September 08:: Historical Deaths

Deaths

• 701 - Pope Sergius I


• 780 - Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor


• 1397 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.


• 1425 - King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)


• 1539 - John Stokesley, English churchman


• 1560 - Amy Robsart, English noblewoman (b. 1534)


• 1603 - George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)


• 1613 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)


• 1637 - Robert Fludd, English mystic (b. 1574)


• 1645 - John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)


• 1644 - Francis Quarles, English poet (b. 1592)


• 1645 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (b. 1580)


• 1656 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (b. 1574)


• 1675 - Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, countess of Solms-Braunfels (b. 1602)


• 1682 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)


• 1721 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)


• 1739 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668)


• 1755 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (b. 1715)


• 1761 - Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)


• 1780 - Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general (b. 1736)


• 1784 - Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)


• 1811 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)


• 1831 - John Aitken, Scottish-born music publisher (b. 1745)


• 1853 - Frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)


• 1882 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)


• 1888 - Annie Chapman, widely believed to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841)


• 1894 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)


• 1933 - King Faysal I of Iraq (b. 1883)


• 1943 - Julius Fucik, Czech journalist (executed) (b. 1903)


• 1948 - Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)


• 1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)


• 1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922)


• 1965 - Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)


• 1969 - Bud Collyer, American television game show host (b. 1908)


• 1969 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (b. 1868)


• 1977 - Zero Mostel, American actor (b. 1915)


• 1979 - Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)


• 1980 - Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)


• 1981 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)


• 1981 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)


• 1983 - Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)


• 1985 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)


• 1991 - Alex North, American composer (b. 1910)


• 1999 - Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)


• 2002 - Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer (b. 1968)


• 2003 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)


• 2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)


• 2004 - Frank Thomas, American animator (b. 1913)


• 2005 - Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932)


• 2006 - Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)


• 2006 - Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver and TV personality (rally accident) (b. 1945)


• 2006 - Frank Middlemass, actor (b. 1919)


• 2006 - Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)


• 2007 - Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (b. 1917)