September 20 :: Historical Deaths

Deaths

• 1246 - Mikhail of Chernigov, ruler of Kiev


• 1384 - King Louis I of Naples (b. 1339)


• 1460 - Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer


• 1586 - Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed) (b. 1558)


• 1590 - Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)


• 1625 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and critic (b. 1555)


• 1627 - Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (b. 1560)


• 1630 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586)


• 1639 - Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1579)


• 1643 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer


• 1721 - Thomas Doggett, Irish actor


• 1803 - Robert Emmet, Irish patriot (b. 1780)


• 1815 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (b. 1725)


• 1852 - Philander Chase, American university founder (b. 1775)


• 1863 - Jacob Grimm, German folklorist (b. 1785)


• 1884 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (b.1802)


• 1898 - Theodor Fontane, German writer (b. 1819)


• 1906 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834)


• 1908 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)


• 1932 - Wovoka, Paiute visionary


• 1933 - Annie Besant, women's rights activist (b. 1847)


• 1939 - Paul Bruchési, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1855)


• 1945 - William Buehler Seabrook, Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer (b. 1884)


• 1945 - Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian president (b. 1869)


• 1945 - Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1909)


• 1946 - Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)


• 1947 - Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City (b. 1882)


• 1957 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)


• 1971 - Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)


• 1973 - Jim Croce, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)


• 1975 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)


• 1979 - Ludvík Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)


• 1980 - Sanpei Hayashiya, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)


• 1984 - Steve Goodman, American folk music singer-songwriter (b. 1948)


• 1987 - Michael Stewart, American playwright (b. 1924)


• 1989 - Richie Ginther, American racing driver (b. 1930)


• 1993 - Erich Hartmann, German, world's most successful fighter pilot (352 'kills'; b. 1922)


• 1994 - Jule Styne, American songwriter (b. 1905)


• 1994 - Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and noted author (b. 1924)


• 1996 - Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)


• 1999 - Raisa Gorbachyova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)


• 1999 - Robert Lebel, Quebec ice hockey administrator (b. 1905)


• 2000 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (b. 1935)


• 2003 - Lord Williams of Mostyn, British politician (b. 1941)


• 2003 - Gordon Mitchell, American actor (b. 1923)


• 2003 - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (b. 1922)


• 2004 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (b. 1935)


• 2004 - Townsend Hoopes, American politician (b. 1922)


• 2005 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter (b. 1908)


• 2006 - Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)


• 2006 - John W. Peterson, American songwriter (b. 1921)


• 2007 - Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (b. 1928)