Famous Deaths for 2nd October 2022

1264 – Urbanus IV [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies
1817 – Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)
1853 – François Arago, French astronomer, physicist (chromosome) and politician, dies at 67
1961 – Reggie Spooner, English cricket batsman (10 Tests; dual cricket/rugby union international), dies at 80
1962 – Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)
1968 – Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (Nude Descending a Staircase), dies at 81
1993 – William Berger, Austrian American actor (Face to Face, Adventure of Hercules), dies of prostate cancer at 65
2006 – Milly Vitale, Italian actress (7 Little Foys, War and Peace, Juggler), dies at 73
2008 – Rob Guest, New Zealand entertainer (b. 1950)
2010 – Kwa Geok Choo, wife of Singapore PM Lee Kuan Yew (b. 1920)

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Famous Deaths for 1st October 2022

1404 – Boniface IX [Pietro Tomacelli], Pope (1389-1404), dies
1708 – John Blow, English baroque composer (Venus and Adonis), dies at 59
1864 – Rose Greenhow, American Confederate spy (b. 1817)
1912 – Mary Frances Allitsen, Nritish mezzo-soprano, voice coach, and composer (Psalm 27: “The Lord is My Light”), dies at 63
1913 – Eugene O’Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (O’Keefe Brewery Company of Toronto Limited), dies at 85
1943 – Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36
1972 – Kurt Hiller, German writer, dies at 87
1994 – Carlos Lleras Restrepo, President of Colombia (1966-70), dies at 86
2009 – V. M. Muddiah, Indian cricket spin bowler (2 Tests, 3 wickets), dies from stroke complications at 80
2011 – David Vickerman Bedford, British composer and educator, dies at 74

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Famous Deaths for 30th September 2022

1560 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
1626 – Nurhaci, Manchurian chief, founding Khan of Later Jin (b. 1559)
1877 – Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of Nez Perce indians, dies in battle
1891 – Georges Boulanger, French general and politician, dies at 54
1959 – Taylor Holmes, American actor (Sleeping Beauty, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 81
1973 – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)
1985 – Heleb MacInnes, American spy writer (Affiliate in place), dies at 77
1995 – George Kirby, American comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show), dies at 71
1997 – Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, British professor of occupational health, dies at 86
2012 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (Olympic gold 1948, World champion 1947-48), dies at 84

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Famous Deaths for 29th September 2022

1902 – William McGonagall, Scottish-Irish poet infamous as an extremely bad poet and considered the worst in British history (The Tay Bridge Disaster, The Famous Tay Whale), dies at 77
1951 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach and administrator (first coach US men’s national team), dies at 86
1967 – Carson McCullers, American author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 50
1984 – Marnix Gijsen [Jan-Al Goris], Belgian writer (Lament for Agnes), dies at 85
1991 – Zapata Jaw [Nelson Renfrum], Surinamese musician, dies
1991 – Sam Ntuli, South African community pleader and negotiator, murdered
2002 – Edmund Trebus, British hoader, (A Life of Grime), dies at 83
2010 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian (Comedy Central Roast), dies of an overdose at 44
2018 – Otis Rush, American blues musician (Right Place, Wrong Time), dies from complications from an earlier stroke at 83
2020 – Mac Davis, American country music singer-songwriter (“Baby, Don’t Get Hooked On Me”; “In The Ghetto”; “I Believe In Music”) and actor (North Dallas Forty) dies following heart surgery at 78

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Famous Deaths for 28th September 2022

876 – Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b. 804)
1104 – Pedro I, king of Navarra and Aragon, dies
1757 – Andrea Zani, Italian composer and violinist, dies at 60
1895 – Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist (invented pasteurization), dies at 72
1915 – Saitou Hajime, 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844)
1918 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
1972 – Rory Storm [Alan Caldwell], Brirish rock singer (Rory Storm and the Hurricanes), commits suicide with sleeping pills at 34
1973 – Mantan Moreland, comedian (Watermelon Man), dies at 71
2009 – Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor (b. 1956)
2021 – Carlisle Floyd, American opera composer (Susanna; Prince of Players), dies at 95

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Famous Deaths for 27th September 2022

1651 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, dies at 78
1784 – Boniface Stoeckl, German composer, dies at 38
1943 – Waclaw Gieburowski, Polish composer, dies at 65
1972 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
1975 – Mark Frechette, actor (Zabriskie Point, Uomini Contro), dies at 27
1981 – Robert Montgomery, American actor and director (Robert Montgomery Presents, Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack), dies at 77
1983 – Wilfred Burchett, Australian communist and writer (Catapult to Freedom), dies at 72
2004 – Louis Satterfield [also known as Lui-Lui, Ealee, and Sat], American trombone player (The Pharaohs, Earth, Wind and Fire, Phenix Horns), dies at 67
2010 – Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon (b. 1955)
2018 – Marty Balin [Buchwald], American singer (Jefferson Airplane/Starship), dies at 76

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Famous Deaths for 26th September 2022

1716 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician, dies at 50
1935 – Andy Adams, American writer (Cattle fire), dies at 76
1968 – Daniel Johnson, Sr., Canadian politician, 20th Premier of Quebec, dies at 53
1977 – Ernie Lombardi, American Baseball HOF catcher (8 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1940; NL MVP 1938; Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves, NY Giants), dies at 69
1984 – Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
1989 – Arnold Shaw, American writer on popular music and composer, dies at 80
1996 – Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist (1973 Nobel Prize – organometallic compounds), dies at 75
2000 – Richard Mulligan, American Emmy Award-winning actor (Soap – “Burt”; Empty Nest; The Big Bus), dies of colorectal cancer at 67
2006 – Tokyo Rose [Iva Toguri D’Aquino], American-born Japanese propagandist (WWII), dies at 90
2007 – Bill Wirtz, American longtime Chicago Blackhawks owner, dies at 77

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Famous Deaths for 25th September 2022

1333 – Prince Morikuni, 9th shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan, dies at 32
1808 – Richard Porson, English classical scholar (Porson’s Law), dies at about 48
1898 – Hieronymus Theodor Richter, German mineralogist and co-discoverer of the element indium, dies at 73
1933 – Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian-Dutch theoretical physicist (phase transition, Ehrenfest theorem), dies at 53
1986 – Ben Sajet, physician/politician, dies at 99
1994 – Ludwig Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, German Prince of Prussia, dies at 86
2003 – Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary critic, dies at 67
2005 – George Archer, American golfer (US Masters 1969), dies of Burkitt’s lymphoma at 65
2019 – Paul Badura-Skoda, Austrian pianist (Mozart interpretation), dies at 91
2020 – S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, Telegu playback singer (The Jewel of Shiva) dies of COVID-19 at 74

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Famous Deaths for 24th September 2022

366 – Liberius, Italian Pope (352-66), dies
1517 – Frederik IV, of Baden, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1848 – Branwell Brontë [Patrick Branwell Brontë], English painter and writer and brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne, dies at 31
1855 – Alexandre Stiévenard, French violinist, guitarist and composer, dies at 86
1938 – Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1976 – Bruno VeSota, American character actor and director (They Stand Accused, Chopper, Teenage Doll, Wild Rovers), dies of a heart attack at 54
2004 – Marvin Davis, CEO (Davis Oil Company), dies at 79
2008 – Bengt Anderberg, Swedish poet and writer (Kain), dies at 88
2016 – Buckwheat Zydeco [Stanley Dural, Jr.], American B-3 organist, accordionist and singer (“Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire”), dies of lung cancer at 68
2020 – Dean Jones, Australian cricket batsman and broadcaster (52 Tests @ 46.55; 164 ODIs; Victoria), dies from cardiac arrest at 59

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Famous Deaths for 23rd September 2022

1789 – John Rogers, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1871 – Alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45
1908 – Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet, dies at 74
1930 – Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62
1956 – Earl Godwin, newscaster (Meet the Veep), dies at 75
1974 – Robbie Mcintosh, Scottish drummer (Average White Band), overdoses at 24
1984 – Anatoly Novikov, Soviet composer, dies at 87
1988 – Arwel Hughes, Welsh composer, dies at 79
1997 – Shirley Clarke, American film director, dies at 78
2003 – Yuri Senkevich, Russian TV anchorman (b. 1937)

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