September 14:: Historical Deaths

Deaths

• 258 - Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage


• 585 - Emperor Bidatsu of Japan (b. 538)


• 775 - Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 718)


• 786 - Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph


• 891 - Pope Stephen V


• 1146 - Zengi, ruler of Syria (b. 1087)


• 1164 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)


• 1214 - Albert Avogadro, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 1149)


• 1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian author (b. 1265)


• 1404 - Albert IV of Austria (b. 1377)


• 1435 - John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (b. 1389)


• 1523 - Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)


• 1538 - Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German nobleman (b. 1483)


• 1605 - Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Krakow (b. 1550)


• 1638 - John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607)


• 1646 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (b. 1591)


• 1712 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer (b. 1625)


• 1743 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690)


• 1749 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (b. 1675)


• 1759 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (b. 1712)


• 1807 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (b. 1724)


• 1836 - Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (b. 1756)


• 1851 - James Fenimore Cooper, American author (b. 1789)


• 1852 - Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812)


• 1852 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom


• 1879 - Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist (b. 1808)


• 1898 - William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)


• 1901 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)


• 1905 - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà), explorer (b. 1852)


• 1910 - Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist


• 1927 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (b. 1877)


• 1936 - Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)


• 1937 - Tomáš Masaryk, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850)


• 1942 - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American eugenicist (b. 1855)


• 1951 - Fritz Busch, German conductor (b. 1890)


• 1959 - Wayne Morris, American actor (b. 1914)


• 1960 - M. Karagatsis, Greek author (b. 1908)


• 1965 - J.W. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1891)


• 1966 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (b. 1899)


• 1974 - Warren Hull, American actor (b. 1903)


• 1975 - Walter Herbert, German-born conductor and impresario (b. 1902)


• 1981 - Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (b. 1899)


• 1982 - Bachir Gemayel, President-elect of Lebanon,assassinated (b. 1947)


• 1982 - John Gardner, American novelist (b. 1933)


• 1982 - Grace Kelly, American actress, Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)


• 1982 - Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933)


• 1984 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (b. 1906)


• 1989 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (b. 1916)


• 1991 - Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (b. 1930)


• 1991 - Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (b. 1910)


• 1992 - Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (b. 1903)


• 1995 - Maurice K. Goddard - the "father" of Pennsylvania state parks


• 1996 - Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (b. 1937)


• 1999 - Charles Crichton, English film director (b. 1910)


• 2000 - Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)


• 2001 - Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (b. 1931)


• 2003 - Yetunde Price, half-sister of American tennis players Venus and Serena Williams (b. 1972)


• 2003 - John Serry, Sr., American musician, (b. 1915)


• 2005 - William Berenberg, American physician (b. 1915)


• 2005 - Robert Wise, American filmmaker (b. 1914)


• 2005 - Vladimir Volkoff, French writer (b. 1932)


• 2006 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)


• 2006 - Esme Melville, Australian actress (b. 1918)