September 11 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1063 – King Béla I of Hungary
• 1161 – Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
• 1185 – Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier
• 1279 – Robert Kilwardby, English archbishop (b. c. 1215)
• 1298 – Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269)
• 1349 – Bonne of Luxembourg, Bohemian-born duchess and countess (b. 1315)
• 1599 – Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577)
• 1677 – James Harrington, English political philosopher (b. 1611)
• 1680 – Roger Crab, English political writer (b. 1621)
• 1680 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
• 1721 – Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b. 1665)
• 1733 – François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668)
• 1760 – Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
• 1822 – Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (b. 1777)
• 1823 – David Ricardo, English economist (b. 1772)
• 1843 – Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (b. 1786)
• 1851 – Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (b. 1794)
• 1865 – Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (b. 1806)
• 1888 – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, 7th President of Argentina (b. 1811)
• 1896 – Francis James Child, American professor (b. 1825)
• 1911 – Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
• 1915 – William Sprague IV, American politician (b. 1830)
• 1915 – William Cornelius Van Horne, American businessman (b. 1843)
• 1917 – Georges Guynemer, French aviator (b. 1894)
• 1921 – Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
• 1926 – Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
• 1931 – Salvatore Maranzano, American organized crime figure (b. 1868)
• 1932 – Stanislaw Wigura, Polish pilot (b. 1901)
• 1932 – Franciszek Zwirko, Polish pilot (b. 1895)
• 1939 – Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
• 1941 – Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary (b. 1873)
• 1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (b. 1876)
• 1950 – Jan Smuts, South African soldier and statesman (b. 1870)
• 1956 – Billy Bishop, Canadian fighter pilot (b. 1894)
• 1958 – Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874)
• 1958 – Camillien Houde, Canadian politician (b. 1889)
• 1965 – Ralph C. Smedley, American educator (b. 1878)
• 1966 – C. E. Woolman, American businessman (b. 1889)
• 1967 – Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (b. 1904)
• 1968 – René Cogny, French general (b. 1904)
• 1971 – Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader (b. 1894)
• 1971 – Bella Darvi, Polish-born French actress (b. 1928)
• 1972 – Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883)
• 1973 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908)
• 1973 – Neem Karoli Baba, Indian guru
• 1974 – Víctor Olea Alegría, Chilean socialist
• 1978 – Mike Gazella, American baseball player (b. 1895)
• 1978 – Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (b. 1929)
• 1978 – Janet Parker, British medical figure (b. c.1938)
• 1978 – Ronnie Peterson, Swedish racing driver (b. 1944)
• 1984 – Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b. 1901)
• 1985 – William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)
• 1985 – Andrew C. Thornton II, American drug smuggler (b. 1945)
• 1987 – Lorne Greene, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1915)
• 1987 – Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician (b. 1944)
• 1988 – John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1990 – Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (b. 1949)
• 1991 – Ernst Herbeck, German poet (b. 1920)
• 1993 – Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
• 1993 – Antoine Izméry, Haitian political activist
• 1994 – Jessica Tandy, American actress (b. 1909)
• 1994 – William Obanhein, American police officer (b. 1924)
• 1995 – Anita Harding, British neurologist (b. 1952)
• 1997 – Camille Henry, Canadian hockey player (b. 1933)
• 1997 – Hannah Weiner American experimental poet (b. 1928)
• 1998 – Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Belkis Ayón, Cuban artist (b. 1967)
• 1999 – Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan auto racing driver (b. 1972)
• 2001 – Alice Stewart Trillin, American author (b. 1938)
• 2001 – Victims of the 9/11 attacks:
  • David Angell, American television producer (b. 1946)
  • Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player (b. 1948)
  • Todd Beamer, American 9/11 figure (b. 1968)
  • Berry Berenson, American photographer, actress, and model (b. 1948)
  • Carolyn Beug, American filmmaker (b. 1953)
  • Bill Biggart, American photojournalist (b. 1947)
  • Mark Bingham, American businessman and 9/11 figure (b. 1970)
  • Ronald Paul Bucca, American fire marshal (b. 1954)
  • Charles Burlingame, American pilot (b. 1949)
  • Tom Burnett, American businessman (b. 1963)
  • William M. Feehan, American firefighter (b. 1929)
  • Wilson Flagg, American Rear admiral (b. 1938)
  • Peter J. Ganci, Jr., American firefighter (b. 1946)
  • Mychal Judge, American priest (b. 1933)
  • Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter (b. 1966)
  • Daniel M. Lewin, American mathematician and entrepreneur (b. 1970)
  • Timothy Maude, American military officer (b. 1947)
  • Eamon McEneaney, American lacrosse player (b. 1954)
  • John P. O'Neill, American counterterrorism expert (b. 1952)
  • John Ogonowski, American commercial airplane pilot (b. 1951)
  • Barbara Olson, American political commentator (b. 1955)
  • Betty Ong, American flight attendant (b. 1956)
  • Rick Rescorla, American Army officer (b. 1939)
  • Timothy Welty, American firefighter (b. 1967)
• 2001 – Perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks
  • Mohamed Atta, Egyptian hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1968)
  • Hani Hanjour, Saudi hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 (b. 1972)
  • Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1975)
  • Marwan al-Shehhi, Emirati hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 175 (b. 1978)
• 2002 – Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (b. 1957)
• 2003 – John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948)
• 2004 – Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (b. 1949)
• 2004 – Fred Ebb, American lyricist (b. 1933)
• 2004 – David Mann, American painter (b. 1939)
• 2005 – Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
• 2006 – William Auld, Scottish poet, author, and translator (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Pat Corley, American actor (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Joachim Fest, German journalist and author (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Ian Porterfield, Scottish footballer (b. 1946)
• 2007 – Gene Savoy, American author and cleric (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Jean Séguy, French sociologist (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Joe Zawinul, Austrian musician (b. 1932)
• 2009 – Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian (b. 1894)
• 2009 – Pierre Cossette, Canadian television and theatre producer (b. 1923)