775 – Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 718)
1495 – Elizabeth Tudor, English princess, the second daughter and fourth child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, dies at 3
1759 – Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47
1851 – James Fenimore Cooper, American author (Last of Mohicans), dies of dropsy at 61
1887 – Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German philosopher and writer (Auch einer), dies at 80
1901 – US President William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, after being shot 8 days earlier by anarchist, Leon Czolgosz
1974 – Vera Vague [Barbara Jo Allen], American actress (Sleeping Beauty, Follow the Leader), dies at 66
1981 – [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of blues, dies at 88 of a heart attack
1982 – John Gardner, American writer (Life and Times of Chaucer High), dies in a motorcycle accident at 49
2009 – Henry Gibson, American actor and comedian (Nashville, Laugh-In’s poet), dies at 73
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 13th September 2021
1813 – Hezqeyas of Ethiopia, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia
1915 – Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
1932 – Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French President Doumer, beheaded
1937 – Ellis Parker Butler, American author (Pigs is Pigs), dies at 67
1976 – Albert Tessier, French Canadian priest, historian and filmmaker (b. 1895)
1991 – Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-American film producer (Spinout, Big City), dies of Parkinson’s at 73
1996 – Jane Baxter, actress (We Live Again, Blossom Time), dies at 87
2011 – DJ Mehdi, French hip hop and electro producer (b. 1977)
2015 – Brian Close, English cricketer (played for England between 1949 and 1976), dies at 84
2015 – Moses Malone, Basketball Hall of Fame center (NBA MVP 1979, 82-83), dies of heart disease at 60
Famous Deaths for 12th September 2021
1591 – Richard Grenville, vice-admiral (Roanoke) dies in battle at 49
1674 – Nicolaas Tulp, Mayor of Amsterdam (1654-71), dies at 80
1988 – Lauris Morstad, NATO commander/CEO Corning Fiberglass, dies at 71
1990 – Athene Seyler, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 101
1995 – Geoffrey Stokes, rock and roll writer, dies at 55
1997 – Judith Merril [Grossman], sci-fi writer, dies at 74
2001 – Victor Wong [Yee Keung Victor Wong], American actor (Big Trouble in Little China), dies of a heart attack at 74
2003 – Johnny Cash, American country singer (I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, A Boy Named Sue), dies at 71
2008 – Bob Quinn, Australian Football Hall of Fame rover (All Australian captain 1947; SA captain 1945-47; Magarey Medal 1938, 45; Port Adelaide FC), dies at 93
2014 – Donald Sinden, English actor, dies from prostate cancer at 90
Famous Deaths for 11th September 2021
1851 – Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist and minister (Graham cracker) (b. 1794)
1858 – Alexander Gurilyov, Russian composer, dies at 55
1926 – Matsunosuke Onoe [Tsuruzo Nakamura], Japanese actor (Araki Mataemon, Yajîkita: zenpen), Japanese actor, dies at 50
1946 – Arthur van Schendel, writer (Holland Drama), dies at 72)
1949 – Henri Rabaud, French composer/conductor (L’ete), dies at 75
1958 – Robert W. Service, English-Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee), dies at 84
1982 – Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (The Jungle), dies at 79
1994 – Sara Taylor, mother of Elizabeth, dies at 62
1997 – Hannah Weiner, American experimental poet, dies at 68
2015 – Marcel Zeeuw, Surinamese soldier (coup 1982), dies at 61
Famous Deaths for 10th September 2021
1197 – Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
1604 – William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English author and feminist (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman), mother of Mary Shelley, dies of septicaemia at 38
1842 – Letitia Tyler, US President Tyler’s (1841-45) wife, dies at 51
1867 – Simon Sechter, Austrian composer and music theorist, dies at 78
1937 – Sergei Tretyakov, Russian constructivist writer, playwright and special correspondent for Pravda, executed by Stalinist regime at 47
1966 – James Langridge, cricketer (242 runs and 19 wkts for England), dies
1976 – Dorothy Devore, actress (Newscast, Senor Daredevil), dies at 77
1983 – Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1985 – Alexa Kenin, actress (Mousie-Coed Fever), dies at 23
Famous Deaths for 9th September 2021
1438 – Edward [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38), dies at 46
1513 – James IV, King of Scots (1488-1513), dies in battle at 40
1941 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1935), dies at 72
1960 – Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, Finnish composer and organist, dies at 75
1966 – Leon de Smet, Flemish painter, dies at 85
1974 – Soltan Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani composer and People’s Artist of the USSR, dies at 55
1975 – Ethel Griffies, actress (Billy Liar, Birds), dies at 97
1991 – John Lawrence, doctor, dies
1999 – Jim “Catfish” Hunter, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (MLB All-Star 1966, 67, 70, 72–1976; World Series 1972–74, 77, 78; AL Cy Young Award 1974; Oakland A’s, NY Yankees), dies from Lou Gehrig’s disease at 53
2003 – Thomas Allibone, English physicist (Manhattan Project, high-voltage particle acceleration), dies at 99
Famous Deaths for 8th September 2021
1645 – Francisco Gómez de Quevedo, Spanish author and poet, dies at 64
1755 – Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (Williams College), dies at 40
1909 – Frank Crawford Armstrong, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 73
1922 – Léon Bonnat, French painter (Job), dies at 89
1956 – Vital Celen, Flemish writer (‘t Pastoorke van Vossendonck), dies at 69
1981 – Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist and longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80
1983 – Ibrahim Abboud, 1st President and 4th Prime Minister of Sudan (1958-64), dies at 82
1996 – Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, designer artist/writer, dies at 102
2003 – Leni Riefenstahl [Helene Bertha Amalie], German film director (Triumph of the Will) and actress (Tiefland), dies in her sleep at 101
2010 – Rich Cronin, American singer-songwriter (Lyte Funkie Ones) dies of cancer aged 36
Famous Deaths for 7th September 2021
1809 – Caroline Schelling [Michaelis], German author and academic dies at 46
1871 – Mehmed E Ali Pasja, Turkish statesman, dies
1872 – Antoni Stolpe, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 21
1893 – Hamilton Fish, American politician (Governor of New York), dies at 85
1920 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician and 12th Premier of Quebec (1900-05), dies at 64
1921 – Alfred William Rich, watercolor painter (b. 1856)
1933 – Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon and Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies at 71
1939 – Kyoka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873)
1949 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
1966 – Al Kelly, double talk comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 67
Famous Deaths for 6th September 2021
1782 – Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
1863 – Lucius March Walker, Confederate brigadier general (in duel), dies at 33
1941 – Hugo Loudon, president-director (Royal Oil), dies at 81
1944 – Robert Lejour, Belgian lawyer/resistance fighter, murdered
1950 – Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)
1951 – Joe Falcaro, American bowler (National Match Game champion 1929-33), dies at 55
1959 – Kay Kendall [Justine McCarthy], British actress (Genevieve, The Constant Husband, Les Girls), dies of leukaemia at 32
1981 – Joseph Yasser, Russian-American composer, dies at 88
2005 – Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929)
2020 – Lou Brock, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (6 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1964, 67; 8 × NL stolen base leader; St Louis Cardinals), dies from multiple myeloma at 81
Famous Deaths for 5th September 2021
1165 – Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
1808 – John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
1859 – Friedrich von Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68
1901 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
1917 – Arthur Verhaegen, Belgian architect and worker’s union leader, dies at 70
1988 – Gert Fröbe [Karl Gerhart Fröbe], German actor (Goldfinger, Lover’s Wood, Upper Hand), dies from a heart attack at 75
1997 – Mother Teresa [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Albanian born Indian nun and founder of Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace Prize, 1979), dies of cardiac arrest at 87
2002 – John “Jackie” Kelk, American actor and stand-up comedian (The Aldrich Family, The Adventures of Superman), dies of a lung infection at 79
2003 – Moe Biller, American labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers), dies at 87
2013 – Willie Frazier, American football tight end (AFL All-Star 1965, 67, 69; All-Pro 1965; Houston Oilers, San Diego Chargers), dies at 71