1602 – Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
1792 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman, dies at 81
1808 – Richard Porson, English classical scholar (Porson’s Law), dies at about 48
1900 – John M. Palmer, American politician (U.S. Senator from Illinois) and American Civil War General (Union), dies at 83
1926 – Herbert Booth, English Salvation Army Officer and son of William and Catherine Booth, dies at 64
1933 – Ring Lardner, American sports writer (Chicago Examiner, Chicago Tribune; “Pullman Pastimes”-The Sporting News; “You Know Me”; the Boston American), dies from a heart attack at 48
1944 – Leo Justinus Kauffmann, Alsatian composer, dies at 43
1960 – Emily Post, American authority on social behaviour and writer (Etiquette), dies at 86
2005 – George Archer, American golfer (US Masters 1969), dies of Burkitt’s lymphoma at 65
2016 – Rod Temperton, British pop musician and songwriter (“Boogie Nights”; “Thriller”; “Give Me the Night”; “Yah Mo B There”), dies of cancer at 66
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 24th September 2023
1054 – Hermann of Reichenau [Hermannus Contractus], German Benedictine monk and scholar, dies at 41
1621 – Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
1732 – Emperor Reigen, 112th Emperor of Japan, dies at 78
1949 – Pierre de Bréville, French composer, author and professor (Une histoire du théâtre lyrique en France), dies at 88
1953 – Berthold Viertel, Austrian screenwriter, dies at 68
1995 – Lauri Saikkola, Finnish violinist (Viipuri Philharmonic, 1923–34); Helsinki Philharmonic, 1934–65), and composer (Laulusarja; Unen kaivo), dies at 89
1999 – Torsten Nilsson, Swedish organist, choral director, composer (Out of the Night of the Earth; Septem improvisationes), and pedagogue, dies at 79
2002 – Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)
2014 – Stephen Sykes, Church of England bishop, dies at 75
2021 – Emmanuel Agassi, Iranian boxer and tennis coach (father of Andre Agassi), dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 23rd September 2023
1797 – Johann Georg Roser, Austrian composer and kapellmeister, dies at 57
1902 – John Wesley Powell, American geologist, explorer (Grand Canyon) and ethnologist, dies at 68
1982 – Jimmy Wakely, American country music vocalist (5 Star Jubilee), dies of heart failure at 68
1991 – Patrick Hamilton, English author and playwright (Gas Light, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 58
1994 – Robert Bloch, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho), dies of cancer at 77
1994 – Jerry Barber, American golfer (PGA C’ship 1961), dies of mitral valve prolapse and stroke at 78
1994 – Dalton Reed, American soul singer, dies of heart failure at 42
1997 – Abe Gibron, head coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 72
2006 – Sir Malcolm Arnold, British trumpeter, and classical and film score composer (The Bridge On The River Kwai), dies at 84
2020 – Bobby Wilson, English tennis player (Wimbledon doubles 1960 runner-up), dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 22nd September 2023
1392 – Aleid van Poelgeest, mistress of Albert I of Bavaria, murdered in The Hague by warring nobles at 22
1703 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (Viviani’s theorem), dies at 81
1897 – Charles-Denis Bourbaki, French general (Crimean War, Franco-Prussian war), dies at 81
1959 – Jane Winton, American actress (Hell’s Angel, Patsy, Don Juan), dies at 53
1969 – Adolfo López Mateos, 48th President of Mexico, dies at 59
1972 – Robert K.J.E. Antonissen, Belgian-born South African literary figure, dies at 53
2004 – Edward Larrabee Barnes, American architect (Walker Art Center), dies at 89
2020 – Road Warrior Animal [Joseph Laurinaitis], American pro wrestler (3 x WWE Tag Team C’ship; WWE Hall of Fame), dies at 60
2022 – John Hartman, American rock drummer (Doobie Brothers, 1970–79 and 1987–92 – “China Grove”), dies at 72
2022 – Tim Hankinson, American soccer coach (Alabama AandM, Syracuse University; Tampa Bay Mutiny, Colorado Rapids), dies from cancer at 67
Famous Deaths for 21st September 2023
1839 – (Jacob) Gottfried Weber, German composer, and writer (Theory of Musical Composition), dies at 60
1887 – William Preston, American lawyer, politician and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 70
1915 – Anthony Comstock, American anti-vice crusader, special agent to the U.S. Post Office, dies at 71
1956 – Robert Mills Delaney, American composer, dies at 53
1974 – Jacqueline Susann, American author (Valley of the Dolls), dies of cancer at 56
1995 – Vernell Townsend, American blues and gospel singer, dies at 64
1997 – Eric William Hunter Christie, British lawyer and advocate for the Falkland Islands, dies at 75
2018 – José Luis de Delás, Spanish composer and conductor, dies at 90
2020 – Jaime Alves, Portuguese soccer midfielder (3 caps; Boavista), dies at 55
2020 – Robert Freeman Smith, American politician (Rep-R-Oregon), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 20th September 2023
1168 – Paschal III [Guido di Crema], Italian Antipope (1164-68), dies of cancer at around 58
1460 – Gilles Binchois, Franco-Flemish composer of early Renaissance music, dies at about 60
1630 – Claudio Saracini, Italian composer, dies at 44
1823 – Daniel Steibelt, German pianist and composer, dies at 57
1905 – Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian Realist writer (Pavao Šegota), dies at 46
1933 – Annie Besant, English social reformer and supporter of Indian independence, dies at 85
1975 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 78
2001 – Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of Venezuela (1953-58), dies at 87
2014 – Rob Bironas, American football placekicker (First-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl, PFW Golden Toe Award 2007; Tennessee Titans), dies in a car crash at 36
2015 – Jack Larson, American actor (The Adventures of Superman -“Jimmy Olsen”), screenwriter, and librettist (Virgil Thomson’s “Lord Byron”), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 19th September 2023
1339 – Go-Daigo, 96th Emperor of Japan (1318-39), dies at 50
1356 – Gautier de Brienne, Duke of Athens, French supreme commander, dies
1693 – Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Slovenian polymath and natural historian, dies at 52
1968 – Chester F. Carlson, American physicist and inventor (photocopying), dies at 62
1969 – Bert Bakker, Dutch writer and publisher, dies at 57
1973 – Gram Parsons [Cecil Ingram Connor III], American country-rock singer-songwriter (Byrds – Sweethearts of the Rodeo; Flying Burrito Brothers; “Grievous Angel”), dies of a drug overdose at 26
1985 – Italo Calvino, Italian author (T-Zero, Mr Palomar), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 61
2004 – Eddie Adams, American photographer (photograph of execution of a Viet Cong soldier, Pulitzer Prize 1969), dies of complications from ALS at 71
2021 – John Challis, British stage and screen actor (Only Fools and Horses – “Boycie”; Green Green Grass), dies of cancer at 79
2022 – Vladimir Golubev, Russian soccer defender (3 caps USSR; Zenit Leningrad 335 games) and manager (Zenit Leningrad), dies at 72
Famous Deaths for 18th September 2023
1426 – Hubert [Huybrecht] van Eyck, Flemish painter, brother of Jan van Eyck (The Ghent Altarpiece), dies
1827 – Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (The Course of Time), dies of TB at 28
1872 – Charles XV, King of Sweden and Norway (1859-72), dies at 46
1890 – Dion Boucicault [Dionysus Lardner Boursiquot], Irish actor and playwright (London Assurance; The Poor of New York), dies at 69 [or 67, birth year disputed]
1944 – Robert Cole, US army Lt, Colonel shot by a sniper in battle at Best, Netherlands at 29
1982 – Pei Wenzhong, Chinese anthropologist and archaeologist (Peking Man), dies at 78
1997 – James “Jimmy” Witherspoon, American jump blues singer (Ain’t Nobody’s Business), dies at 77
2004 – Marvin Mitchelson, American celebrity attorney, dies at 76
2005 – Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (b. 1966)
2007 – Pepsi Tate [Huw Smith], Welsh glam-rock bassist (Tigertailz), dies of pancreatic cancer at 42
Famous Deaths for 17th September 2023
1422 – Constantine II of Bulgaria
1665 – Philip IV, King of Spain and Portugal (1621-65), dies at 60
1820 – Henri Hamal, Belgian composer, dies at 76
1836 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (Classification of flowering plants), dies at 88
1879 – Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (restored medieval monuments including city of Carcassonne), dies at 65
1936 – Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
1953 – Emil Ermatinger, Swiss literature historian, dies at 80
1973 – Hugo Winterhalter, American composer, dies at 63
2019 – Corrine “Cokie” Roberts, American journalist, pioneering newscaster (ABC; NPR; PBS), and author, dies of with metastatic breast cancer at 75
2020 – Terry Goodkind, American epic fantasy novelist (The Sword of Truth), dies at 72
Famous Deaths for 16th September 2023
1542 – Diego de Almagro, Spanish captain-general of Peru, beheaded
1944 – Gustav Bauer, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (1919-1920), dies at 74
1945 – Johannes “Pa” van der Steur, Dutch missionary to the East Indies, philanthropist and humanitarian (established Oranje Nassau Orphanage), dies at 80
1946 – James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, mathematician and astronomer (The Mysterious Universe), dies at 69
1957 – Qi Baishi, Chinese painter famous for whimsical and playful watercolor paintings, dies at 93
1992 – Millicent Fenwick, American politician (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82), dies at 82
1994 – Bernie Lazaroff Leighton, pianist, dies at 73
2008 – Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer for Motown (“I Heard It Through the Grapevine”), dies at 68
2013 – Scott Adams, American NFL offensive linesman (Chicago Bears),, dies of a heart attack at 46
2021 – Boet van Dulmen, Dutch motorcycle racer (84 starts, 1 win, 4 podiums,1 pole; Finnish 500cc GP 1979), dies in a road accident at 73