1352 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
1880 – William Hauser, American minister and composer, dies at 67
1932 – Charles H. Gabriel, American gospel composer, dies at 76
1951 – Jacinto Guerrero, Spanish musician and composer, dies at 56
1965 – Steve Brown, American jazz musician, dies at 75
1980 – Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (“Peace Piece”; “Waltz For Debbie”), dies of a bleeding ulcer at 51
1990 – G. M. J. Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA), dies at 69
1991 – John Hoyt, American actor (Gimme a Break, Tom Dick and Mary), dies of lung cancer at 87
1996 – Joan Perry [Elizabeth Rosiland Miller], American film actress, model, and singer (Hands of a Stranger), dies at 85
2006 – Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922)
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 14th September 2023
1851 – James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major American novelist (The Last of the Mohicans), dies of dropsy at 61
1905 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French explorer of the Congo (Brazzaville named after him), dies at 53
1916 – Pierre Duhem, French naturalist, philosopher and historian, dies at 55
1974 – Vera Vague [Barbara Jo Allen], American actress (Sleeping Beauty, Follow the Leader), dies at 66
1974 – Pieter Y Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer, dies at 95
1982 – John Gardner, American writer (Life and Times of Chaucer High), dies in a motorcycle accident at 49
1989 – Eddie McLeod, New Zealand cricketer (one Test for NZ), dies at 88
2009 – Keith Floyd, English celebrity cook and restaurateur (Floyd on Fish), dies of a heart attack at 65
2019 – John Ralston, American College Football Hall of Fame linebacker, coach and executive (Cal, Stanford, Denver Broncos), dies at 92
2021 – Norm MacDonald, Canadian stand-up comedian, writer, and actor (Saturday Night Live, 1993-98; Dirty Work; The Norm Show), dies of cancer at 61
Famous Deaths for 13th September 2023
1759 – James Wolfe, British Army officer who defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec, dies in battle at 32
1806 – Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)
1808 – Saverio Bettinelli, Italian Jesuit writer, dies at 90
1939 – Eugene Foss, American politician (45th Governor of Massachusetts), dies at 80
1976 – Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
1977 – Leopold Stokowski, British conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra, 1912-39; Disney’s Fantasia), dies of a heart attack at 95
2015 – Gary Richrath, American guitarist and songwriter (REO Speedwagon), dies at 65
2017 – Pete Domenici, American politician, U.S. Senator from New Mexico (1973-2009), dies at 85
2022 – Ken Starr, American lawyer who investigated sitting US President Bill Clinton (Starr Report), dies from complications after surgery at 76
2022 – Horacio Accavallo, Argentine boxer (undisputed WBA and WBC flyweight titles 1966-68), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 12th September 2023
1185 – Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1183-85), lynched
1647 – Joos Banckert, Swiss admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies at 48
1691 – Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony (1680-91), dies at 44
1927 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer, dies at 80
1936 – Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70
1961 – Carl Hermann, German physicist, dies at 63
1994 – Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist, dies at 72
1995 – Lawrence Bernard “Larry” Gales, bassist, dies at 59
1996 – Ernesto Geisel, 29th President of Brazil (1974-79), dies at 89
1996 – Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, Canon of Windsor and moral theologian, dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 11th September 2023
1646 – Johann Stobäus, North German composer, dies at 66
1721 – Rudolph J. Camerarius, German physician (sexuality plans), dies
1891 – Théodule-Augustin Ribot, French realist painter (Breton Fishermen and Their Families), dies at 68
1922 – Louis Coerne, American composer (Zenobia; Excalibur), and educator (The Evolution of Modern Orchestration), dies at 52
1948 – Albert Powell, South African cricketer and Rugby player (one Test South Africa v England 1898-99), dies at 75
1967 – Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist, dies at 62
1970 – Chester Morris, American actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), dies at 69
1988 – Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator of children’s books (Mr. Men and Little Miss), dies of a stroke at 53
2007 – Ian Porterfield, Manager of Armenia National Football Club (b. 1946)
2018 – Fenella Fielding, English actress (Carry On films), dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 10th September 2023
1547 – Pierlugi Faraese, Italian son of Pope Paul III, murdered
1604 – William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
1828 – Count d’Andreossi, French general and parliament leader, dies at 67
1845 – Karl August von Lichtenstein, German composer, dies at 78
1858 – Henry Wellington Greatorex, English American composer (Gloria Patri), dies at 44
1898 – Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, and wife of Franz Joseph I, dies from a stab wound at 60
1961 – Leo Carrillo, American actor (American Empire, Cisco Kid), dies at 80
1972 – Sidney Pegler, South African cricket leg spinner (16 Tests), dies at 84
1983 – “John Vorster, South African Prime Minister (1966-78), dies at 67
1995 – Charles Denner, French actor (The Bride Wore Black, The Man Who Loved Women), dies at 69
Famous Deaths for 9th September 2023
1573 – Andre de Resende, Portuguese Dominican friar and humanist, dies at 74 or 75
1841 – Augustin Pyrame de Candolle, Swiss botanist, established a plant classification system and coined the term taxonomy , dies at 63
1866 – Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian-Czech poet and translator (Great Hung dictionary), dies at 65
1876 – American Horse, Oglala Lakota warrior chief, dies in Battle of Slim Buttes (b. c. 1830)
1891 – Jules Grévy, 2nd President of the French Third Republic, dies at 84
1958 – Charles Macartney, Australian cricket all-rounder (35 Tests, 2,131 runs at 41.78, 7 x 100s, 45 wickets), dies at 72
1977 – John Breeden, American actor (Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street), dies at 73
1989 – Tim Hovey, American child actor (Slim Carter, Man Afraid), dies of a drug overdose at 44
1999 – David Stafford-Clark, English psychiatrist, dies at 83
2014 – Antonín Tučapský, Czech composer, teacher, and choral conductor, dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 8th September 2023
1644 – Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion), dies at 52
1784 – Ann Lee, American founder of the Shakers, dies at 48
1953 – Fred M. Vinson, American Democratic politician, US Treasury Secretary (1945-46) and the 13th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1946-53), dies of a heart attack at 63
1975 – John Mylong, Austrian actor (Robot Monsters), dies at 82
1977 – Samuel Joel “Zero” Mostel, American comedian and actor (Fiddler on the Roof, The Producers), dies of an aortic aneurysm at 62
1984 – Johnnie Parsons, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1950; AAA/USAC Championship 1949), dies at 66
1985 – John Franklin Enders, American microbiologist (1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for culturing poliovirus, developed measles vaccine), dies at 88
1990 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford, British writer and illustrator (The Little Grey Men), dies at 85
2006 – Erk Russell, American football, basketball, baseball and track coach, dies at 80
2014 – S. Truett Cathy, American businessman (founder of Chick-fil-A), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 7th September 2023
1809 – Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (b. 1737)
1871 – Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (revolving gun turret), drowns at 51
1949 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter of political murals (Epic of Culture in New World), dies at 65
1951 – María Montez [Vidal], Dominican actress known as The Queen of Technicolor (Cobra Woman, Arabian Nights), dies of heart seizure at 39
1994 – Terence Young, British film director (Dr No, Thunderball), dies of at 79
1997 – George Crockett Jr., American attorney (founded 1st racially integrated law firm) and politician (Rep-D-MI, 1980-91), dies at 88
2008 – Miljenko “Dino” Dvornik, Croatian singer known as “the Croatian King of Funk”, dies of an overdose at 44
2008 – Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian actor (Ultimul cartus), dies at 76
2011 – Ruslan Salei, Belarusian ice hockey defenceman (917 NHL games; 48 internationals), dies in Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash at 36
2016 – Ken Higgs, English cricket fast bowler (15 Tests, 71 wickets, 1 x 50; Lancashire CCC, Leicestershire CCC), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 6th September 2023
394 – Eugenius, linguistic/anti emperor of Rome (392-94), dies in battle
1902 – Frederick Able, English chemist and inventor (cordiet), dies at 75
1952 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (Mimi, Rembrandt) and musical performer, dies of liver and abdominal cancer at 54
1959 – Kay Kendall [Justine McCarthy], British actress (Genevieve, The Constant Husband, Les Girls), dies of leukemia at 32
1965 – Konstantin G. Mostras, Russian composer, dies at 79
1985 – Eurreal “Little Brother” Montgomery, American jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist, singer, and composer (“Crescent City Blues”), dies at 79
1985 – Jane Frazee [Mary Jane Frehse], American actress, singer, and dancer (Beautiful But Broke, Beulah), dies at 70 of pneumonia
1998 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director and screenwriter who was posthumously named “Asian of the Century” in the “Arts, Literature, and Culture” category (Rashomon, Drunken Angel, Seven Samurai, Ran), dies of a stroke at 88
2001 – Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
2007 – Alex, African Grey parrot “student” of Dr. Irene Pepperberg (b. 1976)