Famous Deaths on September 30

1712 Johann Michael Zächer, Austrian composer, dies at 61
1716 Heinrich Georg Neuss, German composer, Lutheran theologian, and poet, dies at 62
1755 Francesco Durante, Neapolitan composer,and teacher dies at 71

George Whitefield (1714-1770)

English-born Methodist leader and preacher, dies in Newburyport, Massachusetts, at age 55

1770 Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
1772 James Brindley, English engineer (canals and watermills), dies at about 76
1788 Matthäus Günther, German painter, dies at 83
1803 Charles Broche, French composer, dies at 51
1811 Thomas Percy, English literary and bishop of Dromore, dies at 82
1819 Nicolas Roze, French composer, dies at 74
1837 Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama, dies at 21
1862 Isaac Peace Rodman, American banker and Brigadier General (Union Army), dies of injury at about 40
1865 Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar, dies at 65
1877 Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of Nez Perce indians, dies in battle
1884 Louis Lacombe, French pianist and composer, dies at 65
1885 Maria Gartmann, Dutch actress, dies at 60
1888 Catherine Eddowes, English woman murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
1888 Elizabeth Stride "Long Liz", English woman murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
1891 Georges Boulanger, French general and politician, dies at 54
1897 St Therese of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)
1904 Sigurd Lie, Norwegian composer and conductor, dies of tuberculosis at 33
1910 Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)
1921 Oskar Panizza, German writer (Das Liebeskonzil), dies at 77
1922 Paul Barth, German philosopher and sociologist, dies at 64
1927 Samuel Garman, American zoologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and namesake of a Jamaican lizard, dies at 84
1929 Charles Bonin, French explorer and diplomat (China), dies at 64
1940 Walter Kollo, German operetta and popular song composer, dies at 62
1943 Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist and economist (The State), dies at 79

Edith Roosevelt (1861-1948)

US First Lady and wife of Teddy Roosevelt, dies at 87

1952 Waldorf Astor, American-British politician and newspaper owner (Observer), dies at 73
1955 Arnold Struycken, Dutch lawyer, dies at 55

James Dean (1931-1955)

American actor and cultural icon (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause), and 1st actor to be posthumously nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award, dies in a car crash at age 24

1955 Michael Chekhov, Russian-American actor (Rhapsody, Abie's Irish Rose), dies at 64
1958 Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph-stipulation), dies at 79
1959 John Kliegl, American developer of Klieg light used in filmmaking, dies at 89
1959 Ross Granville Harrison, American Biologist and Zoologist (organ transplant pioneer), dies at 89
1959 Taylor Holmes, American actor (Sleeping Beauty, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 81
1960 St John Philby, British explorer and Arabist, dies at 75
1961 Onésime Gagnon, Canadian politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Québec, dies at 72
1963 Arnold Foster, English composer, dies at 66
1965 E. E. Smith, American food engineer and sci-fi author (Triplanetary), dies at 75
1970 Patrick Aherne, British actor (Green Dolphin Street, Rocketship X-M, The Court Jester), dies at 69
1973 Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)
1974 Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor
1976 Louis Fourestier, French cellist, composer (Polynice; Patria), conductor (Paris Opera, 1938-65), and pedagogue (Paris Conservatoire, 1945-65), dies at 84
1977 Mary Ford [Iris Colleen Summers], American vocalist (with Les Paul - "How High The Moon"), dies from complications of alcohol abuse at 53
1978 Beryl Booker, American swing and cool jazz pianist (Dinah Washington), dies at 56
1978 Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75
1981 Boyd Neel, English conductor (Story of an Orchestra), dies at 76
1982 Bill George, American Pro Football HOF linebacker (8 × First-team All-Pro; 8 × Pro Bowl; Chicago Bears, LA Rams), dies in a road accident at 52
1983 Adele Sebastian, American jazz flute player and vocalist (The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra), dies of kidney failure at 27
1983 Freddy Martin, American orchestra leader (started Merv Griffin) and tenor saxophonist, dies at 76
1983 William Elliott, American actor (Bridget Loves Bernie - "Otis"; Adam-12- "Officer Grant"), and jazz drummer, dies at 49
1984 Ellsworth Bunker, US ambassador (South-Vietnam, dies at 90)
1985 Charles F. Richter, American physicist and seismologist (developed the Richter scale for measuring earthquake magnitude), dies at 85
1985 Heleb MacInnes, American spy writer (Affiliate in place), dies at 77

Simone Signoret (1921-1985)

German-French actress (Room at Top, Gina), dies at 64

1987 Alfred Bester, American sci-fi author (Dark Side of Earth), dies at 73
1987 Robert Schollum, Austrian composer, dies at 74
1988 Chick Chandler [Fehmer Chandler], American actor (Seven Doors to Death, One Happy Family), dies at 83
1988 Joachim Prinz, German-American Zionist leader, author and Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at 86
1989 Virgil Thomson, American composer and music critic (Four Saints in Three Acts; Louisiana Story), dies at 92
1989 William Fairbank, American physicist (superconductivity), dies at 72
1990 Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and journalist, dies at 60
1990 Liesbeth de Uyl, Dutch feminist and wife of PM Joop du, dies at 66
1990 Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist and writer, dies at 89
1990 Patrick White, Australian writer and playwright (Nobel Prize for Literature 1973), dies at 78
1991 Frank Ervin, American harness racer (Hambletonian 1959, 66), dies at 87
1991 Nancy Welford, British-born American actress (Gold Diggers of Broadway), dies at 87
1993 Alex Lyon, British politician (Labor Lower house leader, 1966-83), dies at 61
1993 Paul Nowee, Dutch writer of children's and youth books. (Arendsoog.. premiejager), dies at 57
1993 Ronnie Aldrich, British easy listening and jazz pianist, arranger, and composer, dies of prostate cancer at 77
1993 Tony Brafa, American actor (The Naked Gun - "Enrico Pallazzo"), dies at 72
1994 Alex Scott, British horse trainer, shot and killed by a groom at 34
1994 Andre Michel Lwoff, French physiologist (1965 Noble Prize in Medicine or Physiology for discoveries of genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis), dies at 92
1994 Lina Basquette, American actress (Night for Crime, Hard Hombre), dies at 87
1994 Roberto Viola, Argentine general and president (1981), dies at 69
1995 Frederick Archibald Warner, British diplomat, dies at 77
1995 George Kirby, American comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show), dies at 71
1996 Aubrey Brabazon, Irish jockey and horse trainer, dies at 76
1996 Elizabeth Gille, French writer, translator and editor, dies at 59
1996 Frances Lear, American magazine publisher (Lears), dies at 73
1996 Kenneth Muir, English scholar, dies at 89
1996 Udom Patpongsiri, Thai property developer (Father of the Thai sex industry), dies at 79
1997 Al "Jazzbo" Collins, American DJ (Tonight! America After Dark), dies at 78
1997 Male alligator, largest in Florida (14 feet), killed at about 65
1997 Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, British professor of occupational health, dies at 86

Dan Quisenberry (1953-1998)

American MLB player (5-time AL saves leader), dies of a brain tumor at 45

1998 Marius Goring, British actor (Stairway to Heaven, The Red Shoes), dies from cancer at 86
1999 Anna Mae Winburn, African American bandleader of all female big band (International Sweethearts of Rhythm), dies at 86
2002 Arthur Hazlerigg, British peer and cricketer, dies at 92
2002 Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)
2003 Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer, dies of cancer at 59
2003 Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly guitarist (Rockabilly Hall of Fame, 1998), dies of cancer at 64 [1]
2003 Yusuf Bey, American Black Muslim leader (Nation of Islam), dies of cancer at 67
2004 Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1936)
2004 Justin Strzelczyk, American NFL football offensive tackle, 1990-98 (Pittsburgh Steelers), dies in high speed car crash while being pursued by police at 36; autopsy revealed brain damage due to chronic concussion injuries
2004 Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915)
2004 Mildred McDaniel, American high jumper (Olympic gold 1956), dies at 70
2008 Christa Reinig, German poet and writer (Idleness is the Root of All Love, The Tightrope Walker), dies at 82
2008 Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, Singaporean opposition leader and former Secretary-General of Singapore's Worker's Party, dies at 82
2010 Patrick Holmes Sellors, British ophthalmologist, dies at 76
2010 Stephen J. Cannell, American TV producer (The Rockford Files, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street) and writer, dies of melanoma at 69
2011 Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and Islamist militant (b. 1971)
2011 Marv Tarplin, American guitarist and songwriter (The Miracles, 1958-73 - "The Tracks of My Tears"), dies at 70
2012 Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (Olympic gold 1948, World champion 1947-48), dies at 84
2012 Barry Commoner, American biologist and politician (his work on radioactive fallout led to 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty), dies at 95
2012 César Bolaños, Peruvian electro-acoustic and experimental musician and composer, dies at 81
2012 Turhan Bey [Sahultavy], Austrian-born actor dubbed "The Turkish Delight" (Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves), dies from Parkinson's disease at 90
2014 Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (1995 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovery of the tau lepton particle), dies from a heart attack at 87
2016 Oscar Brand, Canadian-born American folk vocalist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 96
2017 Alam Thomas "Tom" Paley, American folk musician (New Lost City Ramblers), dies at 89
2017 Elizabeth Baur, American actress (Fran-Ironside, Teresa-Lancer), dies at 69
2017 Monty Hall, Canadian-American TV game show host (Let's Make a Deal), dies at 96
2018 Geoffrey Hayes, British TV presenter and actor (Rainbow, Z-Cars), dies at 76
2019 Jessye Norman, American opera singer (sang at two presidential inaugurations), dies at 74
2020 Quino [Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón], Argentine cartoonist (Mafalda), dies at 88
2021 José Pérez Francés, Spanish road racing cyclist (Tour de France 1963 overall 3rd), dies at 84
2021 Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese television and video game composer (Dragon Quest), and Nanjing Massacre denialist, dies at 90
2022 François Remetter, French soccer goalkeeper (26 caps; RC Strasbourg, FC Metz, FC Sochaux), dies at 94
2022 Kevin Locke [Tȟokéya Inážiŋ], Lakota Native American flute player, storyteller, educator, and cultural ambassador, dies at 68
2022 Marvin Powell Jr., American College Football HOF offensive tackle (USC; First-team All-Pro 1979, 82; 5 x Pro Bowl; NY Jets, TB Buccaneers), dies of heart failure at 67
2022 Rick Redman, American College Football HOF linebacker (University of Washington; AFL All-Star 1967; San Diego Chargers), dies at 79
2022 Robin Marlar, English cricket spin bowler (Cambridge University CC, Sussex CCC) and journalist (The Sunday Times; "The Story of Cricket"), dies at 91
2022 Yury Zaitsev, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR 110kg 1976), dies at 71