September 22 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1072 – Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007)
• 1253 – Dogen, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. 1200)
• 1345 – Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (b. 1281)
• 1399 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)
• 1520 – Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)
• 1539 – Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)
• 1554 – Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
• 1566 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)
• 1607 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535)
• 1658 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607)
• 1662 – John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)
• 1692 – Martha Corey, hanged as a result of the Salem witch trials
• 1703 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)
• 1774 – Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
• 1776 – Nathan Hale, American Revolutionary War captain, hanged by the British as a spy(b. 1755)
• 1777 – John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)
• 1828 – Shaka, Accredited as being the most influential leader of the Zulu Empire (b. 1787)
• 1852 – William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b. 1783)
• 1868 – Byakkotai, A group of 19 young Japanese with the samurai corps of Aizu-Han who committed suicide.
• 1872 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)
• 1873 – Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1801)
• 1881 – Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)
• 1914 – Alain-Fournier, French writer (b. 1886)
• 1952 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)
• 1956 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1957 – Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
• 1961 – Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1969 – Adolfo López Mateos, president of Mexico (b. 1909)
• 1973 – Paul Van Zeeland, Belgian economist and politician (b. 1893)
• 1981 – Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)
• 1987 – Dan Rowan, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)
• 1988 – Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (b. 1914)
• 1989 – Irving Berlin, American songwriter (b. 1888)
• 1992 – Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
• 1993 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)
• 1996 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer and director (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)
• 1999 – George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2000 – Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna), American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
• 2000 – Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator, (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Jan de Hartog, Dutch-born writer (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938)
• 2004 – Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Ray Traylor (The Big Boss Man), American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2006 – Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
• 2006 – Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Bodinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)
• 2008 – Thomas Doerflein, German Zookeeper (b. 1963)
• 2010 – Eddie Fisher, American singer (b. 1928)