Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Famous Deaths on 1 Oct

Famous Deaths on 1 Oct

1040 - Alan III, Duke of Brittany (poisoned) (b. 997)
1189 - Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar
1310 - Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon (b. 1257)
1404 - Pope Boniface IX (b. 1356)
1499 - Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (b. 1433)
1500 - John Alcock, English Catholic bishop
1567 - Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (b. 1508)
1570 - Frans Floris, Flemish painter (b. 1520)
1574 - Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen, Dutch painter (b. 1498)
1578 - Don John of Austria, military leader (b. 1547)
1588 - Blessed Edward James, Catholic martyr
1609 - Gianmatteo Asola, Italian composer
1684 - Pierre Corneille, French author (b. 1606)
1693 - Pedro Abarca, Spanish theologian (b. 1619)
1708 - John Blow, British composer (b. 1649)
1768 - Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (b. 1687)
1837 - Robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777)
1838 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (b. 1768)
1864 - Rose Greenhow, American Confederate spy (b. 1817)
1876 - James Lick, California land baron (b. 1796)
1901 - Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan amir
1913 - Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1827)
1929 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (b. 1861)
1942 - Ants Piip, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1884)
1955 - Charles Christie, American film studio owner (b. 1880)
1958 - Robert Falk, Russian painter (b. 1886)
1970 - Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
1974 - Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1901)
1975 - Al Jackson, American drummer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s) (b. 1935)
1984 - Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
1985 - E. B. White, American author (b. 1899)
1988 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (b. 1897)
1990 - Curtis LeMay, American Air Force general (b. 1906)
1992 - Petra Kelly, German politician (b. 1947)
1994 - Paul Lorenzen, German philosopher (b. 1915)
1996 - Pat McGeown, Provisional Irish Republican Army member (b. 1956)
1997 - Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (b. 1923)
1998 - Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (b. 1928)
2000 - Reginald Kray, British gangster (b. 1933)
2000 - Robert Allen, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1928)
2001 - Guy Beaulne, French-Canadian actor and theatre director (b. 1921)
2001 - Kathleen Ankers, American scenic designer (b. 1919)
2002 - Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (b. 1908)
2004 - Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
2004 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (b. 1946)
2006 - André Viger, French Canadian wheelchair marathoner (b. 1952)
2006 - Jerald Tanner, American religious activist (b. 1938)
2007 - Ned Sherrin, English broadcaster, author and stage director (b. 1931)
2007 - Al Oerter, American track and field athlete (b. 1936)
2007 - Harry Lee, Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (b. 1932)
2007 - Chris Mainwaring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1965)
2007 - Ronnie Hazlehurst, English conductor and theme song composer (b. 1928)
959 - King Edwy of England

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Famous Deaths on 30 Sep

Famous Deaths on 30 Sep

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 - ÅŒuchi 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 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)
1770 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
1772 - James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)
1865 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800)
1888 - Catherine Eddowes, widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842)
1888 - Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
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 - Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
1990 - Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
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)
420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
653 - Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury

Monday, September 28, 2009

Famous Deaths on 29 Sep

Famous Deaths on 29 Sep

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 - Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825)
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 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
1998 - Jared High, victim of bullying and suicide (b. 1985)
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 - Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
2006 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
2006 - Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
2006 - Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
2006 - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
2007 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Famous Deaths on 28 Sep

Famous Deaths on 28 Sep

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 - Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)
1918 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
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 - Gamal Abdel Nasser, the second President of Egypt (b. 1918)
1970 - John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)
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 - Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
1993 - Fraser MacPherson, Canadian jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
1994 - Harry Saltzman, American film producer (b. 1915)
1994 - Urmas Alender, Estonian singer and musician (b. 1953)
1994 - José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (assassinated) (b. 1946)
2000 - Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
2002 - Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman (Molson family), senator and sports executive (Montreal Canadiens) (b. 1907)
2002 - Patsy Mink, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1927)
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 - Scott Muni, American disc jockey (b. 1930)
2004 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)
2005 - Constance Baker Motley, American judge (b. 1921)
2007 - Wally Parks, Founder of the NHRA (b. 1913)
235 - Saint Pontianus, Pope
48 BC - Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)
876 - Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b. 804)
935 - Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907)

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Famous Deaths on 27 Sep

Famous Deaths on 27 Sep

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 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1940 - Walter Benjamin, German philosopher (b. 1892)
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 - Doak Walker, American footballer (b. 1927)
1998 - Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)
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)

Friday, September 25, 2009

Famous Deaths on 26 Sep

Famous Deaths on 26 Sep

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)

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Famous Deaths on 25 Sep

Famous Deaths on 25 Sep

1066 - Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge:
1066 - Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria
1066 - Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Famous Deaths on 24 Sep

Famous Deaths on 24 Sep

1054 - Hermannus Contractus, scholar (b. 1013)
1118 - Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)
1120 - Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)
1143 - Pope Innocent II
1143 - Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1072)
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 - Peter Bellamy, folk singer (b. 1944)
1991 - Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, American children's writer (b. 1904)
1993 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
1993 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
2002 - Mike Webster, National Football League player (b. 1952)
2002 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)
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)
366 - Pope Liberius
768 - Pippin the Short, King of the Franks (b. 714)

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Famous Deaths on 23 Sep

Famous Deaths on 23 Sep

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 - Madeleine Renaud, French theater and film actress (b. 1900)
1994 - Robert Bloch, American author (b. 1917)
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)
79 - Pope Linus

Monday, September 21, 2009

Famous Deaths on 22 Sep

Famous Deaths on 22 Sep

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 - Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938)
2003 - Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)
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)

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Famous Deaths on 21 Sep

Famous Deaths on 21 Sep

1217 - Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian soldier
1327 - King Edward II of England (b. 1284)
1397 - Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)
1542 - Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet
1558 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
1576 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (b. 1501)
1586 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (b. 1517)
1626 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543)
1719 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
1743 - Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688)
1748 - John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
1796 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
1798 - George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)
1832 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)
1860 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
1874 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (b. 1794)
1897 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)
19 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
1904 - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840)
1906 - Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1838)
1926 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
1938 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer (b. 1874)
1939 - Armand Călinescu Romanian prime-minister (assassinated) (b. 1893)
1946 - Olga Engl, Austrian actress (b. 1971)
1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
1957 - King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872)
1963 - Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)
1966 - Paul Reynaud, French politician (b. 1878)
1971 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1972 - Henry de Montherlant, French writer (b. 1896)
1974 - Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
1974 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (b. 1918)
1976 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean diplomat (b. 1932)
1982 - Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
1985 - Gu Long, Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (b. 1937)
1987 - Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (b. 1951)
1988 - Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914
1995 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
1997 - Jennifer Holt, American actress (b. 1920)
1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)
2000 - Bryan Smith, Man who ran over Stephen King (b. 1957)
2002 - Robert L. Forward, American physicist and writer (b. 1932)
2004 - Bob Mason, British actor (b. 1952)
2004 - Barry Noble Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (b. 1939)
2006 - Boz Burrell, English rock musician (b. 1946)
2007 - Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926)
2007 - Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian Olympic gold medalist (b. 1929)
2007 - Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (b. 1919)
454 - Aëtius, Roman general (bc. 396)

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Famous Deaths on 20 Sep

Famous Deaths on 20 Sep

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 ErdÅ's, 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 - Townsend Hoopes, American politician (b. 1922)
2004 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (b. 1935)
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)

Friday, September 18, 2009

Famous Deaths on 19 Sep

Famous Deaths on 19 Sep

1339 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)
1356 - Killed at the Battle of Poitiers:
690 - Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Famous Deaths on 18 Sep

Famous Deaths on 18 Sep

1180 - King Louis VII of France (b. 1120)
1598 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
1630 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
1663 - St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (b. 1603)
1675 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)
1721 - Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (b. 1664)
1722 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
1783 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
1783 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (b. 1707)
1792 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (b. 1704)
1806 - Patrick Cotter O'Brien, first known eight-foot-tall person (b. 1760)
1827 - Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (b. 1789)
1830 - William Hazlitt, English essayist (b. 1778)
1860 - Joseph Locke, English railway builder and civil engineer (b. 1805)
1872 - King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden and Norway (b. 1826)
1891 - William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
1896 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819)
1905 - George MacDonald, Scottish writer and minister (b. 1824)
1911 - Pyotr Stolypin, Russian politician (b. 1862)
1924 - Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (b. 1846)
1931 - Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c. 1806)
1939 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
1944 - Robert G. Cole American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (b. 1915)
1949 - Frank Morgan, American actor (b. 1890)
1953 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)
1956 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
1959 - Benjamin Péret, French surrealist author
1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish United Nations Secretary-General and distinguished economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905)
1964 - Clive Bell, English art critic (b. 1881)
1964 - Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (b. 1880)
1967 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1970 - Jimi Hendrix, American musician (b. 1942)
1977 - Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
1980 - Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist (b. 1890)
1986 - Pat Phoenix, English actress (b. 1923)
1994 - Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
1995 - Oleg Tverdokhleb, Ukrainian athlete (b. 1969)
1997 - Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer (b. 1920)
2001 - Ernie Coombs, Canadian entertainer (b. 1927)
2002 - Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942)
2002 - Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
2003 - Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927)
2003 - Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)
2004 - Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
2004 - Russ Meyer, American film director (b. 1922)
2005 - Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (b. 1966)
2006 - Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
2007 - Pepsi Tate Bassist from the glam-rock band, tigertailz (b. 1965)
887 - Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle)
96 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Famous Deaths on 17 Sep

Famous Deaths on 17 Sep

1179 - Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)
1322 - Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
1422 - Constantine II of Bulgaria
1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier
1574 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519)
1575 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
1621 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)
1630 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
1665 - Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
1676 - Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (b. 1626)
1679 - John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
1727 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)
1762 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (b. 1687)
1771 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)
1803 - Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766)
1808 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
1863 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)
1873 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)
1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
1894 - Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
1899 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
1907 - Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846)
1933 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
1936 - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
1938 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
1946 - Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1951 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
1966 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
1972 - Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)
1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)
1980 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
1982 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
1984 - Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)
1985 - Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (b. 1925)
1987 - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
1991 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
1993 - Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)
1994 - Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher (b. 1902)
1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
1997 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
1998 - Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)
2000 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
2000 - Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960)
2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
2005 - Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
2006 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Famous Deaths on 16 Sep

Famous Deaths on 16 Sep

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 - Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (b. 1923)
1977 - Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947)
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 - Gene Nelson, American actor (b. 1920)
1996 - McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (b. 1919)
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 - Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2006 - Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (b. 1955)
2007 - Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series (b. 1948)
307 - Flavius Valerius Severus, deposed Roman Emperor (murder)
827 - Pope Valentine
96 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)

Monday, September 14, 2009

Famous Deaths on 15 Sep

Famous Deaths on 15 Sep

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 - José Francisco Morazán Quezada, President of The Federal Republic of Central America (b. 1792)
1842 - Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
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 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer (b. 1883)
1945 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
1965 - Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
1972 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
1973 - Victor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1941)
1973 - Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)
1978 - Robert Cliche, French Canadian politician and judge (b. 1921)
1978 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (b. 1898)
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 - Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
2006 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
2006 - Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922)
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)
668 - Constans II, Byzantine emperor (b. 630)
866 - Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria

Sunday, September 13, 2009

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

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Famous Deaths on 13 Sep

Famous Deaths on 13 Sep

1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (b. 1265)
1438 - Duarte, King of Portugal (b. 1391)
1506 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter
1557 - John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514)
1592 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533)
1598 - Philip II, King of Spain (b. 1526)
1632 - Leopold V, regent of the Tyrol (b. 1586)
1759 - James Wolfe, British general (b. 1727)
1766 - Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
1806 - Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)
1808 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (b. 1718)
1813 - Hezqeyas of Ethiopia, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia
1847 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767)
1872 - Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach, German philosopher (b. 1804)
1881 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general and politician (b. 1824)
1885 - Friedrich Kiel, Austrian composer (b. 1821)
1894 - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (b. 1841)
1904 - Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)
1905 - René Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)
1912 - Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (b. 1849)
1915 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
1928 - Italo Svevo, Italian author (b. 1861)
1946 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1946 - Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (b. 1908)
1949 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1965 - Jean B. Fletcher, American architect (b. 1915)
1973 - Betty Field, American actress (b. 1913)
1976 - Albert Tessier, French Canadian priest, historian and film maker (b. 1895)
1976 - Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
1977 - Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882)
1987 - Mervyn LeRoy, American film director (b. 1900)
1991 - Joe Pasternak, American film director (b. 1901)
1991 - Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
1996 - Tupac Shakur, aka 2Pac, American rapper and actor (b. 1971)
1998 - Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
1998 - George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
1999 - Benjamin Bloom, American educational theorist (b. 1913)
2001 - Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916)
2003 - Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)
2004 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b. 1925)
2005 - Toni Fritsch, Austrian football and American football player (b. 1945)
2005 - Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (b. 1916)
2006 - Ann Richards, 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
2007 - Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand clergyman (b. 1928)
81 - Titus, Roman emperor (b. 39)

Friday, September 11, 2009

Famous Deaths on 12 Sep

Famous Deaths on 12 Sep

1185 - Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1118)
1213 - King Peter II of Aragon (b. 1174)
1362 - Pope Innocent VI
1369 - Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (b. 1345)
1500 - Albert, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443)
1612 - Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)
1642 - Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (b. 1620)
1660 - Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (b. 1577)
1665 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (b. 1596)
1672 - Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (b. 1615)
1683 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
1691 - John George III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1647)
1695 - Jacob Abendana, Spanish scholar (b. 1630)
1712 - Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter (b. 1637)
1764 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b. 1683)
1779 - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (b. 1711)
1819 - Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)
1836 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (b. 1801)
1869 - Peter Roget, British lexicographer (b. 1779)
1870 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
1874 - François Guizot, French historian and statesman (b. 1787)
1912 - Pierre-Hector Cardinal Coullie, Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon
1918 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
1919 - Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (b. 1871)
1923 - Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor (b. 1841)
1927 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
1929 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)
1945 - Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (committed suicide, b. 1880)
1953 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
1956 - Hans Carossa, German writer (b. 1878)
1956 - Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (b. 1882)
1961 - Carl Hermann, German physicist (b. 1898)
1968 - Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894)
1972 - William Boyd, American actor (b. 1895)
1977 - Robert Lowell American poet (b.1917)
1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946)
1981 - Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
1986 - Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (b. 1894)
1992 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
1993 - Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (b. 1913)
1993 - Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
1994 - Tom Ewell, American actor (b. 1909)
1994 - Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
1995 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
2000 - Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1934)
2001 - Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)
2003 - Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
413 - Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Famous Deaths on 11 Sep

Famous Deaths on 11 Sep

1161 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
1185 - Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier
1279 - Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c. 1215)
1298 - Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269)
1349 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (b. 1315)
1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman executed for planned fratricide (b. 1577)
1677 - James Harrington, English political philosopher (b. 1611)
1680 - Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
1680 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
1721 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b. 1665)
1733 - François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668)
1760 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
1822 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (b. 1777)
1823 - David Ricardo, economist (b. 1772)
1843 - Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer (b. 1786)
1851 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (b. 1794)
1865 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (b. 1806)
1888 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina (b. 1811)
1896 - Francis James Child, American ballad collector (b. 1825)
1911 - Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
1915 - William Cornelius Van Horne, American railway executive (b. 1843)
1915 - William Sprague IV, American politician (b. 1830)
1917 - Georges Guynemer, French aviator (b. 1894)
1921 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
1926 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
1931 - Salvatore Maranzano, American crime boss (b. 1868)
1932 - Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura, Polish pilots (Żwirko b. 1895 Wigura b. 1901)
1939 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
1941 - Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary (b. 1873)
1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (b. 1876)
1950 - Jan Smuts, South African soldier and statesman (b. 1870)
1956 - Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I (b. 1894)
1958 - Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874)
1958 - Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician (b. 1889)
1965 - Ralph C. Smedley, Founder of Toastmasters International (b. 1878)
1966 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate (b. 1889)
1967 - Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (b. 1904)
1968 - René Cogny, French General (b. 1904)
1971 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader (b. 1894)
1971 - Bella Darvi, Polish-born French actress (b. 1928)
1972 - Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883)
1973 - Neem Karoli Baba, Indian guru
1973 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908)
1974 - Víctor Olea Alegría, Chilean Socialist Party member
1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish F1 driver (b. 1944)
1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer (b. c. 1938)
1978 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (b. 1929)
1978 - Mike Gazella, American baseball player (b. 1895)
1984 - Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b. 1901)
1985 - William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)
1985 - Andrew C. Thornton II, American drug smuggler (b. 1945)
1987 - Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b. 1915)
1987 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician and singer (b. 1944)
1988 - John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919)
1990 - Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (b. 1949)
1991 - Ernst Herbeck, German Poet (b. 1920)
1993 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
1993 - Antoine Izméry, Haitian pro-democracy activist (b. unknown)
1994 - William Obanhein, police officer, mentioned in "Alice's Restaurant" (b. 1924)
1994 - Jessica Tandy, American actress (b. 1909)
1995 - Anita Harding, neurologist (b. 1952)
1997 - Camille Henry, National Hockey League player (b. 1933)
1998 - Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan auto racing driver (b. 1972)
1999 - Belkis Ayón, Cuban artist (b. 1967)
2001 - Peter J. Ganci, Jr., Chief of Department, FDNY (b. 1946)
2001 - Hani Hanjour, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1972)
2001 - Ziad Jarrah, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1975)
2001 - Father Mychal F. Judge, Chaplain, FDNY (b. 1933)
2001 - Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter (b. 1966)
2001 - John P. O'Neill, American anti-terrorism FBI agent (b. 1952)
2001 - John Ogonowski, pilot for American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1951)
2001 - Barbara Olson, American political commentator (b. 1955)
2001 - Tom Burnett, American businessman (b. 1963)
2001 - Mark Bingham, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1970)
2001 - Alice Stewart Trillin, American author (b. 1938)
2001 - see also Category:Victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks:
2001 - Marwan Al-Shehhi, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1978)
2001 - David Angell, American sitcom creator (b. 1946)
2001 - Mohamed Atta, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1968)
2001 - Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player and scout (b. 1948)
2001 - Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1968)
2001 - Berry Berenson, widow of Anthony Perkins (b. 1948)
2001 - Daniel M. Lewin, founder of Akamai Technologies (b. 1970)

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Famous Deaths on 10 Sep

Famous Deaths on 10 Sep

1167 - Empress Matilda, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1102)
1197 - Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
1217 - William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon
1308 - Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371)
1482 - Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and arts patron
1519 - John Colet, English churchman and educator
1559 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1501)
1591 - Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)
1604 - William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
1607 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (b. 1545)
1669 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)
1676 - Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
1680 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b. 1610)
1749 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
1759 - Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
1801 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)
1851 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)
1867 - Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788)
1898 - Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1837)
1905 - Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
1915 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
1931 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
1935 - Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)
1937 - Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
1952 - Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese civil engineer and architect (b. 1866)
1961 - Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)
1961 - Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)
1965 - Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880)
1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)
1971 - Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
1975 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b. 1905)
1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1944)
1979 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (b. 1922)
1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1983 - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)
1985 - Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922)
1991 - Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
1995 - Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)
1996 - Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)
1996 - Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
1997 - Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1998 - Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944)
1999 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
2000 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921)
2001 - DJ Uncle Al (b.1969)
2004 - Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927)
2005 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American musician (b. 1924)
2006 - Patty Berg, American golf player (b. 1918)
2006 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (b. 1918)
2006 - Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1986)
2007 - Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b.1942)
2007 - Jane Wyman, American actress (b.1917)
2007 - Ted Stepien, former basketball team owner (b. 1925)
210 BC - Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China.
918 - Count Baldwin II of Flanders (b. 865)
954 - King Louis IV of France (b. 920)

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Famous Deaths on 9 Sep

Famous Deaths on 9 Sep

1000 - Olaf I of Norway
1087 - King William I of England
1398 - King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
1487 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (fell from a horse) (b. 1433)
1513 - King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
1569 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
1596 - Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen
1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
1676 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer and founder of Montreal (b. 1612)
1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
1806 - William Paterson, Signer of the U.S. Constitution, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)
1815 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
1841 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (b. 1778)
1891 - Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
1907 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
1941 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
1969 - Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
1976 - Mao Zedong, Founder and first leader of the People's Republic of China (b. 1893)
1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
1978 - Jack Warner, Canadian-born film studio founder (b. 1892)
1980 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
1981 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b. 1901)
1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1990 - Doc Cramer, American baseball player (b. 1905)
1990 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (b. 1951)
1994 - Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)
1996 - Bill Monroe, American bluegrass singer and composer (b. 1911)
1997 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
1997 - Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1998 - Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
1999 - Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
2000 - Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930)
2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)
2003 - Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)
2004 - Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)
2005 - John Wayne Glover, English serial killer (b. 1932)
2006 - Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
2006 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
2006 - Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
2006 - Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer and electronic musician (b. 1955)
2007 - Hughie Thomasson, Noted American musician (b. 1952)
701 - Pope Sergius I
c.546 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop

Monday, September 7, 2009

Famous Deaths on 8 Sep

Famous Deaths on 8 Sep

1397 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.
1425 - King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
1539 - John Stokesley, English churchman
1560 - Amy Robsart, English noblewoman (b. 1534)
1603 - George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
1613 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)
1637 - Robert Fludd, English mystic (b. 1574)
1644 - Francis Quarles, English poet (b. 1592)
1645 - John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
1645 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (b. 1580)
1656 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (b. 1574)
1675 - Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, countess of Solms-Braunfels (b. 1602)
1682 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
1721 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
1739 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668)
1755 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (b. 1715)
1761 - Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)
1780 - Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general (b. 1736)
1784 - Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
1811 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
1831 - John Aitken, Scottish-born music publisher (b. 1745)
1853 - Frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
1882 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
1888 - Annie Chapman, widely believed to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841)
1894 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)
1933 - King Faysal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
1943 - Julius Fucik, Czech journalist (executed) (b. 1903)
1948 - Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)
1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
1965 - Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922)
1969 - Bud Collyer, American television game show host (b. 1908)
1969 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (b. 1868)
1977 - Zero Mostel, American actor (b. 1915)
1979 - Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
1980 - Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
1981 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
1981 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
1983 - Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
1985 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)
1991 - Alex North, American composer (b. 1910)
1999 - Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)
2002 - Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer (b. 1968)
2003 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)
2004 - Frank Thomas, American animator (b. 1913)
2005 - Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932)
2006 - Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
2006 - Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)
2006 - Frank Middlemass, actor (b. 1919)
2006 - Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver and TV personality (rally accident) (b. 1945)
2007 - Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (b. 1917)
701 - Pope Sergius I
780 - Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Famous Deaths on 7 Sep

Famous Deaths on 7 Sep

1151 - Geoffrey of Anjou (b. 1113)
1312 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285)
1496 - King Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)
1548 - Catherine Parr, final wife of Henry VIII of England (born c. 1512)
1552 - Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh Guru (b. 1504)
1559 - Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)
1632 - Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia
1644 - Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman (b. 1579)
1654 - Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi (b. 1579)
1655 - François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (b. 1601)
1657 - Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish count, field marshal and privy councilor (b. 1606)
1708 - Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia
1719 - John Harris, English writer
1729 - William Burnet, British-born American statesman (b. 1688)
1799 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717)
1809 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (b. 1737)
1840 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (b. 1765)
1881 - Sidney Lanier, American writer (b. 1842)
1891 - Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (b. 1820)
1892 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (b. 1807)
1920 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician, premier of the province of Quebec (b. 1855)
1921 - Alfred William Rich, watercolor painter (b. 1856)
1939 - Kyoka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873)
1943 - J. P. Morgan, Jr., American financier (b. 1867)
1949 - José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
1951 - Maria Montez, Dominican actress (b. 1912)
1954 - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
1955 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
1959 - Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b. 1890)
1962 - Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1892)
1962 - Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian singer (b. 1895)
1962 - Isak Dinesen, Danish author (b. 1885)
1965 - Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (b. 1900)
1971 - Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886)
1978 - Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (b. 1946)
1982 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)
1984 - Joe Cronin, American baseball manager and executive (b. 1906)
1986 - Spectacular Blue Smith, Member of R&B Group "Pretty Ricky"
1990 - Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (b. 1900)
1991 - Edwin McMillan, American physicist (b. 1907)
1994 - Godfrey Quigley, British actor (b. 1923)
1994 - Terence Young, British film director (b. 1915)
1994 - Dennis Morgan, American actor (b. 1908)
1994 - James Clavell, Australian-born American author (b. 1924)
1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire (b. 1930)
1999 - Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist (b. 1949)
2001 - Billie Lou Watt, American actress (b. 1924)
2001 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b. 1930)
2002 - Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (b. 1923)
2002 - Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)
2002 - Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (b. 1961)
2003 - The Great Antonio, Canadian eccentric (b. 1925)
2003 - Warren Zevon, American musician (b. 1947)
2004 - Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)
2005 - Hope Garber, Canadian actress (b. ca. 1924)
2005 - Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b. 1933)
2006 - Robert Earl Jones, American actor, father of James Earl Jones (b. 1910)
355 - Claudius Silvanus, Roman usurper

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Famous Deaths on 6 Sep

Famous Deaths on 6 Sep

1276 - Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (b. ca. 1215)
1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
1536 - William Tyndale, Protestant bible translator (b. c. 1494)
1625 - Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)
1635 - Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
1649 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)
1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (b. 1619)
1708 - Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
1748 - Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
1782 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
1783 - Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
1808 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
1868 - Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner (b. 1797)
1902 - Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist (b. 1827)
1907 - Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
1938 - John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
1950 - Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)
1951 - James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)
1952 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
1962 - Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (b. 1898)
1962 - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
1966 - Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (b. 1879)
1966 - Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901)
1969 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892)
1974 - Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (b. 1896)
1978 - Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931)
1981 - Christy Brown, Irish author (b. 1932)
1984 - Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914)
1985 - Johnny Desmond, American singer (b. 1919)
1986 - Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)
1987 - Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
1988 - Leroy Brown, professional wrestler (b. 1950)
1990 - Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)
1990 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
1991 - Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
1994 - Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944)
1997 - P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918)
1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
1999 - René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
2000 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (b. 2000)
2001 - Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
2003 - Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber (b. 1969)
2003 - Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)
2005 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929)
2007 - Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918)
2007 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
2007 - Alex, African Grey parrot "student" of Dr. Irene Pepperberg (b. 1976)
957 - Liudolf, Duke of Swabia
972 - Pope John XIII

Friday, September 4, 2009

Famous Deaths on 5 Sep

Famous Deaths on 5 Sep

1165 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
1201 - Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
1235 - Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
1548 - Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)
1607 - Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
1629 - Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c. 1585)
1734 - Nicolas Bernier, French musician and composer (b. 1664)
1786 - Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
1803 - François Devienne, French composer (b. 1759)
1803 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
1808 - John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
1836 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
1838 - Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
1857 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
1867 - Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809)
1876 - Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
1877 - Crazy Horse, Lakota (Sioux) chief (b. 1849)
1898 - Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
1901 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
1902 - Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (b. 1821)
1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
1914 - Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
1917 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
1920 - Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893)
1922 - Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
1926 - Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
1930 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1931 - John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
1932 - Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
1936 - Federico Borrell García, Spanish anarchist soldier during the Spanish Civil War (b. 1912)
1936 - Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
1942 - François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
1945 - Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1953 - Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician, one of the leading ‘blood and soil’ ideologists (b. 1895)
1954 - Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1954)
1965 - Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
1966 - DezsÅ' Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
1970 - Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver and one-time F1 (posthumous) world champion (b. 1942)
1973 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
1975 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920)
1977 - Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant (b. 1897)
1979 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884)
1982 - Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
1983 - Antonio Mairena, flamenco singer (b. 1909)
1988 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
1990 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
1992 - Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910)
1995 - William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
1997 - Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1912)
1997 - Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
1998 - Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921)
1998 - Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
1999 - Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
1999 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
2001 - Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
2003 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927)
2005 - Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile (b. 1917)
2007 - Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
2007 - Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
2007 - D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
2007 - Thomas Hansen (musician) (b. 1976)

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Famous Deaths on 4 Sep

Famous Deaths on 4 Sep

1037 - King Bermudo III of Leon (b. 1010)
1063 - Toghrül, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad
1199 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily, wife of William II of Sicily (b. 1165)
1537 - Johann Dietenberger, German theologian
1588 - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1532)
1767 - Charles Townshend, English politician (b. 1725)
1780 - John Fielding, English magistrate and social reformer (b. 1721)
1784 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)
1794 - John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)
1804 - Richard Somers, American naval officer
1852 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
1864 - John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (b. 1825)
1907 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
1909 - Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (b. 1865)
1916 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
1963 - Robert Schuman, French politician (b. 1886)
1965 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875)
1974 - Marcel Achard, French playwright (b. 1899)
1974 - Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army general (b. 1914)
1974 - Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (b. 1884)
1977 - Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek musician (b. 1899)
1977 - E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (b. 1911)
1977 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (b. 1894)
1979 - Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (b. 1904)
1986 - Otto Glória, Brazilian football coach (b. 1917)
1986 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (b. 1911)
1987 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1989 - Georges Simenon, French author (b. 1903)
1989 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (b. 1903)
1990 - Irene Dunne American actress (b. 1898)
1991 - Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (b. 1926)
1991 - Dottie West, American singer (b. 1932)
1991 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1913)
1993 - Hervé Villechaize, French actor (b. 1943)
1995 - Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax; b. 1950)
1995 - William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
1997 - Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (b. 1931)
1998 - Elizabeth Kata, Australian writer, A Patch of Blue (b. 1912)
2001 - Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (b. 1962)
2002 - Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian pianist (b. 1904)
2003 - Lola Bobesco, Romanian-born violinist (b. 1921)
2003 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1921)
2004 - Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (b. 1971)
2004 - Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (b. 1929)
2004 - James O. Page, American paramedic (b. 1936)
2006 - Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality (b. 1962)
2006 - Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)
2006 - Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)
2006 - Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (b. 1918 )
799 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (b. 745)

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Famous Deaths on 3 Sep

Famous Deaths on 3 Sep

1402 - Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1351)
1420 - Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland
1592 - Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)
1634 - Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (b. 1552)
1653 - Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (b. 1588)
1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (b. 1599)
1662 - William Lenthall, English politician (b. 1591)
1720 - Henri de Massue, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648)\
1722 - Ivan Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1646)
1729 - Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b. 1646)
1766 - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (b. 1686)
1808 - John Montgomery, American Continental Congressman (b. 1722)
1857 - John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (b. 1784)
1860 - Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (b. 1804)
1866 - Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830)
1883 - Ivan Turgenev, Russian author (b. 1818)
1886 - William W. Snow, American politician (b. 1812)
1893 - James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1816)
1903 - Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832)
1914 - Albéric Magnard, French composer (b. 1865)
1936 - Nikita Balieff, Armenian vaudevillian and impressario (b. 1876 or 1877)
1948 - Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)
1961 - Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
1962 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894)
1963 - Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (b. 1907)
1964 - Stewart Holbrook, American author (b. 1893)
1967 - James Dunn, American actor (b. 1905)
1968 - Isabel Withers, American actress (b. 1896)
1969 - John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871)
1970 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (b. 1913)
1970 - "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (Canned Heat) (b. 1943)
1974 - Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
1980 - Duncan Renaldo, American actor (b. 1904)
1981 - Alec Waugh, English writer (b. 1898)
1983 - Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (b. 1926)
1987 - Morton Feldman, American composer (b. 1926)
1991 - Frank Capra, American film director (b. 1897)
1994 - Major Lance, American singer (b. 1939)
1994 - Billy Wright, English former footballer (b. 1924)
1994 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (b. 1918)
1996 - Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Australian artist (b. 1910)
2000 - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
2001 - Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
2001 - Thuy Trang, American actress (b. 1973)
2002 - W. Clement Stone, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
2003 - Paul Jennings Hill, American anti-abortion murderer (b. 1954)
2005 - Richard S.R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1913)
2005 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
2007 - Jane Tomlinson, British charity fund raiser (b. 1964)
2007 - Steve Ryan, American actor (b. 1947)
2007 - Syd Jackson, Māori activist and trade unionist (b. 1939)
2007 - Carter Albrecht, Musician (b. 1973)

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Famous Deaths on 2 Sep

Famous Deaths on 2 Sep

1031 - Saint Emeric of Hungary
1274 - Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
1397 - Francesco Landini, Italian composer
1540 - Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
1680 - Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
1688 - Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)
1690 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
1764 - Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
1765 - Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
1768 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
1790 - Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (b. 1701)
1813 - Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1763)
1820 - Jiaqing, Emperor of China (b. 1760)
1832 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer (b. 1754)
1834 - Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (b. 1757)
1865 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805)
1872 - Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
1877 - Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (b. 1793)
1898 - Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
1910 - Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)
1921 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil pioneer (b. 1855)
1921 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
1934 - Alcide Nunez, American musician (b. 1884)
1934 - Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist and actor (b. 1908)
1934 - James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player, All Black (b. 1860)
1937 - Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (b. 1863)
1942 - Tom Williams, Irish republican
1944 - Bella Rosenfeld, subject of many of Marc Chagall paintings (b. 1895)
1948 - Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
1953 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (b. 1883)
1962 - William Wilkerson, Founder of the Hollywood Reporter, The Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas and nightclubs such as Ciro's (b. 1890)
1964 - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
1964 - Francisco Craveiro Lopes, 13th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
1964 - Alvin York, American soldier (b. 1887)
1965 - Johannes Bobrowski, German writer (b. 1917)
1969 - Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam (b. 1890)
1973 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
1973 - Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
1976 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish writer (b. 1934)
1978 - Fred G. Meyer, Founder Fred Meyer Inc. (b. 1886)
1984 - Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (b. 1908)
1985 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
1991 - Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
1992 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1994 - Roy Castle, British entertainer (b. 1932)
1997 - Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
1997 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (b. 1902)
1998 - Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (b. 1933)
1998 - Allen Drury, American author (b. 1918)
2000 - Curt Siodmak, German-born author (b. 1907)
2000 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (b. 1905)
2001 - Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
2001 - Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
2002 - Dick Reynolds, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
2004 - Joan Oró, Catalan scientist (b. 1923)
2004 - Eleni Zafeiriou, Greek actress (b. 1916)
2005 - Bob Denver, American actor (b. 1935)
2006 - Bob Mathias, American athlete and congressman (b. 1930)
2006 - Willi Ninja, dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
2007 - Franz-Benno Delonge, German game designer (b. 1957)
2007 - Max McNab, National Hockey League executive (b. 1924)
2007 - Rajae Belmlih, Morrocan singer (b. 1962 in Casablanca)
421 - Constantius III, Roman Emperor
490 BC - Pheidippides, Greek hero