Historical Deaths Today: 24 September

Deaths

• 366 - Pope Liberius


• 768 - Pippin the Short, King of the Franks (b. 714)


• 1054 - Hermannus Contractus, scholar (b. 1013)


• 1118 - Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)


• 1120 - Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)


• 1143 - Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1072)


• 1143 - Pope Innocent II


• 1180 - Manuel I Comnenus, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)


• 1213 - Gertrude of Merania, wife of Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)


• 1275 - Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (b. 1208)


• 1435 - Isabeau of Bavaria, wife of Charles VI of France (bc. 1370)


• 1494 - Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)


• 1541 - Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist (b. 1493)


• 1545 - Albert of Mainz, archbishop and elector of Mainz (b. 1490)


• 1605 - Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (bc. 1547)


• 1621 - Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)


• 1646 - Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (bc. 1565)


• 1707 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)


• 1732 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)


• 1742 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (b. 1684)


• 1802 - Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (b. 1749)


• 1834 - Pedro I of Brazil, Emperor of Brazil (b. 1798)


• 1896 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1818)


• 1904 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)


• 1930 - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)


• 1933 - Mike Donlin, baseball player (b. 1878)


• 1933 - Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (b. 1869)


• 1938 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)


• 1939 - Carl Laemmle, German film producer (b. 1867)


• 1945 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (b. 1882)


• 1948 - Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)


• 1954 - Edward Pilgrim, British suicide hastened by bureaucracy (b. 1904)


• 1962 - Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (b. 1887)


• 1975 - Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)


• 1978 - Hasso von Manteuffel, German army general and politician (b. 1897)


• 1980 - John Bonham, British musician


• 1981 - Patsy Kelly, American actress (b. 1910)


• 1982 - Sarah Churchill, British actress (b. 1914)


• 1984 - Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)


• 1991 - Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, American children's writer (b. 1904)


• 1991 - Peter Bellamy, folk singer (b. 1944)


• 1993 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)


• 1993 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)


• 2002 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)


• 2002 - Mike Webster, National Football League player (b. 1952)


• 2003 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)


• 2003 - Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)


• 2004 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)


• 2005 - Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)