Famous Deaths on September 11

• 1161 Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
• 1185 Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier at court of Byzantine emperor Andronikos I Komnenos, killed by Isaac II Angelos
• 1297 Hugh de Cressingham, English treasurer, dies in Battle at Stirling Bridge

• 1298 Philip of Artois, French nobleman and soldier (b. 1269)
• 1349 Bonne of Luxembourg, Duchess of Normandy, wife of future King John II of France, dies of bubonic plague at 34
• 1570 Johannes Brenz, German theologist (Dutch Brentians), dies at 71
• 1599 Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman executed for fratricide at 22

• 1630 John de White, Calvinist and banker to Prague, commits suicide
• 1646 Johann Stobäus, North German composer, dies at 66
• 1677 James Harrington, English author and political theorist of classical republicanism (The Commonwealth of Oceana), dies at 66
• 1680 Go-Mizunoo [Kotohito], 108th Emperor of Japan (1611-29) and first of the Edo period, dies at 84
• 1680 Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
• 1709 Oxenstiern, Dutch general, dies in the Battle of Malplaquet
• 1709 Spaar, Dutch General, dies in the Battle of Malplaquet
• 1713 Johannes Voet, Dutch lawyer, dies at 65
• 1721 Rudolph J. Camerarius, German physician (sexuality plans), dies
• 1733 François Couperin, French composer and organist (Les Concerts Royaux), dies at 64
• 1760 Louis Godin, French astronomer and seismologist who travelled to Peru, dies at 56
• 1789 Luca Sorkočević, Croatian nobleman and composer (composed 1st Croatian symphony), commits suicide at 55
• 1810 Francis Baring, English merchant and banker (Baring Brothers & Co.), dies at 70
• 1822 Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor, comedist, translator, editor of humour magazines, dies at 54
• 1823 David Ricardo, English economist (On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation), dies at 51
• 1840 Johannes Hendricus van der Palm, Dutch theologist and Minister of Education, dies at 77
• 1843 Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer, died at 57
• 1848 Henri-Philippe Gerard, Belgian composer, dies at 87
• 1851 Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist and minister (Graham cracker) (b. 1794)
• 1858 Alexander Gurilyov, Russian composer, dies at 55
• 1865 Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general during conquest of Algeria, dies at 59
• 1869 Thomas Graham, Scottish chemist, ‘the father of colloid chemistry’, dies at 63
• 1870 Eugenio Lucas y Padilla, Spanish poet, dies at about 46
• 1888 Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina (1868-74) after whom Panamerican Teacher’s Day is chosen, dies at 77
• 1891 Antero Tarquínio de Quental, Portuguese poet (Beatrice), dies at 49
• 1891 Théodule-Augustin Ribot, French realist painter (Breton Fishermen and Their Families), dies at 68
• 1892 Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, French composer (Les trois couleurs), dies at 84
• 1896 Francis James Child, American ballad collector (b. 1825)
• 1898 Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, Belgian composer, dies at 74
• 1905 John Ware, American-Canadian black rancher and cowboy born into slavery, dies after an accident at 55 [1]
• 1911 Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
• 1911 William R. Boggs, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) and chief of engineers, dies at 82
• 1915 William Cornelius Van Horne, American-Canadian railway executive (Canadian Pacific Railway), dies at 72
• 1915 William Sprague IV, American politician and Governor of Rhode Island (1859-63), dies at 84
• 1917 Georges Guynemer, French WWI fighter pilot and national hero, shot down and killed at 22
• 1921 Subramania Bharati, Indian poet and independence activist, dies at 38
• 1922 Louis Coerne, American composer (Zenobia; Excalibur), and educator (The Evolution of Modern Orchestration), dies at 52
• 1924 Mieczyslaw Surzyński Polish organ virtuoso and composer (1904 Organ Concerto), dies at 57
• 1926 Matsunosuke Onoe [Tsuruzo Nakamura], Japanese actor (Araki Mataemon, Yajîkita: zenpen), Japanese actor, dies at 50
• 1932 Franciszek Żwirko, Polish pilot (co-winner of ‘Challenge 1932’), dies in a plane crash at 36
• 1932 Stanislaw Wigura, Polish airplane designer and aviator (co-winner of international ‘Challenge 1932’), dies in a plane crash at 31
• 1936 Byron G. Harlan, American balladeer (“Wait ‘Till the Sun Shines, Nellie”), and comic minstrel singer (Collins & Harlan), dies at 75
• 1939 Konstantin Korovin, leading Russian impressionist painter, dies at 77
• 1946 Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer (Het fregatschip Johanna Maria – The frigate Johanna Maria), dies at 72
• 1948 Albert Powell, South African cricket all-rounder (1 Test, 1 wicket) and rugby union centre (1 Test v England 1898-99), dies at 75

• 1949 Henri Rabaud, French composer and conductor (L’ete), dies at 75

• 1950 Rudolf Palm, Curaçaoan pianist and composer, dies at 70
• 1954 Licinio Refice, Italian priest and composer (Cecilia), dies at 69

• 1957 Petar Stojanovic, Serbian composer, dies at 80
• 1958 Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician and Mayor of Montreal, dies at 69
• 1958 Robert Lach, Austrian composer, dies at 84
• 1958 Robert W. Service, English-Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee), dies at 84
• 1959 Paul Douglas, American actor (Adventure Theater; Clash by Night), dies from a heart attack at 52
• 1965 Ralph C. Smedley, American Founder of Toastmasters International, dies at 87
• 1966 Charlie Cantor, American radio and television actor (The Fred Allen Show – “Socrates Mulligan”; The Jack Benny Program -“Logan Jerkfinkel”), dies at 68
• 1966 Collett E. Woolman, American airline founder (Delta Air Service), dies at 76
• 1967 Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist, dies at 62
• 1968 René Cogny, French General (b. 1904)

• 1970 Chester Morris, American actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), dies at 69
• 1970 Ernst May, German architect and city planner (New Frankfurt), dies at 84
• 1971 Curtis Jones, American blues pianist and songwriter (“Lonesome Bedroom Blues”, “Highway 51 Blues”), dies of heart failure at 65

• 1971 Percy Helton, American actor (Jail Busters, Harbor of Missing Men), dies at 77
• 1972 Max Fleischer, Polish-American animator and film producer (Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor Man), dies at 89
• 1973 Neem Karoli Baba, Indian guru, dies at 73

• 1974 Víctor Olea Alegría, Chilean Socialist Party member, arrested by Pinochet’s National Intelligence Directorate and afterwards disappeared at 22
• 1976 Jan Kunc, Czech composer (Czech State Anthem), dies at 93
• 1977 Don Blackman, actor (Old Man & Sea, Desert Legion), dies at 65
• 1977 Leonard Carey, American actor (Rebecca, Laughter), dies at 90
• 1978 Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident writer and journalist for the BBC World Service, assassinated (probably stabbed by an umbrella with poison) by KGB and Bulgarian Secret Service in London at 49
• 1978 Janet Parker, English medical photographer, the last person to die of smallpox, dies at 40
• 1980 José Antonio Calcaño, Venezuelan composer (De Profundis), music critic, and diplomat, dies at 80
• 1981 Frank McHugh, American actor (Going My Way, Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young), dies at 83
• 1981 Harold Bennett, English actor (Are You Being Served? – “Young Mr. Grace”), dies at 82
• 1982 Albert Soboult, French historian, dies at 68
• 1982 Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (The Jungle), dies at 79
• 1984 Hilding Hallnäs, Swedish composer (Kärlekens ringdans), dies at 81
• 1984 Jerry Voorhis, American politician (Rep-D-California 1937-47), dies at 83
• 1985 Andrew C. Thornton II, American drug smuggler, dies jumping from a plane to his death with $15 million in cocaine at 40
• 1985 Frank Misson, Australian cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 16 wickets; NSW), dies at 85
• 1985 Masako Natsume [Odate], Japanese actress and model (Tripitaka in “Monkey”), dies of leukemia at 27
• 1985 William Alwyn, English composer, dies at 79
• 1987 Lorne Greene [Lyon Chaim Green], Canadian actor (Bonanza – “Ben Cartwright”; Battlestar Galactica), dies of pneumonia following heart surgery at 72
• 1987 Ludovic Feldman, Romanian violinist and composer, dies at 94
• 1987 Mahadevi Varma, Indian poet and freedom fighter, dies at 80
• 1987 Peter Tosh [Winston Hubert McIntosh], Jamaican reggae musician (The Wailers -“Get Up Stand Up”; “Mystic Man”; “Legalize It”), shot dead at his home in Jamaica at 42
• 1988 George Alpert, American railroad executive (New Haven Line), dies at 90
• 1988 John Sylvester White, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter), dies at 68
• 1988 Luis Alvarez, American physicist (subatomic particles, Nobel 1968), dies of cancer at 77

• 1990 Ben Frank, American actor (Don’t Answer the Phone), dies of a heart attack at 56
• 1990 Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist, stabbed to death by Guatemalan military for criticising the government at 40
• 1991 Ernst Herbeck, German Poet, dies at 70
• 1992 Erik Terpstra, Dutch director (Versier de leegte, De ander, Daniel), dies at 55
• 1992 Frank McKinney, American swimmer (Olympic gold 4x100m medley 1960) and executive (owner Pittsburgh Pirates), dies in a mid-air collision between 2 aircraft at 53
• 1992 Frank Singuineau, Trinidadian actor (Firepower, Pressure, Mummy), dies at 79
• 1993 Antoine Izmery, Haitian businessman and advisor to President Aristide, murdered by paramilitaries
• 1993 Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian-American conductor (Boston Symphony, 1962-69), dies of cancer at 81 [1]
• 1993 Luis Antonio Escobar, Colombian composer and musicologist, dies at 68
• 1994 Frederick R. Weisman, American philanthropist (Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation), dies at 82

• 1994 Sara Southern, American actress and mother of Elizabeth Taylor, dies at 99
• 1994 William Obanhein, American police officer and actor (Officer Obie-Alice’s Restaurant), dies at 69
• 1995 Anita Harding, British neurologist (first identification of a mitochondrial DNA mutation in human disease), dies of cancer at 42
• 1995 Jerome Theisen, American Abbot Primate of the Benedictine order of monks, dies of a heart attack at 64
• 1996 Guido Aristarco, Italian film critic (Cinema Nuovo), dies at 77
• 1996 Joanne Dru [LaCock], American actress (Red River, All the King’s Men), dies of lymphedema at 73
• 1997 Camille Henry, Canadian National Hockey League player, dies at 64
• 1997 Hannah Weiner, American experimental poet, dies at 68
• 1998 Dane Clark, American actor (Wire Service, Bold Venture, Perry Mason), dies at 86
• 1998 Frank Ereaut, British Bailiff of Jersey (1975-85), dies at 79
• 1999 Belkis Ayón, Cuban printmaker (collography), commits suicide at 32
• 2001 Alice Stewart Trillin, American author, dies at 63
• 2001 Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter, dies in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center at 35
• 2001 Barbara Olson (née Bracher), American political commentator, dies in terror attack aboard flight 77 flown into the Pentagon at 45
• 2001 Berinthia “Berry” Berenson, American photographer, actress, model, and widow of actor Anthony Perkins, dies on American Airlines Flight 11 in the 9/11 attacks at 53
• 2001 Betty Farmer, American jazz and cabaret singer, killed in World Trade Center attack at 62
• 2001 Betty Ong, American-Kaiping flight attendant who altered authorities to the 9/11 Flight 11 hijacking, declared an American hero, dies aboard 9/11 plane crash at 45
• 2001 Daniel M. Lewin, American–Israeli mathematician and founder of Akamai Technologies, dies in the terror attacks aboard flight 11 at 31
• 2001 David Angell, American screenwriter and sitcom creator (Frasier, Wings, Cheers), dies aboard plane in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center at 55
• 2001 Hani Hanjour, Saudi Arabian 9/11 terrorist, dies in Pentagon plane attack at 29
• 2001 Henry Herbert, 7th earl of Carnarvon, English peer and racing manager to the Queen, dies of a heart attack at 77
• 2001 Jeremy Glick, American passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, dies thwarting terrorist attempts to crash the plane into a Washington monument at 31
• 2001 John Ogonowski, American pilot, dies aboard American Airlines Flight 11 in terror attack on the World Trade Center at 50
• 2001 John P. O’Neill, American anti-terrorism expert and FBI agent, dies as Head of Security in the terror attack on the World Trade Center at 49
• 2001 Mark Bingham, American passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, dies thwarting terrorist attempts to crash the plane into a Washington monument at 31
• 2001 Marwan Al-Shehhi, Emirati 9/11 terrorist, dies piloting a plane into the World Trade Center at 23
• 2001 Mohamed Atta, Egyptian 9/11 terrorist and ringleader, dies piloting a plane into the World Trade Center at 33
• 2001 Mychal F. Judge, American Chaplain to NY Fire Dept, dies in the World Trade Center attack at 68
• 2001 Peter J. Ganci, Jr., American Fire fighter (Chief of Department, FDNY_, dies in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center at 55

• 2001 Tom Burnett, American businessman and passenger aboard United 93, dies thwarting terrorist attempts to crash the plane into a Washington monument at 38
• 2001 Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese 9/11 terrorist, dies piloting United Flight 93 at 26

• 2002 Kim Hunter [Janet Cole], American actress (A Streetcar Named Desire; Planet of the Apes), dies of a heart attack at 79
• 2003 Anna Lindh, Swedish Social Democratic politician and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1998-2003), assassinated shopping in Stockholm at 46 [1]
• 2003 John Ritter, American actor and comedian (Three’s Company, It, 8 Simple Rules), dies of an aortic dissection at 54
• 2004 David Mann, American graphic artist of biker culture, dies at 64

• 2004 Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, Greek Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, dies at 55
• 2005 Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (ABC Wide World of Sports), dies of emphysema at 82

• 2006 Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer (b. 1921)
• 2006 Pat Corley, American actor (Murphy Brown), dies at 76
• 2006 William Auld, Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto, dies at 81
• 2007 Gene Savoy, American author, explorer and religious leader, Head Bishop of the International Community of Christ (1971-2007), dies at 80
• 2007 Ian Porterfield, Scottish soccer manager (Sheffield Utd, Aberdeen, Reading, Chelsea, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Oman, Trinidad & Tobago), dies of colon cancer at 61
• 2007 [Josef] Joe Zawinul, Austrian-American jazz keyboardist, composer and musician (Weather Report – “Birdland”), dies from Merkel cell carcinoma at 75
• 2009 Zakes Mokae, South African actor (Comedians), dies at 75
• 2010 Harold Gould, American character actor (The Sting, The Golden Girls, Rhoda, Big Bus), dies at 86
• 2010 Kevin McCarthy, American actor (Invasion of Body Snatchers; Death of a Salesman), dies of pneumonia at 96
• 2011 Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor (Spartacus), dies of cancer at 39
• 2011 Anjali Gupta, Indian Air Force officer (b. 1975)
• 2012 Sergio Livingstone, Chilean soccer goalkeeper who played 52 internationals (CD Universidad Católica) and TV personality (Televisión Nacional de Chile), dies at 92
• 2014 Antoine Duhamel, French composer, dies at 89
• 2014 Bob Crewe, American songwriter and producer (“Big Girls Don’t Cry”), dies at 83
• 2015 Marcel Zeeuw, Surinamese soldier (participant in the Sergeant Coup, 1982), dies at 61
• 2016 Alexis Arquette, American transgender performer (Last Exit to Brooklyn), dies at 47
• 2017 J. P. Donleavy, American novelist (Ginger Man, Onion Eaters), dies at 91
• 2017 Peter Hall, English stage, film and opera director (Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre director), dies at 86
• 2018 Don Panoz, American pharmaceutical entrepreneur and motorsports impresario (ALMS – American Le Mans Series), dies at 83
• 2018 Fenella Fielding, English actress (Carry On films), dies at 90
• 2018 Jim Houston, American College Football Hall of Fame linebacker (Ohio State; Pro Bowl 1964-65, 69-70; Cleveland Browns), dies of dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 80
• 2019 Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer (Peachtree Road; The House Next Door), dies at 83
• 2019 B. J. Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia (1998-99) who liberalized Indonesia’s press and political party laws, dies of heart failure at 83
• 2019 Daniel Johnston, American musician and visual artist (“Hi, How Are You”), dies of a suspected heart attack at 58

• 2020 (Frederick) “Toots” Hibbert, Jamaican singer-songwriter (The Maytals – “Pressure Drop”), dies with COVID-19 symptoms at 77 [1]
• 2020 Charles Patrick, American do-wop singer and songwriter (The Monotones – “The Book of Love”). dies on his 82nd birthday
• 2020 Nadhim Shaker, Iraqi soccer defender (57 caps; Al-Tayaran) and coach (Iraq), dies from COVID-19 at 61
• 2020 Sonny Allen, American basketball coach (ODU, Southern Methodist University, University of Nevada, Reno; WNBA Sacramento Monarchs), dies of Parkinson’s Disease at 84
• 2021 Mick Tingelhoff, American Pro Football HOF center (6 × Pro Bowl; 5 × First-team All-Pro; Minnesota Vikings), dies at 81
• 2022 Alain Tanner, Swiss film director (Charles, Dead or Alive), dies at 92
• 2022 Javier Marías, Spanish translator and novelist (Corazón Tan Blanco – A Heart So White), dies of pneumonia at 70 [1]
• 2023 Juan Carlos Harriott Jr., Argentine polo player (Argentine Open C’ship x 20, Hurlingham Open x 15, Tortugas Open x 7), dies at 86

• 2024 Chad McQueen, American actor (Nightforce; The Karate Kid), dies at 63
• 2024 Joe Schmidt, College-Pro Football HOF linebacker (10 x Pro Bowl; 8 x First-team All-Pro; NFL C’ship 1953, 57; Detroit Lions) and coach (Detroit Lions 1967-72), dies at 92

September 11 Highlights