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Snorri Sturluson was assassinated in 1241 by men claiming to be agents of the King of Norway.
Notable Deaths on September 23
1241 — Snorri Sturluson
Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (born 1178)
September 23 has 97 recorded notable deaths across history, from 788 to 2021. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
97 source records
788 – 2021
Today in history
Major events on September 23
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- 1961 U.S. President John F. Kennedy nominates African American civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, although pro-segregation Southern senators manage to delay his confirmation until September 11, 1962. Source
- 1338 The Battle of Arnemuiden, in which a French force defeats the English, is the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle in which gunpowder artillery is used. Source
- 1642 First English Civil War: The Battle of Powick Bridge, the first engagement between the primary field armies of the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, ends in a Royalist victory. Source
- 1459 The Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is won by the Yorkists. Source
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Chief Dan George was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band whose Indian reserve is located on Burrard Inlet in the southeast area of the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Robert Bloch's writing career lasted 60 years, including more than 30 years in television and film.
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Prosper Mérimée is best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen.
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Corrie Sanders won the WBO heavyweight title in 2003 after knocking out Wladimir Klitschko in two rounds, which was considered one of the biggest upsets in heavyweight boxing history; The Ring magazine named it the Upset of the Year.
More major people who died on September 23
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1981
Chief Dan George
Canadian actor, author, and poet (born 1899)
Chief Dan George was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band whose Indian reserve is located on Burrard Inlet in the southeast area of the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1994
Robert Bloch
American author and screenwriter (born 1917)
Robert Albert Bloch was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror, and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television.
1870
Prosper Mérimée
French archaeologist and historian (born 1803)
Prosper Mérimée was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story.
2012
Corrie Sanders
South African boxer (born 1966)
Cornelius Johannes Sanders was a South African professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2008.
2006
Malcolm Arnold
English trumpet player and composer (born 1921)
Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold was an English composer and conductor.
2005
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
Puerto Rican activist (born 1933)
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was a Puerto Rican independence activist who cofounded the Boricua Popular Army, also known as Los Macheteros, and its predecessor, the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN).
2000
Aurelio Rodríguez
Mexican baseball player and manager (born 1947)
Aurelio Rodríguez Ituarte, Jr., sometimes known by the nickname "Chi Chi", was a Mexican professional baseball player, who spent the bulk of his Major League career with the Detroit Tigers.
2013
Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj
Syrian colonel and politician (born 1925)
Abdul Hamid Sarraj was a Syrian military officer and politician.
2014
Al Suomi
American ice hockey player and referee (born 1913)
Albert William Suomi was an American ice hockey player, who played 5 games in the National Hockey League with the Chicago Black Hawks during the 1936–37 season.
2004
Billy Reay
Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1918)
William Tulip Reay was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Reay played ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1943 to 1953, winning two Stanley Cups.
1988
Tibor Sekelj
Hungarian-Serbian explorer and author (born 1912)
Tibor Sekelj, also known as Székely Tibor according to Hungarian orthography, was a Hungarian born polyglot, explorer, author, and 'citizen of the world.' In 1986 he was elected a member of the Academy of Esperanto and…
1939
Francisco León de la Barra
Mexican politician and diplomat, interim president, 1911 (born 1863)
Francisco León de la Barra y Quijano was a Mexican political figure, diplomat, lawyer and politician who served as the 36th President of Mexico from May 25 to November 6, 1911 during the Mexican Revolution, following…
1940
Hale Holden
American businessman (born 1869)
Hale Holden was president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) from 1914 to 1918 and 1920 to 1929, and chairman of the board of directors for Southern Pacific Railroad from 1932 to 1939.
1917
Werner Voss
German lieutenant and pilot (born 1897)
Werner Voss was a World War I German flying ace credited with 48 aerial victories. A dyer's son from Krefeld, he was a patriotic young man while still in school.
1871
Louis-Joseph Papineau
Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1786)
Louis-Joseph Papineau, born in Montreal, Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the seigneurie de la Petite-Nation.
2015
Dayananda Saraswati
Indian monk and philosopher (born 1930)
Swami Dayananda Saraswati was a renunciate monk of the Hindu Saraswati order of sannyasa. He was also known as Pujya Swamiji and was a traditional teacher of Advaita Vedanta.
1992
James Van Fleet
American general (born 1892)
General James Alward Van Fleet was a United States Army officer who served during World War I, World War II and the Korean War.
1950
Sam Barry
American basketball player and coach (born 1892)
Justin McCarthy "Sam" Barry was an American collegiate coach who achieved significant accomplishments in three major sports - football, baseball, and basketball.
965
Al-Mutanabbi
Arab poet (born 915)
Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī, commonly known as al-Mutanabbi, was an Abbasid-era Arab poet at the court of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo, for whom he composed 300 folios of poetry.