Deaths in History on November 3

Roman Emperor (337-61), dies at 44

753 Pirmin [Pirminius], German saint, missionary and monk (founder in a number of monasteries including Reichenau), dies (b. before 700)
1254 Johannes III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine Emperor (1222-54)/saint, dies
1324 Petronilla de Meath, Irish maidservant, first person in Ireland or Great Britain to be burnt at the stake for witchcraft and heresy, at about 24
1344 Adolf van der Mark, prince-bishop of Liege (1313-44), dies at 56
1378 Jan II, ruler of Polanen, Leck and Breda, dies
1428 Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1388)
1456 Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond and patriarch of the Tudor Dynasty, dies of bubonic plague imprisoned in Carmarthen Castle at 26
1580 Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (b. 1512)
1584 Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan (1564-84), dies at 46
1600 Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)
1639 Martinus de Porres, Peruvian saint (patron of social justice), dies at 59
1643 John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
1643 Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (Guldinus theorem), dies at 66
1708 Henriette Catharina van Nassau, daughter of Frederick Henry, dies at 71
1711 John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian, dies at 45
1787 Robert Lowth, British Bishop of the Church of England and grammarian (A Short Introduction to English Grammar), dies at 76

French playwright and revolutionary (Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen), executed by guillotine at 45

1794 François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman, dies at 79
1808 Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian and clergyman, dies at 85
1845 Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies at 69
1864 Antonio Goncalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea
1867 Pieter J Jong, Dutch Zouave, dies in battle
1869 Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet, dies at 77
1890 Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1811)
1891 Louis Lucien Bonaparte, British-French philologist, politician and nephew of Napoleon, dies at 78
1914 Georg Trakl, Austria poet (Totentag, Cocaine Overdose), dies at 27
1917 Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist, dies at 71
1918 Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (Lyapunov exponent), dies at 61
1919 Terauchi Masatake, Japanese soldier and politician (Prime Minister of Japan 1916-18), dies at 67

American sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild West), dies of pernicious anemia at 66

1927 Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
1929 Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (advocated literary use of Nynorsk), dies of tuberculosis at 46

German polar researcher and meteorologist (continental drift), dies while on an expedition to Greenland at 50 (date is approximate)

French physician, bacteriologist, Immunologist who developed the 1st diphtheria vaccine and co-founded the Pasteur Institute, dies at 79

1937 Winthrop Ames, American theatrical director (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dies at 66
1939 Waldemar Lindgren, Swedish-American Geologist (economic geology, ore classification), dies at 79
1942 Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Trousers, Snob), dies at 64
1944 Jack Miner, Canadian naturalist and conservationist, dies at 79
1949 Solomon R. Guggenheim, American businessman and art collector (Guggenheim Museum New York), dies at 88

French painter and sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84

1957 Wilhelm Reich, Austria/US psycho analyst (sexual), dies at 60
1960 Harold Spencer Jones, English astronomer and 10th astronomer royal of England whose work led to a more accurate determination of the distance between the Earth and the Sun, dies at 70

President of General Motors (1953-58), dies at 69

1970 Peter II Karadjordjevic, last King of Yugoslavia (1934-45), dies at 57
1977 William Kurelek, Canadian artist and writer (The Maze, Passion of Christ series), dies of cancer at 50
1980 Ludwig Hohl, writer, dies
1981 Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator, dies at 85
1982 E. H. Carr, English historian (History of Soviet Russia), dies at 90
1986 E. Cuyler Hammond, American epidemiologist (first to link smoking with lung cancer), dies at 74
1988 Henri van Praag, Dutch para-psychologist, dies
1992 Jean Daskalides, Belgian chocolate factory, dies at 70
1993 Aidan Crawley, British journalist and politician (Labour MP 1945-51), dies at 85
1993 Duncan Gibbins, director (Fire With Fire), dies in California fire at 41
1994 Ralph Wyckoff, American scientist and pioneer of X-ray crystallography, dies at 97
1994 Richard Krautheimer, US art historian, dies at 97
1995 Arthur George Bottomley, politician, dies at 88
1995 Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association, dies at 108
1996 Abdullah Çatlı, a Turkish nationalist and neofascist activist (b. 1956)
1996 Barry Porter, British lawyer and Conservative Party politician, dies at 57
1996 Bernard Frank, French oriental scholar and writer, dies at 69

President (1966-76) and later Emperor (1976-79) of the Central African Republic, dies of a heart attack at 75

2001 Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-English art historian (The Story of Art), dies at 92
2003 Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (b. 1923)
2006 Marie Rudisill, American author and "Fruitcake Lady" (b. 1911)
2007 Martin Meehan, Irish republican (b. 1945)
2009 Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
2010 Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (Prime Minister of Russia), dies at 72
2015 Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi politician (supported US 2003 invasion), dies at 71
2015 Howard Coble, American politician (Rep-R-NC, 1985-2015), dies at 84
2017 Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh, 1991-96, dies at 91
2019 Yvette Lundy, French resistance fighter during WWII, dies at 103
2022 Ray Guy, American College-Pro Football HOF punter (Southern Miss; Super Bowl 1976, 80, 84; 6×First-team All-Pro; 7×Pro Bowl; Oakland/LA Raiders), dies from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 72