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

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