Famous people died in October - page 10
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Barnes Wallis
Barnes Wallis was the English inventor who invented the bouncing bomb that was used in the Dambusters raid of May 1943
William Hopkins
William Hopkins was a renowned British mathematician and geologist who discovered that melting point of a substance rises with increasing pressure
Marie Stopes
Marie Stopes was a British author and palaeobotanist who played a pioneering role in the field of family planning
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli was a renowned Italian physicist and mathematician who invented the barometer
Svante Arrhenius
Svante Arrhenius was a renowned Swedish scientist who is regarded as father of modern day physical chemistry
Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Parnell was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Irish Home Rule League
John Rennie the Elder
John Rennie was a Scottish civil engineer famous for building canals, harbours, and bridges
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner was a renowned Austrian scientist who worked with Otto Hahn to discover the phenomenon of nuclear fission
Guru Gobind Singh
Guru Gobind Singh was the last of the ten Sikh Gurus