Died on Tuesday, 2nd September – Famous Deaths

02/09/2024

James Darren, American actor (born 1936)

James William Ercolani, known by his stage name James Darren, was an American actor, singer, and television director. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he had notable starring and supporting roles in films including the youth and beach-culture film Gidget (1959) and its sequels. He also appeared in The Gene Krupa Story (1959), All the Young Men (1960), The Guns of Navarone (1961), and Diamond Head (1962).

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Rodolfo Hernández Suárez, Colombian politician (born 1945)

Rodolfo Hernández Suárez was a Colombian politician, civil engineer, and businessman who served as a senator of Colombia from July to October 2022. He was mayor of Bucaramanga from 2016 until his resignation in 2019. As the nominee for the League of Anti-Corruption Governors (LIGA) coalition, Hernández placed second in the first round of the 2022 Colombian presidential election, and he was ultimately defeated by Gustavo Petro in the second round run-off election. Hernández briefly served in a senate seat offered to the runner-up in a presidential election and took office on 20 July and resigned in October that same year.

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02/09/2022

Frank Drake, American radio astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1930)

Frank Donald Drake was an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist.

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T. V. Sankaranarayanan, Indian Carnatic vocalist (born 1945)

T. V. Sankaranarayanan, was an Indian Carnatic vocalist, known for his music that stems from the style of his guru and maternal-uncle, Madurai Mani Iyer. TVS was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 2003.

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02/09/2021

Siddharth Shukla, Indian TV and film actor (born 1980)

Sidharth Shukla was an Indian actor, host and model who mostly appeared in Hindi television and films. He was known for his roles in Balika Vadhu, Broken But Beautiful 3, and Dil Se Dil Tak. He was the winner of Bigg Boss 13 and Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 7. He hosted Savdhaan India, and India's Got Talent. He won the World's Best Model title in December 2005, beating 40 other participants from across Asia, Latin America, and Europe. He made his acting debut with a lead role in the 2008 show Babul Ka Aangann Chootey Na. In 2014, Shukla made his Bollywood debut in a supporting role in Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania.

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Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer (born 1925)

Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1,000 works.

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02/09/2018

Claire Wineland, American activist and author (born 1997)

Claire Lucia Wineland was an American activist, author, speaker and social media personality. Through her non-profit organization, Claire's Place Foundation, she provided support to children and families affected by cystic fibrosis (CF). She died from a blood clot one week after receiving a double lung transplant at the age of 21.

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02/09/2016

Jerry Heller, American music manager (born 1940)

Gerald Elliot Heller was an American music manager and businessman. He was best known for his management of West Coast rap and gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A and Eazy-E. He rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s representing Journey, Marvin Gaye, Van Morrison, War, Eric Burdon, Crosby Stills & Nash, Ike & Tina Turner, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Otis Redding, The Who, REO Speedwagon, Black Sabbath, Humble Pie, Styx, the Grass Roots, and the Standells, among many others.

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Islam Karimov, Uzbek politician, 1st President of Uzbekistan (born 1938)

Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov was an Uzbek politician who served as the first president of Uzbekistan, from the country's independence in 1991 until his death in 2016. He was the last First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan from 1989 to 1991, when the party was reconstituted as the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (O‘zXDP); he led the O‘zXDP until 1996. He was the President of the Uzbek SSR from 24 March 1990 until he declared the independence of Uzbekistan on 1 September 1991.

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02/09/2015

Ephraim Engleman, American rheumatologist, author, and academic (born 1911)

Ephraim Engleman was an American rheumatologist and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He had a major national and international impact on rheumatology during more than six decades, and wrote more than one hundred scientific and medical papers.

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02/09/2014

F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, American lawyer and politician, 20th District Attorney of Philadelphia (born 1930)

F. Emmett Fitzpatrick Jr. was an American politician, attorney and professor. A noted criminal defense attorney, he served as the District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between 1974 and 1978.

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Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (born 1911)

Norman Gordon was a South African cricketer who played in five Test matches during the 1938–39 South African cricket season.

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Helena Rakoczy, Polish gymnast (born 1921)

Helena Rakoczy was a Polish artistic gymnast. She is a 1956 Olympic bronze medalist with the Polish team, as well as 4-time World champion and a 7-time World Championships medalist. She was born in Kraków, Poland.

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Goolam Essaji Vahanvati, Indian lawyer and politician, 13th Attorney General of India (born 1949)

Goolamhussein Essaji Vahanvati (1949-2014) was an Indian senior counsel who served as the 11th Attorney General for India. His first term in office began in June 2009 and was for three years.

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02/09/2013

Valérie Benguigui, French actress and director (born 1965)

Valérie Benguigui was a French actress and theater director. Born in Oran, Algeria, she took acting courses at the Cours Florent and the National Chaillot Theatre School. Her first film role was in Francis Huster's On a volé Charlie Spencer (1986).

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Terry Clawson, English rugby player and coach (born 1940)

Terence A. Clawson was an English World Cup winning professional rugby league footballer who played from the 1950s through to the 1980s. He played at representative level for Great Britain between 1962 and 1974, and was part of the 1972 Rugby League World Cup winning squad. He also played for Yorkshire, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers (captain), Bradford Northern, Leeds, Hull Kingston Rovers, Oldham, York, Wakefield Trinity, Hull F.C. and South Newcastle, as a goal-kicking prop or second-row. He coached at club level for South Newcastle and Featherstone Rovers.

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Ronald Coase, English-American economist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)

Ronald Harry Coase was a British economist and author. Coase was educated at the London School of Economics, where he was a member of the faculty until 1951. He was the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School, where he arrived in 1964 and remained for the rest of his life. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991.

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David Jacobs, English radio and television host (born 1926)

David Lewis Jacobs was a British broadcaster. He was the presenter of the BBC Television series Juke Box Jury in the 1960s, and chaired the long-running BBC Radio 4 topical discussion series Any Questions?. His earlier radio work included small acting parts: over the years he played himself or the characters of presenters in film, television and radio productions. Jacobs finally stepped down as a BBC Radio 2 presenter shortly before his death in 2013, his career having spanned more than 65 years.

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Frederik Pohl, American author and publisher (born 1919)

Frederik George Pohl Jr. was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led.

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Paul Scoon, Grenadian politician, 2nd Governor-General of Grenada (born 1935)

Sir Paul Godwin Scoon was a Grenadian politician who served as governor-general of Grenada from 1978 to 1992. His tenure is notable for the hectic events related to the rise and fall of the People's Revolutionary Government, as well as his personal involvement in and support of the invasion of Grenada.

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02/09/2012

Mark Abrahamian, American guitarist (born 1966)

Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California. Initially a continuation of Jefferson Starship, it underwent a change in musical direction, the subsequent loss of personnel, and a lawsuit settlement that led to a name change. Starship's 1985 album, Knee Deep in the Hoopla, was certified platinum by the RIAA, and included two singles that went to number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart: "We Built This City" and "Sara". Their follow up album, No Protection, released in 1987, was certified gold and featured the band's third number one single, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now". After a short hiatus in the early 1990s, the band reformed in 1992 as "Starship featuring Mickey Thomas" and resumed touring.

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Jack Boucher, American photographer and director (born 1931)

Jack E. Boucher was an American photographer for the National Park Service for more than 40 years beginning in 1958. He served as the Chief Photographer for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). In 1966 he left the Park Service for two years to supervise New Jersey's State Historic Preservation program, including the State's roadside marker program, 18 historic museum houses, several lighthouses, and two historic villages. Offered his old job back by the Park Service/HABS in 1970, he left New Jersey to return to NPS/HABS and the highly specialized job of large format photographic architectural documentation. His work took him to 49 States, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. April 2008 was the fiftieth anniversary of his employment with the National Park Service's "HABS" program. He traveled with 900 pounds of photographic equipment.

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John C. Marshall, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)

John C. Marshall was a British guitarist, vocalist and songwriter in the jazz and blues vein. He was born in London, England.

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Emmanuel Nunes, Portuguese-French composer and educator (born 1941)

Emmanuel Nunes was a Portuguese composer who lived and worked in Paris from 1964.

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02/09/2011

Roberto Bruce, Chilean journalist (born 1979)

Roberto Andrés Bruce Pruzzo was a Chilean television journalist, mainly known for his work on Televisión Nacional de Chile's breakfast programme Buenos Días a Todos. Bruce also worked as host of Dónde La Viste in the same TV channel.

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Felipe Camiroaga, Chilean television presenter (born 1966)

Felipe Humberto Camiroaga Fernández was a Chilean television presenter, actor and comedian, one of the most popular in his country.

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02/09/2009

Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (born 1949)

Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy, popularly known as YSR, was an Indian politician. He served as the 14th chief minister of Andhra Pradesh from 2004 to 2009. Reddy was elected four terms to the Lok Sabha from Kadapa. He was also elected six terms to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Pulivendula. Over the course of his career, he won every election that he contested, either to Assembly or Lok Sabha.

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02/09/2008

Bill Melendez, Mexican-American animator, director, producer, and voice actor (born 1916)

José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Melendez was a Mexican-American animator, director, producer, and voice actor. Melendez was known for working on the Peanuts animated specials, as well as providing the voices of Snoopy and Woodstock. Before Peanuts, he previously worked as an animator for Walt Disney Productions, Warner Bros. Cartoons, and UPA.

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Alan Waddell, Australian walker

Alan Mossman Waddell was an Australian walker who received national and international media attention for walking every street in over 280 suburbs in Sydney.

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02/09/2007

Franz-Benno Delonge, German game designer, created TransAmerica (born 1957)

Franz-Benno Delonge was a designer of German-style board games. He has been nominated for multiple best game awards, including Spiel des Jahres and International Gamers Awards. TransAmerica won the Mensa best mind game award for 2003. He died of cancer on 2 September 2007.

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Max McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1924)

Maxwell Douglas McNab was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach, and National Hockey League (NHL) general manager. He played in the NHL with the Detroit Red Wings between 1947 and 1951, winning the Stanley Cup with them in 1950. The rest of his playing career, which lasted from 1945 to 1959, was spent in various minor leagues.

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02/09/2006

Bob Mathias, American decathlete and politician (born 1930)

Robert Bruce Mathias was an American decathlete, politician, and actor. Representing the United States, he won two Olympic gold medals in the Decathlon, at the 1948 and the 1952 Summer Games. As a Republican, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives for California's 18th congressional district, for four terms from 1967 to 1975.

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Willi Ninja, American dancer and choreographer (born 1961)

William Roscoe Leake, better known as Willi Ninja, was an American dancer and choreographer known for his appearance in the documentary film Paris Is Burning.

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Dewey Redman, American saxophonist (born 1931)

Walter Dewey Redman was an American saxophonist who performed free jazz as a bandleader, and as a member of bands including those led by Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett.

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02/09/2005

Bob Denver, American actor (born 1935)

Robert Osbourne Denver was an American comedic actor who portrayed beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the 1959–1963 series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and Gilligan on the 1964–1967 television series Gilligan's Island.

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02/09/2004

Joan Oró, Catalan biochemist and academic (born 1923)

Joan Oró i Florensa, 1st Marquess of Oró was a Spanish Catalan biochemist, whose research has been of importance in understanding the origin of life. Living in the United States for many years, he participated in several NASA missions, including the Apollo mission to the Moon and the Viking lander. He received the Oparin Medal for his contributions to the field of origins of life.

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02/09/2002

Dick Reynolds, Australian footballer and coach (born 1915)

Richard Sylvannus Reynolds was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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02/09/2001

Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon and academic (born 1922)

Christiaan Neethling Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into the chest of 54-year-old Louis Washkansky, who regained full consciousness and was able to talk easily with his wife, before dying 18 days later of pneumonia, largely brought on by the anti-rejection drugs that suppressed his immune system. Barnard had told Mr. and Mrs. Washkansky that the operation had an 80% chance of success, an assessment which has been criticised as misleading. Barnard's second transplant patient, Philip Blaiberg, whose operation was performed at the beginning of 1968, returned home from the hospital and lived for a year and a half.

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Troy Donahue, American actor (born 1936)

Troy Donahue was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Johnny Hunter in the film A Summer Place. He was a popular sex symbol in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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02/09/2000

Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (born 1905)

Elvera "Baby" Sánchez Davis was an American dancer and the mother of Sammy Davis Jr.

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Curt Siodmak, German-American author and screenwriter (born 1907)

Curt Siodmak was a German-American novelist, screenwriter and director. He is known for his work in the horror and science fiction film genres, with such films as The Wolf Man and Donovan's Brain. He was the younger brother of noir director Robert Siodmak.

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02/09/1998

Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (born 1933)

John Blanchflower was a footballer from Northern Ireland. He graduated from Manchester United's youth system and played for the club on 117 occasions, winning one league title, before his career was cut short due to injuries sustained in the Munich air disaster. He was also capped 12 times at senior level by Northern Ireland.

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Allen Drury, American journalist and author (born 1918)

Allen Stuart Drury was an American novelist. During World War II, he was a reporter in the Senate, closely observing Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, among others. He would convert these experiences into his first novel Advise and Consent, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960. Long afterwards, it was still being praised as ‘the definitive Washington tale’. His diaries from this period were published as A Senate Journal 1943–45.

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02/09/1997

Rudolf Bing, Austrian-American manager (born 1902)

Sir Rudolf Bing, KBE was an Austrian-born British opera impresario who worked in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, including as General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1950 to 1972. He was naturalized as a British subject in 1946 and was knighted in 1971, although he spent decades living in the United States, where he died.

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Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (born 1905)

Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology theories.

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02/09/1996

Paddy Clift, Zimbabwean cricketer (born 1953)

Patrick Bernard Clift was a Zimbabwean first class cricketer for Leicestershire County Cricket Club, who was educated at St. George's College, Harare. He was a right-armed medium bowler and right-handed batsman. Clift died in South Africa after a battle with bone marrow cancer, in the same year that Leicestershire won the County Championship.

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02/09/1992

Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)

Barbara McClintock was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927. There, she started her career as the leader of the development of maize cytogenetics, the focus of her research for the rest of her life. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. She developed the technique for visualizing maize chromosomes and used microscopic analysis to demonstrate many fundamental genetic ideas. One of those ideas was the notion of genetic recombination by crossing-over during meiosis—a mechanism by which chromosomes exchange information. She demonstrated the role of the telomere and centromere, regions of the chromosome that are important in the conservation of genetic information. She was recognized as among the best in the field, awarded prestigious fellowships, and elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1944.

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02/09/1991

Alfonso García Robles, Mexican politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)

Alfonso García Robles was a Mexican diplomat and politician who, in conjunction with Sweden's Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982.

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02/09/1990

Robert Holmes à Court, South African-Australian businessman and lawyer (born 1937)

Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court was a South African-born Australian businessman who became Australia's first billionaire. He died suddenly of heart failure in 1990 at the age of 53.

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02/09/1987

Brian Clay, Australian rugby league player (born 1935)

Brian Joseph 'Poppa' Clay (1935–1987) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a five-eighth with the St. George Dragons during their 11-year consecutive premiership winning run from 1956 to 1966. He was a representative in the Australian national team in 1957 and from 1959 to 1960 earning five Test caps plus three World Cup appearances. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.

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02/09/1985

M. Alalasundaram, Sri Lankan Tamil teacher and politician

Arumugam Murugesu Alalasundaram was an assassinated Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, politician and Member of Parliament.

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Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (born 1920)

Abe Minderts Lenstra was a Dutch footballer and national football icon in the 1950s who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the greatest players ever to hail from the Netherlands. He was also a Frisian legend, most notably with the club where he made his name as a football player, Heerenveen. Known for his exceptional dribbling skills, creativity, and goal-scoring ability, Lenstra was considered one of the best forwards of his generation He earned 47 caps for the Netherlands national team, scoring 33 goals, and played a crucial role in the team's success during his era. In addition to his national fame, Lenstra was beloved in Friesland, where his contributions to both Heerenveen and regional football left a lasting legacy.

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V. Dharmalingam, Sri Lankan Tamil politician (born 1918)

Visvanathan Dharmalingam was a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and Member of Parliament.

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Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (born 1955)

Steven Nicolas Romero was an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Jay Youngblood. He wrestled in the National Wrestling Alliance's Jim Crockett Promotions in a tag team with Ricky Steamboat. In addition, he wrestled with Championship Wrestling from Florida, Pacific Northwest Wrestling, NWA All-Star Wrestling and the American Wrestling Association.

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02/09/1984

Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (born 1908)

Emmanuel "Manos" Katrakis was a Greek actor of theater and film.

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02/09/1983

Feri Cansel, Turkish-Cypriot actress (born 1944)

Feriha "Feri" Cansel was a Turkish Cypriot actress.

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02/09/1979

Otto P. Weyland, American general (born 1903)

Otto Paul Weyland was a United States Air Force (USAF) general and the post-World War II Commander of Far East Air Forces during the Korean War and of Tactical Air Command.

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02/09/1978

Fred G. Meyer, American businessman, founded Fred Meyer (born 1886)

Fred G. Meyer was an American businessman who founded the Oregon-based Fred Meyer store chain, which had 63 stores in four western states at the time of his death. He was known for successfully introducing several innovative marketing concepts. He is credited for inventing the modern hypermarket.

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02/09/1977

Stephen Dunne, American actor (born 1918)

Francis Michael Dunne was an American actor, radio personality and disc jockey. He was active in television and films from 1945 to 1973, and was also credited as Steve Dunn, Michael Dunne, Stephan Dunne, and Steve Dunne.

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02/09/1976

Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and playwright (born 1934)

Stanisław Antoni Grochowiak, pen-name "Kain" was a Polish poet and dramatist. His is often classified as a representative of turpism, because of his interest in the physical, ugly and brutal, but he also exhibits strong tendencies toward formal, rhymed poetry, reaching on many occasions the ornamental grace of a baroque style. Grochowiak was born in Leszno and died, aged 42, in Warsaw.

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02/09/1975

Mabel Vernon, American activist (born 1883)

Mabel Vernon was an American suffragist, pacifist, and a national leader in the United States suffrage movement. She was a Quaker and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Vernon was inspired by the methods used by the Women's Social and Political Union in Britain. Vernon was one of the principal members of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage (CUWS) alongside Olympia Brown, Inez Milholland, Crystal Eastman, Lucy Burns, and Alice Paul, and helped to organize the Silent Sentinels protests that involved daily picketing of Woodrow Wilson's White House.

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02/09/1973

Carl Dudley, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1910)

Carl Ward Dudley (1910–1973) was an American film director and producer. He was best known for directing and producing short travelogues.

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J. R. R. Tolkien, English novelist, short story writer, poet, and philologist (born 1892)

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).

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02/09/1971

Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (born 1939)

Robert Mensah was a Ghanaian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. As a player, he was best known for his exploits at Asante Kotoko where he won the African Clubs Cup in 1970. He was also a runner-up with the Ghana squad for the 1968 African Cup of Nations and represented Ghana at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

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02/09/1969

Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam (born 1890)

Hồ Chí Minh, colloquially known as Uncle Ho among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945. He served as its first president from 1946 until his death in 1969 and as its first prime minister from 1945 to 1955. A committed Marxist–Leninist, Hồ played a central role in establishing the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and later led its successor, the Workers' Party of Vietnam, as chairman until his death.

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02/09/1965

Johannes Bobrowski, German poet and author (born 1917)

Johannes Bobrowski was a German lyric poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist.

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02/09/1964

Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist and scholar (born 1900)

Glenn Albert Black was an American archaeologist, author, and part-time university lecturer who was among the first professional archaeologists to study prehistoric sites in Indiana continuously. Black, a pioneer and innovator in developing archaeology field research techniques, is best known for his excavation of Angel Mounds, a Mississippian community near present-day Evansville, Indiana, that he brought to national attention. Angel Mounds was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964. Black was largely self-taught and began serious work on archaeological sites in Indiana in the 1930s, before there were many training opportunities in archaeology in the United States. He is considered to have been the first full-time professional archaeologist focusing on Indiana's ancient history, and the only professional archaeologist in the state until the 1960s. During his thirty-five-year career as an archaeologist in Indiana, Black also worked as a part-time lecturer at Indiana University Bloomington from 1944 to 1960 and conducted a field school at the Angel site during the summer months.

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Alvin C. York, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1887)

Alvin Cullum York, also known by his rank as Sergeant York, was an American soldier who was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, gathering 35 machine guns, killing at least 25 enemy soldiers, and capturing 132 prisoners. York's Medal of Honor action occurred during the United States-led portion of the Meuse–Argonne offensive in France, in which he intended to breach the Hindenburg line and force the Germans to surrender. He earned decorations from several Allied countries during the war, including France, Italy, and Montenegro.

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02/09/1962

William Wilkerson, American publisher and businessman (born 1890)

William Richard "Billy" Wilkerson was an American businessman who founded The Hollywood Reporter. He was real estate developer in Las Vegas and owner of such nightclubs as Ciro's. His series of columns known as "Billy's List" helped to initiate the red scare that led to the Hollywood blacklist. Wilkerson "discovered" Lana Turner.

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02/09/1954

Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and political scientist (born 1900)

Franz Leopold Neumann was a German political activist, Western Marxist theorist, and labor lawyer who became a political scientist in exile and is best known for his theoretical analyses of Nazism. He studied in Germany and the United Kingdom, and spent the last phase of his career in the United States, where he worked for the Office of Strategic Services from 1943 to 1945 writing the Secret Reports on Nazi Germany. During the Second World War, Neumann spied for the Soviet Union under the code-name "Ruff". Together with Ernst Fraenkel and Arnold Bergstraesser, Neumann is considered to be among the founders of modern political science in Germany.

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02/09/1953

Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch rower (born 1875)

Hendrik Karel Offerhaus was a Dutch medical doctor and rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Dutch boat Minerva Amsterdam, which finished third in the eight event.

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Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1883)

Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV was a United States Army general, the commander of Allied forces in the Philippines, and prisoner of war during World War II.

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02/09/1948

Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (born 1883)

Sylvanus Griswold Morley was an American archaeologist and epigrapher who studied the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in the early 20th century. Morley led extensive excavations of the Maya site of Chichen Itza on behalf of the Carnegie Institution and published several large compilations and treatises on Maya hieroglyphic writing. He also wrote popular accounts on the Maya for a general audience.

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02/09/1945

Mason Phelps, American golfer (born 1885)

Mason Elliott Phelps was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

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02/09/1944

Bella Rosenfeld, Russian-American model and author (born 1895)

Bella Rosenfeld Chagall was a Russian Jewish writer and the first wife of painter Marc Chagall. She was the subject of many of Chagall's paintings including Bella au col blanc in 1917, and appears posthumously in Bouquet près de la fenêtre, painted in 1959–1960.

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02/09/1943

Marsden Hartley, American painter and poet (born 1877)

Marsden Hartley was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Hartley developed his painting abilities by observing Cubist artists in Paris and Berlin.

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02/09/1942

Tom Williams (Irish republican), Executed Irish Republican (born 1923)

Thomas Joseph Williams was a volunteer in C Company, 2nd Battalion of the Belfast Brigade in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) from the Bombay Street area of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was hanged in the Crumlin Road Gaol for his involvement in the killing of Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) police officer Patrick Murphy during the IRAs Northern Campaign.

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James Juvenal, American rower (born 1874)

James Benner Juvenal was an American rower, born in Philadelphia, who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

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02/09/1941

Lloyd Seay, American race car driver (born 1919)

Carl D. "Lightning" Lloyd Seay was an early stock car racing driver from Dawsonville Georgia. NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. described Seay as the "best pure race driver I ever saw". He was shot to death by his cousin Woodrow Anderson over a moonshine operation. His last name was pronounced as "See".

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02/09/1937

Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee (born 1863)

Charles Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, also known as Pierre de Coubertin and Baron de Coubertin, was a French educator and historian, co-founder of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and its second president. He is known as the father of the modern Olympic Games. He was particularly active in promoting the introduction of sport in French schools.

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02/09/1934

James Allan, New Zealand rugby player (born 1860)

James Allan ) was a New Zealand rugby union player who played eight games for the New Zealand national rugby union team, and was nicknamed the Taieri Giant. Allan played in the first match contested by the New Zealand team, and the New Zealand Rugby Union regard him as the first ever All Black.

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Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist, and actor (born 1908)

Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo, known as Russ Columbo, was an American baritone, songwriter, violinist, and actor. He is famous for romantic ballads such as his signature tune "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love" and his own compositions "Prisoner of Love" and "Too Beautiful for Words".

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Alcide Nunez, American clarinet player (Original Dixieland Jass Band) (born 1884)

Alcide Patrick Nunez, also known as Yellow Nunez and Al Nunez, was an American jazz clarinetist. He was one of the first musicians of New Orleans to make audio recordings.

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02/09/1927

Umegatani Tōtarō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 20th Yokozuna (born 1878)

Umegatani Tōtarō II was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture. He was the sport's 20th yokozuna. Umegatani had a great rivalry with fellow yokozuna Hitachiyama Taniemon. Their era was known as the Ume-Hitachi Era and it brought sumo to heights of popularity never before seen in the Meiji period.

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02/09/1922

Henry Lawson, Australian poet and author (born 1867)

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer".

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02/09/1921

Henry Austin Dobson, English poet and critic (born 1840)

Henry Austin Dobson, usually known as Austin Dobson, was an English poet, biographer and essayist.

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02/09/1918

John Forrest, Australian politician, 1st Premier of Western Australia (born 1847)

Sir John Forrest was an Australian explorer and politician. He was the first premier of Western Australia (1890–1901) and a long-serving cabinet minister in federal politics.

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02/09/1911

Marie Andrieu, French anarchist, cartomancer and spiritualist (born 1851)

Marie Andrieu, also known as Marie de Saint-Rémy, Romanoff, or the Seer, was a French spiritualist, cartomancer, editor of newspapers, and anarchist. She is best known for her work as an anarchist editor, founding nearly a dozen newspapers, the most famous of which was titled Le Christ Anarchiste.

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02/09/1910

Henri Rousseau, French painter (born 1844)

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time.

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02/09/1898

Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader, 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1807)

Wilford Woodruff Sr. was an American religious leader who served as the fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1889 until his death. He ended the public practice of plural marriage among members of the LDS Church in 1890.

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02/09/1885

Giuseppe Bonavia, Maltese architect (born 1821)

Giuseppe Bonavia was a Maltese draughtsman and architect who was mainly active in the second half of the 19th century. Born in Valletta, he was initially a clerk of works with the Royal Engineers, before becoming the Head of the Civil Service Works Department.

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02/09/1877

Konstantinos Kanaris, Greek admiral and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1793)

Konstantinos Kanaris, also anglicised as Constantine Kanaris or Canaris, was a Greek statesman, an admiral, and a hero of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829).

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02/09/1872

N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish pastor, philosopher, and author (born 1783)

Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig, most often referred to as N. F. S. Grundtvig, was a Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and politician. He was one of the most influential people in Danish history, as his philosophy gave rise to a new form of nationalism in the last half of the 19th century. It was steeped in the national literature and supported by deep spirituality.

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02/09/1865

William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1805)

Sir William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made numerous major contributions to algebra, classical mechanics, and optics. His theoretical works and mathematical equations are considered fundamental to modern theoretical physics, particularly his reformulation of Lagrangian mechanics. His research included the analysis of geometrical optics, Fourier analysis, and quaternions, the last of which made him one of the founders of modern linear algebra.

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02/09/1834

Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer and architect, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge (born 1757)

Thomas Telford was a Scottish civil engineer. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels. Such was his reputation as a prolific designer of highways and related bridges, he was dubbed the 'Colossus of Roads', and, reflecting his command of all types of civil engineering in the early 19th century, he was elected as the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a post he held for 14 years until his death. The town of Telford in Shropshire was named after him.

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02/09/1832

Franz Xaver von Zach, Hungarian-French astronomer and academic (born 1754)

Baron Franz Xaver von Zach was an Austrian astronomer born in Pest, Hungary.

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02/09/1820

Jiaqing Emperor of China (born 1760)

The Jiaqing Emperor, also known by his temple name Emperor Renzong of Qing, personal name Yongyan, was the sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty and the fifth Qing emperor to rule over China proper. He was the 15th son of the Qianlong Emperor. During his reign, he prosecuted Heshen, the corrupt favorite of his father and attempted to restore order within the empire while curbing the smuggling of opium into China. Assessments of his reign are mixed, either seen as the "beginning of the end" of the Qing dynasty, or as a period of moderate reform that presaged the intellectual movements of the 1860s.

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02/09/1813

Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (born 1763)

Jean Victor Marie Moreau was a French general who helped Napoleon Bonaparte rise to power, but later became his chief military and political rival and was banished to the United States. A product of the French Revolution, he is among the foremost French generals in military history. He led the French Revolutionary Army to a series of victories, including the major Battle of Hohenlinden; however, he also suffered defeats against such capable military commanders as Archduke Charles and Alexander Suvorov.

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02/09/1790

Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (born 1701)

Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim was a German Catholic priest and coadjutor bishop of Trier, and a historian/theologian. He is remembered as Febronius, the pseudonym under which he wrote his 1763 treatise On the State of the Church and the Legitimate Power of the Roman Pontiff and which gave rise to Febronianism.

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02/09/1768

Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician and theorist (born 1703)

Antoine Deparcieux was a French mathematician. He was born at Clessous in the Portes, province of Languedoc. He attended the school of Saint Florent for 10 years while working on his family farm. In 1725, his desire for learning took him to Lyon, where he studied at a Jesuit school for five years. Then, in 1730, he went to Paris to increase his knowledge of mathematics and physics. He made a living by manufacturing sundials.

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02/09/1765

Henry Bouquet, Swiss-English colonel (born 1719)

Henry Bouquet was a Swiss mercenary who rose to prominence in British service during the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War.

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02/09/1764

Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer and mathematician (born 1700)

Nathaniel Bliss was an English astronomer of the 18th century, serving as Britain's fourth Astronomer Royal between 1762 and 1764.

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02/09/1690

Philip William, Elector Palatine, German Count Palatine of Neuburg (born 1615)

Philip William of Neuburg, Elector Palatine was Count Palatine of Neuburg from 1653 to 1690, Duke of Jülich and Berg from 1653 to 1679 and Elector of the Palatinate from 1685 to 1690. He was the son of Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg and Magdalene of Bavaria.

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02/09/1688

Sir Robert Vyner, 1st Baronet, English businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of London (born 1631)

Sir Robert Vyner, 1st Baronet was an English banker, goldsmith and Lord Mayor of London.

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02/09/1680

Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and politician, Lord High Steward of Sweden (born 1602)

Count Per Brahe the Younger was a Swedish soldier, statesman, and writer. He served as Privy Councillor from 1630, Lord High Steward from 1640, as well as Governor-General of Finland in 1637–1640 and 1648–1654.

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02/09/1651

Kosem Sultan, Ottoman Valide sultan and regent (born 1589)

Kösem Sultan, also known as Mahpeyker Sultan, was the chief consort and legal wife of Ottoman sultan Ahmed I, mother of Murad IV and Ibrahim, and grandmother of Mehmed IV. She effectively ruled as regent of the Ottoman Empire during the minority of Murad IV from 1623 to 1632, from 1640 to 1648 during the unstable rule of Ibrahim, and again from 1648 until her assassination in 1651 during the minority of Mehmed IV. She became one of the most powerful and influential women in Ottoman history, as well as a central and controversial figure during the period known as the Sultanate of Women.

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02/09/1606

Karel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (born 1548)

Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 – 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, playwright, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life. He is mainly remembered as a biographer of Early Netherlandish painters and Northern Renaissance artists in his Schilder-boeck. As an artist and art theoretician he played a significant role in the spread and development of Northern Mannerism in the Dutch Republic.

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02/09/1540

Dawit II of Ethiopia (born 1501)

Dawit II, better known by his birth name of Lebna Dengel, and also known by the macaronic name Wanag Segad, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1508 to 1540, whose political center and palace was in Shewa.

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02/09/1397

Francesco Landini, Italian composer

Francesco Landini was a Florentine composer, poet, organist, singer and instrument maker, and a central figure of the music of the Trecento in the Italian peninsula.

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02/09/1274

Prince Munetaka, Japanese shōgun (born 1242)

Prince Munetaka was the sixth shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan who reigned from 1252 to 1266.

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02/09/1083

King Munjong of Goryeo (born 1019)

Munjong, personal name Wang Hwi, was the 11th monarch of the Goryeo dynasty of Korea.

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02/09/1031

Saint Emeric of Hungary (born 1000)

Emeric, also Emericus, Emerick, Emery or Emory. Venerated as Saint Emeric, was the son of King Stephen I of Hungary and Giselle of Bavaria.

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02/09/1022

Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, king of Mide and High King of Ireland

Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, also called Máel Sechnaill Mór or Máel Sechnaill II, was a King of Mide and High King of Ireland. His great victory at the Battle of Tara against Olaf Cuaran in 980 resulted in Gaelic Irish control of the Kingdom of Dublin.

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02/09/0595

John IV of Constantinople

John IV of Constantinople, also known as John Nesteutes, was patriarch of Constantinople. He was the first to assume the title Ecumenical Patriarch. He is regarded as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church which holds a feast on 2 September.

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02/09/0459

Simeon Stylites, Byzantine saint (born 390)

Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylite was a Syrian Christian ascetic who achieved notability by living 36 years on top of a pillar near Aleppo. Several other stylites later followed his model. Simeon is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, and the Eastern Orthodox Church. He is known formally as Simeon Stylites the Elder to distinguish him from Simeon Stylites the Younger, Simeon Stylites III and Symeon Stylites of Lesbos.

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02/09/0421

Constantius III, Roman emperor

Constantius III was briefly Western Roman emperor in 421, having earned the throne through his capability as a general under Honorius. By 411 he had achieved the rank of magister militum, and in the same year he suppressed the revolt of the usurper Constantine III. Constantius went on to lead campaigns against various barbarian groups in Hispania and Gaul, recovering much of both for the Western Roman Empire. He married Honorius's sister Galla Placidia in 417, a sign of his ascendant status, and was proclaimed co-emperor by Honorius on 8 February 421. Constantius reigned for seven months before dying on 2 September 421.

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