Famous Deaths on 26th September

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1023 - Godfried I, duke of Neth-Lutherans, dies
1342 - John I, ruler of Poland, dies
1345 - Willem IV, earl of Henegouwen/Holland/Zealand, dies at about 27
1371 - Vlkasin, Hungarian general/co-king of Serbia, dies
1417 - Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)
1468 - Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1388)
1614 - Felice Anerio, Italian composer (pontifical royal chapel), dies
1620 - Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)
1626 - Lancelot Andrewes, English theologist/bishop of Winchester, dies at 71
1626 - Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b. 1554)
1657 - Hadji Chalfa/Katib Tsjelebi, Turkish geographer, dies at 48
1716 - Antoine Parent, French mathematician (b. 1666)
1763 - John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)
1764 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (b. 1767)
1788 - Francois Bainville, composer, dies at 63
1802 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and military officer (b. 1754)
1808 - Pavel Vranicky, composer, dies at 51
1820 - Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85
1866 - Carl Almqvist, Swedish author (Amorina), dies at 72
Frontiersman Daniel Boone (1820) 1868 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
1871 - Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer, dies at 78
1877 - Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)
1902 - Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)
1904 - Lafcadio Hearn, author (Soul of the Great Ball), dies at 54
1904 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
1917 - Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina), dies
1935 - Andy Adams, US writer (Cattle fire), dies at 76
1936 - Harriet Monroe, US poet (Poet's Life), dies at 75
1937 - Bessie Smith, singer, dies of injuries sustained in car crash at 43
1940 - Walter Benjamin, writer, dies at 48
1944 - Ernst Isler, composer, dies at 64
1944 - Julien Cahn, cricketer (private cricket promoter during 30's), dies
1945 - Béla V J Bartok, Hungarian pianist/composer dies at 64
1945 - R Beer-Hofmann, writer, dies at 78
Clothing Designer Levi Strauss (1902) 1947 - Hugh Lofting, writer (Gub Gub Book), dies at 61
1951 - Hans Cloos, German geologist (b. 1885)
1952 - George Santayana, US philosopher/poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88
1953 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
1954 - Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868)
1956 - Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un Destin, Martin Luther), dies at 78
1958 - Carl Brisson, actor (Ship Cafe, Ring, Song of Soho), dies at 64
1959 - Solomon Bandaranaike, PM of Ceylon (1956-59), assassinated at 60
1960 - William Ling, cricketer (South African batsman in 6 Tests 1921-23), dies
1961 - Eily Malyon, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch), dies at 81
1961 - Juanita Hansen, actress (Fast Company), dies of heart ailment at 67
1964 - Calvin Thomas, actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family), dies at 79
1964 - Ida Moore, actress (Mr Music, Johnny Belinda), dies at 82
1965 - Otto Nothling, cricketer (did next to nothling in Aust), dies
1965 - James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (b. 1898)
1966 - Helen Kane, actress (Heads Up, Pointed Heels), dies of cancer at 62
1968 - Daniel Johnson, Sr., French-Canadian politician (b. 1915)
1971 - Muriel Kirkland, actress (Nana, Fast Workers), dies of emphysema at 68
1972 - Charles J Correll, actor/voice (Calvin & the Colonel), dies at 82
1973 - Anton Schnack, German writer/poet, dies at 81
1976 - Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1978 - Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
1979 - Arthur Hunnicutt, actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising), dies at 68
1979 - John Cromwell, actor/director (Of Human Bondage), dies at 91
1979 - Seymour Shifrin, composer, dies at 53
1982 - Alec Hurwood, cricketer (Australian off-spinner v WI 1930-31), dies
1983 - Tino Rossi, French singer, dies
1984 - Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet), dies of strokes at 87
1984 - Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
1986 - Hugh Franklin, American soap opera actor (b. 1916)
1989 - Pavlos Bakoyannis, Greek parliament leader, murdered in Rome
1990 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82
1991 - Billy Vaughn, American bandleader (b. 1919)
1992 - Ralph Manheim, translator (Mein Kampf), dies at 85
1993 - James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79), dies at 82
1994 - Jessie Kesson, author, dies at 77
1994 - Maurice Ashley, historian, dies at 87
1994 - Miguel Angel Martinez Soto, mariachi, dies at 22
1996 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist, dies at 75
1996 - George Henderson, priest/politician, dies at 74
1996 - Mark Frankel, actor (Leon the Pig Farmer), dies on motorcycle at 34
1998 - Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)
1999 - Oseola McCarty, American philanthropist (b. 1908)
2000 - Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
2000 - Baden Powell, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1937)
2003 - Robert Palmer, English singer (b. 1949)
2003 - Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b. 1963)
2004 - Marianna Komlos, professional wrestling valet (b. 1969)
2005 - Helen Cresswell, British author
2006 - Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
2006 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, alleged Tokyo Rose (b. 1916)
2007 - Dorothy Schwartz, American violinist (b. 1913)
2007 - Bill Wirtz, American sports team owner (b. 1929)
2008 - Paul Newman, American actor (b. 1925)
2008 - Marc Moulin, Belgian musician and journalist (b. 1942)
Actress Gloria Stuart (2010) 2010 - Gloria Stuart, American actress dies from respiratory failure at 100
2011 - Bob Cassilly, American Artist and Founder of the St. Louis City Museum (b. 1949)
2012 - Johnny Lewis, American actor, dies from injuries from a fall at 28