September 15:: Historical Deaths

Deaths

• 668 - Constans II, Byzantine emperor (b. 630)


• 866 - Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria


• 1231 - Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1173)


• 1352 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)


• 1500 - John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury


• 1596 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535 or 1540)


• 1613 - Thomas Overbury, English writer (b. 1581)


• 1643 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)


• 1649 - John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572)


• 1700 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (b. 1613)


• 1701 - Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)


• 1707 - George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)


• 1712 - Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician


• 1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)


• 1794 - Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)


• 1803 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1719)


• 1830 - William Huskisson, first rail fatality (b. 1770)


• 1835 - Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)


• 1842 - Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)


• 1842 - José Francisco Morazán Quezada, President of The Federal Republic of Central America (b. 1792)


• 1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)


• 1864 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)


• 1883 - Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (b. 1801)


• 1885 - Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train)


• 1893 - Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (b. 1807)


• 1921 - Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1886)


• 1926 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)


• 1930 - Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)


• 1945 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)


• 1945 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer (b. 1883)


• 1965 - Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)


• 1972 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)


• 1973 - Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)


• 1973 - Victor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1941)


• 1978 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (b. 1898)


• 1978 - Robert Cliche, French Canadian politician and judge (b. 1921)


• 1980 - Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1929)


• 1981 - Harold Bennett, English actor (b. 1899)


• 1983 - Prince Far I, reggae toaster and producer


• 1985 - Cootie Williams, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1910)


• 1987 - Steven Tuomi, murder victim of Jeffery Dahmer (b. 1963)


• 1989 - Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)


• 1991 - John Hoyt, American actor (b. 1904)


• 1993 - Ethan Allen, American baseball player (b. 1903)


• 1995 - Harry Calder, South African cricketer (b. 1901)


• 2000 - Vincent Canby, American movie critic (b. 1924)


• 2003 - Jack Brymer, English clarinetist (b. 1915)


• 2003 - Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist (b. 1920)


• 2004 - Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (b. 1948)


• 2004 - Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (b. 1931)


• 2005 - Sidney Luft, American film director (b. 1915)


• 2006 - Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922)


• 2006 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)


• 2006 - Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)


• 2006 - Rob Levin, Freenode IRC Network Founder (b. 1955)


• 2007 - Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (b. 1968)


• 2007 - Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (b. 1928)


• 2007 - Brett Somers, Canadian-born American actress and Match Game panelist (b. 1924)