Deaths September 22 | History by KabAstro

Guru Nanak (1469-1539)

Founder of the religion of Sikhism and the 1st Sikh Guru, dies at 70

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (1510-1554)

Spanish explorer and conquistador who led 1st European expedition to discover the Grand Canyon, dies of disease at about 44

1566 John Agricola [Schneider], German theologian, a friend of Martin Luther, dies at 72
1607 Alessandro Allori, Italian Mannerist painter and director of the Florentine carpet factory, dies at 72
1658 Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, German poet and translator, dies at 50
1662 John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)
1702 Hoessein Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (peace of Karlowitz), dies
1703 Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (Viviani's theorem), dies at 81
1712 José Solana, Spanish composer and organist, dies at 69
1737 Francesco Mancini, Neapolitan Baroque composer, dies at 65
1737 Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, French composer, dies at 69
1774 Pope Clement XIV [Giovanni Ganganelli], Pope (1769-74), dies at 68

Nathan Hale (1755-1776)

American Revolutionary War patriot, "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country", hanged by the British for spying at 21

1777 John Bartram, American naturalist and explorer, father of American botany, dies at 77
1796 George Wilhelm Gruber, German composer, dies on 67th birthday
1796 Joseph Lederer, German monastery composer, dies at 63
1814 August Wilhelm Iffland, German writer and actor, dies at 55
1826 Johann Peter Hebel, German writer (Allemannische Gedichte), dies at 66
1828 Shaka, South African Zulu king, founder of the Zulu nation, murdered (b. c. 1787)
1840 Anne Lister, English diarist 'the 1st modern lesbian', dies of a fever at 49
1840 Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, 6th child and second daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte, dies at 71
1852 William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer, dies at 69
1865 Heinrich Christian Pander, Baltic German biologist and embryologist, dies at 71
1872 Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language), dies at 70
1873 Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss politician, dies at 62
1880 Fred Grace, English cricket all-rounder (1 Test; first time 3 bros play a Test [with WG & EM Grace]; Gloucestershire CCC), dies of pneumonia at 29
1881 Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)
1890 Johanna D. Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author (Rozeken Pot), dies at 79
1897 Charles-Denis Bourbaki, French general (Crimean War, Franco-Prussian war), dies at 81
1914 Alain-Fournier, French writer (Le Grand Meaulnes), dies in battle at 27
1921 Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright (Under the Yoke), dies at 71
1923 Marquess of Ripon, English aristocrat and game hunter, dies, after shooting 52nd grouse in one morning at 71
1927 Giannotto Bastianelli, Italian musician and composer, dies at 44
1934 Cecil Chubb, English barrister, gifted monument Stonehenge to the British nation, dies at 58
1935 Karl Schröder II, German composer, dies at 86
1942 Ralph Adams Cram, American gothic architect (Cathedral of St Joan NYC), dies at 78
1944 "Cab" Calloway, British scout, dies in battle of Oosterbeek
1949 Kim Jong-suk, Wife of Kim Il-sung, mother of Kim Jung-Il, "The Heroine of the Anti-Japanese Revolution", dies at 31
1949 Sam Wood, American communist fighter and director (For Whom the Bell Tolls), dies at 66
1952 Cor Ruys, Dutch actor (Princess Stage, The Cross-Patch), dies at 63
1952 Ian Hay [John Hay Beith], British novelist and playwright (Pip, Carrying On), dies at 76
1952 Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)
1953 William Brann, South African cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa), dies at 54

Frederick Soddy (1877-1956)

English radiochemist and Nobel laureate (radioactive substances, isotopes), dies at 79

1957 Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral during World War II, dies at 72
1958 Mary Roberts Rinehart, American mystery writer and playwright (The Circular Staircase), dies at 82
1959 Benjamin Peret, French writer and poet (Le grand jeu), dies at 60
1959 Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, British fieldmarshal, dies at 79
1959 Jane Winton, American actress (Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan), dies at 53
1959 Josef Matthias Hauer, Austrian composer and music theorist, dies at 76
1960 Melanie Klein, Austrian-British author and child psychoanalyst (object relations theory), dies at 78
1961 Marion Davies [Douras], American silent and sound film actress, producer (Little Old New York; Not So Dumb; Five and Ten), and mistress of William Randolph Hearst, dies of cancer at 64
1965 Biz Mackey, American Baseball HOF catcher (5 × East-West All-Star Game; NgL World Series 1925 Hilldale Daisies, 1946 Newark Eagles), dies at 68
1965 Othmar Ammann, Swiss-American bridge engineer (George Washington Bridge; Walt Whitman Bridge; Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge), dies at 86
1969 Adolfo López Mateos, 48th President of Mexico, dies at 59
1969 Aleksandras Stulginskis, Russian-Lithuanian politician, nationalist (President of Lithuania, 1920-26), farmer, and political prisoner (Soviet gulag, 1941-56), dies at 84
1970 Alice Hamilton, American physician, scientist and social advocate (workmen's compensation laws, occupational illnesses), dies at 101 [1]
1971 Joseph Ford McGuinn, American director and actor (Dick Tracy's G-Men), dies of a heart attack at 67
1971 Yvonne St Clair, American dancer, dies at 57
1972 Robert K.J.E. Antonissen, Belgian-born South African literary figure, dies at 53
1975 Franz Salmhofer, Austrian composer and musician, dies at 75
1975 Patricia Doyle, English actress (Wuthering Heights), dies at 60
1978 Lina Carstens, German actress (Homeland, Broken Jug), dies at 85
1979 Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-British physicist who coined the term nuclear fission (Manhattan Project), and educator (Cambridge), dies at 74
1981 Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)
1985 Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73
1985 Dickie Henderson, British comic and actor, dies of pancreatic cancer at 82
1986 Bernie Cummins, American jazz drummer and big band bandleader ("Dark Eyes"), dies at 86
1987 Christopher Stryker, American actor, dies of AIDS at 27
1987 Dan Rowan, American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), dies at 65
1987 Louis Kentner, Hungarian-British composer, dies at 82
1987 Norman Luboff, American vocal arranger, music publisher, and choir director (Norman Luboff Choir - "Yellow Bird"), dies of lung cancer at 70
1988 Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst, dies at 74
1988 Rezső Sugár, Hungarian composer (Savonarola), and pedagogue, dies at 68

Irving Berlin (1888-1989)

Russian-American composer and lyricist considered one of the greatest songwriters in history ("Always"; "God Bless America"; "White Christmas"; "Cheek To Cheek"), dies at 101 [1] [2]

1989 Jan Teulings, Dutch actor and director (Dorp aan de Rivier), dies at 84
1991 Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies at 91
1991 Reynold Abel Dorris, American Sioux Indian (subject of book "Broken Cord"), dies at 23 after being struck by a car
1992 Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
1993 Margaret MacDonald 'Bobo', Scot-born maid to Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 89
1994 (John Edward) "Teddy" Buckner, American Dixieland jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
1994 Edward Shackleton, English explorer, geographer and Labour Party politician, dies at 83
1994 Forest 'Bud' Sagendorf, American cartoonist (Popeye), dies at 79
1994 Leonard Feather, British jazz critic and musician, dies at 80
1994 Mattie Moss Clark, American gospel singer, and music minister, dies of diabetes complications at 69
1995 (Dorothy) "Dolly" Collins, British folk songwriter, arranger, piano player, and composer, dies at 62
1995 Albert Goodwin, English historian, dies at 89
1995 Arthur Benfield, English celebrated head of Cheshire CID (lead investigation into 'Moors Murders'), dies at 82
1996 Dorothy Lamour [Mary Kaumeyer], American actress and singer (Road to Bali; My Favorite Brunette), dies of a heart attack at 81
1996 Ludmilla Chiraeff, Latvian-Canadian ballet dancer, choeographer, and troupe director, dies at 72
1996 Mohammed Ben Amhed Abdelghani, Prime Minister of Algeria (1979-84), dies of a heart attack at 69
1997 Bryan Ingham, English artist, dies at 61
1997 Eric William Hunter Christie, British barrister and Falklands campaigner, dies at 77
1997 George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, British politician (Speaker of the House of Commons), dies at 97
1997 Ruth Picardie, English journalist (Before I Say Goodbye), dies of cancer at 33
1997 Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese WW II fighter (surrendered in 1972), dies at 82

George C. Scott (1927-1999)

American actor (Dr. Strangelove), dies of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm at 71

1999 Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist, dies at 81
2000 Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator and flying ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, dies at 84
2000 Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet (Now and in Other Days), dies at 76
2001 Isaac Stern, American-Ukrainian concert violinist (debut San Francisco Symphony), dies at 81
2002 Jan de Hartog, Dutch-English writer (Holland's Glory), dies at 88
2003 Gordon Jump, American actor (WKRP in Cincinnati - "Arthur Carlson"; Growing Pains - "Ed"; Maytag Repairman), dies of pulmonary fibrosis at 71
2003 Hugo Young, British journalist (The Guardian), dies at 64
2004 Big Boss Man [Ray Washington Traylor Jr.], American professional wrestler, dies at 41
2004 Edward Larrabee Barnes, American architect (Walker Art Center), dies at 89
2005 Heimo Erbse, German concert, opera, and theater composer (Julietta). dies at 81
2005 Johan "Joop" Doderer, Dutch actor (Swiebertje; My Fair Lady), dies at 84
2006 Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
2006 Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
2006 Ewald Krolis, Suriname Dutch percussionist and kaseko singer (Caribbean Combo - Mi Kanto Ma Mi De Ete (Fallen But Not Defeated), dies at 59
2007 Bodinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1928)
2007 Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (Bip the Clown; Silent Movie), dies at 84
2008 Connie Haines [Yvonne Jasme], American pop and big-band singer (Harry James; Abbott and Costello Show; Tommy Dorsey), dies of myasthenia gravis at 87 [1]
2008 Thomas Doerflein, German Zookeeper (b. 1963)
2010 Eddie Fisher, American pop singer ("Oh My Papa": I'm Walking Behind You"), dies from complications from hip surgery at 82
2013 David Hubel, Canadian-born American neurologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 87
2014 Edward Anson, Australian British Royal Navy pilot (Korean War), officer (Vice Admiral), and ship captain (HMS Ark Royal), dies at 85

Yogi Berra (1925-2015)

American Baseball HOF catcher, coach and manager (18 x MLB All-Star; 13 x World Series; NY Yankees; AL MVP 1951, 54, 55), and Purple Heart recipient, dies at 90

2016 Kjell Albin Abrahamson, Swedish journalist and writer, dies at 71
2018 Charles "Chas" Hodges, English musician (Chas & Dave), dies at 74
2020 Agne Simonsson, Swedish soccer striker (51 caps; Örgryte IS, Real Madrid, Real Sociedad) and manager (Örgryte IS, BK Häcken), dies from pneumonia at 84
2020 Road Warrior Animal [Joseph Laurinaitis], American pro wrestler (3 x WWE Tag Team C'ship; WWE Hall of Fame), dies at 60
2021 Bob Moore, American session double bassist (Patsy Cline; Elvis Presley; Roger Miller), and orchestra leader ("Mexico"), dies at 88
2021 Jay Sandrich, American Emmy Award-winning television director (The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Soap; The Cosby Show), dies at 89
2021 Orlando Martínez, Cuban boxer (Olympic gold bantamweight 1972), dies at 77
2021 Roger Michell, British stage and screen director (Blue/Orange; Notting Hill; Hyde Park On Hudson), dies at 65
2022 Brother Andrew [Andrew van der Bijl], Dutch Christian missionary (Open Doors), dies at 94
2022 Hilary Mantel, English novelist (Wolf Hall), dies after a stroke at 70
2022 Tim Hankinson, American soccer coach (Alabama A&M, Syracuse University; Tampa Bay Mutiny, Colorado Rapids), dies from cancer at 67
2023 Américo Lopes, Portuguese soccer goalkeeper (15 caps; Porto, Boavista), dies at 90
2023 Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician, President of Italy (2006-15), dies at 98
2023 Giovanni Lodetti, Italian soccer midfielder (17 caps; AC Milan, Sampdoria, Foggia, Novara), dies at 81
2023 Mike Henderson, American country, blues, and bluegrass singer-songwriter, and slide guitarist (The Bluebloods; The SteelDrivers), dies at 70