1675 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (1624-75), dies at 71
1857 – Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (Pygmalion), dies at 72
1890 – Dion Boucicault [Dionysus Lardner Boursiquot], Irish actor and playwright (Rip van Winkle, London Assurance), dies at 67
1968 – Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist and church historian, dies at 65
1969 – Rudolph Wagner-Regeny, Hungarian German composer, dies at 66
1972 – Bill Tallon, Australian cricketer (brother of Don, Queensland leggie), dies at 58
1991 – Rob Tyner [Robert Derminer], American hard rock singer (MC5 – Kick Out The Jams), dies of a heart attack at 46
1998 – Leonid Kinskey, Russian actor (Casablanca, Duck Soup), dies at 95
2004 – Russ Meyer, American film director (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), dies at 82
2013 – Richard C. Sarafian, American director and actor (Foley Square), dies from complications from pneumonia at 83
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 17th September 2020
1179 – Hildegard of Bingen, German magistra and the first composer whose biography is known, dies at 81
1864 – Walter Savage Landor, English poet and writer (Imaginary Conversations), dies at 89
1884 – Louis Schubert, composer, dies at 56
1948 – Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture), dies at 61
1994 – Paul Nicholas Young, architect, dies at 47
1997 – Jan Peder Syse, Prime Minister of Norway (1989-90), dies
2000 – Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
2005 – Alfred Reed, American composer, dies at 84
2011 – Colin Madigan, Australian architect (b. 1921)
2013 – Marvin Rainwater, American country and rockabilly singer, dies from heart failure at 88
Famous Deaths for 16th September 2020
655 – Martinus I, bannished Pope (649-53), dies
1589 – Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
1696 – Lambert Pietkin, Flemish composer, dies at 83
1896 – Antônio Carlos Gomez, Brazilian opera composer, 1st from New World to be successful in Europe, dies at 60
1945 – Johannes “Pa” van der Steur, Dutch missionary and philanthropist (Java), dies at 80
1961 – Yme Schuitmaker, Dutch potato farmer/dramatist, dies
1994 – Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom), dies at 84
2005 – Gordon Gould, American physicist (inventor of the laser) dies at 85
2018 – Big Jay [Cecil James] McNeely, American RandB saxophonist, dies of prostate cancer at 91
2018 – Frank Parker, American actor (Days of our Lives, Never Too Young), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 15th September 2020
1596 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535 or 1540)
1747 – Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, German baroque composer and organist, dies at 59
1923 – Sayed Darwish, composer, dies at 31
1925 – Leonard Borwick, English concert pianist, dies at 57
1934 – David Vaughan Thomas, Welsh musician and composer, dies at 61
1965 – Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
1980 – Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (Peace Piece; Waltz For Debbie), dies of a bleeding ulcer at 51
1990 – Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 60
2007 – Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (b. 1928)
2018 – Jeff Lowe, American mountain climber (co-founder Lowe Alpine), dies of pneumonia at 67
Famous Deaths for 14th September 2020
1759 – Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47
1926 – Johan LE Dreyer, Danish astronomer (Catalog of Nebulae), dies at 74
1927 – Isadora Duncan, American free form/interpretative dancer, dies at 50 due to her scarf becoming entangled in her car’s wheel
1959 – Wayne Morris, American actor and decorated WWII pilot (Paths of Glory, The Bushwackers), dies from a heart attack at 45
1989 – Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban bandleader and musician, dies at 71
1991 – Julie Bovasso, American actress (Willie and Phil, Just Me and You), dies of cancer at 61
1995 – Eiji Okada, Japanese actor (Hiroshima mon amour, The Ugly American), dies of heart failure at 75
1996 – Clive Beadon, British RAF Wing Commander and pilot (WWII), dies at 77
1996 – Juliet Prowse, actress and dancer (Mona McCluskey), dies at 59
2019 – John Ralston, American College Football Hall of Fame linebacker, coach and executive (Cal, Stanford, Denver Broncos), dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 13th September 2020
1650 – Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik/archbishop, dies at 72
1657 – Jacob van Campen, painter/architect (Amsterdam Townhall), dies at 62
1847 – Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal, dies at 81
1944 – W. Heath Robinson, English illustrator and cartoonist (Don Quixote), dies at 72
1948 – Paul Wegener, German actor and director (The Golem, The Student of Prague), dies at 73
1967 – Russell L. Rogers, American electrical engineer and astronaut (X-20), dies in explosion at 38
1973 – Betty Field, American actress (Of Mice and Men, Kings Row, Bus Stop), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 57
1994 – Kaleria Fadicheva, Russian ballerina (Kirov) and choreographer, dies at 57
1995 – Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter, dies at 83
2003 – Frank O’Bannon, Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)
Famous Deaths for 12th September 2020
1591 – Richard Grenville, vice-admiral (Roanoke) dies in battle at 49
1604 – Louis Gunther, earl of Nassau, dies in battle at about 29
1660 – Jacob Cats [Father Cats], Dutch grand pensionary and poet (Houwelyck), dies at 82
1695 – Jacob Abendana, Spanish scholar (b. 1630)
1779 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician, dies at 67
1879 – Peter Arnold Heise, composer, dies at 49
1956 – Hans Carossa, German writer, dies at 77
1963 – Mervyn A. Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), dies at 63
1981 – Eugenio Montale, Italian poet and translator (Xenia-Nobel 1975), dies at 84
1994 – Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist, dies at 72
Famous Deaths for 11th September 2020
1349 – Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (b. 1315)
1915 – William Sprague IV, American politician and Governor of Rhode Island (1859-63), dies at 84
1958 – Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874)
1966 – Collett E. Woolman, American airline founder (Delta Air Service), dies at 76
1985 – Andrew C. Thornton II, American drug smuggler (b. 1945)
1997 – Camille Henry, National Hockey League player (b. 1933)
2001 – Ziad Jarrah, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1975)
2001 – Berry Berenson, American photographer, actress, model, and widow of actor Anthony Perkins, dies in the 9/11 attacks at 53
2004 – Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, Greek Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, dies at 55
2012 – Sergio Livingstone, Chilean football player and journalist, dies from natural causes at 92
Famous Deaths for 10th September 2020
1669 – Henrietta Maria, French-born daughter of Henry IV of France and queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)
1748 – Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, Filipino Religious Sister of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 85
1806 – Johann C Adelung, German translator/librarian, dies at 74
1839 – Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter, dies at 66
1915 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec, dies at 93
1930 – G A Faulkner, cricketer (South African googly all-rounder), commits suicide
1960 – Fjodor Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga – matushka-reka), dies at 63
1966 – James Langridge, cricketer (242 runs and 19 wkts for England), dies
1985 – Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager, dies at 62
1996 – Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor, dies at 100
Famous Deaths for 9th September 2020
1841 – Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 63
1888 – Jan van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71
1898 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
1902 – Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, Governor of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53
1964 – Charles O’Neill, Canadian composer, dies at 82
1966 – Nestor Paiva, American-Portuguese actor (Zorro, The Creature from the Black Lagoon), dies of cancer at 61
1969 – Cecil Dixon, South African cricket off-spinner (1913-14, dismissed Hobbs twice), dies at 78
1976 – Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary and Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1949-76), dies of a heart attack at 82
1995 – Ida Carroll, English musician and administrator, dies at 89
2003 – Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)