Died on Friday, 5th September – Famous Deaths

05/09/2024

Rebecca Cheptegei, Ugandan athlete (born 1991)

Rebecca Cheptegei was a Ugandan cross country, long-distance and marathon runner, who was the national record holder in the latter discipline and a former world champion in mountain running.

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Herbie Flowers, English musician (born 1938)

Brian Keith "Herbie" Flowers was an English musician specialising in bass guitar, double bass and tuba. He was a member of groups including Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky and was also a prolific session musician.

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Radha Charan Gupta, Indian historian of mathematics (born 1935)

Radha Charan Gupta was an Indian historian of mathematics, specialising in the history of Indian mathematics.

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Sérgio Mendes, Brazilian pianist and composer (born 1941)

Sérgio Santos Mendes was a Brazilian musician.

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Rich Homie Quan, American rapper (born 1990)

Dequantes Devontay Lamar, known professionally as Rich Homie Quan, was an American rapper. Beginning his career in 2011, Lamar first saw mainstream success with his 2013 single "Type of Way", which peaked at number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100. His 2015 single, "Flex ", saw further success at number 26 on the chart. Alongside fellow Atlanta rapper Young Thug, Lamar was a member of Cash Money Records' spin-off project Rich Gang, who found success with their 2014 single "Lifestyle".

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Laurent Tirard, French film director and screenwriter (born 1967)

Laurent Tirard was a French film director and screenwriter.

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05/09/2021

Sarah Harding, English singer, member of Girls Aloud (born 1981)

Sarah Harding was an English singer, model, and actress. Her professional career began in 2002 when she successfully auditioned for the ITV reality series Popstars: The Rivals, during which Harding won a place in the girl group Girls Aloud. The group achieved twenty consecutive top ten singles in the UK, six albums that were certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), two of which went to number one in the UK, and accumulated a total of five BRIT Award nominations. In 2009, Girls Aloud won "Best Single" with their song "The Promise".

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05/09/2019

Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (born 1940)

Francisco Benjamín López Toledo was a Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. In a career that spanned seven decades, Toledo produced thousands of works of art and became widely regarded as one of Mexico's most important contemporary artists. An activist as well as an artist, he promoted the artistic culture and heritage of Oaxaca state. Toledo was considered part of the Breakaway Generation of Mexican art.

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05/09/2018

Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist (born 1934)

Bhagwatikumar Sharma was an Indian author and journalist who wrote in Gujarati. Born in Surat and educated in languages, he edited a daily for several years. He wrote novels, short stories, poetry, essays and criticism. He received Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1984 and Sahitya Akademi Award in 1988.

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Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (born 1926)

Beatriz Segall was a Brazilian actress. One of her most notable works is the role of Odete Roitman on the telenovela Vale Tudo (1988), considered the greatest villain in the history of Brazilian television.

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05/09/2017

Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1920)

Nicolaas Bloembergen was a Dutch–American physicist recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona and at Leiden University in 1973.

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05/09/2016

Hugh O'Brian, American actor (born 1925)

Hugh O'Brian was an American actor and humanitarian who starred in the ABC Western television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961) and the NBC action television series Search (1972–1973). His notable films included the adaptation of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians (1965); he also had a notable supporting role in John Wayne's last film, The Shootist (1976).

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Phyllis Schlafly, American lawyer, writer, and political activist (born 1924)

Phyllis Stewart Schlafly was an American attorney and activist who was nationally prominent in conservatism. She opposed feminism, gay rights, and abortion, and campaigned against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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05/09/2015

Goh Eng Wah, Malaysian-Singaporean businessman, founded Eng Wah Global (born 1923)

Goh Eng Wah was a film distributor, and one of the pioneers in Singapore's cinema industry. He founded Eng Wah Global Pte Ltd, a cinema operator specialising in Chinese movies imported from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian singer-songwriter (born 1964)

Aadesh Shrivastava was a music composer and playback singer who worked in Indian films. Initially, he had worked as a drummer to music composers including R. D. Burman, Rajesh Roshan before working independently as a music director. Over the course of his career, he had composed music for over 100 Hindi films. Just a day after he turned 51, he died of cancer in Kokilaben Hospital.

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Chester Stranczek, American baseball player and businessman (born 1929)

Chester K. Stranczek was an American businessman, politician, and former Minor League Baseball player who was the mayor of Crestwood, Illinois, for 39 years, from 1969 to 2007. He drew national attention during his tenure for cutting expenses in part by privatizing city services, and for refunding residents' property taxes for more than a decade. He was also known as a colorful character with outspoken views on political and social issues, sometimes using a personal billboard posted near the town entrance to express his political and religious beliefs.

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05/09/2014

Bruce Morton, American journalist (born 1930)

Bruce Alexander Morton was an American television news correspondent for both CBS News and CNN in a career which spanned over 40 years.

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Mara Neusel, German mathematician, author, and academic (born 1964)

Mara Dicle Neusel was a mathematician, author, teacher and an advocate for women in mathematics. The focus of her mathematical work was on invariant theory, which can be briefly described as the study of group actions and their fixed points.

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05/09/2013

Edwin Bideau, American lawyer and politician (born 1950)

Edwin H. Bideau III was a lawyer, farmer, rancher, and Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 9th district.

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Geoffrey Goodman, English pilot, journalist, and author (born 1922)

Geoffrey George Goodman was a British journalist, broadcaster and writer. Following periods on the News Chronicle and the Daily Herald, he was a senior journalist on the Daily Mirror from 1969 to 1986. Goodman was known as "the doyen of industrial correspondents" for his extensive contacts and prominent role covering British industrial disputes.

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Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic (born 1975)

Isamu Jordan was an American journalist, musician, and professor. When he was 15 years old, he joined the staff of The Spokesman-Review, where he wrote articles for Our Generation, the teen section of the newspaper. After earning a Bachelor's degree in English and Journalism, he returned to the paper, where he wrote articles about music and pop culture. He also wrote and edited articles for the weekly news magazine Spokane7, which provided coverage on local entertainment, art and culture, dining, and sporting events. As a musician, he was a member of the band The Dead Casuals and was known for establishing the hip hop orchestra, Flying Spiders, in which he was the lead vocalist. As the creator, producer, and director of The Som Show, Jordan provided booking support and concert promotions for local bands and music artists, while his multimedia music website featured artist profiles, events, and venues, along with videos and concert reviews. Spokane's Online Music Awards, known as The Sommy Awards, honored local bands and musicians through nominations made through his website. In addition to his background in journalism and music, Jordan was an adjunct professor and Program Director of Intercultural Student Services at Whitworth University.

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05/09/2012

Ian Dick, Australian cricketer and field hockey player (born 1926)

Ian Robinson Dick was an Australian cricketer and field hockey player who played one first-class cricket match for Western Australia in 1950 and also captained Australia in the field hockey tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Born in Boulder, Western Australia, Dick was the brother of Alexander Dick and David Dick. The brothers' uncle, Billy Dick, captained Carlton to the 1914 VFL premiership. Having worked as a pharmacist outside of sport, Dick died in September 2012.

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Victoria Fyodorova, Russian-American actress and author (born 1946)

Victoria Fyodorova was a Russian-American actress and author. She was born shortly after World War II to Jackson Tate (1898–1978), then a captain in the United States Navy, and Russian actress Zoya Fyodorova (1909–1981), who had a brief affair before Tate was expelled from Moscow by Joseph Stalin. Victoria Fyodorova wrote the 1979 book, The Admiral's Daughter, which was about her experience attempting to reunite with her father.

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John Oaksey, English jockey and journalist (born 1929)

John Geoffrey Tristram Lawrence, 4th Baron Trevethin and 2nd Baron Oaksey, was a British aristocrat, amateur jockey and horse racing journalist and TV presenter. He was twice British Champion Amateur Jump Jockey, before becoming a journalist and racing personality both on television and through his charitable work for the Injured Jockeys Fund, which he helped establish. Oaksey was described as "quite possibly the outstanding racing figure of modern times, touching so many via his compelling writing, broadcasting, race-riding and tireless fund-raising".

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05/09/2010

Hedley Beare, Australian author and academic (born 1932)

Hedley Beare was an Australian educator, administrator and author. He led the creation of the Northern Territory and ACT education systems. Beare wrote, co-wrote or edited 18 books and contributed 40 book chapters and hundreds of journal articles. He delivered the 1986 Buntine Oration titled "Shared Meanings About Education: The Economic Paradigm Considered."

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Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian-Dutch poet and painter (born 1922)

Corneille – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, better known under his pseudonym Corneille, was a Dutch artist.

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05/09/2009

Gani Fawehinmi, Nigerian lawyer and activist (born 1938)

Chief Abdul-Ganiyu "Gani" Oyesola Fawehinmi,, SAN, was a Nigerian author, publisher, philanthropist, social critic, human and civil rights lawyer, and politician.

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05/09/2007

Jennifer Dunn, American engineer and politician (born 1941)

Jennifer Jill Dunn was an American politician and engineer who served six terms as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2005, representing Washington's 8th congressional district.

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Paul Gillmor, American lawyer and politician (born 1939)

Paul Eugene Gillmor was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the U.S. representative from the 5th congressional district of Ohio from 1989 until his death in 2007.

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Thomas Hansen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1976)

Thomas Hansen was a Norwegian alternative country musician performing under the name Saint Thomas.

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D. James Kennedy, American pastor and author (born 1930)

Dennis James Kennedy was an American Presbyterian pastor, evangelist, Christian broadcaster, and author. He was the senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from 1960 until his death in 2007. Kennedy also founded Evangelism Explosion International, Coral Ridge Ministries, the Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, the Knox Theological Seminary, radio station WAFG-FM, and the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, a socially conservative political group.

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Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek director and screenwriter (born 1939)

Nikos Georgiou Nikolaidis was a Greek film director, screenwriter, film producer, writer, theatre director, assistant director, record producer, television director, and commercial director. He is usually considered a representative of European avant-garde and experimental art film.

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05/09/2005

Roberto Viaux, Chilean general (born 1917)

Roberto Urbano Viaux Marambio was a Chilean Army General and the primary planner of two attempted coups d'état in Chile in 1969 and 1970. The first was against President Eduardo Frei Montalva, and the second sought to prevent Socialist Salvador Allende's election.

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05/09/2003

Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-American singer and actress (born 1927)

Gisèle MacKenzie was a Canadian-American singer, actress, and commercial spokesperson, best known for her performances on the US television program Your Hit Parade.

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05/09/2002

David Todd Wilkinson, American cosmologist and astronomer (born 1935)

David Todd Wilkinson was an American cosmologist, specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB).

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05/09/2001

Justin Wilson, American chef and author (born 1914)

Justin Elmer Wilson was a Southern American chef and humorist known for his brand of Cajun-inspired cuisine, humor and storytelling.

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Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and academic (born 1912)

Vladimir Žerjavić was a Croatian economist and demographer who published a series of historical articles and books during the 1980s and 1990s on demographic losses in Yugoslavia during World War II and of Axis forces and civilians in the Bleiburg repatriations shortly after the capitulation of Germany. From 1964 to 1982, he worked as an adviser for industrial development in the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

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05/09/2000

Roy Fredericks, Guyanese cricketer and politician (born 1942)

Roy Clifton Fredericks was a West Indian cricketer who played Test cricket from 1968 to 1977. He was a member of the squad which won the 1975 Cricket World Cup.

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05/09/1999

Alan Clark, English historian and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement (born 1928)

Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark was a British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), author and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade and Defence. He became a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1991.

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Allen Funt, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1914)

Allen Albert Funt was an American television producer, director, writer and television personality, best known as the creator and host of Candid Camera from the 1940s to 1980s, as either a regular television show or a television series of specials. Its most notable run was from 1960 to 1967 on CBS.

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Bryce Mackasey, Canadian businessman and politician, Postmaster General of Canada (born 1921)

Bryce Stuart Mackasey was a Canadian politician and diplomat. He served as twice a Member of Parliament, as a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec, and as ambassador to Portugal.

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05/09/1998

Ferdinand Biondi, Canadian radio host (born 1909)

Ferdinand Biondi, was a French Canadian radio broadcaster.

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Willem Drees, Jr., Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Transport (born 1922)

Willem "Wim" Drees Jr. was a Dutch politician of the Democratic Socialists '70 (DS'70) party and economist.

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Verner Panton, Danish interior designer (born 1926)

Verner Panton is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, especially plastics, and in vibrant and exotic colors. His style was very "1960s" but regained popularity at the end of the 20th century. As of 2004, Panton's best-known furniture models are still in production.

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Leo Penn, American actor and director (born 1921)

Leo Zalman Penn was an American television director and actor. He was the father of musician Michael Penn and actors Sean and Chris Penn.

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05/09/1997

Leon Edel, American author and critic (born 1907)

Joseph Leon Edel (1907–1997) was an American/Canadian literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel.

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Eddie Little Sky, American actor (born 1926)

Eddie Little Sky, also known as Edward Little, was an American actor. A citizen of the Oglala Lakota tribe Eddie had parts in 36 feature films and over 60 television shows, mainly westerns in the role of a Native American. He was one of the first Native American actors to play Native American roles such as his performance in the 1970 film A Man Called Horse.

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Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor and director (born 1912)

Sir Georg Solti was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner, and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis' influence on Hungarian politics, and being Jewish, he fled the increasingly harsh Hungarian anti-Jewish laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House, he found refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist.

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Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, and saint, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic saint.

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05/09/1996

Basil Salvadore D'Souza, Indian bishop (born 1926)

Basil Salvadore D'Souza was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore from 22 March 1965 until his death on 5 September 1996. He was the longest-serving bishop in the diocese's history.

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05/09/1995

Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian comedian, actor, and singer (born 1939)

Benyamin Sueb was an Indonesian comedian, actor and singer. He released 46 studio albums and starred in more than 50 films. He received two Citra Awards for Intan Berduri in 1973 and Si Doel Anak Modern in 1977.

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Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer (born 1922)

Salil Chowdhury was an Indian music director, songwriter, lyricist, writer and poet who predominantly composed for Bengali, Hindi and Malayalam films. He composed music for films in 13 languages. This includes over 75 Hindi films, 41 Bengali films, 27 Malayalam films, and a few Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Odia and Assamese films. His musical ability was widely recognised in the Indian film industry. He was an accomplished composer and arranger who was proficient in several musical instruments, including the flute, the piano, and the esraj. He was also widely acclaimed and admired for his inspirational and original poetry in Bengali.

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05/09/1994

Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (born 1921)

Shimshon Avraham Amitsur was an Israeli mathematician. A leading figure in twentieth-century noncommutative algebra, he is best known for his wide-ranging contributions to ring theory, including the theory of rings with polynomial identities (PI-rings), division algebras, the general theory of radicals, and the Amitsur complex in descent theory. His collected works, published in two volumes by the American Mathematical Society in 2001, are organized into four broad areas: general ring theory, structure theory of PI-rings, combinatorial PI-theory, and division algebras.

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John Newman, Australian politician (born 1946)

John Paul Newman was an Australian politician who served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1986 until his assassination in 1994.

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05/09/1993

Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (born 1914)

Claude Renoir was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir, the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and the nephew of director Jean Renoir.

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05/09/1992

Fritz Leiber, American author and poet (born 1910)

Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

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05/09/1991

Sharad Joshi, Indian author and poet (born 1931)

Sharad Joshi was an Indian poet, writer, satirist and a dialogue and scriptwriter in Hindi films and television. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990.

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05/09/1990

Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, English academic and diplomat (born 1907)

Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon was an English colonial administrator and diplomat who was Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and the last governor of British Cyprus.

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Jerry Iger, American cartoonist and publisher, co-founded Eisner & Iger (born 1903)

Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger was an American cartoonist and art-studio entrepreneur. With business partner Will Eisner, he co-founded Eisner & Iger, a comic book packager that produced comics on demand for new publishers during the late-1930s and 1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books.

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Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian politician (born 1896)

Ivan Mihaylov Gavrilov, also known as Vancho Mihaylov, was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary in interwar Macedonia and the last leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).

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05/09/1989

Philip Baxter, Welsh-Australian chemical engineer (born 1905)

Sir John Philip Baxter was a British-Australian chemical engineer. He was the second director of the University of New South Wales from 1953, continuing as vice-chancellor when the position's title was changed in 1955. Under his administration, the university grew from its technical college roots into the "fastest growing and most rapidly diversifying tertiary institution in Australia". Philip Baxter College is named in his honour.

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05/09/1988

Gert Fröbe, German actor and singer (born 1913)

Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe was a German actor who appeared in over 100, mostly German-produced films. He was best known in English-speaking countries for his work as the title character in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964). Other international films include his role as Baron Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), as General Dietrich von Choltitz in Is Paris Burning? (1966), as Colonel Manfred von Holstein in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), and as Inspector Bauer in Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg (1977).

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05/09/1986

Neerja Bhanot, Indian flight purser, known for her heroic actions on Pan Am Flight 73, during which she was killed (born 1963)

Neerja Bhanot was an Indian flight attendant. On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers on board Pan Am Flight 73, which had been hijacked by four terrorists from the Abu Nidal Organization after it made a stopover at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. Around 17 hours into the standoff, after she opened an emergency exit door and began helping passengers escape from the plane, Neerja was shot and killed by the hijackers. Shortly afterward, Pakistan's Special Service Group stormed the aircraft and captured all of the hijackers.

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05/09/1985

Johannes Hint, Estonian engineer (born 1914)

Johannes Rudolph Hint was an Estonian scientist and the only person to create and successfully run a limited company under the communist planned economy of the Soviet Union. With his company, Dessim Ltd, he earned millions for the Soviet Union. His most important scientific invention was the building material silikaltsiit (Laprex), which was developed through the execution of the disintegrator system. His inventions are still widely used in Germany, Austria, the United States, Japan and Russia.

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05/09/1984

Adam Malik, Indonesian politician and diplomat, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (born 1917)

Adam Malik Batubara was an Indonesian politician, diplomat, and journalist, who served as the third vice president of Indonesia from 1978 until 1983, under President Suharto. Previously, he served in a number of diplomatic and governmental positions, including Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly from 1977 to 1978, Speaker of the People's Representative Council from 1977 to 1978, Foreign Minister of Indonesia from 1966 until 1977, and president of the United Nations General Assembly from 1971 until 1972.

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Jane Roberts, American psychic and author (born 1929)

Dorothy Jane Roberts was an American author and poet, who claimed to be psychic and a spirit medium channeling a personality who called himself "Seth." Her publication of the Seth texts, known as the Seth Material, established her as one of the preeminent figures in the world of paranormal phenomena.

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05/09/1982

Douglas Bader, English captain and pilot (born 1910)

Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War, who achieved great success despite loss of the lower part of both his legs after a 1931 air crash, one amputation above the knee and the other below the knee.

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05/09/1980

Don Banks, Australian composer and educator (born 1923)

Donald Oscar Banks was an Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music.

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05/09/1979

Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (born 1884)

Alberto di Jorio was a cardinal of the Catholic Church and for many years along with the layman Bernardino Nogara the powerhouse behind the growing wealth of the Vatican and the Istituto per le Opere di Religione.

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05/09/1977

Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet and activist (born 1897)

Marcel Thiry was a French-speaking Belgian poet. During World War I, he and his brother Oscar served in the Belgian Expeditionary Corps in Russia.

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05/09/1975

Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (born 1881)

Alice Catherine Evans was an American microbiologist. She became a researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture where she investigated bacteriology in milk and cheese. She proved that Bacillus abortus caused the disease brucellosis in both cattle and humans, which led to the pasteurization of milk in the US in 1930. Evans was the first woman president elected by the Society of American Bacteriologists.

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05/09/1973

Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (born 1889)

John Frank Fournier was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Robins, and Boston Braves from 1912 to 1927. Fournier was known for having outstanding batting abilities but subpar fielding abilities.

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05/09/1972

Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer and businessman (born 1897)

Alan Falconer Kippax was a cricketer for New South Wales (NSW) and Australia. Regarded as one of the great stylists of Australian cricket during the era between the two World Wars, Kippax overcame a late start to Test cricket to become a regular in the Australian team between the 1928–29 and 1932–33 seasons. A middle-order batsman, he toured England twice, and at domestic level was a prolific scorer and a highly considered leader of NSW for eight years. To an extent, his Test figures did not correspond with his great success for NSW and he is best remembered for a performance in domestic cricket—a world record last wicket partnership, set during a Sheffield Shield match in 1928–29. His career was curtailed by the controversial Bodyline tactics employed by England on their 1932–33 tour of Australia; Kippax wrote a book denouncing the tactics after the series concluded.

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05/09/1970

Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (born 1942)

Karl Jochen Rindt was a racing driver who competed under the Austrian flag in Formula One from 1964 to 1970. Rindt won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1970 with Lotus, and remains the only driver to have won the World Drivers' Championship posthumously, following his death at the Italian Grand Prix; he won six Grands Prix across seven seasons. In endurance racing, Rindt won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1965 with NART.

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05/09/1966

Dezső Lauber, Hungarian golfer, tennis player, and architect (born 1879)

Dezső Lauber was a Hungarian all-round sportsman and architect. He was born in Pécs and died in Budapest.

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05/09/1965

Thomas Johnston, Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (born 1882)

Thomas Johnston was a prominent Scottish socialist journalist who became a politician of the early 20th century, a member of the Labour Party, a member of parliament (MP) and government minister – usually with Cabinet responsibility for Scottish affairs. He was also a notable figure in the Friendly society movement in Scotland.

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05/09/1961

Lewis Akeley, American academic (born 1861)

Lewis Ellsworth Akeley was an American academic. He served in various roles at the University of South Dakota (USD) between 1887 and his retirement in 1933, including as lecturer of various topics, including physics and chemistry; and Dean of Engineering for 25 years. He also served as a mentor to Ernest Lawrence, who would go on to earn the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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05/09/1955

Haydn Bunton Sr., Australian footballer and coach (born 1911)

Haydn William Bunton was an Australian rules footballer who represented Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL), Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) during the 1930s and 1940s.

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05/09/1954

Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (born 1860)

Eugen Schiffer was a German lawyer and liberal politician. He served as Minister of Finance and deputy head of government in the Weimar Republic from February to April 1919. From October 1919 to March 1920, he was again deputy head of government and Minister of Justice. In 1921, he once more became Minister of Justice. Schiffer was a founder-member of the liberal German Democratic Party (DDP) in 1918 and 1919 and co-founder in 1946 of its East German successor party, the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD).

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05/09/1953

Richard Walther Darré, Argentine-German agronomist and politician, convicted war criminal (born 1895)

Richard Walther Darré was one of the leading Nazi "blood and soil" ideologists and served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture. As the National leader for agricultural policy, he was a high-ranking functionary in the Nazi Party and as a Senior group leader in the SS, he was the seventh most senior commander in that organisation.

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05/09/1948

Richard C. Tolman, American physicist and chemist (born 1881)

Richard Chace Tolman was an American mathematical physicist and physical chemist who made many contributions to statistical mechanics and theoretical cosmology. He was a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

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05/09/1945

Clem Hill, Australian cricketer and footballer (born 1877)

Clement Hill was an Australian cricketer who played 49 Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1896 and 1912. He captained the Australian team in ten Tests, winning five and losing five. A prolific run scorer, Hill scored 3,412 runs in Test cricket—a world record at the time of his retirement—at an average of 39.21 per innings, including seven centuries. In 1902, Hill was the first batsman to make 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year, a feat that would not be repeated for 45 years. His innings of 365*, scored against New South Wales for South Australia in 1900–01, was a Sheffield Shield record for 27 years. The South Australian Cricket Association named a grandstand at the Adelaide Oval in his honour in 2003 and he was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2005. Hill is regarded as one of the best batsman of his era.

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05/09/1942

François de Labouchère, French soldier and pilot (born 1917)

François de Labouchere, born at Saint-Jean-le-Vieux (Ain) on 18 September 1917 and killed in air-to-air combat on 5 September 1942, was a French pilot of the Second World War.

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05/09/1939

Kathleen O'Melia, Canadian religious sister (born 1869)

Kathleen Fanny O'Melia, also known as Sister Mary of the Angels, Sister Mary Stella, and O'Melia-san, was an English-born teacher, social worker, and lay missionary for the Church of England and the Catholic Church in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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05/09/1936

Gustave Kahn, French poet and critic (born 1859)

Gustave Kahn was a French Symbolist poet and art critic. He was also active, via publishing and essay-writing, in defining Symbolism and distinguishing it from the Decadent Movement.

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05/09/1934

Sidney Myer, Russian-Australian businessman, founded Myer Stores (born 1878)

Sidney Myer was a Belarusian-born Australian businessman and philanthropist, best known for founding Myer, Australia's largest chain of department stores.

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05/09/1932

Francisco Acebal, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (born 1866)

Francisco López Acebal was a Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist.

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Paul Bern, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1889)

Paul Bern was a German-born American film director, screenwriter and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), where he became the assistant to producer Irving Thalberg. He helped launch the career of Jean Harlow, whom he married in July 1932; two months later, he was found dead of a gunshot wound, leaving what appeared to be a suicide note. Various alternative theories of his death have been proposed. MGM writer and film producer Samuel Marx believed that he was killed by his ex-common-law wife Dorothy Millette, who jumped to her death from a ferry two days afterward.

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05/09/1931

John Thomson, Scottish footballer (born 1909)

John Thomson was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Celtic and the Scotland national football team. He died as a result of an accidental collision with Rangers player Sam English during an Old Firm match at Ibrox.

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05/09/1930

Robert Means Thompson, American soldier, businessman, and philanthropist (born 1849)

Robert Means Thompson was a United States Navy officer, business magnate, philanthropist and a president of the American Olympic Association. He is the namesake of the destroyer USS Thompson (DD-627).

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05/09/1926

Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (born 1890)

Karl Harrer was a German journalist and politician, one of the founding members of the German Workers' Party (DAP) in January 1919, the predecessor to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, more commonly known as the Nazi Party.

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05/09/1922

Georgette Agutte, French painter (born 1867)

Georgette Agutte was a French painter.

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05/09/1920

Robert Harron, American actor (born 1893)

Robert Emmett Harron was an American motion picture actor of the early silent film era. Although he appeared in over 200 films, he is perhaps best remembered for his roles in the D.W. Griffith directed films The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916).

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05/09/1917

Marian Smoluchowski, Austrian-Polish physicist and mountaineer (born 1872)

Marian Smoluchowski was a Polish physicist who worked in the territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer of statistical physics and made significant contributions to the theory of Brownian motion and stochastic processes.

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05/09/1912

Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American LTG (Army), Medal of Honor recipient (born 1845)

Arthur MacArthur Jr. was a lieutenant general of the United States Army. He became the military Governor-General of the American-occupied Philippines in 1900; his term ended a year later due to clashes with the civilian governor, future-U.S. President William Howard Taft.

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05/09/1909

Louis Bouveault, French chemist (born 1864)

Louis Bouveault was a French scientist who became professor of organic chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris. He is known for the Bouveault aldehyde synthesis and the Bouveault–Blanc reduction.

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05/09/1906

Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (born 1844)

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian mathematician and theoretical physicist. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics and the statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics. In 1877, he provided the current definition of entropy, , where Ω is the number of microstates whose energy equals the system's energy, interpreted as a measure of the statistical disorder of a system. Max Planck named the constant kB the Boltzmann constant.

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05/09/1902

Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (born 1821)

Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician. He is known as "the father of modern pathology" and as the founder of social medicine, and to his colleagues, the "Pope of medicine".

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05/09/1901

Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist and academic (born 1853)

Ignacij Klemenčič was a Carniolan (Slovenian) physicist.

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05/09/1898

Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy (born 1841)

Sarah Emma Edmonds was a British North America-born woman who claimed to have served as a man with the Union Army as a nurse and spy during the American Civil War. Although recognized for her service by the United States government, some historians dispute the validity of her claims as some of the details are demonstrably false, contradictory, or uncorroborated.

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05/09/1894

George Stoneman, Jr., United States Army cavalry officer (born 1822)

George Stoneman Jr. was an American military officer and politician who served as the 15th governor of California from 1883 to 1887.

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05/09/1877

Crazy Horse, American tribal leader (born 1849)

Crazy Horse was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by White American settlers on Native American territory and to preserve the traditional way of life of the Lakota people. His participation in several famous battles on the northern Great Plains, among them the Fetterman Fight in 1866, in which he acted as a decoy, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, in which he led a war party to victory, earning him great respect from both his enemies and his own people.

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05/09/1876

Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (born 1790)

Manuel José Blanco y Calvo de Encalada was a vice-admiral in the Chilean Navy, a political figure, and Chile's first President (Provisional) (1826).

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05/09/1857

Auguste Comte, French sociologist and philosopher (born 1798)

Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte's ideas were fundamental to the development of sociology, with him inventing the very term and treating the discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences.

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05/09/1838

Charles Percier, French architect and interior decorator (born 1764)

Charles Percier was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days. For work undertaken from 1794 onward, trying to ascribe conceptions or details to one or other of them is fruitless; it is impossible to disentangle their cooperative efforts in this fashion. Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major proponents of the rich, grand, consciously-archaeological versions of neoclassicism we recognise as Directoire style and Empire style.

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05/09/1836

Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (born 1790)

Ferdinand Raimund was an Austrian actor and playwright.

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05/09/1803

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (born 1741)

Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos was a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782).

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François Devienne, French flute player and composer (born 1759)

François Devienne was a French composer of the Classical period and professor for flute at the Paris Conservatory.

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05/09/1786

Jonas Hanway, English merchant and philanthropist (born 1712)

Jonas Hanway, FRSA, was an English merchant, writer and philanthropist. He was the first male Londoner to carry an umbrella and was a noted opponent of tea drinking. Hanway created seventy-four printed works, mostly pamphlets, on a wide variety of subjects. Of literary importance is the Historical Account of British Trade over the Caspian Sea, with a Journal of Travels, etc.. He is also cited frequently for his work with the Foundling Hospital in London, particularly his pamphlets detailing the earliest comparative "histories" of the foundation versus similar institutions abroad.

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05/09/1734

Nicolas Bernier, French composer (born 1664)

Nicolas Bernier was a French Baroque composer.

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05/09/1629

Domenico Allegri, Italian singer-songwriter (born 1585)

Domenico Allegri was an Italian composer and singer of the early Baroque Roman School. He was the second son of the Milanese coachman Costantino Allegri, who lived in Rome with his family, and was a younger brother of the more famous Gregorio Allegri. Costantino sent three sons, Gregorio, Domenico and Bartolomeo, to study music at San Luigi dei Francesi, under the maestro di capella Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, brother of Giovanni Maria Nanino. The little boy had as schoolmates his elder brother Gregorio and then Antonio Cifra, Domenico Massenzio and Paolo Agostini.

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05/09/1607

Pomponne de Bellièvre, French politician, Chancellor of France (born 1529)

Pomponne de Bellièvre, seigneur de Grignon was a French statesman, chancellor of France (1599–1605).

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05/09/1569

Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London (born c. 1500)

Edmund Bonner was Bishop of London from 1539 to 1549 and again from 1553 to 1559. Initially an instrumental figure in the schism of Henry VIII from Rome, he was antagonised by the Protestant reforms introduced by the Duke of Somerset and reconciled himself to Catholicism. He became notorious as "Bloody Bonner" for his role in the persecution of heretics under the Catholic government of Mary I of England, and ended his life as a prisoner under Queen Elizabeth I.

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05/09/1562

Katharina Zell, German Protestant reformer (born 1497)

Katharina Schütz Zell was a Protestant reformer and writer during the Protestant Reformation. She was one of the first Protestant women to marry a clergyman. Katharina lived all of her life in Strasbourg. Strasbourg was incorporated within the Holy Roman Empire during this time period, but today is located in France close to the border of Germany.

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05/09/1548

Catherine Parr, Sixth and last Queen of Henry VIII of England (born c. 1512)

Catherine Parr was Queen of England and Ireland as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 12 July 1543 until Henry's death on 28 January 1547. Catherine was the final queen consort of the House of Tudor, and outlived Henry by a year and eight months. With four husbands, she is the most-married English queen. She was the first woman in England to publish in print an original work under her own name in the English language.

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05/09/1526

Alonso de Salazar, Spanish explorer

Toribio Alonso de Salazar was a Spanish navigator of Basque origin, who was the first Westerner to arrive on the Marshall Islands on 21 August 1526.

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05/09/1336

Charles d'Évreux, count of Étampes (born 1305)

Charles d'Évreux was the son of Louis, Count of Évreux and Margaret of Artois.

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05/09/1311

Amadeus Aba, Hungarian oligarch

Amadeus Aba or Amade Aba was a Hungarian oligarch in the Kingdom of Hungary who ruled de facto independently the northern and north-eastern counties of the kingdom. He held the office of Palatine several times, and he was also judge royal twice. He was assassinated at the south gate in the city of Kassa by Saxon burghers.

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05/09/1235

Henry I, duke of Brabant (born 1165)

Henry I, named "The Courageous", was a member of the House of Reginar and first duke of Brabant from 1183/84 until his death.

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05/09/1165

Nijō, emperor of Japan (born 1143)

Emperor Nijō was the 78th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1158 through 1165.

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05/09/0714

Shang, emperor of the Tang Dynasty

Emperor Shang of Tang, also known as Emperor Shao (少帝), personal name Li Chongmao, was an emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, ruling briefly in 710.

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05/09/0590

Authari, Lombard king (born 540)

Authari was king of the Lombards from 584 to his death. He was considered the first Lombard king to have adopted some level of Romanitas (Roman-ness) and introduced policies that led to drastic changes, particularly in the treatment of the Romans and greater tolerance for the Christian faith.

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