Deaths in History on October 7

1660 Paul Scarron, French writer (Virgile Travesti), dies at 50
1681 Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philological/diplomat, dies at 61
1708 Guru Gobind Singh, Tenth Guru of Sikhism, founder and General of Khalsa Army, social reformist and poet, dies following an assassination attempt at 41
1772 John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist, dies of smallpox at 51
1777 Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle
1780 Patrick Ferguson, Scottish army officer and rifle inventor (Ferguson flintlock rifle), dies in battle at 36
1787 Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church, dies at 76

George Mason (1725-1792)

American statesman (advocated for the Bill of Rights), dies of natural causes at 66

1793 Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, British politician, dies at 75
1795 Johann Georg von Zimmermann, Swiss philosophical author and physician, dies at 66
1796 Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher and founder of Scottish School of Common Sense, dies at 86
1800 Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged
1811 August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist, dies at 68

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

American writer, poet and critic (The Pit and the Pendulum) considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre (Murders in the Rue Morgue), dies in Baltimore at 40

1864 Alexander Gardiner, US Union brigadier general, dies in battle
1864 John Gregg, American judge/Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 36
1876 Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian, dies at 81
1894 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and author (Old Ironsides), dies at 85
1903 Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
1906 Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
1911 John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)

Alfred Deakin (1856-1919)

Second Prime Minister of Australia (3 terms between 1903-10), dies at 63

1924 Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Patristischen Philosophie), dies at 71
1926 Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist who developed a classification system for mental illness, dies at 70
1931 Charles Ricketts, British artist and illustrator, dies at 65
1931 Daniel Chester French, American sculptor (Minute Man), dies at 81
1939 Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon (blood pressure studies), dies at 70
1943 Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)
1944 Helmut Lent, German night-fighter ace in World War II, dies at 26

Willis Carrier (1876-1950)

American engineer (developed modern air conditioning), dies at 73

1951 Anton Philips, Co-Founder of Royal Philips Electronics N.V., dies at 77

Clarence Birdseye (1886-1956)

American inventor and founder of the modern frozen food industry (Birdseye), dies of a heart attack at 69

1962 Maurits Dekker, Dutch novelist and playwright (Merkteken; Boots In Jail), dies at 66
1964 Eugen Varga, Hungarian-Russian economist and politician, dies at 84
1967 Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies
1973 Habib Rajab, South African trader and collector of oriental art who fought against a takeover of the Grey Street complex by White traders, dies at 58
1981 Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (Belle du Seigneur), dies at 86
1982 Salvador Araneta, Filipino lawyer, educator, businessman, and philanthropist, dies at 80
1990 J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies
1990 Juan Jose Arevalo, President of Guatemala (1945-51), dies
1992 Allan Bloom, American philosopher and author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62
1992 Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)
1993 Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician, dies at 86
1994 James Hill, director, dies at 75
1994 Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
1995 Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59
1995 Gérard de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer, dies at 77
1996 Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser, dies at 86
1999 David A. Huffman, American computer scientist, creator of Huffman coding, dies at 74
1999 Rev. Bruce Ritter, American Catholic priest and controversial founder of charity New York City based Covenant House, dies of cancer at 72
2001 Herblock [Herbert Lawrence Block], American cartoonist, dies at 91
2001 Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
2003 Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke, English peer and director (Emily), dies at 64
2003 Izzy Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (b. 1932)
2003 Wally George, American conservative TV commentator, dies at 71
2004 Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942)
2005 Doug Young, American national and world powerlifting champion, dies of a heart attack at 61
2006 Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and human rights activist, dies at 48
2007 George E. Sangmeister, American politician (Rep-D-Illinois 1989-95), dies at 76
2008 Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)
2009 Irving Penn, American fashion and fine art photographer. dies at 92
2009 Shelby Singleton, American record label owner and producer (Smash Records, Mercury Records), dies of brain cancer at 77
2010 Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1982-86), dies at 85
2011 Ramiz Alia, the former communist leader and first president of the Albanian pluralist (b. 1925)
2012 Mervyn Dymally, Trinidadian-born American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1981-93), dies at 86
2015 Gail Zappa (née Sloatman), American business secretary and wife of musician and composer Frank Zappa, dies of lung cancer at 70
2020 Mario Molina, Mexican scientist, 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry (CFC's effect on the ozone layer), dies at 77 [1]