Historical Deaths Today: 21 September

Deaths

• 19 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)


• 454 - Aëtius, Roman general (bc. 396)


• 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)


• 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 - Barry Noble Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (b. 1939)


• 2004 - Bob Mason, British actor (b. 1952)


• 2006 - Boz Burrell, English rock musician (b. 1946)


• 2007 - Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian Olympic gold medalist (b. 1929)


• 2007 - Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926)


• 2007 - Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (b. 1919)

September 20 :: Historical Deaths

Deaths

• 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 Erdős, 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 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (b. 1935)


• 2004 - Townsend Hoopes, American politician (b. 1922)


• 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)