Famous Deaths on November 10

• 461 St. Leo I, the Great, Italian Pope (440-61), dies in office
• 627 Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 765 Junnin, 47th Emperor of Japan (758-64), dies at 31 or 32 (b. 733)

• 901 Adelaide of Paris, Queen of Western Francia
• 1241 Celestine IV [Goffredo Castiglioni], Pope (1241, 16 days), dies
• 1285 Pedro III, King of Aragon (1276-85) and King of Sicily (1282-85), dies of unknown causes at around 45 or 46
• 1299 Jan I, count of Holland/Zeeland (1295-99), dies at 15
• 1444 Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, King of Poland and Hungary, dies in battle at 20
• 1549 Paul III [Alessandro Farnese], Italian Pope (1534-49), dies at 81
• 1556 Richard Chancellor, English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland
• 1596 Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
• 1617 Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
• 1624 Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater, dies at 51
• 1644 Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (El diablo cojuelo), dies at 65
• 1665 Samuel Friedrich Capricornus [Bockshorn], Czech baroque composer, and kapellmeister (Stuttgart, 1657-65), dies at 36
• 1670 Geory Horn [Hornius], theologist/historian, dies at about 50

• 1673 Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (1669-73), dies at 33
• 1705 Justine Siegemund, Silesian midwife (1st woman to publish a German medical text – The Court Midwife), dies at 68 [1]
• 1727 Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
• 1728 Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (Great Northern War, Russo-Persian War) and Governor of Estonia and Karelia (1712-23), dies at 67
• 1772 Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
• 1777 Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
• 1779 Joseph Hewes, American merchant/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 49
• 1789 Richard Caswell, American lawyer, Revolutionary War soldier, and politician (1st Governor of North Carolina, 1776-80 & 1785-87), dies at 60
• 1806 Charles William Ferdinand, German military leader (Prussian army general) and nobleman (Duke of Brunswick, 1780-1805), dies at 71
• 1808 Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and administrator (Governor of Quebec 1768-1778), dies at 84
• 1821 Andreas Romberg, German violinist and composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54
• 1843 John Trumbull, American painter (Declaration of Independence), dies at 87
• 1865 (Heinrich) “Henry” Wirz, Swiss American Confederate army officer (Commander of Camp Sumter prisoner-of-war facility), hanged after being found guilty of excessive cruelty at 41
• 1888 George Bingham, British 3rd Lord Lucan (Charge of the Light Brigade), dies at 88

• 1897 Moritz Heuzenroeder, German pianist and composer who settled in Australia, dies at 48
• 1909 George Essex Evans, Australian poet (The Secret Key and Other Verses, Loraine and Other Verses), dies at 46 due to complications of gallbladder surgery [1]
• 1909 Ludvig Schytte, Danish pianist, composer, and educator, dies at 61 [1] [2]
• 1912 Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (lifting 500 pounds (227 kg) with one finger and backlifting 4,337 pounds (1,967 kg)), dies at 49
• 1917 Harry Trott, Australian cricket all-rounder (24 Tests, 1 x 100, 4 x 50, HS 143, 29 wickets; Victoria CA), dies for cancer at 51
• 1924 Archibald Geikie, Scottish geologist (Scenery of Scotland), dies at 88
• 1936 Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
• 1937 Nikolai Batalov, Russian actor (Tretya meshchanskaya, Mother), dies from tuberculosis at 37

• 1948 Julius Curtius, German Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic (1929-31) and Minister for Economic Affairs (1926-29), dies at 71
• 1954 Édouard Le Roy, French mathematician and philosopher, dies at 84
• 1954 Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed

• 1956 Victor Young, American violinist, arranger, orchestra leader, and composer (“Street of Dreams”; “Love Letters”; “I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You”), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 57
• 1959 Lupino Lane [Henry Lupino], British stage, silent and sound screen actor (Love Parade; Me And My Gal: The Deputy Drummer), dies at 67
• 1960 Isadore Freed, Belarusian-American composer, pedagogue, and musicologist (Harmonizing the Jewish Modes), dies at 60
• 1963 Otto Flake, writer, dies
• 1964 Jimmie Dodd, American actor (The Mickey Mouse Club; Thundering Trails; Riders of the Rio Grande), and singer-songwriter, dies of cancer at 54
• 1966 Evelyn Sears, American tennis player (US National 1907), dies at 91
• 1966 Steven Nagy, American bowler (first televised perfect game [300], 1954; ABC Hall of Fame 1963), dies at 53
• 1967 Ida Cox (nee Prather), American blues singer and vaudeville performer, dies at 79, 73, or 71 [year of birth disputed]
• 1968 Murk Daniel Ozinga, Dutch art historian (Monuments of Curacao), dies at 65
• 1969 Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet, dies at 78
• 1971 Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62
• 1972 Charlie Hallows, English cricketer who scored 1000 runs in a single month in May 1928, dies at 77
• 1973 Stringbean [David Akeman], American country singer, comedian, and banjo player (Hee Haw), murdered by burglars at his home at 58
• 1975 Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
• 1976 Theodore Besterman, British bibliographer and psychical researcher, dies at 71
• 1977 Dennis Wheatley, British best-selling writer of thrillers and the supernatural (The Devil Rides Out), dies at 80
• 1978 Theo Lingen, German director and actor (M, Charm of La Boheme), dies at 75
• 1979 Friedrich Thorberg, writer, dies at 71
• 1981 Abel Gance, French movie director (J’accuse), dies at 92
• 1982 Elio Petri, Italian director (The Working Class Goes to Heaven), dies of cancer at 53

• 1984 Sudie Bond, American stage and screen actress (Love Story; Johnny Dangerously), dies of a respiratory ailment at 61
• 1984 Xavier Herbert [Alfred Jackson], Australian author, winner of Miles Franklin Award for “Poor Fellow My Country” (1975), dies from kidney failure at 83
• 1986 Francis “King” Clancy, Canadian NHL ice hockey defenseman, 1921-36, 3X Stanley Cup (Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs), referee (1938-49), coach, 1953-56 (Toronto), executive, and trophy namesake, dies of septic shock at 84
• 1986 Gordon Richards, British jockey (26 x British flat racing Champion Jockey; 4,870 race wins), dies of a heart attack at 82
• 1986 Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor (The Sword of Avenger) and politician, dies of a heart attack at 70
• 1990 Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist and electrical engineer, dies at 76
• 1990 Ronnie Dyson, American stage actor (Hair – “Aquarius”; Salvation), and soul singer (“(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can’t I Touch You?”; “I Don’t Wanna Cry”), dies of heart failure at 40
• 1991 Alessandro Lessona, Minister of Italian Colonies (1931-38), dies
• 1991 Dick the Bruiser [William Fritz Afflis], American professional wrestler, dies at 62
• 1991 Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972), dies
• 1991 Tutte Lemkow, dancer and director (Capt Paradise; I Am A Camera), dies at 73
• 1992 Antoine C J Rottier, Dutch CEO (DSM), dies
• 1992 Chuck Connors, American author, actor (The Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa), professional basketball and baseball player, dies at 71
• 1993 Wensley Pithey, South-African actor (Oliver!, The Saint, Little Women), dies at 79
• 1994 Carmen McRae, American jazz singer and pianist (“Dream of Life”), dies from complications of a stroke at 74
• 1994 Louis Nizer, Jewish-American lawyer (“highest-paid lawyer in the world”), dies at 92
• 1994 William Higinbotham, American physicist (member of team who developed first nuclear bomb), dies at 84
• 1995 Boty Goodwin, British artist, dies of a drug overdose at 29
• 1995 Clairmonte Depeiaza, West Indian cricketer (world record partnership v Aust 1955), dies at 67
• 1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and environmentalist, dies at 54
• 1995 Margaret Annie Nan Macdonald, broadcaster, dies at 87
• 1996 Beecher Moore, British sailor, dies at 88
• 1996 Hugo Buchthal, German-Jewish art historian, dies at 87
• 1996 Marjorie Proops, British journalist (Daily Mirror), and advice columnist (Dear Marje), dies at 85
• 1997 Tommy Tedesco, American jazz and Los Angeles session guitarist (Wrecking Crew; Lalo Schifrin), dies of lung cancer at 67
• 1997 William Alland, American actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 81
• 1998 Hal Newhouser, American Baseball HOF pitcher (7 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1945; AL MVP 1944, 45; Triple Crown 1945; Detroit Tigers), dies at 77
• 1998 Mary Millar, British stage and screen actress (Keeping Up Appearances, The Phantom of the Opera on the West End), dies at 62
• 1998 Svetlana Beriosova, Lithuanian-British ballerina, dies at 66
• 1999 Robert Kramer, American actor and director (Milestones), dies of meningitis at 60
• 2000 Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician, Prime Minister of France (1969-72), and 3-time President of the National Assembly, dies at 85
• 2001 Ken Kesey, American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Sometimes a Great Notion), dies of liver tumor surgery complications at 66
• 2002 Michel Boisrond, French film director and screenwriter, dies at 81
• 2003 Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (1980-87), dies of cancer at 67
• 2003 Irv Kupcinet “Kup”, American columnist and television personality (Kup’s Column), dies at 91
• 2003 June Beebe, American golfer (Western Open 1931, 33), dies at 90
• 2004 (Catalina) “Katy” de la Cruz, Filipina bodabil singer and actress, dies at 97
• 2005 Fernando Bujones, Cuban-American ballet dancer (American Ballet Theatre, 1972-80), and artistic director (Ballet Mississippi, 1993-94; Orlando Ballet, 1999-2005), dies of melanoma at 50
• 2005 Gardner Read, American composer (Quiet Music for Strings; Dance of the Locomotives), and pedagogue (Boston University, 1948-78), dies at 92
• 2006 Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
• 2006 Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
• 2006 Gerald Levert, American singer (In My Songs), dies of acute narcotic intoxication at 40
• 2006 Jack Palance [Vladimir Palahniuk], American actor (City Slickers, Contempt, Batman), dies of natural causes at 87
• 2006 Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
• 2007 Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1963-75), dies at 100
• 2007 Laraine Day [La Raine Johnson], American actress (Dr. KIldaire, Foreign Correspondent), dies at 87

• 2008 Howard Reig, American radio and television announcer, dies at 87
• 2008 Miriam Makeba, South African singer and civil rights activist (Grammy for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording, 1965), dies of a heart attack at 76
• 2009 Gheorghe Dinica, Romanian actor (b. 1934)
• 2009 John Allen Muhammad, American spree killer (b. 1960)
• 2009 Robert Enke, German football goalkeeper, dies at 32
• 2010 Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
• 2010 Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (King Kong), dies at 91
• 2010 Nicolo Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian organized crime figure, killed at his residence by a sniper at 86
• 2010 Tiger Lance, South African cricketer (South African batting all-rounder 1961-67), dies at 70
• 2011 Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (b. 1944)
• 2011 Peter J. Biondi, American state legislator (New Jersey) and former mayor (b. 1942)
• 2013 Herbert Worthington lll, American photographer and album cover artist (Stevie Nix; Fleetwood Mac), dies of heart disease at 69 (exact date uncertain, last seen on the 6th, body discovered on 10th)
• 2014 David Houston, British army Major-General, and Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland (1992-2005), dies at 85 [1]

• 2015 Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist who designed the IBM mainframe, dies at 92

• 2015 Pat Eddery, Irish jockey (11 x British flat racing Champion Jockey; 3 x Epsom Derby), dies from a heart attack at 63
• 2015 Robert Craft, American conductor and friend of Stravinsky, dies at 92
• 2015 Tim [Itimous Thaddeus] Valentine, American politician (Rep-D-NC, 1983-95), dies at 89
• 2017 Alan Tuffin, British trade union leader, General Council of the Trades Union Congress (1982-93), dies at 84
• 2020 Juan Sol, Spanish soccer defender (28 caps; Valencia, Real Madrid), dies at 73
• 2020 Norbert Linke, German composer, music educator, and musicologist, dies at 87
• 2020 Tony Waiters, English soccer goalkeeper (5 caps; Blackpool) and manager (Canada, Plymouth Argyle, Vancouver Whitecaps), dies at 83
• 2021 Gerald Sinstadt, English sports broadcaster and columnist (BBC Radio, ITV Grenada, BBC One; The Sentinel), dies at 91
• 2022 Henry Anglade, French road cyclist (Tour de France 1959 runner-up), dies at 89
• 2022 Juan Carlos Orellana, Chilean soccer left winger (11 caps; Deportes Temuco, CSD Colo-Colo, O’Higgins FC), dies from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 67
• 2022 Kevin Conroy, American actor (Tour of Duty: Batman: The Animated Series), dies of intestinal cancer at 66
• 2023 David G. Compton, British-American writer sci-fi novels, and radio plays (Synthajoy), dies at 93
• 2023 Miah Dennehy, Irish soccer winger (11 caps; Cork Hibernians FC, Nottingham Forest, Walsall FC, Bristol Rovers), dies at 73
• 2024 “Paul Caponigro, American photographer, primarily of landscapes, dies at 91 [1] [2]
• 2024 Dallas Long, American athlete (Olympic gold Shot put 1964; WR x 6), dies at 84
• 2024 Derrick Grant, Scottish rugby union flanker (14 Tests; Hawick RFC) and coach (Scotland 1985-88), dies at 86

November 10 Highlights