September 06:: Historical Deaths

Deaths

• 957 - Liudolf, Duke of Swabia


• 972 - Pope John XIII


• 1276 - Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (b. ca. 1215)


• 1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)


• 1536 - William Tyndale, Protestant bible translator (b. c. 1494)


• 1625 - Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)


• 1635 - Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)


• 1649 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)


• 1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (b. 1619)


• 1708 - Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)


• 1748 - Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)


• 1782 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)


• 1783 - Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)


• 1808 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)


• 1868 - Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner (b. 1797)


• 1902 - Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist (b. 1827)


• 1907 - Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)


• 1938 - John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)


• 1950 - Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)


• 1951 - James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)


• 1952 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)


• 1962 - Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (b. 1898)


• 1962 - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)


• 1966 - Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (b. 1879)


• 1966 - Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901)


• 1969 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892)


• 1974 - Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (b. 1896)


• 1978 - Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931)


• 1981 - Christy Brown, Irish author (b. 1932)


• 1984 - Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914)


• 1985 - Johnny Desmond, American singer (b. 1919)


• 1986 - Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)


• 1987 - Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)


• 1988 - Leroy Brown, professional wrestler (b. 1950)


• 1990 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)


• 1990 - Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)


• 1991 - Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)


• 1994 - Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944)


• 1997 - P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918)


• 1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)


• 1999 - René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)


• 2000 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (b. 2000)


• 2001 - Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)


• 2003 - Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)


• 2003 - Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber (b. 1969)


• 2005 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929)


• 2007 - Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918)


• 2007 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)


• 2007 - Alex, African Grey parrot "student" of Dr. Irene Pepperberg (b. 1976)