September 7 - Deaths

Deaths

• 355 – Claudius Silvanus, Roman usurper
• 1151 – Geoffrey of Anjou (b. 1113)
• 1312 – King Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285)
• 1496 – King Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)
• 1552 – Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh Guru (b. 1504)
• 1559 – Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)
• 1632 – Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia (b. 1572)
• 1644 – Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman (b. 1579)
• 1654 – Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi (b. 1579)
• 1655 – François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (b. 1601)
• 1657 – Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish count, field marshal and privy councilor (b. 1606)
• 1708 – Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
• 1719 – John Harris, English writer
• 1729 – William Burnet, British-born American statesman (b. 1688)
• 1799 – Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717)
• 1809 – Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (b. 1737)
• 1840 – Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (b. 1765)
• 1871 – Kimenzan Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 13^th Yokozuna (b. c. 1826)
• 1881 – Sidney Lanier, American writer (b. 1842)
• 1891 – Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (b. 1820)
• 1892 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (b. 1807)
• 1910 – William Holman Hunt, British painter (b. 1827)
• 1920 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician, premier of the province of Quebec (b. 1855)
• 1921 – Alfred William Rich, watercolor painter (b. 1856)
• 1939 – Kyōka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873)
• 1943 – J. P. Morgan, Jr., American financier (b. 1867)
• 1949 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
• 1951 – Maria Montez, Dominican actress (b. 1912)
• 1954 – Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
• 1959 – Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b. 1890)
• 1962 – Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1892)
• 1962 – Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian singer (b. 1895)
• 1962 – Karen Blixen, Danish author (b. 1885)
• 1962 – Graham Walker, British motorcycle racer (b. 1897)
• 1965 – Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1971 – Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886)
• 1978 – Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (b. 1946)
• 1982 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)
• 1984 – Joe Cronin, American baseball manager and executive (b. 1906)
• 1990 – A. J. P. Taylor, English historian, (b. 1906)
• 1990 – Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (b. 1900)
• 1991 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist (b. 1907)
• 1994 – James Clavell, Australian-born American author (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Dennis Morgan, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Godfrey Quigley, British actor (b. 1923)
• 1994 – Terence Young, British film director (b. 1915)
• 1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire (b. 1930)
• 1997 – Elisabeth Brooks, Canadian actress (b. 1951)
• 1999 – Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist (b. 1949)
• 2001 – Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b. 1930)
• 2001 – Billie Lou Watt, American actress (b. 1924)
• 2002 – Cyrinda Foxe, American model (b. 1952)
• 2002 – Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (b. 1961)
• 2002 – Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)
• 2002 – Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (b. 1923)
• 2003 – The Great Antonio, Canadian eccentric (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Warren Zevon, American musician (b. 1947)
• 2004 – Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b. 1933)
• 2005 – Hope Garber, Canadian actress (b. c. 1924)
• 2008 – Dino Dvornik, Croatian singer (b. 1964)
• 2008 – Don Haskins, American College Basketball coach (b. 1930)
• 2008 – Nagi Noda, Japanese pop artist and director (b. 1973)
• 2008 – Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian actor (b. 1931)
• 2010 – Amar Garibović, Serbian cross country skier (b. 1991)
• 2010 – Barbara Holland, American writer (b. 1933)
• 2010 – John Kluge, American businessman (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Glenn Shadix, American Actor (b. 1952)