Died on Thursday, 25th September – Famous Deaths

25/09/2023

David McCallum, Scottish actor (born 1933)

David Keith McCallum was a Scottish actor and musician. After varied film roles in his native Britain, he gained wide recognition in the 1960s for playing secret agent Illya Kuryakin on the American television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–68), a role that earned him nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.

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25/09/2017

Jan Tříska, Czech actor (born 1936)

Jan Tříska was a Czech actor who played over 160 roles across stage, film, and television. He worked in the United States after emigrating there in the 1970s, but later returned to his native country following the Velvet Revolution. He was a three-time Czech Lion Award nominee, for Best Actor in Leading Role, and twice for Best Supporting Actor.

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25/09/2016

José Fernández, Cuban-American baseball player (born 1992)

José Delfín Fernández Gómez was a Cuban-born American professional baseball right-handed pitcher who played four seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was a member of the Miami Marlins from 2013 until his death in 2016. He stood 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall and weighed 243 pounds (110 kg) during his playing career. He was affectionately known as "Niño" to his teammates and fans due to the youthful exuberance with which he played the game.

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Arnold Palmer, American golfer (born 1929)

Arnold Daniel Palmer was an American professional golfer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most charismatic players in the sport's history. Since embarking on a professional career in 1955, he won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and the circuit now known as PGA Tour Champions. Nicknamed "the King", Palmer was one of golf's most popular stars and seen as a trailblazer, the first superstar of the sport's television age, which began in the 1950s.

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Nahid Hattar, Jordanian writer and political activist (born 1960)

Nahed Hattar was a Jordanian writer and political activist.

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25/09/2015

Claudio Baggini, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (born 1936)

Claudio Baggini was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop.

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John Galvin, American general (born 1929)

John Rogers Galvin was an American army general who served as the sixth dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a member of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century.

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Tom Kelley, American baseball player and manager (born 1944)

Thomas Henry Kelley was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians and the Atlanta Braves in parts of seven seasons spanning 1964–1973. Listed at 6' 0" [1.80 m], 185 lb. [84 kg], Kelley batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Manchester, Connecticut.

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Moti Kirschenbaum, Israeli journalist (born 1939)

Mordechai (Moti) Kirschenbaum was an Israeli media personality and documentarian.

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25/09/2014

Ulrick Chérubin, Haitian-Canadian educator and politician (born 1943)

Ulrick Chérubin was a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Amos, Quebec, from 2002 until his death in 2014. He was one of the first Black Canadians to be elected a mayor in Quebec.

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Sulejman Tihić, Bosnian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1951)

Sulejman Tihić was a Bosnian politician who served as the 4th Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2006. He also served as the second president of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) from 2001 until his death in 2014. From 2007 until his death, Tihić served as member of the national House of Peoples.

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Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English high jumper (born 1920)

Dorothy Jennifer Beatrice Tyler, MBE was a British athlete who competed mainly in the high jump.

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25/09/2013

Ron Fenton, English footballer, coach, and manager (born 1940)

Ronald Fenton was an English football player, coach and manager. He played as an inside forward and made nearly 200 appearances in the Football League.

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Choi In-ho, South Korean author and screenwriter (born 1945)

Choe Inho was a South Korean writer.

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José Montoya, American poet and academic (born 1932)

José Montoya was a poet and an artist from Sacramento, California. He was one of the most influential Chicano bilingual poets. He has published many well-known poems in anthologies and magazines, and served as Sacramento's poet laureate.

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Billy Mure, American guitarist and composer (born 1915)

Sebastian "Billy" Mure was an American session musician, guitarist, and songwriter who recorded several albums in the 1950s and 1960s in a variety of styles, including surf, Hawaiian, swing, pop, twist, garage rock, pioneered early arena rock and use of power chords, as well as lounge music. He pioneered proto hard rock in the 1950s.

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Pablo Verani, Italian-Argentinian lawyer and politician (born 1938)

Pablo Federico Verani was an Italian-born Argentine politician, formerly of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) who served as Governor of Río Negro from 1995 to 2003.

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Bennet Wong, Canadian psychiatrist and academic, co-founded Haven Institute (Gabriola Island, Canada) (born 1930)

Bennet Randall Wong, was a Canadian psychiatrist, author and lecturer who co-founded the Haven Institute, a residential experiential learning centre on the west coast of Canada, with Jock McKeen. His writings focused on mental illness, group psychotherapy, humanistic psychology and personal growth.

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25/09/2012

Billy Barnes, American composer and songwriter (born 1927)

Billy Barnes was a composer, lyricist and actor from Los Angeles, California. Barnes may be best known for his theatrical revues and his recurring role as Mr. Edlin on the television series Mad About You.

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John Bond, English footballer and manager (born 1932)

John Frederick Bond was an English professional football player and manager. He played from 1950 until 1966 for West Ham United, making 444 appearances in all competitions and scoring 37 goals. He was a member of the West Ham side which won the 1957–58 Second Division and the 1964 FA Cup. He also played for Torquay United until 1969. He managed seven different Football League clubs, and was the manager of the Norwich City side which made the 1975 Football League Cup Final and the Manchester City side which made the 1981 FA Cup Final. He is the father of Kevin Bond, a former footballer and coach.

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Eric Ives, English historian and academic (born 1931)

Eric William Ives was a British historian who was an expert on the Tudor period, and a university administrator. He was emeritus Professor of English History at the University of Birmingham.

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Alonso Lujambio, Mexican academic and politician (born 1962)

Alonso José Ricardo Lujambio Irazábal was a Mexican academic and politician who served as Secretary of Public Education in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón.

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Andy Williams, American singer (born 1927)

Howard Andrew Williams was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold certified and three platinum certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hosted the Andy Williams Show, a television variety show, from 1962 to 1971, along with numerous TV specials. The Andy Williams Show won three Emmy Awards. He sold more than 45 million records worldwide, including more than 10 million certified units in the United States.

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25/09/2011

Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1940)

Wangarĩ Maathai was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on planting trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 2004 she became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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25/09/2009

Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (born 1923)

Alicia de Larrocha y de la Calle was a Spanish pianist and composer. She was considered one of the great piano legends of the 20th century. Reuters called her "the greatest Spanish pianist in history", Time "one of the world's most outstanding pianists", and The Guardian "the leading Spanish pianist of her time".

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Pierre Falardeau, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1946)

Pierre Falardeau was a Québécois film and documentary director, pamphleteer and noted activist for Quebec independence.

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25/09/2008

Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician, 23rd President of Nauru (born 1932)

Derog Gioura was a Nauruan political figure. He was President of the Republic of Nauru (acting) in 2003.

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25/09/2007

Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian physician and politician (born 1919)

Haidar Abdel-Shafi was a Palestinian physician, community leader and political leader. He was the head of the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Conference of 1991 and served in the Palestinian Legislative Council for Gaza Governorate from 1996 to 1998.

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André Emmerich, German-American art dealer (born 1924)

André Emmerich was a German-born American gallerist who specialized in the color field school and pre-Columbian art while also taking on artists such as David Hockney and John D. Graham.

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25/09/2006

Jeff Cooper, American target shooter and author (born 1920)

John Dean "Jeff" Cooper was a United States Marine Corps officer and firearms instructor. He was the creator of the "modern technique" of handgun shooting, and an expert on the use and history of small arms.

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John M. Ford, American author and poet (born 1957)

John Milo "Mike" Ford was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet.

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25/09/2005

Don Adams, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1923)

Donald James Yarmy, known professionally as Don Adams, was an American actor. In his five decades on television, he was best known as bumbling Maxwell Smart in the television situation comedy Get Smart, which he also sometimes directed and wrote. Adams won three consecutive Emmy Awards for his performance in the series (1967–1969). Adams also provided voices for the animated series Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (1963–1966) and Inspector Gadget (1983–1986) as well as several revivals and spinoffs of the latter in the 1990s.

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Madeline-Ann Aksich, Canadian businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1956)

Madeline-Ann Aksich, was a Canadian businesswoman, philanthropist, artist and founder of the International Children's Institute. On May 1, 2001 she was appointed to the Order of Canada for her humanitarian work. After her death, she was remembered in the House of Commons by MP Francis Scarpaleggia. The Madeline-Ann Aksich Visual Arts Studio at Marianopolis College is named in her honour.

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George Archer, American golfer (born 1939)

George William Archer was an American professional golfer who won 13 events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship, the Masters in 1969.

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Urie Bronfenbrenner, Russian-American psychologist and ecologist (born 1917)

Urie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian-born American psychologist best known for using a contextual framework to better understand human development. This framework, broadly referred to as 'ecological systems theory', was formalized in an article published in American Psychologist, articulated in a series of propositions and hypotheses in his most cited book, The Ecology of Human Development and further developed in The Bioecological Model of Human Development and later writings. He argued that natural experiments and applied developmental interventions provide valuable scientific opportunities. These beliefs were exemplified in his involvement in developing the US Head Start program in 1965. Bronfenbrenner's writings about the limitations of understanding child development solely from experimental laboratory research and the potential for using contextual variability to provide insight into developmental processes was important in changing the focus of developmental psychology.

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Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani linguist and critic (born 1912)

Ghulam Mustafa Khan, SI was a Pakistani researcher, literary critic, linguist, author, scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics, educationist and religious and spiritual leader belonging to Naqshbandi order of Sufism.

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M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and author (born 1936)

Morgan Scott Peck (1936–2005) was an American psychiatrist and best-selling author who wrote the book The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978.

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Friedrich Peter, Austrian lawyer and politician (born 1921)

Friedrich Peter was an Austrian politician who served as chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria from 1958 to 1978. He was an active Nazi between 1938 and 1945 and an SS-Obersturmführer of the Waffen-SS.

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25/09/2003

Aqila al-Hashimi, Iraqi translator and politician (born 1953)

Aqila al-Hashimi was an Iraqi politician who served on the Iraqi Governing Council.

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Herb Gardner, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1934)

Herbert George Gardner was an American commercial artist, cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter.

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Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT Sloan School of Management.

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George Plimpton, American writer and literary editor (born 1927)

George Ames Plimpton was an American writer. He is known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review, as well as his patrician accent. He was known for "participatory journalism," including accounts of his active involvement in professional sporting events, acting in a Western, performing a comedy act at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.

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25/09/1999

Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (born 1930)

Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. She was noted for the female perspective in her writing, something before little-seen in sword and sorcery fantasy.

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25/09/1997

Hélène Baillargeon, Canadian singer and actress (born 1916)

Hélène Baillargeon (1916–1997) was a Canadian singer, actor, and folklorist probably best known as the host of the CBC Television show Chez Hélène from 1959 to 1973.

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Jean Françaix, French pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1912)

Jean René Désiré Françaix was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator known for his prolific output and vibrant style. Françaix composed for various genres, and is particularly known for his chamber works for piano as well as winds.

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25/09/1995

Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer and manager (born 1928)

David Lloyd Bowen was a Welsh football player and manager, who captained his country to their first ever World Cup finals, in 1958.

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Annie Elizabeth Delany, American dentist and author (born 1891)

Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany was an American dentist and civil rights pioneer. She was the subject, along with her elder sister, Sadie, of the oral history, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1993), written by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Delany had earned a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree from Columbia University in 1923, and was the second black woman licensed to practice dentistry in New York state. With the publication of the book, she became famous at the age of 101.

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25/09/1992

Ivan Vdović, Serbian musician (born 1961)

Ivan "Ivica" Vdović, also known as Vd, was a Serbian musician, drummer of Yugoslav rock bands such as Suncokret, Šarlo Akrobata and Katarina II.

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25/09/1991

Klaus Barbie, German SS captain, known as the "Butcher of Lyon" (born 1913)

Niklaus Barbie was a German officer of the Schutzstaffel and Sicherheitsdienst who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners—primarily Jews and members of the French Resistance—as the head of the Gestapo in Lyon.

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Viviane Romance, French actress and producer (born 1912)

Viviane Romance was a French actress.

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25/09/1990

Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian accountant and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of West Bengal (born 1897)

Prafulla Chandra Sen was an Indian politician and independence activist who was Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1962 to 1967.

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25/09/1988

Billy Carter, American farmer and businessman (born 1937)

William Alton Carter was an American farmer, businessman and brewer. The younger brother of U.S. President Jimmy Carter, he promoted Billy Beer and Peanut Lolita; and he was a candidate for mayor of Plains, Georgia.

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Arthur Võõbus, Estonian-American orientalist and scholar (born 1909)

Arthur Võõbus was an Estonian theologian, orientalist, scholar, author, professor, and church historian.

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25/09/1987

Mary Astor, American actress (born 1906)

Mary Astor was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941).

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Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor and playwright (born 1905)

George Emlyn Williams, CBE was a Welsh writer, dramatist and actor.

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25/09/1986

Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian-Canadian trade union leader and activist (born 1917)

Darshan Singh Canadian was a Sikh trade union activist and communist organizer in Canada and India.

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Donald MacDonald, Canadian union leader and politician (born 1909)

Donald MacDonald was a Canadian social democratic politician and trade unionist who led the Nova Scotia Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and was elected as a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1941. In 1968 he was elected President of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC).

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Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)

Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov , sometimes Semenov, Semionov or Semenoff was a Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation.

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Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist and academic (born 1909)

Hans Kamstrup Vogt was a Norwegian linguist who specialized in the Caucasian languages, especially Georgian. He also did significant early work on the Kalispel language and produced an interesting dictionary of the Ubykh language.

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25/09/1984

Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-American actor (born 1897)

Walter Davis Pidgeon was a Canadian-American actor. A major leading man during the Golden Age of Hollywood, known for his "portrayals of men who prove both sturdy and wise," Pidgeon earned two Academy Award nominations for Best Actor for his roles in Mrs. Miniver (1942) and Madame Curie (1943).

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25/09/1983

Leopold III of Belgium (born 1901)

Leopold III was King of the Belgians from 23 February 1934 until his abdication on 16 July 1951. At the outbreak of World War II, Leopold tried to maintain Belgian neutrality, but after the German invasion in May 1940, he surrendered his country, earning him much hostility, both at home and abroad.

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25/09/1980

John Bonham, English drummer and songwriter (born 1948)

John Henry Bonham was an English musician who was the drummer of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Noted for his speed, power, fast single-footed kick drumming, distinctive sound, and feel for groove, he is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential drummers in history.

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Lewis Milestone, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1895)

Lewis Milestone was a Russian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He twice won the Academy Award for Best Director, for Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), with a third nomination for The Front Page (1931).

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Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (born 1883)

Marie Under was an Estonian poet. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 16 times in 15 separate years.

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25/09/1972

Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentine poet (born 1936)

Flora Alejandra Pizarnik was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered "one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature", and has been recognized and celebrated for its fixation on "the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, the nature of intimacy, madness, [and] death".

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25/09/1971

Hugo Black, American captain, jurist, and politician, Associate Supreme Court Justice (born 1886)

Hugo Lafayette Black was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as a U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1927 to 1937 and as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1937 to 1971. A member of the Democratic Party and a devoted New Dealer, Black endorsed Franklin D. Roosevelt in both the 1932 and 1936 presidential elections.

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25/09/1970

Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss author and translator (born 1898)

Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist. His landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World War I, was an international bestseller which created a new literary genre of veterans writing about conflict. The book was adapted to film several times. Remarque's anti-war themes led to his condemnation by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as "unpatriotic". He was able to use his literary success and fame to relocate to Switzerland as a refugee, and to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen.

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25/09/1968

Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic (born 1891)

Hans Friedrich Karl Günther, popularly known as Hans F. K. Günther, was a German writer, advocate of scientific racism and eugenicist in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. He was also known as "Rassengünther" or "Rassenpapst". He is considered to have been a major influence on Nazi racialist thought.

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Cornell Woolrich, American author and screenwriter (born 1903)

Cornell George Hopley Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer. He sometimes used the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley.

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25/09/1961

Frank Fay, American actor and singer (born 1897)

Frank Fay was an American vaudeville comedian, film actor, and stage actor. Considered an important pioneer in comedy, he has been referred to as "the first stand-up." For a time he was a well known and influential star, vaudeville's highest-paid headliner, earning $17,500 a week in the 1920s, but he later fell into obscurity, in part because of his abrasive personality and fascist political views. He played the role of Elwood P. Dowd in the 1944 Broadway play Harvey by the American playwright Mary Coyle Chase. He is best known as the first husband of actress Barbara Stanwyck.

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25/09/1960

Emily Post, American author and educator (born 1873)

Emily Post was an American author, novelist, and socialite who wrote about etiquette.

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25/09/1958

John B. Watson, American psychologist and academic (born 1878)

John Broadus Watson was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a psychological school. Watson advanced this change in the psychological discipline through his 1913 address at Columbia University, titled Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It. Through his behaviorist approach, Watson conducted research on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising, as well as conducting the controversial "Little Albert" experiment and the Kerplunk experiment. He was also the editor of Psychological Review from 1910 to 1915. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Watson as the 17th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

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25/09/1955

Martha Norelius Swedish-born American swimmer (born 1909)

Martha Maria Norelius was a Swedish-born American competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder in five different freestyle swimming events.

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25/09/1946

Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (born 1879)

Hans Eppinger Jr. was an Austrian physician of part-Jewish descent who performed experiments upon Nazi concentration camp prisoners.

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25/09/1943

Alexander Hall, Scottish-Canadian soccer player (born 1880)

Alexander Noble Hall, sometimes known as Sandy Hall, was a professional soccer player who played as a centre forward in the Scottish League for Dunfermline Athletic, Dundee, Motherwell, and St Bernard's. Born in Scotland, he was a part of Canada's gold medal-winning 1904 Olympic team and finished the tournament as joint-top scorer, with three goals. The goals came in the form of a hat-trick in a 7–0 win over the United States, represented by Christian Brothers College.

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25/09/1941

Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player, golfer, and race car driver (born 1867)

Foxhall Parker Keene was an American thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder, a world and Olympic gold medallist in polo, and an amateur tennis player. He was rated the best all-around polo player in the United States for eight consecutive years, a golfer who competed in the U.S. Open, and a pioneer racecar driver who vied for the Gordon Bennett Cup. In addition to his substantial involvement in flat racing, he was also a founding member of the National Steeplechase Association.

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25/09/1939

Ali Saip Ursavaş, Turkish soldier and politician (born 1885)

Ali Saip Ursavaş, also known as Ali Saib Bey was an Ottoman officer of Kurdish origin, having served in the Ottoman and Turkish armies, and one of the early key members of CHP.

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25/09/1938

Lev Zadov, Ukrainian intelligence agent (born 1893)

Lev Mykolaiovych Zadov, also known by his nom de guerre Lev Zinkovskyi, was chief of military intelligence of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (RIAU) and later an operative of the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU).

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25/09/1933

Ring Lardner, American journalist and author (born 1885)

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries—Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—all professed strong admiration for his writing, and author John O'Hara directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him.

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25/09/1929

Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (born 1879)

Miller James Huggins was an American professional baseball player and manager. Huggins played second base for the Cincinnati Reds (1904–1909) and St. Louis Cardinals (1910–1916). He managed the Cardinals (1913–1917) and New York Yankees (1918–1929), including the Murderers' Row teams of the 1920s that won six American League (AL) pennants and three World Series championships.

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25/09/1928

Richard F. Outcault, American cartoonist, created The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown (born 1863)

Richard Felton Outcault was an American cartoonist. He was the creator of the series The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown and is considered a key pioneer of the modern comic strip.

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25/09/1926

Herbert Booth, English songwriter and bandleader (born 1862)

Herbert Henry Howard Booth was a Salvation Army officer, the third son of five children to William and Catherine Booth (Mumford), who later went on to serve as an independent evangelist. He oversaw the Limelight Department's development and he was the writer and director for Soldiers of the Cross.

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25/09/1918

Mikhail Alekseyev, Russian general (born 1857)

Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev was an Imperial Russian Army general during World War I and the Russian Civil War. Between 1915 and 1917 he served as Tsar Nicholas II's Chief of Staff of the Stavka, and after the February Revolution, was its commander-in-chief under the Russian Provisional Government from March to May 1917. He later played a principal role in founding the Volunteer Army in the Russian Civil War and died in 1918 of heart failure while fighting the Bolsheviks in the Volga region.

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25/09/1917

Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary, rebel commander, died on hunger strike (born 1885)

Thomas Patrick Ashe was an Irish revolutionary and politician. He was a member of the Gaelic League, the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers.

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25/09/1905

Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French educator and politician (born 1853)

Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, known as Godefroy Cavaignac, was a French politician.

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25/09/1901

Arthur Fremantle, English general and politician, Governor of Malta (born 1835)

General Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle was a British Army officer best known for his travels through the United States during the American Civil War. Whilst holding the rank of "Captain and Lieutenant Colonel" he spent three months, from 2 April to 16 July 1863, in a tour of North America, travelling through parts of the Confederate and Union territories. Contrary to popular belief, Fremantle was not an official representative of the British government, instead being merely a war tourist.

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25/09/1900

Félix-Gabriel Marchand, Canadian journalist and politician, 11th Premier of Québec (born 1832)

Félix-Gabriel Marchand was a journalist, author, notary and politician in Quebec, Canada. He was the 11th premier of Quebec from May 24, 1897, to September 25, 1900.

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John M. Palmer, American general and politician, 15th Governor of Illinois (born 1817)

John McAuley Palmer was an American politician. He was an Illinois resident, a general who fought for the Union during the American Civil War, the 15th governor of Illinois, and presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party in the 1896 election on a platform to defend the gold standard, free trade, and limited government.

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25/09/1893

Louise von François, German author (born 1817)

Marie Louise von François was a German writer, best known for her historical novel Die letzte Reckenburgerin (1871). She was a friend and correspondent of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer.

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25/09/1867

Oliver Loving, American rancher, co-developed the Goodnight–Loving Trail (born 1812)

Oliver Loving was an American rancher and cattle driver. Together with Charles Goodnight, he developed the Goodnight–Loving Trail. He was mortally wounded by Comanches while on a cattle drive.

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25/09/1849

Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (born 1804)

Johann Baptist Strauss I, also known as Johann Strauss Sr., the Elder or the Father, was an Austrian composer of the Romantic Period. He was famous for his light music, namely waltzes, polkas, and galops, which he popularized alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons—Johann, Josef and Eduard—to carry on his musical dynasty. He is best known for his composition of the Radetzky March.

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25/09/1828

Charlotta Seuerling, Swedish singer, harpsichord player, and composer (born 1783)

Charlotta Antonia "Charlotte Antoinette" Seuerling, was a blind Swedish concert singer, harpsichordist, composer and poet, known as "The Blind Song-Maiden". She was active in Sweden, Finland and Russia. Her last name is also spelled as Seijerling and Seyerling. Her first name was Charlotta Antoinetta, but in the French fashion of the time, she was often called Charlotte Antoinette. She was the author of the popular song "Sång i en melankolisk stund".

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25/09/1794

Paul Rabaut, French pastor (born 1718)

Paul Rabaut was a French pastor of the Huguenot "Church of the Desert". He was regarded by many as the leader and director of the proscribed church. He was a peacemaker and a scholar despite, due to persecution, living like a troglodyte for more than 30 years.

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25/09/1792

Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish politician and diplomat (born 1710)

Count Adam Gottlob von Moltke was a German-born Danish courtier, politician and diplomat who was a favourite of Frederick V of Denmark-Norway. Moltke was born at Riesenhof in Mecklenburg. His son, Joachim Godske Moltke, and his grandson, Adam Wilhelm Moltke, later served as Prime Minister of Denmark.

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25/09/1791

William Bradford, American soldier and publisher (born 1719)

William Bradford was a printer, soldier, and leader during the American Revolution from Philadelphia.

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25/09/1777

Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1728)

Johann Heinrich Lambert was a polymath from the Republic of Mulhouse, at that time allied to the Swiss Confederacy, who made important contributions to the subjects of mathematics, physics, philosophy, astronomy and map projections.

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25/09/1774

John Bradstreet, Canadian-English general (born 1714)

Major-General John Bradstreet was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served in King George's War, the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War. He was born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, to a British army lieutenant and an Acadian mother. He also served as the Commodore-Governor for Newfoundland.

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25/09/1703

Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish general (born 1658)

Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, 10th Earl of Argyll was a Scottish peer.

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25/09/1665

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1610)

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, was a German regent, Electress of Bavaria by marriage to Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, and co-regent of the Electorate of Bavaria during the minority of her son Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria from 1651 to 1654.

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25/09/1630

Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, Italian general and politician, Governor of the Duchy of Milan (born 1569)

Ambrogio Spinola Doria, 1st Marquess of Los Balbases and 1st Duke of Sesto was an Italian nobleman from the Republic of Genoa and a celebrated general in the service of the Spanish Empire. He distinguished himself in several key engagements during the Eighty Years' War and the Thirty Years' War, and is regarded as one of the greatest military commanders of his time and in the history of the Spanish army. Spanish-speaking sources often refer to him as "Ambrosio". For his service, he was granted the title Marquess of Los Balbases in the Spanish peerage and was invested into both the Order of the Golden Fleece and the Order of Santiago.

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25/09/1626

Lancelot Andrewes, English bishop and scholar (born 1555)

Lancelot Andrewes was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. During the latter's reign, Andrewes served successively as Bishop of Chichester, of Ely, and of Winchester and oversaw the translation of the King James Version of the Bible. In the Church of England he is commemorated on 25 September with a lesser festival.

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25/09/1621

Mary Sidney, English writer (born 1561)

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke was among the first Englishwomen to gain notice for her poetry and her literary patronage. By the age of 39, she was listed with her brother Philip Sidney and with Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare among the notable authors of the day in John Bodenham's verse miscellany Belvidere. Her play Antonius is widely seen as reviving interest in soliloquy based on classical models and as a likely source of Samuel Daniel's closet drama Cleopatra (1594) and of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1607). She was also known for translating Petrarch's "Triumph of Death", for the poetry anthology Triumphs, and above all for a lyrical, metrical translation of the Psalms.

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25/09/1617

Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan (born 1572)

Emperor Go-Yōzei was the 107th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Go-Yōzei's reign spanned the years 1586 through to his abdication in 1611, corresponding to the transition between the Azuchi–Momoyama period and the Edo period.

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Francisco Suárez, Spanish priest, philosopher, and theologian (born 1548)

Francisco Suárez was a Spanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian, one of the leading figures of the School of Salamanca movement. His work is considered a turning point in the history of second scholasticism, marking the transition from its Renaissance to its Baroque phases. According to Christopher Shields and Daniel Schwartz, "figures as distinct from one another in place, time, and philosophical orientation as Leibniz, Grotius, Pufendorf, Schopenhauer and Heidegger, all found reason to cite him as a source of inspiration and influence."

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25/09/1615

Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman and woman of letters (born 1575)

Lady Arbella Stuart was an English noblewoman who was considered a possible successor to Elizabeth I. During the reign of James VI and I, she married William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, another claimant to the English throne, in secret. King James imprisoned Seymour and placed her under house arrest. When she and her husband tried to escape England, she was captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London, where she died at age 39.

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25/09/1602

Caspar Peucer, German physician, scholar, and reformer (born 1525)

Caspar Peucer was a German reformer, physician, and scholar of Sorbian origin.

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25/09/1588

Tilemann Heshusius, German Gnesio-Lutheran theologian (born 1527)

Tilemann Heshusius was a Gnesio-Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer.

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25/09/1550

Georg von Blumenthal, German bishop (born 1490)

Georg von Blumenthal was a German Prince-Bishop of Ratzeburg and Bishop of Lebus. He also served as a Privy Councillor of the Margraviate of Brandenburg and Chancellor of the University of Frankfurt (Oder), commonly called the Viadrina.

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25/09/1536

Johannes Secundus, Dutch author and poet (born 1511)

Johannes Secundus was a Neo-Latin poet of Dutch nationality.

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25/09/1534

Pope Clement VII (born 1478)

Pope Clement VII was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 November 1523 to his death on 25 September 1534. Deemed "the most unfortunate of the popes", Clement VII's reign was marked by a rapid succession of political, military, and religious struggles—many long in the making—which had far-reaching consequences for Christianity and world politics.

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25/09/1506

Philip I of Castile (born 1478)

Philip the Handsome, also called Philip the Fair, was ruler of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1482, including the counties of Artois, Burgundy and Charolais from 1493, and the first king of Castile from the House of Habsburg in 1506.

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25/09/1496

Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and politician (born 1447)

Piero Capponi was an Italian statesman and military leader from Florence; he is celebrated for his bold defiance of the King of France in 1494.

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25/09/1396

Jean de Carrouges, French knight (born 1330)

Sir Jean de Carrouges IV was a French knight who governed estates in Normandy as a vassal of Count Pierre d'Alençon and who served under Admiral Jean de Vienne in several campaigns against the Kingdom of England. He became famous in medieval France for fighting in one of the last judicial duels permitted by the French king and the Parlement of Paris. The combat was decreed in 1386 to contest charges of rape Carrouges had brought against his neighbour and erstwhile friend Jacques Le Gris on behalf of his wife Marguerite. Carrouges won the duel. It was attended by much of the highest French nobility of the time led by King Charles VI and his family, including a number of royal dukes. It was also attended by thousands of ordinary Parisians and in the ensuing decades was chronicled by such notable medieval historians as Jean Froissart, Jean Juvénal des Ursins, and Jean de Waurin.

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Jean de Vienne, French general and admiral (born 1341)

Jean de Vienne was a French knight, general and Admiral of France during the Hundred Years' War.

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25/09/1367

Jakushitsu Genkō, Japanese poet (born 1290)

Jakushitsu Genkō was a Japanese Rinzai master, poet, flute player, and first abbot of Eigen-ji. His poetry is considered to be among the finest of Zen poetry. He traveled to China and studied Ch'an with masters of the Linji school from 1320 to 1326, then returned to Japan and lived for many years as a hermit. It was only toward the end of his life that he decided to teach Zen to others.

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25/09/1333

Prince Morikuni, Japanese shōgun (born 1301)

Prince Morikuni was the ninth and last shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan.

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25/09/1087

Simon I de Montfort, French nobleman (born c. 1025)

Simon I of Montfort or Simon de Montfort was a French nobleman. He was born in Montfort l'Amaury, near Paris, and became its lord. He was the son of Amaury I de Montfort and Bertrade. At his death he was buried about 20 miles (32 km) away in Épernon, because it was the site of the fortress he was instrumental in constructing.

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25/09/1086

William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (born 1025)

William VIII, born Guy-Geoffrey (Gui-Geoffroi), was Duke of Gascony (1052–1086), and then Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitiers between 1058 and 1086, succeeding his brother William VII (Pierre-Guillaume).

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25/09/1066

Harald Hardrada, Norwegian king (born 1015)

Harald Sigurdsson, also known as Harald III and given the epithet Hardrada in the sagas, was King of Norway from 1046 to 1066. He unsuccessfully claimed the Danish throne until 1064 and the English throne in 1066. Before becoming king, Harald spent 15 years in exile as a mercenary and military commander in Kievan Rus' and chief of the Varangian Guard in the Byzantine Empire. In his chronicle, Adam of Bremen called him the "Thunderbolt of the North".

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Maria Haraldsdotter, Norwegian princess

Maria Haraldsdotter was a Norwegian princess, as the daughter of Harald Hardrada and Elisiv of Kiev. She is the first known Norwegian to have been named Maria.

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Tostig Godwinson, English son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex (born c. 1029)

Tostig Godwinson was an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Northumbria and brother of King Harold Godwinson. After being exiled by his brother, Tostig supported the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada's invasion of England, and was killed alongside Hardrada at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066.

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