Famous Deaths on 21st September

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19 BC - Virgil, Roman poet, dies at 50
454 - Aëtius, Roman general (bc. 396)
687 - Conon, Sicilian Pope (686-87), dies
1217 - Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian soldier
1327 - Edward II, king of England (1307-1327), assassinated at 43
1397 - Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)
1433 - Zweder van Kuilenberg, bishop of Utrecht
1440 - Frederik I van Hohenzollern, ruler Brandenburg (1417-40), dies at 68
1481 - Bartholomeus Platinum, Italian humanist/pontifical librarian, dies
1519 - Hans Backofen/Backoffen, German sculptor, dies at about 49
1520 - Selam I Jawuz, the Barse, poet/cruel sultan of Turkey, dies
1542 - Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet
1558 - Charles V, King of Spain (Carlos I)/Holy Roman Emperor, dies at 58
1576 - Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, dies at 74
1586 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, viceroy of Naples (1571-75), dies at 69
1590 - Ascanio Trombeti, composer, dies at 45
1626 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543)
1629 - John Pieterszoon Coen, merchant/gov-gen of East-Indies, dies at 42
1705 - Willem Hadriaan of Nassau, corrupt mister of Odijck, dies
Roman Poet Virgil (19 BC) 1719 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
1743 - Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688)
1748 - John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
1796 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
1798 - George Read, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 65
1809 - Alexander Reinagle, composer, dies at 53
1812 - Emmanuel Johann Joseph Schikaneder, composer, dies at 61
1820 - Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25)
1832 - Walter Scott, Scottish attorney/poet/writer (Ivanhoe), dies
1836 - John Stafford Smith, composer, dies at 86
1839 - Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, dies at 60
1860 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
1874 - JBAL Leonce Elie the Beaumont, French geologist, dies at 75
1883 - Johannes van Vloten, Dutch man of letters/theologist, dies at 65
1897 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)
1904 - Chief Joseph, US indian chief (Nez Perces), dies
1905 - Rudolf Baumbach, writer of German student drinking songs, dies at 64
1906 - Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1838)
1908 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist/composer (Spanish Dancer), dies
1911 - Arab Pasha, "al-Misri" [Pasha Ahmad Arab), Egyptian minister, dies
1915 - Anthony Comstock, anti-vice crusader, dies at 71 in NYC
1922 - Tom Armitage, cricketer (England lob bowler v Australia 1877), dies
1926 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
1937 - Henri [Lucien] Capitant, French lawyer, dies at 72
1938 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer (b. 1874)
1939 - Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania, murdered
1946 - Leo Bittermieux, Flemish missionary (Congo), dies at 66
1946 - Olga Engl, Austrian actress (b. 1971)
1947 - Harry Carey Sr, actor/director (Red River, Sundown), dies at 69
1953 - Roger Quilter, British composer, dies at 75
1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
1956 - Anastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan dictator, assassinated by Roliberto Lopez
1956 - Robert Mills Delaney, composer, dies at 53
1957 - Haakon VII (CF Charles WA), Danish king of Norway (1905-57), dies
1961 - Earle Dickson, inventor (band-aid), dies at 68
1961 - Maurice Delage, composer, dies at 81
1963 - Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)
1964 - Jim Koethe, Dallas Times Herald reporter, killed by karate chop
1966 - Paul Reynaud, premier France (1940), dies
1970 - Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect (Wibautstrat tax office), dies
1971 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1972 - Henry M de Montherlant, French author (Port Royal), dies at 76
1973 - Diana Sands, actress (Landlord, Raisin in the Sun), dies at 39
1973 - William CF Plomer, S Afr libretto writer (Curlew River), dies at 69
Author Jacqueline Susann (1974) 1974 - Jacqueline Susann, author (Valley of the Dolls), dies of cancer at 53
1974 - Walter Brennan, actor (Real McCoys), dies at 80
1976 - Orlando Letelier, minister Chile, dies
1979 - John McQuade, actor (Charlie Wild Private Detective), dies at 73
1980 - Ernest White, composer, dies at 80
1981 - Nigel Patrick, actor/director (Sapphire, Prize of Gold), dies at 68
1981 - Tony Aubin, composer, dies at 73
1982 - Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
1985 - Gu Long, Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (b. 1937)
1986 - Pierre Wigny, Belgium minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61), dies at 81
1987 - Ruth Attaway, actress (Porgy & Bess, Conrack, Being There), dies
1987 - Jaco Pastorious, jazz bassist and composer (Weather Report) dies at 36
1988 - Christine Norden, actress (Little Shop of Horroers, Night Beat), dies
1988 - Henry Koster, director, dies
1988 - Robert Gwathmey, artist, dies at 85
1988 - Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914
1989 - F Fischer, German war criminal (4, Two of Breda), dies
1991 - Angelo "Little Moe" Rossitto, dwarf actor (Carousel), dies at 83
1991 - Angelo Rossitto, dwarf known as "Little Moe"/actor (Dark), dies at 83
1991 - JA Mommersteeg, Dutch state sect of Defense (KVP), dies
1992 - Billy Williams, actor (Adv of Kit Carson), dies at 76 of brain tumor
1992 - Hans Rosenberg, astronomer/alderman of Utrecht, dies
1993 - Fernand Ledoux, Belgian/French actor (L'Homme de Londres), dies at 96
1993 - Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/Engl/Neth actor (Best Thing in Life), dies at 34
1994 - Arthur Krim, US director (United Artists, Orion Pictures), dies
1994 - Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway Writer, dies at 69
1995 - Irven Spence, animator, dies at 86
1995 - Peter Shankland, film maker/writer, dies at 94
1995 - Vernell Townsend, blues/gospel singer, dies at 64
1995 - William Murray, teacher/educationalist, dies at 83
1995 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
1996 - John Stachniewski, scholar/teacher, dies at 42
1996 - Julius Silverman, politician, dies at 90
1996 - Sabine Zlatin, nurse, dies at 89
1997 - Tommy Cecil, ferryman, dies at 51
1997 - Jennifer Holt, American actress (b. 1920)
1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)
Horror Author Stephen KIng (2000) 2000 - Bryan Smith, Man who ran over Stephen King (b. 1957)
2002 - Robert L. Forward, American physicist and writer (b. 1932)
2004 - Barry Noble Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (b. 1939)
2004 - Bob Mason, British actor (b. 1952)
2006 - Boz Burrell, English rock musician (b. 1946)
2007 - Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian Olympic gold medalist (b. 1929)
2007 - Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926)
2007 - Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (b. 1919)
2011 - Pamela Ann Rymer, American federal appellate judge (b. 1941)
2011 - Troy Anthony Davis, American high-profile death row inmate and human rights activist (executed) (b. 1968)
2011 - Jun Henmi, Japanese writer and poet (b. 1939)