 amous Historical Deaths for September 4:
0422 Boniface I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies
0454 Dioscorus van Alexandria, patriarch (council of Efeze), dies
1085 Irmgarde van Keulen, German countress of Aspel/saint, dies
1154 Gilbert de la Porr‚e, French philosopher/bishop of Poiters, dies
1553 Cornelia da Nomatalcino, monk converted to Judaism, burned at stake
1571 Earl of Lennox, regent of Scotland, murdered
1588 Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, dies at 87
1644 John Wtenbogaert, theologist (Kerckelicke history), dies at 87
1709 Jean-Fran‡ois Regnard, French comedic poet/slave in Algeria, dies
1759 Girolamo Chiti, composer, dies at 80
1784 Cesar F Cassini "the Thury", French astronomer (geodesic labor), dies
1828 Cornelis Stevens, Belgian RC foreman/polemist, dies at 80
1845 Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher, dies at 82
1853 Jonathan Blewitt, composer, dies at 71
1903 Herman Zumpe, composer, dies at 53
1905 Pierre de Braza, founder (French Congo), dies
1907 Edvard Grieg, composer, dies at 64
1907 Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt Suite), dies at 64
1918 Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51)
1922 Georges Sorel, French social philosopher, dies at 74
1937 Giovanni Salviucci, composer, dies at 29
1938 Clifford Dempsey, actor (Salute), dies at 73
1944 Izaak van der Horst, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1946 Paul Lincke, German composer/conductor (Lysistrata), dies at 79
1960 Alfred E Green, director (Copacabana), dies after long illness at 71
1963 Robert Schuman, French premier/chair (European Parliament), dies at 77
1964 W Bergengruen, writer, dies at 71
1965 Albert Schweitzer, German/French missionary (Nobel 1954), dies at 90
1970 James M Taylor, USAF/astronaut, dies at 39
1972 Alan Kippax, cricketer (1st-class batting average 67), dies
1974 Creighton W Abrams, US general/army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59
1974 Marcel Achard, French dramatist (La forges the Paris), dies at 75
1975 Walter Tetley, cartoon voice (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 60
1979 Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician, dies at 76
1980 Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist, dies at 74
1981 Verne Rowe, actor (Verne-Fernwood 2 Night), dies at 59
1985 George O'Brien, actor (Daniel Boone, Salute), dies of a stroke at 85
1985 Isabel Jeans, actress (Suspicion, Easy Virtue, Tovarich), dies at 93
1989 Georges Simenon, Belgian/French writer/director (Maigret), dies at 86
1990 Henry Faas, [Wandelganger], Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies
1990 Irene Dunne, actress (5 oscars), dies of heart failure at 91
1991 Charlie Barnet, saxophonist (Cherokee), dies of pneumonia at 77
1991 Dottie West, country singer (Here Comes my Baby), dies at 58 in a car
1991 Margaret Ramsay, vocalist, dies
1991 Thomas Tryon, actor (Cardinal)/writer (Other), dies at 65
1992 John van Dreelen, [Jacques T van Drielen Gimberg], actor (Topaz), dies
1993 Clyde Adler, voice (White Fang/Black Tooth-Soupy Sales), dies
1993 Herve Villechaize, actor (Fantasy Island), shoots self to death at 50
1993 Mehmet Sincar, Turkish/Kurd MP, murdered
1994 Laurentius LM "Laurens" van Deenen, (pathed)physiologist, dies at 66
1994 Louis Myers, blues guitarist /harmonica player, dies at 64
1995 Chuck Greenberg, new age musician (Shadowfax), dies at 45
1995 Edmond Jouhaud, general, dies at 90
1995 John Megna, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird), dies at 42
1995 William Moses Kunstler, UCLA attorney (Chicago 7), dies at 78
1996 Sam Cook, cricketer (Gloucestershire slow bowler with one Test for England), dies
1997 Belle Stewart, singer, dies at 91
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