September 24 - Deaths

Deaths

366 – Pope Liberius (b. 352)
768 – Pippin the Short, Frankish king (b. 714)
911 – Louis the Child of the East Franks (b. 893)
1054 – Hermann of Reichenau, German scholar, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1013)
1120 – Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)
1143 – Agnes of Germany (b. 1072)
1143 – Pope Innocent II
1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1118)
1213 – Gertrude of Merania (b. 1185)
1218 – Robert of Knaresborough, English hermit (b. 1160)
1228 – Stefan the First-Crowned, Serbian king (b. 1165)
1275 – Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, English statesman (b. 1208)
1435 – Isabeau of Bavaria (b. 1370)
1494 – Poliziano, Italian scholar and poet (b. 1454)
1541 – Paracelsus, German-Swiss physician, botanist, and chemist (b. 1493)
1545 – Albert of Mainz, German archbishop (b. 1490)
1605 – Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (b. 1547)
1621 – Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
1646 – Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (b. 1565)
1707 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)
1732 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
1742 – Johann Matthias Hase, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1684)
1802 – Alexander Radishchev, Russian author and critic (b. 1749)
1834 – Pedro I of Brazil (b. 1798)
1889 – Charles Leroux, American balloonist and parachutist (b. 1856)
1892 – Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American composer (b. 1829)
1896 – Louis Gerhard De Geer, Swedish politician, 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1818)
1904 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
1929 – Mahidol Adulyadej, Thai prince (b. 1892)
1930 – William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
1932 – Stuart Stickney, American golfer (b. 1877)
1933 – Mike Donlin, American baseball player (b. 1878)
1933 – Alice Muriel Williamson, English author (b. 1869)
1936 – József Klekl, Slovene priest and journalist (b. 1879)
1938 – Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1939 – Carl Laemmle, German-American film producer, founded Universal Studios (b. 1867)
1939 – Charles Tatham, American fencer (b. 1854)
1945 – Hans Geiger, German physicist, co-invented the Geiger counter (b. 1882)
1948 – Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)
1950 – Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1863)
1954 – Edward Pilgrim, English suicide victim (b. 1904)
1962 – Charles Reisner, American actor and director (b. 1887)
1973 – Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist (b. 1908)
1976 – Philip Gbeho, Ghanaian composer (b. 1904)
1975 – Earle Cabell, American politician (b. 1906)
1977 – Casey Rabach, American Football Player
1978 – James Bassett, American author (b. 1912)
1978 – Hasso von Manteuffel, German general and politician (b. 1897)
1980 – Theodor Luts, Estonian film director and cinematographer (b. 1896)
1981 – Patsy Kelly, American actress (b. 1910)
1982 – Sarah Churchill, English actress (b. 1914)
1984 – Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
1991 – Peter Bellamy, English singer-songwriter (The Young Tradition) (b. 1944)
1991 – Dr. Seuss, American author, poet, and illustrator (b. 1904)
1993 – Ian Stuart Donaldson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Skrewdriver) (b. 1957)
1993 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
1994 – Barry Bishop, American mountaineer (b. 1932)
1996 – Zeki Müren, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931)
1998 – Jeff Moss, American composer and scriptwriter (b. 1942)
2002 – Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian politician (b. 1953)
2002 – Mike Webster, American football player (b. 1952)
2003 – Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
2003 – Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)
2004 – Françoise Sagan, French author and scriptwriter (b. 1935)
2005 – Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)
2006 – Michael Ferguson, Irish politician (b. 1953)
2006 – Phil Latulippe, Canadian soldier and runner (b. 1909)
2008 – Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2009 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian novelist (b. 1975)
2009 – Susan Atkins, American murderer (b. 1948)
2010 – Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician, Vice President of the Soviet Union (b. 1937)
2012 – Thilakan, Indian actor (b. 1935)
2012 – Bruno Bobak, Polish-Canadian painter (b. 1923)