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Widely regarded as among the most influential designers in contemporary fashion, Armani initially gained recognition for his work with fashion house Cerruti 1881, before founding his own label in 1975.
Notable Deaths on September 4
2025 — Giorgio Armani
Italian fashion designer (born 1934)
September 4 has 108 recorded notable deaths across history, from 422 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
108 source records
422 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on September 4
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- 1957 American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: The governor of Arkansas calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School, resulting in the lawsuit Cooper v. Aaron the following year. Source
- 1919 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace. Source
- 1985 The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon. Source
- 1951 The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, United States, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. Source
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Cyrus Mistry was the sixth chairman of the group, and only the second not to bear the surname Tata.
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Peter Straub had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them Julia (1975), Ghost Story (1979) and The Talisman (1984), the latter co-written with Stephen King.
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Musa al-Kadhim was born in 745 in Medina to Ja'far al-Sadiq, the sixth Shia imam, who died in 765 without publicly designating a successor to save his heir from the wrath of the Abbasid caliphs.
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In April 1862, he raised the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, fought at Shiloh, and then launched a costly raid in Kentucky, which encouraged Braxton Bragg's invasion of that state.
More major people who died on September 4
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2022
Cyrus Mistry
Indian-Irish businessman (born 1968)
Cyrus Pallonji Mistry was an Irish businessman. He was the chairman of the Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, from 2012 to 2016.
2022
Peter Straub
American novelist (born 1943)
Peter Francis Straub was an American novelist and poet. He had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them Julia (1975), Ghost Story (1979) and The Talisman (1984), the latter co-written with…
799
Musa al-Kadhim
Arabic imam (born 745)
Musa al-Kazim was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the seventh imam in Twelver Shia Islam. Musa is often known by the title al-Kazim, apparently a reference to his patience and gentle disposition.
1864
John Hunt Morgan
American general (born 1825)
John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate general in the American Civil War.
1985
Vasyl Stus
Ukrainian poet, publicist, and dissident (born 1938)
Vasyl Semenovych Stus was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement.
1963
Robert Schuman
Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (born 1886)
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist.
1944
Erich Fellgiebel
German general (born 1886)
Fritz Erich Fellgiebel was a German Army general of signals and a resistance fighter, participating in both the 1938 September Conspiracy to topple dictator Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and the 1944 20 July plot to…
1821
José Miguel Carrera
Chilean general and politician (born 1785)
José Miguel Carrera Verdugo was a Chilean general, formerly Spanish military, member of the prominent Carrera family, and considered one of the founders of independent Chile.
1037
Bermudo III
king of León (born c. 1017)
Bermudo III or Vermudo III was the king of León from 1028 until his death.
1996
Rose Ouellette
Canadian actress and manager (born 1903)
Rose-Alma Ouellette OQ, also known by her stage name La Poune was a Quebec actress, comedian, theatre manager and artistic director.
1987
Bill Bowes
English cricketer and coach (born 1908)
William Eric Bowes was an English professional cricketer active from 1929 to 1947 who played in 372 first-class matches as a right arm fast bowler and a right-handed tail end batsman.
1991
Tom Tryon
American actor and author (born 1926)
Thomas Lester Tryon was an American actor and novelist. As an actor, he was billed as Tom Tryon and is best known for playing the title role in the film The Cardinal (1963), featured roles in the war films The Longest…
422
Boniface I
pope of the Catholic Church
Pope Boniface I was the bishop of Rome from 28 December 418 to his death on 4 September 422. His election was disputed by the supporters of Eulalius until the dispute was settled by Emperor Honorius.
1986
Hank Greenberg
American baseball player and manager (born 1911)
Henry Benjamin Greenberg, nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank", "Hankus Pankus", and "the Hebrew Hammer", was an American professional baseball player and team executive.
1965
Albert Schweitzer
French-Gabonese physician, theologian, and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1875)
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer was a German polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician.
2006
Giacinto Facchetti
Italian footballer and manager (born 1942)
Giacinto Facchetti was an Italian footballer who played as a left-back for Inter Milan from 1960 to 1978. He later served as Inter chairman from January 2004 until his death in 2006.
1989
Ronald Syme
New Zealand historian and author (born 1903)
Sir Ronald Syme was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist.
1993
Hervé Villechaize
French-American actor (born 1943)
Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was a French actor. He is best known for his roles as the evil henchman Nick Nack in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun and as Mr.
1849
Friedrich Laun
German author (born 1770)
Friedrich August Schulze was a German novelist, who wrote under the pen name Friedrich Laun. Schulze was born in Dresden. His first novel, Der Mann, auf Freiersfüssen (1801), was favorably received.