)

Akio Morita was a Japanese entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka.

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03/10/1998

Roddy McDowall, English-American actor (born 1928)

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall was an English and American actor, whose career spanned over 270 screen and stage roles across more than 60 years.

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03/10/1997

Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian politician, 3rd Governor of Ondo State (born 1908)

Michael Adekunle Ajasin was a Nigerian politician who served as governor of Ondo State from 1979 to 1983 on the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) platform during the Nigerian Second Republic.

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03/10/1995

Ma. Po. Si., Indian author and politician (born 1906)

Mylai Ponnuswamy Sivagnanam, popularly known as Ma.Po.Si., was an Indian politician, freedom fighter, and the founder of the political party Tamil Arasu Kazhagam. He wrote more than 100 books.

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03/10/1994

John C. Champion, American producer and screenwriter (born 1923)

John C. Champion was an American producer and screenwriter.

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Dub Taylor, American actor (born 1907)

Walter Clarence "Dub" Taylor Jr. was an American character actor who from the 1940s into the 1990s worked extensively in films and on television, often in Westerns but also in comedies. He is the father of actor and painter Buck Taylor.

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03/10/1993

Katerina Gogou, Greek actress, poet, and author (born 1940)

Katerina Gogou was a Greek poet, author and actress.

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Gary Gordon, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1960)

Gary Ivan Gordon was a master sergeant in the United States Army and a recipient of the Medal of Honor. At the time of his death in the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993, he was a non-commissioned officer in the United States Army's premier special operations unit, the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1SFOD-D), or "Delta Force". Together with his fellow soldier Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart, Gordon was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the battle.

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Randy Shughart, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1958)

Randall David Shughart was a United States Army Delta Force operator who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Mogadishu, during Operation Gothic Serpent in October 1993.

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03/10/1990

Stefano Casiraghi, Italian-Monegasque businessman (born 1960)

Stefano Casiraghi was an Italian offshore powerboat racer, socialite, and businessman. He was the second husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco; he died during a racing accident defending his 1990 Class 1 World Powerboat Championship title.

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Eleanor Steber, American soprano and educator (born 1914)

Eleanor Steber was an American operatic soprano. Steber is noted as one of the first major opera stars to have achieved the highest success with training and a career based in the United States.

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03/10/1988

Franz Josef Strauss, Bavarian lieutenant and politician, Minister President of Bavaria (born 1915)

Franz Josef Strauss was a German politician. He was the long-time chairman of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) from 1961 until 1988, member of the federal cabinet in different positions between 1953 and 1969 and minister-president of Bavaria from 1978 until 1988. Strauss is also credited as a co-founder of European aerospace conglomerate Airbus.

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03/10/1987

Jean Anouilh, French playwright and screenwriter (born 1910)

Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 production of Sophocles' Antigone, which, though performed without objection by censors, was nevertheless seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.

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Kalervo Palsa, Finnish painter (born 1947)

Huugo Kalervo Palsa, known as Kalle, was a Finnish artist whose style has been described as fantastic expressionism, often influenced by depictions of sexuality.

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03/10/1986

Vince DiMaggio, American baseball player and manager (born 1912)

Vincent Paul DiMaggio was an American Major League Baseball center fielder. During a 10-year baseball career, he played for the Boston Bees (1937–1938), Cincinnati Reds (1939–1940), Pittsburgh Pirates (1940–1945), Philadelphia Phillies (1945–1946), and New York Giants (1946). DiMaggio was the older brother of Joe and Dom DiMaggio.

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03/10/1981

Anna Hedvig Büll, Estonian-German missionary (born 1887)

Anna Hedvig Büll was a missionary from Estonia who helped to save the lives of several thousand Armenian orphans during the Armenian genocide.

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03/10/1980

Friedrich Karm, Estonian footballer (born 1907)

Friedrich Karm was an Estonian international footballer who scored 9 goals in 13 games for the Estonian national side. He was also a bandy player.

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03/10/1979

Nicos Poulantzas, Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (born 1936)

Nicos Poulantzas was a Greek-French Marxist political philosopher and sociologist. In the 1970s, he became a leading figure in the structuralist Marxist school of thought. He is best known for his theoretical work on the state, social class, fascism, and authoritarianism. His work was influential in critiquing traditional communist views and developing a sophisticated Marxist theory of the capitalist state.

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03/10/1969

Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1902)

Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter. AllMusic stated: "Coupling an oddball guitar tuning set against eerie, falsetto vocals, James' early recordings could make the hair stand up on the back of your neck."

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03/10/1967

Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1912)

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was an American singer, songwriter, and composer widely considered one of the most significant figures in American folk music. His work focused on themes of American socialism and anti-fascism and has inspired many generations politically and musically with songs such as "This Land Is Your Land" and "Tear the Fascists Down".

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Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor (born 1895)

Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works. The musical ensembles with which he was associated included the Ballets Russes, the Huddersfield Choral Society, the Royal Choral Society, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, and the London Philharmonic, Hallé, Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and Royal Philharmonic orchestras. Sargent was held in high esteem by choirs and instrumental soloists, but because of his high standards and a statement that he made in a 1936 interview disputing musicians' rights to tenure, his relationship with orchestral players was often uneasy. Despite this, he was co-founder of the London Philharmonic, was the first conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic as a full-time ensemble, and played an important part in saving the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from disbandment in the 1960s.

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03/10/1966

Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (born 1896)

Rolf Maximilian Sievert was a Swedish medical physicist whose major contribution was in the study of the biological effects of ionizing radiation.

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03/10/1965

Zachary Scott, American actor (born 1914)

Zachary Scott was an American actor who was known for his roles as villains and "mystery men".

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03/10/1963

Refet Bele, Turkish general (born 1877)

Refet Bele, also known as Refet Bey or Refet Pasha was a Turkish military commander. He served in the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army, where he retired as a general.

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03/10/1959

Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (born 1892)

Tochigiyama Moriya was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 27th yokozuna from 1918 until 1925. Generally he is considered one of the pioneers of modern sumo. He remains the lightest yokozuna in the history of the sport with a weight of 104 kg.

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03/10/1953

Arnold Bax, English composer and poet (born 1883)

Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral music. In addition to a series of symphonic poems, he wrote seven symphonies and was for a time widely regarded as the leading British symphonist.

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03/10/1936

John Heisman, American football player and coach (born 1869)

John William Heisman was an American sportsman, writer, and actor. He was a player and coach of American football, baseball, and basketball, and served as the head football coach at Oberlin College, Buchtel College, Auburn University, Clemson University, Georgia Tech, the University of Pennsylvania, Washington & Jefferson College, and Rice University, compiling a career college football record of 186–70–18.

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03/10/1931

Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1865)

Carl August Nielsen was a Danish composer, conductor, and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.

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03/10/1929

Jeanne Eagels, American actress (born 1894)

Jeanne Eagels was an American stage and film actress. Eagels appeared in many Broadway productions, and in the emerging medium of sound films. She was posthumously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her 1929 role in The Letter after dying suddenly that year at the age of 39.

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Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1878)

Gustav Ernst Stresemann was a German statesman during the Weimar Republic who served as chancellor of Germany from August to November 1923 and as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929. His most notable achievement was the reconciliation between Germany and France, for which he and French Prime Minister Aristide Briand received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926. During a period of political instability and fragile, short-lived governments, Stresemann was seen at his death as "the person who maintained the precarious balance of the political system."

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03/10/1917

Eduardo Di Capua, Neapolitan composer, singer and songwriter (born 1865)

Eduardo di Capua was an Italian composer, singer and songwriter.

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03/10/1911

Rosetta Jane Birks, Australian suffragist (born 1856)

Rosetta Jane "Rose" Birks (1856–1911) was a social reformer and philanthropist who played a key role in South Australian women's suffrage.

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03/10/1910

Lucy Hobbs Taylor, American dentist (born 1833)

Lucy Hobbs Taylor was an American dentist, known for being the first woman to graduate from dental school.

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03/10/1907

Jacob Nash Victor, American engineer (born 1835)

Jacob Nash Victor, son of Henry Clay Victor and Gertrude Nash, was a civil engineer who worked as General Manager of the California Southern Railroad, a subsidiary of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Victor oversaw the construction in the early 1880s of the California Southern between Colton and Barstow, California, including the section that is now one of the busiest rail freight routes in the United States, Cajon Pass.

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03/10/1896

William Morris, English author and poet (born 1834)

William Morris was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he campaigned for socialism in fin de siècle Great Britain.

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03/10/1891

Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (born 1842)

François Édouard Anatole Lucas was a French mathematician. Lucas is known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence and the Tower of Hanoi. The related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him.

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03/10/1890

Joseph Hergenröther, German historian and cardinal (born 1824)

Joseph Hergenröther was a German Church historian and canonist, and the first Cardinal-Prefect of the Vatican Archive.

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03/10/1881

Orson Pratt, American mathematician and religious leader (born 1811)

Orson Pratt Sr. was an American religious leader and mathematician who was an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Christ. After the succession crisis Pratt continued in the Quorum of the Twelve of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was a leading Mormon theologian and writer until his death.

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03/10/1877

James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop (born 1814)

James Roosevelt Bayley was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Newark (1853–1872) and as Archbishop of Baltimore (1872–1877).

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Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, Mexican general and president (1855) (born 1800)

José María Rómulo Díaz de la Vega Fuentes was a Mexican military officer and politician. As commander of the garrison in Mexico City, he was the de facto president of Mexico in 1855, after the resignation of President Martin Carrera during the revolutionary Plan of Ayutla left a power vacuum.

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03/10/1873

Kintpuash, American tribal leader (born 1837)

Kintpuash, also known as Kientpoos, Keintpoos, or by his English name Captain Jack, was a prominent Modoc leader from present-day northern California and southern Oregon. His name in the Modoc language translates to "strikes the water brashly." Kintpuash is best known for leading his people in resisting forced relocation during the Modoc War of 1872–1873. Using the rugged terrain of the Lava Beds in California, his small band of warriors held off vastly superior US Army forces for several months. He remains the only Native American leader to be charged with war crimes. Kintpuash was executed by hanging, along with three others, for their role in the deaths of General Edward Canby and Reverend Eleazar Thomas during peace negotiations.

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03/10/1867

Hedda Hjortsberg, Swedish ballerina (born 1777)

Hedvig "Hedda" Katarina Hjortsberg also known as Hedda Koersner was a Swedish ballerina who starred for the Royal Swedish Ballet. She was the sister of the Swedish actor Lars Hjortsberg.

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Elias Howe, American engineer, invented the sewing machine (born 1819)

Elias Howe Jr. was an American inventor best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine.

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Thora Thersner, Swedish artist (born 1818)

Thora Johanna Ulrika Thersner was a Swedish graphic artist and illustrator who was known for contributing half of the illustrations of the Fordna och närvarande Sverige topographical volumes, which her father began.

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03/10/1860

Rembrandt Peale, American painter and curator (born 1778)

Rembrandt Peale was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties.

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03/10/1838

Black Hawk, American tribal leader (born 1767)

Mahkatêwe-meshi-kêhkêhkwa, known in English as Black Hawk, was a Sauk leader and warrior who lived in the future Midwestern United States. Although he had inherited an important historic sacred bundle from his father, he was not a hereditary civil chief. Black Hawk earned his status as a war chief or captain by his actions: leading raiding and war parties as a young man and then a band of Sauk warriors during the Black Hawk War of 1832.

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03/10/1833

François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general and engineer (born 1754)

François Charles Louis, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat was a French general and military engineer during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

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03/10/1801

Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (born 1724)

Philippe Henri, Marquis de Ségur was a French military officer who was Marshal of France and Secretary of State for War under King Louis XV and later King Louis XVI. He was a grandson of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans,

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03/10/1795

Tula, Curaçao slave leader (date of birth unknown; executed)

Tula, also known as Tula Rigaud, was an African man enslaved on the island of Curaçao, in the Dutch West Indies, who liberated himself and led the Curaçao Slave Revolt of 1795. The revolt, which began on 17 August 1795, lasted for more than a month. He was executed on 3 October 1795. He is revered on Curaçao today as a fighter for human rights and independence.

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03/10/1701

Joseph Williamson, English politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1633)

Sir Joseph Williamson, PRS was an English civil servant, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1665 and 1701 and in the Irish House of Commons between 1692 and 1699. He was Secretary of State for the Northern Department from 1674 to 1679.

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03/10/1690

Robert Barclay, Scottish theologian and politician, 2nd Governor of East Jersey (born 1648)

Robert Barclay was a Scottish Quaker, one of the most eminent writers belonging to the Religious Society of Friends and a member of the Clan Barclay. He was a son of Col. David Barclay, Laird of Urie, and his wife, Lady Katherine Barclay. Although he himself never lived there, Barclay was titular governor of the East Jersey colony in North America through most of the 1680s.

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03/10/1656

Myles Standish, English captain (born 1584)

Myles Standish was an English military officer and colonist. He was hired as military adviser for Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts, United States, by the Pilgrims. Standish accompanied the Pilgrims on the ship Mayflower and played a leading role in the administration and defense of Plymouth Colony from its foundation in 1620. On February 17, 1621, the Plymouth Colony militia elected him as its first commander and continued to re-elect him to that position for the remainder of his life. Standish served at various times as an agent of Plymouth Colony on a return trip to England, as assistant governor of the colony, and as its treasurer.

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03/10/1653

Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch linguist and academic (born 1612)

Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn was a Dutch scholar. Born in Bergen op Zoom, he was professor at the University of Leiden. He discovered the similarity among Indo-European languages, and supposed the existence of a primitive common language which he called 'Scythian'. He included in his hypothesis Dutch, Greek, Latin, Persian, and German, later adding Slavic, Celtic and Baltic languages. He excluded languages such as Hebrew from his hypothesis. He died in Leiden.

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03/10/1649

Giovanni Diodati, Swiss-Italian clergyman and theologian (born 1576)

Giovanni Diodati or Deodati was a Genevan-born Italian Calvinist theologian and translator. His translation of the Bible into Italian from Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Syriac sources became the reference version used by Italian Protestants.

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03/10/1629

Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian commander and politician (born 1570)

Giorgi Saakadze was a Georgian politician and military commander who played an important role in the politics of the early 17th-century Georgia. He is credited with playing off the rival Ottoman and Persian empires against each other to help the fractured Georgian nation survive. Saakadze was a controversial figure and his risky schemes ultimately caught up with him with tragic personal consequences - his son was executed by the Persians and later he himself was put to death by the Turks.

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03/10/1611

Charles, Duke of Mayenne (born 1554)

Charles de Lorraine, duc de Mayenne was a French noble, governor, military commander and rebel during the latter French Wars of Religion. Born in 1554, the second son of François de Lorraine, duke of Guise and Anne d'Este, Mayenne inherited his fathers' position of Grand Chambellan in 1563 upon his death. He fought at the siege of Poitiers for the crown in 1569, and crusaded against the Ottomans in 1572. He served under the command of the king's brother Anjou during the siege of La Rochelle in the fourth war of religion, during which he was wounded. While the siege progressed, his uncle was killed by a cannonball, and he inherited his position as governor of Bourgogne. That same year, his marquisate of Mayenne was elevated to a duché pairie. He travelled with Anjou when he was elected as king of the Commonwealth and was a member of his court there until early 1574 when he departed on crusade again. Returning to France, he served in the fifth war of religion for Anjou, now king Henri III of France, but his badly underfunded army was unable to seriously impede the Protestant mercenary force under Casimir. He aligned himself with the Catholic Ligue that rose up in opposition to the generous Peace of Monsieur and fought in the sixth war of religion that resulted, serving at the sieges of La Charité-sur-Loire and Issoire. During 1576, he married Henriette de Savoie-Villars, securing a sizable inheritance in the south west, and the title of Admiral on the death of her father in 1578. Mayenne was granted full command of a royal army during the seventh war of religion in 1580, besieging the Protestant stronghold of La Mure successfully, and clearing several holdout towns after the peace. In 1582 he was obliged to surrender his title of Admiral to Joyeuse, a favourite of Henri. The following year he was involved in an abortive plan to invade England, though it came to nothing due to lack of funds.

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03/10/1596

Florent Chrestien, French poet (born 1541)

Florent Chrestien was a French satirist and Latin poet.

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03/10/1568

Elisabeth of Valois (born 1545)

Elisabeth of France, or Elisabeth of Valois, was Queen of Spain as the third wife of Philip II of Spain. She was the eldest daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici.

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03/10/1399

Eleanor de Bohun, English noble (born 1360)

Eleanor de Bohun was the elder daughter and co-heiress, of Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (1341–1373) and Joan Fitzalan, a daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster.

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03/10/1369

Margaret, Countess of Tyrol (born 1318)

Margaret, nicknamed Maultasch, was the last Countess of Tyrol from the House of Gorizia (Meinhardiner), and an unsuccessful claimant to the Duchy of Carinthia. Upon her death, Tyrol became united with the Austrian hereditary lands of the Habsburg dynasty.

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03/10/1283

Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Welsh prince (born 1238)

Dafydd ap Gruffudd, also known as Dafydd III, was a Prince of Gwynedd until after the death of his brother, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, when he proclaimed himself as the Prince of Wales from 11 December 1282. He became a fugitive after waging war against the English occupation of Wales, but was captured, and then hanged, drawn and quartered on 3 October 1283, which were on the orders of King Edward I of England. He was the last native Prince of Wales before the conquest of Wales by Edward I in 1283.

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03/10/1226

Francis of Assisi, Italian friar and saint (born 1181 or 1182)

Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty, he became a beggar and an itinerant preacher.

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03/10/1078

Iziaslav I of Kiev (born 1024)

Iziaslav I Yaroslavich was Prince of Turov and Grand Prince of Kiev.

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03/10/0959

Gérard of Brogne, Frankish abbot

Saint Gérard founded Brogne Abbey and reformed eighteen others according to the Benedictine Rule.

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03/10/0900

Muhammad ibn Zayd, Tabaristan emir

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Zayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismaʿīl ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayd, also known as al-Dāʿī al-Ṣaghīr, was an Alid who succeeded his brother, Hasan, as ruler of the Zaydid dynasty of Tabaristan in 884. Little is known of his early life, before coming to Tabaristan after Hasan established Zaydid rule there in 864. He served his brother as a general and governor, and continued his policies after his accession. His reign was troubled by rebellions and wars, most notably by the invasion of Rafi' ibn Harthama in 889–892, which occupied most of his domains. After Rafi' fell out of favour with the Abbasids, Muhammad recovered his position and secured the allegiance of Rafi', but did not particularly support him against the Saffarids. In 900, following the Saffarids' defeat by the Samanids, he tried to invade Khurasan, but was defeated and died of his wounds, whereupon Tabaristan fell to the Samanids.

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03/10/0818

Ermengarde, queen of the Franks

Ermengarde of Hesbaye, probably a member of the Robertian dynasty, was Carolingian empress from 813 and Queen of the Franks from 814 until her death as the wife of the Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious.

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03/10/0723

Elias I of Antioch, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.

Elias I of Antioch was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 709 until his death in 723. He is commemorated as a saint by the Syriac Orthodox Church in the Martyrology of Rabban Sliba, and his feast day is 3 November.

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01/01/1970

Gaius Cassius Longinus, Roman politician (born 85 BC)

Gaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman senator and general best known as a leading instigator of the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar on 15 March 44 BC. He was the brother-in-law of Brutus, another leader of the conspiracy. He commanded troops with Brutus during the Battle of Philippi against the combined forces of Mark Antony and Octavius, Caesar's former supporters, and died by suicide after being defeated by Mark Antony.

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