Famous Deaths on September 1

Jacques Cartier (1491-1557)

French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France, dies at 65

1581 Guru Ram Das, 4th Sikh Guru (1574-81), dies at 46
1600 Tadeáš Hájek, Czech naturalist, physician and astronomer, dies at 74
1615 Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters, dies at 86
1648 Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne), dies at 59
1666 French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait), dies at about 86
1671 Hugues de Lionne, Marquess de Berny, French ambassador to Rome, dies at 59
1685 Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)
1687 Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
1715 François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)

Louis XIV (1638-1715)

King of France (1643-1715), known as "The Sun King", had longest reign in country, dies at 76

Richard Steele (1672-1729)

Irish writer, playwright (The Conscious Lovers) and Whig politician who co-founded "The Spectator" magazine, dies at 57

1731 Pierre Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 50
1777 Johann Ernst Bach, German kapellmeister and composer, dies at 55
1780 Reynier de Klerk, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1778-80), dies at 69
1801 Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong), dies at 73
1814 Erik Tulindberg, Finland's first known classical composer, dies at 53
1818 Robert Calder, British naval officer, dies at 73

William Clark (1770-1838)

American explorer, soldier, Indian agent and territorial governor who led the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-06 and claimed the Pacific Northwest for the United States, dies at 68

1862 Isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 44
1862 Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia
1862 Philip "Phil" Kearny, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 48
1867 Edward Hodges, English organist and composer, dies at 71
1880 Antoon Jurgens, Dutch butter and margarine maker, dies at 75
1896 Johannes Habert, composer, dies at 62
1903 Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neo criticism), dies
1906 Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian playwright, poet, and librettist (Puccini's "La bohème", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly"), dies at 58
1912 Samuel "Sam" van Beem, Flemish actor (Fanfan la Tulipe), dies at 62
1912 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, African-British composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast), dies at 37
1914 Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo (Cincinnati, Ohio)
1926 John Hunn, American businessman and 51st Governor of Delaware, dies at 77

Lillian Wald (1867-1940)

American pioneering nurse and social activist who started American community nursing with the Henry Street Settlement in NYC, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 73

1941 "Kansas City" Frank [Melrose], American jazz and blues pianist, killed in a bar fight in Hammond, Indiana at 33
1941 Benjamin Dwight, American tennis championship umpire, dies
1943 Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
1945 Jacobus W G Balfoort, Dutch actor (Heimwee, Head On), dies at 57
1947 Frederick Russell Burnham, American scout and adventurer whose friendship with Baden-Powell inspired the founding of the international scouting movement, dies at 86
1948 Charles A. Beard, American historian (American Continentalism), dies at 73
1949 Bobby Walthour Sr., American cyclist (motor-pacing World Championships gold 1904-05; Madison Square Garden 6-Day Race 1901, 03), dies at 71
1951 Wols [Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze], German cartoonist and painter, dies at 38
1953 Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet, dies at 87
1955 Philip Loeb, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 61
1957 Dennis Brain, British classical horn player (Serenade), killed in a car wreck at 38
1957 Helen Haye [Hay], British stage and silent and sound screen actress (Honour in Pawn; Girl in the Taxi; Spy in Black), dies at 83
1961 Eero Saarinen, Finnish-American architect (Dulles Airport), dies at 51
1961 William Z. Foster, American labor organizer and US Communist Party president (1945-57), dies at 80
1962 Anton Mauve (Jr), Dutch painter, dies at 63
1963 Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor, dies at 73
1964 George Georgescu, Romanian conductor and composer, dies at 76
1964 Otto Emanuel Olsson, Swedish organist and composer, dies at 84
1967 Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (commonly known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald") hangs herself in prison at 60
1967 James Dunn, American vaudeville performer, stage and screen actor (Bad Girl; Bright Eyes; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), dies from surgery complications at 65
1967 Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and writer (Counterattack), dies at 80
1968 Granville English, composer, dies at 69
1969 Drew Pearson, American newscaster (Drew Pearson), dies at 71
1969 William Flanagan, American composer, and music critic, takes his own life at 46
1970 Francois Mauriac, French novelist, poet and playwright (Nobel 1952), dies at 84
1972 Kees Posthumus, Dutch chemist, dies at 70
1972 May Aufderheide, American ragtime composer ("Dusty Rag"), dies at 84 [1]
1977 Ethel Waters, American actress (Beulah), singer ("Stormy Weather"), dies at 80
1978 Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina, dies as a result of anorexia nervosa at 33
1979 Doris Kenyon, American silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton), dies at 81

Albert Speer (1905-1981)

German architect and Nazi leader (Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production), dies of a stroke at 76

1981 Ann Harding, actress (When Ladies Meet, Devotion), dies
1981 Bùi Thanh Liêm, Vietnamese cosmonaut, dies in a MiG-21 crash at 32
1982 Clifford Curzon, British classical pianist (Royal Academy of Music Macfarren Gold Medal), dies at 75
1982 Clifford M Curzon, British classical pianist, dies at 75
1982 Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)
1982 Wladislaw Gomulka, Polish partisan/party leader, dies at 76
1983 Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, American politician (Sen-D-Wash), dies at 71
1983 Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)
1983 Lennox Brown, South African cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies at 72
1984 Howland Chamberlin, American actor (Force of Evil, Pickup), dies at 73
1985 James Pitman, British educator and spelling reformer (Alphabets and Reading: The Initial Teaching Alphabet), dies at 84
1985 Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
1986 Murray Hamilton, American character actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Anatomy of a Murder), dies of lung cancer at 63
1987 Philip Friend, British actor (Dick Turpin, Buccaneer's Girl, Vulture, Fur Collar), dies at 72
1988 Leonor Sullivan, American politician (Rep-D-Missouri, 1955-77), dies at 86
1989 A. Bartlett Giamatti, American MLB commissioner (1989) and President of Yale University (1978-86), dies of a heart attack at 51
1989 Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894)
1991 Elise Hoomans, Dutch director and actress (Jane Eyre, Barocco), dies at 76
1991 Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30
1991 Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies
1992 Chick Harbert, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1954, Ryder Cup 1949, 55), dies of a cerebral haemorrhage at 77
1992 Morris Carnovsky, American actor (Dead Reckoning), dies at 94
1993 Eugen Malmstén, Finnish jazz trumpeter, singer, band leader, and songwriter, dies at 86
1993 Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter and communist, dies at 80
1993 Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86
1993 Jacqueline Wijchers, film publicist (Havenloods, Sextant), dies at 89
1993 Neon Park [Martin Muller], American illustrator of album covers (Little Feat; Frank Zappa), dies of ALS at 52
1994 Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1994 Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, Anglican pastor and bishop, dies at 88
1994 Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71
1994 Wallis Mathias, Pakistan cricket batsman (21 Tests; first non-Muslim to play for Pakistan), dies at 59
1995 Benay Venuta [Benvenuta Rose Crooke], American actress, singer and dancer (Annie Get Your Gun; Call Me Mister), dies of lung cancer at 84
1995 Elizabeth Brown, minister healer and writer, dies at 32
1995 Ernest Marke, Sierra Leonean seaman and club owner, dies at 93
1996 Charles Daniels, archaeologist, dies at 63
1996 George Levy, English antique dealer, heritage campaigner, dies at 69
1996 Karl Kehrle, Benedictine monk and beekeeper, dies at 98
1996 Vagn Holmboe, Danish neo-classical composer (Sinfonia rustica), dies at 86

Cary Middlecoff (1921-1998)

American golfer (US Open 1949, 56; US Masters 1955), dies at 77

1998 Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (Marsz żałobny), dies at 67
1998 Petar Šegedin, Croatian novelist (Holy Devil), dies at 89
1998 Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, English press magnate (The Mail on Sunday), dies of a heart attack at 73
1999 W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)
2001 Brian Moore, British sports commentator (BBC Radio, London Weekend Television 'The Big Match'), dies of heart failure at 69
2003 (Arlington) Rand Brooks, American actor (Gone With The Wind; Rin Tin Tin), dies of cancer at 84
2003 Terry Frost, British artist, dies at 87
2004 Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
2004 Johnny Bragg, American doo-wop singer-songwriter (The Prisonaires - "Just Walkin' in the Rain"), dies of cancer at 79
2004 Kenneth Keith, Lord Keith of Castleacre, English banker, dies at 88
2005 R. L. Burnside, American blues musician (Deep Blues), dies at 78 (b. 1926)
2005 Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)
2006 Bob O'Connor, American politician (Mayor of Pittsburgh, 2006), dies of brain cancer at 61
2006 Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
2006 Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
2006 Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
2007 Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)
2007 Viliam Schrojf, Slovak soccer goalkeeper (39 caps Czechoslovakia; Slovan Bratislava 240 games), dies at 76
2008 Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
2009 Aubrey Buxton, English TV executive (ITV, created "Survival"), dies at 91
2009 Jake Brockman, British rock keyboardist (Echo & the Bunnymen), dies in a motorcycle accident at 53
2009 Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress (b. 1974)
2010 Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (b. 1928)
2012 Hal David, American lyricist ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"; "What The World Needs Now Is Love"; "Do You Know the Way to San Jose"), dies at 91
2012 Sat Mahajan, Indian politician (Rural Development Minister), dies at 85
2012 Smarck Michel, Haitian Prime Minister (1994-95), dies from a brain tumour

Tommy Morrison (1969-2013)

American boxer (WBO heavyweight title, 1993) and actor (Rocky V), dies from AIDS at 44

2014 Jimi Jamison, American rock singer (Survivor, 1984-89, 2000-06, 2011-14 - "High On You"), dies of a stroke at 63
2015 Dean Jones, American actor (Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, The Love Bug), dies at 84
2016 Jon Polito, actor (Fire With Fire, Homicide), dies at 65
2016 Len Maddocks, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (7 Tests, 19 dismissals; Victoria, Tasmania), dies at 90
2016 Raymond Daveluy, Canadian organist (St. Joseph's Montreal, 1960-2002), composer and educator, dies at 89
2017 Novella Nelson, American actress (Antwone Fisher, Purlie, Chiefs), dies at 78
2019 Tom Collins, Canadian ice skating promoter ('Champions On Ice'), dies from stroke complications at 88
2020 Jerzy Szczakiel, Polish speedway rider (World Individual C'ship 1973; World Pairs C'ship 1971), dies at 71
2021 Jim Fuller, American college football coach and athletics administrator (coach 1977-83; AD 2003-08 Jacksonville State University), dies from COVID-19 at 76
2021 Juan Rodríguez Vega, Chilean soccer defender (26 caps; Universidad de Chile, Atlético Español), dies at 77
2021 Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Separatist leader in Kashmir (headed resistance against Indian rule), dies at 92 [1]
2022 Earnie Shavers, American boxer (2 x world heavyweight c'ship challenger [Muhammad Ali 1977, Larry Holmes 1979]), dies at 78