September 15 - Deaths

Deaths

• 668 – Constans II, Byzantine emperor (b. 630)
• 866 – Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria (b. 820)
• 1231 – Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1173)
• 1352 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
• 1500 – John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1420)
• 1596 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist
• 1613 – Thomas Overbury, English writer (b. 1581)
• 1643 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)
• 1649 – John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572)
• 1700 – André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (b. 1613)
• 1701 – Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)
• 1707 – George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
• 1712 – Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician
• 1750 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
• 1794 – Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
• 1803 – Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1719)
• 1805 – Christopher Gadsden, American soldier and statesman from South Carolina (b. 1724)
• 1830 – François Baillairgé, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1759)
• 1830 – William Huskisson, English first rail fatality (b. 1770)
• 1835 – Sarah Knox Taylor, American wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
• 1842 – Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
• 1842 – José Francisco Morazán Quezada, Guatemalan statesman (b. 1792)
• 1859 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
• 1864 – John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
• 1883 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (b. 1801)
• 1885 – Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (b. 1861)
• 1893 – Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (b. 1807)
• 1915 – Ernest Gagnon, Canadian folklorist, composer and organist (b. 1834)
• 1921 – Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1886)
• 1926 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
• 1930 – Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
• 1945 – André Tardieu, French statesman (b. 1876)
• 1945 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer (b. 1883)
• 1965 – Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
• 1972 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
• 1973 – Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)
• 1973 – Victor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1941)
• 1978 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (b. 1898)
• 1978 – Robert Cliche, French Canadian politician and judge (b. 1921)
• 1980 – Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1929)
• 1981 – Harold Bennett, English actor (b. 1899)
• 1981 – Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpet virtuoso (b. 1906)
• 1983 – Prince Far I, Jamaican reggae toaster and record producer
• 1985 – Cootie Williams, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1910)
• 1987 – Steven Tuomi, American murder victim of Jeffrey Dahmer (b. 1963)
• 1989 – Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Olga Erteszek, American undergarment designer and lingerie company owner (b. 1916)
• 1991 – John Hoyt, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1993 – Ethan Allen, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1995 – Harry Calder, South African cricketer (b. 1901)
• 1998 – Louis Rasminsky, Canadian economist, governor of the Bank of Canada (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Vincent Canby, American movie critic (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Jack Brymer, English clarinetist (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (b. 1948)
• 2004 – Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Sidney Luft, American film director (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
• 2007 – Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (b. 1968)
• 2007 – Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Brett Somers, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Sir Jeremy Moore, British Army commander (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Richard Wright, British keyboardist (Pink Floyd) (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Arrow, Montserratian soca musician (b. 1949)