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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
Notable Deaths on September 4
108 people
422 – 2025
September 4 has seen 108 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 422 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1864 — John Hunt Morgan
American general (born 1825)
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In July 1863, he set out on a 1,000-mile raid into Indiana and Ohio, taking hundreds of prisoners
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But after most of his men had been intercepted by U.S
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He was killed at Greeneville, Tennessee, in September 1864
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John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate general in the American Civil War
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. Boniface was active…
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422
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. He was…
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799
king of León (born c. 1017)
Bermudo III or Vermudo III was the king of León from 1028 until his death. He was a son of Alfonso V of León by his first wife Elvira Menéndez, and was the last scion of Peter of Cantabria to rule in the Leonese…
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1037
1063
queen of Sicily (born 1165)
Joan of England, also known as Joanna, was by marriage Queen of Sicily and Countess of Toulouse. She was the seventh child of King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine. From her birth, she was destined…
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1199
queen of Sicily (born 1250)
Margaret of Burgundy, also known as Margaret of Jerusalem, was Queen of Sicily and Naples and titular Queen of Jerusalem by marriage to Charles I of Sicily. She was also Queen of Albania (1272-1285) as well as ruling…
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1308
Chinese emperor (born 1302)
Gegeen Khan, born Shidibala, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Yingzong of Yuan, was an emperor of the Yuan dynasty. Apart from Emperor of China, he is regarded as the ninth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire,…
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1323
Spanish bishop and crusade theorist
García Miguel de Ayerbe was an Aragonese nobleman and cleric who served as the bishop of León from April 1318 until his death. In the 1320s, he wrote a proposal for a new crusade to recover the Holy Land.
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1332
1416
English Catholic bishop
Robert Hallam was an English churchman, Bishop of Salisbury and English representative at the Council of Constance. He was Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1403 to 1405.
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1417
German theologian and translator (born 1475)
Johann Dietenberger, OP was a German Counter Reformation-era Scholastic and theologian. He was canon and inquisitor-general of Mentz and Cologne.
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1537
4th Earl of Lennox, English nobleman (born 1516)
Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox was a leader of the Catholic nobility in Scotland. He was the paternal grandfather of King James VI of Scotland. He owned Temple Newsam in Yorkshire, England.
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1571
1st Earl of Leicester, English academic and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk (born 1532)
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester was an English statesman and the favourite of Elizabeth I from her accession until his death. He was a suitor for the queen's hand for many years.
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1588
English diplomat (born 1558)
Sir Thomas Smythe was an English merchant, politician and colonial administrator. He was the first governor of the East India Company and treasurer of the Virginia Company from 1609 to 1620 until enveloped by scandal.
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1625
Scottish-born impresario and cartographer (born 1600)
John Ogilby, Ogelby, or Oglivie was a Scottish translator, impresario, publisher and cartographer. He was probably at least a half-brother to James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Airlie, though neither overtly acknowledged this.…
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1676
English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1725)
Charles Townshend was a British politician who held various titles in the Parliament of Great Britain. His establishment of the controversial Townshend Acts is considered one of the key causes of the American Revolution.
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1767
English lawyer and judge (born 1721)
Sir John Fielding was an English magistrate and social reformer of the 18th century. He was the younger half-brother of novelist, playwright and chief magistrate Henry Fielding. Despite being blinded in an accident at…
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1780
French astronomer and cartographer (born 1714)
César-François Cassini de Thury, also called Cassini III or Cassini de Thury, was a French astronomer and cartographer.
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1784
Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician (born 1724)
John Hely later Hely-Hutchinson was an Anglo-Irish lawyer, politician, and academic who served as the 21st Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1774 to 1794. He also served as Principal Secretary of State for Ireland…
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1794
American lieutenant (born 1778)
Richard Somers was an officer of the United States Navy, killed during an assault on Tripoli during the First Barbary War.
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1804
English banker and merchant (born 1743/4)
Timothy Brown was an English banker, merchant and radical, known for his association with other radicals of the time, such as John Horne Tooke, Robert Waithman, William Frend, William Cobbett, John Cartwright and George…
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1820
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. Carrera was the most important leader of the…
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1821
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. He wrote many…
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1849
Scottish biologist and ornithologist (born 1796)
William MacGillivray FRSE was a Scottish naturalist and ornithologist.
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1852
Norwegian pianist and composer (born 1843)
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use of Norwegian…
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1907
American playwright and songwriter (born 1865)
William Clyde Fitch was an American dramatist, the most popular writer for the Broadway stage of his time.
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1909
Welsh-born writer, journalist, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor (born 1854)
John Francon Williams was a British writer, geographer, historian, journalist, cartographer, and inventor, born in Llanllechid, Caernarvonshire. His seminal work was The Geography of the Oceans.
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1911
French poet and philosopher (born 1873)
Charles Pierre Péguy was a French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism; by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing Catholic. From…
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1914
American racing driver (born 1889)
Howard Samuel "Howdy" Wilcox was an American racing driver active in the formative years of auto racing. He won the 1919 Indianapolis 500.
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1923
French-English journalist and author (born 1869)
George William de Carteret,, was a Norman language journalist and writer from Jersey.
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1940
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…
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1944
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. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a…
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1963
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. As a Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the…
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1965
American general (born 1914)
Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. was a United States Army general who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1972. He was then Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1972 until his death in…
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1974
French playwright and screenwriter (born 1899)
Marcel Achard was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades. He was…
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1974
English airman (born 1893)
Lieutenant Charles Henry Arnison was a British World War I flying ace credited with nine aerial victories. He won the Military Cross for valour in World War I, and returned to the RAF to serve in World War II.
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1974
Swedish minister and hymn-writer (born 1884)
Lewi Pethrus was a Swedish Pentecostal minister who played a decisive role in the formation and development of the Pentecostal movement in his country. In 1964, he founded the political party the Christian Democrats.
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1974
Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1899)
Stelios Perpiniadis, better known as Stellakis, was a Greek folk musician who wrote, sang, and played guitar in the rebetiko style. He was the father of Greek folk musician, Vangelis Perpiniadis.
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1977
French biologist and philosopher (born 1894)
Jean Edmond Cyrus Rostand was a French biologist, historian of science, and philosopher.
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1977
German-English economist and statistician (born 1911)
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher was a German-born British statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies. He served as Chief Economic Advisor to the…
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1977
Polish-American painter (born 1900)
Jack Tworkov was an American abstract expressionist painter.
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1982
famous for being the world's heaviest person recorded (born 1941)
Jon Brower Minnoch was an American man who is reported as the heaviest recorded human in history, weighing approximately 1,400 lb at his peak. Obese since childhood, Minnoch normally weighed 800–900 lb during his adult…
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1983
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. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime…
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1985
American actor and singer (born 1899)
George O'Brien was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the sound film era of the 1930s. He is best known today as the lead actor in F. W. Murnau's 1927 Academy Award-winning film Sunrise: A…
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1985
Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1917)
Otto Martins Glória was a Brazilian football coach.
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1986
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. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily for…
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1986
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. He took 1,639 wickets with a best…
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1987
Belgian-Swiss author (born 1903)
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian writer who created the fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most prolific and successful authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 novels, 21 volumes of…
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1989
New Zealand historian and author (born 1903)
Sir Ronald Syme, was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman Empire since…
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1989
American historian and author (born 1925)
Lawrence Arthur Cremin was an American educational historian and administrator.
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1990
American actress and singer (born 1898)
Irene Dunne was an American actress who appeared in films during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She is best known for her comedic roles, though she performed in films of other genres.
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1990
Turkish scholar and author (born 1934)
Turan Dursun was a Turkish author and atheist who was a critic of Islam. A former Muslim cleric and scholar of Shia Islam, he became an atheist during his study of the history of monotheistic religions. Influenced by…
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1990
American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1913)
Charles Daly Barnet was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.
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1991
1991
American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1932)
Dottie West was an American country singer and songwriter. She also had several credits as an actress. A distinguished figure in the country genre, West was among several people who helped to elevate the platform of…
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1991
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. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, on the…
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1993
American saxophonist, composer, and producer (born 1950)
Chuck Greenberg, born in Chicago, Illinois, was an American musical artist, composer and producer.
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1995
American lawyer and activist (born 1919)
William Moses Kunstler was an American attorney and civil rights activist, known for defending the Chicago Seven. Kunstler was an active member of the National Lawyers Guild, a board member of the American Civil…
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1995
English cryptanalyst and numismatist (born 1917)
Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray, MBE was an English cryptanalyst and numismatist who worked as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Although she did not personally seek the spotlight, her role in…
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1996
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. Ouellette was born to François Ouellette and Josephine Lasanté in the faubourg à…
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1996
Indian author, poet, and playwright (born 1926)
Dharamvir Bharati was a renowned Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India. He was the chief editor of the popular Hindi weekly magazine Dharmayug, from 1960 till 1987.
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1997
Italian architect, designed the Bonnefanten Museum and Teatro Carlo Felice (born 1931)
Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading proponents of…
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1997
Estonian diplomat (born 1905)
Ernst Rudolf Jaakson was an Estonian diplomat whose contribution was to maintain Estonia's legal continuity with his uninterrupted diplomatic service for 69 years.
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1998
Australian author and screenwriter (born 1912)
Elizabeth Colina Katayama was an Australian writer known by the pseudonym Elizabeth Kata, best known for Be Ready with Bells and Drums (1961), made into the award-winning film A Patch of Blue (1965).
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1998
German footballer and manager (born 1919)
Georg Gawliczek was a German football manager and former player.
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1999
Lithuanian-French pianist and educator (born 1904)
Vladislas "Vlado" Perlemuter was a Lithuanian-born French pianist and teacher.
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2002
Romanian-Belgian violinist and educator (born 1921)
Lola Violeta Ana-Maria Bobesco was a Belgian violinist of Romanian origin.
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2003
Hungarian violinist and conductor (born 1921)
Tibor Varga was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, and music teacher who developed pedagogic methods for teaching string music. He was a founding member of the string department in the Musikhochschule Detmold.
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2003
American basketball player (born 1971)
Alphonso Gene Ford was an American professional basketball player. A 1.92 m tall, 98 kg (216 lbs.) shooting guard, he was one of the greatest scorers in college basketball history. After a short stint in the NBA, he…
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2004
Canadian golfer (born 1929)
Murray Irwin "Moe" Norman was a Canadian professional golfer whose accuracy and ability to hit shot after shot perfectly straight gave him the reputation as a golf swing "genius" with the nicknames, "Pipeline Moe" and…
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2004
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. He played 634 official games for the…
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2006
Australian zoologist and television host (born 1962)
Stephen Robert Irwin was an Australian conservationist, environmentalist, zookeeper, television personality, and wildlife educator. Nicknamed the "Crocodile Hunter", he is regarded as an influential figure in Australian…
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2006
Australian author, poet, and educator (born 1920)
Colin Milton Thiele was an Australian author and educator. He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novels Storm Boy, Blue Fin, the Sun on the Stubble series, and February Dragon. As…
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2006
Swedish-American soprano (born 1918)
Ibolyka Astrid Maria Varnay was a Swedish-born American dramatic soprano of Hungarian descent. She spent most of her career in the United States and Germany. She was one of the leading Wagnerian heroic sopranos of her…
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2006
9th Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Roxburghshire (born 1923)
Walter Francis John Montagu Douglas Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch and 11th Duke of Queensberry,, known as Lord Eskdaill from birth to 1935 and then as the Earl of Dalkeith from 1935 to 1973, was a Scottish peer,…
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2007
American art historian, writer, and publisher of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine (born 1926)
Bonnie Lee Hale Leman was the founder of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, the first quilting-focused magazine in the United States. She was one of the first women magazine publishers in the country and was inducted into…
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2010
American football player (born 1954)
Lee Roy Selmon was an American professional football player who was a defensive end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football as a defensive tackle at the University…
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2011
Israeli soldier (born 1929)
Avraham Avigdorov was an Israeli soldier and recipient of the Hero of Israel award, the highest Israeli military decoration. Avigdorov received the award for destroying two Bren machine gun positions on March 17, 1948,…
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2012
American actor, director, and producer (born 1924)
Albert Marre was an American stage director and producer. He directed the stage musical Man of La Mancha in 1965, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical.
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2012
American football player (born 1924)
George Michael Savitsky was an American professional football offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles.
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2012
Indian author (born 1930)
Syed Mustafa Siraj was an Indian author. In 1994, he received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Aleek Manush. In 2005, his short story Ranirghater Brittanto was adapted into the film Faltu by Anjan Das. His oeuvre…
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2012
Indian singer-songwriter (born 1952)
Hakam Sufi was an Indian singer as well as songwriter of Punjabi music. He was known for his songs like, paani vich maaran deetan from a Punjabi film and more. Known for his clean and pure style of music, Hakam Sufi…
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2012
Canadian businessman and politician (born 1949)
Michel Pagé was a Canadian businessman and politician in the province of Quebec. He served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1973 to 1992 as a Liberal and was a cabinet minister in the government of Robert…
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2013
Dutch composer and theorist (born 1930)
Dick Raaijmakers, also known as Dick Raaymakers or Kid Baltan, was a Dutch composer, theater maker and theorist. He is considered a pioneer in the field of electronic music and tape music, but has also produced numerous…
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2013
2013
Russian boxer (born 1940)
Stanislav Ivanovich Stepashkin was an Olympic boxer from the Soviet Union.
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2013
American bodybuilder and journalist (born 1951)
Casey Viator/Casius Viatoro was an American professional bodybuilder. He is noted as the youngest ever AAU Mr. America – gaining the title at the age of 19 in 1971.
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2013
Australian lawyer and politician, 10th Deputy Premier of New South Wales (born 1930)
Ronald Joseph Mulock AO KCSG was an Australian politician. A former City of Penrith mayor, he was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1971 to 1988. He was Deputy Premier of…
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2014
Argentine Musician (born 1959)
Gustavo Adrián Cerati Clark was an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter who gained international recognition for being the leader, vocalist, composer, and guitarist of the rock band Soda Stereo. He is widely…
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2014
Polish-German theologian and academic (born 1928)
Wolfhart Pannenberg was a German Lutheran theologian. He made a number of significant contributions to modern theology, including his concept of history as a form of revelation centered on the resurrection of Christ,…
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2014
American comedian, television host, and author (born 1933)
Joan Alexandra Molinsky, known professionally as Joan Rivers, was an American comedian, actress, producer, writer and television host. She was noted for her blunt, often controversial comedic persona that was heavily…
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2014
New Zealand singer-songwriter (born 1952)
Graham Philip Brazier was a New Zealand musician and songwriter. He first came to prominence in the band Hello Sailor. After Hello Sailor, he formed a band called the Legionnaires. When he was growing up, he lived above…
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2015
American actress (born 1922)
Jean Darling was an American child actress who was a regular in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1927 to 1929. Prior to her death, she was one of four surviving cast members from the silent era cast of Our Gang.…
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2015
Indian surgeon and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Goa (born 1927)
Wilfred Anthony de Souza GCIH was an Indian surgeon and politician who served as the fifth Chief Minister of Goa, holding the office thrice between 1993 and 1998. He also served as first Deputy Chief Minister of Goa in…
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2015
American author and screenwriter (born 1933)
Warren Burton Murphy was an American author, best known as the co-creator of The Destroyer series, the basis for the film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins.
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2015
lawyer and politician (born 1933)
Clarence D. Rappleyea Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
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2016
American actor, comedian (born 1927)
William Edward Daily was an American actor and comedian known for his sitcom work as Major Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie and Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show.
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2018
Polish association football player (born 1967)
Krzysztof Sitko was a Polish footballer who played as a striker. Throughout most of his career, he was associated with GKS Tychy.
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2018
Filipino YouTuber and vlogger (born 1993)
Lloyd Cafe Cadena was a Filipino vlogger, radio personality, and author. He was one of the most popular YouTubers in his native Philippines, with over 5.86 million subscribers on the platform at the time of his death.
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2020
Turkish-American football player (born 1957)
Tunch Ilkin was a Turkish-American professional football player and sports broadcaster. A two-time Pro Bowl selection as an offensive tackle with the Pittsburgh Steelers, he was the first Turk to play in the National…
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2021
American weather presenter and television personality (born 1934)
Willard Herman Scott Jr. was an American weatherman, radio and television personality, actor, narrator, clown, comedian, and author, whose broadcast career spanned 68 years, 65 years with the NBC broadcast network.…
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2021
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. He was the sixth chairman of the group, and only the second not to bear the…
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2022
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…
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2022
American singer (born 1967)
Steven Scott Harwell was an American musician and singer. He was the lead singer for the rock band Smash Mouth from their formation in 1994 until his retirement in October 2021.
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2023
Serbian singer (born 1952)
Borisav "Bora" Đorđević, also known as Bora Čorba, was a Serbian rock musician, singer-songwriter and poet. He was best known as the frontman of the rock band Riblja Čorba.
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2024
Italian fashion designer (born 1934)
Giorgio Armani was an Italian fashion designer and founder of the Armani luxury fashion house. Widely regarded as among the most influential designers in contemporary fashion, Armani initially gained recognition for his…
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2025
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John Hunt Morgan — Confederate Army general of the American Civil War (1825–1864)
FeaturedJohn Hunt Morgan
Death year1864
Known forIn 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
Deaths on this date108 (422 – 2025)
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2024
A 14-year-old gunman kills four people and injures seven in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School near Winder, Georgia. Wikipedia →
2022
Ten people are killed and 15 are injured in a stabbing spree in 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, Saskatchewan. Wikipedia →
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Pope Benedict XVI becomes the longest-lived pope, 93 years, four months, 16 days, surpassing Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903. Wikipedia →
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