September 04 :: Historical Deaths

Deaths

• 799 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (b. 745)


• 1037 - King Bermudo III of Leon (b. 1010)


• 1063 - Toghrül, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad


• 1199 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily, wife of William II of Sicily (b. 1165)


• 1537 - Johann Dietenberger, German theologian


• 1588 - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1532)


• 1767 - Charles Townshend, English politician (b. 1725)


• 1780 - John Fielding, English magistrate and social reformer (b. 1721)


• 1784 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)


• 1794 - John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)


• 1804 - Richard Somers, American naval officer


• 1852 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)


• 1864 - John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (b. 1825)


• 1907 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)


• 1909 - Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (b. 1865)


• 1916 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)


• 1963 - Robert Schuman, French politician (b. 1886)


• 1965 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875)


• 1974 - Marcel Achard, French playwright (b. 1899)


• 1974 - Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army general (b. 1914)


• 1974 - Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (b. 1884)


• 1977 - E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (b. 1911)


• 1977 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (b. 1894)


• 1977 - Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek musician (b. 1899)


• 1979 - Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (b. 1904)


• 1986 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (b. 1911)


• 1986 - Otto Glória, Brazilian football coach (b. 1917)


• 1987 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (b. 1908)


• 1989 - Georges Simenon, French author (b. 1903)


• 1989 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (b. 1903)


• 1990 - Irene Dunne American actress (b. 1898)


• 1991 - Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (b. 1926)


• 1991 - Dottie West, American singer (b. 1932)


• 1991 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1913)


• 1993 - Hervé Villechaize, French actor (b. 1943)


• 1995 - Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax; b. 1950)


• 1995 - William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)


• 1997 - Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (b. 1931)


• 1998 - Elizabeth Kata, Australian writer, A Patch of Blue (b. 1912)


• 2001 - Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (b. 1962)


• 2002 - Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian pianist (b. 1904)


• 2003 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1921)


• 2003 - Lola Bobesco, Romanian-born violinist (b. 1921)


• 2004 - Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (b. 1971)


• 2004 - Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (b. 1929)


• 2004 - James O. Page, American paramedic (b. 1936)


• 2006 - Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)


• 2006 - Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)


• 2006 - Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality (b. 1962)


• 2006 - Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (b. 1918 )