September 16:: Historical Deaths

Deaths

• 96 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)


• 307 - Flavius Valerius Severus, deposed Roman Emperor (murder)


• 827 - Pope Valentine


• 1087 - Pope Victor III (b. 1026)


• 1100 - Bernold of Constance, German chronicler (b. 1054)


• 1345 - John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)


• 1380 - King Charles V of France (b. 1338)


• 1394 - Avignon Pope Clement VII (b. 1342)


• 1406 - Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1336)


• 1498 - Tomás de Torquemada, first grand inquisitor of Spain (b. 1420)


• 1589 - Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)


• 1672 - Anne Bradstreet, American colonial poet (b. 1612)


• 1701 - James II of England and VII of Scotland (b. 1633)


• 1736 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (b. 1686)


• 1775 - Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684)


• 1782 - Farinelli, Italian castrato singer (b. 1705)


• 1803 - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (b. 1754)


• 1824 - King Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)


• 1829 - Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman (b. 1771)


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


• 1865 - Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (b. 1792)


• 1898 - Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. 1827)


• 1911 - Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (b. 1840)


• 1925 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)


• 1932 - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)


• 1933 - George Gore, baseball player (b. 1857)


• 1944 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)


• 1945 - John McCormack, Irish tenor (b. 1884)


• 1950 - Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)


• 1957 - Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864)


• 1965 - Ahn Eak-tai, Korean musician, composer, and conductor (b. 1906)


• 1975 - Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b. 1896)


• 1977 - Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947)


• 1977 - Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (b. 1923)


• 1980 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)


• 1987 - Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (b. 1922)


• 1992 - Millicent Fenwick, American politician and writer (b. 1910)


• 1993 - Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (b. 1966)


• 1996 - McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (b. 1919)


• 1996- Gene Nelson, American actor (b. 1920)


• 2000 - Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)


• 2001 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (b. 1918)


• 2002 - James Gregory, American actor (b. 1911)


• 2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)


• 2003 - Sheb Wooley, singer and actor (b. 1921)


• 2005 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (b. 1920)


• 2006 - Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (b. 1955)


• 2006 - Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)


• 2007 - Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series (b. 1948)