September 07:: Historical Deaths

Deaths

• 355 - Claudius Silvanus, Roman usurper


• 1151 - Geoffrey of Anjou (b. 1113)


• 1312 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285)


• 1496 - King Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)


• 1548 - Catherine Parr, final wife of Henry VIII of England (born c. 1512)


• 1552 - Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh Guru (b. 1504)


• 1559 - Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)


• 1632 - Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia


• 1644 - Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman (b. 1579)


• 1654 - Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi (b. 1579)


• 1655 - François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (b. 1601)


• 1657 - Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish count, field marshal and privy councilor (b. 1606)


• 1719 - John Harris, English writer


• 1729 - William Burnet, British-born American statesman (b. 1688)


• 1708 - Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia


• 1799 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717)


• 1809 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (b. 1737)


• 1840 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (b. 1765)


• 1881 - Sidney Lanier, American writer (b. 1842)


• 1891 - Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (b. 1820)


• 1892 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (b. 1807)


• 1920 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician, premier of the province of Quebec (b. 1855)


• 1921 - Alfred William Rich, watercolor painter (b. 1856)


• 1939 - Kyoka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873)


• 1943 - J. P. Morgan, Jr., American financier (b. 1867)


• 1949 - José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)


• 1951 - Maria Montez, Dominican actress (b. 1912)


• 1954 - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)


• 1955 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1900)


• 1959 - Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b. 1890)


• 1962 - Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1892)


• 1962 - Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian singer (b. 1895)


• 1962 - Isak Dinesen, Danish author (b. 1885)


• 1965 - Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (b. 1900)


• 1971 - Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886)


• 1978 - Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (b. 1946)


• 1982 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)


• 1984 - Joe Cronin, American baseball manager and executive (b. 1906)


• 1986 - Spectacular Blue Smith, Member of R&B Group "Pretty Ricky"


• 1990 - Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (b. 1900)


• 1991 - Edwin McMillan, American physicist (b. 1907)


• 1994 - James Clavell, Australian-born American author (b. 1924)


• 1994 - Dennis Morgan, American actor (b. 1908)


• 1994 - Godfrey Quigley, British actor (b. 1923)


• 1994 - Terence Young, British film director (b. 1915)


• 1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire (b. 1930)


• 1999 - Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist (b. 1949)


• 2001 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b. 1930)


• 2001 - Billie Lou Watt, American actress (b. 1924)


• 2002 - Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (b. 1961)


• 2002 - Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)


• 2002 - Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (b. 1923)


• 2003 - The Great Antonio, Canadian eccentric (b. 1925)


• 2003 - Warren Zevon, American musician (b. 1947)


• 2004 - Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)


• 2005 - Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b. 1933)


• 2005 - Hope Garber, Canadian actress (b. ca. 1924)


• 2006 - Robert Earl Jones, American actor, father of James Earl Jones (b. 1910)