Deaths September 23 | History by KabAstro

1773 Johann Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)
1778 Balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator and historian, dies at 83
1789 John Rogers, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1797 Johann Georg Roser, Austrian composer and kapellmeister, dies at 57
1823 Matthew Baillie, Scottish Physician (first systematic study of pathology in 1793), dies at 61
1830 Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, First Lady of the United States (1817-25) as the wife of the fifth President James Monroe, dies at 62
1835 Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (La Sonnambula, Norma), dies at 33
1836 María Malibran (née García) Spanish operatic contralto and soprano, dies from head injuries several months after falling from a horse at 28
1837 Richard John Samuel Stevens, English composer, dies at 80
1844 Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1783)
1846 John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (b. 1818)
1847 Henri de Mérode, Belgian revolutionary (Souvenirs), dies at 65)
1850 José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan revolutionary leader and national hero who is regarded as the father of Uruguayan independence, dies at 86
1864 Sandie [Alexander Swift] Pendleton, American Lieutenant Colonel (Confederate Army), dies at 23
1870 Prosper Mérimée, French author (Carmen), dies at 66

1871 Alexander N. Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45
1873 Jean Chacornac, French astronomer, dies at 50
1877 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, French astronomer (made calculations that proved existence of Neptune), dies at 66
1889 [William] Wilkie Collins, English writer (The Moonstone), dies at 65
1896 Gilbert Duprez, French composer, dies at 89
1896 Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet, dies at 83
1900 William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (b. 1816)
1902 John Wesley Powell, American geologist, explorer (Grand Canyon) and ethnologist, dies at 68
1906 Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist and politician (Mayor of Antwerp, 1892-1906; Member of Parliament, 1900-06), dies at 53
1908 Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet, dies at 74
1910 Tup Scott, Australian cricket batsman and captain (8 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 102; Victoria), dies of typhoid at 51
1917 Werner Voss, German World War I flying ace, dies at 20
1929 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist (1925 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work colloids), dies at 64 [1]
1930 Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62
1937 Caro Roma [Carrie Northey], American composer and singer, dies at 68

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Austrian neurologist and father of psychology, dies at 83

1943 Elinor Glyn, British novelist (3 Weeks) and screenwriter, dies at 78
1944 Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch Prime Minister (1933-39) is buried
1947 Nikola Petkov, leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged
1950 Sam Barry, American collegiate basketball, football and baseball coach (University of Southern California, 1929-50), dies of a heart attack at 57
1956 Earl Godwin, newscaster (Meet the Veep), dies at 75
1960 Kathlyn Williams, actress (Single Man), dies of a heart attack at 72
1961 Billy House, American actor (Imitation of Life; Bedlam; The Egg and I), dies at 71
1961 Elmer Diktonius, Finnish poet, composer, and musicologist (Janne Kubrik; Stenkol), dies at 65
1968 Padre Pio, Roman Catholic saint, dies at 81
1970 Bourvil [André Robert Raimbourg], French actor and singer (Le Corniaud, La Grande Vadrouille), dies of Kahler's syndrome at 53
1971 Billy Gilbert, American actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday), dies at 77
1971 James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist, dies at 83
1972 Calvin Frazier, American country and Detroit blues singer-songwriter, and guitarist ("This Old World's In A Tangle"), dies of cancer at 57
1972 Carl Frank, actor (Uncle Gunnar-Mama), dies at 63
1973 Manuel Borguñó, Spanish pianist, composer, choral director, and pedagogue, dies at 89

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)

Chilean poet (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971), dies of heart failure at 69

1974 Cliff Arquette, American comedian (Charlie Weaver), dies at 68
1974 Gerhard Nebel, German writer, dies at 70
1974 Robbie Mcintosh, Scottish drummer (Average White Band), overdoses at 24
1975 Constant Stotijn, Dutch cellist (Residence Orchestra), oboe player, and timpanist, dies at 62
1975 Ian Hunter, South African character actor (Dr. Blood's Coffin; White Unicorn), dies at 75
1975 René Thomas, French auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1914), dies at 89
1978 Jay Adler, American actor (Macon County Line; Illegal, Big Combo), dies at 79
1979 Catherine Lacey, English actress (October Man, Carnival), dies at 75
1980 Alan Strode Campbell Ross, British linguist (coined the terms U & non-U), dies at 73
1981 Chief Dan George [Tes-wah-no], Canadian Indian author, poet and actor (Harry & Tonto, Little Big Man, Smith!), dies from heart failure at 82
1982 Jimmy Wakely, American country music vocalist (5 Star Jubilee), dies of heart failure at 68
1984 Anatoly Novikov, Russian-Soviet composer (Red Spider; The Hymn of Democratic Youth of the World), dies at 87
1985 Charles Phillips, British archaeologist who lead the Sutton Hoo excavation, dies at 84
1985 Mickey Simpson, American actor (Wagonmaster), dies of a heart attack at 72
1986 Paddy Stone, Canadian choreographer (Piccadilly Palace), dies at 62

Bob Fosse (1927-1987)

American choreographer, film and stage director (All the Jazz, Cabaret, Damn Yankees), dies of a heart attack at 62

1987 Louis Kentner, Hungarian-British pianist and composer, dies at 87
1987 O. B. McClinton, American country singer (Man needs a woman), dies at 47
1988 Arwel Hughes, Welsh composer, dies at 79
1988 Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (b. 1912)
1991 Ernestine McClendon, director/actress (Homer & Eddie), dies
1991 Patrick Hamilton, English author and playwright (Gas Light, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 58
1992 Bernice Gera, American 1st female baseball umpire (1969 NY-Penn League), dies of cancer at 61
1992 Glendon Swarthout, American novelist (Where The Boys Are; The Shootist), dies of emphysema at 74
1992 James Van Fleet, American US Army General (served during WWI, WWII, and Korean War), dies at 100
1992 Martin Arsenault, actor (Guilty by Suspicion), dies of an ulcer
1992 Paul E Garber, American founder/1st curator of National Air & Space Museum, dies at 93
1993 William Cort, actor/producer (Ghost, Dear Heart), dies of cancer at 53
1994 Alec Dickson, British founder of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), dies at 80
1994 Ali Kouider Benyahia [sheik Boualem], Alg Muslim leader, shot at 26
1994 Cherif Gousmi [kalief Abu Abdallah Ahmed], Alger Muslim leader, shot
1994 Dalton Reed, American soul singer, dies of heart failure at 42
1994 Georgi, Tsar Nicholas II's brother, buried
1994 Jerry Barber, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1961), dies of mitral valve prolapse and stroke at 78
1994 John van Damme, businessman, hanged in Singapore at 59
1994 Madeleine Renaud, French actress and theater director (Plaisir), dies at 94
1994 Robert Bloch, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho), dies of cancer at 77
1995 Lawrence "Booker T." Laury, American boogie-woogie and blues pianist and singer, dies at 81
1996 Denis Dowling, New Zealand-born British operatic baritone, dies at 86
1996 Fujiko F. Fujio [Hiroshi Fujimoto], Japanese manga cartoon artist (Doraemon), dies at 62
1996 Jack Newman, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (3 Tests; Test selector 1958-63; president NZ Cricket Council 1964-67), dies at 94
1996 Kip Tyler [Elwood Smith], American rockabilly singer-songwriter, and bongo player ("Ooh Yeah Baby"), dies at 67
1996 Stuart Piggott, British archaeologist best known for his work on prehistoric Wessex, dies at 86
1997 Abe Gibron, head coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 72
1997 Murray Burnett, writer (Everybody Goes to Rick-Casablanca), dies at 86
1997 Shirley Clarke, American film director, dies at 78
1998 Mary Frann [Leucke], American actress (Newhart - "Joanna"; Days of Our Live, 1976-79 - "Amanda"), dies of a heart attack at 55
1999 Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (Man of a Thousand Faces), dies at 89
2000 Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (b. 1947)
2000 Carl Rowan, American syndicated journalist (Chicago Sun-Times, Washington bureau), and diplomat, dies of diabetes related heart and kidney issues at 75
2001 Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (b. 1928)
2002 James Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, English Conservative peer who campaigned for reform of the ancient law on treasure trove, dies at 87
2002 Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan pioneer radio broadcaster, dies at 75
2003 Yuri Senkevich, Russian TV anchorman (b. 1937)
2004 André Hazes, Dutch barkeeper and singer (We Love Orange), dies at 53
2004 Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, dies at 86
2004 Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet, dies at 90
2005 Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (Founder of FALN), dies at 72
2005 Roger Brierley, British character actor, dies of a heart attack at 70
2006 Etta Baker, American blues guitarist, dies at 93
2006 Sir Malcolm Arnold, British trumpeter, and classical and film score composer (The Bridge On The River Kwai), dies at 84
2008 Peter Leonard, Australian journalist and newsreader, dies of cancer at 66
2009 Paul B. Fay, American businessman and cabinet member in the Kennedy administration (b. 1918)
2010 Bob Shaw, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox), dies at 77
2010 Malcolm Douglas, Australian conservationist (b. 1941)
2010 Teresa Lewis, American murderer (b. 1969)
2011 Stuart J. Byrne, American sci-fi author (Star Man, God Man), dies at 97
2012 Corrie Sanders, South African boxer, shot dead at 46
2012 Karl Michael Komma, German composer and music publicist, dies at 98
2013 Hugo Raes, Flemish writer (Horses Jump & Fresh Sea), dies at 84
2013 Ruth Patrick, American botanist and limnologist, dies at 105
2017 Charles Bradley, American R&B and funk singer, known as 'The Screaming Eagle of Soul', dies of stomach cancer at 68
2017 Tsisana Tatishvili, Georgian lyric-dramatic soprano, dies at 79
2019 Robert Hunter, American lyricist and singer-songwriter (Grateful Dead), dies at 78
2020 Bobby Wilson, English tennis player (Wimbledon doubles 1960 runner-up), dies at 84

American College and Pro Football Hall of Fame halfback, 4X Pro Bowl, 2X NFL rushing leader (Chicago Bears), and source for the TV movie "Brian's Song", dies from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease at 77 [1]

2020 Harold Evans, English-American journalist, editor (The Sunday Times), and publisher (Random House), dies at 92 [1]
2020 Juliette Gréco, French singer (Sous le ciel de Paris) and actress, dies at 93 [1]
2020 Ray Batten, English rugby league back-rower (Great Britain 3, England 3 Tests; Leeds 434 games) and coach (Wakefield Trinity), dies at 75
2020 W. S. "Fluke" Holland, American rockabilly session and touring drummer (Sun Records; Carl Perkins; Johnny Cash), dies at 85
2021 Nino Vaccarella, Italian auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1964; 12 Hours of Sebring 1970), dies at 88
2021 Sue Thompson [Eva Sue McKee], American pop and country music singer ("Sad Movies (Make Me Cry")), dies at 96
2021 [Alfred] "Pee Wee" Ellis, American jazz, funk, and rock saxophonist, arranger (James Brown; Van Morrison; Maceo Parker), and songwriter ("The Chicken"; "Cold Sweat"), dies of heart failure at 80

Louise Fletcher (1934-2022)

American Academy Award-winning actress (One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), dies at 88 [1]

2023 Terry Kirkman, American rock vocalist, songwriter, and keyboardist (The Association - "Windy"; "Cherish"), and later substance abuse counselor, dies at 83

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