September 7 - Deaths

Deaths

• 251 – Sima Yi, Chinese general and politician (b. 179)
• 355 – Claudius Silvanus, Roman general
• 1151 – Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (b. 1113)
• 1312 – Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285)
• 1464 – Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1412)
• 1496 – Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)
• 1559 – Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)
• 1632 – Susenyos of Ethiopia (b. 1572)
• 1644 – Guido Bentivoglio, Italian cardinal, statesman, and historian (b. 1579)
• 1655 – François Tristan l'Hermite, French author and playwright (b. 1601)
• 1657 – Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish field marshal (b. 1606)
• 1719 – John Harris, English writer, priest, and scientist (b. 1666)
• 1729 – William Burnet, Dutch-American civil servant and administrator (b. 1688)
• 1741 – Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (b. 1689)
• 1799 – Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717)
• 1809 – Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, Thai king (b. 1737)
• 1833 – Hannah More, English poet, playwright, and philanthropist (b. 1745)
• 1840 – Jacques MacDonald, French marshal (b. 1765)
• 1871 – Kimenzan Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 13th Yokozuna (b. 1826)
• 1881 – Sidney Lanier, American poet and academic (b. 1842)
• 1891 – Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge (b. 1820)
• 1892 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (b. 1807)
• 1893 – Hamilton Fish, American politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (b. 1808)
• 1910 – William Holman Hunt, English painter (b. 1827)
• 1920 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (b. 1855)
• 1921 – Alfred William Rich, English author and painter (b. 1856)
• 1923 – Nikolai von Glehn, Baltic German landowner and activist (b. 1841)
• 1929 – Frederic Weatherly, English lawyer, author, and songwriter (b. 1848)
• 1933 – Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, English politician (b. 1862)
• 1939 – Kyōka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873)
• 1949 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
• 1951 – Maria Montez, Dominican actress (b. 1912)
• 1954 – Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
• 1956 – C. B. Fry, English cricketer, politician, academic, and writer (b. 1872)
• 1959 – Maurice Duplessis, Canadian politician, 16th Premier of Quebec (b. 1890)
• 1962 – Karen Blixen, Danish author (b. 1885)
• 1962 – Graham Walker, English motorcycle racer and journalist (b. 1897)
• 1962 – Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1892)
• 1965 – Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1969 – Everett Dirksen, American politician (b. 1896)
• 1971 – Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886)
• 1971 – Ludwig Suthaus, German tenor (b. 1906)
• 1978 – Cecil Aronowitz, South African-English viola player (b. 1916)
• 1978 – Keith Moon, English drummer, songwriter, producer, and actor (The Who and Plastic Ono Band) (b. 1946)
• 1978 – Charles Williams, English composer and conductor (b. 1893)
• 1982 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)
• 1984 – Joe Cronin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1906)
• 1984 – Josyf Slipyj, Ukrainian cardinal (b. 1892)
• 1984 – Don Tallon, Australian cricketer (b. 1916)
• 1985 – José Zabala-Santos, Filipino cartoonist (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Les Bury, Australian politician (b. 1913)
• 1989 – Mikhail Goldstein, Soviet violinist and composer (b. 1917)
• 1990 – Earle E. Partridge, American pilot and general (b. 1900)
• 1990 – A. J. P. Taylor, English historian and journalist (b. 1906)
• 1991 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist (b. 1907)
• 1994 – James Clavell, Australian-American author (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Eric Crozier, English director (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Dennis Morgan, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Godfrey Quigley, Irish actor (b. 1923)
• 1994 – Terence Young, Chinese-English director and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1995 – Russell Johnson, American cartoonist (b. 1893)
• 1997 – Elisabeth Brooks, Canadian actress (b. 1951)
• 1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese politician, President of Zaire (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author (b. 1949)
• 2000 – Bruce Gyngell, Australian television executive (b. 1929)
• 2001 – Igor Buketoff, American conductor (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Spede Pasanen, Finnish comedian, director, and producer (b. 1930)
• 2001 – Billie Lou Watt, American actress (b. 1924)
• 2002 – Katrin Cartlidge, English actress (b. 1961)
• 2002 – Cyrinda Foxe, American actress and model (b. 1952)
• 2002 – Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)
• 2002 – Uziel Gal, German-Israeli gun designer, designed the Uzi (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Warren Zevon, American singer-songwriter and musician (Hindu Love Gods and lyme and cybelle) (b. 1947)
• 2004 – Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
• 2005 – Hope Garber, Canadian actress and singer (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Robert Earl Jones, American actor (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Hiroshi Takase, Japanese cinematographer (b. 1955)
• 2008 – Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian actor (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Dino Dvornik, Croatian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (b. 1964)
• 2008 – Peter Glossop, English opera singer (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Don Haskins, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
• 2008 – Nagi Noda, Japanese director (b. 1973)
• 2010 – Amar Garibović, Serbian skier (b. 1991)
• 2010 – Barbara Holland, American author (b. 1933)
• 2010 – John Kluge, German-American businessman (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Glenn Shadix, American actor (b. 1952)
• 2011 – Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster
  • Pavol Demitra, Slovakian ice hockey player (b. 1974)
  • Alexander Karpovtsev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1970)
  • Igor Korolev, Russian-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1970)
  • Stefan Liv, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1980)
  • Jan Marek, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1979)
  • Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1959)
  • Karel Rachůnek, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1979)
  • Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1974)
  • Ruslan Salei, Belarussian ice hockey player (b. 1974)
  • Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1980)
• 2012 – Richard Bucher, Swiss ice hockey player (b. 1955)
• 2012 – Leszek Drogosz, Polish boxer and actor (b. 1933)
• 2012 – César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Francisco Fernández Fernández, Spanish super-centenarian (b. 1901)
• 2012 – Abdul Ghafoor, Pakistani footballer (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Louise LaPlanche, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Aleksandr Maksimenkov, Russian footballer and coach (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Maestro Reverendo, Spanish composer (b. 1955)
• 2012 – Nicole Russell, Duchess of Bedford (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Daniel Weinreb, American computer scientist and programmer (b. 1959)