Famous people died in October - page 10

Barnes Wallis

Barnes Wallis

Barnes Wallis was the English inventor who invented the bouncing bomb that was used in the Dambusters raid of May 1943

BritishSeptember 26, 1887247 views

William Hopkins

William Hopkins was a renowned British mathematician and geologist who discovered that melting point of a substance rises with increasing pressure

BritishFebruary 2, 1793122 views

Marie Stopes

Marie Stopes was a British author and palaeobotanist who played a pioneering role in the field of family planning

BritishOctober 15, 1880197 views

Evangelista Torricelli

Evangelista Torricelli was a renowned Italian physicist and mathematician who invented the barometer

ItalianOctober 15, 1608204 views

Svante Arrhenius

Svante Arrhenius was a renowned Swedish scientist who is regarded as father of modern day physical chemistry

SwedishFebruary 19, 1859208 views

Charles Stewart Parnell

Charles Parnell was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Irish Home Rule League

BritishJune 27, 1846117 views

Rembrandt

Rembrandt was a Dutch painter counted amongst the greatest European painters of all time

DutchJuly 15, 1606120 views

John Rennie the Elder

John Rennie was a Scottish civil engineer famous for building canals, harbours, and bridges

ScottishJune 7, 1761144 views

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

IndianDecember 22, 1666130 views