Did you know
Traylor was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2016.
Notable Deaths on September 22
2004 — Ray Traylor Jr.
American professional wrestler better-known as the Big Boss Man (born 1963)
September 22 has 102 recorded notable deaths across history, from 189 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
102 source records
189 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on September 22
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- 1499 The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War. Source
- 2024 Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka. Source
- 1957 In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president. Source
- 1862 A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln. Source
Did you know
Yogi Berra was an 18-time All-Star and won 10 World Series championships as a player—more than any other player in MLB history.
Did you know
Selim I, also known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520.
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The son of actor Eddie Albert and Mexican actress Margo, he starred opposite Goldie Hawn in Butterflies Are Free (1972), a role for which he won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.
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Abul A'la al-Maududi was an Islamic scholar and the author of Tafhim-ul-Quran, who was active in British India and later, following the partition, in Pakistan.
More major people who died on September 22
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2015
Yogi Berra
American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1925)
Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra was an American professional baseball catcher who later took on the roles of manager and coach. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), all but the last for the New York Yankees.
1520
Selim I
Ottoman sultan (born 1465)
Selim I, also known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520.
2006
Edward Albert
American actor (born 1951)
Edward Laurence Albert was an American actor. The son of actor Eddie Albert and Mexican actress Margo, he starred opposite Goldie Hawn in Butterflies Are Free (1972), a role for which he won a Golden Globe Award for New…
1979
Abul A'la Maududi
Pakistani theologian, Islamic scholar and jurist (born 1903)
Abul A'la al-Maududi was an Islamic scholar and the author of Tafhim-ul-Quran, who was active in British India and later, following the partition, in Pakistan.
1554
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Spanish explorer (born 1510)
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from what is now Mexico to present-day Kansas through what is now parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and…
1399
Thomas de Mowbray
1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of The United Kingdom (born 1366)
Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, KG was an English landowner and peer. His family was a venerable one, and by the time Thomas reached adulthood, they were extremely influential in national politics.
189
He Jin
Chinese general and regent (born 135)
He Jin, courtesy name Suigao, was a Chinese military general and politician of the Eastern Han dynasty, serving as military Grand Marshal and regent.
1917
John Henry Knight
English engineer (born 1847)
John Henry Knight, from Farnham, was a wealthy engineer, landowner and inventor.
2013
Gary Brandner
American author and screenwriter (born 1930)
Gary Phil Brandner was an American horror fiction author best known for his werewolf themed trilogy of novels, The Howling. The first book of the series was adapted loosely as a motion picture in 1981.
2013
David H. Hubel
Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
David Hunter Hubel was an American Canadian neurophysiologist noted for his studies of the structure and function of the visual cortex.
2018
Edna Molewa
South African politician (born 1957)
Bomo Edith Edna Molewa, formerly known as Edna Sethema, was a South African politician and member of the African National Congress.
1961
Marion Davies
American actress and comedian (born 1897)
Marion Davies was an American actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Educated in a religious convent, Davies left the school to pursue a career as a chorus girl.
2012
Irving Adler
American mathematician, author, and academic (born 1913)
Irving Adler was an American author, mathematician, scientist, political activist, and educator.
1956
Frederick Soddy
English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
Frederick Soddy FRS was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions.
2023
Altemio Sanchez
Puerto Rican serial killer and rapist (born 1958)
Altemio C. Sanchez, also known as the Bike Path Rapist, was a serial killer of Puerto Rican descent, who is known to have raped and murdered at least three women, and raped at least 9 to 15 girls and women in and around…
1072
Ouyang Xiu
Chinese historian, poet, and politician (born 1007)
Ouyang Xiu, courtesy name Yongshu, also known by his art names Zuiweng (醉翁) and Liu Yi Jushi (六一居士), was a Chinese historian, calligrapher, epigrapher, essayist, poet, and politician of the Song dynasty.
1992
Aurelio López
Mexican baseball player (born 1948)
Aurelio Alejandro López Rios was a Mexican professional baseball player.
2014
Erik van der Wurff
Dutch pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1945)
Erik van der Wurff was a Dutch pianist, composer, arranger, record producer and conductor. He worked mainly on soundtracks and as a composer for many film and television shows.
1989
Irving Berlin
Russian-born American composer and songwriter (born 1888)
Irving Berlin was a Russian-born American songwriter and composer. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook.