Did you know about Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton had rare lead roles in Paris, Texas (1984) and Lucky (2017).
Notable Deaths on September 15
September 15 has 115 recorded notable deaths across history, from 921 to 2026. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.
2017 — Harry Dean Stanton
American actor (born 1926)
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921 – 2026
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- 1968 The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. Source
- 1789 The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties. Source
Did you know about Tito Jackson
Tito Jackson was a founding member of the Jackson 5, a group who rose to fame in the late 1960s and 1970s with the Motown label and had continued success on the Epic label in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Did you know about Ric Ocasek
Richard Theodore Otcasek, known as Ric Ocasek, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Did you know about Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The first engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR), he was responsible for the design and construction of its London–Bristol main line.
Did you know about Richard Wright
Richard Wright was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of Pink Floyd.
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2024
Tito Jackson
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1953)
Tariano Adaryll "Tito" Jackson was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He was a founding member of the Jackson 5, a group who rose to fame in the late 1960s and 1970s with the Motown label and had continued success on the Epic label in the late 1970s and 1980s.
2019
Ric Ocasek
American musician (born 1944)
Richard Theodore Otcasek, known as Ric Ocasek, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was the co-lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, songwriter, and frontman for the American new wave band the Cars. In addition to his work with the Cars, Ocasek recorded seven solo studio albums. Ocasek's 1986 single, "Emotion in Motion", was a top 20 hit in the United States.
1859
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (born 1806)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an English civil and marine engineer considered "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution", "perhaps the most eminent Victorian engineer", and one whose work "altered the lives of almost every person in Britain, and millions abroad". The first engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR), he was responsible for the design and construction of its London–Bristol main line. His maritime career saw the construction of the largest steamships in the world at the time, the SS Great Western, SS Great Britain, and SS Great Eastern. His career was marred by continual financial and engineering setbacks.
2008
Richard Wright
English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (born 1943)
Richard William Wright was an English keyboardist, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd. He appeared on almost every Pink Floyd album and performed on all of their tours. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of Pink Floyd.
2004
Johnny Ramone
American guitarist and songwriter (born 1948)
John William Cummings, better known by his stage name Johnny Ramone, was an American musician who was the guitarist and a founding member of the Ramones, a band that helped pioneer the punk movement. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. Until the band's disbandment in 1996, Johnny, along with the lead vocalist Joey Ramone, were the only two original members who stayed since its inception, and appeared on every one of the band’s albums.
1980
Bill Evans
American pianist and composer (born 1929)
William John Evans was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His extensive use of impressionist harmony, block chords, innovative chord voicings, and trademark rhythmically independent "singing" melodic lines continue to influence jazz pianists today.
2007
Colin McRae
Scottish race car driver (born 1968)
Colin Steele McRae was a Scottish rally driver. He was the 1991 and 1992 British Rally Champion, and in 1995 became the first Scottish driver to win the World Rally Championship Drivers' title.
2026
Annie Dillard
American novelist, essayist, and poet (born 1945)
Annie Dillard was an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and nonfiction. She published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. From 1980, Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.
1973
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (born 1882)
Gustaf VI Adolf was King of Sweden from 29 October 1950 until his death in 1973. He was the eldest son of Gustaf V and his wife, Victoria of Baden. Before Gustaf Adolf acceded to the throne, he was crown prince for nearly 43 years during his father's reign. As king, and shortly before his death, he gave his approval to constitutional changes which removed the Swedish monarchy's last political powers. He was a lifelong amateur archeologist particularly interested in Ancient Italian cultures.
1921
Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
Austrian-Russian general (born 1886)
Baron Nikolai Robert Maximilian Freiherr von Ungern-Sternberg, often referred to as Roman von Ungern-Sternberg or Baron Ungern, was a Russian military leader of German descent who served in the Russian Civil War and later became an independent warlord who intervened in Mongolia against China.
1938
Thomas Wolfe
American novelist (born 1900)
Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. He was one of the pioneers of autobiographical fiction, and along with William Faulkner, he is considered one of the most important authors of the Southern Renaissance within the American literary canon. He has been dubbed "North Carolina's most famous writer."
2026
Gerrit Graham
American stage, television and film actor (born 1948)
Gerrit Graham was an American stage, television and film actor, as well as a scriptwriter and songwriter. He was best known for his appearances in multiple films by Brian De Palma as well as appearances in two Star Trek series. He starred in Used Cars with Kurt Russell and voiced Franklin Sherman on The Critic.
2007
Brett Somers
Canadian-American actress and singer (born 1924)
Brett Somers was a Canadian-American game-show personality, actress, and singer. Somers was best known as a panelist on the 1970s game show Match Game and for her recurring role as Blanche Madison opposite her real-life husband, actor Jack Klugman, on ABC's The Odd Couple.
2023
Fernando Botero
Colombian painter and sculptor (born 1932)
Fernando Botero Angulo was a Colombian painter and sculptor. His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. He was considered the most recognized and quoted artist from Latin America in his lifetime, and his art can be found in highly visible places around the world, such as Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris, at different times.
2005
Sidney Luft
American manager and producer (born 1915)
Michael Sidney Luft was an American producer and businessman, the second husband of actress Lynn Bari, and later the third husband of actress and singer Judy Garland.
2011
Frances Bay
Canadian-American actress (born 1919)
Frances Evelyn Bay was a Canadian and American character actress and comedian. In a career that spanned 80 years, she acted in a variety of roles both in film and television. Bay was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2008.
2006
Oriana Fallaci
Italian journalist and author (born 1929)
Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist and author. As a teenager she joined the Italian resistance movement during World War II, and later had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. She received various prizes for her work as a journalist and later wrote a number of best selling books.
1842
Francisco Morazán
Guatemalan general, lawyer, and politician, President of Central American Federation (born 1792)
José Francisco Morazán Quezada was a Central American statesman, military officer, and caudillo who served as the president of the Federal Republic of Central America on three occasions between 1829 and 1839. He also served as the head of state of Honduras thrice between 1827 and 1830, the head of state of El Salvador twice in 1832 and 1839 to 1840, and the head of state of Costa Rica in 1842.
1989
Robert Penn Warren
American novelist, poet, and literary critic (born 1905)
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor at Yale University. He was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. Yale awarded Warren an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 1973.
1945
Anton Webern
Austrian composer and conductor (born 1883)
Anton Webern was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist whose modernist music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyrical, poetic concision and use of then novel atonal and twelve-tone techniques. His approach was typically rigorous, inspired by his studies of the Franco-Flemish School under Guido Adler and by Arnold Schoenberg's emphasis on structure in teaching composition from the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, the First Viennese School, and Johannes Brahms. Webern, Schoenberg, and their colleague Alban Berg were at the core of what became known as the Second Viennese School.
1995
Gunnar Nordahl
Swedish footballer and manager (born 1921)
Nils Gunnar Nordahl was a Swedish professional footballer. A highly prolific, powerful, and physically strong striker, he is best known for his spell at AC Milan from 1949 to 1956, in which he won the scudetto twice, and also the title of pluricapocannoniere, with an unprecedented five top scorer (capocannonieri) awards, more than any other player in the history of the Italian championship.
2013
Jerry G. Bishop
American radio and television host (born 1936)
Jerry G. Bishop was an American radio and television personality who is known for being Chicago's original "Svengoolie", and for his award-winning twelve-year stint on Sun-Up San Diego.
2026
Dakila Cua
Filipino politician (born 1977)
Dakila Carlo "Dax" Enriquez Cua was a Filipino politician who served as the governor of Quirino from 2019 until his death on September 15, 2026, a position he previously held from 2007 to 2010. He served as representative for the Lone District of Quirino in the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2010 to 2019. He also served as vice governor of Quirino from 2001 to 2007.
1940
William B. Bankhead
American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1874)
William Brockman Bankhead was an American politician who served as the 42nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1936 to 1940, representing Alabama's 10th and later 7th congressional districts as a Democrat from 1917 to 1940. Bankhead was a strong liberal and a prominent supporter of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal of pro-labor union legislation, thus clashing with most other Southern Democrats in Congress at the time. Bankhead described himself as proud to be a politician, by which he meant that he did not neglect matters that concerned his district or reelection. He was the father of actress Tallulah Bankhead.
1864
John Hanning Speke
English soldier and explorer (born 1827)
John Hanning Speke was an English explorer and army officer who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa. He is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and, with Richard Burton, was the first European to reach Lake Victoria.
2013
Jackie Lomax
English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)
John Richard Lomax was an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his association with George Harrison, who produced Lomax's recordings for the Beatles' Apple record label in the late 1960s.
2007
Jeremy Moore
English general (born 1928)
Major-General Sir John Jeremy Moore, was a British senior Royal Marines officer who served as the commander of the British land forces during the Falklands War in 1982. Moore received the surrender of the Argentine forces on the islands.
1510
Saint Catherine of Genoa (born 1447)
Catherine of Genoa was an Italian saint and mystic, known for her work among the sick and the poor and remembered because of various writings describing both these actions and her mystical experiences. She was a member of the noble Fieschi family, and spent most of her life and her means serving the sick, especially during the plague which ravaged Genoa in 1497 and 1501. She died in that city in 1510.
1700
André Le Nôtre
French gardener (born 1613)
André Le Nôtre, originally rendered as André Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. He was the landscape architect who designed the gardens of the Palace of Versailles; his work represents the height of the French formal garden style, or jardin à la française.
1712
Sidney Godolphin
1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1645)
Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, was a British Tory statesman. He was a Privy Councillor and Secretary of State for the Northern Department before he attained real power as First Lord of the Treasury. He was instrumental in negotiating and passing the Acts of Union 1707 with Scotland, which created the Kingdom of Great Britain. He had many other roles, including that of Governor of Scilly.
921
Ludmila of Bohemia
Czech martyr and saint (born 860)
Ludmila of Bohemia is a Czech saint and martyr venerated by Catholic and Orthodox Christians. She was born in Mělník as the daughter of the Sorbian prince Slavibor. Saint Ludmila was the grandmother of Saint Wenceslaus, who is widely referred to as Good King Wenceslaus. Saint Ludmila was canonised shortly after her death. As part of the process of canonisation, in 925, Wenceslaus moved her remains to St. George's Basilica, Prague.
2003
Garner Ted Armstrong
American evangelist and author (born 1930)
Garner Ted Armstrong was an American evangelist and the son of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, at the time a Sabbatarian organization that taught observance of seventh-day Sabbath and annual Sabbath days based on Leviticus 23.
1993
Pino Puglisi
Italian priest and martyr (born 1937)
Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who openly challenged the Sicilian Mafia controlling his Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio. The Mafia killed him on his 56th birthday. His life story has been retold in a book, Pino Puglisi, il prete che fece tremare la mafia con un sorriso (2013), and portrayed in a film, Come into the Light in 2005. He was the first Mafia victim to be beatified by the Catholic Church.
1613
Thomas Overbury
English poet and author (born 1581)
Sir Thomas Overbury was an English poet and essayist, also known for being the victim of a murder which led to a scandalous trial. His poem A Wife, which depicted the virtues that a young man should demand of a woman, played a significant role in the events that precipitated his murder.
1559
Isabella Jagiellon
Queen of Hungary (born 1519)
Isabella Jagiellon was a princess of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and later also the Queen consort of Hungary. She was the oldest child of Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his Italian wife Bona Sforza.
1972
Ulvi Cemal Erkin
Turkish composer and educator (born 1906)
Ulvi Cemal Erkin was a member of the pioneer group of symphonic composers in Turkey, born in the period 1904–1910, who later came to be called The Turkish Five. These composers, all trained in Europe took on the responsibility of creating a new Turkish music style, both universal and also local at the same time. They utilized Western musical forms, i.e. symphony, concerto and opera, and brought in melodic, harmonic, modal and rhythmic elements of Turkish folk music, also known as Anatolian Village Music, and Ottoman Court music, popularly known as Turkish Art Music.
1842
Pierre Baillot
French violinist and composer (born 1771)
Pierre Marie François de Sales Baillot was a French violinist and composer born in Passy. He studied the violin under Giovanni Battista Viotti and taught at the Conservatoire de Paris together with Pierre Rode and Rodolphe Kreutzer, who wrote the Conservatoire's official violin method. He was sole author of the instructional L'Art du violon (1834). Baillot's teachings had a profound influence on technical and musical development in an age in which virtuosity was openly encouraged. He was leader of the Paris Opéra, gave solo recitals and was a notable performer of chamber music.
2001
June Salter
Australian actress and author (born 1932)
June Marie Salter was an Australian actress and author prominent in theatre and television. She is best known for her character roles, in particular as schoolteacher Elizabeth McKenzie in the soap opera The Restless Years and for her regular guest appearances in A Country Practice as Matron Hilda Arrowsmith.
2006
Raymond Baxter
English television host and author (born 1922)
Raymond Frederic Baxter OBE was an English television presenter, commentator and writer. He is best known for being the first presenter of the BBC Television science programme Tomorrow's World, continuing for 12 years, from 1965 to 1977. He also provided radio commentary at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the funerals of King George VI, Winston Churchill and Lord Mountbatten of Burma, and the first flight of Concorde.
2015
Bernard Van de Kerckhove
Belgian cyclist (born 1941)
Bernard Van de Kerckhove was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer from 1962 to 1971. The highlights of his career were stage win in the 1964 Tour de France, which resulted in him wearing the yellow jersey for two stages. Then again in the 1965 Tour de France he won stage two and wore the jersey for one day. He would reclaim the jersey in this Tour, and wear it for two more days at the beginning of the 2nd week.
1500
John Morton
English cardinal and academic (born 1420)
John Morton was an English cleric, civil lawyer and administrator during the period of the Wars of the Roses. He entered royal service under Henry VI and was a trusted councillor under Edward IV and Henry VII. Edward IV made him Bishop of Ely and under Henry VII he became Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury and a cardinal.
1926
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1846)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken was a German philosopher. He received the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life", after he had been nominated by a member of the Swedish Academy.
1978
Edmund Crispin
English writer and composer (born 1921)
Robert Bruce Montgomery was an English crime writer and composer. Known as a composer as Bruce Montgomery, he published his detective novels under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin.
1874
Charles-Amédée Kohler
Swiss chocolatier (born 1790)
Charles-Amédée Kohler was a Swiss chocolatier and entrepreneur who founded Chocolat Kohler. He notably invented hazelnut chocolate, in his factory that opened in 1830 in Lausanne. After his death in 1874, the Kohler company continued in the Swiss chocolate industry. It merged in 1904 with the Peter chocolate brand and in 1911, with the Cailler chocolate brand. The company was purchased by Nestlé in 1929.
1596
Leonhard Rauwolf
German physician and botanist (born 1535)
Leonhard Rauwolf was a German physician, botanist, and traveller. His main notability arises from a trip he made through the Levant and Mesopotamia in 1573–75. The motive of the trip was to search for herbal medicine supplies. Shortly after he returned, he published a set of new botanical descriptions with an herbarium. Later he published a general travel narrative about his visit.
2005
Guy Green
English director and cinematographer (born 1913)
Guy Mervin Charles Green OBE BSC was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 1948, he won an Oscar as cinematographer for the film Great Expectations. In 2002, Green was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the BAFTA, and, in 2004, he was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his lifetime contributions to British cinema.
1794
Abraham Clark
American police officer and politician (born 1725)
Abraham Clark was an American Founding Father, politician, and Revolutionary War figure. Clark was a delegate for New Jersey to the Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence and later served in the United States House of Representatives in both the Second and Third United States Congress, from March 4, 1791, until his death in 1794.
1883
Joseph Plateau
Belgian physicist and academic (born 1801)
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this, he used counterrotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistiscope.
2024
Elias Khoury
Lebanese intellectual, playwright and novelist (born 1948)
Elias Khoury was a Lebanese novelist and advocate of the Palestinian cause. His novels and literary criticism have been translated into several languages. In 2000, he won the Prize of Palestine for his book Gate of the Sun, and he won the Al Owais Award for fiction writing in 2007. Khoury also wrote three plays and two screenplays.
1893
Thomas Hawksley
English engineer (born 1807)
Thomas Hawksley was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with early water supply and coal gas engineering projects. Hawksley was, with John Frederick Bateman, the leading British water engineer of the nineteenth century and was personally responsible for upwards of 150 water-supply schemes, in the British Isles and overseas.
1915
Ernest Gagnon
Canadian organist and composer (born 1834)
Ernest Gagnon was a Canadian folklorist, composer, and organist. He is best known for compiling a large amount of French Canadian folk music which he published as Chansons populaires du Canada in 1865–1867. He was greatly admired for his virtuoso performances on the organ and was also considered an expert at plainsong accompaniment.
2012
Nevin Spence
Northern Irish rugby player (born 1990)
Nevin John Spence was a Northern Irish rugby union player who represented Ulster in the Pro12. A centre who could also play on the wing, he came through the Ulster Rugby Academy and played his club rugby for Ballynahinch. He was also a capable footballer and appeared for Northern Ireland at under‑16 level.
1352
Ewostatewos
Ethiopian monk and saint (born 1273)
Ewostatewos was an Ethiopian religious leader of the Orthodox Tewahedo during the early period of the Solomonic dynasty of Ethiopian Empire. He was a forceful advocate for the observation of the Sabbath in Christianity. His followers, known as the House of Ewostatewos, have been a historic force in Tewahedo Orthodoxy.
1830
François Baillairgé
Canadian painter and sculptor (born 1759)
François Baillairgé was an architect and artist with expertise in drawing, painting, carpentry, sculpture, and church decoration. Baillairgé was the first artist from Quebec City to complete his education at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris, which he attended from 1779 to 1781.
1945
André Tardieu
French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (born 1876)
André Pierre Gabriel Amédée Tardieu was three times Prime Minister of France and a dominant figure of French political life in 1929–1932. He was a moderate conservative with a strong intellectual reputation, but became a weak prime minister at the start of the worldwide Great Depression.
2021
Lou Angotti
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1938)
Louis Frederick Angotti was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and St. Louis Blues from 1964 to 1974.
1146
Alan
1st Earl of Richmond, English soldier (born 1100)
Alan of Penthièvre, 1st Earl of Richmond, Breton Alan Penteur, also known as "Alan the Black", was a Breton noble who fought for Stephen, King of England. Alan was the third son of Stephen, Count of Tréguier, and Hawise de Guingamp.
1975
Franco Bordoni
Italian race car driver and pilot (born 1913)
Franco Bordoni-Bisleri was an Italian aviator and racing car driver. He is one of the top-scoring aces of the Regia Aeronautica, with 19 air victories. His nickname was "Robur" and was painted on most of his aircraft and racing cars.
2014
John Anderson Jr.
American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Kansas (born 1917)
John Anderson Jr. was an American politician who served as the 36th governor of Kansas, from 1961 until 1965. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the 33rd attorney general of Kansas from 1956 until 1961.
1907
William Wales
English-American inventor (born c. 1838)
William Wales was an English-American optical instrument inventor specializing in the manufacture of objectives for use in microscopes. Wales's objective inventions were used frequently in contemporary microscopes and many examples survive in private and museum collections today.
1701
Edmé Boursault
French author and playwright (born 1638)
Edmé Boursault was a French dramatist and miscellaneous writer from the era of Louis XIV. He is known for his innovative theatrical trends, polemical writing, epistolary novels, and friendships with other writers such as Pierre Corneille.
1945
Linnie Marsh Wolfe
American librarian and author (born 1881)
Linnie Marsh Wolfe was an American librarian. She won the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for her 1945 biography of John Muir titled Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir.
2012
Hajra Masroor
Pakistani writer (born 1930)
Hajra Masroor was a Pakistani writer who established herself with her short fiction stories, known as afsana in Urdu literature. Her elder sister, Khadija Mastoor, was also an accomplished short-story writer and novelist.
1595
John MacMorran
Baillie of Edinburgh, shot by rioting high school schoolchildren.
Baillie John MacMorran (1553-1595), a merchant and Baillie of Edinburgh, was killed during a riot at Edinburgh High School. His house at Riddle's Court is a valued monument on Edinburgh's Lawnmarket.
1998
Louis Rasminsky
Canadian economist, 3rd Governor of the Bank of Canada (born 1908)
Louis Rasminsky was a Canadian economist who served as the third governor of the Bank of Canada from 1961 to 1973, succeeding James Coyne. He was succeeded by Gerald Bouey.
2015
Harry J. Lipkin
Israeli physicist and academic (born 1921)
Harry Jeannot Lipkin, also known as Zvi Lipkin, was an Israeli theoretical physicist specializing in nuclear physics and elementary particle physics. He is a recipient of the prestigious Wigner Medal.
1326
Dmitry of Tver (born 1299)
Dmitry Mikhailovich, nicknamed the Fearsome Eyes or the Terrible Eyes, was Prince of Tver from 1318 and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1322 until his death in 1326.
1496
Hugh Clopton
Lord Mayor of London (born c. 1440)
Sir Hugh Clopton was a Lord Mayor of London, a member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers and a benefactor of his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire.
1643
Richard Boyle
1st Earl of Cork, English-Irish politician, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (born 1566)
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, also known as 'the Great Earl of Cork', was an English politician who served as Lord Treasurer of the Kingdom of Ireland.
1965
Steve Brown
American bassist (born 1890)
Theodore "Steve" Brown was a jazz musician best known for his work on string bass. Like many New Orleans bassists, he played both string bass and tuba professionally.
1852
Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern
German-Estonian philologist and academic (born 1770)
Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern was a German philologist in Livonia, the first director of the library of the Imperial University of Dorpat. He coined the term Bildungsroman.
1952
Hugo Raudsepp
Estonian author and playwright (born 1883)
Hugo Raudsepp was an influential and prolific Estonian playwright and politician. In 1951 he was deported to the Irkutsk region by the Soviet authorities, where he died.
2010
Arrow
Caribbean singer-songwriter (born 1949)
Alphonsus Celestine Edmund Cassell, known mononymously as Arrow, was a Montserratian calypso and soca musician, regarded as the first superstar of soca from Montserrat. Internationally, his biggest hit song was "Hot Hot Hot" (1982), known from the original by Arrow and numerous later versions by other musicians.
2013
Gerard Cafesjian
American businessman and philanthropist (born 1925)
Gerard Leon Cafesjian was a businessman and philanthropist who founded the Cafesjian Family Foundation (CFF), the Cafesjian Museum Foundation (CMF) and the Cafesjian Center for the Arts.
1989
Olga Erteszek
Polish-American fashion designer (born 1916)
Olga Erteszek was a Polish-American undergarment designer and lingerie company owner. She was famous for her nightgowns with full, flowing skirt width and generous sweep.
2014
Jürg Schubiger
Swiss psychotherapist and author (born 1936)
Jürg Schubiger was a Swiss psychotherapist and writer of children's books. He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1996 for Als die Welt noch jung war.
2009
Troy Kennedy Martin
Scottish-English screenwriter (born 1932)
Troy Kennedy Martin was a Scottish-born film and television screenwriter. He created the long-running BBC TV police series Z-Cars (1962–1978), and the award-winning 1985 anti-nuclear drama Edge of Darkness. He also wrote the screenplay for the original version of The Italian Job (1969). His last film was Ferrari (2023), which was posthumously released.
1813
Antoine Étienne de Tousard
French general and engineer (born 1752)
Antoine Étienne de Tousard was a French general and military engineer during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was also the last military engineer of the Order of Saint John. He is the brother of Louis de Tousard.
2014
Nicholas Romanov
Prince of Russia (born 1922)
Nicholas Romanovich Romanov was a claimant to the headship of the House of Romanov and president of the Romanov Family Association. Although undoubtedly a descendant of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, his claimed titles and official membership in the former Imperial House were disputed by those who maintained that his parents' marriage violated the laws of the Russian Empire.
2018
Helen Clare
British singer (born 1916)
Helen Clare was a British singer who was well known in the 1930s and 1940s through her work in variety, radio, television and recording. Clare worked extensively in light entertainment, appearing on BBC Radio and recording with British dance bands. Her distinctive soprano voice saw her working with some of the biggest names of the era, including bandleaders Jack Jackson and Henry Hall. She was one of the last surviving professional singers who had been active in the 1930s.
1231
Louis I
Duke of Bavaria (born 1173)
Louis I, or Ludwig I, called the Kelheimer or of Kelheim, since he was born and died at Kelheim, was the Duke of Bavaria from 1183 and Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1214. He was the only surviving son of Otto I, Duke of Bavaria by his wife Agnes of Loon. He married Ludmilla of Bohemia, a daughter of Duke Frederick of Bohemia.
1750
Charles Theodore Pachelbel
German organist and composer (born 1690)
Charles Theodore Pachelbel was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist of the late Baroque era. He was the son of the more famous Johann Pachelbel, composer of the popular Canon in D. He was one of the first European composers to take up residence in the American colonies, and was the most famous musical figure in early Charleston, South Carolina.
1995
Harry Calder
South African cricketer (born 1901)
Harry Lawton Calder was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1918, then a 17 year old schoolboy. Calder is the youngest person to receive this accolade, one of the game's top honours, and the only Wisden Cricketer of the Year that never played first-class cricket.
1140
Adelaide of Hungary
Duchess of Bohemia
Adelaide of Bohemia was the daughter of Prince Álmos of Hungary and his wife Predslava of Kiev, the daughter of Sviatopolk II great prince of Kiev. Adelaide's father was a son of King Géza I of Hungary and was Duke and later King of East Slavonia.
2004
Walter Stewart
Canadian journalist and author (born 1931)
Walter Douglas Stewart was an outspoken Canadian writer, editor and journalism educator, a veteran of newspapers and magazines and author of more than twenty books, several of them bestsellers. The Globe and Mail reported news of his death with the headline: "He was Canada's conscience."
1408
Edmund Holland
4th Earl of Kent, English politician (born 1384)
Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent, 5th Baron Holland, KG was the Earl of Kent from 1400 to 1408. He was the 106th Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1403.
2012
Tibor Antalpéter
Hungarian volleyball player and diplomat, Ambassador of Hungary to the United Kingdom (born 1930)
Tibor Antalpéter was a Hungarian volleyball player who played for Csepel SC and the Hungarian national team. He served as Hungarian Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1995.
2026
Jodie Allen
American journalist, author, and editor (born 1938)
Jodie Tetreault Allen was an American journalist and author. She was the Department Assistant Secretary at the United States Department of Labor and Senior Editor at Pew Research Center.
1504
Elisabeth of Bavaria
Electress of the Palatinate (born 1478)
Elisabeth of Bavaria was a member of the House of Wittelsbach and, by marriage, Electress of the Palatinate. After her father's death, she was also Duchess of Bavaria-Landshut.
1649
John Floyd
English priest and educator (born 1572)
John Floyd was an English Jesuit, known as a controversialist. He is known under the pseudonyms Daniel à Jesu, Hermannus Loemelius, and George White under which he published.
1983
Prince Far I
Jamaican DJ and producer (born 1944)
Prince Far I was a Jamaican reggae deejay and producer, and a Rastafarian. He was known for his gruff voice and critical assessment of the Jamaican government.
1397
Adam Easton
English cardinal
Adam Easton was an English cardinal, born at Easton in Norfolk.
1707
George Stepney
English poet and diplomat (born 1663)
George Stepney was an English poet and diplomat.
1803
Gian Francesco Albani
Italian cardinal (born 1719)
Gian Francesco Albani was a Roman Catholic Cardinal. He was a member of the Albani family.
1830
William Huskisson
English financier and politician, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (born 1770)
William Huskisson was a British statesman, financier, and Member of Parliament for several constituencies, including Liverpool.
1841
Alessandro Rolla
Italian violinist and composer (born 1757)
Alessandro Rolla was an Italian viola and violin virtuoso, composer, conductor and teacher. His son, Antonio Rolla, was also a violin virtuoso and composer.
1930
Milton Sills
American actor and screenwriter (born 1882)
Milton George Gustavus Sills was an American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century.
1972
Baki Süha Ediboğlu
Turkish poet and author (born 1915)
Baki Süha Ediboğlu was a Turkish poet and author.
1972
Geoffrey Fisher
English archbishop and academic (born 1887)
Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, was an English Anglican priest, and 99th Archbishop of Canterbury, serving from 1945 to 1961.
1978
Robert Cliche
Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1921)
Robert Cliche was a Canadian lawyer, politician and judge.
1978
Willy Messerschmitt
German engineer and academic, designed the Messerschmitt Bf 109 (born 1898)
Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer who designed a number of prominent aircraft for the Luftwaffe and civil aviation.
1981
Rafael Méndez
Mexican trumpet player and composer (born 1906)
Rafael Méndez was a Mexican virtuoso solo trumpeter. He is known as the "Heifetz of the Trumpet."
1985
Cootie Williams
American trumpet player (born 1910)
Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams was an American jazz, jump blues, and rhythm and blues trumpeter.
1989
Jan DeGaetani
American soprano (born 1933)
Jan (Janice) DeGaetani was an American mezzo-soprano known for her performances of contemporary classical vocal compositions.
1991
John Hoyt
American actor (born 1904)
John Hoyt was an American actor. He began his acting career on Broadway, later appearing in numerous films and television series.
1991
Warner Troyer
Canadian journalist and author (born 1932)
Warner Troyer was a Canadian broadcast journalist and writer.
1997
Bulldog Brower
American wrestler (born 1933)
Richard T. Gland, better known by his ring name Dick "Bulldog" Brower, was an American professional wrestler.
2006
2007
Aldemaro Romero
Venezuelan pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1928)
Aldemaro Romero was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo State.
2013
Habib Munzir Al-Musawa
Indonesian cleric and scholar (born 1973)
Habib Munzir bin Fuad Al-Musawa was an Indonesian Islamic cleric, teacher, da'i and founder of the Majelis Rasulullah religious organization.
2014
Eugene I. Gordon
American physicist and engineer (born 1930)
Eugene Irving Gordon was an American physicist. He was Director of the Lightwave Devices Laboratory of Bell Labs.
2014
Wayne Tefs
Canadian anthologist, author, and critic (born 1947)
Wayne Tefs was a Canadian novelist, writer, editor, critic, and anthologist.
2015
Meir Pa'il
Israeli commander, historian, and politician (born 1926)
Meir Pa'il was an Israeli politician, military historian and a former colonel in the Israel Defense Forces.
2026
Bonnie Greer
American-English playwright and critic (born 1948)
Bonnie Greer was an American and British playwright, novelist, critic and broadcaster, who lived in the UK from 1986 until her death in 2026.