September 25 - Deaths

Deaths

• 303 – Saint Fermin of Pamplona
• 1066 – Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge:

• Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria
• Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)

• 1086 – William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
• 1333 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
• 1396 – Killed at the Battle of Nicopolis:

• Jean de Vienne, Admiral of France (b. 1341)
• Jean de Carrouges (b. circa 1330)

• 1496 – Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
• 1506 – King Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)
• 1534 – Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)
• 1536 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b. 1511)
• 1602 – Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
• 1617 – Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (b. 1548)
• 1617 – Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1572)
• 1626 – Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and Bishop of the Church of England (b. 1555)
• 1630 – Ambrogio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Italian general (b. 1569)
• 1665 – Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1610)
• 1703 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (b. 1658)
• 1774 – John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
• 1777 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (b. 1728)
• 1791 – William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
• 1792 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
• 1794 – Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
• 1825 – Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
• 1828 – Charlotta Seuerling, Swedish musician and poet (b. c. 1783)
• 1849 – Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer (b. 1804)
• 1867 – Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
• 1900 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)
• 1901 – Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
• 1905 – Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
• 1917 – Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary (b. 1885)
• 1918 – Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
• 1926 – Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
• 1929 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1933 – Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
• 1946 – Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and war criminal (b. 1879)
• 1958 – John B. Watson, American psychologist (b. 1878)
• 1960 – Emily Post, American etiquette expert (b. 1873)
• 1961 – Frank Fay American actor (b. 1897)
• 1968 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (b. 1891)
• 1970 – Erich Maria Remarque, German author (b. 1898)
• 1971 – Hugo Lafayette Black, American jurist (b. 1886)
• 1979 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete and actor (b. 1915)
• 1980 – John Bonham, British drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
• 1980 – Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
• 1980 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
• 1983 – King Léopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
• 1984 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
• 1986 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1986 – Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician (b. 1909)
• 1986 – Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (b. 1909)
• 1986 – Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian communist leader (b. 1917)
• 1987 – Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)
• 1987 – Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor (b. 1905)
• 1988 – Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (b. 1937)
• 1991 – Klaus Barbie, Berman Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
• 1991 – Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Dave Bowen, Welsh football manager (b. 1928)
• 1995 – Bessie Delany, American physician and author (b. 1891)
• 1996 – Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
• 1997 – Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (b. 1916)
• 1999 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)
• 2000 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician (b. 1953)
• 2003 – Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
• 2003 – Franco Modigliani, Italian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2003 – George Plimpton, American writer and actor (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)
• 2005 – Don Adams, American actor and comedian (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Madeline-Ann Aksich, Canadian philanthropist and artist (b. 1956)
• 2005 – George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)
• 2005 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist (b. 1917)
• 2005 – M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)
• 2006 – John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
• 2007 – Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian negotiator (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Pierre Falardeau, Canadian director, writer and activist (b. 1946)
• 2009 – Alicia de Larrocha, Catalan pianist (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Art Gilmore, American actor (b. 1912)