Famous Deaths on 10th February

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1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071)
1134 - Robert III/II Curthouse, Duke of Normandy, dies
1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem, son of King Fulco of Anjou/husband of Theodora, dies. (b. 1130)
1242 - Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
1278 - Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
1482 - Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor (majolica reliefs), dies at 81
1495 - William Stanley, Engl lord chamberlain, executed for conspiracy
1567 - Lord Darnley Stuart, husband of English queen Mary, murdered
1576 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
1588 - Joost Sybrantsz Buyck, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at about 82
1598 - Anna van Bull, 1st wife of Polish/Swedish king Sigismund II, dies
1657 - Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzabethian painter, dies at 59
1678 - Philip Vingboons, Amsterdam's master builder, buried
1686 - William Dugdale, Garter King of Arms (1677-86), dies
1711 - Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Meleager & Atalante), dies at 22
1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
1758 - Thomas Ripley, English architect
1772 - Jozef Wenceslas, monarch of Liechtenstein/general, dies at 75
1774 - Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer, dies at 44
1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
1783 - James Nares, composer, dies at 67
1816 - Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, composer, dies at 74
1822 - Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon-Teschen/governor of Hungary, dies at 83
1825 - Paul van Hemert, Dutch theologist/philosopher (Kant), dies at 68
1829 - Leo XII, [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at 68
1832 - Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, composer, dies at 84
1837 - Alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37
1857 - David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
1861 - Francis Danby, Exmouth, painter, dies
1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
1876 - Johan August Soderman, composer, dies at 43
1887 - Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73
1887 - Pieter JBCR van der Aa, Dutch geographer, dies at 54
1891 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
1902 - J N Krieger, German Selenographer, dies
1904 - John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
1905 - Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer, dies at 78
1906 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician (b. 1827)
1912 - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic), dies
1915 - Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65
1917 - Emile Pessard, composer, dies at 73
1917 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)
Italian Pacifist Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1918) 1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 84
1923 - Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77
1932 - R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at 76
1939 - Pius XI, [Ambrogio D A Ratti], Italian Pope (1922-39), dies at 81
1943 - Wa'er, shot dead by Defiance
1944 - Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870)
1945 - Juan de Hernandez, composer, dies at 63
1945 - Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
1948 - Ewart Astill, cricket all-rounder (9 Tests for England 1927-30), dies
1948 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50
1950 - Armen Tigran Tigranyan, composer, dies at 70
1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
1951 - Joseph Bovet, composer, dies at 71
1952 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)
1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, US author (Little House on Praries), dies at 90
1958 - Billy Vine, actor (54th Street Revue), dies at 42
1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
1962 - Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83
1964 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
1966 - Billy Rose, US theater producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66
1968 - Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79
1975 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
1977 - Grace Mary Williams, composer, dies at 70
1982 - K R Meher-Homji, cricket wk (Test as Indian, catch no stumped), dies
1983 - Eduard Franz, actor (Zorro), dies at 80
1984 - David Von Erich, professional wrestler (b. 1958)
1985 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)
1986 - Brian Aherne, actor (Juarez, My Sister Eileen, Rosie), dies at 83
1987 - Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
1989 - Dan Kelly, NHL sportscaster, dies at 52, "He shoots, he scores!"
Writer Alex Haley (1992) 1992 - Alex Haley, US writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at 70
1992 - Florence Tarlow, dies of cancer at 70
1992 - Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies
1992 - Meade Roberts, screenwriter, dies of congestive heart failure at 61
1992 - Thomas Graftdijk, Dutch writer (Dr Faustus), dies
1992 - Wim Ramaker, Dutch director/writer (On Death Track), dies
1993 - John Grossman, Czech director (Process, Revisor), dies
1993 - Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Live), dies of liver failure at 47
1993 - Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, PM of France (1957), dies
1993 - Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
1995 - Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator, dies at 85
1995 - Louis Sen A Kaw, Suriname's great dam builder, dies at 75
1995 - Paul Monette, writer, dies at 49
1995 - S van der Linde, church historian, dies at 89
1996 - Hugh Francis Lamprey, ecologist, dies at 67
1997 - Brian McManus Connolly, musician, dies at 47
1997 - Milton Cato, PM of San Vincent & Grenadines (1979-84), dies
1997 - Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts (b. 1996)
1998 - Buddy the Wonder Dog, dog (Air Bud), dies of cancer at 9
1998 - Maurice Schumann, French foreign minister (1969-73), dies
2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
2001 - Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
2001 - George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913)
2002 - Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary (b. 1920)
2002 - Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936)
2003 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
2003 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1959)
2003 - Clark MacGregor, United States Congressman from Minnesota (b. 1922)
2003 - Al Ruffo, Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908)
2003 - Ron Ziegler, press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
2004 - Guy Provost, Quebec actor (b. 1925)
Playwright Arthur Miller (2005) 2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright, dies at 89
2006 - J Dilla, American rapper/producer (b. 1974)
2006 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947)
2007 - Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)
2007 - Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
2008 - Roy Scheider, American Actor (b. 1932)
2008 - Steve Gerber, American comics writer (b. 1947)
2009 - Jeremy Lusk, American freestyle motocross racer (b. 1984)
2010 - Charles Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)
2010 - Fred Schaus, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1925)
2012 - Geoffrey Cornish, Canadian golf course architect, dies at 97
2012 - Jeffrey Zaslow, American author and columnist, dies in a car accident at 53
2013 - W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator, dies at 85
2013 - Eugenio Trias, Spanish philosopher, dies at 70