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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.
Notable Deaths on September 13
2015 — Moses Malone
American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1955)
September 13 has 111 recorded notable deaths across history, from 81 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
By thisDay.info Editorial Team · — Wikipedia
Notable Deaths
111 source records
81 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on September 13
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1948 Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Source
- 1788 The Congress of the Confederation sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital. Source
- 1933 Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament. Source
- 1979 South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa). Source
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Elias Charles Disney was a Canadian construction worker and entrepreneur.
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In 1951, he became the first and, to date, only Egyptian to win the French Open, while doing likewise at the Wimbledon Championships in 1954.
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LeRoy's most acclaimed films of his tenure at Warners include Little Caesar (1931), I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Anthony Adverse (1936), and They Won't Forget (1937).
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Dennis Brian Close, was an English first-class cricketer.
More major people who died on September 13
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1941
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.
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.
1987
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…
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.
2011
Walter Bonatti
Italian mountaineer and journalist (born 1930)
Walter Bonatti was an Italian mountaineer, alpinist, explorer and journalist.
1871
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.
1557
John Cheke
English scholar and politician, Secretary of State for England (born 1514)
Sir John Cheke was an English classical scholar and statesman.
1953
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.
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".
1800
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.
1991
Joe Pasternak
Hungarian-American production manager and producer (born 1901)
Joseph Herman Pasternak was a Hungarian-American film producer in Hollywood.
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).
1929
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.
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.
1847
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.
2019
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.
1996
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.
2004
Charlie Brandt
American serial killer (born 1957)
Carl Eric Brandt was an American serial killer known to have perpetrated at least four murders.
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.