Suleiman the Magnificent (1494-1566)
Ottoman Sultan and the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1530-1566), dies at 71 [or Sep 6]
- 1569 Bernardo Tasso, Italian courtier and poet, dies at 75
- 1569 Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44
- 1572 Pieter Tichelmann, Flemish Franciscan, dies at about 71
- 1607 Pomponne de Bellièvre, French statesman (Chancellor of France0, dies (b. 1529)
- 1629 Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c. 1585)
- 1659 Pieter de Carpentier, Dutch administrator (Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies 1623-27, Gulf of Carpentaria named after him), dies at 71
- 1683 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French statesman (First Minister of State, 1661-83; Minister of the Navy, 1689-83), dies at 64
- 1786 Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, philanthropist and noted opponent of drinking tea, dies at 74
- 1790 Thomas Norris, English singer and composer, dies at 49
- 1803 Francois Devienne, composer, dies at 44
- 1808 John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
- 1836 Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
- 1838 Charles Percier, French architect, dies at 74
Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
French philosopher and father of sociology (A General View of Positivism), dies of stomach cancer at 59
Crazy Horse (1840-1877)
Oglala Sioux chief (Battle of the Little Bighorn), dies at 37
Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)
German politician, anthropologist and pathologist (cell pathology), dies of heart failure at 80
- 1906 Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (thermodynamics), dies at 62
- 1910 Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest and musicologist (Magister choralis), dies at 70
- 1910 Julian Edwards, American composer, dies at 54
- 1912 Arthur MacArthur, Jr, American career military officer (US Army - Civil War, American Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, Philippine–American War), dies at 67
- 1914 Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
- 1917 Arthur Verhaegen, Belgian architect and worker's union leader, dies at 70
- 1917 Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (pioneer of statistical physics), dies at 45
- 1920 Robert Harron, American actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), accidentally shot to death at 27
- 1922 Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
- 1924 Karel Komzák III, Austrian conductor and composer, dies at 46 [1]
- 1926 Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
- 1930 Carl Panzram, American serial killer and rapist, dies at 38
- 1930 Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
- 1931 John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
- 1932 Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
- 1932 Paul Bern, German-American director, producer and husband of Jean Harlow, found dead with a gunshot wound at 42
- 1936 Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
- 1939 Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, Dutch actor and director (Ghost Hotel, Two Boys), dies at 67
- 1942 François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
- 1945 Clem Hill, Australian cricket batsman and captain (49 Tests, 7 x 100, HS 191; South Australia CA), dies in a traffic accident at 68
- 1947 Emma Mary Woolley, American educator and women's rights activist (President of Mount Holyoke College), dies at 84
- 1948 Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
- 1950 Al Killian, American big band and swing jazz trumpeter, and occasional bandleader, murdered by his landlord at 33
Francis Ford (1881-1953)
American actor (The Quiet Man), dies at 72
- 1953 Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician, one of the leading 'blood and soil' ideologists (b. 1895)
- 1954 Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and liberal politician, dies at 94
- 1962 Gertrude E. Durden Rush, American composer and playwright (Black Girls Burden). dies at 82
- 1965 Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
- 1966 Dezső Lauber, Hungarian competitive athlete (Ice skating, golf, tennis, cycling), and architect, dies at 87
- 1968 Juan Jose Castro, Argentine composer and conductor, dies at 73
- 1969 Henk Bijvanck, Dutch composer, dies at 59
- 1969 Josh White, American blues, folk and gospel musician, dies at 55
- 1969 Mitchell Ayres, American orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58
- 1970 Jochen Rindt, Austrian auto racer (posthumous World F1 title 1970), dies of throat injuries in practice accident at 28
- 1971 Ed Gordon Jr, American athlete (Olympic gold long jump 1932), dies at 63
- 1971 George Trafton, American NFL center (Chicago Bears), dies at 74
- 1972 Alan Kippax, Australian cricket batsman (22 Tests, 2 x 100, 8 x 50, HS 145; NSW CA), dies at 75
- 1972 Moshe Weinberg, Israeli Olympic wrestling coach, murdered in the Munich Olympic massacre by terrorists at 32
- 1973 Jack Fournier, American baseball player, 1912-27 (White Sox; Cardinals; Brooklyn Robins), dies at 83
- 1975 Georg Ots, Estonian baritone singer and actor, dies of a brain tumor at 55
- 1976 Arthur Gilligan, English cricket all-rounder (11 Tests, 34 wickets; England captain 1924-25; Sussex CCC), dies at 81
- 1977 George Barnes, American swing-jazz and session guitarist, and electric guitar pioneer, dies of a heart attack at 56
- 1977 Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant, dies at 80
- 1978 Joe Negroni, American rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 37
- 1979 Alberto di Jorio, Italian Cardinal and former head of the Vatican Bank, dies at 95
- 1980 Barbara Loden, American actress (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies of cancer at 48
- 1980 Don Banks, Australian orchestral, jazz, and film score composer, dies of leukemia at 56
- 1981 Ali Qoddusi, Iranian cleric (Prosecutor-General of Iran), assassinated in a bomb explosion (b. 1927)
- 1982 Douglas Bader, English RAF fighter pilot in World War II, dies at 72
- 1983 Antonio Mairena, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1909)
- 1987 Bill Bowes, English cricketer (Bodyline bowler, 68 wkts for England), dies at 79
- 1987 Quinn Martin [Irwin Martin Cohn], American television producer (The Fugitive; Cannon; The Streets of San Francisco; Barnaby Jones), dies of a heart attack at 65
- 1988 Gert Fröbe [Karl Gerhart Fröbe], German actor (Goldfinger, Lover's Wood, Upper Hand), dies from a heart attack at 75
- 1988 Lawrence Brown, American trombonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra), dies at 81
- 1990 Beppo Brem, German actor (Frontgockel), dies of heart failure at 84
- 1990 Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
- 1992 Armen Carapetyan, Americn musicologist and composer, dies at 83
- 1992 Billy Herman, American Baseball HOF second baseman (10 x MLB All Star; Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs), dies from cancer at 83
- 1992 Dorothy MacKaye, marital advisor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 88
- 1992 Irving Allen Lee, American actor (Newspaper Boys), dies of AIDS at 43
- 1993 Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78
- 1993 John Truscott, Australian set designer (Camelot), dies at 57
- 1993 Mohamed Tabet, Moroccan police commissar of Casablanca, convicted of sexually abusing over 1,500 women, executed at 54
- 1993 René Klijn, Dutch singer (Mr Blue), dies of AIDS at 30)
- 1993 Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60
- 1994 Billy Usselton, American big band jazz saxophonist (Les Brown and His Band of Renown), dies at 68
- 1994 John Newman, Australian state politician (Labor), murdered at 47 by local club owner and political opponent Phuong Ngo who had run against Newman as an independent
- 1994 Teddy Millington-Drake, English painter, dies at 62
- 1995 Francis Showering, English brewer, dies at 83
- 1995 James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, American pianist, dies at 95
- 1995 John Britten, New Zealand motorcycle designer, dies at 45
- 1995 John Megna, American actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird), dies of AIDS-related complications at 42
- 1996 Clem Thomas, Welsh rugby union flanker (26 Tests, 9 as captain; Cambridge Uni RFC, Brynamman, Swansea, London Welsh, Harlequins) and journalist (The Observer), dies at 67 dies at 67
- 1996 Leonard Katzman, American TV screenwriter and producer (Dallas; Petrocelli; Route 66), dies of a heart attack at 69
- 1996 Rose Isabel Williams, American muse and sister of Tennessee Williams, dies at 86
- 1997 Georg Solti [György Stern], Hungarian-British conductor, winner of 31 Grammy awards (Chicago Symphony, 1969-91), dies at 84
- 1997 Leon Edel, American-Canadian biographer (Henry James), dies at 89
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
Albanian-born Indian nun and founder of Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace Prize, 1979), dies of cardiac arrest at 87
- 1998 Leo Penn, American actor and film director, dies at 77
- 1998 Verner Panton, Danish furniture and interior designer, dies at 72
- 1998 Willem Drees, Jr, Dutch economist and politician (House of Representatives, 1972-77), dies at 75
- 1999 Alan Clark, English politician (Minister for Defence Procurement), dies at 71
- 1999 Albert Oram, Baron Oram, British Labour politician, dies at 86
- 1999 Allen Funt, American TV host and creator (Candid Camera), dies at 84
- 1999 Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician, dies at 78
- 1999 Katie Webster [Kathyrne Jewel Thorne], American boogie pianist (The Swamp Boogie Queen), dies of a heart attack at 63
- 2000 Roy Fredericks, West Indian cricket batsman (59 Tests @ 42.49, 8 x 100s; British Guyana, Glamorgan CCC), dies at 57
- 2001 Heywood Hale Broun, American TV commentator and sports correspondent, dies at 83
- 2001 Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef (Wise Potato Chips) and humorist, dies at 87
- 2001 Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and UN statistician, dies at 89
- 2002 David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
- 2002 John "Jackie" Kelk, American actor and stand-up comedian (The Aldrich Family, The Adventures of Superman), dies of a lung infection at 79
- 2003 C. H. Sisson, British author (Christopher Homm), dies at 89
- 2003 Gisele MacKenzie [LaFlèche], Canadian singer and actress (Your Hit Parade), dies at 76
- 2003 Ian Hunter, British impresario of classical music, dies at 84
- 2003 Moe Biller, American labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers), dies at 87
- 2005 Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile (b. 1917)
- 2007 D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
- 2007 Edward Gramlich, American economics professor (University of Michigan), dies at 68
- 2007 Jennifer Dunn, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Washington), dies at 66
- 2007 Paul Gillmor, American politician (Rep-R-Ohio 1989-2007), dies at 68
- 2007 Thomas Hansen Norwegian alternative country musician, found dead at 31
- 2010 Shoya Tomizawa Japanese MotoGP Racer, dies as the result of a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix at 19
- 2012 Joe South [Souter], American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist ("Games People Play"; "Walk A Mile In My Shoes"; "Rose Garden"), dies of heart failure at 72
- 2013 Willie Frazier, American football tight end (AFL All-Star 1965, 67, 69; All-Pro 1965; Houston Oilers, San Diego Chargers), dies at 71
- 2015 (Frederick) "Denny" Greene, American singer (Sha Na Na, 1968-84), dies from cancer at 66
- 2015 Jacques Israelievitch, French Canadian classical violinist, concertmaster (St. Louis Symphony, 1978-88; Toronto Symphony, 1988-2008), and music director (Koffler Chamber Orchestra, 2005-14), dies of lung cancer at 67
- 2015 Patricia Canning Todd, American tennis player (French National C'ship singles 1947; French doubles & mixed doubles 1948; Wimbledon doubles 1947), dies at 93
- 2015 Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (Late Spring, Tokyo Story), dies of pneumonia at 95
- 2016 Duane Graveline, American doctor and astronaut, dies at 85
- 2016 Hugh O'Brian, American actor (Wyatt Earp, Search), dies at 91
Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016)
American right-wing crusader, Eagle Forum President, dies at 92
- 2017 Holger Czukay [Holger Schüring], German musician (Can), dies at 79
- 2018 Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist, dies at 87
- 2019 Jimmy Johnson, American session guitarist and co-founder of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, dies at 76
- 2020 Jiří Menzel, Czech film director (Closely Watched Trains), dies at 82
- 2021 Ivan Patzaichin, Romanian canoeist (Olympic gold C-2 1000m 1968, 80, 84; C-1 1000m 1972; World C'ship gold x 8), dies from lung cancer at 71
- 2021 Rickie Lee Reynolds, American southern rock guitarist (Black Oak Arkansas - "Jim Dandy (To the Rescue)"), dies of COVID-19 complications, including kidney failure and heart attack at 72
- 2021 Sarah Harding, British pop singer (Girls Aloud - “Sound of the Underground,” “Love Machine”), dies of breast cancer at 39
- 2022 Eva Zeller, German poet and novelist, dies at 99
- 2022 Hans Eder, German soccer defender (Hertha BSC) and manager (Hertha BSC 1974, 79, 85), dies at 87
- 2022 Lars Vogt, German concert pianist, conductor, and educator, dies of cancer at 51
- 2022 Mark Littell, American MLB pitcher, 1973-82 (Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals), writer, and inventor, dies following heart surgery at 69
- 2023 Albert Azaryan, Armenian gymnast (Olympic gold USSR rings, team 1956, 60; World C'ship gold rings, team 1954, 58), dies at 94
- 2023 Charles Gayle, American jazz saxophonist and composer ("Streets"), dies at 84
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