September 5 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1165 – Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
• 1201 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
• 1235 – Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
• 1548 – Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c.1512)
• 1607 – Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
• 1629 – Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c.1585)
• 1734 – Nicolas Bernier, French musician and composer (b. 1664)
• 1786 – Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
• 1803 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
• 1803 – François Devienne, French composer (b. 1759)
• 1808 – John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
• 1836 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
• 1838 – Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
• 1857 – Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
• 1876 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
• 1877 – Crazy Horse, Lakota (Sioux) chief (b. 1849)
• 1898 – Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
• 1901 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
• 1902 – Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (b. 1821)
• 1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
• 1912 – Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
• 1914 – Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
• 1917 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
• 1920 – Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893)
• 1922 – Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
• 1926 – Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (b. 1890)
• 1930 – Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
• 1931 – John Thomson, Scottish football player (b. 1909)
• 1932 – Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
• 1936 – Federico Borrell García, Spanish anarchist soldier during the Spanish Civil War (b. 1912)
• 1936 – Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
• 1942 – François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
• 1945 – Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1948 – Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
• 1953 – Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician (b. 1895)
• 1954 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
• 1965 – Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
• 1966 – Dezső Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
• 1970 – Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (b. 1942)
• 1973 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
• 1975 – Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920)
• 1977 – Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and Walloon militant (b. 1897)
• 1979 – Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884)
• 1982 – Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
• 1983 – Antonio Mairena, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1909)
• 1988 – Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
• 1990 – Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
• 1992 – Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b.1914)
• 1994 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1921)
• 1997 – Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (b. 1946)
• 1998 – Ferdinand Biondi, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
• 1998 – Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921)
• 1999 – Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
• 1999 – Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
• 2001 – Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (b. 1914)
• 2002 – David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer (b. 1935)
• 2003 – Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
• 2007 – Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
• 2007 – Thomas Hansen, Norwegian musician (b. 1976)
• 2007 – D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek film director and a writer (b. 1939)
• 2008 – Evan Tanner American mixed martial artist (b. 1971)
• 2010 – Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo), Belgian artist (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Shoya Tomizawa Japanese MotoGP Racer (b. 1990)