September 2 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 421 – Constantius III, Roman Emperor
  • 459 – Simeon Stylites, Turkish saint (b. 390)
  • 1031 – Saint Emeric of Hungary (b. 1007)
  • 1274 – Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
  • 1397 – Francesco Landini, Italian composer, organist, singer, and poet (b. 1335)
  • 1540 – Dawit II of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
  • 1680 – Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
  • 1688 – Sir Robert Viner, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1631)
  • 1690 – Philip William, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
  • 1764 – Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer (b. 1700)
  • 1765 – Henry Bouquet, Swiss-English army officer (b. 1719)
  • 1768 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
  • 1790 – Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (b. 1701)
  • 1813 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (b. 1763)
  • 1820 – Jiaqing Emperor of China (b. 1760)
  • 1832 – Franz Xaver von Zach, Austrian astronomer (b. 1754)
  • 1834 – Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer and architect, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge (b. 1757)
  • 1865 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805)
  • 1872 – Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
  • 1877 – Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1793)
  • 1896 – Nat Thomson, Australian cricketer (b. 1839)
  • 1898 – Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader, 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
  • 1910 – Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)
  • 1921 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
  • 1921 – Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-American businessman (b. 1855)
  • 1927 – Umegatani Tōtarō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 20th Yokozuna (b. 1878)
  • 1934 – James Allan, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1860)
  • 1934 – Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist, and actor (b. 1908)
  • 1934 – Alcide Nunez, American clarinet player (b. 1884)
  • 1937 – Pierre de Coubertin, French educator and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1863)
  • 1941 – Lloyd Seay, American race car driver (b. 1919)
  • 1942 – James Juvenal, American rower (b. 1874)
  • 1942 – Tom Williams, Irish soldier (b. 1924)
  • 1944 – Bella Rosenfeld, Russian-American model and author (b. 1895)
  • 1945 – Mason Phelps, American golfer (b. 1885)
  • 1948 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
  • 1953 – Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch rower (b. 1875)
  • 1953 – Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general (b. 1883)
  • 1962 – William Wilkerson, American businessman, founder of The Hollywood Reporter and the Flamingo Hotel (b. 1890)
  • 1964 – Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
  • 1964 – Alvin York, American soldier (b. 1887)
  • 1965 – Johannes Bobrowski, German poet and writer (b. 1917)
  • 1969 – Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnamese politician, President of North Vietnam (b. 1890)
  • 1971 – Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)
  • 1973 – Carl Dudley, American director (b. 1910)
  • 1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien, English philologist, writer, and poet (b. 1892)
  • 1976 – Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1934)
  • 1978 – Fred G. Meyer, American businessman, founder of Fred Meyer (b. 1886)
  • 1979 – Otto P. Weyland, American general (b. 1903)
  • 1984 – Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (b. 1908)
  • 1985 – Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
  • 1985 – Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (b. 1955)
  • 1991 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
  • 1992 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
  • 1994 – Roy Castle, English actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1932)
  • 1996 – Paddy Clift, Zimbabwean cricketer (b. 1953)
  • 1997 – Rudolf Bing, Austrian-English manager (b. 1902)
  • 1997 – Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
  • 1998 – Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (b. 1933)
  • 1998 – Allen Drury, American novelist (b. 1918)
  • 2000 – Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (b. 1905)
  • 2000 – Curt Siodmak, German-American screenwriter (b. 1907)
  • 2001 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (b. 1922)
  • 2001 – Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
  • 2002 – Dick Reynolds, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1915)
  • 2004 – Joan Oró, Catalan chemist (b. 1923)
  • 2004 – Eleni Zafeiriou, Greek actress (b. 1916)
  • 2005 – Bob Denver, American actor (b. 1935)
  • 2006 – Bob Mathias, American decathlete and politician (b. 1930)
  • 2006 – Willi Ninja, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
  • 2007 – Rajae Belmlih, Moroccan singer (b. 1962)
  • 2007 – Franz-Benno Delonge, German game designer, created TransAmerica (b. 1957)
  • 2007 – Esther Hoffe, Israeli mistress of Max Brod
  • 2007 – Max McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924)
  • 2008 – Bill Melendez, Mexican-American animator, director, producer, and voice actor (b. 1916)
  • 2009 – Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1949)
  • 2011 – Roberto Bruce, Chilean journalist (b. 1979)
  • 2011 – Felipe Camiroaga, Chilean TV host (b. 1966)
  • 2012 – Mark Abrahamian, American guitarist (Starship) (b. 1966)
  • 2012 – Jack Boucher, American photographer (b. 1931)
  • 2012 – Emmanuel Nunes, Portuguese composer (b. 1941)
  • 2012 – Blas Riquelme, Paraguayan politician and businessman (b. 1929)
  • 2012 – Bert Worner, Australian footballer (b. 1929)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)