Died on Monday, 8th September – Famous Deaths

08/09/2024

Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, Salvadoran police officer (born 1964)

Mauricio Antonio Arriaza Chicas was a Salvadoran police officer who served as the director of the National Civil Police (PNC) of El Salvador from 2019 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024.

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Ed Kranepool, American baseball player (born 1944)

Edward Emil Kranepool III was an American professional baseball player. He spent his entire Major League Baseball career with the New York Mets. He was predominantly a first baseman, but he also played in the outfield.

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Henny Moan, Norwegian actress (born 1936)

Henny Elisabeth Moan was a Norwegian actress. She had a long career in theatre, but is best known for her roles in certain classics of Norwegian cinema, such as the Oscar-nominated Nine Lives (1957) and Lake of the Dead (1958). Moan was married to the author André Bjerke and later lived with singer Ole Paus.

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Zoot Money, English musician (born 1942)

George Bruno "Zoot" Money was an English vocalist, keyboardist and bandleader. He was best known for playing the Hammond organ and for his leadership of the Big Roll Band. Inspired by Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles, Money was drawn to rock and roll music and became involved in the music scenes of Bournemouth and Soho during the 1960s. He took his stage name "Zoot" from Zoot Sims after seeing him perform in concert.

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Peter Renaday, American voice actor (born 1935)

Peter Renaday was an American actor. During a career spanning some six decades, Renaday worked in television, film, theme parks, radio, and theatre. He is best known for providing the voice of Splinter in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated television series, as well as voicing Abraham Lincoln in The Hall of Presidents, Henry and Max in Country Bear Jamboree at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World, and Easy Pete in Fallout: New Vegas.

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Emi Shinohara, Japanese voice actress and singer (born 1963)

Emiko Shinohara , known professionally as Emi Shinohara , was a Japanese voice actress from Fukushima Prefecture. At the time of her death, she was affiliated with 81 Produce. She was best known for voicing Sailor Jupiter in the first anime adaptation of Sailor Moon, Kaho Mizuki in Cardcaptor Sakura and its sequel Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, and Kushina Uzumaki in Naruto: Shippuden. She was married to tokusatsu actor Hiroshi Watari.

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08/09/2022

Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms (born 1926)

Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime and was the monarch of 15 realms at her death. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days is the longest of any British monarch, the second-longest of any sovereign state, and the longest of any queen regnant in history.

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Gwyneth Powell, English actress (born 1946)

Gwyneth Leith, known professionally as Gwyneth Powell, was an English actress. She was best known for her portrayal of headmistress Bridget McClusky in the BBC television series Grange Hill for eleven series between 1981 and 1991.

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08/09/2021

Luis Villafuerte, Filipino politician, former congressman and governor of Camarines Sur (born 1935)

Luis Robredo Villafuerte Sr., often referred to by his initials LRV, was a Filipino politician who served as Governor of Camarines Sur for 15 years and as a member of the House of Representatives from 2004 to 2013. He represented Camarines Sur's 2nd district from 2004 to 2010, and the 3rd district from 2010 to 2013.

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08/09/2019

S. Rajasekar, Indian cinematographer, film director, and actor (born 1957)

S. Rajasekar was an Indian cinematographer, film director, and actor. He collaborated with director Robert under the name Robert–Rajasekar.

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08/09/2018

Gennadi Gagulia, Prime Minister of Abkhazia (born 1948)

Gennadi Leonid-ipa Gagulia was an Abkhazian politician who was three-time prime minister of Abkhazia and the head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He served as the first prime minister of Abkhazia after the post was established by the constitution in 1995, holding it until 1997. He returned to the post in 2002 and remained for several months into 2003, and held it for a final time in 2018 for a little over four months until he was killed in a car crash.

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Chelsi Smith, American singer and beauty pageant winner (born 1973)

Chelsi Mariam Pearl Smith was an American actress, singer, TV host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss USA 1995 and Miss Universe 1995. Smith was the third Miss USA of African-American origin, after Carole Gist (1990) and Kenya Moore (1993), in addition to being the sixth American woman to win Miss Universe and the first since Shawn Weatherly was crowned Miss Universe 1980.

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08/09/2017

Pierre Bergé, French businessman (born 1930)

Pierre Vital Georges Bergé was a French industrialist and patron. He co-founded the fashion label Yves Saint Laurent (YSL), and was a longtime business partner—and onetime significant other—of its namesake designer.

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Blake Heron, American actor (born 1982)

Blake Christopher Heron was an American actor. He was best known for his starring role as Marty Preston in the 1996 film Shiloh. He died of an accidental drug overdose, aged 35.

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Jerry Pournelle, American author and journalist (born 1933)

Jerry Eugene Pournelle was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked in the aerospace industry, but eventually focused on his writing career. In an obituary in Gizmodo, he was described as "a tireless ambassador for the future."

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Ljubiša Samardžić, Serbian actor and director (born 1936)

Ljubiša Samardžić, nicknamed Smoki, was a Serbian actor and director, best known as Šurda in the Vruć vetar TV series, and Inspector Boško Simić in the comedy crime series Policajac sa Petlovog brda and film of the same name.

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Don Williams, American musician (born 1939)

Donald Ray Williams was an American country music singer, songwriter, and 2010 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He began his solo career in 1971, singing popular ballads and amassing 17 number-one country hits. His straightforward yet smooth bass-baritone voice, soft tones, and imposing build earned him the nickname "The Gentle Giant". In 1975, Williams starred in a movie with Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed called W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings.

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08/09/2016

Hannes Arch, Austrian race pilot (born 1967)

Hannes Arch was an Austrian pilot who competed in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship from 2007 to 2016. Arch won the World Championship in the 2008 season.

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Dragiša Pešić, Montenegrin politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1954)

Dragiša Pešić was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin politician. He was the penultimate Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (born 1938)

Cecil Bustamente Campbell, known professionally as Prince Buster, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer. The records he released in the 1960s influenced and shaped the course of Jamaican contemporary music and created a legacy of work that would be drawn upon later by reggae and ska artists.

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08/09/2015

Joaquín Andújar, Dominican baseball player (born 1952)

Joaquín Andújar was a Dominican professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals, and Oakland Athletics from 1976 through 1988. Andújar was a four-time MLB All-Star and a Gold Glove Award winner.

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Andrew Kohut, American political scientist and academic (born 1942)

Andrew Kohut was an American pollster and nonpartisan news commentator about public affairs topics. He was the founding director of the Pew Research Center.

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Tyler Sash, American football player (born 1988)

Tyler Jordan Sash was an American professional football safety for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes and the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Giants in the sixth round of the 2011 NFL draft.

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Joost Zwagerman, Dutch author and poet (born 1963)

Johannes Jacobus Willebrordus "Joost" Zwagerman was a Dutch writer, poet and essayist. Among his teachers was the novelist Oek de Jong.

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08/09/2014

Marvin Barnes, American basketball player (born 1952)

Marvin Jerome "Bad News" Barnes was an American professional basketball player. A forward, he was an All-American at Providence College, and played professionally in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA).

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S. Truett Cathy, American businessman, founder of Chick-fil-A (born 1921)

Samuel Truett Cathy was an American businessman, investor, author, and philanthropist who founded the fast food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A in 1946.

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Sean O'Haire, American wrestler, mixed martial artist, and kick-boxer (born 1971)

Sean Christopher Haire was an American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and kickboxer, better known by his ring name Sean O'Haire.

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Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (born 1910)

Magda Olivero was an Italian operatic soprano. Her career started in 1932 when she was 22, and spanned five decades, establishing her "as an important link between the era of the verismo composers and the modern opera stage". She has been regarded as "one of the greatest singers of the twentieth century".

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Gerald Wilson, American trumpet player and composer (born 1918)

Gerald Stanley Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. He arranged music for Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Julie London, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and Nancy Wilson.

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George Zuverink, American baseball player (born 1924)

George Zuverink was a professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher over parts of eight Major League Baseball seasons with the Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Redlegs, Detroit Tigers and Baltimore Orioles. For his career, he compiled a 32–36 record in 265 appearances, mostly as a relief pitcher, with a 3.54 earned run average and 223 strikeouts.

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08/09/2013

Goose Gonsoulin, American football player (born 1938)

Austin William "Goose" Gonsoulin was an American professional football player who was a safety in the American Football League (AFL) for the Denver Broncos and in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers. He had the first interception in AFL history, and was named to five of the AFL's first six All-Star Teams.

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Don Reichert, Canadian painter and photographer (born 1932)

Don Karl Reichert was a Canadian artist. While primarily a painter in the abstract expressionist tradition, he was also notable for his work as a photographer and in digital media.

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Jean Véronis, French linguist, computer scientist, and blogger (born 1955)

Jean Véronis was a French linguist, computer scientist and blogger, and a research professor at Aix-Marseille University. His research interests included natural language processing, text mining and standardisation. He was a founder of the field that is now called digital humanities.

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Radoslav Rotković, Montenegrin historian (born 1928)

Radoslav Rotković was a Montenegrin historian, philologist and academician. He is known for his works in Montenegrin history and literature.

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08/09/2012

Ronald Hamowy, Canadian historian and academic (born 1937)

Ronald Hamowy was a Canadian academic, known primarily for his contributions to political and social academic fields. At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus of intellectual history at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Hamowy was closely associated with the political ideology of libertarianism and his writings and scholarship place particular emphasis on individual liberty and the limits of state action in a free society. He is associated with a number of prominent American libertarian organizations.

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Bill Moggridge, English-American designer, author, and educator, co-founded IDEO (born 1943)

William Grant Moggridge, RDI was an English designer, author and educator who cofounded the design company IDEO and was director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. He was a pioneer in adopting a human-centred approach in design, and championed interaction design as a mainstream design discipline.

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Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (born 1920)

Thomas Stephen Szasz was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. A distinguished lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he was best known as a social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, as what he saw as the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as scientism.

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08/09/2009

Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)

Aage Niels Bohr was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Roy Mottelson and James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection". His father was Niels Bohr.

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Mike Bongiorno, American-Italian television host (born 1924)

Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno was an American Italian television presenter. After a few experiences in the U.S., he started working on RAI in the 1950s and was considered to be the most popular host in Italy. He was also known by the nickname il Re del Quiz, and the peculiarity of starting all his shows with his trademark greeting: Allegria!.

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08/09/2008

Ralph Plaisted, American explorer (born 1927)

Ralph Summers Plaisted was an American explorer who, with his three companions, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean-Luc Bombardier, are regarded by most polar authorities to be the first to succeed in a surface traverse across the ice to the North Pole on April 19, 1968, making the first confirmed surface conquest of the Pole.

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08/09/2007

Vincent Serventy, Australian ornithologist, conservationist, and author (born 1916)

Vincent Noel Serventy AM was an Australian author, ornithologist and conservationist.

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08/09/2006

Hilda Bernstein, English-South African author and activist (born 1915)

Hilda Bernstein OLG was a British-born author, artist, and an activist against apartheid and for women's rights.

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Peter Brock, Australian race car driver and sportscaster (born 1945)

Peter Geoffrey Brock, known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain", or simply "Brocky", was an Australian motor racing driver. Brock was most often associated with Holden for over 35 years, although he raced vehicles of other manufacturers including BMW, Ford, Volvo, Porsche and Peugeot. He won the Bathurst 1000 endurance race nine times, the Sandown 500 touring car race nine times, the Australian Touring Car Championship three times, the Bathurst 24 Hour once and was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 2001. Brock's business activities included the Holden Dealer Team (HDT) that produced Brock's racing machines as well as a number of modified high-performance road versions of his racing cars.

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08/09/2005

Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer, footballer, and manager (born 1932)

Noel Euchuria Cornelius Cantwell was an Irish football player and sometime cricketer.

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Donald Horne, Australian journalist, author, and critic (born 1921)

Donald Richmond Horne was an Australian journalist, writer, social critic, and academic who became one of Australia's best known public intellectuals, from the 1960s until his death.

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08/09/2004

Frank Thomas, American animator, voice actor, and screenwriter (born 1913)

Franklin Rosborough Thomas was an American animator and pianist. He was one of Walt Disney's leading team of animators known as the Nine Old Men.

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08/09/2003

Leni Riefenstahl, German actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1902)

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German filmmaker, photographer, and actress. She is considered one of the most controversial personalities in film history. Regarded by many critics as an "innovative filmmaker and creative aesthete", she is also criticized for her works in the service of propaganda during the Nazi era.

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08/09/2002

Laurie Williams, Jamaican cricketer (born 1968)

Laurie Rohan Williams was a West Indian cricketer. Williams was 33 years old when he died; a car he was driving crashed into an oncoming bus.

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08/09/2001

Bill Ricker, Canadian entomologist and author (born 1908)

William Edwin Ricker, was a Canadian entomologist and important founder of fisheries science. He is best known for the Ricker model, which he developed in his studies of stock and recruitment in fisheries. The model can be used to predict the number of fish that will be present in a fishery. He also had an international standing as an entomologist and a scientific editor. He published 296 papers and books, 238 translations, and 148 scientific or literary manuscripts. His 1958 publication, "Handbook of computation for biological statistics of fish populations" and later updates were the standard books on the subject for decades.

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08/09/1999

Moondog, American-German singer-songwriter, drummer, and poet (born 1916)

Louis Thomas Hardin, known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. Largely self-taught as a composer, his prolific work widely drew inspiration from jazz, classical, Native American music which he had become familiar with as a child, and Latin American music. His strongly rhythmic, contrapuntal pieces and arrangements later influenced composers of minimal music, in particular American composers Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

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08/09/1997

Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (born 1932)

Derek Wyn Taylor was a British journalist, writer, publicist and record producer. He is best known for his role as press officer to the Beatles, with whom he worked in 1964 and then from 1968 to 1970, and was one of several associates to earn the moniker "the Fifth Beatle". Before returning to London to head the publicity for the Beatles' Apple Corps organisation in 1968, he worked as the publicist for California-based bands such as the Byrds, the Beach Boys and the Mamas and the Papas. Taylor was known for his forward-thinking and extravagant promotional campaigns, exemplified in taglines such as "The Beatles Are Coming" and "Brian Wilson Is a Genius". He was equally dedicated to the 1967 Summer of Love ethos and helped stage that year's Monterey Pop Festival.

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08/09/1991

Alex North, American composer and conductor (born 1910)

Alex North was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He received fifteen Academy Award nominations for his work as a composer; while he did not win for any of his nominations, he received an Honorary Academy Award in 1986, the first for a composer.

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Brad Davis, American actor (born 1949)

Robert Creel Davis, known professionally as Brad Davis, was an American actor. For his debut film role as Billy Hayes in the 1978 film Midnight Express, he won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor and was nominated for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, along with BAFTA Award nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles.

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08/09/1990

Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English author and illustrator (born 1905)

Denys James Watkins-Pitchford MBE was an English naturalist, artist and author under the pen name 'BB'. He won the 1942 Carnegie Medal for The Little Grey Men.

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08/09/1985

John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)

John Franklin Enders was an American biomedical scientist and Nobel Laureate. Enders has been called "The Father of Modern Vaccines."

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08/09/1984

Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (born 1918)

John Woodrow Parsons was an American racing driver in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series. He was the 1949 AAA national champion, and won the 1950 Indianapolis 500.

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08/09/1983

Antonin Magne, French cyclist (born 1904)

Antonin Magne was a French cyclist who won the Tour de France in 1931 and 1934. He raced as a professional from 1927 to 1939 and then became a team manager. The French rider and then journalist, Jean Bobet, described him in Sporting Cyclist as "a most uninterviewable character" and "a man who withdraws into a shell as soon as he meets a journalist." His taciturn character earned him the nickname of The Monk when he was racing.

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08/09/1981

Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher, and educator (born 1897)

Nisargadatta Maharaj was an Indian guru of nonduality, belonging to the Inchagiri Sampradaya, a lineage of teachers from the Navnath Sampradaya.

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Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (born 1901)

Roy Ottoway Wilkins was an American civil rights leader from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins's most notable role was his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in which he held the title of Executive Secretary from 1955 to 1963 and Executive Director from 1964 to 1977. Wilkins was a central figure in many notable marches of the civil rights movement and made contributions to African-American literature. He controversially advocated for African Americans to join the military.

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Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1907)

Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces."

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08/09/1980

Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)

Willard Frank Libby was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and palaeontology. For his contributions to the team that developed this process, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960.

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08/09/1977

Zero Mostel, American actor and comedian (born 1915)

Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel was an American actor, comedian, and singer. Mostel received several accolades including three Tony Awards and a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award. He is also a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame, inducted posthumously in 1979.

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08/09/1974

Wolfgang Windgassen, French-German tenor (born 1914)

Wolfgang Windgassen was a German heldentenor internationally known for his performances in Wagner operas.

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08/09/1970

Percy Spencer, American engineer, invented the microwave oven (born 1894)

Percy LaBaron Spencer was an American physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor of the microwave oven. As a boy he was twice orphaned and began work at a young age, never finishing grammar school. During the night shift, he taught himself topics such as calculus, trigonometry, physics, and chemistry, establishing a lifelong habit of self-education or "solving my own situation" as he called it.

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08/09/1969

Bud Collyer, American game show host (born 1908)

Bud Collyer was an American radio actor, announcer and game show host who became one of the nation's first major television game show stars. He is best remembered for his work as the first host of the TV game shows Beat the Clock and To Tell the Truth, alongside the roles of Clark Kent / Superman on radio and in animated cartoons, initially in theatrical short subjects and later on television.

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Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and activist (born 1868)

Alexandra David-Néel was a French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist, opera singer, and writer. She is most known for her 1924 visit to Lhasa, Tibet, when it was forbidden to foreigners. David-Néel wrote over 30 books about Eastern religion, philosophy, and her travels, including Magic and Mystery in Tibet, which was published in 1929. Her teachings influenced the beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, the popularisers of Eastern philosophy Alan Watts and Ram Dass, and the esotericist Benjamin Creme.

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08/09/1966

John Taylor, American race car driver (born 1933)

John Malcolm Taylor was a racing driver from England. He participated in five World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, and also participated in several non-championship Formula One races. His Formula One debut was on 11 July 1964, at the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch driving the Formula One/Formula Two hybrid Cooper–Ford T71/T73. He finished fourteenth, 24 laps down, after an extended pit–stop due to a gearbox problem. Taylor did not compete in the Formula One World Championship in 1965, but continued to drive in non–championship races. He returned to Grand Prix racing in 1966, driving a two-litre Brabham–BRM for privateer David Bridges. His first race that season was the French Grand Prix at Reims, where he scored his one championship point. There followed eighth places at both the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch and the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.

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08/09/1965

Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (born 1922)

Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an American actress and singer. She was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Carmen Jones (1954). Dandridge had also performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. During her early career, she performed as a part of the Wonder Children, later the Dandridge Sisters, and appeared in a succession of films, usually in uncredited roles.

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Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)

Hermann Staudinger was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers. For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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08/09/1963

Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman (born 1904)

Maurice Fernand Cary Wilks was an English automotive and aeronautical engineer, and by the time of his death in 1963, was the chairman of the Rover Company. He was the founder of the Land Rover marque and responsible for the inspiration and concept work that led to the development of the first Land Rover off-road utility vehicle.

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08/09/1954

André Derain, French painter and sculptor (born 1880)

André Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder, with Henri Matisse, of Fauvism. His paintings of 1905–1906 are characterized by riotous colourism in the Fauve style. By 1910, however, his work had become more austere as a result of his study of Cézanne and the old masters. After the First World War, Derain became one of the leaders of the new classicism in the arts known as the Return to order.

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08/09/1949

Richard Strauss, German composer and manager (born 1864)

Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer and conductor known for his tone poems and operas. A leading figure of the late Romantic and early Modern era, and a successor to Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, he combined, along with his friend Gustav Mahler, subtleties of orchestration with an advanced harmonic style.

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08/09/1944

Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (born 1881)

Jan Pieter Hendrik van Gilse was a Dutch composer and conductor. Among his works are five symphonies and the Dutch-language opera Thijl.

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08/09/1943

Julius Fučík, Czech journalist (born 1903)

Julius Fučík was a Czech journalist, critic, writer, and active member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. For his part at the forefront of the anti-Nazi resistance during the Second World War, he was imprisoned and tortured by the Gestapo in Prague, and executed in Berlin.

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08/09/1942

Rıza Nur, Turkish surgeon and politician (born 1879)

Rıza Nur was a Turkish surgeon, politician and writer. He was prominent in the years immediately after the First World War, where he served as a cabinet minister but was subsequently marginalised, and became a critic of Atatürk. His acclaimed autobiography Hayat ve Hatıratım was written from exile in France and Egypt as an alternative narrative to Atatürk's famous speech Nutuk that has dominated the historiography of Turkey. Like Halide Edib and Rauf Orbay, Rıza Nur's work is part of a body of early Republican literature that sought plurality in the increasingly authoritarian Turkish Republic.

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08/09/1940

Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor (born 1863)

Herman "Hemmo" Kallio was a Finnish stage and film actor and playwright.

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08/09/1935

Carl Weiss, American physician (born 1906)

Carl Austin Weiss Sr. was an American physician who is suspected in the assassination of U.S. Senator and former Governor Huey Long at the Louisiana State Capitol on September 8, 1935.

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08/09/1933

Faisal I of Iraq (born 1883)

Faisal I bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi was a Hejazi statesman who served as the King of Iraq from 23 August 1921 until his death in 1933. A member of the Hashemite family, he was a leader of the Great Arab Revolt during the First World War, and ruled as the unrecognized King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria from March to July 1920 when he was expelled by the French.

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08/09/1923

Ugo Sivocci, Italian race car driver (born 1885)

Ugo Sivocci was an Italian racing driver.

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08/09/1916

Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1836)

Friedrich August Wilhelm Baumfelder was a German composer of classical music, conductor, and pianist. He started in the Leipzig Conservatory, and went on to become a well-known composer of his time. His many works were mostly solo salon music, but also included symphonies, piano concertos, operas, and choral works. Though many publishers published his work, they have since fallen into obscurity.

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08/09/1912

Eddie Hasha, American motorcycle racer (born 1890)

William Edward Hasha was an American motorcycle racer on board tracks early in the twentieth century. His death contributed to the demise of the board tracks. He was nicknamed the "Texas Cyclone" since he was from Waco, Texas, United States.

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08/09/1909

Vere St. Leger Goold, Irish tennis player (born 1853)

Vere Thomas "St. Leger" Goold was an Irish tennis player who competed for the 1879 Wimbledon All Comers' final. That year he became the first singles champion of the Irish Championships. He quickly faded from the game and in 1907 was sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island for the murder of a Swedish widow in Monte Carlo. In 1909 he died there by suicide.

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08/09/1895

Adam Opel, German entrepreneur, founded Opel (born 1837)

Adam Opel was a German entrepreneur who founded the company Adam Opel AG, then a manufacturer of bicycles and sewing machines.

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08/09/1894

Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (born 1821)

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability. The Helmholtz Association, the largest German association of research institutions, was named in his honour.

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08/09/1882

Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (born 1809)

Joseph Liouville was a French mathematician who worked on a number of different fields in mathematics, including number theory, complex analysis, and mathematical physics.

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08/09/1873

Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg, Finnish priest and father of K. J. Ståhlberg, the first President of Finland (born 1832)

Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg was a Finnish priest, who worked as a chaplain in Alavieska and as a deputy pastor in Haapajärvi. He is best known as the father of K. J. Ståhlberg, the first president of the Republic of Finland.

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08/09/1853

Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar, co-founded the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (born 1813)

Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam was a French Catholic literary scholar, lawyer, journalist and equal rights advocate. He founded with fellow students the Conference of Charity, later known as the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in 1997. His feast day is 9 September.

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08/09/1831

John Aitken, Scottish-American publisher (born 1745)

John Aitken was a Scottish-American music publisher. For a period of over six years, he was the only publisher of sheet music in the United States and may have been the first American publisher of secular music as well.

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08/09/1814

Maria Carolina of Austria, queen consort of Naples and Sicily (born 1752)

Maria Carolina of Austria was Queen of Naples and Sicily as the wife of King Ferdinand IV and III, who later became King of the Two Sicilies. As de facto ruler of her husband's kingdoms, Maria Carolina oversaw the promulgation of many reforms, including the revocation of the ban on Freemasonry, the enlargement of the navy under her favorite, Sir John Acton, and the expulsion of Spanish influence. She was a proponent of enlightened absolutism until the advent of the French Revolution, when, in order to prevent its ideas gaining currency, she made Naples a police state.

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08/09/1811

Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (born 1741)

Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist. He studied natural sciences at various universities in early modern Germany and worked primarily in the Russian Empire between 1767 and 1810.

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08/09/1784

Ann Lee, English-American religious leader (born 1736)

Ann Lee, commonly known as Mother Ann Lee, was the founding leader of the Shakers, later changed to United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing following her death. She was born during the Evangelical revival in England and greatly influenced religion of that time, especially in the Americas.

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08/09/1780

Enoch Poor, American general (born 1736)

Enoch Poor was a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He began his life as an apprentice cabinet maker but rose through competence to become a successful ship builder and merchant from Exeter, New Hampshire. Over five years of continuous service, he became one of George Washington's most trusted and reliable brigade commanders.

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08/09/1761

Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French mathematician and engineer (born 1698)

Bernard Forest de Bélidor was a French engineer, significant to the development of the science of hydraulics and ballistics.

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08/09/1755

Ephraim Williams, American soldier and philanthropist (born 1715)

Ephraim Williams Jr. was an American landowner and militia officer from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was killed in the French and Indian War. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, he was the benefactor of Williams College, located in northwestern Massachusetts. The school's athletic programs, the Ephs, are named after Williams.

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08/09/1721

Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (born 1686)

Michael Johann Joseph Brokoff was a sculptor of the Baroque era from Bohemia, working with sandstone.

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08/09/1682

Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish mathematician and philosopher (born 1606)

Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz was a Spanish Catholic scholastic philosopher, ecclesiastic, mathematician, polyglot, and writer. He is believed to be a great-grandson of Jan Popel y Lobkowicz.

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08/09/1656

Joseph Hall, English bishop (born 1574)

Joseph Hall was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way.

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08/09/1645

Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish poet and politician (born 1580)

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago, was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival Luis de Góngora, Quevedo was one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the age. His style is characterized by what was called conceptismo. This style existed in stark contrast to Góngora's culteranismo.

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08/09/1644

John Coke, English civil servant and politician (born 1563)

Sir John Coke MP JP PC was an English civil servant and naval administrator, described by one commentator as "the Samuel Pepys of his day". He was MP for various constituencies in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1629, and served as Secretary of State under Charles I, playing a key part in government during the eleven years of Personal Rule from 1629 to 1640.

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Francis Quarles, English poet and author (born 1592)

Francis Quarles was an English poet most notable for his emblem book entitled Emblems.

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08/09/1637

Robert Fludd, English physician, mathematician, and cosmologist (born 1574)

Robert Fludd, also known as Robertus de Fluctibus, was a prominent English Paracelsian physician with both scientific and occult interests. He is remembered as an astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist, and Rosicrucian.

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08/09/1613

Carlo Gesualdo, Italian lute player and composer (born 1566)

Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa was an Italian nobleman and composer. Though both the Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, he is better known for writing madrigals and pieces of sacred music that use a chromatic language not heard again until the late 19th century. He is also known for killing his first wife and her aristocratic lover upon finding them in flagrante delicto.

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08/09/1560

Amy Robsart, English noblewoman (born 1536)

Amy, Lady Dudley was the first wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, favourite of Elizabeth I of England. She is primarily known for her death by falling down a flight of stairs, the circumstances of which have often been regarded as suspicious. Amy Robsart was the only child of a substantial Norfolk gentleman. In the vernacular of the day, her name was spelled as Amye Duddley.

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08/09/1555

Saint Thomas of Villanueva, Spanish bishop and saint (born 1488)

Thomas of Villanova, OSA, born Tomás García y Martínez, was a Spanish friar of the Order of Saint Augustine who was a noted preacher, ascetic and religious writer of his day. He became an archbishop who was famous for the extent of his care for the poor of his see.

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08/09/1539

John Stokesley, English bishop (born 1475)

John Stokesley was an English clergyman who was Bishop of London during the reign of Henry VIII.

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08/09/1478

Seraphina Sforza, Italian nun (born 1434)

Sveva da Montefeltro was an Italian beatified nun and noblewoman of the House of Montefeltro. She is venerated by the Catholic Church for her life of devotion despite the hardships she encountered.

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08/09/1425

Charles III of Navarre (born 1361)

Charles III, called the Noble, was King of Navarre from 1387 to his death and Count of Évreux in France from 1387 to 1404, when he exchanged Évreux for the Duchy of Nemours.

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08/09/1397

Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (born 1355)

Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester was the fifth surviving son and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. He led the rebellion of the Lords Appellant against his nephew, King Richard II, in 1388. In 1397, he was accused of treason and imprisoned; while awaiting trial, he was assassinated, presumably on Richard's orders.

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08/09/1306

Sir Simon Fraser, Scottish knight, hung drawn and quartered by the English

Sir Simon Fraser of Oliver and Neidpath was a Scottish knight who fought in the Wars of Scottish Independence, for which he was hanged, drawn, and quartered in 1306.

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08/09/1100

Antipope Clement III (born 1029)

Guibert or Wibert of Ravenna was an Italian prelate, archbishop of Ravenna, who was elected pope in 1080 in opposition to Pope Gregory VII and took the name Clement III. Gregory was the leader of the movement in the church which opposed the traditional claim of European monarchs to control ecclesiastical appointments, and this was opposed by supporters of monarchical rights led by the Holy Roman Emperor. This led to the conflict known as the Investiture Controversy. Gregory was felt by many to have gone too far when he excommunicated the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV and supported a rival claimant as emperor, and in 1080 the pro-imperial Synod of Brixen pronounced that Gregory was deposed and replaced as pope by Guibert.

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08/09/0869

Ahmad ibn Isra'il al-Anbari, Muslim vizier

Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Isra'il al-Anbari was a civil officer of the Abbasid Caliphate in the mid-9th century, serving as vizier during the caliphate of al-Mu'tazz. His career came to a sudden end when he was arrested on the orders of the Turkish general Salih ibn Wasif in May 869, and he was killed four months later after being repeatedly subjected to torture.

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08/09/0780

Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine emperor (born 750)

Leo IV the Khazar was Byzantine emperor from 775 to 780 AD. He was born to Emperor Constantine V and Empress Tzitzak in 750. He was elevated to co-emperor in the next year, in 751, and married to Irene of Athens in 769. When Constantine V died in September 775, while campaigning against the Bulgars, Leo IV became senior emperor. In 778 Leo raided Abbasid Syria, decisively defeating the Abbasid army outside of Germanikeia. Leo died on 8 September 780, of tuberculosis. He was succeeded by his underage son Constantine VI, with Irene serving as regent.

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08/09/0701

Pope Sergius I (born 650)

Pope Sergius I was the bishop of Rome from 15 December 687 to his death on 8 September 701, and is revered as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. He was elected at a time when two rivals, Paschal and Theodore, were locked in a dispute about which of them should become pope. His papacy was dominated by his response to the Quinisext Council, the canons of which he steadfastly refused to accept. Thereupon Emperor Justinian II ordered Sergius' arrest, but the Roman people and the Italian militia of the exarch of Ravenna refused to allow the exarch to bring Sergius to Constantinople.

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08/09/0394

Arbogast, Frankish general

Arbogast or Arbogastes was a Roman army officer of Frankish origin. He won distinction in the service of the emperor Gratian, and was subsequently entrusted by Theodosius I with the guardianship of the underage Valentinian II. After the death of Valentinian under suspicious circumstances, and the subsequent elevation of Eugenius to Augustus of the Western Roman Empire by Arbogast, a civil war ensued in which both Eugenius and Arbogast perished.

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