September 1 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1067 – Baldwin V of Flanders
• 1159 – Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100)
• 1256 – Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
• 1414 – William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
• 1557 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
• 1581 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
• 1600 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)
• 1615 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)
• 1648 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
• 1685 – Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)
• 1687 – Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
• 1715 – François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
• 1715 – King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
• 1818 – Robert Calder, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1745)
• 1930 – Peeter Põld, Estonian pedagogic scientist and politician (b. 1878)
• 1838 – William Clark, American explorer, part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (b. 1770)
• 1943 – Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
• 1947 – Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)
• 1953 – Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)
• 1957 – Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)
• 1967 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (b. 1886)
• 1967 – Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (b. 1906)
• 1969 – Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)
• 1970 – François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
• 1977 – Ethel Waters, American singer (b. 1896)
• 1981 – Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)
• 1981 – Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1982 – Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1982 – Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish communist leader (b. 1905)
• 1983 – Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b. 1912)
• 1983 – Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)
• 1985 – Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
• 1986 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1988 – Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
• 1989 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
• 1989 – Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish inventor (b. 1894)
• 1990 – Seub Nakhasathien, Thai conservationist (b. 1949)
• 1991 – Otl Aicher, German graphic designer (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
• 1998 – Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (b. 1930)
• 1998 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
• 1999 – W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)
• 2001 – Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
• 2005 – R. L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
• 2008 – Jerry Reed, American musician and actor (b. 1937)
• 2008 – Oded Schramm, Israeli-American mathematician (b. 1961)
• 2009 – Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress (b. 1974)
• 2010 – Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45^th Yokozuna (b. 1928)