Died on Sunday, 5th October – Famous Deaths

05/10/2024

Robert Coover, American novelist (born 1932)

Robert Lowell Coover was an American novelist, short story writer, and T. B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. He became a proponent of electronic literature and was a founder of the Electronic Literature Organization.

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05/10/2017

Eberhard van der Laan, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam (born 1955)

Eberhard Edzard van der Laan was a Dutch politician who served as Minister for Housing, Communities and Integration from 2008 to 2010 and Mayor of Amsterdam from 2010 until his death in 2017. He was a member of the Labour Party (PvdA).

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05/10/2016

Brock Yates, American journalist and author (born 1933)

Brock Yates was a prominent American journalist, TV commentator, TV reporter, screenwriter, and author. He was the longtime executive editor at Car and Driver magazine—and contributed to The Washington Post, Playboy, The American Spectator, Boating, Vintage Motorsports, as well as other publications.

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05/10/2015

Chantal Akerman, Belgian-French actress, director, and producer (born 1950)

Chantal Anne Akerman was a Belgian filmmaker, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York (2011–2015).

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Joker Arroyo, Filipino lawyer and politician (born 1927)

Ceferino "Joker" Paz Arroyo Jr. was a Filipino statesman and key figure in the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos. He was a Congressman for Makati from 1992 to 2001 and Senator from 2001 to 2013. Arroyo received various awards and commendations for his significant contributions to the law profession and public service. Among these are the Philippine Bar Association's Most Distinguished Award for Justice as a "man beholden to no one except to his country" and Senate Resolution No. 100 enacted in the 8th Congress citing his invaluable service to the Filipino people. He was also known for being the thriftiest legislator, earning the title of "Scrooge of Congress", as he only had few staff members without bodyguards and did not use his pork barrel funds. In 2018, Arroyo was identified by the Human Rights Victims' Claims Board as a Motu proprio human rights violations victim of the Martial Law Era.

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Grace Lee Boggs, American philosopher, author, and activist (born 1915)

Grace Lee Boggs was an American author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s she and her husband, James Boggs, took their own political direction, turning their focus to civil rights and Black Liberation, Asian American, and other social justice movements. By 1998 she had written four books, including an autobiography. In 2011, still active at the age of 95, she wrote a fifth book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, with Scott Kurashige, published by the University of California Press. She is regarded as a key figure in the Asian American, Black Power, and Civil Rights movements.

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Henning Mankell, Swedish author and playwright (born 1948)

Henning Georg Mankell was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television.

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05/10/2014

David Chavchavadze, English-American CIA officer and author (born 1924)

David Chavchavadze was a British-born American author and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer of Georgian-Russian origin.

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Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver (born 1959)

Andrea de Cesaris was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1980 to 1994.

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Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (born 1930)

Geoffrey Lamont Holder was a Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, musician, director, choreographer, and artist. He was a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, before his film career began in 1957 with an appearance in Carib Gold. For his theatre work, Holder won two Tony Awards, Best Direction of a Musical and Best Costume Design in a Musical for the original Broadway production of The Wiz.

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Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (born 1917)

Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre, which he founded in 1964. He was one of the leading names in the Russian theatre world.

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05/10/2013

Ruth R. Benerito, American chemist and academic (born 1916)

Ruth Mary Rogan Benerito was an American physical chemist and inventor known for her impactful work related to the textile industry. She notably contributed to the development of wash-and-wear cotton fabrics using a technique called cross-linking, which strengthens the hydrogen bonds between cellulose molecules of cotton fibers. She held 55 patents.

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Carlo Lizzani, Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

Carlo Lizzani was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic.

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Yakkun Sakurazuka, Japanese voice actress and singer (born 1976)

Yasuo Saitō , also known by the stage name Yakkun Sakurazuka , was a Japanese comedian, singer, and voice actor.

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05/10/2012

Keith Campbell, English biologist and academic (born 1954)

Keith Henry Stockman Campbell was a British biologist who was a member of the team at Roslin Institute that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells. He was Professor of Animal Development at the University of Nottingham. In 2008, he received the Shaw Prize for Medicine and Life Sciences jointly with Ian Wilmut and Shinya Yamanaka for "their works on the cell differentiation in mammals".

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Vojin Dimitrijević, Croatian-Serbian lawyer and activist (born 1932)

Vojin Dimitrijević was a law professor, public intellectual, and a prominent Serbian human rights activist and international law expert.

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James W. Holley III, American dentist and politician (born 1926)

James W. Holley III was an American politician and dental surgeon. Holley became the first Black mayor of Portsmouth, Virginia, and ultimately the city's longest serving mayor, although both his mayoral terms ended with his being recalled from office. Thus he became the only known politician in American history to be twice recalled until Fullerton, California Councilman Don Bankhead was recalled in June 2012.

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Edvard Mirzoyan, Georgian-Armenian composer and educator (born 1921)

Edvard Mik'aeli Mirzoyan was an Armenian composer.

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Claude Pinoteau, French director and screenwriter (born 1925)

Claude Pinoteau was a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, Île-de-France, France. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, aged 87. His sister was the actress Arlette Merry, and his brother was the director Jacques Pinoteau.

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05/10/2011

Derrick Bell, American academic and scholar (born 1930)

Derrick Albert Bell Jr. was an American lawyer, legal scholar, and civil rights activist. Bell first worked for the U.S. Justice Department, then the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he supervised over 300 school desegregation cases in Mississippi.

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Bert Jansch, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943)

Herbert Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter. He recorded more than 28 albums and toured extensively from the 1960s to the 21st century.

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Steve Jobs, American businessman, co-founder of Apple Inc. (born 1955)

Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board of directors fired him in 1985, he founded NeXT the same year and purchased Pixar in 1986, becoming its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 as CEO, where he was closely involved with the creation and promotion of many of the company's most influential products until his resignation in 2011.

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Charles Napier, American actor and singer (born 1936)

Charles Lewis Napier was an American actor who was known for playing supporting and occasional leading roles in television and films. He was frequently cast as police officers, soldiers, or authority figures, many of them villainous or corrupt. After leaving his Kentucky hometown to serve in the Army, he graduated from college and worked as a sports coach and art teacher before settling on acting as a career. His first prominent role in a film was in Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969), which was the first of four films he would do with director Russ Meyer. Napier established himself in character roles and worked steadily for the next 35 years. He made numerous collaborations with director Jonathan Demme, including roles in Something Wild (1986), Married to the Mob (1988), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Philadelphia (1993), Beloved (1998), and The Manchurian Candidate (2004).

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Fred Shuttlesworth, American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (born 1922)

Freddie Lee Shuttlesworth was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist who led fights against segregation and other forms of racism, during the civil rights movement. He often worked with Martin Luther King Jr., although they did not always agree on tactics and approaches.

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Gökşin Sipahioğlu, Turkish photographer and journalist (born 1926)

Gökşin Sipahioğlu was a Turkish photographer and journalist who founded the Paris-based photo agency Sipa Press. He spent most of his life in Paris where the French media dubbed him "le Grand Turc". He also helped found the Kadiköy Sports Club, now best known for the Efes Pilsen basketball team.

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05/10/2010

Bernard Clavel, French journalist and author (born 1923)

Bernard Charles Henri Clavel was a French writer.

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Mary Leona Gage, American model and actress, Miss USA 1957 (born 1939)

Mary Leona Gage was an American actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 1957, the first from Maryland to capture the Miss USA crown. She was stripped of her title when it was revealed that she was 18, married, and the mother of two sons.

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Steve Lee, Swiss singer-songwriter (born 1963)

Steve Lee was a Swiss musician, best known as the vocalist of the band Gotthard.

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05/10/2006

Antonio Peña, Mexican wrestling promoter, founded Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (born 1953)

Antonio Hipolito Peña Herrada was a Mexican professional wrestling promoter who founded the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promotion in 1992. Peña's promotion reached its height of popularity in the early 1990s prior to the 1994 downturn of the Mexican economy, but continues to operate. Peña's AAA is the promotion largely responsible for bringing the lucha libre style to the United States, with AAA wrestlers such as Rey Misterio Jr., Psicosis, La Parka, Konnan and others eventually competing for American promotions.

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05/10/2004

Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)

Jack Roy, better known by the stage name Rodney Dangerfield, was an American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter, and producer. He was known for his self-deprecating one-liner humor, his catchphrase "I don't get no respect!", and his monologues on that theme.

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William H. Dobelle, American biologist and academic (born 1941)

Dr. Bill Dobelle was a biomedical researcher who developed experimental technologies that restored limited sight to blind patients, and also known for the impact he and his company had on the breathing pacemaker industry with the development of the only FDA approved device for phrenic nerve pacing. He was the former director of the Division of Artificial Organs at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

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Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)

Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics, contributing to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy, and X-ray diffraction. He is most noted for initiating and leading early X-ray diffraction studies on DNA at King's College London, and for his pivotal role in enabling the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

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05/10/2003

Dan Snyder, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1978)

Daniel Joseph Snyder was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played as a centre in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Atlanta Thrashers. Following a single-vehicle accident in which he was a passenger, Snyder was injured and fell into a coma as a result. He died six days later of septic shock.

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Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist, director, and producer (born 1957)

Timothy Treadwell was an American bear enthusiast, environmentalist, documentary filmmaker, and founder of the bear-protection organization Grizzly People. He lived among coastal brown bears in Katmai National Park, Alaska, for 13 summers.

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05/10/2002

Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1920)

Claude Earl "Chuck" Rayner, nicknamed "Bonnie Prince Charlie", was a Canadian professional hockey goaltender who played nine seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Americans and New York Rangers. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

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05/10/2001

Mike Mansfield, American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan (born 1903)

Michael Joseph Mansfield was an American Democratic Party politician and diplomat who represented Montana in the United States House of Representatives from 1943 to 1953 and United States Senate from 1953 to 1977. As the leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus from 1961 to 1977, Mansfield shepherded Great Society programs through the Senate; his tenure of exactly sixteen years was the longest of any party leader in Senate history, until the record was broken by Mitch McConnell in 2023.

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05/10/2000

Johanna Döbereiner, Brazilian agronomist (born 1924)

Johanna Liesbeth Kubelka Döbereiner was a Brazilian agronomist and pioneer in soil biology.

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Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (born 1976)

Cătălin George Hîldan was a Romanian professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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05/10/1997

Brian Pillman, American football player and wrestler (born 1962)

Brian William Pillman was an American professional wrestler and professional football player best known for his appearances in Stampede Wrestling in the 1980s and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), and World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the 1990s.

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05/10/1996

Seymour Cray, American engineer and businessman, founded CRAY Inc (born 1925)

Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research, which built many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing", Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry. Joel S. Birnbaum, then chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard, said of him: "It seems impossible to exaggerate the effect he had on the industry; many of the things that high performance computers now do routinely were at the farthest edge of credibility when Seymour envisioned them." Larry Smarr, then director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois said that Cray is "the Thomas Edison of the supercomputing industry."

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05/10/1992

Eddie Kendricks, American singer-songwriter (born 1939)

Edward James Kendrick, better known as Eddie Kendricks, was an American tenor singer and songwriter. Noted for his distinctive falsetto singing style, Kendricks co-founded the Motown singing group the Temptations, and was one of their lead singers from 1961 until 1971. He was the lead voice on such famous songs as "The Way You Do the Things You Do", "Get Ready", and "Just My Imagination ". As a solo artist, Kendricks recorded several hits of his own during the 1970s including the number-one single "Keep On Truckin'" and the number-two single "Boogie Down."

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05/10/1986

Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver and accountant (born 1947)

Michael Trevor Burgmann was a Sydney accountant and racing car driver who was involved in a fatal accident at the 1986 James Hardie 1000 race held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales. At the time of his death, Burgmann was the accountant for the Australian Racing Drivers Club (ARDC), who were the promoters of the Bathurst 1000, as well as the owners and promoters of Amaroo Park in Sydney.

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Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (born 1898)

Harold B. Wallis was an American film producer. He is best known for producing Casablanca (1942), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and True Grit (1969), along with many other major films for Warner Bros. featuring such film stars as Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Bette Davis, and Errol Flynn. As a producer, he received 19 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1919)

James Hardy Wilkinson FRS was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering. In 1970 he won the ACM Turing Award.

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05/10/1985

Karl Menger, Austrian-American mathematician from the Vienna Circle (born 1902)

Karl Menger was an Austrian-born American mathematician, the son of the economist Carl Menger. In mathematics, Menger studied the theory of algebras and the dimension theory of low-regularity ("rough") curves and regions; as well as topology. In graph theory, he is credited with Menger's theorem. Outside of mathematics, Menger has substantial contributions to game theory and social sciences.

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05/10/1983

Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter (born 1897)

Humberto Duarte Mauro was a Brazilian film director. His best known work is Ganga Bruta. He is often considered the greatest director of early Brazilian cinema.

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Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded the Tupperware Corporation (born 1907)

Earl Silas Tupper was an American businessman and inventor, best known as the inventor of Tupperware, an airtight plastic container for storing food, and for founding the related home products company that bears his name, Tupperware Plastics Company.

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05/10/1981

Gloria Grahame, American actress (born 1923)

Gloria Grahame was an American actress. She began her acting career in theater, and in 1944 made her first film for MGM. Many biographies indicate she was born Gloria Grahame Hallward, but she adopted the surname Grahame, her mother's acting name, as her professional name.

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05/10/1976

Barbara Nichols, American actress (born 1928)

Barbara Marie Nickerauer, known professionally as Barbara Nichols, was an American actress who often played brassy or comic roles in films in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)

Lars Onsager was a Norwegian American physical chemist and theoretical physicist. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1968.

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05/10/1967

Clifton Williams, American astronaut (born 1932)

Clifton Curtis Williams Jr., was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut, who was killed in a plane crash; he never went into space. The crash was caused by a mechanical failure in a NASA T-38 jet trainer, which he was piloting to visit his parents in Mobile, Alabama. The failure caused the flight controls to stop responding, and although he activated the ejection seat, it did not save him. He was the fourth astronaut from NASA's Astronaut Group 3 to have died, the first two having been killed in separate T-38 flights, and the third in the Apollo 1 fire earlier that year. The aircraft crashed in Florida near Tallahassee within an hour of departing Patrick AFB.

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05/10/1952

Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (born 1884)

Joseph William Jagersberger was an American racing driver and mechanical engineer.

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05/10/1950

Frederic Lewy, German-American neurologist and academic (born 1885)

Friedrich "Fritz" Heinrich Lewy, known in his later years as Frederic Henry Lewey, was a German-born American neurologist. He is best known for the discovery of Lewy bodies, which are a characteristic indicator of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. In a 1912 paper based on work in Alois Alzheimer’s Munich laboratory he described intraneuronal inclusion bodies in brainstem nuclei of patients with paralysis agitans that were later termed Lewy bodies.

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05/10/1943

Leon Roppolo, American clarinet player and composer (born 1902)

Leon Joseph Roppolo was an American early jazz clarinetist, best known for his playing with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. He also played saxophone and guitar.

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05/10/1942

Dorothea Klumpke, American astronomer (born 1861)

Dorothea Klumpke Roberts was an American astronomer. She was the Director of the Bureau of Measurements at the Paris Observatory and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, or a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor.

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05/10/1941

Louis Brandeis, American lawyer and jurist (born 1856)

Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939. Brandeis was a leading figure in the antitrust movement at the turn of the 20th century, particularly in his resistance to the monopolization of the New England railroad. His anti-monopolistic jurisprudence laid the intellectual foundation for the New Brandeis movement, a contemporary revival of antitrust thought spearheaded by figures such as Lina Khan and Tim Wu.

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05/10/1940

Ballington Booth, English-American activist, co-founded the Volunteers of America (born 1857)

Ballington Booth was a British-born American Christian minister who co-founded Volunteers of America, a Christian charitable organization, and became its first General (1896-1940). He was a former officer in The Salvation Army.

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Lincoln Loy McCandless, American rancher and politician (born 1859)

Lincoln Loy McCandless was a United States cattle rancher, industrialist and politician for the Territory of Hawaii. McCandless served in the United States Congress as a territorial delegate. A former member of the Hawaii Republican Party, McCandless was one of the earliest leaders of the Hawaii Democratic Party.

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Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1889)

Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez was a Mexican classical music composer, a violinist, and conductor.

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05/10/1938

Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun and saint (born 1905)

Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled Faustina in English, had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, therefore she is sometimes called the "secretary" of Divine Mercy.

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Albert Ranft, Swedish actor and director (born 1858)

Albert Adam Ranft was a Swedish theatre director and actor.

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05/10/1936

J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and author (born 1898)

Jan Jacob Slauerhoff, who published as J. Slauerhoff, was a Dutch poet and novelist. He is considered one of the most important Dutch language writers.

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05/10/1933

Renée Adorée, French-American actress (born 1898)

Renée Adorée was a French stage and film actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is best known for portraying the role of Melisande, the love interest of John Gilbert in the melodramatic romance and war epic The Big Parade. Adorée's career was cut short after she contracted tuberculosis in 1930. She died of the disease in 1933 at the age of 35.

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Nikolai Yudenich, Russian general (born 1862)

Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich was a commander of the Russian Imperial Army during World War I. He was a leader of the anti-communist White movement in northwestern Russia during the Civil War.

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05/10/1930

Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, Indian-English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Air (born 1875)

Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, was a British Army officer who went on to serve as a Labour minister and peer. He served as Secretary of State for Air under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and between 1929 and 1930, when he was killed in the R101 disaster.

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05/10/1929

Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly, Indian priest, founded the Sisters of the Destitute (born 1876)

Varghese Payyappilly was an Indian Syro-Malabar priest from Kerala and the founder of the congregation of Sisters of the Destitute. He was declared Venerable by Pope Francis on 14 April 2018.

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05/10/1927

Sam Warner, Polish-American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Warner Bros. (born 1887)

Samuel Louis Warner was an American film producer who was the co-founder and chief executive officer of Warner Bros. He established the studio along with his brothers Harry, Albert, and Jack L. Warner. Sam Warner is credited with procuring the technology that enabled Warner Bros. to produce the film industry's first feature-length talking picture, The Jazz Singer. He died in 1927, on the day before the film's enormously successful premiere.

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05/10/1921

John Storey, Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales (born 1869)

John Storey was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales from 12 April 1920 until his sudden death in Sydney. His leadership enabled the New South Wales Labor Party to recover after the split over conscription and to allow it to continue to be a left-wing pragmatist rather than a socialist party.

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05/10/1918

Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (born 1888)

Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros was a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot. Garros began a career in aviation in 1909 and performed many early feats such as the first-ever airplane crossing of the Mediterranean Sea in 1913. He joined the French army and became one of the earliest fighter pilots during World War I. Garros was shot down and died on 5 October 1918. In 1928, the Roland Garros tennis stadium was named in his memory; the French Open tennis tournament officially takes the name of Roland Garros, which is held in this stadium.

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05/10/1914

Albert Solomon, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Tasmania (born 1876)

Albert Edgar Solomon was an Australian lawyer and politician. He served as premier of Tasmania from 1912 to 1914, as leader of the Liberal Party. He died of tuberculosis a few months after leaving office as premier, at the age of 38.

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05/10/1913

Hans von Bartels, German painter and educator (born 1856)

Hans von Bartels was a German painter.

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05/10/1895

Ralph Tollemache, English priest (born 1826)

Ralph William Lyonel Tollemache-Tollemache JP was an English priest in the Church of England. He is best known for the unusual and increasingly eccentric names that he chose for his numerous children.

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05/10/1885

Thomas C. Durant, American railroad tycoon (born 1820)

Thomas Clark Durant was an American physician, businessman, and financier. He was vice-president of the Union Pacific Rail Road (UP) in 1869 when it met with the Central Pacific Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory. He created the financial structure that led to the Crédit Mobilier scandal. He was interested in hotels in the Adirondacks and once owned the schooner-yacht Idler, a successful America’s Cup defender.

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05/10/1880

Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (born 1819)

Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Franz von Suppé, Johann Strauss II and Arthur Sullivan. His best-known works were continually revived during the 20th century, and many of his operettas continue to be staged in the 21st. The Tales of Hoffmann remains part of the standard opera repertory.

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05/10/1861

Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (born 1778)

Antoni Melchior Optat Fijałkowski was a Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Warsaw from 1856 to 1861. He previously served as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Płock and titular bishop of Hermopolis from 1842 to 1856.

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05/10/1848

Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (born 1781)

Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg was an Austrian and German statesman and historian.

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05/10/1827

William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (born 1761)

William Townsend Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.

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05/10/1813

Tecumseh, American tribal leader (born 1768)

Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity. Even though his efforts to unite Native Americans ended with his death in battle during the War of 1812, he became a folk hero in American, Indigenous, and Canadian popular history.

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05/10/1805

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1738)

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. In the United States and United Kingdom, he is best known as one of the leading British general officers in the American War of Independence. His surrender in 1781 to a combined Franco-American force at the siege of Yorktown ended significant hostilities in North America. Cornwallis later served as a civil and military governor in Ireland, where he helped to bring about the Act of Union; and in India, where he helped to enact the Cornwallis Code and the Permanent Settlement.

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05/10/1802

Sanité Bélair, Haitian freedom fighter (born 1781)

Suzanne Bélair, called Sanité Bélair,, was a Haitian revolutionary and lieutenant in the army of Toussaint Louverture.

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05/10/1777

Johann Andreas Segner, Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (born 1704)

Johann Andreas von Segner was a Hungarian scientist of German descent. He was born in the Kingdom of Hungary, in the former Hungarian capital city of Pozsony, or Pressburg.

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05/10/1740

Jean-Philippe Baratier, German astronomer and scholar (born 1721)

Jean-Philippe Baratier was a German scholar. A noted child prodigy of the 18th century, he published eleven works and authored a great quantity of unpublished manuscripts.

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05/10/1714

Kaibara Ekken, Japanese botanist and philosopher (born 1630)

Kaibara Ekken or Ekiken, also known as Atsunobu (篤信), was a Japanese Neo-Confucianist philosopher and botanist.

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05/10/1629

Heribert Rosweyde, Jesuit hagiographer (born 1569)

Heribert Rosweyde was a Jesuit hagiographer. His work, quite unfinished, was taken up by Jean Bolland who systematized it, while broadening its perspective. This is the beginning of the association of the Bollandists.

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05/10/1606

Philippe Desportes, French poet and author (born 1546)

Philippe Desportes or Desports was a French poet.

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05/10/1565

Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician and academic (born 1522)

Lodovico de Ferrari was an Italian mathematician best known today for solving the quartic equation.

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05/10/1564

Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer and educator (born 1510)

Pierre de Manchicourt was a Renaissance composer of the Franco-Flemish School.

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05/10/1540

Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet and educator (born 1488)

Helius Eobanus Hessus was a German Latin poet and later a Lutheran humanist. He was born at Halgehausen in Hesse-Kassel.

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05/10/1528

Richard Foxe, English bishop and academic (born 1448)

Richard Foxe was an English churchman, the founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, and became also Lord Privy Seal.

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05/10/1524

Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter (born c. 1480)

Joachim Patinir, also called Patenier, was a Flemish Renaissance painter of history and landscape subjects. He was born in Wallonia, but in his mature career worked in Antwerp, then the centre of the art market in the Low Countries. Patinir was a pioneer of landscape as an independent genre and he was the first Netherlandish painter to regard himself primarily as a landscape painter. He effectively invented the world landscape, a distinct style of panoramic northern Renaissance landscapes which is Patinir's important contribution to Western art. His work marks an important stage in the development of the representation of perspective in landscape painting.

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05/10/1399

Raymond of Capua, Italian priest and Master General (born c. 1330)

Raymond of Capua, was a leading member of the Dominican Order and served as its Master General from 1380 until his death. First as Prior Provincial of Lombardy and then as Master General of the Order, Raymond undertook the restoration of Dominican religious life. For his success in this endeavor, he is referred to as its "second founder".

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05/10/1398

Blanche of Navarre, queen of France (born 1330)

Blanche of Navarre was a Navarrese infanta who was briefly Queen of France as the second wife of King Philip VI from 29 January until 22 August 1350.

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05/10/1354

Giovanni Visconti, Italian cardinal (born 1290)

Giovanni Visconti (1290–1354) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, who was co-ruler in Milan and lord of other Italian cities. He also was a military leader who fought against Florence, and used force to capture and hold other cities.

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05/10/1285

Philip III, king of France (born 1245)

Philip III, called the Bold, was King of France from 1270 until his death in 1285. His father, Louis IX, died in Tunis during the Eighth Crusade. Philip, who was accompanying him, returned to France and was anointed king at Reims in 1271.

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05/10/1225

Al-Nasir, Abbasid caliph (born 1158)

Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Hasan al-Mustaḍīʾ, better known by his laqab al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh or simply as al-Nasir, was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 1180 until his death. His laqab literally can mean The One who Gives Victory to the Religion of God. He continued the efforts of his grandfather al-Muqtafi in restoring the caliphate to its ancient dominant role and achieved a surprising amount of success as his army even conquered parts of Iran. According to the historian, Angelika Hartmann, al-Nasir was the last effective Abbasid caliph. He was able to gain full control over Mesopotamia after 200 years of nominal rule by the Abbasids since the overtake in 945 by the Shia Buyids and later the Seljuks.

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05/10/1214

Alfonso VIII, king of Castile and Toledo (born 1155)

Alfonso VIII, called the Noble or the one of Las Navas, was King of Castile from 1158 to his death and King of Toledo. After having suffered a great defeat with his own army at Alarcos against the Almohads in 1195, he led the coalition of Christian princes and foreign crusaders who broke the power of the Almohads in the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212, an event which marked the arrival of a tide of Christian supremacy on the Iberian Peninsula.

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05/10/1112

Sigebert of Gembloux, French monk, historian, and author (born 1030)

Sigebert or Sigibert of Gembloux was a medieval author, known mainly as a pro-Imperial historian of a universal chronicle, opposed to the expansive papacy of Gregory VII and Pascal II. Early in his life he became a monk in the Benedictine abbey of Gembloux, now situated in Belgium.

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05/10/1111

Robert II, count of Flanders (born 1065)

Robert II, Count of Flanders was Count of Flanders from 1093 to 1111. He became known as Robert of Jerusalem or Robert the Crusader after his exploits in the First Crusade.

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05/10/1056

Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1016)

Henry III, called Heinrich the Pious, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1046 until his death in 1056. A member of the Salian dynasty, he was the eldest son of Conrad II and Gisela of Swabia.

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05/10/0989

Henry III, duke of Bavaria (born 940)

Henry III, called the Younger, a member of the Luitpolding dynasty, was the first Duke of Carinthia from 976 to 978, Duke of Bavaria from 983 to 985 and again Duke of Carinthia from 985 to 989.

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05/10/0610

Phocas, Byzantine emperor

Phocas was Eastern Roman emperor from 602 to 610. Initially a middle-ranking officer in the Roman army, Phocas rose to prominence as a spokesman for dissatisfied soldiers in their disputes with the court of the Emperor Maurice. When the army rebelled in 602, Phocas emerged as the leader of the mutiny. The revolt led to the overthrow and execution of Maurice in November 602.

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05/10/0578

Justin II, Byzantine emperor (born 520)

Justin II was Eastern Roman emperor from 565 until 578. He was the nephew of Justinian I and the husband of Sophia, the niece of Justinian's wife Theodora.

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01/01/1970

Pradyota, King of Avanti and Magadha

Pradyota dynasty was a ruling dynasty of Avanti, founded by Pradyota, after his father Punika, a minister in the court of the king of Ujjaini, the northern part of the former Avanti kingdom, and placed his own son on the throne in 546 BCE.

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