Famous Deaths on 14 Sep

Famous Deaths on 14 Sep

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 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1852 - Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812)
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 - Vladimir Volkoff, French writer (b. 1932)
2005 - Robert Wise, American filmmaker (b. 1914)
2005 - William Berenberg, American physician (b. 1915)
2006 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
2006 - Esme Melville, Australian actress (b. 1918)
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