Died on Sunday, 7th September – Famous Deaths

07/09/2024

Dan Morgenstern, German-American jazz writer and editor (born 1929)

Dan Michael Morgenstern was an American jazz historian and archivist. Born to a Jewish family in Germany, Morgenstern fled Nazi-occupied Austria with his mother and in 1947 emigrated to the United States. He first began visiting jazz clubs as a teenager and worked at The New York Times. After serving in the U.S. Army, he attended Brandeis University where he first began writing about jazz music. He went on to become a professional jazz critic and editor. Morgenstern led several jazz magazines and directed the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University from 1976 to 2012. He earned eight Grammy Awards for his album liner notes and wrote two books on jazz.

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07/09/2023

Wanda Janicka, Polish architect, participant in the Warsaw Uprising (born 1923)

Wanda Janicka was a Polish architect, participant in the Warsaw uprising.

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07/09/2018

Pedro Jirón, Nicaraguan footballer (born 1939)

Pedro Jose Jirón Rugama "Peche Jirón" was a Nicaraguan professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Mac Miller, American rapper (born 1992)

Malcolm James McCormick, known by the stage name Mac Miller, was an American rapper. He began his career in Pittsburgh's local hip-hop scene in 2007, at the age of 15. In 2010, he signed a record deal with independent label Rostrum Records and released his breakthrough mixtapes K.I.D.S. (2010) and Best Day Ever (2011). Miller's debut studio album, Blue Slide Park (2011), became the first independently distributed debut album to top the US Billboard 200 since 1995.

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07/09/2015

Dickie Moore, American actor (born 1925)

John Richard Moore Jr. was an American actor who was one of the last survivors of the silent film era. A busy and popular actor during his childhood and youth, he appeared in over 100 films until the early 1950s. Among his most notable appearances were the Our Gang series and films such as Oliver Twist, Blonde Venus, The Story of Louis Pasteur, The Life of Emile Zola, Sergeant York, Out of the Past, and Eight Iron Men.

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Candida Royalle, American porn actress, director, and producer (born 1950)

Candida Royalle was an American producer and director of couples-oriented pornography, pornographic actress, sex educator, and sex-positive feminist. She was a member of the XRCO and the AVN Halls of Fame.

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Guillermo Rubalcaba, Cuban pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1927)

Guillermo Rubalcaba was a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and orchestrator specialising in danzón and cha-cha-cha music genres.

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Voula Zouboulaki, Greek actress (born 1924)

Paraskevi "Voula" Zouboulaki was an Egyptian-born Greek actress. She was the wife of actor Dimitris Myrat. She attended the Dramatic School of the National Theatre, the School of the National Odeon and the Law School of the University of Athens.

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07/09/2014

Kwon Ri-se, South Korean singer (born 1991)

Kwon Ri-se, known professionally as Rise, was a South Korean singer. She was a member of the South Korean girl group Ladies' Code under Polaris Entertainment. Prior to her joining Ladies' Code, she was crowned "Miss Korea Japan Jin" in the Miss Korea Japan 2009 pageant and represented Japan in Miss Korea 2009. She was one of the Top 12 contestants of MBC's Star Audition The Great Birth. She died on September 7, 2014 at age 23 after succumbing to injuries she sustained from a car crash that occurred four days earlier.

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Jack Cristil, American sportscaster and radio host (born 1925)

Jacob Sanford "Jack" Cristil was the long-time radio voice of Mississippi State University Bulldog men's basketball and football. Over his 58-year tenure (1953–2011), Cristil called 636 football games and 1,538 basketball games.

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Raul M. Gonzalez, Filipino lawyer and politician, 42nd Filipino Secretary of Justice (born 1930)

Raul Maravilla Gonzalez was the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and was the Secretary of Justice of the Philippines.

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Yoshiko Ōtaka, Chinese-Japanese actress, singer, and politician (born 1920)

Yoshiko Yamaguchi was a Japanese singer, actress, journalist, and politician. Born in China, she made an international career in film in China, Hong Kong, Japan and the United States.

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Harold Shipp, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1926)

Harold Gordon Shipp was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and the chairman of Shipp Corporation Limited.

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07/09/2013

Albert Allen Bartlett, American physicist and academic (born 1923)

Albert Allen Bartlett was an American professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. As of July 2001, Professor Bartlett had lectured over 1,742 times since September 1969 on Arithmetic, Population, and Energy. Bartlett regarded the word combination "sustainable growth" as an oxymoron, and argued that modest annual percentage population increases could lead to exponential growth. He therefore regarded human overpopulation as "The Greatest Challenge" facing humanity.

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Romesh Bhandari, Pakistani-Indian politician and diplomat, 13th Foreign Secretary of India (born 1928)

Romesh Bhandari was an Indian diplomat and administrator. Bhandari, during his career, served in various positions, including as the Foreign Secretary, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Governor of Tripura, Goa and Uttar Pradesh.

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Frank Blevins, English-Australian politician, 7th Deputy Premier of South Australia (born 1939)

Frank Trevor Blevins was an Australian politician and 6th Deputy Premier of South Australia from 1992 to 1993 for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. Blevins served in both the Legislative Council from 1975 to 1985 and in the House of Assembly from 1985 to 1997 as the member for Giles. He was a minister in a number of portfolios. In 1983 in a dispute about the use of volunteers in the ambulance service, as minister for Health, he publicly sided with the St. John Council who managed the ambulance service against two unions, the Ambulance Employees Association and the Miscellaneous Workers Association. John Cornwall, reflects that this position probably damaged his credibility at the time, with both unions and the Labor Party. Blevins was Treasurer of South Australia from 1992 to 1993. After Labor's heavy defeat at the 1993 state election, Blevins was the only Labor member from outside Adelaide.

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Pete Hoffman, American cartoonist (born 1919)

Pete Hoffman was an American cartoonist. He is known for his work on the adventure strips Steve Roper and Jeff Cobb.

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Ilja Hurník, Czech playwright and composer (born 1922)

Ilja Hurník was a Czech composer and essayist.

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Fred Katz, American cellist and composer (born 1919)

Frederick Katz was an American cellist and composer. He was among the earliest jazz musicians to establish the cello as a viable improvising solo instrument. Katz has been described in CODA magazine as "the first real jazz cellist."

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07/09/2012

César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1923)

César Fernández Ardavín was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 40 films between 1952 and 1979. His 1959 film El Lazarillo de Tormes won the Golden Bear at the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1969 film The Wanton of Spain was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival.

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Aleksandr Maksimenkov, Russian footballer and manager (born 1952)

Aleksandr Ivanovich Maksimenkov was a Soviet and Russian football player and coach.

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Daniel Weinreb, American computer scientist and programmer (born 1959)

Daniel L. Weinreb was an American computer scientist and programmer, with significant work in the environment of the programming language Lisp.

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07/09/2011

Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:

Pavol Demitra was a Slovak professional ice hockey player. He played nineteen seasons of professional hockey, for teams in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League (CSL), National Hockey League (NHL), Slovak Extraliga (SVK), and Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). A skilled offensive player, Demitra was a top-line forward throughout his career.

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Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:

Alexander Georgievich Karpovtsev was a Russian ice hockey player and an assistant coach for Ak Bars Kazan and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). In the National Hockey League (NHL), he played for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Islanders, and Florida Panthers. He, Alexei Kovalev, Sergei Zubov and Sergei Nemchinov were the first Russian players to have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup, winning it in 1994 with the Rangers. He was traded by the Maple Leafs to the Blackhawks for Bryan McCabe after a contract dispute where Karpovstev was seeking a salary that would have made him the highest paid defender on the team.

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Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:

Igor Borisovich Korolev was a Russian-Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Korolev played over 700 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1992 until 2004. Korolev returned to Russia, and played a further seven seasons in the Russian Super League (RSL) and the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) before retiring from active play in 2010. In 2011, Korolev accepted an assistant coach position with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the KHL. Korolev was killed in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash along with nearly the entire roster of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. A native of the Russian Republic of the Soviet Union, Korolev became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 2000.

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Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:

Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Swedish professional ice hockey player who played as a goaltender. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in the top-tier league in Sweden. He was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2000 NHL entry draft and played one season elsewhere in the Red Wings organization, but never played in the National Hockey League (NHL). He then returned to Europe and HV71, where he played three seasons before moving to Russia in 2010.

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Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:

Jan Marek was a Czech professional ice hockey centre. He was selected by the New York Rangers in the 8th round of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.

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Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:

Byron Brad McCrimmon was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. A defenceman, he played over 1,200 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston Bruins, Philadelphia Flyers, Calgary Flames, Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers and Phoenix Coyotes between 1979 and 1997. He achieved his greatest success in Calgary, where he was named a second team All-Star in 1987–88, played in the 1988 NHL All-Star Game and won the Plus-Minus Award with a league leading total of +48. In 1989, he helped the Flames win their only Stanley Cup championship. His career plus-minus of +444 is the 10th highest total in NHL history, and the highest among players not inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

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Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:

Karel Rachůnek was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Rachunek was the captain of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) when the team was decimated in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash. He played eight seasons in North America in the National Hockey League (NHL). Rachůnek was drafted in the ninth round, 229th overall, by the Ottawa Senators in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. Rachunek was the brother of Ivan Rachůnek and Tomáš Rachůnek who also played professional ice hockey.

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Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:

Kārlis Skrastiņš was a Latvian professional ice hockey player. Skrastiņš was drafted by the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League in 1998 as a defenceman and spent twelve years in the league playing for the Predators, the Colorado Avalanche, the Florida Panthers, and the Dallas Stars.

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Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:

Ruslan Albertovich Salei was a Belarusian professional ice hockey player. Salei played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, the latter of which selected him ninth overall in the 1996 NHL entry draft.

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Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:

Josef Vašíček was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Vašíček last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and died in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash. He had played seven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Carolina Hurricanes, Nashville Predators and New York Islanders before moving to Russia in 2008 to play for Yaroslavl.

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07/09/2010

Amar Garibović, Serbian skier (born 1991)

Amar Garibović was a Serbian cross-country skier who had competed since 2004. He finished 80th in the 15 km event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

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William H. Goetzmann, American historian and author (born 1930)

William Harry Goetzmann was an American historian and emeritus professor in the American Studies and American Civilization Programs at the University of Texas at Austin. He attended Yale University as a graduate student and was friends with Tom Wolfe while there. His work on the American West won him the highest prizes for historians, the Parkman Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. He has written and published extensively on American philosophy, American political history, and the American arts. An advocate for the importance of history as a public discussion, he has served in various capacities in television and film production, notably for PBS. He was most recently the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair Emeritus in History and American Studies. His last book published during his lifetime was Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought From Paine to Pragmatism (2009).

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Barbara Holland, American author (born 1933)

Barbara Murray Holland was an American author who wrote in defense of such modern-day vices as cursing, drinking, eating fatty food and smoking cigarettes, as well as a memoir of her time spent growing up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.

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John Kluge, German-American businessman (born 1914)

John Werner Kluge was a German-American entrepreneur who became a television industry mogul in the United States. He was the founder and chairman of Metromedia. At one time he was the richest person in the U.S.

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Glenn Shadix, American actor (born 1952)

William Glenn Shadix-Scott was an American actor and comedian. He was best known for his roles as Otho Fenlock in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and the Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas.

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Walter White, American fictional protagonist of television series Breaking Bad (born 1958)

Walter Hartwell White, also known by his alias Heisenberg, is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the American crime drama television series Breaking Bad. He is portrayed by Bryan Cranston.

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07/09/2008

Kune Biezeveld, Dutch minister and theologian (born 1948)

Kunegonda Elizabeth (Kune) Biezeveld was a Dutch theologian. She was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church.

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Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian rugby player and actor (born 1931)

Ilarion Ciobanu was a Romanian actor. He has been described as "a legend" in the press and the last true Romanian comic.

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Don Haskins, American basketball player and coach (born 1930)

Donald Lee Haskins, nicknamed "the Bear", was an American basketball player and coach. He played college basketball for three years under coach Henry Iba at Oklahoma A&M. He was the head coach at the University of Texas at El Paso from 1961 to 1999. In 1966 his team won the NCAA tournament over the Wildcats of the University of Kentucky, coached by Adolph Rupp. The watershed game highlighted the end of racial segregation in college basketball.

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Gregory Mcdonald, American author (born 1937)

Gregory Burke Christopher Mcdonald was an American novelist best known for his mystery adventures featuring investigative reporter Irwin Maurice "Fletch" Fletcher.

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Nagi Noda, Japanese director and producer (born 1973)

Nagi Noda was a Japanese pop artist and art director born in Tokyo.

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07/09/2004

Bob Boyd, American baseball player (born 1925)

Robert Richard Boyd was an American first baseman in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball.

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07/09/2003

Warren Zevon, American singer-songwriter (born 1947)

Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer and songwriter. His most famous compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money" and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner". All three songs are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy (1978), the title track of which is also well-known. He also wrote major hits that were recorded by other artists, including "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", "Mohammed's Radio", "Carmelita" and "Hasten Down the Wind". Per The New York Times, "Mr. Zevon had a pulp-fiction imagination" which yielded "terse, action-packed, gallows-humored tales that could sketch an entire screenplay in four minutes and often had death as a punchline. But there was also vulnerability and longing in Mr. Zevon's ballads, like 'Mutineer,' 'Accidentally Like a Martyr' and 'Hasten Down the Wind'."

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07/09/2002

Uziel Gal, German-Israeli colonel and gun designer, designed the Uzi (born 1923)

Uziel "Uzi" Gal was a German-born Israeli firearm designer who invented and became the eponym of the Uzi submachine gun.

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07/09/2001

Igor Buketoff, American conductor and educator (born 1915)

Igor Konstantin Buketoff was an American conductor, arranger and teacher. He had a special affinity with Russian classical music and with Sergei Rachmaninoff in particular. He also strongly promoted British contemporary music, and new music in general.

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Spede Pasanen, Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor (born 1930)

Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor, who has been called an "all-around entertainer". During his career he directed, wrote, produced or acted in about 50 movies and participated in numerous TV productions, including the comedy Spede Show and the game-show Speden Spelit. Much of his more commercial work was in collaboration with Vesa-Matti Loiri and Simo Salminen. Pasanen's films and TV shows, often made quickly and on a low budget, usually received little critical recognition but were popular among Finnish audiences from the 1960s onwards. He was the owner of his own film production company, Filmituotanto Spede Pasanen Ky. Pasanen was ranked 17th at the Suuret suomalaiset competition show broadcast by Yleisradio.

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Billie Lou Watt, American actress and voice artist (born 1924)

Billie Lou Watt was an American actress. She was best known as the original English dub voice of the title characters of the 1960s anime series Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion, the character Elsie the Cow for Borden Cheese's television commercials, and a live-action turn playing Ellie Harper Bergman on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow.

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07/09/2000

Bruce Gyngell, Australian-English broadcaster (born 1929)

Bruce Gyngell AO was an Australian television executive, active for more than 40 years in both Australian and UK television. Although Gyngell began his career in radio, in the 1950s he stepped into the arena of early television broadcasting, helping to set up Channel 9 Sydney, the first commercial TV station in Australia. He was managing director of the breakfast television franchise holder TV-am in the United Kingdom from 1984 to 1992.

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07/09/1997

Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (born 1930)

Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa za Banga, often shortened to Mobutu Sese Seko or Mobutu and also known by his initials MSS, was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the first and only president of Zaire from 1971 to 1997. Previously, Mobutu served as the second president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 1965 to 1971.

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07/09/1996

Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress (born 1942)

Bibi Besch was an Austrian-American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Dr. Carol Marcus in the science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). Her other notable film roles were in Who's That Girl (1987), and Tremors (1990). Besch also appeared in a number of television productions, including the television film The Day After (1983) and The Jeff Foxworthy Show, and received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

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07/09/1995

Russell Johnson, American cartoonist (born 1893)

Russell Johnson was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator and artist of Mister Oswald, a monthly comic strip that ran for more than six decades in the national trade journal now called Hardware Retailing. The strip documents a large portion of the history of American business life, as seen through the eyes of the main character, Oscar S. Oswald, a prominent citizen of the fictional Dippy Center, US. Although the strip was known primarily to hardware retailers, a book, Forty Years With Mister Oswald, was published in 1968, collecting the comic strips.

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07/09/1994

Eric Crozier, English director and playwright (born 1914)

Eric Crozier OBE was a British theatrical director, opera librettist and producer, long associated with Benjamin Britten.

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Dennis Morgan, American actor (born 1908)

Dennis Morgan was an American actor-singer. He used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame.

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Terence Young, Chinese-English director and screenwriter (born 1915)

Stewart Terence Herbert Young was a British film director and screenwriter who worked in the United Kingdom, Europe and Hollywood. He is best known for directing three James Bond films: the first two films in the series, Dr. No (1962) and From Russia with Love (1963), and Thunderball (1965). His other films include the Audrey Hepburn thrillers Wait Until Dark (1967) and Bloodline (1979), the historical drama Mayerling (1968), the infamous Korean War epic Inchon (1981), and the Charles Bronson films Cold Sweat (1970), Red Sun (1971), and The Valachi Papers (1972).

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07/09/1991

Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1907)

Edwin Mattison McMillan was an American physicist credited with being the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg.

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07/09/1990

Earle E. Partridge, American general and pilot (born 1900)

Earle Everard "Pat" Partridge was a four-star general in the United States Air Force and a Command Pilot.

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A. J. P. Taylor, English historian and journalist (born 1906)

Alan John Percivale Taylor was an English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his television lectures. His combination of academic rigour and popular appeal led the historian Richard Overy to describe him as "the Macaulay of our age". In a 2011 poll by History Today magazine, he was named the fourth most important historian of the previous 60 years.

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07/09/1989

Mikhail Goldstein, Ukrainian violinist and composer (born 1917)

Mikhail Emmanuilovich Goldstein was a German composer, violinist and violin teacher of Jewish origin, brother of prominent violinist Boris Goldstein.

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07/09/1988

Sedad Hakkı Eldem, Turkish architect (born 1908)

Sedad Hakkı Eldem was a Turkish architect known as a proponent of nationalized modern architecture in Turkey.

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07/09/1986

Les Bury, English-Australian public servant and politician, 26th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1913)

Leslie Harry Ernest Bury CMG was an Australian politician and economist. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served in the House of Representatives between 1956 and 1974, representing the Division of Wentworth. He held ministerial office in Coalition governments for nearly a decade, serving as Minister for Air (1961–1962), Housing (1963–1966), Labour and National Service (1966–1969), Treasurer (1969–1971) and Foreign Affairs (1971).

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07/09/1985

Jacoba van Velde, Dutch author (born 1903)

Jacoba van Velde was a Dutch writer, translator, and dramaturge. Her first novel, De grote zaal, appeared in the literary journal Querido in 1953 and was translated into thirteen languages within ten years. During her life around 75,000 copies of De grote zaal were sold. In 2010, the book was chosen for the Nederland Leest campaign and copies were given away for free to members of all the public libraries in The Netherlands.

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José Zabala-Santos, Filipino cartoonist (born 1911)

José Zabala-Santos, nicknamed as "Mang Pepe" by hometown neighbors and as "Zabala" by colleagues in the cartooning profession, was a successful cartoonist in the Philippines and was one of the pioneers of Philippine comics. He became one of the most popular cartoonists in the Philippines during the 1950s because of his cartoon characters such Popoy, Sianong Sano, and Lukas Malakas. Zabala is one of the "respected names" of artists in the Philippine cartoon and comics industry.

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07/09/1984

Joe Cronin, American baseball player and manager (born 1906)

Joseph Edward Cronin was an American professional baseball player, manager and executive. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a shortstop, most notably as a member of the Boston Red Sox. Cronin spent over 48 years in baseball, culminating with 14 years as president of the American League (AL).

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Josyf Slipyj, Ukrainian cardinal (born 1892)

Josyf Slipyi was a Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and a cardinal of the Catholic Church.

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Don Tallon, Australian cricketer (born 1916)

Donald Tallon was an Australian cricketer who played 21 Test matches as a wicket-keeper between 1946 and 1953. He was widely regarded by his contemporaries as Australia's finest ever wicket-keeper and one of the best in Test history, with an understated style, an ability to anticipate the flight, length and spin of the ball and an efficient stumping technique. Tallon toured England as part of Don Bradman's Invincibles of 1948 and was recognised as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1949 for his performances during that season. During his Test career, Tallon made 58 dismissals comprising 50 catches and 8 stumpings.

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07/09/1983

Tamurbek Dawletschin, Tatar author and prisoner of war (born 1904)

Tamurbek Dawletschin was a Soviet writer and intellectual, best known for publishing one of the few memoirs by a Soviet prisoner of war held by Germany during World War II.

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07/09/1982

Ken Boyer, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1931)

Kenton Lloyd Boyer was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) third baseman, coach and manager who played with the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, and Los Angeles Dodgers for 15 seasons, 1955 through 1969.

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07/09/1981

Christy Brown, Irish author, poet, and painter (born 1932)

Christy Brown was an Irish writer and painter. He had cerebral palsy, and this allowed him to write or type only with the toes of one foot. His most recognized work is his autobiography, titled My Left Foot (1954). It was later made into a 1989 Academy Award-winning film of the same name, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Brown.

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07/09/1979

I. A. Richards, English literary critic and rhetorician (born 1893)

Ivor Armstrong Richards CH, known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician. His work contributed to the foundations of New Criticism, a formalist movement in literary theory which emphasized the close reading of a literary text, especially poetry, in an effort to discover how a work of literature functions as a self-contained and self-referential æsthetic object.

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07/09/1978

Cecil Aronowitz, South African-English viola player (born 1916)

Cecil Aronowitz was a British viola player, a founding member of the Melos Ensemble, a leading chamber musician, and an influential teacher at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music.

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Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (born 1946)

Keith John Moon was an English musician who was the drummer for the rock band the Who. Regarded as one of the greatest drummers in the history of rock music, he was noted for his unique style of playing and his eccentric, self-destructive behaviour.

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Charles Williams, English composer and conductor (born 1893)

Charles Williams was a British composer and conductor, contributing music to over 50 films. While his career ran from 1934 through 1968, much of his work came to the big screen as stock music and was therefore uncredited.

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07/09/1974

S. M. Rasamanickam, Ceylon politician (born 1913)

Sinnappu Moothathamby Rasamanickam was a Ceylon Tamil politician and Member of Parliament.

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07/09/1973

Holling C. Holling, American author and illustrator (born 1900)

Holling Clancy Holling was an American writer and illustrator, best known for the book Paddle-to-the-Sea, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942. Paddle to the Sea won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962. In 1966, Bill Mason directed the Oscar-nominated short film Paddle to the Sea, based on Holling's book, for the National Film Board of Canada.

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Lev Vladimirsky, Kazakhstani-Russian admiral (born 1903)

Lev Anatolevich Vladimirsky, was a Soviet naval officer and an Admiral (1954).

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07/09/1972

Dimitris Poulianos, Greek painter and illustrator (born 1899)

Dimitris Poulianos was a Greek artist responsible for creating a large body of oil paintings and charcoal drawings that continue to hold value amongst private collectors and prominent, international galleries. Poulianos trained at the Athens School of Fine Arts with Georgiou Roilo in 1923 and then 1924–28 at the Académie Julian in Paris where he was awarded the Smit prize. In 1931, he was awarded an MA in art from Columbia University, New York. He was known for "living and breathing his art" and never took a wife. His work is characterized by turbulent, expressionistic outdoor scenes with a particular love for the sea and night sky. Exhibitions were offered to him early in his career at galleries in Athens, Paris and New York which has generated a strong interest in his work by collectors around the world. A book covering his work has recently been published by ikarianstudies.org in 2008 as a result of extensive research undertaken by Petros Themeles, with cooperation from the children of his nephews, Constantinos and Aris Poulianos and others amongst the remaining relatives, personal friends and collectors who retain his original work.

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07/09/1971

Spring Byington, American actress (born 1886)

Spring Dell Byington was an American actress. Her career included a seven-year run on radio and television as the star of December Bride. She was an MGM contract player who appeared in films from the 1930s to the 1960s.

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Ludwig Suthaus, German tenor (born 1906)

Ludwig Suthaus was a German operatic heldentenor.

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07/09/1970

Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Polish-Israeli journalist and politician, 1st Internal Affairs Minister of Israel (born 1879)

Yitzhak Gruenbaum was a Polish and later Israeli politician. He was a leader of the Bloc of National Minorities and one of the top Zionist leaders in interwar Poland. In 1933 he travelled to Mandatory Palestine and became active in Labor Zionist groups. He served as the first Minister of the Interior of Israel. In 1952 he was a candidate for President of Israel.

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07/09/1969

Everett Dirksen, American lieutenant and politician (born 1896)

Everett McKinley Dirksen was an American politician. A Republican, he represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. As Senate Minority Leader from 1959 until his death in 1969, he played a highly visible and key role in the politics of the 1960s. He helped write and pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968, both landmark pieces of legislation during the civil rights movement. He was also one of the Senate's strongest supporters of the Vietnam War. A talented orator with a florid style and a notably rich bass voice, he delivered flamboyant speeches that caused his detractors to refer to him as "The Wizard of Ooze".

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07/09/1964

Walter A. Brown, American businessman (born 1905)

Walter Augustine Brown was an American sports executive. He was the founder and original owner of the Boston Celtics, operated the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation, and served as president of the Boston Athletic Association. In ice hockey, he coached the Boston Olympics to five Eastern Hockey League championships, owned the Boston Bruins, and served as president of the International Ice Hockey Federation. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1965, and IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997.

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07/09/1962

Karen Blixen, Danish memoirist and short story writer (born 1885)

Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.

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Graham Walker, English motorcycle racer and journalist (born 1897)

Graham William Walker was an English motorcycle racer, broadcaster and journalist. He also contributed greatly to the motorcycle section of the National Motor Museum.

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07/09/1961

Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Dutch lawyer, jurist, and politician, 34th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1885)

Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy was a Dutch politician and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 3 September 1940 until 25 June 1945. He oversaw the government-in-exile based in London under Queen Wilhelmina during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He was a member of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP).

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07/09/1960

Wilhelm Pieck, German carpenter and politician, President of East Germany (born 1873)

Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck was a German communist politician who served as the co-chairman of the Socialist Unity Party from 1946 to 1950 and as the only president of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 until his death in 1960.

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07/09/1959

Maurice Duplessis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Quebec (born 1890)

Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis,, popularly known as "Le Chef", was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 16th premier of Quebec. A conservative, nationalist, populist, anti-communist, anti-unionist and fervent Catholic, Duplessis and his party, the Union Nationale, dominated provincial politics from the 1920s to the 1950s. With a total of 18 years and 82 days in office, he remains the longest-serving premier in Quebec history.

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07/09/1956

C. B. Fry, English cricketer, academic, and politician (born 1872)

Charles Burgess Fry was an English sportsman, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer. John Arlott described him with the words: "Charles Fry could be autocratic, angry and self-willed: he was also magnanimous, extravagant, generous, elegant, brilliant – and fun ... he was probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age."

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07/09/1954

Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (born 1885)

Harry Conway "Bud" Fisher was an American cartoonist who created Mutt and Jeff, the first successful daily comic strip in the United States.

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07/09/1951

Maria Montez, Dominican-French actress (born 1912)

María África Gracia Vidal, known professionally as Maria Montez, was a Dominican actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure films. Her screen image was that of a seductress, dressed in fanciful costumes and sparkling jewels. She became so identified with these adventure epics that she became known as The Queen of Technicolor. Over her career, Montez appeared in 26 films, 21 of which were made in North America, with the last five being made in Europe.

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John French Sloan, American painter and etcher (born 1871)

John French Sloan was an American painter and etcher. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Ashcan school of American art. He was also a member of the group known as The Eight. He is best known for his urban genre scenes and ability to capture the essence of neighborhood life in New York City, often observed through his Chelsea studio window. Sloan has been called the premier artist of the Ashcan School, and also a realist painter who embraced the principles of Socialism, though he himself disassociated his art from his politics.

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07/09/1949

José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter and illustrator (born 1883)

José Clemente Orozco was a Mexican caricaturist and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists, fond of the theme of human suffering, but less realistic and more fascinated by machines than Rivera. Mostly influenced by Symbolism, he was also a genre painter and lithographer. Between 1922 and 1948, Orozco painted murals in Mexico City; Orizaba; Claremont, California; New York City; Hanover, New Hampshire; Guadalajara, Jalisco; and Jiquilpan, Michoacán.

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07/09/1943

Mary Karadja, Swedish writer, spiritualist and princess (born 1868)

Marie Louise "Mary" Karadja was a Swedish writer, spiritual medium and aristocrat, a central figure in Western esotericism during the Belle Époque. Born in Stockholm to the business magnate Lars Olsson Smith, she married prince Jean Karadja Pasha, an Ottoman diplomat, with whom she had a son, the Romanian diplomat and scholar Constantin Karadja. She lived in various European countries, and published works in several languages—beginning with aphorisms in French. Her involvement with Kardecist spiritism dates to 1899, and was prompted by the deaths of an infant son and of her husband the prince. Under the influence of spiritism, Theosophy and neo-gnosticism, the princess produced spirit drawings and writings that she stated were inspired and dictated to her spiritually. She was a literary celebrity in her native country for a while, and corresponded with August Strindberg; she was also heavily criticized for her claims by investigators such as Henry Morselli and Joseph McCabe, and was a regular target of Birger Sjöberg's satirical articles.

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07/09/1942

Cecilia Beaux, American painter and academic (born 1855)

Eliza Cecilia Beaux was an American artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Known for her elegant and sensitive portraits of friends, relatives, and Gilded Age patrons, Beaux painted many famous subjects including First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau.

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07/09/1941

Mario García Menocal, Cuban lawyer and politician, President of Cuba (born 1866)

Aurelio Mario Gabriel Francisco García Menocal y Deop was the 3rd President of Cuba, serving from 1913 to 1921. His term as president saw Cuba's participation in the Allies in World War I.

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07/09/1940

José Félix Estigarribia, Paraguayan soldier and politician, President of Paraguay (born 1888)

José Félix Estigarribia Insaurralde was a Paraguayan military officer and politician who served as the 34th President of Paraguay from 1939 until his death in a plane crash on 7 September 1940. He is most remembered for his role as commander in chief of the Paraguayan Army during the Chaco War, which resulted in an upset victory for Paraguay.

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07/09/1939

Kyōka Izumi, Japanese author, poet, and playwright (born 1873)

Kyōtarō Izumi , known by his pen name Izumi Kyōka , was a Japanese novelist, writer and kabuki playwright who was active during the prewar period.

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07/09/1933

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, English ornithologist and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (born 1862)

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, better known as Sir Edward Grey, was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who was the main force behind British foreign policy in the era of the First World War.

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07/09/1929

Frederic Weatherly, English lawyer, author, and songwriter (born 1848)

Frederic Edward Weatherly, KC was an English lawyer, author, lyricist and broadcaster. He was christened and brought up using the name Frederick Edward Weatherly, and appears to have adopted the spelling 'Frederic' later in life. He is estimated to have written the lyrics to at least 3,000 popular songs, among the best-known of which are the sentimental ballad "Danny Boy" set to the tune "Londonderry Air", the religious "The Holy City", and the wartime song "Roses of Picardy".

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07/09/1921

Alfred William Rich, English author and painter (born 1856)

Alfred William Rich was an English artist, teacher and author.

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07/09/1920

Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (born 1855)

Simon-Napoléon Parent, KC was the 12th premier of Quebec from October 3, 1900 to March 21, 1905, as well as serving as President of the Quebec Bridge and Railway Company.

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07/09/1910

William Holman Hunt, English painter and soldier (born 1827)

William Holman Hunt was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism. These features were influenced by the writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, according to whom the world itself should be read as a system of visual signs. For Hunt, it was the duty of the artist to reveal the correspondence between sign and fact. Of all the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt remained most true to their ideals throughout his career. He was always keen to maximise the popular appeal and public visibility of his works.

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07/09/1907

Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Romanian philologist, journalist, and playwright (born 1838)

Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu was a Romanian writer and philologist who pioneered many branches of Romanian philology and history.

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07/09/1893

Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (born 1808)

Hamilton Fish was an American statesman who served as the sixteenth governor of New York from 1849 to 1850, a United States senator from New York from 1851 to 1857, and the 26th U.S. secretary of state from 1869 to 1877. Fish was the most trusted advisor to President Ulysses S. Grant and recognized as the pillar of Grant's presidency. He is considered one of the nation's most effective U.S. secretaries of state by scholars, known for his judiciousness and efforts towards reform and diplomatic moderation. He settled the controversial Alabama Claims with the United Kingdom, developing the concept of international arbitration and avoided war with Spain over Cuban independence by coolly handling the volatile Virginius incident. He also organized a peace conference and treaty between South American countries and Spain. In 1875, Fish negotiated a reciprocal trade treaty for sugar production with the Kingdom of Hawai'i, initiating the process which ended in the 1893 overthrow of the House of Kalākaua and statehood. Fish worked with James Milton Turner to settle the Liberia-Grebo War in 1876.

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07/09/1892

John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and activist (born 1807)

John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the fireside poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Whittier is remembered particularly for his anti-slavery writings, as well as his 1866 book Snow-Bound.

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07/09/1891

Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge (born 1820)

Lorenzo Sawyer was an American lawyer and judge who was appointed to the Supreme Court of California in 1860 and served as the ninth Chief Justice of California from 1868 to 1870. He served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Circuit Courts for the Ninth Circuit and of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is best known for handing down the verdict in the case of Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company; his verdict is frequently referred to as the "Sawyer Decision."

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07/09/1881

Sidney Lanier, American poet and academic (born 1842)

Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned, taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. As a poet he sometimes used dialects. Many of his poems are written in heightened, but often archaic, American English. He became a flautist and sold poems to publications. He eventually became a professor of literature at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and is known for his adaptation of musical meter to poetry. Many schools, other structures and two lakes are named for him, and he became hailed in the South as the "poet of the Confederacy". A 1972 US postage stamp honored him as an "American poet".

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07/09/1871

Kimenzan Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 13th Yokozuna (born 1826)

Kimenzan Tanigorō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 13th yokozuna and the first to be promoted during the Meiji era.

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Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, Ottoman politician, 217th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1815)

Mehmed Emin Âlî Pasha, also spelled as Mehmed Emin Aali, commonly known as Ali Pasha, was a Turkish–Ottoman statesman during the Tanzimat period, best known as the architect of the Ottoman Reform Edict of 1856, and for his role in the Treaty of Paris (1856) that ended the Crimean War. From obscure origins as the son of a doorkeeper, Âli Pasha rose through the ranks of the Ottoman state and became the Minister of Foreign Affairs for a short time in 1840, and again in 1846. He became Grand Vizier for a few months in 1852. Between 1855 and 1871 he alternated between the two jobs, ultimately holding the position of Foreign Minister seven times and Grand Vizier five times in his lifetime. Âli Pasha was widely regarded as a deft and able statesman, and often credited with preventing an early break-up of the empire.

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07/09/1840

Jacques MacDonald, French general (born 1765)

Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, 1st duc de Tarente, was a Marshal of the Empire and military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

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07/09/1833

Hannah More, English poet, playwright, and philanthropist (born 1745)

Hannah More was an English religious writer, philanthropist, poet, and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, who wrote on moral and religious subjects.

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07/09/1809

Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, Thai king (born 1737)

Phutthayotfa Chulalok, posthumously honoured as King Phutthayotfa Chulalok the Great, also known by his regnal name Rama I, was the founder of the Rattanakosin Kingdom and the first King of Siam from the reigning Chakri dynasty. He ascended the throne in 1782, following the deposition of King Taksin of Thonburi. He was also celebrated as the founder of Rattanakosin as the new capital of the reunited kingdom.

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07/09/1799

Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (born 1717)

Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier was a French natural scientist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.

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07/09/1798

Peter Frederik Suhm, Danish-Norwegian historian and author (born 1728)

Peter Frederik Suhm, was a Danish historian.

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07/09/1741

Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (born 1689)

Admiral Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta was a Spanish Navy officer best known for his victory at the 1741 Battle of Cartagena de Indias, where forces under his command defeated a large British invasion force under Admiral Edward Vernon.

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07/09/1729

William Burnet, Dutch-American civil servant and politician, 21st Governor of the province of New York (born 1688)

William Burnet was a British civil servant and colonial administrator who served as governor of New York and New Jersey (1720–1728) and Massachusetts and New Hampshire (1728–1729). Born into a position of privilege, Burnet was well-educated, tutored among others by Isaac Newton.

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07/09/1685

William Carpenter, English-American settler, co-founded Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (born 1605)

William Carpenter was a co-founder of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, born about 1610, probably in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. He died September 7, 1685, in the Pawtuxet section of Providence, now in Cranston, Rhode Island. He was listed by 1655 as a "freeman" of the colony.

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07/09/1657

Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish field marshal (born 1606)

Arvid Wittenberg or Arvid Wirtenberg von Debern, was a Swedish count, field marshal and privy councillor. Born in Porvoo, Finland, he died imprisoned in Zamość, Poland, 7 September 1657. Arvid Wittenberg preferred to call himself by the original Wittenberg family name, which was Wirtenberg von Debern.

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07/09/1655

François Tristan l'Hermite, French author and playwright (born 1601)

François l'Hermite was a French dramatist who wrote under the name Tristan l'Hermite. He was born at the Château de Soliers in the County of La Marche.

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07/09/1644

Guido Bentivoglio, Italian cardinal and historian (born 1579)

Guido Bentivoglio d'Aragona was an Italian cardinal, statesman and historian.

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07/09/1626

Edward Villiers, English noble and politician (born c. 1585)

Sir Edward Villiers was an English nobleman from Leicestershire and member of the Villiers family, whose younger half-brother George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, was a favourite of both James VI and I and his son Charles. Through his influence, Sir Edward gained various positions, including Master of the Mint, Member of Parliament for Westminster and Lord President of Munster. He died in Ireland in September 1626.

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07/09/1622

Denis Godefroy, French lawyer and jurist (born 1549)

Denis Godefroy was a French jurist, a member of the noted Godefroy family. He worked in France and Germany.

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07/09/1619

Melchior Grodziecki, Polish priest and saint (born 1582)

Melchior Grodziecki was a Silesian Jesuit priest. He is considered a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church. He was canonized in 1995 and is liturgically commemorated on 19 January.

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Marko Krizin, Croatian priest, missionary, and saint (born 1589)

Marko Stjepan Krizin, or Marko Križevčanin was a Croatian Roman Catholic priest, professor of theology and missionary, who was active in the 17th century. In the course of the struggle between Catholicism and Calvinism in the region then, he was executed for his faith. He has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church, the third Croat to be so honored.

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07/09/1601

John Shakespeare, father of William Shakespeare (born 1529)

John Shakespeare was an English businessman who was the father of William Shakespeare. Active in Stratford-upon-Avon, he was a glover and whittawer by trade. Shakespeare was elected to several municipal offices, serving as an alderman and culminating in a term as bailiff, the chief magistrate of the town council, and mayor of Stratford in 1568, before he fell on hard times for reasons unknown. His fortunes later revived and he was granted a coat of arms five years before his death, probably at the instigation and expense of his son, the actor and playwright.

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07/09/1573

Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (born 1535)

Joanna of Austria was an Infanta of Spain by birth and Princess of Portugal by marriage to João Manuel, Prince of Portugal. She served as regent of Spain for her brother Philip II during his trips to England to marry Mary I from 1554 to 1556, and 1556 to 1559. She was the mother of King Sebastian of Portugal.

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07/09/1566

Nikola Šubić Zrinski, Croatian general (born 1506)

Nikola IV Zrinski or Miklós IV Zrínyi, also commonly known as Nikola Šubić Zrinski, was a Croatian-Hungarian nobleman and general, Ban of Croatia from 1542 until 1556, royal master of the treasury from 1557 until 1566, and a descendant of the Croatian noble families Zrinski and Kurjaković. During his lifetime the Zrinski family became the powerful noble family in the Kingdom of Croatia.

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07/09/1559

Robert Estienne, English-French printer and scholar (born 1503)

Robert I Estienne, known as Robertus Stephanus in Latin and sometimes referred to as Robert Stephens, was a French 16th-century printer in Paris. He was the proprietor of the Estienne print shop after the death of his father Henri Estienne, the founder of the Estienne printing firm. Estienne published and republished many classical texts as well as Greek and Latin translations of the Bible. Known as "Printer to the King" in Latin, Hebrew, and Greek, Estienne's most prominent work was the Thesaurus linguae latinae which is considered to be the foundation of modern Latin lexicography. Additionally, he was the first to print the New Testament divided into standard numbered verses.

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07/09/1496

Ferdinand II of Naples (born 1469)

Ferdinand II was King of Naples from 1495 to 1496. He was the son of Alfonso II of Naples and the grandson of Ferrante I of Naples.

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07/09/1464

Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (born 1412)

Frederick II, The Gentle was Prince-Elector and Arch-Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire, who ruled as Duke of Saxony and Margrave of Meissen (1428–1464) and Landgrave of Thuringia (1440–1445). His succession laid the basis for the later division of the House of Wettin, as his two sons, Ernest and Albert, inherited his territories jointly, before eventually forming the Ernestine and Albertine branches, through the Treaty of Leipzig (1485).

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07/09/1362

Joan of the Tower (born 1321)

Joan of the Tower, daughter of Edward II of England and Isabella of France, was Queen of Scotland from 1329 to her death as the first wife of King David II.

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07/09/1354

Andrea Dandolo, doge of Venice (born 1306)

Andrea Dandolo was the 54th doge of Venice from 1343 to 1354. He was elected to replace Bartolomeo Gradenigo who died in 1342.

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07/09/1312

Ferdinand IV of Castile (born 1285)

Ferdinand IV of Castile called the Summoned, was King of Castile and León from 1295 until his death.

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07/09/1303

Gregory Bicskei, archbishop of Esztergom

Gregory Bicskei was a prelate in the Kingdom of Hungary at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. He was the elected Archbishop of Esztergom between 1298 and 1303. Supporting the claim of the Capetian House of Anjou, he was a tough opponent of Andrew III of Hungary. He crowned Charles I king with a provisional crown in 1301. He was murdered in Anagni by soldiers whom Philip IV of France had sent to Italy to capture Pope Boniface VIII.

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07/09/1251

Viola, Duchess of Opole

Viola, Duchess of Opole, also known as Veleslava, Polish: Wencisława-Wiola; was a Duchess consort of Opole-Racibórz through her marriage to Casimir I. She served as regent during the minority of her sons Mieszko II and Władysław between 1230 and 1233.

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07/09/1202

William of the White Hands, French cardinal (born 1135)

William of the White Hands, also called William White Hands, was a French cardinal.

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07/09/1151

Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (born 1113)

Geoffrey V, called the Fair, Plantagenet, and of Anjou, was the count of Anjou and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also duke of Normandy by his marriage claim and conquest, from 1144.

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07/09/1134

Alfonso the Battler, Spanish emperor (born 1073)

Alfonso I, called the Battler or the Warrior, was King of Aragon and Navarre from 1104 until his death in 1134. He was the second son of King Sancho Ramírez and successor of his brother Peter I. With his marriage to Urraca, queen regnant of Castile, León and Galicia, in 1109, he began to use, with some justification, the grandiose title Emperor of Spain, formerly employed by his father-in-law, Alfonso VI. Alfonso the Battler earned his sobriquet in the Reconquista. He won his greatest military successes in the middle Ebro, where he conquered Zaragoza in 1118 and later took Ejea, Tudela, Calatayud, Borja, Tarazona, Daroca, and Monreal del Campo. He died in September 1134 after an unsuccessful battle with the Muslims at the Battle of Fraga.

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07/09/0934

Meng Zhixiang, Chinese general (born 874)

Meng Zhixiang, courtesy name Baoyin (保胤), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Gaozu of Later Shu (後蜀高祖), was the founding emperor of the Chinese Later Shu dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

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07/09/0859

Emperor Xuānzong of Tang, Chinese emperor (born 810)

Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was an emperor of China's Tang dynasty, reigning from 25 April 846 until his death. Personally named Li Yi, later renamed Li Chen, and known before his reign as the Prince of Guang, he was considered the last capable emperor of Tang China. Succeeding emperors after Xuanzong would either be too young or be dominated by eunuchs or warlords. Emperor Xuanzong was the 13th son of Emperor Xianzong and an uncle of the previous three emperors, Emperor Jingzong, Emperor Wenzong, and Emperor Wuzong.

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07/09/0355

Claudius Silvanus, Roman general

Silvanus was a Roman general and usurper of Frankish descent. He revolted in Gaul against Emperor Constantius II, claiming the imperial title for 28 days in AD 355.

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07/09/0251

Sima Yi, Chinese general and politician (born 179)

Sima Yi, courtesy name Zhongda, was a Chinese military general, politician, and regent of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China.

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