September 20 - Deaths

Deaths

• 911 – Louis the Child of the East Franks (b. 893)
• 1246 – Michael of Chernigov (b. 1185)
• 1384 – Louis I, Duke of Anjou (b. 1339)
• 1460 – Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer (b. 1400)
• 1586 – John Ballard, English priest, conspirator in the Babington Plot
• 1586 – Chidiock Tichborne, English poet, conspirator in the Babington Plot (b. 1558)
• 1590 – Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)
• 1625 – Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (b. 1555)
• 1627 – Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (b. 1560)
• 1630 – Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586)
• 1639 – Johannes Meursius, Dutch scholar (b. 1579)
• 1643 – Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and author (b. 1610)
• 1684 – Kim Seok-ju, Korean scholar, politician, and author (b. 1634)
• 1721 – Thomas Doggett, Irish actor (b. 1640)
• 1793 – Fletcher Christian, English navy officer (b. 1764)
• 1803 – Robert Emmet, Irish army officer (b. 1780)
• 1815 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (b. 1725)
• 1839 – Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English navy officer (b. 1769)
• 1840 – José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan politician (b. 1766)
• 1845 – Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer (b. 1780)
• 1852 – Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (b. 1775)
• 1855 – José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (b. 1797)
• 1863 – Jacob Grimm, German philologist, jurist, and author (b. 1785)
• 1884 – Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (b. 1802)
• 1898 – Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (b. 1819)
• 1906 – Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834)
• 1908 – Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
• 1927 – George Nichols, American actor and director (b. 1864)
• 1930 – Gombojab Tsybikov, Russian explorer (b. 1873)
• 1932 – Wovoka, American religious leader, founded the Ghost Dance Movement (b. 1856)
• 1933 – Annie Besant, English activist (b. 1847)
• 1939 – Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (b. 1855)
• 1945 – Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian politician (b. 1869
• 1945 – Jack Thayer, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1894)
• 1945 – William Seabrook, American occultist, journalist, and explorer (b. 1884)
• 1945 – Eduard Wirths, German nazi physician (b. 1909)
• 1946 – Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
• 1947 – Fiorello La Guardia, American politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (b. 1882)
• 1948 – Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian scholar, poet, and writer (b. 1881)
• 1957 – Heino Kaski, Finnish composer and pianist (b. 1885)
• 1957 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)
• 1958 – Oscar O'Brien, Canadian priest, composer, and pianist (b. 1892)
• 1970 – Alexandros Othonaios, Greek general, 126h Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1879)
• 1971 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1972 – Pierre-Henri Simon, French historian and author (b. 1903)
• 1973 – Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1975 – Saint-John Perse, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1979 – Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
• 1980 – Sanpei Hayashiya I, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)
• 1984 – Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 1985 – Ruhi Su, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Michael Stewart, American playwright (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Richie Ginther, American race car driver (b. 1930)
• 1993 – Erich Hartmann, German pilot, highest-scoring fighter ace of all time (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Jule Styne, English-American songwriter (b. 1905)
• 1996 – Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
• 1996 – Max Manus, Norwegian resistance fighter (b. 1914)
• 1996 – Paul Weston, American conductor and arranger (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Matt Christopher, American author (b. 1917)
• 1997 – Nick Traina, American singer-songwriter (Link 80) (b. 1978)
• 1998 – Muriel Humphrey Brown, American politician (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Raisa Gorbachova, Russian wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)
• 1999 – Robert Lebel, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1905)
• 2000 – Gherman Titov, Russian astronaut (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Russian actor (b. 1971)
• 2003 – Gordon Mitchell, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician, 1st Vice President of Zimbabwe (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, Welsh politician (b. 1941)
• 2004 – Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (b. 1935)
• 2004 – Townsend Hoopes, American historian (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian holocaust survivor and nazi hunter (b. 1908)
• 2006 – Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
• 2006 – John W. Peterson, American songwriter (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Kenny McKinley, American football player (b. 1987)
• 2010 – Leonard Skinner, American educator, namesake of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd (b. 1933)
• 2011 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghan politician, 10th President of Afghanistan (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Robert G. Barrett, Australian author (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Richard H. Cracroft, American academic and author (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Gianfranco Dell'Innocenti, Italian footballer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Paul O'Connor, Irish hurler (b. 1963)
• 2012 – Dinesh Thakur, Indian actor and director (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Dorothy Wedderburn, English academic (b. 1925)