Famous Deaths on September 22

• 1072 Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007)
• 1093 Olaf III, King of Norway (1067-93), founder of Bergen, dies at about 43
• 1197 Petrus Cantor, French theologist (Verbum Abbreviatum), dies

• 1253 Dōgen, Japanese Buddhist priest and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen, dies at 53
• 1286 Mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60
• 1345 Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)
• 1392 Aleid van Poelgeest, Dutch mistress of Albert I of Bavaria, murdered in The Hague by warring nobles at 22
• 1392 Willem Cuser, court squire to Albert I of Bavaria, murdered in The Hague by warring nobles
• 1399 Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician, favourite of Richard II, dies in exile at 33
• 1408 Johannes VII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1376-77, 90/1404-8), dies
• 1411 Anne de Mortimer, British noblewoman and ancestor to the royal House of York (Grandmother of kings Edward IV and Richard III), dies at 22 [approximate death date]
• 1520 Selim I ‘Selim the Grim’, Sultan of Turkey (1512-20) who captured Baghdad and Cairo, dies at 53
• 1531 Louise of Savoy, French mother of and regent for King Francis I, dies of the plague at 55

• 1566 John Agricola [Schneider], German theologian, a friend of Martin Luther, dies at 72
• 1607 Alessandro Allori, Italian Mannerist painter and director of the Florentine carpet factory, dies at 72
• 1658 Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, German poet and translator, dies at 50
• 1662 John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)
• 1702 Hoessein Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (peace of Karlowitz), dies
• 1703 Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (Viviani’s theorem), dies at 81
• 1712 José Solana, Spanish composer and organist, dies at 69
• 1737 Francesco Mancini, Neapolitan Baroque composer, dies at 65
• 1737 Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, French composer, dies at 69
• 1774 Pope Clement XIV [Giovanni Ganganelli], Pope (1769-74), dies at 68

• 1777 John Bartram, American naturalist and explorer, father of American botany, dies at 77
• 1796 George Wilhelm Gruber, German composer, dies on 67th birthday
• 1796 Joseph Lederer, German monastery composer, dies at 63
• 1814 August Wilhelm Iffland, German writer and actor, dies at 55
• 1826 Johann Peter Hebel, German writer (Allemannische Gedichte), dies at 66
• 1828 Shaka, South African Zulu king, founder of the Zulu nation, murdered (b. c. 1787)
• 1840 Anne Lister, English diarist ‘the 1st modern lesbian’, dies of a fever at 49
• 1840 Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, 6th child and second daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte, dies at 71
• 1852 William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer, dies at 69
• 1865 Heinrich Christian Pander, Baltic German biologist and embryologist, dies at 71
• 1872 Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language), dies at 70
• 1873 Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss politician, dies at 62
• 1880 Fred Grace, English cricket all-rounder (1 Test; first time 3 bros play a Test [with WG & EM Grace]; Gloucestershire CCC), dies of pneumonia at 29
• 1881 Solomon L. Spink, American lawyer and member of the Illinois House of Representatives, dies at 50
• 1890 Johanna D. Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author (Rozeken Pot), dies at 79
• 1897 Charles-Denis Bourbaki, French general (Crimean War, Franco-Prussian war), dies at 81
• 1914 Alain-Fournier, French writer (Le Grand Meaulnes), dies in battle at 27
• 1921 Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright (Under the Yoke), dies at 71
• 1923 Marquess of Ripon, English aristocrat and game hunter, dies, after shooting 52nd grouse in one morning at 71
• 1927 Giannotto Bastianelli, Italian musician and composer, dies at 44
• 1934 Cecil Chubb, English barrister, gifted monument Stonehenge to the British nation, dies at 58
• 1935 Karl Schröder II, German composer, dies at 86
• 1942 Ralph Adams Cram, American gothic architect (Cathedral of St Joan NYC), dies at 78
• 1944 “Cab” Calloway, British scout, dies in battle of Oosterbeek
• 1949 Kim Jong-suk, Wife of Kim Il-sung, mother of Kim Jung-Il, “The Heroine of the Anti-Japanese Revolution”, dies at 31
• 1949 Sam Wood, American communist fighter and director (For Whom the Bell Tolls), dies at 66
• 1952 Cor Ruys, Dutch actor (Princess Stage, The Cross-Patch), dies at 63
• 1952 Ian Hay [John Hay Beith], British novelist and playwright (Pip, Carrying On), dies at 76
• 1952 Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish jurist and first President of Finland (1914-17, 1919-25), dies at 87
• 1953 William Brann, South African cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa), dies at 54

• 1957 Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral during World War II, dies at 72
• 1958 Mary Roberts Rinehart, American mystery writer and playwright (The Circular Staircase), dies at 82
• 1959 Benjamin Peret, French writer and poet (Le grand jeu), dies at 60
• 1959 Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, British fieldmarshal, dies at 79
• 1959 Jane Winton, American actress (Hell’s Angel, Patsy, Don Juan), dies at 53
• 1959 Josef Matthias Hauer, Austrian composer and music theorist, dies at 76
• 1960 Melanie Klein, Austrian-British author and child psychoanalyst (object relations theory), dies at 78
• 1961 Marion Davies [Douras], American silent and sound film actress, producer (Little Old New York; Not So Dumb; Five and Ten), and mistress of William Randolph Hearst, dies of cancer at 64
• 1965 Biz Mackey, American Baseball HOF catcher (5 × East-West All-Star Game; NgL World Series 1925 Hilldale Daisies, 1946 Newark Eagles), dies at 68
• 1965 Othmar Ammann, Swiss-American bridge engineer (George Washington Bridge; Walt Whitman Bridge; Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge), dies at 86
• 1969 Adolfo López Mateos, 48th President of Mexico, dies at 59
• 1969 Aleksandras Stulginskis, Russian-Lithuanian politician, nationalist (President of Lithuania, 1920-26), farmer, and political prisoner (Soviet gulag, 1941-56), dies at 84
• 1970 Alice Hamilton, American physician, scientist and social advocate (workmen’s compensation laws, occupational illnesses), dies at 101 [1]
• 1970 Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali writer (Satyanweshi, Tungabhadrar Tirey), dies at 71
• 1971 Joseph Ford McGuinn, American director and actor (Dick Tracy’s G-Men), dies of a heart attack at 67
• 1971 Yvonne St Clair, American dancer, dies at 57
• 1972 Robert K.J.E. Antonissen, Belgian-born South African literary figure, dies at 53
• 1973 John Neel, American jazz and film score composer (Blue Martini; Scream of the Butterfly), dies at 43
• 1975 Franz Salmhofer, Austrian composer and musician, dies at 75
• 1975 Patricia Doyle, English actress (Wuthering Heights), dies at 60
• 1978 Lina Carstens, German actress (Homeland, Broken Jug), dies at 85
• 1979 Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-British physicist who coined the term nuclear fission (Manhattan Project), and educator (Cambridge), dies at 74
• 1981 Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)
• 1985 Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73
• 1985 Dickie Henderson, British comic and actor, dies of pancreatic cancer at 82
• 1986 Bernie Cummins, American jazz drummer and big band bandleader (“Dark Eyes”), dies at 86
• 1987 Christopher Stryker, American actor, dies of AIDS at 27
• 1987 Dan Rowan, American comedian (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In), dies at 65
• 1987 Louis Kentner, Hungarian-British composer, dies at 82
• 1987 Norman Luboff, American vocal arranger, music publisher, and choir director (Norman Luboff Choir – “Yellow Bird”), dies of lung cancer at 70
• 1988 Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst, dies at 74
• 1988 Rezső Sugár, Hungarian composer (Savonarola), and pedagogue, dies at 68

• 1989 Jan Teulings, Dutch actor and director (Dorp aan de Rivier), dies at 84
• 1991 Reynold Abel Dorris, American Sioux Indian (subject of book “Broken Cord”), dies at 23 after being struck by a car
• 1992 Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
• 1993 Margaret MacDonald ‘Bobo’, Scot-born maid to Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 89
• 1994 (John Edward) “Teddy” Buckner, American Dixieland jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
• 1994 Edward Shackleton, English explorer, geographer and Labour Party politician, dies at 83
• 1994 Forest ‘Bud’ Sagendorf, American cartoonist (Popeye), dies at 79
• 1994 Leonard Feather, British jazz critic and musician, dies at 80
• 1994 Mattie Moss Clark, American gospel singer, and music minister, dies of diabetes complications at 69
• 1995 (Dorothy) “Dolly” Collins, British folk songwriter, arranger, piano player, and composer, dies at 62
• 1995 Albert Goodwin, English historian, dies at 89
• 1995 Arthur Benfield, English celebrated head of Cheshire CID (lead investigation into ‘Moors Murders’), dies at 82
• 1996 Dorothy Lamour [Mary Kaumeyer], American actress and singer (Road to Bali; My Favorite Brunette), dies of a heart attack at 81
• 1996 Ludmilla Chiraeff, Latvian-Canadian ballet dancer, choeographer, and troupe director, dies at 72
• 1996 Mohammed Ben Amhed Abdelghani, Prime Minister of Algeria (1979-84), dies of a heart attack at 69
• 1997 Bryan Ingham, English artist, dies at 61
• 1997 Eric William Hunter Christie, British barrister and Falklands campaigner, dies at 77
• 1997 George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, British politician (Speaker of the House of Commons), dies at 97
• 1997 Ruth Picardie, British journalist and columnist (Before I Say Goodbye), dies of cancer at 33
• 1997 Shōichi Yokoi, Imperial Japanese Army sergeant, World War II (surrendered in 1972), dies from heart attack at 82

• 1999 Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist, dies at 81
• 2000 Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator and flying ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, dies at 84
• 2000 Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet (Now and in Other Days), dies at 76
• 2001 Isaac Stern, American-Ukrainian concert violinist (debut San Francisco Symphony), dies at 81
• 2002 Jan de Hartog, Dutch-English writer (Holland’s Glory), dies at 88
• 2003 Gordon Jump, American actor (WKRP in Cincinnati – “Arthur Carlson”; Growing Pains – “Ed”; Maytag Repairman), dies of pulmonary fibrosis at 71
• 2003 Hugo Young, British journalist (The Guardian), dies at 64
• 2004 Big Boss Man [Ray Washington Traylor Jr.], American professional wrestler, dies at 41
• 2004 Edward Larrabee Barnes, American architect (Walker Art Center), dies at 89
• 2005 Heimo Erbse, German concert, opera, and theater composer (Julietta). dies at 81
• 2005 Johan “Joop” Doderer, Dutch actor (Swiebertje; My Fair Lady), dies at 84
• 2006 Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
• 2006 Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
• 2006 Ewald Krolis, Suriname Dutch percussionist and kaseko singer (Caribbean Combo – Mi Kanto Ma Mi De Ete (Fallen But Not Defeated), dies at 59
• 2007 Bodinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1928)
• 2007 Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (Bip the Clown; Silent Movie), dies at 84
• 2008 Connie Haines [Yvonne Jasme], American pop and big-band singer (Harry James; Abbott and Costello Show; Tommy Dorsey), dies of myasthenia gravis at 87 [1]
• 2008 Thomas Doerflein, German Zookeeper (b. 1963)
• 2010 Eddie Fisher, American pop singer (“Oh My Papa”: I’m Walking Behind You”), dies from complications from hip surgery at 82
• 2013 David H. Hubel, Canadian-born American neurologist, 1981 Nobel Prize for “discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system”, dies at 87 [1]
• 2014 Edward Anson, Australian British Royal Navy pilot (Korean War), officer (Vice Admiral), and ship captain (HMS Ark Royal), dies at 85

• 2016 Kjell Albin Abrahamson, Swedish journalist and writer, dies at 71
• 2018 Charles “Chas” Hodges, English musician (Chas & Dave), dies at 74
• 2020 Agne Simonsson, Swedish soccer striker (51 caps; Örgryte IS, Real Madrid, Real Sociedad) and manager (Örgryte IS, BK Häcken), dies from pneumonia at 84
• 2020 Road Warrior Animal [Joseph Laurinaitis], American pro wrestler (3 x WWE Tag Team C’ship; WWE Hall of Fame), dies at 60
• 2021 Bob Moore, American session double bassist (Patsy Cline; Elvis Presley; Roger Miller), and orchestra leader (“Mexico”), dies at 88
• 2021 Jay Sandrich, American Emmy Award-winning television director (The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Soap; The Cosby Show), dies at 89
• 2021 Orlando Martínez, Cuban boxer (Olympic gold bantamweight 1972), dies at 77
• 2021 Roger Michell, British stage and screen director (Blue/Orange; Notting Hill; Hyde Park On Hudson), dies at 65
• 2022 Brother Andrew [Andrew van der Bijl], Dutch Christian missionary (Open Doors), dies at 94
• 2022 Hilary Mantel, English novelist (Wolf Hall), dies after a stroke at 70
• 2022 Tim Hankinson, American soccer coach (Alabama A&M, Syracuse University; Tampa Bay Mutiny, Colorado Rapids), dies from cancer at 67
• 2023 Américo Lopes, Portuguese soccer goalkeeper (15 caps; Porto, Boavista), dies at 90
• 2023 Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician, President of Italy (2006-15), dies at 98
• 2023 Giovanni Lodetti, Italian soccer midfielder (17 caps; AC Milan, Sampdoria, Foggia, Novara), dies at 81
• 2023 Mike Henderson, American country, blues, and bluegrass singer-songwriter, and slide guitarist (The Bluebloods; The SteelDrivers), dies at 70
• 2024 Brian Huggett, Welsh golfer (British Open 1965 runner-up; Harry Vardon Trophy 1968; 10 x European Senior Tour titles), dies at 87
• 2024 Koos van Der Merwe, South African politician and longest serving member of Parliament at the time of his retirement, dies at 87

September 22 Highlights