September 4 - Deaths

Deaths

• 799 – Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (b. 745)
• 1037 – King Bermudo III of Leon (b. 1010)
• 1063 – Toghrül, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad
• 1199 – Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily, wife of William II of Sicily (b. 1165)
• 1537 – Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (b. c.1475)
• 1588 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1532)
• 1767 – Charles Townshend, English politician (b. 1725)
• 1780 – John Fielding, English magistrate and social reformer (b. 1721)
• 1784 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)
• 1794 – John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)
• 1804 – Richard Somers, American naval officer
• 1821 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and founding father (b. 1785)
• 1852 – William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
• 1864 – John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (b. 1825)
• 1907 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
• 1909 – Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (b. 1865)
• 1940 – George William de Carteret, author from Jersey island (b. 1869)
• 1944 – General Erich Fellgiebel, German army officer who participated in the July 20thplot to assassinate Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. (b. 1886)
• 1963 – Robert Schuman, French politician (b. 1886)
• 1965 – Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875)
• 1974 – Marcel Achard, French playwright (b. 1899)
• 1974 – Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army general (b. 1914)
• 1974 – Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (b. 1884)
• 1977 – E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (b. 1911)
• 1977 – Jean Rostand, French biologist (b. 1894)
• 1977 – Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek musician (b. 1899)
• 1979 – Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (b. 1904)
• 1986 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Otto Glória, Brazilian football coach (b. 1917)
• 1987 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer (b. 1908)
• 1989 – Georges Simenon, French author (b. 1903)
• 1989 – Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Irene Dunne American actress (b. 1898)
• 1991 – Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (b. 1926)
• 1991 – Dottie West, American singer (b. 1932)
• 1991 – Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1913)
• 1993 – Hervé Villechaize, French actor (b. 1943)
• 1995 – Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax (b. 1950)
• 1995 – William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
• 1997 – Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (b. 1931)
• 1998 – Elizabeth Kata, Australian writer, A Patch of Blue (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Georg Gawliczek, German football manager (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (b. 1962)
• 2002 – Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian pianist (b. 1904)
• 2003 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1921)
• 2003 – Lola Bobesco, Romanian-born violinist (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (b. 1971)
• 2004 – Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (b. 1929)
• 2004 – James O. Page, American paramedic (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)
• 2006 – Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality (b. 1962)
• 2006 – Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (b. 1918)