Deaths in History on January 10

1754 Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (Gentlemen's Magazine, coined term "magazine"), dies at 62
1761 Edward Boscawen, British admiral in the Royal Navy, dies at 49
1768 Charles Cressent, French court furniture maker, dies at 82
1775 Jemeljan Pugatshov, Russian kosak leader/"Tsar Peter III", dies

Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Swedish botanist, explorer and the Father of Taxonomy, dies at 70

1789 Pierre Lyonet, Dutch zoologist and cryptologist, dies at 82
1794 Georg Forster, German writer, naturalist (A Voyage Round the World) and revolutionary, dies at 39
1811 Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (Caïus Gracchus), dies at 46
1824 Victor Emanuel I, king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at 64
1828 François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure, dies at 77
1833 Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (worked on elliptic integrals), dies at 80
1840 Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, 7th child and 3rd daughter of King George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, dies at 69
1846 Étienne Pivert de Senancour, French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75
1851 Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal, dies at 75
1855 Mary Russell Mitford, English playwright and poet (Julian), dies at 67

Samuel Colt (1814-1862)

American inventor, firearms manufacturer, and industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), dies of gout at 47

1863 Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775)
1866 Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet (b. 1792)
1871 Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41

Gordon Granger (1822-1876)

American Major General during the Civil War (Union Army), dies at 54

1883 Samuel Mudd, American physician (imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth), dies of pneumonia at 49
1891 Laza Lazarević, Serbian writer (Prvi put s ocem na jutrenje) and psychiatrist, dies at 39
1899 Gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69
1901 Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1832)
1904 Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
1917 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American Wild West hunter and showman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West), dies at 70
1922 Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader (b. 1866)
1922 Ōkuma Shigenobu, Japanese politician (Prime Minister of Japan 1898, 1914-1916), dies at 83
1926 Eino Leino, Finnish poet, dies at 47

Marinus van der Lubbe (1909-1934)

Dutch communist, beheaded by the Nazis for setting fire to the German Reichstag at 24

1941 Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian and antifascist, murdered at 67
1941 Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (b. 1856)
1945 Rudolf Borchardt, writer, dies at 67
1949 Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist, dies at 83
1951 Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (known as the founding father of modern physics research in Japan), dies at 60
1951 [Harry] Sinclair Lewis, American writer (Nobel Prize in Literature 1930), dies from advanced alcoholism at 65
1955 Charles Rist, French economist (opposed Keynesian Revolution), dies at 79
1956 Henk Bremmer, Dutch art historian (Beeldende Kunst), dies at 84
1956 Karl Ludwig Schmidt, German-Swiss theologist (Urchristentum), dies at 64

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957)

Chilean poet (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1945), educator, and diplomat, dies of pancreatic cancer at 67

1958 Charles de Trooz, Belgian writer, dies at 52
1961 Dashiell Hammett, American detective writer (Thin Man, Maltese Falcon), dies at 66
1964 A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day & Night), dies at 46
1966 Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom), dies at 69
1970 Charles Olson, American poet (The Maximus Poems), dies of liver cancer at 59
1970 Pavel Belyayev, Soviet fighter pilot and cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44
1971 (Gabrielle) "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (Chanel), dies at 87
1972 Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897)
1972 Georg Rendl, Austrian miner, beekeeper and writer (Satan on Earth), dies at 68
1977 Ruth Wakefield, American inventor (created the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie), dies at 73
1978 Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, of La Prensa, assassinated in Managua
1980 George Meany, American labor leader ((AFL-CIO), dies at 86
1981 Fawn M. Brodie, American historian (b. 1915)

Roy DeMeo (1942-1983)

American gangster (Gambino crime family), murdered at 40

1984 Souvanna Phouma, Prince and Prime Minister of Laos (1951–54, 1956–58, 1960 and 1962–75), dies at 82
1986 Joseph Kraft, American columnist, dies at 61
1987 Sir David Robinson, English philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)
1989 Colin Winchester, Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered (b. 1933)
1989 Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)
1991 Dimitris Myrat, dies of cancer at 62
1993 Noorjahan Begum, "adulterous" wife in Bangladesh, stoned to death
1994 Catharina I "Ien" Dales, min of Internal affairs (1989-94), dies at 62
1995 Elaine Greene, literary Agent, dies at 74
1995 Halton Kathleen Tynan, writer, dies at 57
1996 Alexander Robertus, organic chemist, dies at 88
1997 Alexander R. Todd, British chemist (Nobel Prize 1957), dies at 89
1997 Darrell A. Amyx, American classical archaeologist (Greek Ceramics), dies at 85
1997 Elspeth Huxley, English author (The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard), dies at 89
1997 Hilary Grover Barratt Brown, conservationist, dies at 71
1997 Shiv Verma, Indian revolutionary soldier, dies at 88
1999 John Hervey, 7th marquess of Bristol, English flamboyant peer who lost his fortune to drug addiction, dies at 44
1999 Sir Edward Williams, Australian judge (b. 1921)
2002 John Buscema, American comics artist (Conan the Barbarian), dies at 74
2002 W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (b. 1909)
2004 Alexandra Ripley, American author (b. 1934)
2005 James Forman, American civil rights leader (b. 1928)
2005 Joséphine-Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Princess of Belgium, dies at 77
2005 Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b. 1909)
2007 Bradford Washburn, American explorer and cartographer, dies at 96
2008 Mikhail Minin, Russian Soviet soldier (b. 1922)
2009 William Frederick "Bill" Stone, British World War I veteran (b. 1900)
2010 Donald Acheson, Irish physician and Chief Medical Officer for England (1983-90), dies at 83
2012 Gevork Vartanian, Soviet intelligence agent, dies at 87
2013 Evan Connell, American author, dies at 88
2014 Larry Speakes, Acting White House Press Secretary under President Ronald Reagan, dies at 74
2015 Robert Stone, American novelist (Dog Soldiers, WUSA), dies from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 77

Clare Hollingworth (1911-2017)

British war correspondent who was the first to report on the outbreak of WWII, dies at 105

2017 Oliver Smithies, British biochemist (2007 Noble Prize for gene targeting), dies at 91
2017 Steven McDonald, New York City Police Department patrolman who was shot and paralyzed in the line of duty, dies at 59
2018 Doreen Tracey, British-born American performer (Mickey Mouse Club-Mouseketeer), dies at 74
2018 Tom Luken, American politician (U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio), dies at 92
2021 David Barclay, British hotel magnate (The Ritz) and multi-billionaire, dies at 86
2023 George Pell, Australian Catholic Cardinal and treasurer of the Vatican, convicted, and then acquitted, of child sex abuse, dies of complications after hip surgery at 81 [1]
2023 Tyre Nichols, African American motorist, dies in hospital in Memphis of his injuries, three days after being beaten by police at a traffic stop, at 29 [1]