1754 – Tanacharison, Catawba Indian chief
1863 – Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch politician (1st Dutch PM as Chairman of the Council of Ministers 1848), dies at 69
1946 – Barney Oldfield, American auto racer (International Motorsports Hall of Fame; first to drive at 60mph on circular track), dies of a heart attack at 67
1991 – Leonard C. Odell, American entrepreneur who wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83
1994 – Scoville “Toby” Browne, American jazz saxophone and clarinet player, dies at 84
1996 – Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese film director and screenwriter (Joi-uchi), dies at 80
2018 – Will Vinton, American Emmy Award-winning animator and filmmaker (Claymation Christmas Celebration, Adventures in Wonderland, The PJs), dies from multiple myeloma at 70
2018 – Audrey Wells, American screenwriter and director (Under the Tuscan Sun, Guinevere), dies of cancer at 58
2019 – Diahann Carroll [Carol Diann Johnson] American Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress (No Strings; Julia; Claudine; Dynasty – “Dominique”), dies of cancer at 84
2022 – Günter Lamprecht, German actor (Berlin Alexanderplatz, The World on a Wire), dies at 92
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 3rd October 2026
1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffyd, last monarch of Gwynnedd (North-Wales), dies
1564 – Christophorus Fabritius [Christoffel Smit], calvinist vicar, burned
1596 – Florent Chrestien, French writer and satirist, dies at 55
1611 – Margarita of Austria, Queen of Spain and Portugal by marriage to King Philip III and II of Spain, dies at 26
1629 – Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (b. 1570)
1929 – Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (1923) who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926, dies of a stroke at 51
1975 – Guy Mollet, French politician, Prime Minister of France (1956-57), dies of a heart attack at 69
1979 – Charles White, American artist (The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy), dies at 61
1985 – Charles Collingwood, American news commentator (Chronicles), dies at 68
2019 – Philip Gips, American graphic artist and movie poster designer (Alien, Rosemary’s Baby), dies at 88 of complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia
Famous Deaths for 2nd October 2026
1113 – Mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies
1678 – Wu San-kuei, gen, invited Manchus to China, dies trying to expel them
1920 – Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), dies at 82
1962 – Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)
1967 – Albertina Rasch, Austrian-born American ballerina and choreographer, dies at 76
1985 – (Georgios) “George” Savalas, Greek-American actor (Kojak; Kelly’s Heroes), dies of leukemia at 58
1998 – Korla Pandit [John Roland Redd], American pianist and Hammond B-3 organist, exotica and television pioneer (Adventures in Music), dies at 77
2007 – (Elfriede) “Elfi” von Dassanowsky, Austrian-American opera singer, pianist, vocal coach, and film producer, dies of heart failure at 83
2022 – Shirley Englehorn, American golfer (Women’s PGA C’ship 1970), dies at 81
2025 – Roland Bertranne, French rugby union centre (69 Tests; Stade Bagnérais RFC, RC Toulon, Barbarians Rugby; World XV 1980), dies at 75
Famous Deaths for 1st October 2026
1310 – Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon (b. 1257)
1633 – Filaret Romanov, patriarch of Moscow, dies (b. 1550)
1904 – William Harcourt, British Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, dies at 76
1930 – Ricacrdo Drigo, Italian composer of opera and ballet music, (Le Réveil de Flore; “La Flûte magique), conductor (Imperial Mariinsky Ballet, 1886- 1917). and pianist, dies at 84
1943 – John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23
1970 – Hans Poser, German composer, dies at 52
1975 – Larry MacPhail, American Baseball Hall of Fame executive (Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees), dies at 85
1988 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (People’s Palace), dies at 90
2004 – Joyce Jillson, American newspaper columnist, author, astrologer and actress (Superchick, Jill Smith in “Peyton Place”), dies at 58
2017 – Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., American magazine publisher (Parade, Vogue, Vanity Fair), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 30th September 2026
1897 – Therese of Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun, made a saint in 1925, dies of tuberculosis at 24
1948 – Edith Roosevelt, US First Lady and wife of Teddy Roosevelt, dies at 87
1960 – St John Philby, British explorer and Arabist, dies at 75
1983 – William Elliott, American actor (Bridget Loves Bernie – “Otis”; Adam-12- “Officer Grant”), and jazz drummer, dies at 49
1984 – Ellsworth Bunker, US ambassador (South-Vietnam, dies at 90)
1989 – Virgil Thomson, American composer and music critic (Four Saints in Three Acts; Louisiana Story), dies at 92
1996 – Udom Patpongsiri, Thai property developer (Father of the Thai sex industry), dies at 79
2010 – Stephen J. Cannell, American TV producer (The Rockford Files, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street) and writer, dies of melanoma at 69
2012 – César Bolaños, Peruvian electro-acoustic and experimental musician and composer, dies at 81
2021 – José Pérez Francés, Spanish road racing cyclist (Tour de France 1963 overall 3rd), dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 29th September 2026
1867 – Sterling “Old Pap” Price, American lawyer, U.S. Army Brigadier General and politician (11th Governor of Missouri), dies at 58
1915 – Rudi Stephan, German composer (Die ersten Menschen), dies fighting in World War I at 28
1959 – Harold Huber [Huberman], American radio, stage, a,d screen actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at 49
1991 – Sam Ntuli, South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, assassinated
1992 – Paul Jabara, American singer-songwriter and actor (Last Dance), dies of AIDS at 44
1995 – Gerd Bucerius, German lawyer, newspaper publisher (Die Zeit, 1946-95), and politician, dies at 89
1996 – Leslie Crowther, English comedian and TV host (The pPrice is Right), dies at 63
1997 – Bobby Campbell, Scottish journalist and musician, dies at 55
2006 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricket batsman (11 Tests, 1 x 100, 2 x 50; Canterbury; father of Richard, Dayle and Barry), dies from a stroke at 91
2024 – Martin Lee [Barnes], British pop singer (Brotherhood of Man – “Save Your Kisses For Me”), dies of heart failure at 77
Famous Deaths for 28th September 2026
1844 – Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b. 1769)
1873 – Emile Gaboriau, French writer (father of the French detective novels), dies at 37
1914 – Richard Warren Sears, American businessman who founded department store Sears, Roebuck and Company, dies of Bright’s disease at 50
1968 – Corry Lievens, Flemish actress, playwright and director (Blue Bird), dies at 64
1968 – Norman Brookes, Australian tennis player (Wimbledon 1907, 14), dies at 90
1988 – Ethel Grandin, American silent screen actress (Deserter), dies at 94
1993 – Gustavo Brillembourg, Venezuelan-American tax corporate lawyer, dies in a climbing accident at 35
1994 – Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican PRI-politician, murdered at 48
2021 – B. Satyaji Rao, Indian cricket umpire (17 Tests 1960-79; 5 x Ranji Trophy finals), dies at 91
2023 – M. S. Swaminathan, Indian agricultural scientist, leader of the green revolution in India, dies at 98
Famous Deaths for 27th September 2026
1719 – George Smalridge, British Bishop of Bristol (Sixty Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions), dies at 56
1891 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian novelist (Oblomov), dies at 79
1943 – Wacław Gieburowski, Polish Catholic priest, choral conductor, composer, and musicologist, dies at 65
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)
1990 – Matvey Isaakovich Blanter, Russian-Soviet composer of popular songs and film music (“Katyusha”), dies at 87
1992 – Ray Gill, American actor (Prelude to a Kiss), dies of AIDS at 42
2014 – James A Traficant Jr, American politician (Rep-D-OH, 1985-2002), dies at 73
2023 – Bob Sheridan, American boxing and MMA broadcaster (WGBS “Rumble in the Jungle”, “Thrilla in Manila”; bodogFIGHT), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 26th September 2026
1417 – Francesco Zabarella, Italian cardinal and jurist, dies at 57
1620 – Taichang Emperor [Zhu Changluo], 14th Emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, dies at 38
1780 – Bernard Paul Moll, German diplomat, map collector and cartographer, dies at 83
1959 – S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1956-59), assassinated by a Buddhist monk at 60
1961 – Juanita Hansen, actress (Fast Company), dies of heart ailment at 67
1979 – John Cromwell, American actor and director (Spitfire, Of Human Bondage), dies at 91
1990 – Alberto Moravia [Pincherle], Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82
1996 – Mark Frankel, British actor (Leon the Pig Farmer), dies in a motorcycle accident at 34
2011 – Harry Muskee, Dutch blues-rock vocalist (Cuby and Blizzards), dies of cancer at 70
2018 – Roger Robinson, American stage actor (Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Some Old Black Man), dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 25th September 2026
1086 – William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
1791 – William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
1870 – Robert Cooper Grier, American jurist, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1846-70), dies at 76
1944 – Leo Justinus Kauffmann, Alsatian composer, dies at 43
1979 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (Me tulemme taas, Rion yö), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 64
1980 – Lewis Milestone [Leib Milstein], Moldovan-American Academy Award-winning film director (All Quiet on the Western Front; Of Mice and Men; Ocean’s 11), dies at 84
1987 – Mary Astor, American Academy Award-winning actress (The Great Lie; Meet Me In St Louis; The Maltese Falcon), dies of emphysema at 81
1998 – Russell Smith, American composer, dies at 71
2022 – Rafael Chimishkyan, Georgian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR 60kg 1952; World C’ship gold 60kg 1954, 55), dies at 93
2023 – David McCallum, Scottish-American actor (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. – “Ilyla Kuryakin”; NCIS), dies at 90