September 24 - Deaths

Deaths

• 366 – Pope Liberius
• 768 – Pippin the Short, King of the Franks (b. 714)
• 1054 – Hermannus Contractus, scholar (b. 1013)
• 1120 – Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)
• 1143 – Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1072)
• 1143 – Pope Innocent II
• 1180 – Manuel I Comnenus, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
• 1213 – Gertrude of Merania, wife of Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)
• 1218 – Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)
• 1275 – Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (b. 1208)
• 1435 – Isabeau of Bavaria, wife of Charles VI of France (b. c.1370)
• 1494 – Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
• 1541 – Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist (b. 1493)
• 1545 – Albert of Mainz, archbishop and elector of Mainz (b. 1490)
• 1605 – Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (b. c.1547)
• 1621 – Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
• 1646 – Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (b. c.1565)
• 1707 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)
• 1732 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
• 1742 – Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (b. 1684)
• 1802 – Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (b. 1749)
• 1834 – Pedro I of Brazil, Emperor of Brazil (b. 1798)
• 1892 – Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American composer (b. 1829)
• 1896 – Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1818)
• 1904 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
• 1929 – Prince Mahidol of the Kingdom of Thailand (b. 1892)
• 1930 – William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
• 1933 – Mike Donlin, American baseball player (b. 1878)
• 1933 – Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (b. 1869)
• 1938 – Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1939 – Carl Laemmle, German-born American film producer (b. 1867)
• 1945 – Hans Geiger, German physicist (b. 1882)
• 1948 – Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)
• 1950 – Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1863)
• 1954 – Edward Pilgrim, British suicide hastened by bureaucracy (b. 1904)
• 1962 – Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (b. 1887)
• 1973 – Josué de Castro, Brazilian writer and activist against hunger (b. 1908)
• 1975 – Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)
• 1978 – Hasso von Manteuffel, German army general and politician (b. 1897)
• 1981 – Patsy Kelly, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1982 – Sarah Churchill, British actress and the daughter of Winston Churchill (b. 1914)
• 1984 – Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1991 – Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), American children's writer (b. 1904)
• 1991 – Peter Bellamy, British folk singer (b. 1944)
• 1993 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
• 1993 – Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
• 1994 – Barry Bishop, American mountaineer (b. 1932)
• 1996 – Zeki Müren, Turkish musician (b. 1931)
• 1998 – Jeff Moss, American puppeteer (b. 1942)
• 2002 – Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)
• 2002 – Mike Webster, American football player (b. 1952)
• 2003 – Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
• 2005 – Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Michael Ferguson, Irish politician (b. 1953)
• 2006 – Phil Latulippe, Canadian soldier and athlete (b. 1909)
• 2008 – Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian novelist (b. 1975)
• 2009 – Susan Atkins, American murderer (b. 1948)
• 2010 – Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician (b. 1937)