Historical Deaths Today: 23 September

Deaths

• 79 - Pope Linus


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


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


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


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


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


• 1605 - Pontus de Tyard, French poet


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

Historical Deaths Today: 22 September

Deaths

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


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


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


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


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


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


• 1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer


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


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


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


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


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


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


• 1774 - Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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