Famous Deaths on October 1

• 303 Bacchus, Roman soldier one of Christianity’s earliest saints, whipped and beaten to death
• 540 Vedastus St Vaast, 1st bishop of Atrecht/saint, dies
• 552 Teja, king of Ostrogoten, dies in battle

• 686 Tenmu, 40th Emperor of Japan (673-86), dies at about 56 (b. circa 630) [death date disputed]
• 959 King Edwy (Eadwig) of England (955-959) “the All-Fair”, dies at about 18
• 976 Al-Hakam II, second Umayyad Caliph of Córdoba (961-76), patron of literature and science, expanded the Great Mosque of Córdoba, dies at 61
• 1040 Alan III, Duke of Brittany (poisoned) (b. 997)
• 1189 Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar, killed fighting in the Siege of Acre
• 1310 Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon (b. 1257)
• 1404 Boniface IX [Pietro Tomacelli], Pope (1389-1404), dies
• 1499 Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, dies at 65
• 1500 John Alcock, English bishop and chancellor (founded Jesus College, Cambridge), dies at about 70
• 1567 Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (b. 1508)
• 1570 Frans Floris, Flemish painter (b. 1520)
• 1574 Maarten van Heemskerck, Dutch painter (Christ), dies at 76
• 1578 John of Austria, Spanish military leader (Battle of Lepanto), and governor of the Netherlands, dies of a fever at 31

• 1588 Blessed Edward James, Catholic martyr and priest, executed (beatified 1929)
• 1602 Hernando de Cabezon, Spanish composer, dies at 61
• 1609 Gianmatteo Asola, Italian composer
• 1633 Filaret Romanov, patriarch of Moscow, dies (b. 1550)
• 1640 Claudio Achillini, Italian lawyer and poet, dies at 66

• 1693 Pedro Abarca, Spanish theologian (b. 1619)
• 1704 Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter and engraver, dies at 44
• 1708 John Blow, English organist, composer (Venus & Adonis), and Master of the Choristers (St Paul’s Cathedral). dies at 59
• 1768 Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (Simson line), dies at 80
• 1770 Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French composer and violinist, dies at 64
• 1795 Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder, dies at about 70
• 1814 Jacob Isaac of Przysucha, Polish Hasidic leader, dies at 38
• 1837 Robert Clark, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1819-21), dies at 60
• 1838 Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist, dies at 70
• 1864 John Dunovant, American soldier and Confederate general, dies in the Battle of Vaughan Road at 39
• 1864 Juan José Flores, General and first President of Ecuador (1839-1845), dies at 64
• 1864 Rose Greenhow, American Confederate spy (b. 1817)

• 1876 Henri Bertini, French classical composer and pianist, dies at 77
• 1876 James Lick, American land baron in California, dies at 80
• 1878 Mindon, King of Burma (1853-1878) penultimate ruler of the Konbaung dynasty and founder of Mandalay, dies at 70
• 1886 William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, dies at 76
• 1901 Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1880-1901)
• 1904 William Harcourt, British Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, dies at 76
• 1911 Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans), dies at 77
• 1912 Mary Frances Allitsen, Nritish mezzo-soprano, voice coach, and composer (Psalm 27: “The Lord is My Light”), dies at 63
• 1913 Eugene O’Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (O’Keefe Brewery Company of Toronto Limited), dies at 85
• 1916 Galusha Pennypacker, American union general during the Civil War (potential youngest brigadier general), dies from war injury complications at 72 [birth year disputed]
• 1922 Nikolay Vladimirovich Scherbachov, Russian pianist and composer, dies at 63
• 1927 Wilhelm Harteveld, Swedish composer, dies at 68
• 1929 Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor, dies at 67
• 1929 Lee Richmond, American baseball pitcher (first ever MLB perfect game, 1880), dies at 72
• 1930 Ricacrdo Drigo, Italian composer of opera and ballet music, (Le Réveil de Flore; “La Flûte magique), conductor (Imperial Mariinsky Ballet, 1886- 1917). and pianist, dies at 84
• 1936 Oscar Da Costa, West Indian cricket all-rounder (5 Tests), dies at 29
• 1942 Ants Piip, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1884)
• 1943 Antoine T Broekman, resistance fighter, executed at 32
• 1943 Anton JT Koreman, resistance fighter, executed at 27
• 1943 Antoon Pleyte, resistance fighter, executed at 26
• 1943 Earnest Klijzing, resistance fighter, executed
• 1943 Gideon Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 22
• 1943 Hans Katan, resistance fighter, executed at 24
• 1943 Henri H Geul, resistance fighter, executed at 27
• 1943 Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20
• 1943 Johan Roemer, resistance fighter, executed at 22
• 1943 Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35
• 1943 John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23
• 1943 Leo Frijda, resistance fighter, executed at 20
• 1943 Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21
• 1943 Maarten van/of Gilse, resistance fighter, executed at 27
• 1943 Olaf T Thomsen, resistance fighter, executed at 23
• 1943 Peter “Pam” Pooters, resistance fighter, executed at 32
• 1943 Sape Kuiper, resistance fighter, executed at 19
• 1943 Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36
• 1943 Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42
• 1945 Walter Bradford Cannon, American physiologist (Traumatic Shock, coined term “fight or flight response”), dies at 73
• 1947 Olive Borden, “the Joy Girl,” American silent film and stage actress (Chloe, Love Is Calling You; 3 Bad Men, Fig Leaves), dies of a stomach ailment and pneumonia at 40
• 1949 Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post, dies at 77
• 1955 Charles Christie, American film studio owner, dies at 75
• 1956 Stan Ockers, Belgian road cyclist (World road champion 1955; Tour de France runner-up 1950, 52), dies in track cycling accident at 36
• 1958 Robert Falk, Russian painter (b. 1886)
• 1961 Donald Cook, American actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at 60
• 1964 Ernst Toch, Austrian composer (Geographical Fugue), music theorist (Melodielehre), and Pulitzer Prize winner (1956), dies at 76
• 1965 Edward E “Doc” Smith, American sci-fi writer (Subspace encounter), dies at 75
• 1965 Gareth Hughes, Welsh actor (Midnight Girl), dies at 71
• 1970 Hans Poser, German composer, dies at 52
• 1970 Petar Konjović, Serbian composer, dies at 87
• 1972 Kurt Hiller, German writer, dies at 87

• 1973 Joe Devlin, American actor (Sam-Dick Tracy), dies at 77
• 1974 Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist who rediscovered the site of an ancient port city on the island of Thera, in the southern Aegean Sea, dies at 72
• 1975 Al Jackson Jr., American session drummer, known as “The Human Time Keeper” (Stax; Booker T. & MGs – “McLemore Avenue”), murdered by an intruder in his home at 39 [1]
• 1975 Larry MacPhail, American Baseball Hall of Fame executive (Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees), dies at 85
• 1979 Dorothy Arzner, American director (The Wild Party; Dance, Girl, Dance), and pioneering female filmmaker (1st woman to direct a sound film), dies at 82
• 1979 Roy Harris, American composer (When Johnny Comes Marching Home: An American Overture), dies at 81
• 1984 Billy Goodman, American baseball infielder (MLB All-Star 1949, 53; AL batting champion 1950; Boston Red Sox), dies of cancer at 58

• 1988 Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (People’s Palace), dies at 90
• 1990 Andrzej Krzanowski, Polish classical composer and accordionist (The Wind Carries the Echo Across a Wood Clearing), dies at 49
• 1990 Curtis LeMay, American air force general (WWII) and VP candidate, dies at 83
• 1990 Phil Napoleon [Filippo Napoli] American early jazz trumpeter and bandleader (Original Memphis Five; Napoleon and HIs Emperors), dies at 89
• 1992 Bruce Vorhauer, inventor (Today contraceptive sponge), suicide at 50
• 1992 Harry Ray, American soul singer (Ray, Goodman, Brown), dies of a stroke at 45
• 1992 Petra Kelly, German politician (co-founder of German Green Party), activist, and writer (Nonviolence Speaks to Power), killed by her lover in murder-suicide at 44 (date approximate)
• 1993 Janine Darcey, French actress (Priez pour nous), dies at 75
• 1993 Joseph Warren, actor (Gift of Love, Urban Warriors), dies at 77
• 1993 Reizl Bozyk, Polish/American actress (Crossing Delancey), dies at 79
• 1994 Brad O’Hare, American actor, dies of complications of HIV/AIDS at 43
• 1994 Bud Houser, American field athlete (Olympic gold discus & shot put 1924, discus 1928), dies at 93
• 1994 Carlos Lleras Restrepo, President of Colombia (1966-70), dies at 86
• 1994 Marjorie Weaver, American actress (Michael Shayne: Private Detective, Young Mr Lincoln), dies from a stroke at 81
• 1994 Paul Lorenzen, German philosopher and mathematician who co-founded Erlangen School of epistemological constructivism at University of Erlangen, Germany, dies at 76
• 1994 Ronald Herron, English architect (Archigram), dies at 64
• 1994 Scott Dunbar, American blues vocalist and guitarist, dies at 90
• 1995 Aditya Vikram Biria, India’s 1st global industrialist, dies of cancer at 51
• 1995 Margaret Gorman Cahill, 1st Miss America (1921), dies at 90
• 1995 Rene Cloke, British illustrator, dies at 90
• 1996 Patrick McGeown, Irish IRA member and hunger striker, dies at 40
• 1997 Gul Mohammed, world’s shortest man (22.1″/56.16 cm), dies at 36
• 1997 Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor, (held more than 600 patents), dies at 74
• 1998 Pauline Julien, Canadian singer-songwriter, social and political activist, takes her own life after a brain disease diagnosis, at 70
• 1999 Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer and child star (“Ma! (He’s Making Eyes At Me)”), dies of bronchial pneumonia at 35
• 1999 Noel Johnson, British actor (Frenzy, Frightmare, Royal Flash), dies at 82
• 2000 Reggie Kray, English gangster (the Kray twins, with brother Ronnie), dies of bladder cancer at 66
• 2000 Robert Allen [Deitcher], American pianist and songwriter (“(There’s No Place Like) Home for the Holidays”; “Chances Are”), dies of colon cancer at 73
• 2001 Guy Beaulne, French Canadian actor and theatre director (b. 1921)
• 2002 Walter Annenberg, American publisher (Triangle-TV Guide) and philanthropist, dies at 94
• 2003 (Greig) “Chubby” Jackson, American big band jazz double-bassist, bandleader, and TV host, dies at 84
• 2004 Bruce Palmer, Canadian bassist (Buffalo Springfield), dies of a heart attack at 58
• 2004 Joyce Jillson, American newspaper columnist, author, astrologer and actress (Superchick, Jill Smith in “Peyton Place”), dies at 58
• 2004 Richard Avedon, American photographer (Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker), dies at 81 [1]
• 2006 André Viger, French Canadian wheelchair marathoner (3 Paralympics gold medals), dies from cancer at 54
• 2006 Jerald Tanner, American religious activist (b. 1938)

• 2007 Chris Mainwaring, Australian Rules Football wing (All Australian 1991, 96; West Coast Eagles), dies from drug overdose at 41
• 2007 Harry Lee, Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (b. 1932)
• 2007 Ned Sherrin, English broadcaster, author and stage director (b. 1931)
• 2007 Ronnie Hazlehurst, English conductor and TV theme song composer (Are You Being Served?), dies at 79
• 2008 House Peters Jr., American actor (King of the Rocket Man), dies at 92
• 2008 Nick Reynolds, American folk singer, tenor guitarist, and bongo player (The Kingston Trio, 1957-67 – “Tom Dooley”; “M.T.A.”), dies from respiratory disease at 75
• 2009 V. M. Muddiah, Indian cricket spin bowler (2 Tests, 3 wickets), dies from stroke complications at 80
• 2010 Audouin Dollfus, French Astronomer (discovered Janus, a moon of Saturn), dies at 85
• 2010 Ian Buxton, English football forward (Derby County) and cricket all-rounder (Derbyshire captain), dies at 72
• 2010 Kilian Hennessy, French business magnate and CEO of Hennessy during the merger with Moët et Chandon, dies at 103
• 2011 David Vickerman Bedford, British composer and educator, dies at 74
• 2011 Johnny Schmitz, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1946, 48; NL saves leader 1946), dies at 90
• 2011 Sven Tumba, Swedish ice hockey center, football winger, golfer, golf course designer, dies of a hip infection at 80
• 2012 Eric J. Hobsbawm, British Marxist historian, dies from pneumonia at 95
• 2013 Tom Clancy, American author (Rainbow Six, The Hunt for Red October), dies aged 66
• 2014 Lynsey de Paul, British singer and actress (Sugar Me), dies from a brain hemorrhage at 66
• 2015 Don Edwards, American politician and civil rights champion (Rep-D-CA, 1963-94), dies at 100
• 2016 Edda Heiðrún Backman, Icelandic stage and screen actress, singer, theater director, and painter, dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at 58
• 2017 Arthur “Art” Janov, American psychologist and psychotherapist notable for creating primal therapy (The Primal Scream), dies of natural causes at 93
• 2017 Peter Horak, Czech stuntman (Star Trek: Voyager: Throw Momma from the Train), dies at 74
• 2017 Robert D. Hales, American LDS Church apostle, dies at 85
• 2017 Samuel I Newhouse Jr., American magazine publisher (Parade, Vogue, Vanity Fair), dies at 89
• 2018 Charles Aznavour [Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian], French-Armenian singer-songwriter (“She”; “Monsieur Carnavel”; “Tin Drum”), dies at 94
• 2019 Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, American blues guitarist, and singer, dies of a heart attack at 80
• 2019 Karel Gott, Czech singer ‘Sinatra of the East’, dies at 80
• 2019 Peter Sissons, British newsreader (BBC, ITV, Question Time), dies at 77
• 2020 Derek Mahon, Irish poet (A Disused Shed in Co Wexford), dies at 78
• 2020 Murray Schisgal, American playwright (Luv), and screenwriter (Tootsie), dies at 93
• 2020 Zef Eisenberg, British ultra-speed racer (world’s fastest motorbike on sand 201.5mph; fastest wheel powered vehicle 210.33mph) and founder Maximuscle, dies in car speed record crash at 47
• 2021 Earle Wells, New Zealand sailor (Olympic gold Flying Dutchman 1964), dies at 87
• 2021 Fred Hill, English soccer forward (2 caps; Bolton Wanderers 375 games), dies at 81
• 2022 Kanji “Antonio” Inoki, Japanese pro wrestler (12 x world champion; NJPW/JWA), promoter, and politician (House of Councillors, 1989-95 & 2013-19), dies at 79 [1]
• 2022 Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian francophone writer and educator (Toronto Linden School), dies at 97
• 2022 Osamu Watanabe, Japanese freestyle wrestler (Olympic gold 63kg 1964; World C’ship gold 1962, 63), dies at 81
• 2023 George Reed, American CFL HOF running back (CFL MVP 1965, 76; Grey Cup MVP 1966; Saskatchewan Roughriders), dies at 83
• 2023 Julian Bahula, South African-British jazz and world music drummer, composer, bandleader (Jabula), and anti-apartheid activist, dies at 84
• 2023 Lars Arnesson, Swedish soccer manager (Sweden 1980-86, Kalmar FF, Sweden U-21, Djurgårdens IF, Östers IF), dies at 87
• 2023 Ricky Wolff, South African keyboardist, sax player and singer (The Flower Pot Men; White Plains – “My Baby Loves Lovin'”), dies of septicaemia at 78
• 2023 Russ Francis, American football tight end (New England Patriots; Super Bowl XIX San Francisco 49ers; Pro Bowl 1977, 78, 79), dies in an aircraft accident at 70
• 2023 Tim Wakefield, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 2009; World Series 2004, 07 Boston Red Sox) and broadcaster (NESN), dies of brain cancer at 57 [1]
• 2024 Jordan Klein, American underwater photographer, cinematographer and director (Thunderball), dies at 98 [1]

October 1 Highlights