Famous Deaths for 30th September 2018

1929 – Charles Bonin, French explorer and diplomat (China), dies at 64
1955 – James Dean, American actor and cultural icon (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause), and 1st actor to be posthumously nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award, dies in a car crash at age 24
1959 – Ross Granville Harrison, American Biologist and Zoologist (organ transplant pioneer), dies at 89
1985 – Charles F Richter, US seismologist (scale of R), dies at 85
1989 – Virgil Thomson, US composer/critic (4 saints in 3 acts), dies at 92
1996 – Udom Patpongsiri, property developer, dies at 79
1998 – Marius Goring, British actor (Stairway to Heaven, The Red Shoes), dies from cancer at 86
2002 – Arthur Hazlerigg, British peer and cricketer, dies at 92
2003 – Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer, dies of cancer at 59
2011 – Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and islamist militant (b. 1971)

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