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)

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