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was an American actor, director, and producer, celebrated for his magnetic presence as a leading man during the American New Wave.
Notable Deaths on September 16
2025 — Robert Redford
American actor, producer and director (born 1936)
September 16 has 108 recorded notable deaths across history, from 307 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
108 source records
307 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on September 16
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- 2021 Inspiration4, the first private orbital crewed spaceflight, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center. Source
- 1863 Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist. Source
- 1955 A Soviet Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile. Source
- 1955 The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight. Source
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In his earlier career he became one of several writers to produce original Conan the Barbarian novels; his are considered by fans to be some of the best written by authors other than the character's creator, Robert E.
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Sheb Wooley recorded a series of novelty songs, including the 1958 hit rock-and-roll comedy single "The Purple People Eater", and under the name Ben Colder, the country hit "Almost Persuaded No.
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Beginning in 1911, he organised and led the Libyan resistance movement against the Italian colonial empire during the First and Second Italo-Senussi Wars.
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Fahrenheit is also credited with producing the first successful mercury-in-glass thermometers, which were more accurate than the spirit-filled thermometers of his time and of a generally superior design.
More major people who died on September 16
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2007
Robert Jordan
American engineer and author (born 1948)
James Oliver Rigney Jr., known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is best known as the author of The Wheel of Time series, which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel.
2003
Sheb Wooley
American singer-songwriter (born 1921)
Shelby Fredrick Wooley was an American singer, songwriter, and actor.
1931
Omar Mukhtar
Libyan theorist and educator (born 1862)
ʿUmar al-Mukhtār Muḥammad bin Farḥāt al-Manifī, called The Lion of the Desert, known among the colonial Italians as Matari of the Mnifa, was a Libyan revolutionary and Imam who led the native resistance in Cyrenaica…
1736
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Polish-Dutch physicist and engineer, invented the thermometer (born 1686)
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. He was born in Poland to a family of German origin, although he spent much of his life in the Dutch Republic.
1965
Fred Quimby
American animator and producer (born 1886)
Frederick Clinton Quimby was an American animation producer best known for producing the Tom and Jerry cartoon series, for which he won seven Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Films.
1955
Leo Amery
Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (born 1873)
Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery, also known as L. S. Amery, was a British Conservative Party politician and journalist.
655
Pope Martin I
Pope Martin I, also known as Martin the Confessor, was the bishop of Rome from 21 July 649 to 653 or 654. He had served as Pope Theodore I's ambassador to Constantinople, and was elected to succeed him as pope.
1792
Nguyễn Huệ
Vietnamese emperor (born 1753)
Emperor Quang Trung or Nguyễn Huệ, also known as Nguyễn Quang Bình, or Hồ Thơm was the second emperor of the Tây Sơn dynasty, reigning from 1788 until 1792.
2018
James Burdette Thayer
American brigadier general (born 1920)
James Burdette Thayer was an American brigadier general who served on active duty during World War II.
1976
Bertha Lutz
Brazilian feminist and scientist (born 1894)
Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz was a Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat. Lutz became a leading figure in both the Pan American feminist movement and human rights movement.
1992
Millicent Fenwick
American journalist and politician (born 1910)
Millicent Vernon Fenwick was an American fashion model, Vogue magazine editor, socialite, Republican Party politician, and diplomat who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to…
2016
Edward Albee
American director and playwright (born 1928)
Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994).
1919
Maria Nikiforova
Ukrainian anarchist partisan leader (born 1885)
Maria Hryhorivna Nikiforova was a Ukrainian anarchist partisan leader who led the Black Guards during the Ukrainian War of Independence, becoming widely renowned as an atamansha.
1932
Ronald Ross
Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1857)
Sir Ronald Ross was a British medical doctor. He received the 1902 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation…
1977
Maria Callas
Greek operatic soprano (born 1923)
Maria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano, and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice, and dramatic interpretations.
1973
Víctor Jara
Chilean singer-songwriter, teacher and theatre director (born 1932)
Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and Communist political activist.
1911
Edward Whymper
English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (born 1840)
Edward Whymper FRSE was an English mountaineer, explorer, illustrator, and author best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. Four members of his climbing party were killed during the descent.
1896
Antônio Carlos Gomes
Brazilian composer (born 1836)
Antônio Carlos Gomes was a Brazilian composer, chiefly remembered for his operas.
1701
James II of England (born 1633)
James II and VII was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from February 1685 until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution.