Deaths September 25 | History by KabAstro

Clement VII (1478-1534)

Italian Pope (1523-34), dies at 56

1602 Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
1617 Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (1586-1611), dies at about 45
1617 Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (b. 1548)
1619 Francesco Soto de Langa, Spanish composer, dies at about 85
1630 Ambrogio Spinola, Spanish marquis of Balbases, dies at about 61
1665 Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1610)
1680 Samuel Butler, English poet and satirist (Hudibras), dies at 67
1716 Johann Christoph Pez, German Baroque composer, dies at 52
1727 Jacques Abbadie, French theologist, dies at about 73
1733 Georg Motz, German composer, dies at 79
1774 John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (British officer in French-Indian War, organized The Bateau and Transport Service), dies at 59
1777 Johann Heinrich Lambert, French-Swiss mathematician, dies at 49
1791 William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
1792 Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman, dies at 81
1794 Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
1808 Richard Porson, English classical scholar (Porson's Law), dies at about 48
1813 Braz Francisco de Lima, Portuguese composer, organist, mestre de capela, and pedagogue, dies at 61
1825 Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
1826 Giovanni Battista Brocchi, Italian naturalist and geologist (Conchiologia fossile subappennina), dies of suspected of dysentery in Khartoum at 54
1840 Jacques Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, Scottish-French general under Napoleon, dies at 74
1849 Johann Baptist Strauss, the elder, Austrian composer (Radetzky-Marsch), dies at 45
1860 Carl Friedrich Zöllner, German composer, dies at 60
1867 Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
1876 Adolf Glassbrenner, German satirical writer, dies at 66
1877 Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich, German physician ( established normal temperature as 37 °C (98.6 °F), dies at 62
1898 Hieronymus Theodor Richter, German mineralogist and co-discoverer of the element indium, dies at 73
1898 Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, French anthropologist who was the first to organize and classify Stone Age cultures into a chronological sequence of epochs, dies at 77
1900 Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)
1900 John M. Palmer, American politician (U.S. Senator from Illinois) and American Civil War General (Union), dies at 83
1901 Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
1905 Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
1914 Alfred Lichtenstein, German writer, dies at 25
1914 Jan Stobbaerts, Flemish painter, dies at 76
1916 Julius Fučík, Czech composer, dies at 44
1917 Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary who fought in the Easter Rising, dies after being badly treated during a hunger strike in prison at 32
1918 John Ireland, Irish-American archbishop of St Paul (1888-1918), dies at 80
1918 Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (Tsar Nicholas II's Chief of Staff), dies of a heart attack at 60
1919 Charles Lang Freer, American industrialist and art collector; endowed Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art, dies at 65
1920 William F. Sudds, American composer, music publisher, and teacher, dies at 77
1924 (Charlotte) "Lotta" Crabtree, American stage actress, comedian (Little Nell and the Marchioness), and philanthropist, dies at 76
1924 Karel Burian (also Carl Burrian), Czech operatic tenor, dies at 54
1926 Herbert Booth, English Salvation Army Officer and son of William and Catherine Booth, dies at 64
1928 Karl Schneider, Australian cricketer (South Aust batsman), dies of leukemia at 23
1929 Miller Huggins, American Baseball Hall of Fame manager (World Series 1923, 27, 28; 6 x AL pennants NY Yankees), dies of pyaemia at 51
1933 Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian-Dutch theoretical physicist (phase transition, Ehrenfest theorem), dies at 53
1933 Ring Lardner, American sports writer (Chicago Examiner, Chicago Tribune; "Pullman Pastimes"-The Sporting News; "You Know Me"; the Boston American), dies from a heart attack at 48
1940 Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (Snow White), dies at 57
1944 Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68
1944 Leo Justinus Kauffmann, Alsatian composer, dies at 43
1945 Charles A. Ellwood, American sociologist and psychologist, dies at 72
1946 Heinrich George [Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz], German actor (Hitlerjunge Quex), dies at 52
1953 Dimitur Poljanov [Popov], Bulgaria poet (Iron Verses), dies at 76
1954 Eugenio d'Ors, Spanish Catalan essayist and philosopher, dies at 71
1955 Hendrik J. Pos, Dutch philosopher and linguist (Committee of Watchfulness), dies at 57
1958 John B. Watson, American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, dies at 80
1959 Ennio Porrino, Italian composer, dies at 49
1959 Helen Broderick, American comedienne and actress (Swing Time; Top Hat), dies at 68
1960 Emily Post, American authority on social behaviour and writer (Etiquette), dies at 86
1961 Frank Fay, American vaudeville comedian and actor (God's Gift to Women), dies at 69
1964 Ida Moore, American character actress (Mr. Music; Ma and Pa Kettle; Desk Set), dies at 82
1965 Nikolai Sokoloff, Russian-American conductor (Seattle Symphony), dies at 79
1967 (Hezekiah) "Stuff" Smith, American jazz violinist, vocalist, and composer ("It's Wonderful"; "You'se A Viprer"), dies at 58 [1]
1968 Cornell Woolrich, American writer (El Angel Negro), dies at 64
1968 Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and advocate of scientific racism, dies at 77
1970 Efim Golishev, Ukrainian painter and composer, dies at 73

Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970)

German novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front), dies at 72

1971 Hugo L. Black, American lawyer, jurist and politician (Sen-D-Alabama 1927-37, 78th Supreme Court justice 1937-71), dies at 85
1971 T. C. Jones, American female impersonator, dies of cancer at 50

Coco the Clown (1900-1974)

Russian-born British clown famous in the mid-20th century, dies at 73

1974 William Sloane, American publisher and writer (Edge of Running Water), dies at 68
1975 Bob Considine, American journalist and author (Babe Ruth Story), dies at 68
1976 Red Faber, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1917; AL ERA leader 1921, 22; Chicago White Sox 1914-33), dies from heart disease at 88
1977 Sidney James van den Bergh, Dutch businessman and politician, dies at 78
1978 Claire Adams, Canadian born silent film actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road), dies at 80
1979 Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (Me tulemme taas, Rion yö), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 64
1980 Earl Roy Curry, American religious thinker and Kirtland Temple overseer, dies at 90

John Bonham (1948-1980)

English rock drummer (Led Zeppelin - "Whole Lotta Love"), dies from asphyxiation after heavy alcohol intake at 32

1980 Lewis Milestone [Leib Milstein], Moldovan-American Academy Award-winning film director (d All Quiet on the Western Front; Of Mice and Men; Ocean's 11), dies at 84
1980 Marie Under, Estonian author and poet, dies at 97
1983 Leopold III, King of the Belgians (from 1934, abdicated 1951), dies at 81
1984 Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie), dies from a stroke at 87
1985 Albert Moeschinger, Swiss composer, dies at 88
1985 William Cumming Rose, American biochemist who discovered threonine (an amino acid), dies at 98
1986 Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician and former president of the Canadian Labour Congress (1967-74), dies at 77
1986 Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist, dies at 77
1986 Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian Chemist and Nobel Prize winner, dies at 90
1987 Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor (Ivanhoe, I Accuse!), and playwright (The Corn Is Green), dies of cancer at 81

Mary Astor (1906-1987)

American Academy Award-winning actress (The Great Lie; Meet Me In St Louis; The Maltese Falcon), dies of emphysema at 81

1988 Billy Carter, brother of US President Jimmy Carter, dies of cancer at 51

Klaus Barbie (1913-1991)

German Gestapo chief (Butcher of Lyon), dies of cancer at 77

1991 Lydia Cabrera, Cuban anthropologist and ethnographer of Cuban folklore and Afro-Cuban culture, dies at 92 [1]
1991 Max Koot, Dutch royal photographer, dies at 74
1991 Viviane Romance [Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns], French actress (Panic, Queen's Necklace), dies at 79
1994 John Richard Ravensdale, British historian, dies at 73
1994 Ludwig Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, German Prince of Prussia, dies at 86
1994 Mark Alexander Abrams, English market researcher, dies at 88
1994 Thomas Titus Nkobi, South African ANC-leader (Alexandra-bus boycott 1957), dies at 71
1995 Bessie [Annie Elizabeth] Delany, American dentist and civil rights pioneer, dies at 104
1995 Dave Bowen, Welsh soccer wing-half (19 caps; Arsenal) and manager (Wales 1964-74; Northampton Town), dies at 67
1995 Dorothy Dickson, American actress and dancer (Paying the Piper, Danny Boy), dies at 102
1996 Betty Gathergood, British curator (Dr. Johnson's House), dies at 80 [1]
1996 Nicu Ceaușescu, youngest child of Romanian Communist Dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and considered the President's heir apparent, dies of cirrhosis at 45
1997 Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist, dies at 81
1997 Jean Françaix, French classical pianist, and composer, dies at 85
1997 Sayed ad-Darsh, Egyptian-British Muslim scholar and broadcaster, dies at 66
1998 Russell Smith, American composer, dies at 71
1999 Marion Zimmer Bradley, American sci-fi author (Storm Queen), dies at 69
2000 R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet, dies at 87
2002 Wanda Luzzato, Italian concert violinist and teacher dies at 83
2003 Anthony Durante, American professional wrestler, dies at 36
2003 Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician (b. 1953)
2003 Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary critic, dies at 67
2003 Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist (1985 Nobel Prize for Economics), dies at 85
2003 George Plimpton, American sports writer (Paper Lion), and participatory journalist, dies of a heart attack at 76
2003 Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)

Don Adams (1923-2005)

American comedian and Emmy Award-winning actor (Get Smart; Tennessee Tuxedo; The Bill Dana Show), dies from complications of lymphoma at 82

2005 Friedrich Peter, Austrian far-right politician, dies at 84
2005 George Archer, American golfer (US Masters 1969), dies of Burkitt's lymphoma at 65
2005 Georges Arvanitas, French jazz pianist and organist, dies at 74
2005 Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (b. 1912)
2005 M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (The Road Less Traveled), dies at 69
2005 Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist (b. 1917)
2006 Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)
2006 John M. Ford, American sci-fi author and poet, dies at 49

Sofia Muratova (1929-2006)

Soviet-Russian gymnast (1952-60 Olympics: 6 gold, 3 silver & 4 bronze medals), dies at 77

2007 Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian negotiator (b. 1919)
2008 (Gerrit Cornelis) "Kees" Otten, Dutch flautist and recorder player, dies at 83
2009 Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica), dies at 86
2010 Art Gilmore, American radio and television announcer (Highway Patrol), and actor, dies at 98
2011 Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician and leader of the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), dies at 78

Wangari Maathai (1940-2011)

Kenyan environmentalist and political activist, founder of the Green Belt Movement, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (2004) and Indira Gandhi Peace Prize (2006), dies from ovarian cancer at 71

Andy Williams (1927-2012)

American pop singer ("Moon River"; "Days of Wine and Roses"), dies from bladder cancer at 84

2014 Dorothy Tyler-Odam, British athlete (Olympic silver high jump 1936, 48; WR 1.66m 1939), dies at 94

Arnold Palmer (1929-2016)

American golfer (7 major titles; US Masters 1958, 60, 62, 64), dies of heart failure at 87

2016 Jean Shepard, American country singer (Ozark Jubilee), dies of Parkinson's disease at 82
2016 José Fernández, Cuban-American MLB player (Miami Marlins), dies in a boat accident at 24
2016 Kashif Saleem [Michael Jones], American R&B, disco, and soul keyboardist (B.T. Express, 1976-79 - "Can't Stop Groovin' Now, Wanna Do It Some More"), songwriter, and record producer, dies at 59
2016 Rod Temperton, British pop musician and songwriter ("Boogie Nights"; "Thriller"; "Give Me the Night"; "Yah Mo B There"), dies of cancer at 66
2017 Anthony "Tony" Booth, British actor and father of Cherie Blair (Till Death Us Do Part), dies at 85
2017 Folke Rabe, Swedish avant-garde composer (What??), dies at 81
2019 Paul Badura-Skoda, Austrian pianist (Mozart interpretation), dies at 91
2020 S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, Telegu playback singer (The Jewel of Shiva), dies of COVID-19 at 74
2021 Len Ashurst, English soccer defender (Sunderland AFC 409 games) and manager (Cardiff City, Sunderland, Newport County), dies at 82
2022 Andrés Prieto, Chilean soccer forward (16 caps; Universidad Católica, Español) and manager (Universidad Católica, Liverpool FC, Bolívar, Real Santa Cruz), dies at 93
2022 James Florio, American politician and author of federal 'Superfund' legislation (49th Governor of New Jersey, 1990-94; US Representative from New Jersey, 1975-90), dies of heart failure at 85 [1] [2]
2022 Rafael Chimishkyan, Georgian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR 60kg 1952; World C'ship gold 60kg 1954, 55), dies at 93
2023 David McCallum, Scottish-American actor (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - "Ilyla Kuryakin"; NCIS), dies at 90 [1]
2023 György Kottán, Hungarian soccer manager (Bangladesh 2000-03; Pakistan 2009-10), dies at 76
2023 Matteo Messina Denaro, Italian mobster, dies of complications from colon cancer at 61