Famous Deaths on September 7

1799 Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, dies at 82
1809 Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (b. 1737)
1809 Caroline Schelling [Michaelis], German Romantic poet and critic, dies at 46
1819 Jean-Louis Duport, French cellist and composer, dies at 69
1820 Court Lambertus van Beyma, Frisian regent and leader of the Frisian patriots, dies at 67
1838 Joseph Panny, Austrian violinist and composer, dies at 43
1845 Isabella Colbran, wife of Italian composer Gioachino Rossini, dies
1871 Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (revolving gun turret), drowns at 51
1871 Mehmed Ali Pasha, Turkish marshal and statesman, dies fighting in Albania at 50
1872 Antoni Stolpe, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 21
1881 Sidney Lanier, American poet and composer, dies of tuberculosis at 39
1891 Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, dies at 71
1892 John Greenleaf Whittier, American Quaker poet and advocate for the abolition of slavery, dies at 84
1893 Hamilton Fish, American politician (Governor of New York), dies at 85
1902 Franz Wüllner, German conductor and composer, dies at 70
1907 Sully Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, first Nobel Prize for Literature 1901), dies at 68
1909 Eugene Lefebvre, French aviator pioneer (1st stunt pilot and 1st pilot to die flying a plane), dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft at 30
1910 William Holman Hunt, English painter (Light of the World), dies at 83
1914 Peter O'Brien, Irish lawyer and judge, dies at 73
1920 Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician and 12th Premier of Quebec (1900-05), dies at 64

1921 Alfred William Rich, English watercolor painter, dies at 65
1922 William Stewart Halsted, American pioneering surgeon (introduced anesthesia and antisepsis while addicted to cocaine and opium), dies at 69 [1]
1925 John Wesley Work Jr., 1st African-American collector of folk songs and spirituals, dies at 52 or 54
1925 René Viviani, French historian and 61st Prime Minister of France (1914-15), dies at 61

Edward Grey (1862-1933)

British Liberal statesman and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1905-16), dies at 71

1939 Kyoka Izumi, Japanese novelist and kabuki playwright, dies at 65
1940 Edmund Rumpler, Austrian automotive and airplane builder (1st Tatra car), dies at 68
1942 Cecilia Beaux, American portrait painter dies at 87
1944 Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, Cuban composer, dies at 70
1946 Paul Zech, German writer, dies at 65
1948 Henricus Andreas Poels, Dutch Roman Catholic theologist and social foreman, dies at 80
1949 José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter of political murals (Epic of Culture in New World), dies at 65
1951 John French Sloan, American painter and etcher, dies at 80
1951 María Montez [Vidal], Dominican actress known as The Queen of Technicolor (Cobra Woman, Arabian Nights), dies of heart seizure at 39
1954 Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (Mutt and Jeff), dies at 69
1955 Ernst Rabel, Austrian-American lawyer, human rights activist, and author (The Conflict of Laws: A Comparative Study), dies at 81
1956 C. B. Fry, English cricket batsman (26 Tests, 2 x 100s; Sussex, Hampshire), dies at 84
1959 Maurice Duplessis, Canadian politician, 16th Premier of Quebec, dies at 69
1960 Wilhelm Pieck, German politician (co-founder German Communist Party, President of German DR 1949-60), dies at 84
1961 Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Dutch lawyer and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1940-45), dies at 76
1962 Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese historical novelist, dies at 70
1962 Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen-Finecke], Danish baroness and writer (Out of Africa), dies at 77
1962 Morris Louis, American painter (post painterly abstraction), dies at 49
1964 Walter Brown, American basketball and ice hockey executive (founded and owned Boston Celtics, bought Boston Bruins), dies at 59
1965 Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (Behind Office Doors), dies at 62
1966 Al Kelly, American double talk comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 67
1968 Thom Kelling, Dutch singer, guitarist, and bandleader (Programa de Manha), dies at 46
1969 Everett McKinley Dirksen, American politician (Senator-R-Illinois, Senate Minority Leader), dies at 73
1971 Spring Byington, American actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride), dies at 84
1972 Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian and honorary secretary of King Leopold III of Belgium, dies at 81
1973 Hans Lorbeer, German writer and politician, dies at 72
1977 Gustave Reese, American musicologist (Music in the Middle Ages; Music in the Renaissance), and teacher, dies at 77

Keith Moon (1946-1978)

British rock drummer (The Who - "Bell Boy"), dies of a drug overdose at 32

1979 Ivor Armstrong Richards, English literary critic (The Meaning of Meaning), dies at 86
1979 Janardan Navle, Indian cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests, 1 dismissal; first Indian wicket-keeper; Hindus CC), dies at 76
1982 Ken Boyer, American baseball player, coach and manager (St. Louis Cardinals), dies of cancer at 51
1983 Hans Münch, Swiss conductor and composer, dies at 90
1983 Henry Promnitz, South African cricketer (5-58 on debut for South Africa 1927-28), dies at 79
1984 Don Tallon, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (21 Tests, 58 dismissals, 2 x 50s; Queensland CA), dies of heart disease at 68

Joe Cronin (1906-1984)

American Baseball HOF shortstop (7 x MLB All Star), manger (Boston RS, Washington Senators) and executive (AL President 1959-73), dies at 77

1985 Frank "Bruiser" Kinard, American College-Pro Football HOF tackle (Ole Miss; 6 × First-team All-Pro; 5 × NFL All-Star; Brooklyn Dodgers/Tigers, Fleet City, NY Yankees), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 70
1986 Ruth Polsky, American record promoter, dies after being run over by a cab at 30
1986 Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, Russian-Soviet conductor and composer, dies at 83

A. J. P. Taylor (1906-1990)

English historian (The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918, Origins of the Second World War), dies at 84

1991 Archie Menzies, English playwright and composer (Under Your Hat), dies at 87
1991 Ben Piazza, American actor (Santa Barbara; The Blues Brothers; Dallas), dies of cancer at 58
1991 John Crosby, American columnist and detective writer dies at 79
1991 John H. Lawrence, American physician (nuclear medicine pioneer), dies at 87
1992 Henry Ephron, American screenwriter (Daddy Long Legs), dies at 81
1992 Indra Kamadjojo [Broekveld], Indon/Dutch dancer (Stille Kracht), dies
1992 Leo van der Kar, Dutch businessman (founder of Sports Fund), dies at 79
1993 Guy Overton, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (3 Tests, 9 wickets), dies at 74
1993 Lefty Dizz [Walter Williams], American Chicago-style blues guitarist and singer, dies of esophageal cancer at 56
1994 Dennis Morgan [Stanley], American actor (21 Beacon Street), dies at 85
1994 Eric Crozier, British theater producer and librettist (worked with Benjamin Britten), dies at 79
1994 Godfrey Quigley, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon, Educating Rita, Rooney), dies at 71
1994 James Clavell, British-American novelist (Tai-Pan; Shogun; Noble House; King Rat), screenwriter (The Fly; The Great Escape), and film director (King Rat; To Sir, with Love), dies of comoplications of a stroke while battling cancer at 72
1994 Terence Young, British film director (Dr No, Thunderball), dies of at 79
1995 Gordon DeMarco, American writer and activist, dies at 51
1996 Niccolo Castiglioni, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 64
1997 Alex Macintosh, British BBC presenter and actor (Hell Fight), dies at 72
1997 Bill Strannigan, American all-round athlete and basketball coach (Uni of Wyoming), dies at 78
1997 Derek Taylor, Beatles publicist, dies of cancer at 65
1997 George Crockett Jr., American attorney (founded 1st racially integrated law firm) and politician (Rep-D-MI, 1980-91), dies at 88

Mobutu Sese Seko (1930-1997)

Dictator and President of Zaire (1965-97), dies at 66

1998 John Hayes, British Naval Officer and Naval Secretary, dies at 85
1999 Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist, dies after a fall at 49
2001 Billie Lou Watt, American actress (Astro Boy), dies at 77
2001 Igor Buketoff, American conductor (Iceland Symphony Orchestra, 1964-65), dies at 86
2001 Spede Pasanen, Finnish film director and comedian, dies at 71
2002 Erma Franklin, American gospel and R&B singer ("Piece Of My Heart"), dies at 64
2002 Katrin Cartlidge, English actress (Career Girls), dies of an illness at 41
2002 Michael Elphick, British stage and screen actor (Gorky Park; Boon), dies of a heart attack at 55
2002 Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (Uzi submachine gun), dies at 78
2003 Great Antonio [Antonio Barichievich], Croatian-Canadian strongman and eccentric, dies at 77
2003 Warren Zevon, American rock singer-songwriter and musician ("Werewolves of London"; "Lawyers, Guns and Money"; "Excitable Boy"), dies of pleural mesothelioma at 56
2004 Bob Boyd, American baseball first baseman (National Baseball Congress Hall of Fame), dies at 84
2005 Hope Garber, Canadian actress, dies at 81
2005 Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer Marianne), dies at 72
2006 Julien Schoenaerts, Flemish actor (Daens/Medea), dies at 81
2006 Robert Earl Jones, American actor (The Sting, Witness, Sleepaway Camp), dies of natural causes at 96
2008 Don Haskins, American College Basketball Hall of Fame coach (Texas El Paso 1961-99; NCAA Tournament 1966), dies at 78
2008 Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian actor (Ultimul cartus), dies at 76
2008 Miljenko "Dino" Dvornik, Croatian singer known as "the Croatian King of Funk", dies of an overdose at 44
2008 Nagi Noda, Japanese pop artist and director, dies after surgery at 34
2008 Richard "Popcorn" Wylie, American R&B and soul pianist, bandleader, songwriter, and record producer, dies of congestive heart failure at 69
2010 Amar Garibović, Serbian Cross Country Skier (b. 1991)
2010 Barbara Holland, American author (The Joy of Drinking, Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend and Lives), dies of lung cancer at 77 [1]
2010 Glenn Shadix, American actor (Beetlejuice), dies in a fall at 58
2010 John Kluge, American television mogul (Metromedia) and at one time the richest person in the United States, dies at 95
2011 Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey defenseman (Stanley Cup 1989 Calgary Flames; NHL All-Star 1988; Plus-Minus Award +48 1989), dies as head coach KHL Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in plane crash at 52
2011 Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey center (World C'ship gold 2005; Carolina Hurricanes), dies in Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster at 30
2011 Ruslan Salei, Belarusian ice hockey defenceman (917 NHL games; 48 internationals), dies in Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash at 36
2012 Dorothy "Dottie" McGuire, American pop vocalist (McGuire Sisters - "Sincerely"; "Sugartime"), dies at 84
2013 Fred Katz, American classical and jazz cellist (Chico Hamilton Quintet), and composer (Roger Corman films), dies at 84
2013 Ilja Hurnik, Czech composer, dies at 90
2015 Dickie Moore, American actor (Oliver Twist, Little Men), dies at 89
2016 Cary Blanchard, American NFL kicker (Indianapolis Colts), dies of a heart attack at 47
2016 Ken Higgs, English cricket fast bowler (15 Tests, 71 wickets, 1 x 50; Lancashire CCC, Leicestershire CCC), dies at 79
2016 Norbert Schemansky, American weightlifter (Olympic gold heavyweight 1952, silver 1948, bronze 1960, 64), dies at 92
2017 Gene Michael, American baseball shortstop, and general manger (NY Yankees), dies of a heart attack at 79
2017 John Maxwell Geddes, Scottish composer and pedagogue, dies at 76
2018 Mac Miller [Malcolm McCormick], American rapper and music producer (Best Day Ever), dies of a drug overdose at 26
2018 Mickey Stratton, American National Softball HOF catcher (All World Team 1965; 5 x All American), dies at 80
2021 Phil Schaap, American Grammy Award-winning jazz historian, DJ, author and educator, dies of cancer at 70
2022 Anne Garrels, American broadcast journalist (ABC; NBC; NPR), dies of lung cancer at 71
2022 Bernard Shaw, American television news journalist (CBS, ABC), and 1st anchor of CNN, dies of pneumonia at 82 [1]
2022 Marsha Hunt, American actress (Born to the West; Cry 'Havoc'; Johnny Got His Gun), and human rights and peace activist, dies at 104
2022 Piet Schrijvers, Dutch soccer goalkeeper (46 caps; FC Twente, AFC Ajax 269 games), dies at 75
2023 Edward Hide, British jockey (1,000 Guineas 1972, 77; Epsom Oaks 1967; Epsom Derby 1973; St Leger Stakes 1959, 78), dies at 86