1596 – Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser, Dutch astronomer and navigator (Java)
1847 – Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal, dies at 81
1872 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher who influenced Karl Marx (The Essence of Christianity), dies at 68
1902 – John Horace Forney, American engineer and Major General in Confederate Army, dies at 73
1967 – Varian Fry, American journalist and recognized as “Righteous Among the Nations”, dies at 59
1995 – Walter Goetz, German-British illustrator, cartoonist and painter (Colonel Up and Mr. Down), dies at 83
1999 – Benjamin Bloom, American educational theorist (b. 1913)
2005 – Toni Fritsch, Austrian soccer forward (9 caps; Rapid Vienna) and American football kicker (Super Bowl 1971 Dallas Cowboys; Pro Bowl 1979), dies of heart failure at 60
2015 – Gary Richrath, American guitarist and songwriter (REO Speedwagon), dies at 65
2017 – Grant Hart, American punk rock drummer and songwriter (Hüsker Dü), dies of liver cancer at 56
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 12th September 2025
413 – Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint, executed for participating in a rebellion (later exonerated)
1015 – Lambert I with the Beard, Count of Leuven, dies in battle at about 65
1362 – Innocent VI [Etienne Aubert], Pope (1352-62), dies
1732 – Jean Philippe Eugène de Mérode, Belgian nobleman (Marquis of Westerloo), dies at 58
1779 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician, dies at 67
1947 – Harry Rowe Shelley, American hymn composer, dies at 89
1955 – Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary figure (La Gazette), dies at 86
1988 – (Carlos) “Charlie” Palmieri, American salsa and charanga music bandleader, musical director, and piano player (Tito Puente; Alegre All-Stars), dies after a heart attack at 60
2011 – Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)
2023 – Roy Kidd, American College Football HOF coach (Eastern Kentucky University 1964-2002, record 314–124–8), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 11th September 2025
1161 – Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
1709 – Spaar, Dutch General, dies in the Battle of Malplaquet
1888 – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina (1868-74) after whom Panamerican Teacher’s Day is chosen, dies at 77
1939 – Konstantin Korovin, leading Russian impressionist painter, dies at 77
1949 – Henri Rabaud, French composer and conductor (L’ete), dies at 75
1966 – Collett E. Woolman, American airline founder (Delta Air Service), dies at 76
1993 – Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian-American conductor (Boston Symphony, 1962-69), dies of cancer at 81
2001 – John P. O’Neill, American anti-terrorism expert and FBI agent, dies as Head of Security in the terror attack on the World Trade Center at 49
2003 – John Ritter, American actor and comedian (Three’s Company, It, 8 Simple Rules), dies of an aortic dissection at 54
2016 – Alexis Arquette, American transgender performer (Last Exit to Brooklyn), dies at 47
Famous Deaths for 10th September 2025
1382 – Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary (1342-82) and Poland (1370-82), dies at 56
1759 – Ferdinand Konščak (aka Fernando Consag), Croatian explorer, cartographer (Baja California), and Jesuit missionary, dies at 55
1868 – Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, German composer and harpist, dies at 79
1931 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (differential geometry and mathematical analysis), dies at 61
1934 – George Henschel, German-British baritone, pianist, conductor, and composer, dies at 84
1971 – Pier Angeli [Anna Maria Pierangeli], Italian actress (Sodom and Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge), dies of barbiturate overdose at 39
1995 – Charles Denner, French actor (The Bride Wore Black, The Man Who Loved Women), dies at 69
1996 – Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor, dies at 100
2007 – Ted Stepien, American businessman and basketball team owner, dies at 82
2015 – Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor (I Vitelloni, Ulysses, Sciuscià), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 9th September 2025
1810 – Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, dies at 78
1832 – Bernhard Klein, German composer, mainly of vocal works, dies at 39
1964 – Charles O’Neill, Irish-Canadian composer, organist, cornetist, and bandmaster, dies at 82
1975 – Minta Durfee, actress (Keystone Comedies, Mickey), dies at 85
2002 – Geoffrey Dummer, British electronics engineer who built the first integrated circuit (microchip) and worked on radar systems, dies at 93
2006 – Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (The Name of the Rose), dies at 79
2007 – Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian soccer forward (18 caps; Sturm Graz, First Vienna, Real Betis, Wacker Innsbruck) and manager (Austria, Athletic Bilbao, AEK), dies at 73
2012 – Ron Taylor, Australian shark expert and cinematographer, dies from myeloid leukemia at 78
2014 – Denny Miller, American actor, dies from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 80
2016 – James Stacy [Maurice William Elias], American actor (Lancer), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 8th September 2025
1858 – Jacopo Foroni, Italian opera composer (I gladiatori; Advokathen Panthelin), and conductor, dies during cholera epidemic at 34
1871 – Etienne-Joseph Soubre, Belgian composer, dies at 57
1895 – Adam Opel, German entrepreneur, sewing machine and bicycle pioneer who founded Adam Opel AG, dies at 58
1917 – Charles-Édouard Lefebvre, French composer, dies at 74
1944 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer (Frau Helga von Staveren; Thijl), conductor, and anti-Nazi resistance fighter, dies of pneumonia at 63
1976 – Asen Karastoyanov, Bulgarian composer, dies at 83
1980 – Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram), dies at 101
2006 – Hilda Bernstein, British-South African author, artist, and activist, dies at 91
2014 – Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter, arranger (Jimmie Lunceford; Duke Ellington), orchestra leader, and teacher dies at 96
2020 – Simeon Coxe, American songwriter, singer and psychedelic synthesizer player (Silver Apples), dies of pulmonary fibrosis at 82
Famous Deaths for 7th September 2025
1362 – Joan of The Tower, English princess and Queen consort of Scotland, dies at 41
1559 – Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)
1833 – Hannah More, English religious writer, poet, and philanthropist (Cheap Repository Tracts), dies at 88
1871 – Mehmed Ali Pasha, Turkish marshal and statesman, dies fighting in Albania at 50
1968 – Thom Kelling, Dutch singer, guitarist, and bandleader (Programa de Manha), dies at 46
1972 – Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian and honorary secretary of King Leopold III of Belgium, dies at 81
1983 – Hans Münch, Swiss conductor and composer, dies at 90
1996 – Joseph F. Biroc, American cinematographer, filmed the liberation of Paris in 1944 and won an Oscar for “The Towering Inferno”, dies at 93
1997 – Alex Macintosh, British BBC presenter and actor (Hell Fight), dies at 72
2008 – Nagi Noda, Japanese pop artist and director, dies after surgery at 34
Famous Deaths for 6th September 2025
972 – John XIII Crescentii, pope (965-72), dies
1511 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, 11th Japanese shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate (1493-1508), dies at 30
1708 – Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
1903 – Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (Expansive classification), dies at 66
1965 – (Ernest) “Red” Ingle, American jazz and novelty saxophonist, songwriter, arranger and vocalist (Ted Weems; Spike Jones and His City Slickers; The Natural Seven), dies of an internal hemorrhage at 58
1965 – Konstantin G. Mostras, Russian composer, dies at 79
1977 – Guido Pannain, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 85
1999 – René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
2001 – Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
2011 – Wardell Quezergue, American jazz, blues, and funk composer, arranger, record producer, and bandleader, known as the “Creole Beethoven”, dies at 81
Famous Deaths for 5th September 2025
1566 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan and the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1530-1566), dies at 71 [or Sep 6]
1683 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French statesman (First Minister of State, 1661-83; Minister of the Navy, 1689-83), dies at 64
1988 – Lawrence Brown, American trombonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra), dies at 81
1995 – John Megna, American actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird), dies of AIDS-related complications at 42
1995 – Francis Showering, English brewer, dies at 83
2001 – Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef (Wise Potato Chips) and humorist, dies at 87
2003 – C. H. Sisson, British author (Christopher Homm), dies at 89
2015 – (Frederick) “Denny” Greene, American singer (Sha Na Na, 1968-84), dies from cancer at 66
2015 – Patricia Canning Todd, American tennis player (French National C’ship singles 1947; French doubles and mixed doubles 1948; Wimbledon doubles 1947), dies at 93
2016 – Hugh O’Brian, American actor (Wyatt Earp, Search), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 4th September 2025
1063 – Tughril, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad and founder of the Seljuk Empire (1037-63), dies at about 73
1759 – Girolamo Chiti, Italian composer and music theorist, dies at 80
1852 – William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
1963 – Robert Schuman, Luxembourg-born French statesman and Prime Minister of France (1947-48), dies at 77
1964 – Werner Bergengruen, Baltic German writer (Der Großtyrann und das Gericht), dies at 71
1974 – Marcel Achard, French playwright (La forges the Paris), dies at 75
1995 – Edmond Jouhaud, French general, dies at 90
2010 – Paul Conrad, American cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84), dies at 86
2014 – Joan Rivers, American comedian and actress (Late Show, Hollywood Squares), dies at 81 after serious complications from a procedure on her vocal cords
2014 – Wolfhart Pannenberg, German theologist (Gingham Girl), dies at 85