September 01 :: Historical Deaths

Deaths

• 1067 - Baldwin V of Flanders


• 1159 - Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100)


• 1256 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)


• 1414 - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)


• 1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)


• 1581 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)


• 1600 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)


• 1615 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)


• 1648 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)


• 1685 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)


• 1687 - Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)


• 1715 - François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)


• 1715 - King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)


• 1818 - Robert Calder, British naval officer (b. 1745)


• 1943 - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)


• 1947 - Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)


• 1953 - Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)


• 1957 - Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)


• 1967 - Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (b. 1886)


• 1967 - Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (b. 1906)


• 1969 - Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)


• 1970 - François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)


• 1977 - Ethel Waters, American singer (b. 1896)


• 1981 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)


• 1981 - Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1901)


• 1982 - Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)


• 1982 - Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish communist leader (b. 1905)


• 1983 - Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b. 1912)


• 1983 - Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)


• 1985 - Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)


• 1985 - Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (b. 1955)


• 1986 - Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)


• 1988 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)


• 1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)


• 1989 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894)


• 1994 - Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)


• 1998 - Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (b. 1930)


• 1998 - Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)


• 1999 - W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)


• 2001 - Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)


• 2003 - Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)


• 2004 - Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)


• 2005 - R. L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)


• 2005 - Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)


• 2006 - Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)


• 2006 - Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)


• 2006 - Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)


• 2006 - Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)


• 2007 - Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)