Deaths in History on September 5

Suleiman the Magnificent

1566 Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan and the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1530-1566), dies at 71 [or Sep 6]

1569 Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44
1572 Pieter Tichelmann, Flemish Franciscan, dies at about 71
1607 Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
1659 Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 71
1683 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Navy, dies at 64
1684 John Uytenhage van Lacks, lawyer/author, drowned at 48
1786 Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
1808 John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
1836 Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
1838 Charles Percier, French architect, dies at 74

1857 Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
1858 Moritz G, [Moses] Saphir, Hungarian journalist, dies at 63
1859 Friedrich von Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68
1867 Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809)
1876 Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)

Crazy Horse

1877 Crazy Horse [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 37

1898 Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies
1901 Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)

Rudolf Virchow

1902 Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (cell pathology), dies at 80

1906 Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (thermodynamics), dies at 62
1912 Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
1914 Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
1917 Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (pioneer of statistical physics), dies at 45
1917 Arthur Verhaegen, Belgian architect and worker's union leader, dies at 70
1922 Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
1926 Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
1930 Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1930 Carl Panzram, American serial killer and rapist, dies at 38
1932 Paul Bern, husband of Jean Harlow, dies
1932 Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
1936 Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
1942 François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
1944 Willem M Groenewegen, resistance fighter, executed
1948 Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1953 Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician, one of the leading 'blood and soil' ideologists (b. 1895)

1954 Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and liberal politician, dies at 94
1965 Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
1972 Josef Romano, Israeli olympian, murdered
1977 Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant, dies at 80
1979 Alberto di Jorio, Italian Cardinal and former head of the Vatican Bank, dies at 95
1981 Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi, prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated
1982 Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
1990 Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
1992 Dorothy MacKaye, marital advisor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 88
1993 John Truscott, Australian set designer (Camelot), dies at 57
1994 Teddy Millington-Drake, English painter, dies at 62
1994 John Newman, Australian state politician (Labor), murdered at 47 by local club owner and political opponent Phuong Ngo who had run against Newman as an independent
1995 Francis Showering, English brewer, dies at 83
1995 John Britten, motorcycle Designer, dies at 45
1996 Rose Isabel Williams, sister of Tennessee Williams, dies at 86
1997 Leon Edel, biographer, dies at 89

Mother Teresa

1997 Mother Teresa [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Albanian born Indian nun and founder of Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace Prize, 1979), dies of cardiac arrest at 87

1998 Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
1999 Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician, dies at 78
1999 Albert Oram, Baron Oram, British Labour politician, dies at 86
1999 Alan Clark, English politician (Minister for Defence Procurement), dies at 71
2001 Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and UN statistician, dies at 89
2002 David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
2003 C. H. Sisson, British author (Christopher Homm), dies at 89
2005 Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile (b. 1917)
2007 Jennifer Dunn, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Washington), dies at 66
2007 Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
2007 D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
2007 Edward Gramlich, American economics professor (University of Michigan), dies at 68