Notable Deaths on September 22

Q: Who died on September 22?

Notable people who died on September 22 include: He Jin, Pope Felix IV, Zhao Zong, Wichmann II, Ouyang Xiu.

Q: What is Yogi Berra known for?

Yogi Berra, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1925)

103 people 189 – 2024

September 22 has seen 103 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 189 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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2015 — Yogi Berra

American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1925)

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He was an 18-time All-Star and won 10 World Series championships as a player—more than any other player in MLB history

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He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), all but the last for the New York Yankees

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He is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.

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Berra had a career batting average of .285, while hitting 358 home runs and 1,430 runs batted in

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Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra was an American professional baseball catcher who later took on the roles of manager and coach

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. He was an elder half-brother of Empress He, and a maternal uncle of…

189

Pope Felix IV

Pope Felix IV was the bishop of Rome from 12 July 526 to his death on 22 September 530. He was the chosen candidate of Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great, who had imprisoned Felix's predecessor, John I.

530

Zhao Zong

emperor of the Tang Dynasty (born 867)

Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, né Li Jie, name later changed to Li Min and again to Li Ye, was the penultimate emperor of China's Tang dynasty. He reigned from 888 to 904. Emperor Zhaozong was the seventh son of Emperor…

904

Wichmann II

Frankish nobleman

Wichmann II the Younger was a member of the Saxon House of Billung. He was a son of Count Wichmann the Elder and his wife Frederuna, a niece of Queen Matilda. The cousin of Emperor Otto I became known as a fierce enemy…

967

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. He was a…

1072

Otto of Freising

German bishop and chronicler (born c. 1114)

Otto of Freising was a German churchman of the Cistercian order and chronicled at least two texts which carry valuable information on the political history of his own time. He was the bishop of Freising from 1138. Otto…

1158

Uchtred

Lord of Galloway (born c. 1120)

Uhtred mac Fergus was Lord of Galloway from 1161 to 1174, ruling jointly with his brother Gille Brigte (Gilbert). They were sons of Fergus of Galloway; it was believed that they were half brothers, but Duncan of Carrick…

1174

Dōgen

Japanese monk and philosopher (born 1200)

Dōgen Zenji was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. He is also known as Dōgen Kigen (道元希玄), Eihei Dōgen (永平道元), Kōso Jōyō Daishi (高祖承陽大師), and Busshō…

1253

Henry

3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward (born 1281)

Henry, 3rd Earl of Leicester and Lancaster was a grandson of King Henry III of England (1216–1272) and was one of the principals behind the deposition of King Edward II (1307–1327), his first cousin.

1345

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. He claimed a…

1399

John VII Palaiologos

Byzantine Emperor (born 1370)

John VII Palaiologos or Palaeologus was Byzantine emperor for five months in 1390, from 14 April to 17 September. A handful of sources suggest that John VII sometimes used the name Andronikos, possibly to honour the…

1408

Peter II

Duke of Brittany (born 1418)

Peter II (1418–1457), was Duke of Brittany, Count of Montfort and titular earl of Richmond, from 1450 to his death. He was son of Duke John VI and Joan of France, and a younger brother of Francis I.

1457

Philibert I

Duke of Savoy (born 1465)

Philibert I, surnamed the Hunter, was the son of Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy and Yolande of Valois. Philibert was Duke of Savoy from 1472 to 1482.

1482

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. Despite lasting only eight years, his reign is notable for the enormous expansion of the Empire,…

1520

Louise of Savoy

French regent (born 1476)

Louise of Savoy was a French noble and regent, Duchess suo jure of Auvergne and Bourbon, Duchess of Nemours and the mother of King Francis I and Marguerite of Navarre. She was politically active and served as the regent…

1531

Guru Nanak

Sikh religious leader, founded Sikhism (born 1469)

Gurū Nānak, also known as Bābā Nānak, was an Indian spiritual teacher, mystic and poet, who is regarded as the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus.

1539

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…

1554

Johannes Agricola

German theologian and academic (born 1494)

Johann or Johannes Agricola was a German Protestant Reformer during the Protestant Reformation. He was a follower and friend of Martin Luther, who became his antagonist in the matter of the binding obligation of the law…

1566

Walter Devereux

1st Earl of Essex (born 1541)

Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, was an English nobleman and general. From 1573 until his death he fought in Ireland in connection with the Plantations of Ireland, most notably the Rathlin Island massacre. He was the…

1576

Gabriel Spenser

English actor (born c. 1578)

Gabriel Spenser, also spelt Spencer, was an Elizabethan actor. He is best known for episodes of violence culminating in his death in a duel at the hands of the playwright Ben Jonson.

1598

Alessandro Allori

Italian painter and educator (born 1535)

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori was an Italian painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.

1607

John Biddle

English minister and theologian (born 1615)

John Biddle or Bidle was an influential English nontrinitarian, and Unitarian. He is often called "the Father of English Unitarianism".

1662

Martha Corey

American woman accused of witchcraft (born 1620)

Martha Corey was accused and convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, on September 9, 1692, and was hanged on September 22, 1692. Her second husband, Giles Corey, was also accused and killed.

1692

Vincenzo Viviani

Italian mathematician and physicist (born 1622)

Vincenzo Viviani was an Italian mathematician and scientist. He was a pupil of Torricelli and Galileo.

1703

William Bartram

English-born politician and settler (born 1674)

William Bartram was an English-born Quaker politician and settler who was a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly from Chester County in 1708. After settling in the Province of Carolina, he was killed in…

1711

Abu l-Hasan Ali I

ruler of Tunisia (born 1688)

Abu l-Hasan Ali I, commonly referred to as Ali I Bey ) was the second leader of the Husainid Dynasty and the ruler of Tunisia from 1735 to 1756.

1756

Pope Clement XIV (born 1705)

Pope Clement XIV, born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 May 1769 to his death in September 1774. At the time of his election, he was the only…

1774

Nathan Hale

American soldier (born 1755)

Nathan Hale was an American Patriot, soldier, and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured by the British…

1776

John Bartram

American botanist and explorer (born 1699)

John Bartram was an American botanist, horticulturist, and explorer, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for most of his career. Swedish botanist and taxonomist Carl Linnaeus spoke of him as the "greatest natural…

1777

Shaka Zulu

Zulu chieftain and monarch of the Zulu Kingdom (born 1787)

Shaka kaSenzangakhona, also known as Shaka (the) Zulu and Sigidi kaSenzangakhona, was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 to 1828. One of the most influential monarchs of the Zulu, he ordered wide-reaching reforms…

1828

William Tierney Clark

English engineer, designed Hammersmith Bridge (born 1783)

William Tierney Clark FRS FRAS was an English civil engineer particularly associated with the design and construction of bridges. He was among the earliest designers of suspension bridges.

1852

Frederick Townsend Ward

American sailor and mercenary (born 1831)

Frederick Townsend Ward was an American sailor and mercenary known for his military service in Imperial China during the Taiping Rebellion. He commanded the Ever Victorious Army, a joint Sino-foreign force, against the…

1862

Vladimir Dal

Russian lexicographer and linguist (born 1801)

Vladimir Ivanovich Dal was a Russian lexicographer, speaker of many languages, Turkologist, and founding member of the Russian Geographical Society. During his lifetime, he compiled and documented Russian oral…

1872

Friedrich Frey-Herosé

Swiss lawyer and politician (born 1801)

Friedrich Frey-Herosé was a Swiss politician.

1873

Solomon L. Spink

American lawyer and politician (born 1831)

Solomon Lewis Spink was an American lawyer who served as a delegate for the Dakota Territory in the United States House of Representatives.

1881

Alain-Fournier

French soldier and author (born 1886)

Henri-Alban Fournier, known by the pseudonym Alain-Fournier, was a French author and soldier. He was the author of a novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which has been filmed twice and is considered a classic of French…

1914

John Henry Knight

English engineer (born 1847)

John Henry Knight, from Farnham, was a wealthy engineer, landowner and inventor. With the help of the engineer George Parfitt he built one of Britain's first petrol-powered motor vehicles, Frederick Bremer of…

1917

Alajos Gáspár

Hungarian-Slovene author and poet (born 1848)

Alajos Gáspár was a Hungarian Slovene writer.

1919

Sime Silverman

American journalist and newspaper publisher (born 1873)

Simon J. Silverman was an American journalist and newspaper publisher. He was the founder of the weekly newspaper Variety in New York City in 1905, which gave theatre and vaudeville reviews and the Hollywood-based Daily…

1933

Cecil Chubb

English barrister and last private owner of Stonehenge (born 1876)

Sir Cecil Herbert Edward Chubb, 1st Baronet, was the last private owner of Stonehenge prehistoric monument, Wiltshire, which he donated to the British government in 1918.

1934

Elliott Lewis

Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (born 1858)

Sir Neil Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, was Premier of Tasmania on three occasions. He was also a member of the first Australian federal ministry, led by Edmund Barton.

1935

Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg

Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland (born 1865)

Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg was a Finnish jurist and academic who was one of the most important pioneers of republicanism in the country. He was the first president of Finland (1919–1925) and a liberal nationalist.

1952

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. He also proved the existence of…

1956

Soemu Toyoda

Japanese admiral (born 1885)

Soemu Toyoda was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II.

1957

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. As a teenager, she appeared in several…

1961

Adolfo López Mateos

Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico (born 1909)

Adolfo López Mateos was a centre-left Mexican politician and lawyer who served as President of Mexico from 1958 to 1964. Previously, he served as Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare from 1952 to 1957 and a Senator…

1969

Paul van Zeeland

Belgian lawyer, economist, and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium (born 1893)

Paul Guillaume, Viscount van Zeeland was a Belgian lawyer, economist, Catholic politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 1935 to 1937.

1973

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. Described by Wilfred Cantwell Smith as "the most systematic…

1979

Harry Warren

American composer and songwriter (born 1893)

Harry Warren was an American composer and the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing…

1981

Hákun Djurhuus

Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1908)

Hákun Djurhuus was the prime minister of the Faroe Islands from 1963 to 1967. He was born in Tórshavn.

1987

Dan Rowan

American actor, comedian, and producer (born 1922)

Daniel Hale Rowan was an American actor and comedian. He was featured in the television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, in which he played straight man to Dick Martin and won the 1969 Emmy for Outstanding Variety or…

1987

Rais Amrohvi

Pakistani psychoanalyst, scholar, and poet (born 1914)

Syed Muhammad Mahdi, commonly known as Rais Amrohvi, was a Pakistani Urdu poet, paranormal investigator and psychoanalyst. He was known for his style of qatanigari. He wrote quatrains for Pakistani newspaper Jang for…

1988

Ambrose Folorunsho Alli

Nigerian academic and politician (born 1929)

Ambrose Folorunsho Alli was a Nigerian medical professor who served as Executive Governor of the defunct Nigerian state of Bendel State between 1979 and 1983. He was the first civilian governor.

1989

Irving Berlin

Russian-born American composer and songwriter (born 1888)

Irving Berlin was a Russian-born American composer and songwriter. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Berlin received numerous honors including an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Tony…

1989

Aurelio López

Mexican baseball player (born 1948)

Aurelio Alejandro López Rios was a Mexican professional baseball player. After pitching for several years in the Mexican League, he spent eleven seasons with four teams in Major League Baseball — a majority of it spent…

1992

Maurice Abravanel

Greek-American pianist and conductor (born 1903)

Maurice Abravanel was an American classical music conductor. He is remembered as the conductor of the Utah Symphony for over 30 years.

1993

Leonard Feather

English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (born 1914)

Leonard Geoffrey Feather was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer, who was best known for his music journalism and other writing.

1994

Ludmilla Chiriaeff

Latvian-Canadian ballerina, choreographer, and director (born 1924)

Ludmilla Chiriaeff was a Russian-Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher, and company director.

1996

Dorothy Lamour

American actress and singer (born 1914)

Dorothy Lamour was an American actress and singer. She is best remembered for having appeared in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.

1996

George C. Scott

American actor, director, and producer (born 1927)

George Campbell Scott was an American actor. He had a celebrated career on both stage and screen. With a gruff demeanor and commanding presence, Scott became known for his portrayal of stern but complex authority…

1999

Saburō Sakai

Japanese lieutenant and pilot (born 1916)

Saburō Sakai was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Sakai had 28 aerial victories, including shared ones, according to official Japanese records, though he and…

2000

Isaac Stern

Polish-Ukrainian violinist and conductor (born 1920)

Isaac Stern was an American violinist.

2001

Jan de Hartog

Dutch-American author and playwright (born 1914)

Jan de Hartog was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker.

2002

Gordon Jump

American actor (born 1932)

Alexander Gordon Jump was an American actor best known for playing Arthur "Big Guy" Carlson in the series WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982); he reprised the role in its spinoff The New WKRP in Cincinnati (1991–1993). He…

2003

Hugo Young

English journalist and author (born 1938)

Hugo John Smelter Young was a British journalist and columnist and senior political commentator at The Guardian.

2003

Pete Schoening

American mountaineer (born 1927)

Peter Kittilsby Schoening was an American mountaineer. Schoening was one of two Americans to first successfully climb the Pakistani peak Gasherbrum I in 1958, along with Andrew Kauffman, and was one of the first to…

2004

Ray Traylor Jr.

American professional wrestler better-known as the Big Boss Man (born 1963)

Ray Washington Traylor Jr. was an American professional wrestler best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring name (The) Big Boss Man, as well as for his appearances with World…

2004

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…

2006

Carla Benschop

Dutch basketball player and educator (born 1950)

Carla Ida Benschop-de Liefde was a Dutch basketball player.

2006

ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá

last Hand of the Cause of God in the Baháʼí Faith (born 1911)

ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá was a prominent adherent of the Baháʼí Faith. He was the longest surviving Hand of the Cause of God, an appointed position in the Baháʼí Faith whose main function is to propagate and protect the…

2007

Marcel Marceau

French mime and actor (born 1923)

Marcel Marceau was a French mime artist and actor most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", performing professionally worldwide for more than 60 years.

2007

Thomas Dörflein

German zookeeper (born 1963)

Thomas Dörflein was a German zookeeper at the Berlin Zoological Garden for 26 years. After the baby polar bear Knut was abandoned by his mother shortly after his birth in 2006, Dörflein—who cared for both the zoo's…

2008

Petrus Schaesberg

German painter, historian, and educator (born 1967)

Petrus Graf von Schaesberg was a German art historian, artist, editor, and teacher.

2008

Edward Delaney

Irish sculptor (born 1930)

Edward Delaney was an Irish sculptor born in Claremorris in County Mayo in 1930. His best-known works include the 1967 statue of Wolfe Tone and famine memorial at the northeastern corner of St Stephen's Green in Dublin…

2009

Jackie Burroughs

British-born Canadian actress (born 1939)

Jacqueline Burroughs was a Canadian actress. Burroughs starred in over 100 films and television shows over her career, including Heavy Metal, The Care Bears Movie, The Grey Fox, and Anne of Green Gables, and was best…

2010

Eddie Fisher

American singer (born 1928)

Edwin Jack "Eddie" Fisher was an American singer and actor. Popular during the 1950s, he sold millions of records and hosted his own TV show, The Eddie Fisher Show. Fisher had multiple high-profile marriages, including…

2010

Vyacheslav Tsaryov

Russian footballer (born 1971)

Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich Tsaryov was a Russian professional footballer.

2010

Knut Steen

Norwegian sculptor (born 1924)

Knut Steen was a Norwegian sculptor. Steen lived in Sandefjord for most of his life and dedicated works such as the Whaler's Monument to the city. Many of his sculptures may also be seen at Midtåsen Sculpture Park, a…

2011

Hector Abhayavardhana

Sri Lankan theorist and academic (born 1919)

Hector Abhayavardhana was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist theoretician, a long-standing member of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and a founder-member of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma.

2012

Irving Adler

American mathematician, author, and academic (born 1913)

Irving Adler was an American author, mathematician, scientist, political activist, and educator. He was the author of 57 books about mathematics, science, and education, and the co-author of 30 more, for both children…

2012

Juan H. Cintrón García

Puerto Rican businessman and politician, 126th Mayor of Ponce (born 1919)

Juan Herminio Cintrón García was a Puerto Rican politician and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1968 to 1972. Under his administration the city of Ponce saw the construction of the Coliseo Juan "Pachín" Vicéns and the…

2012

Grigory Frid

Russian pianist and composer (born 1915)

Grigory Samuilovich Frid, also known as Grigori Fried, was a Russian composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera.

2012

Jan Hendrik van den Berg

Dutch psychiatrist and academic (born 1914)

Jan Hendrik van den Berg was a Dutch psychiatrist notable for his work in phenomenological psychotherapy and metabletics, or "psychology of historical change." He is the author of numerous articles and books, including…

2012

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. Brandner's second…

2013

Jane Connell

American actress and singer (born 1925)

Jane Sperry Connell was an American actress and singer.

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. He was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or…

2013

Álvaro Mutis

Colombian-Mexican author and poet (born 1923)

Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo was a Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist. His best-known work is the novel sequence The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, which revolves around the character of Maqroll el Gaviero. He…

2013

Hans Erich Slany

German industrial designer, founded TEAMS Design (born 1926)

Hans Erich Slany was a German designer considered by many to have been the first industrial designer to design plastic housings for power tools. Slany is also thought of as one of the icons of design in Germany. He…

2013

Luciano Vincenzoni

Italian screenwriter (born 1926)

Luciano Vincenzoni was an Italian screenwriter, known as the "script doctor". He wrote for some 65 films between 1954 and 2000.

2013

Fernando Cabrita

Portuguese footballer and manager (born 1923)

Fernando da Silva Cabrita was a Portuguese football forward and manager.

2014

Sahana Pradhan

Nepalese politician, Nepalese Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1927)

Sahana Pradhan was a Nepalese politician from a Newar family in Kathmandu. She resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nepal on April 16, 2008. She also served as Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal within the coalition…

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. He also made acting appearances in two…

2014

Hans E. Wallman

Swedish director, producer, and composer (born 1936)

Hans Erik "Hasse" Wallman, was a Swedish entrepreneur, impresario, composer, director, author, producer and entertainment executive. At his own venues in Stockholm he has presented acts like the Beatles (1963), Rolling…

2014

Delphine Medjo

Cameroonian politician (born 1941)

Delphine Medjo was a Cameroonian politician and educator. A member of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement, she was elected to the Senate in 2013.

2016

Chas Hodges

English musician and singer (born 1943)

Charles Nicholas Hodges was an English musician and singer. He was the lead vocalist, pianist and guitarist of the musical duo Chas & Dave, whose most successful singles include "Rabbit" (1980) and "Ain't No Pleasing…

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. Molewa became the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs of South Africa on 31…

2018

Neil Brannon

American politician (born 1940)

Neil Brannon was an American politician who served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from the 3rd district from 2002 to 2010.

2020

Hilary Mantel

British author (born 1952)

Dame Hilary Mary Mantel was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, was released in 1985. She went on to write…

2022

Pal Singh Purewal

Punjabi engineer, author, scholar, and teacher (born 1931/1932)

Pal Singh Purewal was a Punjabi engineer, author, scholar and a teacher. He was commonly known as the architect of the Mool Nanakshahi Calendar. He was also known as a role model in the Sikh community. He immigrated to…

2022

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…

2023

Roy Clay

American computer scientist (born 1929)

Roy Lee Clay Sr. was an African American computer scientist and inventor. He was a founding member of the computer division at Hewlett-Packard, where he led the team that created the HP 2116A 16-bit minicomputer. He…

2024

Fredric Jameson

American academic and literary critic (born 1934)

Fredric Ruff Jameson was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He was best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and…

2024

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Yogi Berra — American baseball player, manager, and coach (1925–2015)

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