Died on Wednesday, 24th September – Famous Deaths

24/09/2025

Sara Jane Moore, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford (born 1930)

Sara Jane Moore was an American accountant and FBI informant who attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford in 1975.

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24/09/2022

Pharoah Sanders, American jazz saxophonist (born 1940)

Pharoah Sanders was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound", Sanders played a prominent role in the development of free jazz and spiritual jazz through his work as a member of John Coltrane's groups in the mid-1960s, and later through his solo work. He released more than thirty albums as a leader and collaborated extensively with vocalist Leon Thomas and pianist Alice Coltrane, among many others. Fellow saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world".

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24/09/2020

Dean Jones, Australian cricketer, coach and commentator (born 1961)

Dean Mervyn Jones was an Australian cricket player, coach and commentator who played Tests and One Day Internationals (ODIs) for Australia. He had an excellent record in Test cricket and is best remembered for revolutionising the ODI format. Jones was a part of the Australian team that won their first world title during the 1987 Cricket World Cup. Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was recognised as among the best ODI batsmen in the world, a view which has been validated in the retrospective ICC Player Rankings. His batting was often characterised by his agile footwork against both pace and spin, aggressive running between wickets, and willingness to take risks and intimidate bowlers. In 2019, Jones was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame.

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24/09/2016

Mel Charles, Welsh footballer (born 1935)

Melvyn Charles was a Welsh international footballer. Charles played as both a centre-half and centre-forward, with his preferred position being at right-half.

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Bill Mollison, Australian researcher, author and biologist (born 1928)

Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist. In 1981, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for developing and promoting the theory and practice of permaculture".

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Bill Nunn, American actor (born 1953)

William Goldwyn Nunn III was an American actor. He was known for his collaborations with director Spike Lee, notably as Radio Raheem in Do the Right Thing (1989). He also portrayed Daily Bugle editor Robbie Robertson in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man film trilogy (2002–07), and co-starred in the sitcoms The Job (2001–02) and Sirens (2014–15).

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Buckwheat Zydeco, American accordionist and bandleader (born 1947)

Buckwheat Zydeco, was an American accordionist and zydeco musician. He was one of the few zydeco artists to achieve mainstream success. His music group was formally billed as Buckwheat Zydeco and Ils Sont Partis Band, but they often performed as merely Buckwheat Zydeco.

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24/09/2015

Alan Moore, Australian painter and educator (born 1914)

Alan Moore was an Australian war artist during World War II. He is best known for his images of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and the Australian War Memorial holds many of his works.

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Wang Zhongshu, Chinese archaeologist and academic (born 1925)

Wang Zhongshu was a Chinese archaeologist who helped to establish and develop the field of archaeology in China. One of the most prominent Asian archaeologists, he was awarded the Grand Prize of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 1996 by the Japanese city of Fukuoka. Wang specialized in the archaeology of China's Han and Tang dynasties, as well as Japanese archaeology. He is noted for his achievements in the study of ancient Sino-Japanese relations.

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24/09/2014

Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, English aristocrat, socialite, and author (born 1920)

Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire,, was an English aristocrat, writer, memoirist, and socialite. She was the youngest and last surviving of the six Mitford sisters, who were prominent members of British society in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Christopher Hogwood, English harpsichord player and conductor, founded the Academy of Ancient Music (born 1941)

Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood was an English conductor, harpsichordist, and musicologist. Founder of the early music ensemble the Academy of Ancient Music, he was an authority on historically informed performance and a leading figure in the early music revival of the late 20th century.

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Madis Kõiv, Estonian physicist, philosopher, and author (born 1929)

Madis Kõiv was an Estonian physicist, philosopher and writer.

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24/09/2013

Paul Dietzel, American football player and coach (born 1924)

Paul Franklin Dietzel was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head coach at Louisiana State University (1955–1961), the United States Military Academy (1962–1965), and the University of South Carolina (1966–1974), compiling a career head coaching record of 109–95–5. Dietzel's 1958 LSU team concluded an 11–0 season with a win over Clemson in the Sugar Bowl and was a consensus national champion. For his efforts that year, Dietzel was named the National Coach of the Year by both the American Football Coaches Association and the Football Writers Association of America. Dietzel also served as the athletic director at South Carolina (1966–1974), Indiana University Bloomington (1977–1978), LSU (1978–1982), and Samford University (1985–1987).

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Margaret Feilman, Australian architect and urban planner (born 1921)

Margaret Anne Feilman was an Australian architect and Perth's first female town planner. She practiced as an architect and landscape designer. A founding member of the Western Australian Town Planning Institute in 1950, she engaged in substantial public speaking as a means of "educating the public as a whole on the need for better planning". Her most notable contribution to town planning was the design and implementation of the Kwinana new town. She also worked for the Commonwealth Government in the 1940s rebuilding Darwin and Guinea following the war.

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Boris Karvasarsky, Ukrainian-Russian psychiatrist and author (born 1931)

Boris Dmitrievich Karvasarsky was a Russian psychiatrist, a disciple of V. N. Myasishchev.

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Anthony Lawrence, English-Hong Kong journalist and author (born 1912)

Anthony John Lawrence, OBE was a British journalist. His most high-profile role was that of chief Far East correspondent for BBC Radio during the Vietnam War. He died in Hong Kong on 24 September 2013.

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Sagadat Nurmagambetov, Kazakh general and politician (born 1924)

Sagadat Kozhakhmetovich Nurmagambetov was a Soviet and Kazakh general who served as Chairman of Kazakhstan's State Defense Committee in 1991-1992 and Kazakhstan's first Minister of Defense following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, holding the office of Defense Minister from May 1992 to November 1995. He was an adviser to Nursultan Nazarbayev in 1995–1996.

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Paul Oliver, American football player (born 1984)

Paul J. Oliver was an American professional football safety of the National Football League (NFL) who was selected in the fourth round of the 2007 Supplemental NFL draft by the San Diego Chargers. He was also briefly a member of the New Orleans Saints.

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24/09/2012

Pierre Adam, French cyclist (born 1924)

Pierre Louis Eugène Adam was a French cyclist. He was born in Paris. He won a gold medal in the team pursuit at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, together with Fernand Decanali, Charles Coste and Serge Blusson.

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Bruno Bobak, Polish-Canadian painter and educator (born 1923)

Bruno Bobak, was a Polish-born Canadian Official war artist and art teacher. His main medium was watercolour painting but he also produced woodcuts.

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Pedro Vázquez Colmenares, Mexican lawyer and politician, Governor of Oaxaca (born 1934)

Pedro Vázquez Colmenares was a Mexican politician who served as the Governor of Oaxaca from 1980 to 1985. He left the Oaxacan governor's office in 1985, before the expiration of his term, when Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid appointed him as the director general of the Center for Research and National Security (CISEN), Mexico's intelligence agency. He served as the director general of CISEN from 1985 to 1988. Vazquez then became the Mexican Ambassador to Guatemala from 1989 to 1985.

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24/09/2010

Gennady Yanayev, Russian engineer and politician, Vice President of the Soviet Union (born 1937)

Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev was a Soviet politician and disputed President of the Soviet Union for three days. Yanayev's political career spanned the rules of Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko and culminated during the Mikhail Gorbachev years. Yanayev was born in Perevoz, Gorky Oblast. After years in local politics, he rose to prominence as Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, but he also held other lesser posts such as deputy of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.

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24/09/2009

Nelly Arcan, Canadian author (born 1975)

Nelly Arcan was a Canadian novelist. Arcan was born Isabelle Fortier at Lac-Mégantic in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.

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24/09/2008

Oliver Crawford, American screenwriter and author (born 1917)

Oliver Crawford was an American screenwriter and author who overcame the Hollywood blacklist during the McCarthy Era of the 1950s to become one of the entertainment industry's most successful television writers, for shows including Star Trek, Bonanza, Quincy, M.E., Perry Mason, and the Kraft Television Theatre.

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Irene Dailey, American actress (born 1920)

Irene Dailey was an American stage, film, and television actress.

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Mickey Vernon, American baseball player and coach (born 1918)

James Barton "Mickey" Vernon was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman who played for the Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox (1956–1957), Milwaukee Braves (1959) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1960). He also was the first manager in the history of the expansion edition of the Senators, serving from 1961 through May 21, 1963, and was a coach for four MLB teams between 1960 and 1982.

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24/09/2006

Michael Ferguson, PIRA volunteer, lawyer, and politician (born 1953)

Michael Ferguson was an Irish Sinn Féin politician who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for West Belfast from 2003 until 2006. Ferguson also served as a Lisburn City Councillor for Dunmurry Cross from 1989 to 2006.

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Phil Latulippe, Canadian soldier and runner (born 1909)

Philippe Latulippe, better known as Phil Latulippe, C.M., C.Q., M.M.M., C.D., was a Canadian soldier, athlete and philanthropist.

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24/09/2004

Françoise Sagan, French author and screenwriter (born 1935)

Françoise Sagan was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), which was written when she was a teenager.

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24/09/2003

Rosalie Allen, American singer and radio host (born 1924)

Rosalie Allen was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, columnist and television and radio host who was noted for her yodeling. She was known as the Queen of Yodeling and was the first woman inducted into the Country Music DJ Hall of Fame.

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Lyle Bettger, American actor (born 1915)

Lyle Stathem Bettger was an American character actor who had roles in Hollywood films and television from the 1950s onward, often portraying villains. One such role was the wrathfully jealous elephant handler Klaus from the Oscar-winning film The Greatest Show on Earth (1952).

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24/09/2002

Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian politician (born 1953)

Youssouf Togoïmi was a Chadian politician who served in the government under President Idriss Déby but subsequently led a rebel group, the Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad (MDJT), against Déby.

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Mike Webster, American football player (born 1952)

Michael Lewis Webster was an American professional football center in the National Football League (NFL) from 1974 to 1990 with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, class of 1997. Nicknamed "Iron Mike", Webster anchored the Steelers' offensive line during much of their run of four Super Bowl victories from 1974 to 1979 and is considered by many the greatest center in NFL history.

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24/09/1998

Jeff Moss, American composer and screenwriter (born 1942)

Jeff Moss was an American composer, lyricist, playwright and television writer, best known for his award-winning work on the children's television series Sesame Street.

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24/09/1996

Zeki Müren, Turkish singer-songwriter (born 1931)

Zeki Müren was a Turkish classical music artist, composer, songwriter, actor and poet. Known by the nicknames "The Sun of Art" and "Pasha", he was one of the prominent figures of Turkish classical music. Due to his contributions to the art industry, he was named a "State Artist" in 1991. He was the first singer to receive a gold certification in Turkey and throughout his career recorded and released hundreds of songs on cassettes and phonograph records.

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24/09/1994

Barry Bishop, American mountaineer, photographer, and scholar (born 1932)

Barry Chapman Bishop was an American mountaineer, scientist, photographer and scholar. With teammates Jim Whittaker, Lute Jerstad, Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein, he was a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, the first American team to summit Mount Everest on May 22, 1963. He reached the summit of Mount Everest by the South Col route on May 22, 1963 with fellow American Lute Jerstad, sharing the honor of becoming the second and third Americans to stand on Everest's summit. Prior to his Everest summit, Bishop participated in several other notable first ascents; the West Buttress route on Denali in 1951, and the South West ridge route on 6,170 meter Himalayan peak Ama Dablam in 1961. He worked for the National Geographic Society for most of his life, beginning as a picture editor in 1959 and serving as a photographer, writer, and scientist with the society until his retirement in 1994. He was killed in an automobile accident near Pocatello, Idaho later that year.

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24/09/1993

Ian Stuart Donaldson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1957)

Ian Stuart Donaldson, more commonly known as Ian Stuart, was an English neo-Nazi musician. He was best known as the front-man of Skrewdriver, originally a punk band which, from 1983 onwards, he rebranded as a Rock Against Communism white power skinhead band. He raised money through white power concerts with his Blood & Honour network.

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Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist and academic (born 1913)

Bruno Pontecorvo was an Italian–Russian nuclear physicist, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi and the author of numerous studies in high energy physics, especially on neutrinos. A convinced communist, he defected to the Soviet Union in 1950, where he continued his research on the decay of the muon and on neutrinos. The prestigious Pontecorvo Prize was instituted in his memory in 1995.

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24/09/1991

Dr. Seuss, American children's book writer, poet, and illustrator (born 1904)

Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American children's author, illustrator, animator, and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.

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24/09/1984

Neil Hamilton, American actor (born 1899)

James Neil Hamilton was an American stage, film and television actor, best remembered for his role as Commissioner Gordon on the Batman TV series of the 1960s, having first played a character by that name in 1928's Three Week-Ends. During his motion picture career, which spanned more than a half century, Hamilton performed in over 260 productions in the silent and sound eras.

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24/09/1982

Sarah Churchill, English actress (born 1914)

Sarah Millicent Hermione Touchet-Jesson, Baroness Audley, was an English actress and dancer and a daughter of Winston Churchill.

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Józef Nawrot, Polish-English footballer (born 1906)

Józef Nawrot was a Polish footballer who played as a striker. He was one of the top scorers in the Polish top division with over 100 goals. During his career, he played for WKS 1 PP Leg Wilno, Cracovia, Legia Warsaw and Polonia Warsaw. He appeared 19 times for his country, scoring 16 goals.

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24/09/1981

Patsy Kelly, American actress and dancer (born 1910)

Patsy Kelly was an American actress. She is known for her role as the brash, wisecracking sidekick to Thelma Todd in a series of comedy shorts produced by Hal Roach in the 1930s. Kelly continued to appear in similar roles after Todd's death in 1935.

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24/09/1980

Theodor Luts, Estonian-Brazilian director, producer, and cinematographer (born 1896)

Theodor Luts was an Estonian film director and cinematographer, brother of classic writer Oskar Luts. Theodor Luts was the first major figure of Estonian cinematography

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24/09/1978

James Bassett, American journalist and author (born 1912)

James Elias Bassett Jr. was an American newspaper editor and author, most notably of the best-selling novel Harm's Way, which was later adapted into the motion picture In Harm's Way.

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Ida Noddack, German chemist and physicist (born 1896)

Ida Noddack, née Tacke, was a German chemist and physicist. In 1934 she was the first to mention the idea later named nuclear fission. With her husband Walter Noddack, and Otto Berg, she discovered element 75, rhenium. She was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Hasso von Manteuffel, German general and politician (born 1897)

Hasso Eccard Freiherr von Manteuffel was a German baron born to the Prussian noble von Manteuffel family and was a general during World War II who commanded the 5th Panzer Army in the Battle of the Bulge. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds of Nazi Germany.

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24/09/1976

Philip Gbeho, Ghanaian composer and educator (born 1904)

Philip Comi Gbeho was a Ghanaian musician, composer and teacher. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Arts Council of Ghana and was a director of music and conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Ghana. However, he is probably best known as the composer of the musical arrangement for Ghana's National Anthem.

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24/09/1975

Earle Cabell, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Dallas (born 1906)

Earle Cabell was an American politician who served as the 48th mayor of Dallas from 1961 to 1964. Cabell was mayor at the time of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy and was later a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a conservative Democrat.

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24/09/1973

August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler and poet (born 1887)

August Johannes Kippasto was an Estonian wrestler who competed for the Russian Empire at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

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Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist (born 1908)

Josué de Castro, born Josué Apolônio de Castro, was a Brazilian physician, nutritionist, geographer, writer, public administrator, and activist against world hunger.

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24/09/1962

Charles Reisner, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1887)

Charles Francis Reisner was an American film director and actor of the 1920s and 1930s.

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24/09/1950

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (born 1863)

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, later Princess Louis of Battenberg and then Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom.

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24/09/1948

Warren William, American actor (born 1894)

Warren William Krech was an American stage and screen actor, who achieved Hollywood stardom during the early 1930s. Later earning the nickname the "King of Pre-Code", he typified the cunning, often-amoral leading men of early sound cinema. According to one critic, "no other actor embodied the classy mix of charm and sleaze that epitomized pre-Code Hollywood." He was also the first actor to portray fictional lawyer Perry Mason.

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24/09/1947

Andrew C. McLaughlin, American historian and author (born 1861)

Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin was an American historian known as an authority on U.S. Constitutional history.

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24/09/1945

Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter (born 1882)

Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger was a German experimental physicist. He is known as the inventor of the Geiger counter, a device used to detect ionizing radiation, and for carrying out the Rutherford scattering experiments, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus. He also performed the Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment, which confirmed the conservation of energy in light-particle interactions.

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24/09/1939

Carl Laemmle, German-American film producer, founded Universal Studios (born 1867)

Carl Laemmle was a German-American film producer and the co-founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures. Laemmle, along with Adolph Zukor, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, William Fox, and the Warner Brothers, was part of the group of Eastern European immigrant Jews that founded the movie industry in Hollywood, California, in the first decades of the 20th century. Laemmle produced or worked on more than 400 films.

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Charles Tatham, American fencer (born 1854)

Charles T. Tatham was an American fencer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in New York City and worked for his father's lead manufacturing company in Philadelphia. In 1891, Tatham was one of the founders of the AFLA/USFA.

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24/09/1938

Lev Schnirelmann, Belarusian-Russian mathematician and academic (born 1900)

Lev Genrikhovich Schnirelmann was a Soviet mathematician who worked on number theory, topology and differential geometry.

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24/09/1936

József Klekl, Slovene priest and journalist (born 1879)

József Klekl Jr. was a Slovene writer, journalist, and Roman Catholic priest in Hungary, later in Prekmurje.

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24/09/1933

Mike Donlin, American baseball player and actor (born 1878)

Michael Joseph Donlin was an American professional baseball outfielder and actor. His Major League Baseball (MLB) career spanned from 1899 to 1914 in which he played mainly in the National League for seven teams over 12 seasons. His most notable time was with the New York Giants, where he starred in the outfield for John McGraw's 1904 pennant winners and 1905 World Series champions. One of the finest hitters of the dead-ball era, his .333 career batting average ranks 28th all time and he finished in the top three in batting five times. In each of those same seasons, he also finished in the top ten in the league in on-base percentage, slugging percentage, and home runs.

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Alice Muriel Williamson, English author (born 1869)

Alice Muriel Williamson, who published chiefly under names the C. N. and A. M. Williamson and Mrs. C. N. Williamson, was an American-English author.

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24/09/1930

William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia (born 1857)

William Alexander MacCorkle, was an American teacher, lawyer, prosecutor, the ninth governor of West Virginia and state legislator of West Virginia, and financier. His residence in Charleston, known as Sunrise, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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24/09/1929

Mahidol Adulyadej, Thai prince (born 1892)

Mahitala Dhibesra Adulyadej Vikrom, the Prince Father, formerly Prince Mahidol Adulyadej, Prince of Songkhla or Mahidol Songkla, was the father of King Ananda Mahidol and King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, and the paternal grandfather of King Vajiralongkorn. He was also regarded as the father of modern medicine and public health in Thailand. He also founded the House of Mahidol or the present Royal Family of Thailand. His two sons reigned for more than eight decades, longer than the Ibn Saud siblings of Saudi Arabia, and the Nahyan siblings of Abu Dhabi.

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24/09/1904

Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese-Danish physician and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1860)

Niels Ryberg Finsen was a physician and scientist. In 1903, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science."

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24/09/1896

Louis Gerhard De Geer, Swedish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (born 1818)

Baron Louis Gerard De Geer af Finspång was a Swedish statesman, lawyer, and writer who served as the first Prime Minister of Sweden from 1876 to 1880. He previously served as Prime Minister for Justice from 1858 to 1870. De Geer was the principal architect of the 1865 representation reform, replacing the Riksdag of the Estates with a bicameral parliament and playing a pivotal role in modernizing Swedish politics.

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24/09/1892

Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American soldier and composer (born 1829)

Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore was an Irish-born American composer and military bandmaster who lived and worked in the United States after 1848. While serving in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War, Gilmore wrote the lyrics to the song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home". This was published under the pseudonym Louis Lambert in September 1863.

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24/09/1889

D. H. Hill, American general and academic (born 1821)

Daniel Harvey Hill, commonly known as D. H. Hill, was a Confederate general who commanded infantry in the eastern and western theaters of the American Civil War.

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Charles Leroux, American balloonist and skydiver (born 1856)

Charles Leroux was an American balloonist and parachutist.

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24/09/1863

William Debenham, English businessman, founded Debenhams (born 1794)

William Debenham was the founder of Debenhams, once one of the largest retailers in the United Kingdom.

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24/09/1848

Branwell Brontë, English painter and poet (born 1817)

Patrick Branwell Brontë was an English poet and artist. He was the only son of the Brontë literary family, and brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.

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24/09/1834

Pedro I of Brazil (born 1798)

Dom Pedro I, known in Brazil and in Portugal as "the Liberator" or "the Soldier King" in Portugal, was the founder and first ruler of the Empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1831 and King of Portugal in 1826.

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24/09/1802

Alexander Radishchev, Russian author and critic (born 1749)

Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev was a Russian author and social critic who was arrested and exiled under Catherine the Great. He brought the tradition of radicalism in Russian literature to prominence with his 1790 work Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow. His depiction of socio-economic conditions in Russia resulted in his exile to Siberia until 1797. He was the grandfather of painter Alexey Bogolyubov.

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24/09/1798

Bartholomew Teeling, leader of the United Irishmen executed during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (born c. 1774)

Bartholomew Teeling was an Irish military officer and nationalist who was the leader of the rebel forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and who carried out an act of bravery during the Battle of Collooney. He was captured at the Battle of Ballinamuck and subsequently executed for treason.

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24/09/1790

John Keyse Sherwin, English engraver (born 1751)

John Keyse Sherwin was an English engraver and history-painter.

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24/09/1742

Johann Matthias Hase, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (born 1684)

Johann Matthias (Matyhias) Hase was a German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer.

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24/09/1732

Emperor Reigen of Japan (born 1654)

Satohito , posthumously honored as Emperor Reigen was the 112th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Reigen's reign spanned the years from 1663 through 1687.

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24/09/1707

Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet and author (born 1642)

Vincenzo da Filicaja was a poet and politician, citizen of Grand Duchy of Tuscany. His poetry was compared to that of Petrarch, and his association with the Accademia della Crusca gave him access to royal patronage. He served as governor of Volterra and Pisa, successively, and finally in the Tuscan Senate.

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24/09/1655

Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (born 1617)

Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Eschwege was from 1632 until his death Landgrave of the apanage of Hesse-Eschwege, which stood under the suzerainty of Hesse-Kassel.

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24/09/1646

Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer and educator (born 1565)

Duarte Lobo was a Portuguese composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. He was one of the most famous Portuguese composers of the time, together with Filipe de Magalhães, Manuel Cardoso, composers who all began their academic studies as students of Manuel Mendes. Along with John IV, King of Portugal, they represent the "golden age" of Portuguese polyphony.

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24/09/1621

Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish commander (born 1560)

Jan Karol Chodkiewicz was a Polish–Lithuanian military commander of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army, who was from 1601 Field Hetman of Lithuania, and from 1605 Grand Hetman of Lithuania. He was one of the most prominent noblemen and military commanders of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth of his era. His coat of arms was Chodkiewicz, as was his family name.

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24/09/1605

Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer and educator (born 1547)

Manuel Mendes was a Portuguese composer and teacher of the Renaissance. While his music remains obscure, he was important as the teacher of several of the composers of the golden age of Portuguese polyphony, including Duarte Lobo and Manuel Cardoso.

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24/09/1572

Túpac Amaru, last of the Incas

Túpac Amaru or Thupa Amaru was the last Sapa Inca of the Neo-Inca State, the final remaining independent part of the Inca Empire. He was executed by the Spanish following a months-long pursuit after the fall of the Neo-Inca State.

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24/09/1562

Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent, English politician (born 1495)

Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent was Earl of Kent from 1524 to his death.

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24/09/1545

Albert of Mainz, German cardinal (born 1490)

Albert von Brandenburg was a German cardinal, elector, Archbishop of Mainz from 1514 to 1545, and Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1513 to 1545.

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24/09/1541

Paracelsus, German-Swiss physician, botanist, and chemist (born 1493)

Paracelsus, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.

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24/09/1534

Michael Glinski, Lithuanian prince (born c. 1470)

Michael Lvovich Glinski or Glinsky was a noble from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of distant Tatar extraction, who was also a tutor of his grand-nephew, Ivan the Terrible.

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24/09/1494

Poliziano, Italian poet and scholar (born 1454)

Agnolo Ambrogini, commonly known as Angelo Poliziano or simply Poliziano, anglicized as Politian, was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. His scholarship was instrumental in the divergence of Renaissance Latin from medieval norms and for developments in philology. His nickname Poliziano, by which he is chiefly identified to the present day, was derived from the Latin name of his birthplace, Montepulciano.

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24/09/1459

Eric of Pomerania, King of Norway, Denmark and Sweden (born 1382)

Erik of Pomerania ruled over the Kalmar Union from 1396 until 1439. He was initially co-ruler with his great-aunt Margaret I until her death in 1412. Erik is known as Erik III as King of Norway (1389–1442), Erik VII as King of Denmark (1396–1439) and has been called Erik XIII as King of Sweden. Erik was ultimately deposed from all three kingdoms of the union, but in 1449 he inherited one of the partitions of the Duchy of Pomerania and ruled it as duke until his death in 1459. His epithet of Pomerania was a pejorative intended to insinuate that he did not belong in Scandinavia.

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24/09/1435

Isabeau of Bavaria (born 1370)

Isabeau of Bavaria was Queen of France as the wife of King Charles VI from 1385 to 1422. She was born into the House of Wittelsbach as the only daughter of Duke Stephen III of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and Taddea Visconti of Milan. At age 15 or 16, Isabeau was sent to France to marry the young Charles VI; the couple wed three days after their first meeting. Isabeau was honored in 1389 with a lavish coronation ceremony and entry into Paris.

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24/09/1275

Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (born 1208)

Humphrey IV de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, 1st Earl of Essex was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and soldier who served as hereditary Constable of England.

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24/09/1270

Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castres

Philip ΙΙ of Montfort was a French nobleman, Count of Squillace in Italy from 1266/68, then Lord of Castres in 1270. He was the son of Philip I of Monfort, Lord of Tyre and Eleonore of Courtenay. His coat-of-arms was Gules, a lion rampant double queued argent, a label of four points azure.

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24/09/1228

Stefan the First-Crowned, Serbian king (born 1165)

Stefan Nemanjić, known as Stefan the First-Crowned, was the Grand Prince of Serbia from 1196 and the King of Serbia from 1217 until his death in 1228. He was the first Serbian king by Nemanjić dynasty; due to his transformation of the Serbian Grand Principality into the Kingdom of Serbia and the assistance he provided his brother Saint Sava in establishing the Serbian Orthodox Church.

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24/09/1218

Robert of Knaresborough (born 1160)

Robert of Knaresborough was a British hermit and saint who lived in a cave by the river Nidd at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. Though not formally canonised, he is celebrated as a saint through popular acclaim in both the Anglican and Roman Catholic traditions, his feast day being the 24th of September. Robert was born in York to wealthy parents but shunned that life, living instead as a hermit with a strong following and founding a holy order belonging to the Trinitarians in the market town of Knaresborough. He is also notable in that, after his death, his body exuded a healing oil, making him a myroblyte saint.

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24/09/1180

Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (born 1118)

Manuel I Komnenos was a Byzantine emperor of the 12th century who reigned over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the Mediterranean. His reign saw the last flowering of the Komnenian restoration, during which the Byzantine Empire experienced a resurgence of military and economic power and enjoyed a cultural revival.

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24/09/1143

Agnes of Germany (born 1072)

Agnes of Waiblingen, also known as Agnes of Germany, Agnes of Franconia and Agnes of Saarbrücken, was a member of the Salian imperial family. Through her first marriage, she was Duchess of Swabia; through her second marriage, she was Margravine of Austria.

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Pope Innocent II

Pope Innocent II, born Gregorio Papareschi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 14 February 1130 to his death in 1143. His election as pope was controversial, and the first eight years of his reign were marked by a struggle for recognition against the supporters of Anacletus II. He reached an understanding with King Lothair III of Germany, who supported him against Anacletus, and whom he crowned Holy Roman emperor. Innocent went on to preside over the Second Council of the Lateran.

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24/09/1120

Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (born 1072)

Welf II, also known as Welfhard and called Welf the Fat, was Duke of Bavaria from 1101 until his death. He died at Kaufering. In the Welf genealogy, he is counted as Welf V.

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24/09/1054

Hermann of Reichenau, German composer, mathematician, and astronomer (born 1013)

Blessed Hermann of Reichenau or Herman the Cripple, also known by other names, was an 11th-century Benedictine monk and scholar. He composed works on history, music theory, mathematics, and astronomy, as well as many hymns. He has traditionally been credited with the composition of "Salve Regina", "Veni Sancte Spiritus", and "Alma Redemptoris Mater", although these attributions are sometimes questioned. His cultus and beatification were confirmed by the Roman Catholic Church in 1863. His feast day is September 25.

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24/09/0887

Gao Pian, general of the Tang Dynasty (born 821)

Gao Pian, courtesy name Qianli (千里), formally the Prince of Bohai (渤海王), was a Chinese military general, poet, and politician of the Tang dynasty. He initially gained renown for defeating Nanzhao incursions, but later became known for his failure to repel the rebel army under Huang Chao and his mismanagement of Huainan Circuit, which he governed as military governor (jiedushi). A rebellion against him in 887 resulted in intense internal warfare in Huainan Circuit and his imprisonment by Qin Yan, who eventually put him to death.

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24/09/0768

Pepin the Short, Frankish king (born 714)

Pepin the Short was King of the Franks from 751 until his death in 768. He was the first Carolingian to become king.

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24/09/0366

Pope Liberius

Pope Liberius was the bishop of Rome from 17 May 352 until his death on 24 September 366. According to the Catalogus Liberianus, he was consecrated on 22 May as the successor to Julius I. He is not mentioned as a saint in the Roman Martyrology, making him the earliest pontiff not to be venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church and, along with Anastasius II, one of only two popes to be omitted from Catholic sainthood in the first 500 years of church history.

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