Notable Deaths on September 11

Q: Who died on September 11?

Notable people who died on September 11 include: Kesta Styppiotes, Béla I of Hungary (born 1016), Melisende, Stephen Hagiochristophorites, Robert Kilwardby.

Q: What is Alberto Fujimori known for?

Alberto Fujimori, Peruvian politician, professor, and engineer, President of Peru (born 1938)

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Peruvian politician, professor, and engineer, President of Peru (born 1938)

September 11 has seen 129 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 883 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 129 people 883 – 2025

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Fujimori became known for his neoliberal political and economic ideology of Fujimorism, which pushed a free market economy and social conservatism

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Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto was a Peruvian politician, professor, and engineer who served as the president of Peru from 1990 to 2000, effectively ruling as a dictator

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During Fujimori's tenure, the Peruvian Armed Forces responded to the far-left guerrilla group Shining Path with repressive and lethal force, halting the group's actions while also killing thousands of innocent civilians

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Fujimori's presidency was marked by severe authoritarian measures, excessive use of propaganda, entrenched political corruption, multiple cases of extrajudicial killings, and human rights violations.

Kesta Styppiotes

Byzantine general

Kesta Styppiotes or Stypeiotes was briefly the Domestic of the Schools of the Byzantine Empire in ca. 883.

883

Béla I of Hungary (born 1016)

Béla I the Boxer or the Wisent was King of Hungary from 1060 until his death. He descended from a younger branch of the Árpád dynasty. Béla's baptismal name was Adalbert. He left Hungary in 1031, together with his…

1063

Melisende

Queen of Jerusalem (born 1105)

Melisende was the queen of Jerusalem from 1131 to 1152. She was the first female ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the first woman to hold a public office in the crusader kingdom. Her fame grew in her lifetime for…

1161

Stephen Hagiochristophorites

Byzantine courtier (born 1130)

Stephen Hagiochristophorites was the most powerful member of the court of Byzantine emperor Andronikos I Komnenos. He was killed while trying to arrest Isaac II Angelos, who subsequently deposed and replaced Andronikos.

1185

Robert Kilwardby

English cardinal (born 1215)

Robert Kilwardby OP was an Archbishop of Canterbury in England and a cardinal. Kilwardby was the first member of a mendicant order to attain a high ecclesiastical office in the English Church.

1279

Hugh de Cressingham

English Treasurer

Sir Hugh de Cressingham was the treasurer of the English administration in Scotland from 1296 to 1297. He was an adviser to John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. He suggested a full-scale…

1297

Philip of Artois

Lord of Conches, Nonancourt, and Domfront (born 1269)

Philip of Artois, Lord of Conches, Nonancourt, and Domfront, was the son of Robert II, Count of Artois, and Amicie de Courtenay, daughter of Peter, Lord of Conches and Mehun.

1298

Bonne of Luxembourg

spouse of John II of France (born 1315)

Bonne of Luxemburg or Jutta of Luxemburg, was born Jutta (Judith), the second daughter of King John of Bohemia, and his first wife, Elisabeth of Bohemia. She was the first wife of King John II of France; however, as she…

1349

Vincenza Armani

Italian actress (born 1530)

Vincenza Armani, was an Italian actress, singer, poet, musician, lace maker and sculptor. She was one of the most famous Italian actresses of the period and known as the 'Divine Vincenza Armani'. She and Barbara…

1569

Beatrice Cenci

Italian noblewoman (born 1577)

Beatrice Cenci was an Italian noblewoman imprisoned and repeatedly raped by her own father. She killed him, and was tried for murder. Despite outpourings of public sympathy, Cenci was beheaded in 1599 after a murder…

1599

James Harrington

English philosopher and author (born 1611)

James Harrington was an English political theorist known for his contributions to classical republican thought. He is best known for The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656), an exposition of an ideal republican constitution…

1677

Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (born 1596)

Kotohito (Japanese: 政仁; IPA: [ko̞to̞çito̞]; 29 June 1596 – 11 September 1680, posthumously honored as Emperor Go-Mizunoo , was the 108th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Go-Mizunoo's…

1680

Rudolf Jakob Camerarius

German botanist and physician (born 1665)

Rudolf Jakob Camerarius or Camerer was a German botanist and physician.

1721

François Couperin

French organist and composer (born 1668)

François Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Grand to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family.

1733

Louis Godin

French astronomer and academic (born 1704)

Louis Godin was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences. He worked in Peru, Spain, Portugal and France.

1760

David Ricardo

English economist and politician (born 1772)

David Ricardo was a British economist and politician. He is recognized as one of the most influential classical economists, alongside figures such as Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith and James Mill.

1823

Joseph Nicollet

French mathematician and explorer (born 1786)

Joseph Nicolas Nicollet, also known as Jean-Nicolas Nicollet, was a French geographer, astronomer, and mathematician known for mapping the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s. Nicollet led three expeditions…

1843

José Núñez de Cáceres

Dominican politician and writer, leader of the Independence movement of the Dominican Republic (born 1772)

José Núñez de Cáceres y Albor was a Dominican revolutionary and writer. Known for being the leader of the first Dominican independence movement against Spain in 1821, his actions preceded the Dominican War of…

1846

Sylvester Graham

American minister and dietary reformer, namesake of the graham cracker (born 1794)

Sylvester Graham was an American Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer. He was known for his emphasis on vegetarianism, the temperance movement, and eating whole-grain bread. His preaching inspired the graham…

1851

Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière

French general (born 1806)

Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière was a 19th-century French general.

1865

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Argentinian journalist and politician, 7th President of Argentina (born 1811)

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837, who had a great influence on 19th-century Argentina.

1888

Francis James Child

American scholar and educator (born 1825)

Francis James Child was an American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads. Child was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and…

1896

Nikoline Harbitz

Norwegian author (born 1841)

Nikoline Anette Harbitz was a Norwegian author.

1898

Louis Henri Boussenard

French explorer and author (born 1847)

Louis Henri Boussenard was a French author of adventure novels, dubbed "the French Rider Haggard" during his lifetime, but known better presently in Eastern Europe than in Francophone countries. As a measure of his…

1911

William Sprague IV

American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Rhode Island (born 1830)

William Sprague IV was an American politician who served as the 27th governor of Rhode Island from 1860 to 1863, and a U.S. senator from 1863 to 1875. He participated in the First Battle of Bull Run during the American…

1915

Georges Guynemer

French captain and pilot (born 1894)

Georges Marie Lodovic Jules Guynemer was the second highest-scoring French fighter ace with 54 victories during World War I, and a French national hero at the time of his death. Guynemer's death was a profound shock to…

1917

Subramania Bharati

Indian journalist, poet, and activist (born 1882)

Subramania Bharati was an Indian writer, poet, composer, journalist, teacher, Indian independence activist, social reformer and polyglot. He was bestowed the title Bharati for his poetry and was a pioneer of modern…

1921

Matsunosuke Onoe

Japanese actor and director (born 1875)

Matsunosuke Onoe , sometimes known as Medama no Matchan , was a Japanese actor. His birth name is Tsuruzo Nakamura. He is sometimes credited as Yukio Koki, Tamijaku Onoe, or Tsunusaburo Onoe, and as a kabuki artist he…

1926

Stanisław Wigura

Polish pilot and businessman, co-founded the RWD Company (born 1901)

Stanisław Wigura was a Polish aircraft designer and aviator, co-founder of the RWD aircraft construction team and lecturer at the Warsaw University of Technology. Along with Franciszek Żwirko, he won the international…

1932

Franciszek Żwirko

Polish soldier and pilot (born 1895)

Franciszek Żwirko [english pronunciation like: frantsishek zhvirko] was a prominent Polish sport and military aviator. Along with Stanisław Wigura, he won the international air contest Challenge 1932.

1932

Charles Norris

American coroner (born 1867)

Charles Norris was New York's first appointed chief medical examiner (1918–1935) and pioneer of forensic toxicology in America.

1935

Konstantin Korovin

Russian-French painter and set designer (born 1861)

Konstantin (Constantin) Alekseyevich Korovin was a leading Russian Impressionist painter.

1939

Christian Rakovsky

Bulgarian physician, journalist, and politician, Soviet Ambassador to France (born 1873)

Christian Georgiyevich Rakovsky, Bulgarian name Krastyo Georgiev Rakovski, born Krastyo Georgiev Stanchov, was a Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat and statesman; he was…

1941

Aleksandra Izmailovich

Belarusian revolutionary (born 1878)

Aleksandra Adolfovna Izmailovich was a Belarusian socialist revolutionary. From a noble family, she joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR) while studying in Saint Petersburg. She used her family home in Minsk to…

1941

Maria Spiridonova

Russian revolutionary (born 1884)

Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary. In 1906, as a novice member of a local combat group of the Tambov Socialists-Revolutionaries (SRs), she assassinated Gavriil Luzhenovsky, a…

1941

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Pakistan (born 1876)

Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister, statesman, and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the inception of Pakistan on 14 August 1947, and then as Pakistan's…

1948

Henri Rabaud

French composer and conductor (born 1873)

Henri Benjamin Rabaud was a French conductor, composer and teacher, who held important posts in the French musical establishment and upheld mainly conservative trends in French music in the first half of the twentieth…

1949

Jan Smuts

South African field marshal and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of South Africa (born 1870)

Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, was a South African statesman, military officer and philosopher. In addition to holding various military and cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa…

1950

Billy Bishop

Canadian colonel and pilot (born 1894)

Air Marshal William Avery Bishop, was a Canadian flying ace of the First World War. He was officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian and British Empire ace of the war, and also received a…

1956

Mary Proctor

American astronomer (born 1862)

Mary Proctor was a British-American popularizer of astronomy. While not a professional astronomer, Proctor became well known for her books and articles written for the public – particularly her children's fiction.

1957

Camillien Houde

Canadian politician, 34th Mayor of Montreal (born 1889)

Camillien Houde was a Quebec politician, a Member of Parliament, and a four-time mayor of Montreal. He is of the few Canadian politicians to have served at all three levels of government. During World War II, Houde was…

1958

Robert W. Service

English-French poet and author (born 1874)

Robert William Service was an English-born Canadian poet and writer, often called “The Bard of the Yukon" and "The Canadian Kipling". Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long…

1958

Paul Douglas

American actor (born 1907)

Paul Douglas Fleischer, known professionally as Paul Douglas, was an American actor.

1959

Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh

Indian poet and critic (born 1917)

Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh was a prominent Hindi poet, essayist, literary and political critic, and fiction writer of the 20th century.

1964

Ralph C. Smedley

American educator, founded Toastmasters International (born 1878)

Ralph Chesnut Smedley was the founder of Toastmasters International, an international public speaking organization. He spent 60 years developing the Toastmasters concept from a series of unsuccessful local clubs to the…

1965

Collett E. Woolman

American businessman, co-founded Delta Air Lines (born 1889)

Collett Everman Woolman, commonly known as "C.E.", was an American airline entrepreneur best known as the principal founder and first CEO of Delta Air Lines.

1966

Tadeusz Żyliński

Polish engineer and academic (born 1904)

Tadeusz Żyliński was a Polish technician, textilist and mechanical engineer. He was a professor of Technical University of Łódź, creator of Polish school of textile metrology. Author of Metrologia włókiennicza and Nauka…

1967

René Cogny

French general (born 1904)

René Cogny was a French Général de corps d'armée, World War II and French Resistance veteran and survivor of Buchenwald and Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps. He was a commander of the French forces in Tonkin during…

1968

Nikita Khrushchev

Russian general and politician (born 1894)

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. As leader of the Soviet Union, he…

1971

Salvador Allende

Chilean physician and politician, 29th President of Chile (born 1908)

Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 29th president of Chile from 1970 until his suicide in 1973. As a socialist committed to democracy, he has been described as the…

1973

Neem Karoli Baba

Indian philosopher and guru

Neem Karoli Baba or Neeb Karori Baba, also known to his followers as Maharaj-ji, was a Hindu guru and a devotee of the Hindu deity Hanuman.

1973

Lois Lenski

American author and illustrator (born 1893)

Lois Lenore Lenski Covey was a Newbery Medal-winning author and illustrator of picture books and children's literature. Beginning in 1927 with her first books, Skipping Village and Jack Horner's Pie: A Book of Nursery…

1974

Mike Gazella

American baseball player and manager (born 1895)

Michael Gazella was an American Major League Baseball player who played for the New York Yankees on several championship teams in the 1920s.

1978

Georgi Markov

Bulgarian author and playwright (born 1929)

Georgi Ivanov Markov was a Bulgarian dissident writer. He worked as a novelist, screenwriter and playwright in his native country, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, until his defection in 1969. After relocating to…

1978

Janet Parker

English photographer (born 1938)

In 1978, a smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom led to the death of Janet Parker, a British medical photographer. She was the last person recorded to have died from this disease. Parker's illness and death were…

1978

Ronnie Peterson

Swedish racing driver (born 1944)

Bengt Ronnie Peterson was a Swedish racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1970 to 1978. Nicknamed "Superswede", Peterson twice finished runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1971 and…

1978

Albert Soboul

French historian and academic (born 1914)

Albert Marius Soboul was a historian of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. A professor at the Sorbonne, he was chair of the History of the French Revolution and author of numerous influential works of…

1982

Brian Lawrance

Australian bandleader and singer (born 1909)

Brian Vinrace Lawrance was an Australian singer and violinist who led his own British dance band in the 1930s. Known for regular broadcasts with Fred Hartley and his Quintet, Lawrance was considered one of the leading…

1983

Jerry Voorhis

American politician (born 1901)

Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis was an American politician and educator who served five terms in the United States House of Representatives representing California from 1937 to 1947. A member of the Democratic Party, he…

1984

William Alwyn

English composer, conductor, and educator (born 1905)

William Alwyn, was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher who composed over 200 cinematic scores, of which some 70 were for full-length features, as well as number of operas, concertos and symphonies.

1985

Henrietta Barnett

British Women's Royal Air Force officer (born 1905)

Air Commandant Dame Mary Henrietta Barnett was a senior officer of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF). From 1956 to 1960, she served as its director.

1985

Eleanor Dark

Australian author (born 1901)

Eleanor Dark AO was an Australian writer whose novels included Prelude to Christopher (1934) and Return to Coolami (1936), both winners of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for literature, and her best known…

1985

Panagiotis Kanellopoulos

Greek academic and politician, 138th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1902)

Panagiotis Kanellopoulos or Panayotis Kanellopoulos was a Greek writer, politician and Prime Minister of Greece. He was the Prime Minister of Greece deposed by the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.

1986

Noel Streatfeild

English author (born 1895)

Mary Noel Streatfeild was an English author, best known for children's books including the "Shoes" books, which were not a series. Random House, the U.S. publisher of the 1936 novel Ballet Shoes (1936), published some…

1986

Lorne Greene

Canadian actor (born 1915)

Lorne Hyman Greene was a Canadian actor, singer, and radio personality. His notable television roles include Ben Cartwright on the Western Bonanza and Commander Adama in the original science-fiction television series…

1987

Peter Tosh

Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)

Peter Tosh was a Jamaican musician and reggae singer. Along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, he was one of the core members of the band the Wailers (1963–1976), after which he established himself as a successful solo…

1987

Mahadevi Varma

Indian poet and educator (born 1907)

Mahadevi Varma was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, and short-story writer. She is regarded as one of the four major pillars of the Chhayavaad movement in Hindi literature.

1987

Roger Hargreaves

English author and illustrator (born 1935)

Charles Roger Hargreaves was an English cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books. He created the Mr. Men, Little Miss and Timbuctoo series;, intended for young readers. The simple and humorous stories,…

1988

Myrna Mack

Guatemalan anthropologist and activist (born 1949)

Myrna Mack Chang was a Guatemalan anthropologist. In 1990, she was stabbed to death by elements in the Guatemalan military due to her criticism of the Guatemala government's treatment of the indigenous Maya, and human…

1990

Ernst Herbeck

Austrian-German poet (born 1920)

Ernst Herbeck was an Austrian poet. In 1940, at the age of 20, Herbeck was committed to the national mental hospital in Lower Austria (Niederösterreich). He lived in the institution for most of his life. After 15 years…

1991

Antoine Izméry

Haitian businessman and activist

Antoine Izméry was a Haitian businessman and pro-democracy activist.

1993

Erich Leinsdorf

Austrian-American conductor (born 1912)

Erich Leinsdorf was an Austrian-born American conductor. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well…

1993

Mary Jane Reoch

American cyclist (born 1945)

Mary Jane Reoch was an American cyclist. She won 11 national championships during her cycling career and afterwards worked as a cycling coach. She was killed in a road accident while training a client in 1993. She was…

1993

Luciano Sgrizzi

Italian harpsichordist, pianist, and composer (born 1910)

Luciano Sgrizzi was an Italian harpsichordist, organist, pianist and composer.

1994

Jessica Tandy

English-American actress (born 1909)

Jessie Alice Tandy, known professionally as Jessica Tandy, was an English and American actress. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV, receiving an Academy Award, four Tony…

1994

Anita Harding

English neurologist and academic (born 1952)

Anita Elizabeth Harding was an Irish-British neurologist, and Professor of Clinical Neurology at the Institute of Neurology of the University of London. She is known for the discovery with Ian Holt and John…

1995

Camille Henry

Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1933)

Joseph Wilfred Camille "The Eel" Henry was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger/centre who played for the New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks, and St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League.

1997

Hannah Weiner

American poet (born 1928)

Hannah Adelle Weiner was an American poet who is often grouped with the Language poets because of the prominent place she assumed in the poetics of that group.

1997

Dane Clark

American actor (born 1912)

Dane Clark was an American character actor who was known for playing, as he labeled himself, "Joe Average."

1998

Belkis Ayón

Cuban painter and lithographer (born 1967)

Belkis Ayón was a Cuban printmaker who specialized in the technique of collography. Ayón created large, highly detailed allegorical collagraphs based on Abakuá, a secret, all-male Afro-Cuban society. Her work is often…

1999

Gonzalo Rodríguez

Uruguayan racing driver (born 1972)

Gonzalo "Gonchi" Rodríguez Bongoll was a Uruguayan racing driver. He was killed in a crash at Laguna Seca Raceway during practice for the 1999 Honda Grand Prix of Monterey CART race which would have been his second…

1999

Alice Stewart Trillin

American author and educator (born 1938)

Alice Stewart Trillin was an American educator, author, film producer and longtime muse to her husband, author Calvin Trillin. Diagnosed with lung cancer in the 1970s, she wrote about her experience and became known for…

2001

Casualties of the September 11 attacks: see Category:Victims of the September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks were the deadliest terrorist attacks in human history, causing the deaths of 2,996 people, including 19 hijackers who committed murder–suicide and 2,977 victims. Thousands more were injured, and…

2001

Kim Hunter

American actress (born 1922)

Kim Hunter was an American theatre, film, and television actress. She achieved prominence for portraying Stella Kowalski in the original production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which she reprised for…

2002

Johnny Unitas

American football player and sportscaster (born 1933)

John Constantine Unitas was an American professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons, primarily with the Baltimore Colts. Nicknamed "Johnny U." and "the Golden Arm",…

2002

David Wisniewski

American author and illustrator (born 1953)

David R. Wisniewski, was an American writer and illustrator best known for children's books.

2002

Anna Lindh

Swedish politician, 39th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Sweden (born 1957)

Ylva Anna Maria Lindh was a Swedish politician, diplomat, and lawyer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her assassination in 2003. A leading figure of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, Lindh…

2003

John Ritter

American actor (born 1948)

Johnathan Southworth Ritter was an American actor. He was a son of the singing cowboy star Tex Ritter and the father of actors Jason and Tyler Ritter. He played Jack Tripper on the popular ABC sitcom Three's Company…

2003

Fred Ebb

American songwriter (born 1928)

Fred Ebb was an American lyricist and playwright who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera.

2004

David Mann

American painter and illustrator (born 1939)

David Mann was a California graphic artist whose paintings celebrated biker culture, and choppers. Called "the biker world's artist-in-residence," his images are ubiquitous in biker clubhouses and garages, on motorcycle…

2004

Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (born 1949)

Peter VII was the Greek Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa from 1997 to 2004. During his reign, Petros VII was credited with reviving the Greek Orthodox churches in Africa by increasing the…

2004

William Auld

Scottish poet and author (born 1924)

William Auld was a British poet, author, translator and magazine editor who wrote chiefly in Esperanto.

2006

Joachim Fest

German journalist and author (born 1926)

Joachim Clemens Fest was a German historian, journalist, critic and editor who was best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including a biography of Adolf Hitler and books about Albert Speer…

2006

Ian Porterfield

Scottish footballer and manager (born 1946)

John Ian Porterfield was a Scottish professional footballer, and an experienced football coach who worked at both club and international level for almost 30 years. At the time of his death, he was the coach of the…

2007

Gene Savoy

American explorer, theologian, and author (born 1927)

Douglas Eugene "Gene" Savoy was an American explorer, author, religious leader, and theologian. He served as Head Bishop of the International Community of Christ, Church of the Second Advent from 1971 until his death.…

2007

Jean Séguy

French sociologist and author (born 1925)

Jean Séguy was a French sociologist of religions. He was particularly interested in cults, religious conflicts and Christianity. He was also member of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He served as…

2007

Joe Zawinul

Austrian keyboard player and songwriter (born 1932)

Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to become one of the…

2007

Jim Carroll

American author, poet and musician (born 1949)

James Dennis Carroll was an American author, poet, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo…

2009

Pierre Cossette

Canadian producer and manager (born 1923)

Pierre Maurice Joseph Cossette was a television executive producer and Broadway producer. Cossette produced the first television broadcast of the Grammy Awards in 1971. He was one of the founders of Dunhill Records.

2009

Larry Gelbart

American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)

Larry Simon Gelbart was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and author, most famous as a creator and producer of the television series M*A*S*H, and as co-writer of the Broadway musicals A…

2009

Yoshito Usui

Japanese author and illustrator (born 1958)

Yoshito Usui was a Japanese manga artist known for the popular Crayon Shin-chan series. He was born in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

2009

Harold Gould

American actor (born 1923)

Harold Vernon Goldstein, better known as Harold Gould, was an American character actor. He appeared as Martin Morgenstern on the sitcom Rhoda (1974–78) and Miles Webber on the sitcom The Golden Girls (1985–92). A…

2010

Kevin McCarthy

American actor (born 1914)

Kevin McCarthy was an American stage, film and television actor, remembered as the male lead in the horror science fiction film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).

2010

Christian Bakkerud

Danish racing driver (born 1984)

Christian Bakkerud was a Danish racing driver, who competed in the 2007 and 2008 GP2 Series seasons, albeit hindered by a recurrent back injury. Prior to GP2 he competed in British Formula 3 and Formula BMW.

2011

Ralph Gubbins

English footballer (born 1932)

Ralph Grayham Gubbins was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward. Gubbins made nearly 250 appearances in the Football League for three clubs between 1952 and 1964, before playing non-league…

2011

Anjali Gupta

Indian soldier and pilot (born 1975)

Flying Officer Anjali Gupta was an Indian Air Force (IAF) officer who served in Air Force from 2001 to 2006. She was the first female officer in India and in the Air Force to be court martialled. She was working at the…

2011

Andy Whitfield

Welsh actor and model (born 1971)

Andrew Whitfield was a Welsh actor. He was best known for his leading role in the Starz television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

2011

Finn Bergesen

Norwegian civil servant and businessman (born 1945)

Finn Bergesen was a Norwegian civil servant and businessperson.

2012

Tomas Evjen

Norwegian cinematographer and producer (born 1972)

Tomas Evjen was a Norwegian editor, media personality and film producer.

2012

J. Christopher Stevens

American lawyer and diplomat, 10th United States Ambassador to Libya (born 1960)

John Christopher Stevens was an American career diplomat and lawyer who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Libya from May 22, 2012, to September 11, 2012. Stevens was killed when the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi,…

2012

Francisco Chavez

Filipino lawyer and politician, Solicitor General of the Philippines (born 1947)

Francisco "Frank" Chavez was a Filipino lawyer. He was the Solicitor General of the Philippines during the Aquino administration.

2013

Albert Jacquard

French geneticist and biologist (born 1925)

Albert Jacquard was a French geneticist, popularizer of science and essayist.

2013

Andrzej Trybulec

Polish mathematician and computer scientist (born 1941)

Andrzej Wojciech Trybulec was a Polish mathematician and computer scientist noted for work on the Mizar system.

2013

Bob Crewe

American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1930)

Robert Stanley Crewe was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and manager, best known mainly for co-writing and producing a string of Top 10 singles with Bob Gaudio for the 1960s pop rock band The…

2014

Antoine Duhamel

French composer and conductor (born 1925)

Antoine Duhamel was a French composer, orchestra conductor and music teacher.

2014

Donald Sinden

English actor (born 1923)

Sir Donald Alfred Sinden was an English actor.

2014

Alexis Arquette

American actress, musician and cabaret performer (born 1969)

Alexis Arquette was an American actress and transgender activist. Born in Los Angeles, she was the fourth of five children of actor and director Lewis Arquette and Brenda Olivia "Mardi", an actress. Her siblings include…

2016

B. J. Habibie

3rd President of Indonesia (born 1936)

Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie was an Indonesian politician, engineer, scientist and inventor who served as the third president of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999. A little over two months after his inauguration as the seventh…

2019

Toots Hibbert

Jamaican singer and songwriter (born 1942)

Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert, was a Jamaican singer and songwriter who was the lead vocalist for the reggae and ska band Toots and the Maytals. A reggae pioneer, he performed for six decades and helped establish…

2020

Swami Agnivesh

an Indian social activist and the founder of Arya Sabha, a political party based on the principles of Arya Samaj (born 1939)

Swami Agnivesh, was an Indian social activist and the founder of Arya Sabha, a political party based on the principles of Arya Samaj. He also served as a cabinet minister in the state of Haryana. He is best known for…

2020

Abimael Guzmán

Peruvian philosopher and academic (born 1934)

Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reinoso, also known by his nom de guerre Chairman Gonzalo, was a Peruvian Maoist revolutionary and guerrilla leader. He founded the organization Communist Party of Peru – Shining Path…

2021

Javier Marías

Spanish novelist, journalist and translator (born 1951)

Javier Marías Franco was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me and the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, widely regarded…

2022

John W. O'Malley

American academic, Catholic historian, and Jesuit priest (born 1927)

John William O'Malley was an American academic, Catholic historian, and Jesuit priest. He was a university professor at Georgetown University, housed in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. O'Malley was a…

2022

Joyce Reynolds

British classicist and academic (born 1918)

Joyce Maire Reynolds was a British classicist and academic, specialising in Roman historical epigraphy. She was an honorary fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. She dedicated her life to the study and teaching of…

2022

Kenneth Cope

British actor (born 1931)

Kenneth Charles Cope was an English actor and scriptwriter. He was best known for his roles as Marty Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Jed Stone in Coronation Street, Ray Hilton in Brookside, Sid in The Damned…

2024

Chad McQueen

American actor and race car driver (born 1960)

Chadwick Steven McQueen was an American actor, film producer, martial artist, and race car driver. He was the only son and last living child of actor Steve McQueen (1930–1980).

2024

Joe Schmidt

American football player and coach (born 1932)

Joseph Paul Schmidt was an American professional football player and coach. He played as a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions for 13 years from 1953 to 1965. He won two NFL…

2024

John D. Petersen

American chemist, educator, and academic administrator (born 1947)

John David Petersen was an American chemist, educator and academic administrator who was president of the University of Tennessee system.

2025

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Alberto Fujimori — President of Peru from 1990 to 2000

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Death year2024

Known forDuring Fujimori's tenure, the Peruvian Armed Forces responded to the far-left guerrilla group Shining Path with repressive and lethal force, halting the group's actions while also killing thousands of innocent civilians

Deaths on this date129 (883 – 2025)

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Hurricane Francine impacts the Gulf of Mexico, as a Category 2 hurricane. Wikipedia →

2023

The Libyan city of Derna experiences catastrophic floods after Storm Daniel causes two dams to collapse, killing thousands of people. Wikipedia →

2015

A crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others. Wikipedia →

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