1657 – Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, 6th and youngest daughter of Willem of Orange, dies at 75
1687 – Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b. 1623)
1702 – Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, Engl PM (1687-88), dies at 61
1959 – Gerard Hoffnung, German-born British artist/humorist/musician, dies at 34
1966 – Lucky Millinder, American RandB bandleader and singer, dies at 56
1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt President (1953-70), dies of heart attack at 52
1973 – Wystan H Auden, British/American writer (Spain/Platonic Blow), dies at 66
1988 – Marjorie Bonner Lowry, actress (Reno, Poor Girls), dies at 83
1995 – Eddy Grove, American actor (Dragnet, The Silent Service, Medic), dies at 78
2009 – Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor (b. 1956)
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 27th September 2020
1566 – Marcus A Vida, [Marcus Hieronymus], Italian humanist/poet/bishop, dies
1940 – Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48
1944 – Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist (Pentecostal), dies at 53
1963 – Andy Coakley, American baseball player and long-time coach at Columbia University, dies at 80
1967 – Felix Yussupov, Russian aristocrat, dies at 80
1969 – Violet Farebrother, English actress (Downhill, Easy Virtue), dies at 81
1982 – Ralph Baldwin, Canadian harness driver and trainer (11 major world records; Hambletonian Stakes 1963, 73), dies at 66
1985 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place), dies of lung cancer at 83
2013 – Gates Brown, American MLB player (Detroit Tigers: 1963-75), dies at 74
2018 – Marty Balin [Buchwald], American singer (Jefferson Airplane/Starship), dies at 76
Famous Deaths for 26th September 2020
1023 – Godfried I, duke of Neth-Lutherans, dies
1345 – Willem IV, earl of Henegouwen/Holland/Zealand, dies at about 27
1940 – William Henry Davies, Welsh poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp), dies at 69
1945 – Béla Bartok, Hungarian pianist and composer (Concerto for Orchestra), dies at 64
1983 – Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (Destins, Belle Menuniere), dies at 76
1990 – Alberto Moravia [Pincherle], Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82
1994 – Miguel Angel Martinez Soto, mariachi, dies at 22
1994 – Maurice Ashley, historian and editor (The Listener), dies at 87
1994 – Jessie Kesson, Scottish writer and radio producer, dies at 77
2004 – Marianna Komlos, professional wrestling valet (b. 1969)
Famous Deaths for 25th September 2020
1333 – Prince Morikuni, 9th shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan, dies at 32
1396 – Philip of Bar, French knight/crusader, dies in battle
1774 – John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
1825 – Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
1840 – Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, soldier
1917 – Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary (b. 1885)
1926 – Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
1995 – Dave Bowen, Welsh soccer wing-half (19 caps; Arsenal) and manager (Wales 1964-74; Northampton Town), dies at 67
2003 – Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
2010 – Art Gilmore, American actor (b. 1912)
Famous Deaths for 24th September 2020
786 – Al-Hadi, Arabic kalief of Islam (185-86), dies
1213 – Gertrude of Merania, wife of Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)
1230 – Alfonso IX, King of León and Galicia (1188-1230), dies at 59
1568 – Antoon van Stralen, Flemish mayor of Antwerp, beheaded at about 47
1868 – Jan Albert van Eijken, Dutch composer and organist, dies at 45
1996 – Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, egyptologist, dies at 87
2008 – Bengt Anderberg, Swedish poet and writer (Kain), dies at 88
2014 – Stephen Sykes, Church of England bishop, dies at 75
2014 – Deborah “Debs” Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire and the Chatsworth estate, one of the Mitford sisters, dies at 94
2016 – Buckwheat Zydeco [Stantley Dural Jr] US accordionist (On Track), dies at 68
Famous Deaths for 23rd September 2020
775 – Constantine V Copronymus, Emperor of Byzantium (720-75), dies
1535 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden, dies at 21
1900 – William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (b. 1816)
1902 – John Wesley Powell, US geologist (Grand Canyon), dies at 68
1961 – Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Stenkol), dies at 65
1984 – Anatoly Novikov, Soviet composer, dies at 87
1987 – O. B. McClinton, American country singer (Man needs a woman), dies at 47
1996 – Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1933)
2001 – Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (b. 1928)
2005 – Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (Founder of FALN), dies at 72
Famous Deaths for 22nd September 2020
1399 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)
1865 – Heinrich Christian Pander, Baltic German biologist and embryologist, dies at 71
1914 – Alain-Fournier, French writer (Le Grand Meaulnes), dies in battle at 27
1949 – Sam Wood, American communist fighter and director (For Whom the Bell Tolls), dies at 66
1952 – Ian Hay [John Hay Beith], British novelist and playwright (Pip, Carrying On), dies at 76
1956 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 79
1981 – Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)
1991 – Reynold Abel Dorris, (Broken Cord), dies at 23 in car crash
1997 – Ruth Picardie, journalist, dies at 33
2006 – Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
Famous Deaths for 21st September 2020
1542 – Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet
1748 – John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
1798 – George Read, American judge and signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 65
1839 – Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, dies at 60
1956 – Robert Mills Delaney, American composer, dies at 53
1980 – Ernest White, composer, dies at 80
1981 – Tony Aubin, French composer, dies at 73
1982 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union of Armenian origin, dies at 84
1987 – Ruth Attaway, American actress (Porgy and Bess, Conrack, Being There), dies at 77
1988 – Christine Norden, British actress (Little Shop of Horrors, Night Beat), dies from pneumonia at 63
Famous Deaths for 20th September 2020
1168 – Paschal III, [Guido di Crema], Italian anti-Pope, dies
1586 – Anthony Babington, page and conspirator to Mary, Queen of Scots, executed at 24
1721 – Thomas Doggett, British comedy actor (Drury Lane Theatre), dies at approximately 51
1884 – Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist, dies at 82
1906 – Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834)
1945 – William Buehler Seabrook, Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer (b. 1884)
1971 – James Westerfield, American actor (Jungle Heat, Lucky Johnny), dies from a heart attack at 59
1989 – Richie Ginther, American racing driver, dies from a heart attack at 59
1997 – Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophinist and probation officer, dies at 59
2004 – Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager, dies of cancer at 69
Famous Deaths for 19th September 2020
1719 – Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/lord of the manor, executed at 59
1830 – Stanislas Champein, French composer, dies at 76
1864 – Archibald Campbell Godwin, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle
1942 – Condé Nast, American publisher (b. 1873)
1967 – Martin Block, TV announcer (Chesterfield Supper Club), dies at 64
1967 – Monica Proietti, Canadian criminal (b. 1940)
1982 – Samuel L M Barlow, American composer (Mon Ami Pierrot), dies at 90
1986 – Vivian Duncan, entertainer (Duncan Sisters), dies
1997 – Rich Mullins, American singer (b. 1955)
2013 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (President of Nintendo, 1949-2003, owner of Seattle Mariners), dies at 85