Died on This Day (02-Oct)

Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
Major Wingate	Major Leon-Legrant Wingate was an American basketball player.	American basketball player	37	1
Isaac Promise	Isaac Promise was a Nigerian footballer. He was the captain of the football team representing Nigeria which won the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.	Nigerian footballer	31	3
Tom Petty	Thomas Earl Petty was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor.	American rock musician	66	5
Brian Friel	Brian Patrick Friel was an Irish dramatist, short story writer and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company.	Irish dramatist, short story writer	86	7
Elfi von Dassanowsky	Elfriede "Elfi" von Dassanowsky was an Austrian-born singer, pianist and film producer.	Austrian musician and filmmaker	83	15
Nipsey Russell	Julius "Nipsey" Russell was an American comedian, poet, and dancer best known for his appearances as a panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, including Match Game, Password, Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth, and Pyramid.	Comedian	87	17
John Thomas Dunlop	John Thomas Dunlop was an American administrator, labor economist, and educator.	American politician	89	19
Peter Medawar	Sir Peter Brian Medawar was a Brazilian-British biologist and writer, whose works on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance were fundamental to the medical practice of tissue and organ transplants.	British biologist and writer	72	35
P. D. Ouspensky	Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii , was a Russian esotericist known for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian teacher of esoteric doctrine George Gurdjieff.	Russian author	69	75
Neal S. Dow	Neal Dow was an American Prohibition advocate and politician.	Union Army general	93	125

Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
Ron Perranoski	Ronald Peter Perranoski was a Major League Baseball left-handed relief pitcher, who played from 1961 through 1973.	American baseball picther	84	2
Geoff Emerick	Geoffrey Ernest Emerick was an English sound engineer and record producer who worked with the Beatles on their albums Revolver , Sgt.	Beetles audio engineer	72	4
Neville Marriner	Sir Neville Marriner, was an English violinist and was viewed by some as one of the world's greatest conductors.	Conductor	92	6
Genevieve Hughes	Genevieve Hughes Houghton is known as one of three women participants in the original 13-person Congress of Racial Equality Freedom Rides.	American civil rights activist	80	10
Tamara Dobson	Tamara Janice Dobson was an American actress and fashion model.	American actress and fashion model	59	16
Ashraf Rashid	Major General Ashraf Rashid was a two-star general in the Pakistan Army and the colonel commandant of the Special Service Group division within the Pakistan Army from October 1995 to September 1999.	Pakistani general	56	18
Heinz von Foerster	Heinz von Foerster was an Austrian American scientist combining physics and philosophy, and widely attributed as the originator of Second-order cybernetics.	Austrian scientist	90	20
Beniamino Segre	Beniamino Segre was an Italian mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to algebraic geometry and one of the founders of finite geometry.	Italian mathematician	74	45
Lucius F. C. Garvin	Lucius Fayette Clark Garvin was the 48th Governor of Rhode Island from 1903 to 1905.	Governor of Rhode Island	80	100
Francis Lieber	Francis Lieber , known as Franz Lieber in Germany, was a German-American jurist, gymnast and political philosopher.	German-American jurist and political philosopher	74	150

Anniversary Date: 02-Oct

Died on This Day (02-Oct)