Famous Deaths for 25th September 2019

1066 – Harald III Hardrada, King of Norway (1047-66), dies in battle at 51
1396 – Philip of Bar, French knight/crusader, dies in battle
1496 – Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
1849 – Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky-Marsch), dies at 45
1918 – John Ireland, Irish-American archbishop of St Paul (1888-1918), dies at 80
1961 – Frank Fay, American vaudeville comedian and actor (God’s Gift to Women), dies at 69
1983 – Leopold III, King of Belgium (1934-51), dies at 81
2005 – Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist (b. 1917)
2005 – George Archer, American golfer (US Masters 1969), dies of Burkitt’s lymphoma at 65
2016 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer (7 major titles; US Masters 1958, 60, 62, 64), dies of heart failure at 87

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