Historical DeathsToday: 30 September

Deaths

• 420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible


• 653 - Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury


• 1101 - Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan


• 1246 - Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)


• 1440 - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician


• 1487 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)


• 1551 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)


• 1560 - Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)


• 1572 - St. Francis Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510)


• 1581 - Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)


• 1626 - Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b. 1559)


• 1628 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b. 1554)


• 1770 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat


• 1770 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)


• 1772 - James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)


• 1865 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800)


• 1888 - Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)


• 1888 - Catherine Eddowes, widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842)


• 1891 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)


• 1897 - St Therese of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)


• 1910 - Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)


• 1913 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858)


• 1942 - Hans-Joachim Marseille, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)


• 1943 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)


• 1955 - James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931)


• 1961 - Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Québec (b. 1888)


• 1973 - Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)


• 1974 - Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor


• 1977 - Mary Ford, American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) (b. 1924)


• 1978 - Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)


• 1985 - Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)


• 1985 - Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)


• 1988 - Al Holbert, American race car driver and team owner (b. 1946)


• 1989 - Virgil Thompson, American composer (b. 1896)


• 1990 - Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)


• 1990 - Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)


• 1994 - Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)


• 1998 - Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b. 1953)


• 2002 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)


• 2003 - Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer (b. 1944)


• 2003 - Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935)


• 2004 - Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1936)


• 2004 - Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915)

Historical DeathsToday: 29 September

Deaths

• 1364 - Charles, Duke of Brittany


• 1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)


• 1637 - Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint


• 1642 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)


• 1703 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610)


• 1800 - Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729)


• 1804 - Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)


• 1833 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)


• 1887 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)


• 1889 - Louis Faidherbe, French general (b. 1818)


• 1900 - Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist (b. 1814)


• 1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825)


• 1902 - Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)


• 1908 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (b. 1839)


• 1925 - Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1851)


• 1927 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1860)


• 1927 - Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858)


• 1930 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)


• 1937 - Ray Ewry, American athlete (b. 1873)


• 1951 - Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)


• 1952 - John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)


• 1967 - Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917)


• 1970 - Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)


• 1973 - W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)


• 1975 - Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager (b. 1890)


• 1976 - Wadi Ayoub, Greco-Roman professional wrestler, (b. 1927)


• 1981 - Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (b. 1913)


• 1982 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)


• 1987 - Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company (b. 1917)


• 1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)


• 1989 - Gussie Busch, American brewing magnate (b. 1899)


• 1994 - Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)


• 1996 - Leslie Crowther, British comedian (b. 1933)


• 1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)


• 1998 - Jared High, victim of bullying and suicide (b. 1985)


• 1998 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)


• 2001 - Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)


• 2002 - Edmund Trebus, probably best known for his appearance on A Life of Grime (b. 1918)


• 2004 - Richard Sainct, French motorcycle rally rider (b. 1970)


• 2005 - Austin Leslie, American chef, the "Godfather of Fried Chicken" (b. 1934)


• 2006 - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.


• 2006 - Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)


• 2006 - Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)


• 2006 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)


• 2006 - Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)


• 2007 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)

Historical Deaths Today: 28 September

Deaths

• 48 BC - Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)


• 235 - Saint Pontianus, Pope


• 876 - Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b. 804)


• 935 - Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907)


• 1104 - Pedro I, king of Aragon and Navarre (b. 1068)


• 1197 - Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165)


• 1429 - Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest of Austria


• 1582 - George Buchanan, Scottish historian (b. 1506)


• 1618 - Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)


• 1687 - Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b. 1623)


• 1694 - Gabriel Mouton, French scientist (b. 1618)


• 1702 - Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, English statesman (b. 1640)


• 1742 - Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (b. 1663)


• 1781 - William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b. 1717)


• 1844 - Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b. 1769)


• 1873 - Émile Gaboriau, French writer and journalist (b. 1832)


• 1891 - Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819)


• 1895 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (b. 1822)


• 1914 - Richard Sears, businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company) (b. 1863)


• 1915 - Saitou Hajime, 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844)


• 1918 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)


• 1918 - Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)


• 1935 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)


• 1953 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)


• 1956 - William Edward Boeing, American aviation pioneer (b. 1881)


• 1957 - Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and musician(b. 1888)


• 1959 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (b. 1901)


• 1964 - Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1888)


• 1966 - André Breton, French poet (b. 1896)


• 1970 - John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)


• 1970 - Gamal Abdel Nasser, the second President of Egypt (b. 1918)


• 1978 - Pope John Paul I (b. 1912), after just 33 days in office


• 1979 - John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b. 1921)


• 1981 - Rómulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)


• 1982 - Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)


• 1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)


• 1989 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (b. 1917)


• 1991 - Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)


• 1993 - Peter De Vries, American novelist (b. 1910)


• 1993 - Fraser MacPherson, Canadian jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)


• 1993 - Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)


• 1994 - Urmas Alender, Estonian singer and musician (b. 1953)


• 1994 - José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (assassinated) (b. 1946)


• 1994 - Harry Saltzman, American film producer (b. 1915)


• 2000 - Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)


• 2002 - Patsy Mink, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1927)


• 2002 - Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman (Molson family), senator and sports executive (Montreal Canadiens) (b. 1907)


• 2003 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)


• 2003 - Elia Kazan, Greek-born American film director (b. 1909)


• 2003 - George Odlum, Saint Lucian politician (b. 1934)


• 2004 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)


• 2004 - Scott Muni, American disc jockey (b. 1930)


• 2005 - Constance Baker Motley, American judge (b. 1921)


• 2007 - Wally Parks, Founder of the NHRA (b. 1913)

Historical Deaths Today: 27 September

Deaths

• 1249 - Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)


• 1304 - John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English soldier


• 1404 - William of Wykeham, English bishop (b. 1320)


• 1557 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)


• 1590 - Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)


• 1615 - Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman (b. 1575)


• 1651 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)


• 1660 - Vincent de Paul, French saint (b. 1580)


• 1700 - Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)


• 1719 - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)


• 1730 - Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)


• 1735 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (b. 1705)


• 1737 - John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (b. 1680)


• 1742 - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)


• 1783 - Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (b. 1730)


• 1832 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (b. 1781)


• 1876 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)


• 1891 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)


• 1911 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 1844)


• 1915 - Remy de Gourmont, French poet (b. 1858)


• 1917 - Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)


• 1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)


• 1940 - Walter Benjamin, German philosopher (b. 1892)


• 1940 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)


• 1944 - Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (b. 1890)


• 1956 - Gerald Finzi, English composer (b. 1901)


• 1956 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (b. 1911)


• 1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1882)


• 1965 - Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)


• 1972 - S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)


• 1974 - Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer, assassinated by the Triple A(b. 1907)


• 1975 - Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)


• 1979 - Dame Gracie Fields, British comedian (b. 1898)


• 1981 - Robert Montgomery, American actor (b. 1904)


• 1985 - Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)


• 1986 - Cliff Burton, American bassist (Metallica) (b. 1962)


• 1991 - Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill and 4th wife of Charlie Chaplin (b. 1926)


• 1993 - Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)


• 1996 - Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)


• 1997 - Walter Trampler, American violist (b. 1915)


• 1998 - Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)


• 1998 - Doak Walker, American footballer (b. 1927)


• 2003 - Donald O'Connor, American actor (b. 1925)


• 2004 - John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1929)


• 2005 - Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian (b. 1929)


• 2007 - Kenji Nagai, Japanese photojournalist (b. 1957)

Historical Deaths Today: 26 September

Deaths

• 1417 - Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)


• 1468 - Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1388)


• 1501 - Džore Držić, Croatian writer (b. 1461)


• 1620 - Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)


• 1626 - Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b. 1554)


• 1716 - Antoine Parent, French mathematician (b. 1666)


• 1763 - John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)


• 1764 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (b. 1767)


• 1800 - William Billings, American choral composer (b. 1746)


• 1802 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and military officer (b. 1754)


• 1820 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)


• 1868 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)


• 1877 - Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)


• 1902 - Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)


• 1904 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)


• 1904 - Lafcadio Hearn, Greek writer (b. 1850)


• 1937 - Bessie Smith, American singer (b. 1894)


• 1945 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)


• 1947 - Hugh Lofting, English writer (b. 1886)


• 1951 - Hans Cloos, German geologist (b. 1885)


• 1952 - George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (b. 1863)


• 1953 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)


• 1954 - Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868)


• 1965 - James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (b. 1898)


• 1968 - Daniel Johnson, Sr., French-Canadian politician (b. 1915)


• 1972 - Charles Correll, American radio actor (b. 1890)


• 1973 - Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1923)


• 1973 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908)


• 1976 - Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)


• 1978 - Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)


• 1979 - Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (b. 1910)


• 1982 - Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)


• 1983 - Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (b. 1907)


• 1984 - John Facenda, American sports announcer (b. 1913)


• 1984 - Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)


• 1986 - Hugh Franklin, American soap opera actor (b. 1916)


• 1990 - Alberto Moravia, Italian author (b. 1907)


• 1991 - Billy Vaughn, American bandleader (b. 1919)


• 1998 - Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)


• 1999 - Oseola McCarty, American philanthropist (b. 1908)


• 2000 - Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)


• 2000 - Baden Powell, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1937)


• 2003 - Robert Palmer, English singer (b. 1949)


• 2003 - Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b. 1963)


• 2004 - Marianna Komlos, professional wrestling valet (b. 1969)


• 2005 - Helen Cresswell, British author


• 2006 - Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)


• 2006 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, alleged Tokyo Rose (b. 1916)


• 2007 - Dorothy Schwartz, American violinist (b. 1913)


• 2007 - Bill Wirtz, American sports team owner (b. 1929)

Historical Deaths Today: 25 September

Deaths

• 1066 - Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge:
  
  
  
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Historical Deaths Today: 24 September

Deaths

• 366 - Pope Liberius


• 768 - Pippin the Short, King of the Franks (b. 714)


• 1054 - Hermannus Contractus, scholar (b. 1013)


• 1118 - Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)


• 1120 - Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)


• 1143 - Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1072)


• 1143 - Pope Innocent II


• 1180 - Manuel I Comnenus, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)


• 1213 - Gertrude of Merania, wife of Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)


• 1275 - Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (b. 1208)


• 1435 - Isabeau of Bavaria, wife of Charles VI of France (bc. 1370)


• 1494 - Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)


• 1541 - Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist (b. 1493)


• 1545 - Albert of Mainz, archbishop and elector of Mainz (b. 1490)


• 1605 - Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (bc. 1547)


• 1621 - Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)


• 1646 - Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (bc. 1565)


• 1707 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)


• 1732 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)


• 1742 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (b. 1684)


• 1802 - Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (b. 1749)


• 1834 - Pedro I of Brazil, Emperor of Brazil (b. 1798)


• 1896 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1818)


• 1904 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)


• 1930 - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)


• 1933 - Mike Donlin, baseball player (b. 1878)


• 1933 - Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (b. 1869)


• 1938 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)


• 1939 - Carl Laemmle, German film producer (b. 1867)


• 1945 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (b. 1882)


• 1948 - Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)


• 1954 - Edward Pilgrim, British suicide hastened by bureaucracy (b. 1904)


• 1962 - Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (b. 1887)


• 1975 - Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)


• 1978 - Hasso von Manteuffel, German army general and politician (b. 1897)


• 1980 - John Bonham, British musician


• 1981 - Patsy Kelly, American actress (b. 1910)


• 1982 - Sarah Churchill, British actress (b. 1914)


• 1984 - Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)


• 1991 - Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, American children's writer (b. 1904)


• 1991 - Peter Bellamy, folk singer (b. 1944)


• 1993 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)


• 1993 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)


• 2002 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)


• 2002 - Mike Webster, National Football League player (b. 1952)


• 2003 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)


• 2003 - Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)


• 2004 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)


• 2005 - Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)

Historical Deaths Today: 23 September

Deaths

• 79 - Pope Linus


• 1241 - Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178)


• 1390 - John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)


• 1535 - Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1513)


• 1571 - John Jewel, English bishop (b. 1522)


• 1573 - Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1524)


• 1605 - Pontus de Tyard, French poet


• 1675 - Valentin Conrart, founder of the Académie Française (b. 1603)


• 1728 - Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b. 1655)


• 1738 - Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (b. 1668)


• 1764 - Robert Dodsley, English writer (b. 1703)


• 1773 - Johann Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)


• 1789 - John Rogers, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)


• 1835 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)


• 1844 - Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1783)


• 1846 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (b. 1818)


• 1850 - José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan hero (b. 1764)


• 1870 - Prosper Mérimée, French author (b. 1803)


• 1871 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, French Canadian politician (b. 1786)


• 1873 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823)


• 1877 - Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (b. 1811)


• 1889 - Wilkie Collins, British author (b. 1824)


• 1900 - William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (b. 1816)


• 1917 - Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (b. 1897)


• 1929 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1865)


• 1939 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (b. 1856)


• 1943 - Elinor Glyn, English author (b. 1864)


• 1944 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (b. 1875)


• 1950 - Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)


• 1968 - Francesco Forgione, "Padre Pio", Catholic saint (b. 1887)


• 1970 - Bourvil, French actor and singer (b. 1917)


• 1971 - J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (b. 1888)


• 1971 - Billy Gilbert, American actor (b. 1894)


• 1973 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel laureate (b. 1904)


• 1974 - Cliff Arquette, American comedian and actor (b. 1905)


• 1978 - Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (murdered) (b. 1950)


• 1981 - Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (b. 1899)


• 1987 - Bob Fosse, American dancer, choreographer, and actor (b. 1927)


• 1988 - Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (b. 1912)


• 1992 - James Van Fleet, U.S. Army general (b. 1892)


• 1994 - Jerry Barber, American golfer (b. 1916)


• 1994 - Robert Bloch, American author (b. 1917)


• 1994 - Madeleine Renaud, French theater and film actress (b. 1900)


• 1996 - Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1933)


• 1998 - Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943)


• 1999 - Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (b. 1910)


• 2000 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (b. 1947)


• 2000 - Carl Rowan, American journalist (b. 1925)


• 2001 - Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (b. 1928)


• 2002 - Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (b. 1927)


• 2003 - Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly musician (b. 1939)


• 2003 - Yuri Senkevich, Russian TV anchorman (b. 1937)


• 2004 - André Hazes, Dutch singer (b. 1951)


• 2004 - Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)


• 2005 - Filiberto Ojeda, Puerto Rican revolutionary (b. 1933)


• 2005 - Roger Brierley, English actor (b. 1935)


• 2006 - Sir Malcolm Arnold, English composer and professional trumpeter (b. 1921)


• 2006 - Etta Baker, American blues guitarist (b.1913)

Historical Deaths Today: 22 September

Deaths

• 1072 - Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007)


• 1253 - Dogen, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. 1200)


• 1345 - Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)


• 1399 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)


• 1520 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)


• 1539 - Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469


• 1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer


• 1566 - Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)


• 1607 - Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535)


• 1658 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607)


• 1662 - John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)


• 1692 - Martha Corey, hanged as a result of the Salem witch trials


• 1703 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)


• 1774 - Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)


• 1775 - Matthew Wright, executed for killing Pope Clement XIV


• 1776 - Nathan Hale, American Revolutionary War captain, hanged by the British as a spy (b. 1755)


• 1777 - John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)


• 1828 - Shaka, Accredited as being the most influential leader of the Zulu Empire (b. 1787)


• 1852 - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b. 1783)


• 1872 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)


• 1873 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1801)


• 1881 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)


• 1914 - Alain-Fournier, French writer (b. 1886)


• 1952 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)


• 1956 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)


• 1957 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)


• 1961 - Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)


• 1962 - Mir Ghotbeddin Mohammad Angha, 40th Oveyssi Sufi master (b. 1887)


• 1969 - Adolfo López Mateos, president of Mexico (b. 1909)


• 1981 - Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)


• 1987 - Dan Rowan, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)


• 1988 - Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (b. 1914)


• 1989 - Irving Berlin, American songwriter (b. 1888)


• 1992 - Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)


• 1993 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)


• 1996 - Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer and director (b. 1924)


• 1996 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)


• 1999 - George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)


• 2000 - Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna), American professional wrestler (b. 1966)


• 2000 - Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator, (b. 1916)


• 2001 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)


• 2002 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch-born writer (b. 1914)


• 2003 - Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)


• 2003 - Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938)


• 2004 - Ray Traylor (The Big Boss Man), American professional wrestler (b. 1962)


• 2006 - Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)


• 2006 - Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)


• 2007 - Bodinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1928)


• 2007 - Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)