Famous Deaths on November 10

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
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

Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)

French poet and adventurer (The Drunken Boat, Illuminations), dies of a bone cancer at 37

1897 Moritz Heuzenroeder, German pianist and composer who settled in Australia, dies at 47 [1]
1909 George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
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

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)

1st President of Turkey (1923-38) and founder of the Republic of Turkey, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 57

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

Harry Ford Sinclair (1876-1956)

American industrialist who founded Sinclair Oil and implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal, dies at 80

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
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

Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982)

General Secretary of the Soviet Union (1964-82), dies of a heart attack at 75

1984 Sudie Bond, American stage and screen actress (Love Story; Johnny Dangerously), dies of a respiratory ailment at 61
1984 Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901)
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 film actor 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 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 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, English actress (Keeping Up Appearances), 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, President of the National Assembly, dies at 85
2001 Ken Kesey, American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), dies 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 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

Norman Mailer (1923-2007)

American novelist (Naked & the Dead, The Executioner's Song), dies at 84

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)

Allen Toussaint (1938-2015)

American pianist, songwriter and producer ("Mother-In-Law"; "Working In A Coal Mine"; "Southern Nights"), dies of a heart attack at 77

2015 Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist who designed the IBM mainframe, dies at 92
2015 Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of West Germany (SPD, 1974- 82), dies at 96
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
2020 Juan Sol, Spanish soccer defender (28 caps; Valencia, Real Madrid), dies at 73
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