Famous Deaths on September 6

• 394 Eugenius, Roman teacher of rhetoric and Western Emperor of Rome (392-94), beheaded after losing the Battle of Figidus
• 952 Suzaku, 61st Emperor of Japan (930-46), dies at 30
• 957 Liudolf, Duke of Swabia

• 972 John XIII Crescentii, pope (965-72), dies
• 1032 Rudolf III, last independent King of Burgundy, dies at about 62
• 1276 Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (b. ca. 1215)
• 1511 Ashikaga Yoshizumi, 11th Japanese shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate (1493-1508), dies at 30
• 1625 Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)
• 1635 Adrian Metius, Dutch astronomer and fort architect, dies at 63
• 1649 Famiano Strada, Italian jesuit (bello belgico decades duae), dies at 77
• 1649 Robert Dudley, English navigator and writer (Arcano del Mare), dies at 75
• 1708 Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
• 1748 Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)

• 1782 Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
• 1783 Carlo Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (commedia dell’arte), dies at 72
• 1808 Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian, wrote “A History of France” for Napoleon, dies at 85
• 1811 Julien-Amable Mathieu, French composer, dies at 77
• 1819 Georg Druschetzky [Jiří Družecký], Czech composer, oboist, and timpanist, dies at 74
• 1831 Friedrich Wollank, German composer, dies at 49
• 1863 Lucius March Walker, Confederate brigadier general, dies of his wounds in a duel at 33
• 1868 Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner and plantation owner (b. 1797)
• 1869 John Aaron Rawlins, American Union army general and Secretary of War under Ulysses S. Grant, dies of tuberculosis at 38
• 1902 Frederick Able, English chemist and inventor (cordiet), dies at 75
• 1902 Philip James Bailey, English poet (Universal hymn), dies at 86
• 1903 Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (Expansive classification), dies at 66
• 1919 Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician who opposed Admiralty reforms, dies at 73
• 1919 Pier Pander, Dutch sculptor, dies at 55
• 1924 Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, 4th and last child of Franz Joseph I of Austria and Elisabeth of Bavaria, dies at 56
• 1926 Harriet Williams Russell Strong, American inventor, agricultural entrepreneur (created dams and reservoirs in California) women’s rights activistb, dies at 82 [1]
• 1927 Lafayette “Lave” Cross [Vratislav Kriz], American MLB baseball infielder, 1892-1907 (Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Athletics, and 5 other teams), dies of a heart attack at 61
• 1937 Henry Kimball Hadley, American composer (Bianca; Streets of Pekin), and conductor (San Francisco Symphony, 1915-18), dies of cancer at 65
• 1938 John Stuart Hindmarsh, British auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1935), dies in a flying accident at 30
• 1939 Arthur Rackham, English book illustrator (Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Rip van Winkle), dies of cancer at 71
• 1941 Hugo Loudon, Dutch businessman and co-founder of Royal Dutch Shell, dies at 81
• 1944 Robert Lejour, Belgian lawyer and resistance fighter, murdered
• 1945 John S. Mccain Sr., US admiral, (WW II-Pacific Ocean), dies of a heart attack at 61
• 1947 Paul Guthnick, German astronomer, dies at 76
• 1948 Brooklyn Supreme, Belgian stallion and once the heaviest known horse at 1,450 kg (3,200 lb), dies at 20 [1]
• 1948 Gerrit Hendrik Kersten, Dutch vicar and founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66
• 1950 Olaf Stapledon, British philosopher and sci-fi writer (Star Maker), dies at 64
• 1951 James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat, dies at 84
• 1951 Joe Falcaro, American bowler (National Match Game champion 1929-33), dies at 55

• 1952 Jose Forns y Cuadras, Spanish composer and teacher, dies at 54
• 1956 Felix Borowski, British-American composer, educator (Chicago Musical College, 1896-1925), and musicologist (Chicago Symphony, 1908-56), dies at 84
• 1956 Michael Ventris, English architect who deciphered Linear B, dies in a car accident at 34
• 1959 Edmund Gwenn, English actor (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 81
• 1959 Kay Kendall [Justine McCarthy], British actress (Genevieve, The Constant Husband, Les Girls), dies of leukemia at 32
• 1960 Jimmy Savo, American comedian (Through the Crystal Ball), dies at 65
• 1962 Hanns Eisler, Austrian composer (East German National Anthem), dies at 64
• 1962 Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
• 1963 Margarita Sierra, Spanish-American actress (Surfside 6 – “Cha Cha”), dies after heart surgery at 27
• 1965 (Ernest) “Red” Ingle, American jazz and novelty saxophonist, songwriter, arranger and vocalist (Ted Weems; Spike Jones and His City Slickers; The Natural Seven), dies of an internal hemorrhage at 58
• 1965 Konstantin G. Mostras, Russian composer, dies at 79
• 1966 Hendrik Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister (1958-66), assassinated at 64 by Dimitri Tsafendas
• 1966 Luigi Perrachio, Italian pianist, composer (Nove Poemetti; 25 Preludi), and pedagogue (Liceo Musicale Torino), dies at 83

• 1968 Karl Rankl, Austrian-born British composer and conductor (Covent Garden Opera Company), dies at 69
• 1969 Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player, dies at 77
• 1971 Phil Edwards, Canadian-Guyanese athlete (5 x Olympic bronze 1928, 32, 36), dies of heart disease at 63
• 1973 William Henry Harris, English composer, dies at 90
• 1974 Olga Baclanova, Russian-American actress (Freaks, Docks of NY), dies at 75
• 1974 Otto Kruger, American actor (Lux Video Theater), dies on 89th birthday
• 1977 Guido Pannain, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 85
• 1977 Paul Burkhard, Swiss composer, dies at 65
• 1978 Adolf Dassler, German entrepreneur (founder sportswear company Adidas), dies at 78
• 1978 Tom Wilson, American record producer (Sun Ra; Bob Dylan; Simon & Garfunkel; Mothers of Invention; Velvet Underground), dies of a heart attack at 47
• 1979 Ronald Binge, British composer (Elizabethan Serenade, Sailing By), dies at 69
• 1981 Christy Brown, Irish painter and autobiography writer (My Left Foot; Down All the Days), dies from choking during a meal at 49
• 1981 Joseph Yasser, Russian-American composer, dies at 88
• 1981 Maria Palmer, Austrian-American actress (Days of Glory, Web), dies at 64
• 1984 E. J. Andre, American actor (Eugene Bullock-Dallas), dies at 74
• 1984 Ernest Tubb, American country musician (“Walking the Floor Over You”), dies of emphysema at 70
• 1985 Eurreal “Little Brother” Montgomery, American jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist, singer, and composer (“Crescent City Blues”), dies at 79
• 1985 Jane Frazee [Mary Jane Frehse], American actress, singer, and dancer (Beautiful But Broke, Beulah), dies at 70 of pneumonia
• 1985 Johnny Desmond [Giovanni De Simone], American radio and big band singer (Bob Crosby; Gene Krupa; Your Hit Parade; Glenn Miller’s Army Air Forces Orchestra), dies of cancer at 65 [1]
• 1985 Leon Orthel, Dutch pianist and composer, dies at 79
• 1986 Blanche Sweet, American actress (DW Griffith movies), dies at 90
• 1988 Leroy Brown [Roland Daniels], American professional wrestler, dies after a stroke at 37
• 1990 Issan Dorsey, American founder of the Hartford St Zen Center in San Francisco, dies of AIDS at 57
• 1990 Len Hutton, English cricket batsman (79 Tests, 19 x 100, HS 364, BA 56.67; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 74

• 1991 Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
• 1991 Donald Henry “Pee Wee” Gaskins, American serial killer (claimed to have murdered over 100 people), executed in the electric chair at 58
• 1992 Pat Harder, American NFL fullback (Cardinals, Lions), dies at 70
• 1993 Josephine Rich Corday, American vaudevillian, dies of kidney failure at 79
• 1994 Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67
• 1994 Max Kaminsky, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (Max Kaminsky Orchestra), dies at 85

• 1994 Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55
• 1995 Buster Mathis, American boxer (World Super Heavyweight title 1972), dies from heart failure at 52
• 1995 Italo Valenti, Italian sculptor, dies at 83
• 1997 P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918)
• 1997 Philippe Rossillon, French civil servant and French language advocate, dies at 66

• 1999 René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
• 2000 Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian army general, dies at 81
• 2000 Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, American stillborn child – first to have cause of their stillborn solved by Kleihauer-Betke test (b. 2000)
• 2000 Desmond Wilcox, English broadcaster (BBC, ITV), dies at 69
• 2001 Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
• 2003 Harry Goz, American musical theatre actor and voice actor, dies at 71
• 2003 Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber, dies after being caught in an avalanche climbing Gasherbrum I (b. 1969)
• 2005 Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet, dies at 76
• 2007 Alex, African Grey parrot “student” of Dr. Irene Pepperberg (b. 1976)

• 2007 Madeleine L’Engle, American writer of young adult fiction, novelist, and poet (Wrinkle in Time and sequels; Ilsa; Lines Scribbled on an Envelope), dies at 88
• 2007 Percy Rodriguez [Rodrigues], Canadian actor (Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, Brainwaves), dies of kidney failure at 89
• 2008 Anita Page, American silent screen actress (Our Dancing Daughters), dies at 98
• 2008 Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (b. 1917)
• 2010 Richard Bilderback Hervig, American composer, dies at 92
• 2011 Wardell Quezergue, American jazz, blues, and funk composer, arranger, record producer, and bandleader, known as the “Creole Beethoven”, dies at 81

• 2012 Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer (Chariots of Fire, Dances with Wolves), dies from cancer at 71
• 2013 Cameron Rusby, British Royal Navy officer (Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in WWII), dies at 87
• 2015 Martin Milner, American actor (Route 66, Adam 12), dies at 83
• 2016 Lewis Merenstein, American record producer (Miriam Makeba; Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks; Glass Harp), dies of pneumonia at 81
• 2016 Raymond Hide, British geophysicist (geomagnetism, meteorology, geodesy and oceanography), dies at 87
• 2017 Derek David Bourgeois, British composer, conductor and educator (National Youth Chamber Orchestra), dies of cancer at 75
• 2017 Jim McDaniels, American basketball forward (All American 1971; Western Kentucky Uni; No. 1 overall pick ABA Draft 1971; ABA All-Star 1972; Carolina Cougars), dies from diabetes complications at 69
• 2017 Kate Millett, American feminist and author (Sexual Politics), dies at 82
• 2018 Alan Oakman, English cricket all-rounder (2 Tests; Sussex CCC), dies at 88

• 2018 Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor (I Solisti Veneti), dies at 83
• 2018 Diane Leather, British athlete (first woman to run sub-5 minute mile), dies of a stroke at 85
• 2018 Evelyn Anthony, English historical writer (Poellenberg Inheritance), dies at 92

• 2020 Kevin Dobson, American actor (Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon), dies at 77

• 2020 Mike Sexton, American poker player (World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions 2006; Poker Hall of Fame) and commentator (WPT), dies from prostate cancer at 72
• 2020 Mister Satan [Sterling Magee], American blues guitarist, singer, and percussionist (Satan & Adam), dies of COVID-19 complications at 84 [1]
• 2020 Tom Jernstedt, American Basketball Hall of Fame administrator (NCAA 1972-2010), dies at 75
• 2021 Adlai Stevenson III, American politician (U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1970-81), dies at 90

• 2021 Jean-Pierre Adams, French soccer centre-back (22 caps; Nîmes, Nice, Paris Saint-Germain), dies after 39 years in a coma at 73
• 2022 Dan Schachte, American ice hockey linesman (Canada Cup 1991; World Cup of Hockey 1996; Winter Olympics 2002; Stanley Cup Finals 1997, 98, 2000, 01, 02), dies from diabetes complications at 64
• 2022 Guy Morriss, American football coach (Kentucky, Baylor, Texas A&M–Commerce) and guard (Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots), dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 71
• 2023 Larry Chance [Figueiredo], American doo-wop vocalist (The Earls – “Remember Then”; “I Believe”), dies at 82
• 2023 Marc Bohan, French fashion designer, dies at 97
• 2023 Richard Davis, American jazz double bassist described as “the greatest bass ever heard on a rock album” (Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks), dies at 93
• 2023 Robyn Broughton, New Zealand netball coach (Coca Cola Cup 1999, 2000, 01; National Bank Cup 2002, 03, 04, 07 Southern Sting; assistant coach NZ Silver Ferns 2000-02), dies at 80
• 2024 Horst Weigang, German soccer goalkeeper (12 caps East Germany; Lokomotive Leipzig, Rot-Weiß Erfurt), dies at 83
• 2024 Lucine Amara [Armaganian], American concert and opera soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1950-91), dies at 99 [1]
• 2024 Mark Moffatt, Australian guitarist, songwriter, and record producers (The Monitors; Tim Finn), dies of pancreatic cancer at 74 [1]
• 2024 Paul Goldsmith, American auto and motorcycle racer (USAC stock car champion 1961-62; 127 NASCAR starts, 9 wins), dies at 98
• 2024 Will Jennings, American Grammy and Academy Award-winning lyricist (Celine Dion – “My Heart Will Go On”; Steve Winwood – “Higher Love”; Eric Clapton – “Tears in Heaven”), dies at 80

September 6 Highlights