September 4 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 422 – Pope Boniface I
  • 799 – Musa al-Kadhim, Shia 7th of the Twelve Imams (b. 745)
  • 1037 – Bermudo III of León (b. 1010)
  • 1063 – Tughril, Turkish ruler (b. 990)
  • 1199 – Joan of England, Queen of Sicily (b. 1165)
  • 1537 – Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (b. 1475)
  • 1588 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1532)
  • 1767 – Charles Townshend, English politician (b. 1725)
  • 1780 – John Fielding, English magistrate and reformer (b. 1721)
  • 1784 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)
  • 1794 – John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)
  • 1804 – Richard Somers, American naval officer
  • 1821 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and founding father (b. 1785)
  • 1852 – William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
  • 1864 – John Hunt Morgan, American military leader (b. 1825)
  • 1907 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
  • 1909 – Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (b. 1865)
  • 1940 – George William de Carteret, English author (b. 1869)
  • 1944 – General Erich Fellgiebel, German army officer, participated in the 20 July plot (b. 1886)
  • 1963 – Robert Schuman, French politician (b. 1886)
  • 1965 – Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
  • 1974 – Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
  • 1974 – Marcel Achard, French playwright (b. 1899)
  • 1974 – Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (b. 1884)
  • 1977 – E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (b. 1911)
  • 1977 – Jean Rostand, French biologist (b. 1894)
  • 1977 – Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1899)
  • 1979 – Canuplin, Filipino magician (b. 1904)
  • 1986 – Otto Glória, Brazilian football coach (b. 1917)
  • 1986 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (b. 1911)
  • 1987 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer (b. 1908)
  • 1989 – Georges Simenon, French author (b. 1903)
  • 1989 – Ronald Syme, New Zealand historian (b. 1903)
  • 1990 – Irene Dunne American actress (b. 1898)
  • 1991 – Charlie Barnet, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1913)
  • 1991 – Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (b. 1926)
  • 1991 – Dottie West, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
  • 1993 – Hervé Villechaize, French actor (b. 1943)
  • 1995 – Chuck Greenberg, American musician, composer, and producer (Shadowfax) (b. 1950)
  • 1995 – William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
  • 1997 – Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (b. 1931)
  • 1998 – Elizabeth Kata, Australian author (b. 1912)
  • 1999 – Georg Gawliczek, German footballer and manager (b. 1919)
  • 2001 – Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (b. 1962)
  • 2002 – Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian-French pianist (b. 1904)
  • 2003 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1921)
  • 2003 – Lola Bobesco, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
  • 2004 – Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (b. 1971)
  • 2004 – Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (b. 1929)
  • 2004 – James O. Page, American paramedic (b. 1936)
  • 2006 – Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)
  • 2006 – Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host (b. 1962)
  • 2006 – Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)
  • 2006 – Astrid Varnay, Swedish-American soprano (b. 1918)
  • 2007 – John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish politician (b. 1923)
  • 2011 – Lee Roy Selmon, American football player (b. 1954)
  • 2012 – Abraham Avigdorov, Israeli soldier, recipient of the Hero of Israel award (b. 1929)
  • 2012 – André Delelis, French politician (b. 1924)
  • 2012 – Albert Marre, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1924)
  • 2012 – Charlie Rose, American politician (b. 1939)
  • 2012 – Hamzah Abu Samah, Malaysian politician (b. 1924)
  • 2012 – George Savitsky, American football player (b. 1924)
  • 2012 – Milan Vukelić, Serbian footballer (b. 1936)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.
    Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    On almost the incendiary eve
    Of deaths and entrances ...
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    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)