1678 – Wu San-kuei, gen, invited Manchus to China, dies trying to expel them
1708 – Anne Jules de Noailles, French general under Louis XIV (marshal of France), dies at 58
1746 – Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty
1764 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, 5th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1756-57), dies at 44
1919 – Ernest Halliwell, South African cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests), dies at 55
1931 – George Bradley, American baseball pitcher (first no-hitter in MLB history 1876; NL ERA leader 1876), dies at 79
1991 – Dimitrios I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1973-91), dies at 77
1994 – Faith Davis, American triplets, world’s oldest surviving triplets (Charity and Hope survive), dies at 95
2007 – Lady Katherine Brandram, Princess of Greece, the last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, dies at 94
2018 – Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian dissident, author, Washington Post columnist and editor in chief (Al-Arab News Channel), assassinated in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul at 59, reportedly on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 1st October 2023
1795 – Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder, dies at about 70
1868 – Mongkut [Rama IV], King of Thailand (1851-68), opened country to the West (model for musical “The King and I”), dies at 63
1929 – Lee Richmond, American baseball pitcher (first ever MLB perfect game, 1880), dies at 72
1943 – Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20
1943 – Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35
1965 – Edward E “Doc” Smith, American sci-fi writer (Subspace encounter), dies at 75
1972 – Louis Leakey, British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist (Olduvai Gorge; 1964 Richard Hooper Medal), dies at 68
1984 – Billy Goodman, American baseball infielder (MLB All-Star 1949, 53; AL batting champion 1950; Boston Red Sox), dies of cancer at 58
2010 – Audouin Dollfus, French Astronomer (discovered Janus, a moon of Saturn), dies at 85
2018 – Charles Aznavour [Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian], French-Armenian singer-songwriter (“She”; “Monsieur Carnavel”; “Tin Drum”), dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 30th September 2023
1877 – Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of Nez Perce indians, dies in battle
1885 – Maria Gartmann, Dutch actress, dies at 60
1888 – Elizabeth Stride “Long Liz”, English woman murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
1955 – Arnold Struycken, Dutch lawyer, dies at 55
1978 – Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75
1988 – Chick Chandler [Fehmer Chandler], American actor (Seven Doors to Death, One Happy Family), dies at 83
1990 – Liesbeth de Uyl, Dutch feminist and wife of PM Joop du, dies at 66
1996 – Elizabeth Gille, French writer, translator and editor, dies at 59
2004 – Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915)
2012 – Turhan Bey [Sahultavy], Austrian-born actor dubbed “The Turkish Delight” (Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves), dies from Parkinson’s disease at 90
Famous Deaths for 29th September 2023
1364 – Charles, Duke of Brittany (“the Saint” beatified 1904), killed in the Battle of Auray at 44 or 45
1862 – William “Bull” Nelson, Union general-major, murdered after an argument by fellow Union officer General Jefferson C. Davis at 38
1900 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician and temperance movement leader (Rep-IR-Ohio), dies at 86
1967 – Ludwig Donath, Austrian actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco, Jolson Sings Again), dies of leukemia at 67
1991 – Sam Ntuli, South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, assassinated
1993 – Gordon Douglas, American actor and director (Tony Rome), dies of cancer at 85
2006 – Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
2008 – Hayden Carruth, American poet (The Crow and the Heart), dies at 87
2014 – Dan Goossen, American boxing promoter (Michael Nunn, Terry Norris, James Toney), dies of liver cancer at 64
2021 – Dom Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Mozambican Roman Catholic Cardinal, Mozambique’s 1st black priest, dies at 97
Famous Deaths for 28th September 2023
1197 – Henry VI von Hohenstaufen, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, dies in Messina, Sicily
1582 – George Buchanan, Scottish historian (b. 1506)
1657 – Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, 6th and youngest daughter of William of Orange, dies at 75
1667 – Jacobus Golius, Dutch mathematician and Arabic translator, dies at 71
1810 – John Archer, American Congressman who received the 1st medical diploma issued on US continent (1768), dies at 69
1930 – Daniel Guggenheim, American mining magnate and philanthropist, dies at 74
1938 – Con Conrad, American songwriter and producer, dies at 48
1988 – Marjorie Bonner Lowry, American actress (Reno, Poor Girls), wife of writer Malcolm Lowry, dies at 83
2020 – Frédéric Devreese, Belgian conductor, and composer of classical music (Gemini Suite; Valse Sacrée), and film scores (The Cruel Embrace), dies of cancer at 91
2021 – Tommy Kirk, American actor (Old Yeller), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 27th September 2023
1891 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian novelist (Oblomov), dies at 79
1921 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer (Hänsel und Gretel), dies at 67
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
1986 – Cliff Burton, American rock bassist (Metallica), dies in bus crash at 24
1995 – Christopher Shaw, British composer, dies at 71
1995 – Alison “Night Bird” Steele, DJ (WNEW-FM, WXRK-FM), dies of cancer
2001 – Herman Berlinski, Polish-American organist, composer and choral conductor (The Tetragrammaton), dies at 91
2004 – John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1929)
2013 – Jay Robinson, American actor (Born Again, Malibu Bikini Shop), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 26th September 2023
1560 – George van Egmond, Dutch bishop of Utrecht, dies at 56
1764 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar, dies at 89
1802 – Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and military officer (b. 1754)
1868 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
1952 – George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher and poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88
1960 – William Ling, South African cricketer (batsman in 6 Tests 1921-23), dies at 68
1965 – James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (b. 1898)
1994 – Maurice Ashley, historian and editor (The Listener), dies at 87
1998 – Betty Carter [Lillie Mae Jones], American jazz singer and scat vocalist, dies of pancreatic cancer at 69
2015 – Manuel Oltra, Spanish secular and sacred music composer, and professor (Barcelona Conservatory, 1959-87), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 25th September 2023
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
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