Died on Sunday, 14th September – Famous Deaths

14/09/2025

Jim Edgar, American politician, 38th Governor of Illinois

James Robert Edgar was an American politician who served as the 38th governor of Illinois from 1991 to 1999. A moderate Republican, he previously served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1977 to 1979 and as the 35th Secretary of State of Illinois from 1981 to 1991.

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Ricky Hatton, British professional boxer (born 1978)

Richard John Hatton, also known by nicknames such as "The Hitman", "The Pride of Hyde" and the "People's Champion", was a British professional boxer who competed between 1997 and 2012, and later worked as a boxing promoter and trainer. During his boxing career he held multiple world championships in the light-welterweight division, and one at welterweight. In 2005 he was named Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine, the Boxing Writers Association of America, ESPN, and BoxingScene.

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14/09/2024

Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti royal and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Kuwait (born 1942)

Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah was a Kuwaiti royal and politician who served as the prime minister of Kuwait from 2011 to 2019. He previously served as minister of defense as well as deputy prime minister. In April 2021 a Kuwaiti court ordered his detention on corruption charges.

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Otis Davis, American sprinter (born 1932)

Otis Crandall Davis was an American athlete, winner of two gold medals for record-breaking performances in the 400 m and 4 × 400 m relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He set a new world record of 44.9 seconds in the 400 m and became the first person to break the 45-second barrier.

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14/09/2021

Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian and actor (born 1959)

Norman Gene Macdonald was a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, and writer whose style was characterized by deadpan delivery, eccentric understatement, and the use of folksy, old-fashioned turns of phrase. He appeared in numerous films and was a frequent guest on late-night talk shows, where he developed a reputation for his chaotic yet understated comedic style. His appearances on Conan O'Brien's and David Letterman's programs were especially well-received, with the latter describing him as "the best" stand-up comedian.

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14/09/2018

Ethel Johnson, American professional wrestler (born 1935)

Ethel Blanche Hairston was an American professional wrestler whose ring name was Ethel Johnson. She debuted at age 16, becoming the first African-American women's champion. She was a fan favorite, billed as "the biggest attraction to hit girl wrestling since girl wrestling began."

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Zienia Merton, British actress (born 1945)

Zienia Merton was a British actress born in Burma. She was known for playing Sandra Benes in Space: 1999.

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14/09/2015

Davey Browne, Australian boxer (born 1986)

Davey Browne Jr was an Australian professional boxer.

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Fred DeLuca, American businessman, co-founded Subway (born 1947)

Frederick Adrian DeLuca was an American businessman, who was the co-founder and president of the Subway franchise of fast food restaurants with Peter Buck. During his tenure, Subway grew into the largest franchise in the world.

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Martin Kearns, English drummer (born 1977)

Martin Kearns was an English drummer, specializing in death metal, known for his association with Bolt Thrower since 1994. He joined the band at age 17 after playing in several local bands in Coventry, playing anything from metal to reggae, having been playing pub gigs since the age of 14.

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Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Romanian journalist and politician (born 1949)

Corneliu Vadim Tudor, also colloquially known as "Tribunul", was a Romanian politician, poet, writer, and journalist who was the leader of the Greater Romania Party and a Member of the European Parliament. He was a Romanian senator from 1992 to 2008. He was born and died in Bucharest, Romania.

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14/09/2014

Tony Auth, American illustrator (born 1942)

William Anthony Auth Jr. was an American editorial cartoonist and children's book illustrator. Auth is best known for his syndicated work originally drawn for The Philadelphia Inquirer, for whom he worked from 1971 to 2012. Auth's art won the cartoonist the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 and the Herblock Prize in 2005.

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Peter Gutteridge, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1961)

Peter Gutteridge was a New Zealand musician, credited with pioneering the Dunedin sound with The Clean and The Chills.

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E. Jennifer Monaghan, English-American historian, author, and academic (born 1933)

E. Jennifer Monaghan, also known as Jennifer Monaghan, was an English educator and historian. She was regarded as the leading expert on literacy education in early America. She published three books and dozens of book chapters and journal articles.

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14/09/2013

Maksym Bilyi, Ukrainian footballer (born 1989)

Maksym Ivanovych Bilyi was a Ukrainian football midfielder.

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Osama El-Baz, Egyptian soldier and diplomat (born 1931)

Osama El-Baz was an Egyptian diplomat and a senior advisor to former President Hosni Mubarak.

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Faith Leech, Australian swimmer (born 1941)

Faith Yvonne Leech was an Australian freestyle swimmer who won a gold medal in the 4×100–metre freestyle relay and bronze in the 100-metre freestyle at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

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14/09/2012

Jacques Antoine, French game show producer, created The Crystal Maze and Fort Boyard (born 1924)

Jacques Antoine was a French creator and producer of game shows. His most famous creations include Treasure Hunt, Interceptor, Fort Boyard, and The Crystal Maze.

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Eduardo Castro Luque, Mexican businessman and politician (born 1963)

Eduardo Enrique Castro Luque was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). At the time of his killing, he was a deputy-elect from Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, to the Congress of Sonora.

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Winston Rekert, Canadian actor and director (born 1949)

Winston Houghton Rekert was a Canadian actor. He was best known for starring in the television series Adderly and Neon Rider.

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Kan Yuet-keung, Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician (born 1913)

Sir Yuet-keung Kan was a Hong Kong banker, politician and lawyer who was successively appointed Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council in the 1960s and 1970s. He also served as chairman of the Bank of East Asia for 20 years.

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14/09/2011

Malcolm Wallop, American politician (born 1933)

Malcolm Wallop was an American rancher and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Wyoming for three terms from 1977 to 1995, after three terms in the Wyoming Legislature.

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14/09/2009

Keith Floyd, English chef and author (born 1943)

Keith Floyd was an English celebrity cook, restaurateur, television personality and "gastronaut" who hosted cooking shows for the BBC and published many books combining cookery and travel. On television, his eccentric style of presentation – usually drinking wine as he cooked and talking to his crew – endeared him to millions of viewers worldwide.

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Henry Gibson, American actor (born 1935)

James Bateman, known professionally as Henry Gibson, was an American actor, comedian and poet. He played roles in the television sketch-comedy series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1971, was the voice of the protagonist Wilbur in the animated feature Charlotte's Web (1973), portrayed country star Haven Hamilton in Robert Altman's film Nashville (1975), the Illinois Nazi leader in The Blues Brothers (1980), and appeared in The 'Burbs (1989). His later film roles included starring in The Luck of the Irish (2001) and smaller parts as Thurston Howell in Magnolia (1999) and as Father O'Neil in Wedding Crashers (2005). His final major acting role was as Judge Clark Brown on the television show Boston Legal, from 2004 to 2008.

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Jody Powell, American diplomat, White House Press Secretary (born 1943)

Joseph Lester "Jody" Powell, Jr. was an American political advisor who served as a White House press secretary during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. Powell later co-founded a public relations firm.

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Patrick Swayze, American actor, singer, and dancer (born 1952)

Patrick Wayne Swayze was an American actor, singer-songwriter and dancer. Known for his romantic, tough, and comedic roles in blockbusters and cult films, Swayze was nominated for three Golden Globes and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1997.

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14/09/2008

Hyman Golden, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (born 1923)

Hyman Golden was one of the co-founders of the Snapple Beverage Corporation and was the company's chairman when the firm's juice drinks and teas attained national attention in the late 1980s.

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14/09/2007

Jacques Martin, French television host and producer (born 1933)

Jacques Martin was a French television host and producer.

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Robert Savoie, Canadian opera singer (born 1927)

Robert Savoie, was a French-Canadian operatic baritone.

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14/09/2006

Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-American bodybuilder and actor (born 1926)

Miklós Károly "Mickey" Hargitay was a Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder.

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Esme Melville, Australian actress (born 1918)

Esme Melville was an Australian theatre, television and film actress. At the Tropfest awards for 2003 she won Best Actor – Female for her role of Granma in the short film, Forbidden. At the 2007 Australian Film Institute Awards she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Miss Collard in Romulus, My Father.

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14/09/2005

William Berenberg, American physician and academic (born 1915)

William Berenberg, M.D. was an American physician, Harvard professor, and pioneer in the treatment and rehabilitation of cerebral palsy.

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Vladimir Volkoff, French soldier and author (born 1932)

Vladimir Volkoff was a Russian writer who lived in France and whose books were written in French. He produced both literary works for adults and spy novels for young readers under the pseudonym Lieutenant X. His works are characterised by themes of the Cold War, intelligence and manipulation, but also by metaphysical and spiritual elements.

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Robert Wise, American director and producer (born 1914)

Robert Earl Wise was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and directed and produced The Sand Pebbles (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture.

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14/09/2003

Jerry Fleck, American actor and director (born 1947)

Gerald R. Fleck was an American assistant director best known for his work on the Star Trek franchise across eleven years.

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Garrett Hardin, American ecologist and author (born 1915)

Garrett James Hardin was an American ecologist and microbiologist. He focused his career on the issue of human overpopulation, and is best known for his exposition of the tragedy of the commons in a 1968 paper of the same title in Science, which called attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment". He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Human Ecology: "We can never do merely one thing. Any intrusion into nature has numerous effects, many of which are unpredictable."

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John Serry Sr., American accordion player and composer (born 1915)

John Serry was an American concert accordionist, arranger, composer, organist, and educator. He performed on the CBS Radio and Television networks and contributed to Voice of America's cultural diplomacy initiatives during the Golden Age of Radio. He also concertized on the accordion as a member of several orchestras and jazz ensembles for nearly forty years between the 1930s and 1960s.

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14/09/2002

LaWanda Page, American actress (born 1920)

LaWanda Page was an American actress, comedian and dancer whose career spanned six decades. Crowned "The Queen of Comedy" or "The Black Queen of Comedy", Page melded blue humor, signifyin' and observational comedy with jokes about sexuality, race relations, African-American culture and religion. She released five solo albums, including the 1977 gold-selling Watch It, Sucker!, and collaborated on two albums with the comedy group Skillet, Leroy & Co. As an actress, Page is best known for portraying the Bible-toting and sharp-tongued Esther Anderson on the popular television sitcom Sanford and Son, which aired from 1972 until 1977. Page reprised the role in the short-lived television shows Sanford Arms (1976–1977) and Sanford (1980–1981). She also costarred in the 1979 short-lived series Detective School. Throughout her career, Page advocated for fair pay and equal opportunities for black performers.

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14/09/2001

Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer and guitarist (born 1931)

Stelios Kazantzidis was one of the most prominent Greek singers. His roots were from Pontus and Asia Minor. A top artist of Greek music, or Laïkó, he collaborated with many of Greece's foremost composers.

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14/09/2000

Beah Richards, American actress (born 1920)

Beulah Elizabeth Richardson, known professionally as Beah Richards and Bea Richards, was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She was also a poet, playwright, author and activist.

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Jerzy Giedroyc, Belarusian-Polish soldier and activist (born 1906)

Jerzy Władysław Giedroyć was a Polish writer, lawyer, publicist and political activist. For many years, he worked as editor of the highly influential Paris-based periodical, Kultura.

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14/09/1999

Charles Crichton, English director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1910)

Charles Ainslie Crichton was an English film director and editor.

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Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek politician and diplomat (born 1947)

Giannos Kranidiotis was a Greek diplomat and politician.

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14/09/1998

Yang Shangkun, Chinese politician, and 4th president of China (born 1907)

Yang Shangkun was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, president of China from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the party after the death of Mao Zedong.

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14/09/1996

Juliet Prowse, Indian-South African actress, singer, and dancer (born 1937)

Juliet Anne Prowse was a British-American dancer and actress whose four-decade career included stage, television, and film. She was born in Bombay then part of British India, and raised in South Africa. Known for her attractive legs, she was described after her death as having "arguably the best legs since Betty Grable".

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14/09/1995

Maurice K. Goddard, American colonel and politician (born 1912)

Maurice K. Goddard was the driving force behind the creation of 45 Pennsylvania state parks during his 24 years as a cabinet officer for six governors of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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14/09/1994

Marika Krevata, Greek actress (born 1910)

Marika Krevata was a Greek actress of theatre and film.

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14/09/1993

Clayton Young, American long-distance runner

Clayton Young is an American long-distance runner, who competes for Brooks Running. He ran collegiately for Brigham Young University, and won the 10,000 metres at the 2019 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. He set a personal best of 2:08:00 at the 2023 Chicago Marathon, finishing seventh. Young finished second at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, qualifying him for the 2024 Paris Olympics. He improved on his personal best at the 2025 Boston Marathon, running 2:07:04.

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14/09/1992

August Komendant, Estonian-American engineer and academic (born 1906)

August Eduard Komendant was an Estonian and American structural engineer and a pioneer in the field of prestressed concrete, which can be used to build stronger and more graceful structures than normal concrete. He was born in Estonia and educated in engineering in Germany. After World War II he immigrated to the United States, where he wrote several books on structural engineering and served as a professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Paul Martin Sr., Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1903)

Joseph James Guillaume Paul Martin, often referred to as Paul Martin Sr., was a Canadian lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was the father of Paul Martin, who served as 21st prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006.

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14/09/1991

Julie Bovasso, American actress and playwright (born 1930)

Julia Anne Bovasso was an American actress of stage, screen, and television.

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Russell Lynes, American historian, photographer, and author (born 1910)

Russell Lynes was an American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine.

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14/09/1989

Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1916)

Dámaso Pérez Prado was a Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger who popularized the mambo in the 1950s. His big band adaptation of the danzón-mambo proved to be a worldwide success with hits such as "Mambo No. 5", earning him the nickname "The King of the Mambo". In 1955, Pérez Prado and his orchestra topped the charts in the US and UK with a mambo cover of Louiguy's "Cherry Pink ". He frequently made brief appearances in films, primarily of the rumberas genre, and his music was featured in films such as La Dolce Vita.

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14/09/1986

Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster, founded the Liberty Broadcasting System (born 1921)

Gordon Barton McLendon was an American radio broadcaster. Nicknamed "the Maverick of Radio", McLendon is widely credited for perfecting, during the 1950s and 1960s, the commercially successful Top 40 radio format created by Todd Storz. He also developed offshore pirate radio broadcasting to both Scandinavia and the British Isles. In addition, he was active in circles of conservative business-political power in the 1960s until the time of his death.

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14/09/1984

Janet Gaynor, American actress (born 1906)

Janet Gaynor was an American actress. She began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films. After signing with Fox Film in 1926, she rose to fame and became one of the biggest box office draws of the era. In 1929, she became the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in 7th Heaven, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Street Angel (1928), the only occasion an actress won one Oscar for multiple film roles. Her success continued into the sound film era; for A Star Is Born (1937), she received a second Best Actress Academy Award nomination.

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14/09/1982

Christian Ferras, French violinist (born 1933)

Christian Ferras was a French violinist.

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John Gardner, American novelist, essayist, and critic (born 1933)

John Champlin Gardner Jr. was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and university professor, who wrote the popular 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.

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Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese commander and politician (born 1947)

Bachir Pierre Gemayel was a Lebanese militia commander who led the Lebanese Forces, the military wing of the Kataeb Party, in the Lebanese Civil War and was elected President of Lebanon in 1982.

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Grace Kelly, American-Monegasque actress; Princess of Monaco (born 1929)

Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982. Prior to her marriage, she achieved stardom in several significant Hollywood films in the early to mid-1950s. She received an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards, and was ranked 13th on the American Film Institute's 25 Greatest Female Stars list.

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14/09/1981

Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1899)

Walter E. "Furry" Lewis was an American country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. He was one of the earliest of the blues musicians active in the 1920s to be brought out of retirement and given new opportunities to record during the folk blues revival of the 1960s.

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14/09/1979

Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician, 3rd President of Afghanistan (born 1917)

Nur Muhammad Taraki was an Afghan communist politician, revolutionary, journalist and writer. He was a founding member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) who served as its General Secretary from 1965 to 1979 and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council from 1978 to 1979.

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14/09/1975

Walter Herbert, German-American conductor (born 1902)

Walter Herbert was an American conductor and impresario of German birth, and also a world champion at contract bridge.

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14/09/1966

Gertrude Berg, American actress and screenwriter (born 1899)

Gertrude Berg was an American actress, screenwriter, and producer. A pioneer of classic radio, she was one of the first women to create, write, produce, and star in a long-running hit when she premiered her serial comedy-drama The Rise of the Goldbergs (1929), later known as The Goldbergs. Her career achievements included winning a Tony Award and an Emmy Award, both for Best Lead Actress.

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Hiram Wesley Evans, American Ku Klux Klan leader (born 1881)

Hiram Wesley Evans was an American dentist and political activist who served as the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, an American white supremacist group, from 1923 to his resignation in 1939.

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Cemal Gürsel, Turkish general and politician, 4th President of Turkey (born 1895)

Cemal Gürsel was a Turkish military officer and politician who was the president of Turkey, serving from 1960 to 1966 after taking power in a coup d'état.

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14/09/1965

J. W. Hearne, English cricketer (born 1891)

John William Hearne was a Middlesex leg-spinning all-rounder cricketer who played from 1909 to 1936, and represented England in 24 Test matches between 1911 and 1926.

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14/09/1962

Frederick Schule, American hurdler, football player, and coach (born 1879)

Frederick William Schule was an American track and field athlete, football player, athletic coach, teacher, bacteriologist, and engineer. He competed for the track and field teams at the University of Wisconsin from 1900 to 1901 and at the University of Michigan in 1904. He was also a member of the undefeated 1903 Michigan Wolverines football team that outscored its opponents 565 to 6.

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14/09/1961

Ernst Gustav Kühnert, Estonian-German architect and historian (born 1885)

Ernst Gustav Kühnert was a Baltic German architect and art historian in Estonia.

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14/09/1960

M. Karagatsis, Greek author, playwright, and critic (born 1908)

M. Karagatsis was the pen name of the important modern Greek novelist, journalist, critic and playwright Dimitrios Rodopoulos. The pen name M. Karagatsis is the name the novelist is known with. The letter "M." comes from Mitya, which is the Russian diminutive of Dimitris. The word "Karagatsis" comes from the tree karagatsi under the shadow of which he used to write as a young writer.

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14/09/1959

Wayne Morris, American actor, singer, and producer (born 1914)

Wayne Morris was an American film and television actor, as well as a decorated World War II fighter ace. He appeared in many films, including Paths of Glory (1957), The Bushwackers (1952), and the title role of Kid Galahad (1937).

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14/09/1952

John McPhee, Australian businessman and politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania (born 1874)

Sir John Cameron McPhee, KCMG was an Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. He was Premier of Tasmania from 15 June 1928 to 15 March 1934.

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14/09/1951

Fritz Busch, German conductor and director (born 1890)

Fritz Busch was a German conductor.

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14/09/1943

Jacob Gens, head of the Vilnius Ghetto government (born 1903)

Jacob Gens was the head of the Judenrat and Jewish Ghetto Police of the Vilna Ghetto. Originally from a merchant family, he joined the Lithuanian Army shortly after the independence of Lithuania, rising to the rank of captain while also securing a college degree in law and economics. He married a non-Jew and worked several jobs as a teacher, accountant, and administrator.

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14/09/1942

E. S. Gosney, American eugenicist and philanthropist, founded Human Betterment Foundation (born 1855)

Ezra Seymour Gosney was an American businessman and philanthropist who supported the practice of eugenics. In 1928 he founded the Human Betterment Foundation (HBF) in Pasadena, California, with the stated aim "to foster and aid constructive and educational forces for the protection and betterment of the human family in body, mind, character, and citizenship," primarily through the advocacy of compulsory sterilization of people who are mentally ill or intellectually disabled. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, President of University of Southern California, was a co-founder.

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14/09/1937

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (born 1850)

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was a Czechoslovak statesman, political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935. He is regarded as the founding father of Czechoslovakia.

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14/09/1936

Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (born 1878)

Ossip Salomonovich Gabrilowitsch was a Russian-American pianist, conductor and composer.

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Lina Ódena, Spanish communist and miliciana (born 1911)

Paulina Ódena García, known as Lina Ódena, was a Spanish anti-fascist, communist, and miliciana. She participated in the Revolution of 1934 and was a combatant for the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939).

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Irving Thalberg, American screenwriter and producer (born 1899)

Irving Grant Thalberg was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and ability to select scripts, choose actors, gather production staff, and make profitable films, including Grand Hotel, China Seas, A Night at the Opera, Mutiny on the Bounty, Camille, and The Good Earth. His films carved out an international market, "projecting a seductive image of American life brimming with vitality and rooted in democracy and personal freedom", states biographer Roland Flamini.

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14/09/1931

Tom Roberts, English-Australian painter and educator (born 1856)

Thomas William Roberts was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism.

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14/09/1927

Isadora Duncan, American-Russian dancer and choreographer (born 1877)

Angela Isadora Duncan was an American-born dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance and performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the United States. Born and raised in California, she lived and danced in Western Europe, the U.S., and Soviet Russia from the age of 22. She died when her scarf became entangled in the wheel and axle of the car in which she was travelling in Nice, France.

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14/09/1916

José Echegaray, Spanish engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1832)

José Echegaray y Eizaguirre was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. He was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama".

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14/09/1910

Lombe Atthill, Northern Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist (born 1827)

Lombe Athill was a Northern Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist. Hailing from Ardess, Magheraculmoney in County Fermanagh, he studied at the Trinity College, Dublin, and obtained his licence to practice from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1847. That year, he became the surgeon to a charitable dispensary in Fleet Street, Dublin, and then dispensary doctor of the district of Geashill in King's County from 1848 to 1850. He began working as an assistant physician at the Rotunda Hospital in 1851. In November 1875, he was elected master of the hospital, and was one of the leading experts on gynaecology in the country at the time. He was elected president of the Irish College of Physicians in 1888.

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14/09/1905

Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French explorer (born 1852)

Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza was an Italian-French explorer. With his family's financial help, he explored the Ogooué region of Central Africa, and later with the backing of the Société de Géographie de Paris, he reached far into the interior along the right bank of the Congo River. He has often been depicted as a man of friendly manner, great charm and peaceful approach towards the Africans he met and worked with on his journeys. Under French colonial rule, the capital of the Republic of the Congo was named Brazzaville after him and the name was retained by the post-colonial rulers.

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14/09/1901

William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (born 1843)

William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades. McKinley successfully led the U.S. in the Spanish–American War and oversaw a period of American expansionism, with the annexations of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and American Samoa.

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14/09/1898

William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (born 1857)

William Seward Burroughs I was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York, most prominently known as the inventor of a mechanical calculator.

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14/09/1891

Johannes Bosboom, Dutch painter (born 1817)

Johannes Bosboom was a Dutch painter and watercolorist of the Hague School, known especially for his paintings of church interiors.

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14/09/1879

Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist and author (born 1808)

Carl Bernhard von Cotta, known as Bernhard von Cotta, was a German geologist.

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14/09/1868

Swami Virajanand Dandeesha, also known as the Blind Sage of Mathura, celebrated teacher of Arya Samaj founder, Dayanand Saraswati, a scholar and teacher of Sanskrit grammar and Vedic literature (born 1778)

Swami Virajanand Dandeesha, also known as the Blind Sage of Mathura, was the celebrated teacher of Arya Samaj founder, Dayanand Saraswati. He was a scholar and teacher of Sanskrit grammar and Vedic literature.

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14/09/1862

Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (born 1793)

Charles Pearson was a British lawyer and politician. He was solicitor to the City of London, a reforming campaigner, and – briefly – Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Lambeth. He campaigned against corruption in jury selection, for penal reform, for the abolition of capital punishment, and for universal suffrage.

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Charles Lennox Richardson, English-Chinese merchant (born 1834)

Charles Lennox Richardson was a British merchant based in Shanghai, Qing Empire who was killed in Japan during the Namamugi Incident. His middle name is spelled Lenox in the census and family documents.

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14/09/1852

Augustus Pugin, English architect and critic, designed Scarisbrick Hall (born 1812)

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and Swiss origins. He is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival style of architecture. Among his best-known work is the interior and clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Pugin designed many churches in England, and some in Ireland and Australia. He was the son of Auguste Pugin, and the father of Edward Welby Pugin, Cuthbert Welby Pugin, and Peter Paul Pugin, who continued his architectural and interior design firm as Pugin & Pugin.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Irish-English field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1769)

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington was a British Army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the early 19th century, twice serving as Prime Minister. He was one of the British commanders who ended the Anglo-Mysore wars by defeating Tipu Sultan in 1799, and among those who ended the Napoleonic Wars in a Coalition victory when the Seventh Coalition defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

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14/09/1851

James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian (born 1789)

James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune. He lived much of his boyhood and his last 15 years in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William Cooper on property that he owned. Cooper became a member of the Episcopal Church shortly before his death, and contributed generously to it. He attended Yale University for three years, where he was a member of the Linonian Society.

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14/09/1836

Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (born 1756)

Aaron Burr Jr. was an American politician, businessman, and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, during Thomas Jefferson's first presidential term. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he is primarily remembered for the killing of Alexander Hamilton in a duel, as well as his alleged conspiracy to take parts of the United States or the Spanish Empire to form an independent country.

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14/09/1821

Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist and zoologist (born 1797)

Heinrich Kuhl was a German naturalist and zoologist.

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14/09/1807

George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1724)

Field Marshal George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, PC, styled as the Viscount Townshend from 1764 to 1787, was a British Army officer and politician. After serving at the Battle of Dettingen during the War of the Austrian Succession and the Battle of Culloden during the Jacobite Rising, Townshend took command of the British forces for the closing stages of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the Seven Years' War. He went on to be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland or Viceroy where he introduced measures aimed at increasing the size of Irish regiments, reducing corruption in Ireland and improving the Irish economy. In cooperation with Prime Minister North in London, he solidified governmental control over Ireland. He also served as Master-General of the Ordnance, first in the North Ministry and then in the Fox–North Coalition.

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14/09/1759

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French general (born 1712)

Lieutenant-General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Montcalm de Saint-Veran was a French Royal Army officer best known for his unsuccessful defence of New France during the French and Indian War.

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14/09/1749

Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (born 1675)

Field Marshal Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, was a British army officer and Whig politician. After serving as a junior officer under William III during the Williamite War in Ireland and during the Nine Years' War, he fought under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough during the War of the Spanish Succession. During the War of the Quadruple Alliance Temple led a force of 4,000 troops on a raid on the Spanish coastline which captured Vigo and Pontevedra for ten days. In Parliament he generally supported the Whigs but fell out with Sir Robert Walpole in 1733. He was known for his ownership of and modifications to the estate at Stowe House and for serving as a political mentor to the young William Pitt.

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14/09/1743

Nicolas Lancret, French painter (born 1690)

Nicolas Lancret was a French painter. Born in Paris, he was a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society during the regency of the Duke of Orleans and, later, early reign of King Louis XV.

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14/09/1715

Dom Pérignon, French monk and priest (born 1638)

Dom Pierre Pérignon, was a French Benedictine monk who made important contributions to the production and quality of Champagne wine in an era when the region's wines were predominantly still red. Popular tales frequently, but erroneously, credit him with the invention of sparkling Champagne, which did not become the dominant style of Champagne until the mid-19th century.

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14/09/1712

Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, and engineer (born 1625)

Giovanni Domenico Cassini was an Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo, near Imperia, at that time in the County of Nice, part of the Savoyard state. He discovered four satellites of Saturn and noted the division of its rings, later named the Cassini Division. Cassini was also the first of his family to begin work on the project of creating a topographic map of France. In addition, he also created the first scientific map of the Moon.

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14/09/1646

Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire (born 1591)

Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, KB, PC was an English Parliamentarian and soldier during the first half of the 17th century. With the start of the Civil War in 1642, he became the first Captain-General and Chief Commander of the Parliamentarian army, also known as the Roundheads. However, he was unable and unwilling to score a decisive blow against the Royalist army of King Charles I. He was eventually overshadowed by the ascendancy of Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax, and resigned his commission in 1646.

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14/09/1638

John Harvard, English-American minister and philanthropist (born 1607)

John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English Puritan minister in colonial New England whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that the colony consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridge shalbee called Harvard Colledge".

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14/09/1613

Thomas Overbury, English poet

Sir Thomas Overbury was an English poet and essayist, also known for being the victim of a murder which led to a scandalous trial. His poem A Wife, which depicted the virtues that a young man should demand of a woman, played a significant role in the events that precipitated his murder.

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14/09/1605

Jan Tarnowski, Polish archbishop (born 1550)

Jan Tarnowski was Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland. His coat of arms was Rola.

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14/09/1538

Henry III of Nassau-Breda (born 1483)

Count Henry III of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz, Lord of Breda, Lord of the Lek, of Dietz, etc. was a count of the House of Nassau.

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14/09/1523

Pope Adrian VI (born 1459)

Pope Adrian VI, born Adriaan Florensz Boeyens, was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 9 January 1522 until his death on 14 September 1523. The only Dutchman to become pope, he was the last non-Italian pope until the Polish John Paul II 455 years later.

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14/09/1487

Mara Branković, Serbian princess (born 1416)

Mara Branković, or Mara Despina Hatun, in Europe also known as Amerissa, Sultana Maria or Sultanina, was a Serbian princess, who married Sultan Murad II of the Ottoman Empire.

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14/09/1435

John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, English politician, Lord High Admiral (born 1389)

John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford was a medieval English prince, general, and statesman who commanded England's armies in France during a critical phase of the Hundred Years' War. Bedford was the third son of King Henry IV of England, brother to Henry V, and acted as regent of France for his nephew Henry VI. Despite his military and administrative talent, the situation in France had severely deteriorated by the time of his death.

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14/09/1412

Ingegerd Knutsdotter, Swedish abbess (born 1356)

Ingegerd Knutsdotter was a Swedish nun and noble, the first official abbess of the Bridgettine Abbey of Vadstena in 1385/88–1403.

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14/09/1404

Albert IV, duke of Austria (born 1377)

Albert IV of Austria was a Duke of Austria.

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14/09/1401

Dobrogost of Nowy Dwór, Polish bishop (born 1355)

Dobrogost z Nowego Dwóru was a medieval bishop in Poland. He was Bishop of Poznań from 1384 until 1395 and then Archbishop of Gniezno from 1395 till 1401.

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14/09/1321

Dante Alighieri, Italian writer (born 1265)

Dante Alighieri, widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.

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14/09/1214

Albert Avogadro, Italian lawyer, patriarch, and saint (born 1149)

Albert of Jerusalem, OSC, also Albertus Hierosolymitanus, Albertus Vercelensis, Saint Albert, Albert of Vercelli or Alberto Avogadro, was a canon lawyer and saint. He was Bishop of Bobbio and Bishop of Vercelli, and served as mediator and diplomat under Pope Clement III. Innocent III appointed him Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1204 or 1205. In Jerusalem, he contributed the Carmelite Rule of St. Albert to the newly-founded Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. Albert is honoured as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and commemorated in the liturgical calendar of the Carmelites on 17 September.

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14/09/1164

Emperor Sutoku of Japan (born 1119)

Emperor Sutoku was the 75th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Along with Sugawara no Michizane and Taira no Masakado, he is known as one of the "Three Great Onryō of Japan".

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14/09/1146

Imad ad-Din Zengi, Syrian ruler (born 1087)

Al-Malik al-Mansur Abu al-Mudhaffar Imad al-Din Zengi bin Aq Sunqur al-Hajib bin Abdullah, also romanized as Zangi, Zengui, Zenki, and Zanki, was a Turkoman atabeg of the Seljuk Empire, who ruled Mosul, Aleppo, Hama, and, later, Edessa. He was the namesake and founder of the Zengid dynasty of atabegs.

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14/09/0949

Fujiwara no Tadahira, Japanese statesman (born 880)

Fujiwara no Tadahira was a Japanese statesman, courtier and politician during the Heian period. He is also known as Teishin-Kō (貞信公) or Ko-ichijō Dono (小一条殿) or Ko-ichijō daijō-daijin.

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14/09/0927

Cele Dabhaill mac Scannal, Irish abbot

Cele Dabhaill mac Scannal was the Abbot of Bangor, County Down.

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14/09/0919

Niall Glúndub, High King of Ireland

Niall Glúndub mac Áeda was a 10th-century Irish king of the Cenél nEógain and High King of Ireland. Many Irish kin groups were members of the Uí Néill and traced their descent from Niall of the Nine Hostages.

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14/09/0891

Stephen V, pope of the Catholic Church

Pope Stephen V was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from September 885 to his death on 14 September 891. In his dealings with Photius I of Constantinople, as in his relations with the young Slavic Orthodox church, he pursued the policy of Pope Nicholas I.

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14/09/0820

Li Yong, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty

Li Yong (李鄘), courtesy name Jianhou (建侯), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, briefly commissioned as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Xianzong — but declining the office and never actually exercising the authorities of the office.

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14/09/0788

Li Mian, Chinese judge, military general, musician, poet, and politician (born 717)

Li Mian, courtesy name Xuanqing (玄卿), formally Duke Zhenjian of Qian (汧貞簡公), was a Chinese judge, military general, musician, poet, and politician during the Tang dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Dezong.

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14/09/0786

Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph (born 764)

Abū Muḥammad Mūsā ibn al-Mahdī al-Hādī better known by his laqab al-Hādī (الهادي‎) was the fourth Abbasid caliph who succeeded his father al-Mahdi and ruled from 169 AH until his death in 170 AH. His short reign ended with internal chaos and power struggles with his mother.

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14/09/0775

Constantine V, Byzantine emperor (born 718)

Constantine V was Byzantine emperor from 741 to 775. His reign saw a consolidation of Byzantine security from external threats. As an able military leader, Constantine took advantage of civil war in the Muslim world to make limited offensives on the Arab frontier. With this eastern frontier secure, he undertook repeated campaigns against the Bulgars in the Balkans. His military activity, and policy of settling Christian populations from the Arab frontier in Thrace, made Byzantium's hold on its Balkan territories more secure. He was also responsible for important military and administrative innovations and reforms.

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14/09/0619

Yang You, emperor of the Sui Dynasty (born 605)

Yang You, also known by his posthumous name as the Emperor Gong of Sui (隋恭帝), was the last emperor of the Chinese Sui dynasty. He was installed as a puppet emperor by Li Yuan. After Li Yuan founded the Tang dynasty, he had Yang You executed.

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14/09/0585

Bidatsu, emperor of Japan (born 538)

Emperor Bidatsu was the 30th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

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14/09/0407

John Chrysostom, Byzantine archbishop and saint (born 347)

John Chrysostom was a Church Father who served as Archbishop of Constantinople. He is known for his preaching and public speaking, his Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, and his ascetic sensibilities.

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14/09/0258

Cyprian, African bishop and saint (born 200)

Cyprian was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berber descent, many of whose Latin works are extant. He is recognized as a saint in the Western and Eastern churches.

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14/09/0023

Drusus Julius Caesar, Roman son of Tiberius (born 13 BC)

AD 23 (XXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pollio and Vetus. The denomination AD 23 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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