Famous Deaths for 12th September 2019

1185 – Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1183-85), lynched
1789 – Franz Xaver Richter, composer, dies at 79
1953 – Lewis Stone, American actor (The Lost World, Prisoner of Zenda), dies of heart attack at 73
1977 – Steven Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist, dies in police custody at 30
1988 – Lauris Morstad, NATO commander/CEO Corning Fiberglass, dies at 71
1992 – Ed Peck, actor (Zoot Suit, Bullitt), dies of heart attack at 75
1994 – Tom Ewell [Sam Yewell Tompkins], American actor (Tom Ewell Show, The Seven Year Itch), dies at 85
1995 – John Stuart-Jervis, balloonist, dies
2008 – Bob Quinn, Australian rules footballer (b. 1915)
2009 – Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (b. 1914)

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