Famous Deaths on September 11

Cornelis de Houtman (1565-1599)

Dutch navigator (1st Dutch expedition to Java), killed by forces of the Sultan of Aceh at 35

1630 John de White, Calvinist and banker to Prague, commits suicide
1646 Johann Stobäus, North German composer, dies at 66
1677 James Harrington, English author and political theorist of classical republicanism (The Commonwealth of Oceana), dies at 66
1680 Emperor Go-Mizunoo, 108th Emperor of Japan, dies at 84
1680 Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
1709 Oxenstiern, Dutch general, dies in the Battle of Malplaquet
1709 Spaar, Dutch General, dies in the Battle of Malplaquet
1713 Johannes Voet, Dutch lawyer, dies at 65
1721 Rudolph J. Camerarius, German physician (sexuality plans), dies
1733 François Couperin, French composer and organist (Les Concerts Royaux), dies at 64
1760 Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
1789 Luca Sorkočević, Croatian nobleman and composer (composed 1st Croatian symphony), commits suicide at 55
1810 Francis Baring, English merchant and banker (Baring Brothers & Co.), dies at 70
1822 Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor, comedist, translator, editor of humour magazines, dies at 54
1823 David Ricardo, English economist (On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation), dies at 51
1840 Johannes Hendricus van der Palm, Dutch theologist and Minister of Education, dies at 77
1843 Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer, died at 57
1848 Henri-Philippe Gerard, Belgian composer, dies at 87
1851 Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist and minister (Graham cracker) (b. 1794)
1858 Alexander Gurilyov, Russian composer, dies at 55
1865 Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general during conquest of Algeria, dies at 59
1870 Eugenio Lucas y Padilla, Spanish poet, dies at about 46
1888 Domingo F. Sarmiento, President of Argentina (1868-74), dies at 77
1891 Antero Tarquínio de Quental, Portuguese poet (Beatrice), dies at 49
1891 Théodule-Augustin Ribot, French realist painter (Breton Fishermen and Their Families), dies at 68
1892 Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, French composer (Les trois couleurs), dies at 84
1896 Francis James Child, American ballad collector (b. 1825)
1898 Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, Belgian composer, dies at 74
1905 John Ware, American-Canadian black rancher and cowboy, dies after an accident at 55 [1]
1911 Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
1911 William R. Boggs, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) and chief of engineers, dies at 82
1915 William Cornelius Van Horne, American-Canadian railway executive (Canadian Pacific Railway), dies at 72
1915 William Sprague IV, American politician and Governor of Rhode Island (1859-63), dies at 84
1917 Georges Guynemer, French WWI fighter pilot and national hero, shot down and killed at 22
1921 Subramania Bharati, Indian poet and independence activist, dies at 38
1922 Louis Coerne, American composer (Zenobia; Excalibur), and educator (The Evolution of Modern Orchestration), dies at 52
1924 Mieczyslaw Surzynski, Polish organ virtuoso and composer (1904 Organ Concerto), dies at 57
1926 Matsunosuke Onoe [Tsuruzo Nakamura], Japanese actor (Araki Mataemon, Yajîkita: zenpen), Japanese actor, dies at 50
1932 Franciszek Żwirko, Polish pilot (co-winner of 'Challenge 1932'), dies in a plane crash at 36
1932 Stanislaw Wigura, Polish airplane designer and aviator (co-winner of international 'Challenge 1932'), dies in a plane crash at 31
1946 Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer (Holland Drama), dies at 72)
1948 Albert Powell, South African cricketer and Rugby player (one Test South Africa v England 1898-99), dies at 75

Mohammed Ali Jinnah (1876-1948)

Founder of Pakistan who led the All-India Muslim League (1913-47) until he achieved his dream of Pakistan and became its 1st Governor-General (1947-48), dies of tuberculous at 71

1949 Henri Rabaud, French composer and conductor (L'ete), dies at 75

Jan Smuts (1870-1950)

Prime Minister of South Africa (1919-24, 1939-48), military leader (Boer War, WWI, Smuts Report that led to the RAF) and internationalist statesman (Commonwealth, League of Nations, United Nations), dies of a heart attack at 80

1950 Rudolf Palm, Curaçaoan pianist and composer, dies at 70
1950 Sorabji Colah, Indian cricketer (69 runs in India's 1st 2 tests 1932-33), dies at 47
1954 Licinio Refice, Italian priest and composer (Cecilia), dies at 69

Billy Bishop (1894-1956)

Canadian First World War flying ace with 72 kills, dies at 62

1957 Petar Stojanovic, Serbian composer, dies at 80
1958 Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician and Mayor of Montreal, dies at 69
1958 Robert Lach, Austrian composer, dies at 84
1958 Robert W. Service, English-Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee), dies at 84
1959 Paul Douglas, American actor (Adventure Theater; Clash by Night), dies from a heart attack at 52
1965 Ralph C. Smedley, American Founder of Toastmasters International, dies at 87
1966 Charlie Cantor, American radio and television actor (The Fred Allen Show - "Socrates Mulligan"; The Jack Benny Program -"Logan Jerkfinkel"), dies at 68
1966 Collett E. Woolman, American airline founder (Delta Air Service), dies at 76
1967 Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist, dies at 62
1968 René Cogny, French General (b. 1904)
1968 Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer (US Open 1927, PGA 1930, British Open 1931), dies at 71
1970 Chester Morris, American actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), dies at 69
1970 Ernst May, German architect and city planner (New Frankfurt), dies at 84

Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64), dies of a heart attack at 77

1971 Percy Helton, American actor (Jail Busters, Harbor of Missing Men), dies at 77
1972 Max Fleischer, Polish-American animator and film producer (Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor Man), dies at 89
1973 Neem Karoli Baba, Indian guru, dies at 73

Salvador Allende (1908-1973)

President of Chile (1970-73) and the 1st Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through an open election, commits suspected suicide by shooting himself during a military coup at 65

1974 Víctor Olea Alegría, Chilean Socialist Party member, arrested by Pinochet's National Intelligence Directorate and afterwards disappeared at 22
1976 Jan Kunc, Czech composer (Czech State Anthem), dies at 93
1977 Don Blackman, actor (Old Man & Sea, Desert Legion), dies at 65
1977 Leonard Carey, American actor (Rebecca, Laughter), dies at 90
1978 Georgi Markov, Bulgarian writer and dissident, assassinated (probably stabbed by an umbrella with poison) by KGB and Bulgarian Secret Service in London at 49
1978 Janet Parker, English medical photographer, the last person to die of smallpox, dies at 40
1978 Mike Gazella, American baseball player (NY Yankees), dies at 82
1980 Jose Antonio Calcano, Venezuelan composer, teacher, and choral director, dies at 80
1981 Frank McHugh, American actor (Going My Way, Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young), dies at 83
1982 Albert Soboult, French historian, dies at 68
1982 Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (The Jungle), dies at 79
1984 Hilding Hallnäs, Swedish composer (Kärlekens ringdans), dies at 81
1984 Jerry Voorhis, American politician (Rep-D-California 1937-47), dies at 83
1985 Andrew C. Thornton II, American drug smuggler, dies jumping from a plane to his death with $15 million in cocaine at 40
1985 Masako Natsume [Odate], Japanese actress and model (Tripitaka in "Monkey"), dies of leukemia at 27
1985 William Alwyn, English composer, dies at 79
1987 Lorne Greene [Lyon Chaim Green], Canadian actor (Bonanza - "Ben Cartwright"; Battlestar Galactica), dies of pneumonia following heart surgery at 72
1987 Ludovic Feldman, Romanian violinist and composer, dies at 94
1987 Mahadevi Varma, Indian poet and freedom fighter, dies at 80
1987 Peter Tosh [Winston Hubert McIntosh], Jamaican reggae musician (The Wailers -"Get Up Stand Up"; "Mystic Man"; "Legalize It"), shot dead at his home in Jamaica at 42
1988 George Alpert, American railroad executive (New Haven Line), dies at 90
1988 John Sylvester White, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter), dies at 68
1988 Luis Alvarez, American physicist (subatomic particles, Nobel 1968), dies of cancer at 77
1988 Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator of children's books (Mr. Men and Little Miss), dies of a stroke at 53
1990 Ben Frank, American actor (Don't Answer the Phone), dies of a heart attack at 56
1990 Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist, stabbed to death by Guatemalan military for criticising the government at 40
1991 Ernst Herbeck, German Poet, dies at 70
1992 Erik Terpstra, Dutch director (Versier de leegte, De ander, Daniel), dies at 55
1992 Frank McKinney, American swimmer (Olympic gold 4x100m medley), dies in a mid-air collision between 2 aircraft at 53
1992 Frank Singuineau, Trinidadian actor (Firepower, Pressure, Mummy), dies at 79
1993 Antoine Izmery, Haitian businessman and advisor to President Aristide, murdered by paramilitaries
1993 Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian-born American conductor, dies at 81
1994 Frederick R. Weisman, American philanthropist (Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation), dies at 82

Jessica Tandy (1909-1994)

British-American actress (Driving Miss Daisy), dies of cancer at 85

1994 Sara Southern, American actress and mother of Elizabeth Taylor, dies at 99
1994 William Obanhein, American police officer and actor (Officer Obie-Alice's Restaurant), dies at 69
1995 Anita Harding, British neurologist (first identification of a mitochondrial DNA mutation in human disease), dies of cancer at 42
1995 Jerome Theisen, American Abbot Primate of the Benedictine order of monks, dies of a heart attack at 64
1995 Keith Odor, British racing driver, dies during a touring car race at 33
1996 Guido Aristarco, Italian film critic (Cinema Nuovo), dies at 77
1996 Joanne Dru [LaCock], American actress (Red River, All the King's Men), dies of lymphedema at 73
1997 Camille Henry, Canadian National Hockey League player, dies at 64
1997 Hannah Weiner, American experimental poet, dies at 68
1998 Dane Clark, American actor (Wire Service, Bold Venture, Perry Mason), dies at 86
1998 Frank Ereaut, British Bailiff of Jersey (1975-85), dies at 79
1999 Belkis Ayón, Cuban printmaker (collography), commits suicide at 32
1999 Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan auto racing driver (b. 1972)
2001 Alice Stewart Trillin, American author, dies at 63
2001 Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter, dies in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center at 35
2001 Barbara Olson (née Bracher), American political commentator, dies in terror attack aboard flight 77 flown into the Pentagon at 45
2001 Berinthia "Berry" Berenson, American photographer, actress, model, and widow of actor Anthony Perkins, dies on American Airlines Flight 11 in the 9/11 attacks at 53
2001 Daniel M. Lewin, American–Israeli mathematician and founder of Akamai Technologies, dies in the terror attacks aboard flight 11 at 31
2001 David Angell, American sitcom creator (Frazier), dies aboard a plane in a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center at 55
2001 Hani Hanjour, Saudi Arabian 9/11 terrorist, dies in Pentagon plane attack at 29
2001 Henry Herbert, 7th earl of Carnarvon, English peer and racing manager to the Queen, dies of a heart attack at 77
2001 John Ogonowski, American pilot, dies aboard American Airlines Flight 11 in terror attack on the World Trade Center at 50
2001 John P. O'Neill, American anti-terrorism expert and FBI agent, dies as Head of Security in the terror attack on the World Trade Center at 49
2001 Mark Bingham, American passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, dies thwarting terrorist attempts to crash the plane into a Washington monument at 31
2001 Marwan Al-Shehhi, Emirati 9/11 terrorist, dies piloting a plane into the World Trade Center at 23
2001 Mohamed Atta, Egyptian 9/11 terrorist and ringleader, dies piloting a plane into the World Trade Center at 33
2001 Mychal F. Judge, American Chaplain to NY Fire Dept, dies in the World Trade Center attack at 68
2001 Peter J. Ganci, Jr., American Fire fighter (Chief of Department, FDNY_, dies in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center at 55

Todd Beamer (1968-2001)

American passenger and hero on United Airlines Flight 93, dies at 32 in a plane crash trying to stop the 9/11 terrorists

2001 Tom Burnett, American businessman and passenger aboard United 93, dies thwarting terrorist attempts to crash the plane into a Washington monument at 38
2001 Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese 9/11 terrorist, dies piloting United Flight 93 at 26

Johnny Unitas (1933-2002)

American NFL quarterback (Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers); one of the greats, dies of a heart attack at 69

2002 Kim Hunter [Janet Cole], American actress (A Streetcar Named Desire; Planet of the Apes), dies of a heart attack at 79
2003 Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, assassinated shopping in Stockholm at 46
2003 John Ritter, American actor and comedian (Three's Company, It, 8 Simple Rules), dies of an aortic dissection at 54
2004 David Mann, American graphic artist of biker culture, dies at 64

Fred Ebb (1928-2004)

American musical theater lyricist, with John Kander (Cabaret; Chicago; New York, New York; Funny Lady), dies of a heart attack at 76

2004 Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, Greek Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, dies at 55
2005 Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), dies at 82

Joachim Fest (1926-2006)

German historian and journalist (Hitler biography, Speer: The Final Verdict), dies at 79

2006 Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer (b. 1921)
2006 Pat Corley, American actor (Murphy Brown), dies at 76
2006 William Auld, Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto, dies at 81
2007 Gene Savoy, American author and cleric (b. 1927)
2007 Ian Porterfield, Manager of Armenia National Football Club (b. 1946)
2007 [Josef] Joe Zawinul, Austrian-American jazz keyboardist, composer and musician (Weather Report - "Birdland"), dies from Merkel cell carcinoma at 75
2009 Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian and the world's oldest living person, dies at 115
2009 Zakes Mokae, South African actor (Comedians), dies at 75
2010 Harold Gould, American character actor (The Sting, The Golden Girls, Rhoda, Big Bus), dies at 86
2010 Kevin McCarthy, American actor (Invasion of Body Snatchers, Death of a Salesman), dies of pneumonia at 96
2011 Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor (Spartacus), dies of cancer at 39
2011 Anjali Gupta, Indian Air Force officer (b. 1975)
2011 Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver (b. 1984)
2012 Sergio Livingstone, Chilean football player and journalist, dies from natural causes at 92
2014 Antoine Duhamel, French composer, dies at 89
2014 Bob Crewe, American songwriter and producer ("Big Girls Don't Cry"), dies at 83
2015 Marcel Zeeuw, Surinamese soldier (coup 1982), dies at 61
2016 Alexis Arquette, American transgender performer (Last Exit to Brooklyn), dies at 47
2017 Peter Hall, English stage, film and opera director (Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre director), dies at 86
2018 Fenella Fielding, English actress (Carry On films), dies at 90
2018 Jim Houston, American College Football Hall of Fame linebacker (Ohio State; Pro Bowl 1964-65, 69-70; Cleveland Browns), dies of dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 80
2019 B. J. Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia (1998-99) who liberalized Indonesia's press and political party laws, dies of heart failure at 83
2019 Daniel Johnston, American musician and visual artist ("Hi, How Are You"), dies of a suspected heart attack at 58

T. Boone Pickens (1928-2019)

American business person and oil tycoon (Shamrock, Mesa Petroleum Co) known as the 'Oracle of Oil', dies at 91

2020 (Frederick) "Toots" Hibbert, Jamaican singer-songwriter (The Maytals - "Pressure Drop"), dies with COVID-19 symptoms at 77 [1]
2020 Charles Patrick, American do-wop singer and songwriter (The Monotones - "The Book of Love"). dies on his 82nd birthday
2020 Nadhim Shaker, Iraqi soccer defender (57 caps; Al-Tayaran) and coach (Iraq), dies from COVID-19 at 61
2020 Sonny Allen, American basketball coach (ODU, Southern Methodist University, University of Nevada, Reno; WNBA Sacramento Monarchs), dies of Parkinson's Disease at 84
2021 Mick Tingelhoff, American Pro Football HOF center (6 × Pro Bowl; 5 × First-team All-Pro; Minnesota Vikings), dies at 81
2022 Alain Tanner, Swiss film director (Charles, Dead or Alive), dies at 92
2022 Javier Marías, Spanish translator and novelist (Corazón Tan Blanco - A Heart So White), dies of pneumonia at 70 [1]
2023 Juan Carlos Harriott Jr., Argentine polo player (Argentine Open C'ship x 20, Hurlingham Open x 15, Tortugas Open x 7), dies at 86