Notable Deaths on September 17

Q: Who died on September 17?

Notable people who died on September 17 include: Remistus, Unni, Li Jingsui, Hugh Magnus, Conan III.

Q: What is Larry Lake known for?

Larry Lake, American-Canadian trumpet player and composer (born 1943)

117 people 456 – 2025

September 17 has seen 117 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 456 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · September 17 — Wikipedia

2013 — Larry Lake

American-Canadian trumpet player and composer (born 1943)

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Larry Ellsworth Lake was an American-born Canadian composer, trumpeter, freelance writer on music, radio broadcaster, and record producer

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From 1985 until his death he served as artistic director of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, a group of which he was a founding member

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For nearly 30 years he hosted and served as music consultant for the CBC Radio program Two New Hours

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An associate of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC), he was the chair of the CMC's Ontario Region Council and was an executive member of the CMC's national board

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His compositions received multiple awards from the CMC and from the Major Armstrong Foundation

Remistus

Roman general

Remistus was a general of the Western Roman Empire and commander-in-chief of the army under Emperor Avitus.

456

Unni

archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen

Saint Unni was an archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen. He died as a missionary in Birka in Sweden, where he tried to continue Ansgar's work.

936

Li Jingsui

Chinese prince (born 920)

Li Jingsui, né Xu Jingsui (徐景遂), courtesy name Tuishen (退身), formally Crown Prince Wencheng (文成太弟), was an imperial prince of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Southern Tang. He was a son of…

958

Hugh Magnus

king of France (born 1007)

Hugh, sometimes called Hugh the Great, was co-king of France under his father, Robert II, from 1017 until his death in 1025. He was a member of the House of Capet, a son of Robert II by his third wife, Constance of…

1025

Conan III

duke of Brittany (born 1070)

Conan III, also known as Conan of Cornouaille and Conan the Fat was duke of Brittany, from 1112 to his death. He was the son of Alan IV, Duke of Brittany and Ermengarde of Anjou.

1148

Hildegard of Bingen

German abbess and polymath (born 1098)

Hildegard of Bingen OSB, also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner of the…

1179

Robert III

count of Flanders (born 1249)

Robert III, also called Robert of Béthune and nicknamed The Lion of Flanders, was the Count of Nevers from 1273 and Count of Flanders from 1305 until his death.

1322

Michael de la Pole

2nd Earl of Suffolk (born 1367)

Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk was an English nobleman who supported Henry IV against Richard II during the turmoils of the late 14th century. He died during the Siege of Harfleur in 1415. He was the eldest son…

1415

Constantine II

tsar of Bulgaria

Constantine II ruled as emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1397 to 1422. He was born in the early 1370s and died in exile at the Serbian court on 17 September 1422. Constantine II claimed the title Emperor of…

1422

William III

duke of Luxembourg (born 1425)

William III, called the Brave, was landgrave of Thuringia and claimant duke of Luxemburg. He is actually the second William to rule Thuringia, and in Luxembourg; he was the third Margrave of Meissen named William.

1482

Henry Manners

2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier (born 1526)

Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, 13th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, KG was an English nobleman.

1563

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

Spanish admiral and explorer, founded St. Augustine, Florida (born 1519)

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés was a Spanish admiral, explorer, and conquistador from Avilés, in Asturias, Spain. He is notable for planning the first regular trans-oceanic convoys, which became known as the Spanish treasure…

1574

Heinrich Bullinger

Swiss theologian and reformer (born 1504)

Heinrich Bullinger was a Swiss Reformer and theologian, the successor of Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Church of Zürich and a pastor at the Grossmünster. One of the most important leaders of the Swiss Reformation,…

1575

Judah Loew ben Bezalel

Bohemian rabbi, mystic and philosopher (born 1520)

Judah Loew ben Bezalel, also known as Rabbi Loew, the Maharal of Prague, or simply the Maharal, was an important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who, for most of his life,…

1609

Robert Bellarmine

Italian cardinal and saint (born 1542)

Robert Bellarmine was an Italian Jesuit and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was canonized a saint in 1930 and named Doctor of the Church, one of only 27 at the time. He was one of the most important figures in the…

1621

Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg

German cleric and politician, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz (born 1553)

Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1604 to 1626.

1626

Thomas Lake

English politician, English Secretary of State (born 1567)

Sir Thomas Lake PC was Secretary of State to James I of England. He was a Member of Parliament between 1593 and 1626.

1630

Katherine Clifton

2nd Baroness Clifton, English-Scottish peer

Katherine Clifton, 2nd Baroness Clifton, was an English-born Scottish peer.

1637

Philip IV

king of Spain (born 1605)

Philip IV, also called the Planet King, was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640. Philip is remembered for his patronage of the arts, including such artists as Diego Velázquez, and…

1665

Sabbatai Zevi

Turkish rabbi and scholar (born 1626)

Sabbatai Zevi or Shabtai Tzvi was a former Jewish mystic and rabbi from Smyrna who converted to Islam. His family were Romaniote Jews from Patras.

1676

John of Austria the Younger

Spanish general and politician, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (born 1629)

John Joseph of Austria, also called John the Younger was a Spanish general and political figure. He was the only illegitimate son of Philip IV of Spain to be acknowledged by the King and trained for military command and…

1679

Stanislaus Papczyński

Polish priest and saint (born 1631)

Stanislaus Papczyński, MIC, born Jan Papczyński and in religion Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary, was a Polish Catholic priest who founded the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, the first Polish religious order for men.…

1701

Marguerite Louise d'Orléans

French princess (born 1645)

Marguerite Louise d'Orléans was a French princess who became grand duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici.

1721

Francesco Geminiani

Italian violinist and composer (born 1687)

Francesco Xaverio Geminiani was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist. BBC Radio 3 once described him as "now largely forgotten, but in his time considered almost a musical god, deemed to be the equal of…

1762

Tobias Smollett

Scottish author and poet (born 1721)

Tobias George Smollett was a Scottish writer and surgeon. He was best known for writing picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of…

1771

Franz Xaver Süssmayr

Austrian composer and director (born 1766)

Franz Xaver Süssmayr or Süßmayr, also anglicized as Suessmayr, was an Austrian composer and conductor. Popular in his day, he is now known primarily as the composer who completed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's unfinished…

1803

Benjamin Bourne

American judge and politician (born 1755)

Benjamin Bourne was a United States representative from Rhode Island, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island and a United States Circuit Judge of the United…

1808

Jacques Bernard d'Anselme

French general (born 1740)

Jacques Bernard Modeste d'Anselme was a French general of the French Revolutionary Army, notable as the first commander of the Army of the Var which soon became the Army of Italy. He fell under suspicion, was removed…

1817

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu

French botanist and author (born 1748)

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu was a French botanist, notable as the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today. His classification was based on an extended…

1836

Francisco Javier Echeverría

Mexican businessman and politician. President (1841) (born 1797)

Francisco Javier Echeverría was a Mexican businessman and finance minister who served as interim president of Mexico for about two weeks in late September 1841, during the fall of Anastasio Bustamante's administration.

1852

Dred Scott

American slave, plaintiff in the Dred Scott Decision (born 1795)

Dred Scott was an enslaved African-American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857,…

1858

Lawrence O'Bryan Branch

American politician and Confederate general (born 1820)

Lawrence O'Bryan Branch was an American politician who served as a representative for North Carolina in the U.S. Congress and a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War. He was killed in action at the…

1862

William E. Starke

Confederate general (born 1814)

William Edwin Starke was a wealthy Gulf Coast businessman and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in action at the Battle of Antietam while commanding the…

1862

Charles Robert Cockerell

English archaeologist and architect (born 1788)

Charles Robert Cockerell was an English architect, archaeologist and writer. He studied architecture under Robert Smirke and embarked on an extended Grand Tour lasting seven years, mainly in Greece. After returning to…

1863

Alfred de Vigny

French author, poet, and playwright (born 1797)

Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare.

1863

Walter Savage Landor

English author and poet (born 1775)

Walter Savage Landor was an English writer, poet, and activist. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem "Rose Aylmer," but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and…

1864

Roman Nose

Native American warrior (born circa 1823)

Roman Nose, also known as Hook Nose, was a Native American of the Northern Cheyenne. He is considered to be one of, if not the greatest and most influential warriors during the Plains Indian War of the 1860s. Born…

1868

Henry Fox Talbot

English photographer, developed the Calotype Process (born 1800)

William Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. His…

1877

Orélie-Antoine de Tounens

French lawyer and adventurer (born 1825)

Orélie-Antoine de Tounens was a French avoué and adventurer who proclaimed by two decrees on 17 and 20 November 1860 that Araucanía and Patagonia did not depend of any other states and that he himself was King of…

1878

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

French architect and theorist (born 1814)

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was a French architect and author, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica…

1879

Rudolf von Jhering

German jurist (born 1818)

Caspar Rudolph von Jhering was a German jurist. He is best known for his 1872 book Der Kampf ums Recht, as a legal scholar, and as the founder of a modern sociological and historical school of law. His ideas were…

1892

Deng Shichang

Chinese captain (born 1849)

Deng Shichang, courtesy name Zhengqing, posthumous name Zhuangjie, was an Imperial Chinese Navy officer who lived in the late Qing dynasty. He is best known for his service in the Beiyang Fleet during the First…

1894

Charles Alfred Pillsbury

American businessman, co-founded the Pillsbury Company (born 1842)

Charles Alfred Pillsbury was an American businessman, flour industrialist, and politician. He was a co-founder of the Pillsbury Company.

1899

Ignaz Brüll

Czech-Austrian pianist and composer (born 1846)

Ignaz Brüll was a pianist and composer from Austria-Hungary. Born in Moravia, he lived and worked in Vienna.

1907

Edmonia Lewis

American sculptor (born 1844)

Mary Edmonia Lewis, also known as "Wildfire", was an American sculptor.

1907

Henri Julien

Canadian cartoonist (born 1852)

Henri Julien was a Canadian artist and cartoonist noted for his work for the Canadian Illustrated News and for his political cartoons in the Montreal Daily Star. His pseudonyms include Octavo and Crincrin. He was the…

1908

Thomas Selfridge

American lieutenant and pilot (born 1882)

Thomas Etholen Selfridge was an American first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first person to die in an airplane crash. He was also the first active-duty member of the U.S. military to die in a crash while on duty.…

1908

Thomas Bent

Australian businessman and politician, 22nd Premier of Victoria (born 1838)

Sir Thomas Bent was an Australian politician and the 22nd premier of Victoria.

1909

Stefanos Dragoumis

Greek judge and politician, 92nd Prime Minister of Greece (born 1842)

Stefanos Dragoumis was a judge, writer and the Prime Minister of Greece from January to October 1910. He was the father of Ion Dragoumis.

1923

Joseph De Piro

Maltese priest and missionary (born 1877)

Giuseppe De Piro or Joseph De Piro, was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary. He founded the Missionary Society of St Paul (MSSP) in June 1910 with a charism to form missionaries following the example of St Paul. A…

1933

Ettie Annie Rout

New Zealand author and activist (born 1877)

Ettie Annie Rout was a Tasmanian-born New Zealander whose work among servicemen in Paris and the Somme during World War I made her a war hero among the French, yet through the same events she became persona non grata in…

1936

Walter Dubislav

German logician and philosopher of science, Vienna circle member (born 1895)

Walter Dubislav was a German logician and philosopher of science (Wissenschaftstheoretiker).

1937

Bruno Jasieński

Polish poet and author (born 1901)

Bruno Jasieński was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright, Catastrophist, and leader of the Polish Futurist movement in the interwar period. Jasieński was also a communist activist in Poland, France and the Soviet Union,…

1938

Friedrich Zickwolff

German general (born 1893)

Friedrich Zickwolff was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.

1943

Ruth Benedict

American anthropologist and academic (born 1887)

Ruth Fulton Benedict was an American anthropologist and folklorist.

1948

Folke Bernadotte

Swedish soldier and diplomat (born 1895)

Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat. In World War II, he negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 non-Jewish prisoners of many nations from the Nazi German…

1948

Jimmy Yancey

American pianist and composer (born 1898)

James Edward Yancey was an American boogie-woogie pianist, composer, and lyricist. One reviewer described him as "one of the pioneers of this raucous, rapid-fire, eight-to-the-bar piano style".

1951

David Munson

American runner (born 1884)

David Curtiss Munson was an American athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

1953

Hans Feige

German general (Wehrmacht) (born 1880)

Hans Feige was a German General of the Infantry in the Wehrmacht during World War II.

1953

Adnan Menderes

Turkish lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1899)

Ali Adnan Ertekin Menderes was a Turkish politician who served as Prime Minister of Turkey between 1950 and 1960. He was one of the founders of the Democrat Party (DP) in 1946, the fourth legal opposition party of…

1961

Alejandro Casona

Spanish poet and playwright (born 1903)

Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27. Casona received his bachelor's degree in Gijon and later studied at the…

1965

Fritz Wunderlich

German tenor and actor (born 1930)

Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Otto Wunderlich was a German lyric tenor, famed for his singing of the Mozart repertoire and various lieder.

1966

Carlos Lamarca

Brazilian captain (born 1937)

Carlos Lamarca was a Brazilian Army Captain who deserted to join the armed struggle against the Brazilian military dictatorship. He was part of the Popular Revolutionary Vanguard and became, along with Carlos…

1971

Akim Tamiroff

American actor (born 1899)

Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff was an Armenian-American actor of film, stage, and television. One of the premier character actors of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tamiroff developed a prolific career despite his thick accent,…

1972

Hugo Winterhalter

American bandleader and composer (born 1909)

Hugo Winterhalter was an American easy listening arranger and composer, best known for his many arrangements and recordings for RCA Victor.

1973

Nicola Moscona

Greek-American operatic bass (born 1907)

Nicola Moscona was a Greek-born operatic bass. Born in Athens, he made his stage debut in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Greek National Opera in 1931, and went on to sing leading basso cantante roles both in Europe and…

1975

Anastasio Somoza Debayle

Nicaraguan commander and politician, 73rd President of Nicaragua (born 1925)

Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle was a Nicaraguan politician, military officer, hydraulic engineer, and dictator who served as the 53rd President of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 and again from 1974 until his fall in…

1980

Manos Loïzos

Egyptian-Greek composer (born 1937)

Manos Loïzos was one of the most important Greek Cypriot music composers of the 20th century.

1982

Humberto Sousa Medeiros

Portuguese-American cardinal (born 1915)

Humberto Sousa Medeiros was a Portuguese-born American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Boston from 1970 until his death in 1983, and was created a cardinal in 1973. Medeiros previously serve as Bishop of…

1983

Richard Basehart

American actor and director (born 1914)

John Richard Basehart was an American actor. Known for his "deep, resonant baritone voice and craggy good looks," he was active in film, theatre and television from 1947 until 1983. He won two National Board of Review…

1984

Laura Ashley

Welsh fashion designer, founded Laura Ashley plc (born 1925)

Laura Ashley was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman, who founded the eponymous fashion retailer. She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding the business into clothing design and manufacture…

1985

Zino Francescatti

French violinist and composer (born 1902)

René-Charles "Zino" Francescatti was a French virtuoso violinist, renowned for his lyrical playing style.

1991

Roger Wagner

American conductor and educator (born 1914)

Roger Wagner, was an American choral musician, administrator and educator. In 1946 he founded the Roger Wagner Chorale, which became one of America's premier vocal ensembles. He also founded the Los Angeles Master…

1992

Willie Mosconi

American pool player and actor (born 1913)

William Joseph Mosconi was an American professional pool player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mosconi is widely considered one of the greatest pool players of all time. Between the years of 1941 and 1957, he won the…

1993

Christian Nyby

American director and producer (born 1913)

Christian Nyby was an American television and film director and editor. As an editor, he had seventeen feature film credits from 1943 to 1952, including The Big Sleep (1946) and Red River (1948). From 1953 to 1975 he…

1993

John Delafose

American accordion player (born 1939)

John Irvin Delafose was an American French-speaking Creole Zydeco accordionist from Louisiana.

1994

Vitas Gerulaitis

American tennis player and coach (born 1954)

Vytautas "Vitas" Kevin Gerulaitis was an American professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in 1978. Gerulaitis won the men's singles title…

1994

Karl Popper

Austrian-English philosopher and academic (born 1902)

Sir Karl Raimund Popper was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical…

1994

Isadore Epstein

Estonian-American astronomer and academic (born 1919)

Isadore Epstein was an astronomer. Epstein taught astronomy at Columbia University for 37 years. He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University, following which he was appointed as an instructor at Columbia in 1950,…

1995

Lucien Victor

Belgian cyclist (born 1931)

Lucien Victor was a road racing cyclist from Belgium. He won the gold medal in the men's team road race, alongside André Noyelle and Robert Grondelaers at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was a professional rider from 1953…

1995

Spiro Agnew

American soldier and politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (born 1918)

Spiro Theodore Agnew was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973 under President Richard Nixon. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 3rd Executive of…

1996

Red Skelton

American actor and comedian (born 1913)

Richard Bernard Skelton was an American entertainer best known for his national radio and television shows between 1937 and 1971, especially as host of the television program The Red Skelton Show. He has stars on the…

1997

Frankie Vaughan

English singer and actor (born 1928)

Frankie Vaughan was an English singer and actor who became popular in the 1950s and 60s, recording more than 80 easy listening and traditional pop singles in his lifetime. He was known as "Mr. Moonlight" after his…

1999

Georgiy Gongadze

Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (born 1969)

Georgiy Ruslanovych Gongadze was a Ukrainian journalist. He founded the online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda along with Olena Prytula in 2000. The same year, he was kidnapped and murdered near Kyiv. Gongadze was born to a…

2000

Erich Hallhuber

German actor (born 1951)

Erich Hallhuber was a Bavarian actor. He was born in Munich and worked in theatre, opera, television and film.

2003

Jacques Lacarrière

French journalist and critic (born 1925)

Jacques Lacarrière was a French writer, born in Limoges. He studied moral philosophy, classical literature, and Hindu philosophy and literature. Professionally, he was known as a prominent critic, journalist, and…

2005

Alfred Reed

American composer and educator (born 1921)

Alfred Reed was an American neoclassical composer, with more than two hundred published works for concert band, orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensemble to his name. He also traveled extensively as a guest conductor and…

2005

Colin Madigan

Australian architect and author, designed the National Gallery of Australia (born 1921)

Colin Frederick Madigan was an Australian architect. He is best known for designing the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.

2011

Melvin Charney

Canadian sculptor and architect (born 1935)

Melvin Charney C.Q. was a Canadian artist and architect.

2012

Kristian Gidlund

Swedish drummer and journalist (born 1983)

Kristian Olof Erik Gidlund was a Swedish musician and author. He played drums in the rock band Sugarplum Fairy. He hosted Sommar i P1 on Swedish radio and released one book. In 2011, Gidlund was diagnosed with stomach…

2013

Bernie McGann

Australian saxophonist and composer (born 1937)

Bernard Francis McGann was an Australian jazz alto saxophone player. He began his career in the late 1950s and remained active as a performer, composer and recording artist until near the end of his life. McGann won…

2013

Alex Naumik

Lithuanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer (born 1949)

Alexandra Naumik, better known by her stage name Alex, was a Lithuanian-born, Polish-Norwegian rock and pop artist who rose to fame in the late 1970s.

2013

Michael J. Noonan

Irish farmer and politician, 25th Irish Minister of Defence (born 1935)

Michael Joseph Noonan was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He served as Minister for Defence from 1987 until 1989.

2013

Marvin Rainwater

American singer-songwriter (born 1925)

Marvin Karlton Rainwater was an American country and rockabilly singer and songwriter who had several hits during the late 1950s, including the self-penned "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" and "Whole Lotta Woman," which hit…

2013

Eiji Toyoda

Japanese businessman (born 1913)

Eiji Toyoda was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. He was largely responsible for bringing Toyota Motor Corporation to profitability and worldwide prominence during his tenure as president and later, as chairman.…

2013

George Hamilton IV

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)

George Hege Hamilton IV was an American country musician. He began performing in the late 1950s as a teen idol, switching to country music in the early 1960s.

2014

Andriy Husin

Ukrainian footballer and manager (born 1972)

Andriy Leonidovych Husin was a Ukrainian professional football player and coach. He played in the Ukraine national team, and was one of Ukraine's most capped players. He was a member of their squad at the 2006 World Cup.

2014

Wakachichibu Komei

Japanese sumo wrestler (born 1939)

Wakachichibu Komei was a sumo wrestler from Chichibu, Saitama, Japan. He made his professional debut in May 1954 and reached the top division in September 1958. His highest rank was sekiwake. Upon retirement from active…

2014

Charles Read

Australian air marshal (born 1918)

Air Marshal Sir Charles Frederick Read, KBE, CB, DFC, AFC was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He served as Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) from 1972 to 1975. Born in Sydney, Read joined the…

2014

Peter von Bagh

Finnish historian, director, and screenwriter (born 1943)

Kari Peter Conrad von Bagh was a Finnish film historian and director. Von Bagh worked as the head of the Finnish Film Archive, editor-in-chief of Filmihullu magazine and co-founder and director of the Midnight Sun Film…

2014

China Zorrilla

Uruguayan actress (born 1922)

China Zorrilla was an Uruguayan theater, film, and television actress, also director, producer and writer. An immensely popular star in the Rioplatense area, she is often regarded as a "Grande Dame" of the South…

2014

Ingrīda Andriņa

Latvian actress (born 1944)

Ingrīda Andriņa was a Latvian stage and film actress.

2015

Dettmar Cramer

German footballer and manager (born 1925)

Dettmar Cramer was a German football manager who led Bayern Munich to the 1975 and 1976 European Cups. He was born in Dortmund. Cramer is commonly considered to be the father of modern football in Japan and was a member…

2015

Vadim Kuzmin

Russian physicist and academic (born 1937)

Vadim Alekseyevich Kuzmin was a Russian theoretical physicist.

2015

David Willcocks

English organist, composer, and conductor (born 1919)

Sir David Valentine Willcocks, was a British choral conductor, organist, composer and music administrator. He was particularly well known for his association with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, which he…

2015

Bahman Golbarnezhad

Iranian racing cyclist (born 1968)

Bahman Golbarnezhad was an Iranian Paralympic racing cyclist competing in C4 classification events and an earlier powerlifter. During his powerlifting career, he won twelve gold medals and one silver medal in…

2016

Sigge Parling

Swedish footballer (born 1936)

Sigvard Emanuel "Sigge" Parling was a Swedish footballer. He also played ice hockey and bandy.

2016

Bobby Heenan

American professional wrestling manager (born 1944)

Raymond Louis Heenan was an American professional wrestling manager, color commentator, and wrestler. He performed with the American Wrestling Association (AWA), the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship…

2017

Cokie Roberts

American journalist and bestselling author (born 1943)

Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne "Cokie" Roberts was an American journalist and author. Her career included decades as a political reporter and analyst for National Public Radio, PBS, and ABC News, with prominent…

2019

Robert W. Gore

American engineer and businessman, co-inventor of Gore-Tex (born 1937)

Robert W. Gore was an American engineer and scientist, inventor and businessman. Gore led his family's company, W. L. Gore & Associates, which was founded by his father Bill Gore, in developing applications of…

2020

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Algerian politician, President of Algeria (born 1937)

Abdelaziz Bouteflika was an Algerian politician and diplomat who served as the seventh president of Algeria from 1999 until his resignation in 2019, following mass protests.

2021

Maarten Schmidt

Dutch astronomer (born 1929)

Maarten Schmidt was a Dutch-born American astronomer who first measured the distances of quasars. He was the first astronomer to identify a quasar, and so was pictured on the March cover of Time magazine in 1966.

2022

Nelson DeMille

American lieutenant and author (born 1943)

Nelson Richard DeMille was an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. His novels include Plum Island, The Charm School, and The General's Daughter. DeMille also wrote under the pen names Jack Cannon,…

2024

Neil King Jr.

American journalist and author (born 1959)

Neil Caldwell King Jr. was an American journalist and author. He shared in the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2002. His first book, American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal, was published by…

2024

JD Souther

American singer, songwriter, and actor (born 1945)

John David Souther was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was "a principal architect of the Southern California sound and a major influence on a generation of songwriters". Souther wrote and co-wrote songs…

2024

Roger Climpson

English-Australian journalist and television host (born 1932)

Roger Climpson was a British-born Australian media personality who served a lengthy career in both radio and television, as a journalist and reporter, announcer, newsreader, weather presenter and host. He started his…

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Larry Lake — Canadian trumpet player and composer (1943–2013)

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Known forAs a composer, he was primarily known for his electronic music

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Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign the Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement. Wikipedia →

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A Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile over the Mediterranean Sea. Wikipedia →

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Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing. Wikipedia →

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