Notable Deaths on September 13

Q: Who died on September 13?

Notable people who died on September 13 include: Titus, Marcellinus of Carthage, Kavad I, Pietro Tradonico, Cormac mac Cuilennáin.

Q: What is Moses Malone known for?

Moses Malone, American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1955)

2015 — Moses Malone

American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1955)

September 13 has seen 111 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 81 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 111 people 81 – 2024

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A center, he was named the NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times, was a 12-time NBA All-Star and an eight-time All-NBA Team selection

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He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 2001

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was an American professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1974 through 1995

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Malone led the Philadelphia 76ers to an NBA championship in 1983, winning both the league and Finals MVP

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Malone is widely regarded as one of the greatest centers and players of all time.

Titus

Roman emperor (born AD 39)

A.D. 81 (LXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silva and Pollio. The denomination A.D. 81 for this year has been used since the…

Marcellinus of Carthage

martyr and saint

Year 413 (CDXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Heraclianus and Lucius. The denomination 413 for this year has been used since…

413

Kavad I

Sasanian King of Kings of Iran (born 473)

Year 531 (DXXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman Empire as the Year after the Consulship of Lampadius and Probus. The denomination 531 for this year…

531

Pietro Tradonico

doge of Venice

Year 864 (DCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

864

Cormac mac Cuilennáin

king of Munster (Ireland)

Year 908 (CMVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

908

Al-Adid

last Fatimid caliph (born 1151)

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ, better known by his regnal name al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh, was the fourteenth and last caliph of the Fatimid dynasty, and the twenty-fourth imam of the Hafizi Isma'ili branch…

1171

Notburga

Austrian saint (born 1265)

Notburga, also known as Notburga of Rattenberg or Notburga of Eben, was an Austrian saint and peasant from Tyrol. Numerous vitae have been written about her and painted of her where she is depicted with a scythe. She is…

1313

Isabella of Valois

French princess and queen of England (born 1389)

Isabella of Valois was Queen of England as the wife of Richard II, King of England, between 1396 and 1399, and Duchess of Orléans as the wife of Charles I, Duke of Orléans, from 1406 until her death in 1409. She had…

1409

Charles II

Duke of Bourbon (born 1434)

Charles II, Duke of Bourbon, was Archbishop of Lyon from an early age and a French diplomat under the rule of Louis XI of France. He had a 2-week tenure as Duke of Bourbon in 1488, being ousted afterward by his younger…

1488

Andrea Mantegna

Italian painter and engraver (born 1431)

Andrea Mantegna was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Roman archaeology, and the son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini.

1506

John Cheke

English scholar and politician, Secretary of State for England (born 1514)

Sir John Cheke was an English classical scholar and statesman. One of the foremost teachers of his age, and the first Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, he played a great part in the revival of…

1557

Michel de Montaigne

French philosopher and author (born 1533)

Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, commonly known as just Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant writers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. His work…

1592

Philip II of Spain (born 1526)

Philip II, sometimes known in Spain as Philip the Prudent, was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598. He was also jure uxoris King of…

1598

Karin Månsdotter

Queen of Sweden (born 1550)

Karin Månsdotter was first the mistress and then the queen consort of King Erik XIV of Sweden.

1612

Leopold V

Archduke of Austria (born 1586)

Leopold V, Archduke of Further Austria was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria, and the younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand II, father of Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Further Austria. He was Prince-Bishop…

1632

James Wolfe

English general (born 1727)

Major-General James Wolfe was a British Army officer known for his training reforms and, as a major general, remembered chiefly for his victory in 1759 over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec,…

1759

Benjamin Heath

English scholar and author (born 1704)

Benjamin Heath, D.C.L.[a] was an English classical scholar and bibliophile.

1766

Claude Martin

French-English general and explorer (born 1735)

Major-General Claude Martin was a French army officer who served in the French and later British East India companies in colonial India. Martin rose to the rank of major-general in the British East India Company's…

1800

Charles James Fox

English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (born 1749)

Charles James Fox, styled The Honourable from 1762, was a British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the arch-rival of the Tory politician…

1806

Saverio Bettinelli

Italian poet, playwright, and critic (born 1718)

Saverio Bettinelli was an Italian Jesuit priest and writer. He became known as a polymath, dramatist, polemicist, poet, and literary critic. He was a friend of some of the leading authors of his times: Voltaire,…

1808

Hezqeyas

Ethiopian emperor

Hezqeyas was Emperor of Ethiopia from 26 July 1789 to January 1794, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the son of Iyasu III.

1813

Nicolas Oudinot

French general (born 1767)

Nicolas Charles Oudinot, duc de Reggio, was a French general of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He is known to have been wounded 34 times in battle, being hit by artillery shells, sabres, and at…

1847

İbrahim Şinasi

Turkish journalist, author, and translator (born 1826)

İbrahim Şinasi Efendi was a pioneering Ottoman intellectual, founder of Turkish dramaturgy, author, journalist, translator, playwright, linguist and newspaper editor. He was the innovator of several fields: he wrote one…

1871

Ludwig Feuerbach

German anthropologist and philosopher (born 1804)

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach was a German philosopher and anthropologist who was a leading figure among the Young Hegelians. He is best known for his 1841 book, The Essence of Christianity, which argued that God is a…

1872

Ambrose Burnside

American general and politician, 30th Governor of Rhode Island (born 1824)

Ambrose Everts Burnside was an American army officer and politician who became a senior Union general in the American Civil War and a three-time governor of Rhode Island, as well as being an inventor and industrialist.

1881

Friedrich Kiel

German composer and educator (born 1821)

Friedrich Kiel was a German composer and music educator.

1885

Emmanuel Chabrier

French pianist and composer (born 1841)

Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist. His bourgeois family did not approve of a musical career for him, and he studied law in Paris and then worked as a civil servant until the age of…

1894

René Goblet

French lawyer and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of France (born 1828)

René Marie Goblet was a French politician, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1886–1887.

1905

Rajanikanta Sen

Bangladeshi poet and composer (born 1865)

Rajanikanta Sen, also known as Kantakobi, was a Bengali poet and composer, known for his devotional (bhakti) compositions, as well as his patriotic songs.

1910

Joseph Furphy

Australian author and poet (born 1843)

Joseph Furphy was an Australian author and poet. He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life (1903), regarded as an Australian classic.

1912

Nogi Maresuke

Japanese general (born 1849)

Count Nogi Maresuke , also known as Kiten, Count Nogi, was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army and a governor-general of Taiwan. He was one of the commanders during the 1894 capture of Port Arthur from…

1912

Aurel Vlaicu

Romanian pilot and engineer (born 1882)

Aurel Vlaicu was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor, and early pilot.

1913

Andrew L. Harris

American general and politician, 44th Governor of Ohio (born 1835)

Andrew Lintner Harris was one of the heroes of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War and served as the 44th governor of Ohio.

1915

Frederic Crowninshield

American artist and author (born 1845)

Frederic Crowninshield (1845–1918) was an American artist and author.

1918

Italo Svevo

Italian author and playwright (born 1861)

Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

1928

Jatindra Nath Das

Indian activist (born 1904)

Jatindra Nath Das, better known as Jatin Das, was an Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary who worked to make India independent from the British Raj and was a member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.…

1929

Lili Elbe

Danish model and painter (born 1882)

Lili Ilse Elvenes, better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter, transgender woman, and one of the earliest recipients of gender-affirming surgery.

1931

David Robertson

Scottish rugby player and golfer (born 1869)

David Donaldson Robertson was a Scottish sportsman who represented Great Britain and Ireland at golf in the 1900 Summer Olympics, and also played international rugby for the Scotland.

1937

Elias Disney

Canadian-American farmer and businessman (born 1859)

Elias Charles Disney was a Canadian construction worker and entrepreneur. He was best known as the father of Roy and Walt Disney, co-founders of the Walt Disney Company. Elias was a strict and hardworking man who played…

1941

W. Heath Robinson

English cartoonist (born 1872)

William Heath Robinson was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist who drew whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives.

1944

Amon Göth

Austrian captain and Nazi war criminal (born 1908)

Amon Leopold Göth was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal. He served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland for most of the camp's existence during World…

1946

Eugene Lanceray

Russian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (born 1875)

Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lanceray, also often spelled Eugene Lansere, was a Russian graphic artist, painter, sculptor, mosaicist, and illustrator, associated stylistically with Mir iskusstva.

1946

William Watt

Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (born 1871)

William Alexander Watt was an Australian politician. He served two terms as Premier of Victoria before entering federal politics in 1914. He then served as a minister in the government of Billy Hughes from 1917 to 1920,…

1946

August Krogh

Danish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)

Schack August Steenberg Krogh was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of…

1949

Mary Brewster Hazelton

American painter (born 1868)

Mary Brewster Hazelton was an American portrait painter. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she was later an instructor. Among her other achievements, Hazelton was the first woman to win…

1953

Leó Weiner

Hungarian composer and educator (born 1885)

Leó Weiner was one of the leading Hungarian music educators of the first half of the twentieth century, and a composer.

1960

Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden

Yemeni-Saudi Arabian businessman, founded Saudi Binladin Group (born 1903)

Muhammad bin Awad bin Ladin was a Yemeni-born Saudi billionaire business magnate working primarily in the construction industry. He founded what is today the Saudi Binladin Group and became the wealthiest non-royal…

1967

Robert George

English air marshal and politician, 24th Governor of South Australia (born 1896)

Air Vice Marshal Sir Robert Allingham George, was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force and Governor of South Australia from 23 February 1953 until 7 March 1960. He was born in the County of Ross and Cromarty,…

1967

Leonard Lord

English businessman (born 1896)

Leonard Percy Lord, 1st Baron Lambury KBE was a captain of the British motor industry.

1967

Lin Biao

Chinese general and politician, 2nd Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1907)

Lin Biao was a Chinese military commander and politician. Pivotal to the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War, he commanded the Liaoshen and Pingjin campaigns at the head of the Manchurian Field Army, led the…

1971

Betty Field

American actress (born 1913)

Betty Field was an American film and stage actress.

1973

Sajjad Zaheer

Indian poet and philosopher (born 1905)

Syed Sajjad Zaheer was an Indian Urdu writer, Marxist ideologue, radical revolutionary and a member of the Communist Party of India. He established the All India Progressive Writers' Association after the short story…

1973

Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer

Indian singer and musicologist (born 1897)

Mudikondan Venkatarama Iyer was a South Indian Carnatic music singer and musicologist. He was also known as Mudikondan - the name of his native village.

1975

Armand Mondou

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1905)

Joseph Armand Mondou was a Canadian ice hockey forward with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was a member of two Stanley Cup championship teams; with Montreal in 1930 and 1931.

1976

Albert Tessier

Canadian priest, historian, and director (born 1895)

Albert Tessier was a French-speaking Canadian priest, historian and a film maker.

1976

Leopold Stokowski

English conductor (born 1882)

Leopold Anthony Stokowski was a British conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was especially noted for…

1977

William Loeb III

American publisher (born 1905)

William Loeb III was an American newspaper publisher. He is remembered for his unyieldingly conservative political views, which helped made the Manchester Union Leader of Manchester, New Hampshire, one of the best-known…

1981

Reed Crandall

American illustrator (born 1917)

Reed Leonard Crandall was an American illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines. He was best known for the 1940s Quality Comics' Blackhawk and for stories in EC Comics during the 1950s. Crandall was…

1982

Dane Rudhyar

French-American astrologer, composer, and author (born 1895)

Dane Rudhyar, born Daniel Chennevière, was an American author, modernist composer, painter and humanistic astrologer. He was a pioneer of modern transpersonal astrology.

1985

Mervyn LeRoy

American actor, director, and producer (born 1900)

Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer. During the 1930s, he was one of the two great practitioners of economical and effective film directing at Warner Brothers studios, the other being his colleague…

1987

Robert Irving

English soldier and conductor (born 1913)

Robert Augustine Irving, DFC*, was a British conductor whose reputation was mainly as a ballet conductor.

1991

Metin Oktay

Turkish footballer and manager (born 1936)

Metin Oktay nicknamed the Crownless King by Galatasaray fans, was a Turkish footballer and one of the most successful goal scorers in Turkey.

1991

Joe Pasternak

Hungarian-American production manager and producer (born 1901)

Joseph Herman Pasternak was a Hungarian-American film producer in Hollywood. Pasternak spent the Hollywood "Golden Age" of musicals at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producing many successful musicals with female singing stars…

1991

Carl Voss

American ice hockey player and referee (born 1907)

Carl Potter Voss was an American ice hockey forward in the National Hockey League. He played for several teams between 1926 and 1938. He later became a referee, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1974 as a…

1993

Tupac Shakur

American rapper, producer, and actor (born 1971)

Tupac Amaru Shakur, also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. He was one of the most influential musical artists of the 20th century, and a prominent political activist for Black…

1996

Georges Guétary

Egyptian-French actor, singer, and dancer (born 1915)

Georges Guétary, born Lambros Vorloou was a French singer, dancer, cabaret performer and film actor, best known for his role in the 1951 musical An American in Paris.

1997

Georgios Mitsibonas

Greek footballer (born 1962)

Georgios Mitsibonas was a Greek football player during the 1980s and 1990s.

1997

Necdet Calp

Turkish civil servant and politician (born 1922)

Necdet Calp was a Turkish civil servant and politician.

1998

Harry Lumley

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1926)

Harry "Apple Cheeks" Lumley was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and…

1998

Frank Renouf

New Zealand businessman (born 1918)

Sir Francis Henry Renouf was a New Zealand stockbroker and financier.

1998

George Wallace

American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (born 1919)

George Corley Wallace Jr. was an American politician and lawyer who was the 45th and longest-serving governor of Alabama, and the longest-serving governor from the Democratic Party. Wallace unsuccessfully sought the…

1998

Benjamin Bloom

American psychologist and academic (born 1913)

Benjamin Samuel Bloom was an American educational psychologist and didactician who made contributions to the classification of educational objectives and to the theory of mastery learning. He has greatly influenced the…

1999

Betty Jeffrey

Australian nurse and author (born 1908)

Agnes Betty Jeffrey, was an Australian nurse, prisoner of war and writer, who wrote about her Second World War nursing experiences in the book White Coolies.

2000

Johnny Craig

American sailor and illustrator (born 1926)

John Thomas Alexis Craig, was an American comic book artist notable for his work with the EC Comics line of the 1950s. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Jay Taycee and F. C. Aljohn.

2001

Jaroslav Drobný

Czech-English ice hockey player and tennis player (born 1921)

Jaroslav Drobný was a world No. 1 amateur tennis and ice hockey champion. He left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled as an Egyptian citizen before becoming a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1959, where he died in…

2001

Dorothy McGuire

American actress (born 1916)

Dorothy Hackett McGuire was an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress for Friendly…

2001

George Stanley

Canadian soldier, historian, and author, designed the Flag of Canada (born 1907)

Colonel George Francis Gillman Stanley was a Canadian author, soldier, historian at the Royal Military College of Canada and Mount Allison University, public servant, and designer of the Canadian Flag.

2002

Frank O'Bannon

American publisher, lawyer, and politician, 47th Governor of Indiana (born 1930)

Frank Lewis O'Bannon was an American politician who served as the 47th governor of Indiana from 1997 until his death in 2003. He is the most recent American governor to have died in office.

2003

Luis E. Miramontes

Mexican chemist, co-invented the birth-control pill (born 1925)

Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas was a Mexican chemist known as co-inventor and the first to synthesize an oral contraceptive, progestin norethisterone.

2004

Charlie Brandt

American serial killer (born 1957)

Carl Eric "Charlie" Brandt was an American serial killer who murdered at least four women: his mother in Indiana and a homeless woman, his wife, and his niece in Florida. Growing up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Brandt shot…

2004

Toni Fritsch

Austrian footballer (born 1945)

Anton K. "Toni" Fritsch was an Austrian footballer who later started a successful career in American football in the United States. He is distinguished as being the first Austrian to play in the National Football League…

2005

Julio César Turbay Ayala

Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia (born 1916)

Julio César Turbay Ayala was a Colombian lawyer and politician who served as the 26th president of Colombia from 1978 to 1982. He also held the positions of Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United States.

2005

Ann Richards

American educator and politician, 45th Governor of Texas (born 1933)

Dorothy Ann Richards was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the Texas State Treasurer, when she gave the keynote…

2006

Whakahuihui Vercoe

New Zealand archbishop (born 1928)

Whakahuihui "Hui" Vercoe was an Anglican bishop in New Zealand. He was the Archbishop of New Zealand from 2004 to 2006, the first person from the Māori church to hold that office. He was also Bishop of Aotearoa from…

2007

Paul Burke

American actor (born 1926)

Paul Raymond Burke was an American actor, best known for his lead roles in two 1960s ABC television series, Naked City and 12 O'Clock High. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for his portrayal of New York Police…

2009

Walter Bonatti

Italian mountaineer and journalist (born 1930)

Walter Bonatti was an Italian mountaineer, alpinist, explorer and journalist. He was noted for many climbing achievements, including a solo climb of a new alpine climbing route on the south-west pillar of the Aiguille…

2011

William Duckworth

American composer and author (born 1943)

William Duckworth was an American composer, author, educator, and Internet pioneer. He wrote more than 200 pieces of music and is credited with the composition of the first postminimal piece of music, The Time Curve…

2012

Peter Lougheed

Canadian football player, lawyer, and politician, 10th Premier of Alberta (born 1928)

Edgar Peter Lougheed was a Canadian lawyer and Progressive Conservative politician who served as the tenth premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985, presiding over a period of reform and economic growth.

2012

Edgar Metcalfe

English-Australian actor and director (born 1933)

Edgar Metcalfe, was an English-born actor, director and author, who widely contributed to theatre in Perth, Western Australia.

2012

Ranganath Misra

Indian lawyer and jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India (born 1926)

Ranganath Misra was an Indian jurist, who served as the 21st Chief Justice of India, from 25 September 1990 to 24 November 1991. He was also the first chairman of the National Human Rights Commission of India. He also…

2012

Lehri

(Actual name:Safirullah Siddiqui), Pakistani comedian and an actor in the Urdu film industry of Pakistan (born 1929)

Safirullah Siddiqui, commonly known by his stage name Lehri, was a comedian and actor in the Urdu film industry of Pakistan.

2012

Olusegun Agagu

Nigerian politician, 15th Governor of Ondo State (born 1948)

Olusegun Kokumo Agagu ; Born on 16 February 1948–13 September 2013) was a Nigerian politician who was a governor of Ondo State from 29 May 2003 until February 2009, when a court voided his re-election as governor on…

2013

Robert J. Behnke

American biologist and academic (born 1929)

Dr. Robert J. Behnke was an American fisheries biologist and conservationist who was recognized as a world authority on the classification of salmonid fishes. He was popularly known as "Dr. Trout" or "The Trout Doctor".…

2013

Rick Casares

American football player (born 1931)

Richard Jose Casares was an American professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) for twelve seasons during the 1950s and 1960s. Casares played…

2013

Luiz Gushiken

Brazilian trade union leader and politician (born 1950)

Luiz Gushiken was a Brazilian union leader and politician. He was formerly the head of the social communication office of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration, a position which carried a ministerial rank. He was a…

2013

Benjamin Adekunle

Nigerian general (born 1936)

Benjamin Adesanya Maja Adekunle was a Nigerian military officer and prominent military figure during the Nigerian Civil War.

2014

Helen Filarski

American baseball player (born 1924)

Helen Filarski was an American baseball player. She was an infielder and outfielder who played from 1945 through 1950 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 2 in (157 cm), 125 lb…

2014

Milan Galić

Serbian footballer (born 1938)

Milan Galić was a Yugoslav and Serbian professional footballer who played as a striker. He was part of the Yugoslav squad that won gold at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

2014

Frank Torre

American baseball player and manager (born 1931)

Frank Joseph Torre was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman. Torre, who batted and threw left-handed, played for the Milwaukee Braves (1956–60) and Philadelphia…

2014

Vivinho

Brazilian footballer (born 1961)

Welvis Dias Marcelino, better known as Vivinho, was an association football striker, who played in several Brazilian Série A clubs.

2015

Erma Bergmann

American baseball player (born 1924)

Erma M. "Bergie" Bergmann was an American baseball pitcher and outfielder who played from 1946 through 1951 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m), 155 lb., she…

2015

Brian Close

English cricketer and coach (born 1931)

Dennis Brian Close, was an English first-class cricketer. He was picked to play against New Zealand in July 1949, when he was 18 years old. Close went on to play 22 Test matches for England, captaining them seven times…

2015

Jonathan Riley-Smith

British historian (born 1938)

Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith was a historian of the Crusades, and, between 1994 and 2005, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He has been…

2016

Pete Domenici

American politician, senator of New Mexico (born 1932)

Pietro Vichi "Pete" Domenici was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from New Mexico from 1973 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he served six terms in the Senate, making…

2017

Eddie Money

American musician (born 1949)

Edward Joseph Money was an American singer and songwriter who had his greatest commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s. Money had eleven Top 40 singles, starting with "Baby Hold On" in 1977 and including the Billboard…

2019

Jean-Luc Godard

French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic (born 1930)

Jean-Luc Godard was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut,…

2022

Wolfgang Gerhardt

German politician (born 1943)

Wolfgang Gerhardt was a German politician and the leader of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) from 1995 until he was succeeded by Guido Westerwelle in 2001.

2024

Pravin Gordhan

South African politician (born 1949)

Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan was a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist who held various ministerial posts in the Cabinet of South Africa. He served as Minister of Finance from 2009 until 2014, and again from…

2024

Lex Marinos

Australian actor (born 1949)

Alexander Francis Marinos was an Australian actor and television director, radio personality and voice artist. He was most notable for his role as Bruno, in the 1980s television series Kingswood Country.

2024

Mary McFadden

American fashion designer (born 1938)

Mary McFadden was an American fashion designer of women's clothing and other high-fashion items, including historically inspired form-fitting dresses.

2024

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