September 30 - Deaths

Deaths

• 420 – Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
• 653 – Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1101 – Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
• 1246 – Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)
• 1440 – Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician
• 1487 – John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
• 1551 – Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)
• 1560 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
• 1572 – St. Francis Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510)
• 1581 – Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
• 1626 – Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b. 1559)
• 1628 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b. 1554)
• 1770 – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
• 1770 – George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)
• 1772 – James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)
• 1865 – Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800)
• 1888 – Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
• 1888 – Catherine Eddowes, widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842)
• 1891 – Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
• 1897 – St Therese of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)
• 1910 – Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)
• 1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858)
• 1941 – Alice de Janzé, American heiress (b. 1899)
• 1942 – Hans-Joachim Marseille, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)
• 1943 – Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
• 1955 – James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931)
• 1961 – Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (b. 1888)
• 1973 – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame ofOperation Condor (b. 1915)
• 1977 – Mary Ford, American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) (b. 1924)
• 1978 – Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
• 1985 – Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
• 1985 – Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)
• 1988 – Al Holbert, American race car driver and team owner (b. 1946)
• 1989 – Virgil Thomson, American composer (b. 1896)
• 1990 – Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
• 1990 – Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
• 1990 – Rob Moroso, American NASCAR driver (b. 1968)
• 1991 – Toma Zdravković, Serbian folk singer (b. 1938)
• 1994 – Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
• 1995 – Jean-Luc Pépin, Canadian academic and politician (b. 1924)
• 1998 – Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b. 1953)
• 2002 – Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Göran Kropp, Swedish adventurer and mountaineer (b. 1966)
• 2003 – Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935)
• 2003 – Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer (b. 1944)
• 2004 – Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Jacques Levy, Jewish American songwriter, theatre director, and clinical psychologist (b. 1935)
• 2008 – Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, Singaporean politician, former Secretary-General ofWorkers' Party of Singapore (b. 1926)