23 September Deaths

September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Deaths

788 – Ælfwald I, king of Northumbria

965 – Al-Mutanabbi, Arab poet (b. 915)
1193 – Robert de Sablé, French knight
1241 – Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178)
1253 – Wenceslaus I of Bohemia
1267 – Beatrice of Provence, countess regnant of Provence (b. 1234)
1386 – Dan I of Wallachia
1390 – John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)
1448 – Adolph I, Duke of Cleves (b. 1373)
1461 – Charles, Prince of Viana, King of Navarre (b. 1421)
1508 – Beatrice of Naples, queen consort of Hungary (b. 1457)
1535 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1513)
1571 – John Jewel, English bishop (b. 1522)
1573 – Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1524)
1605 – Pontus de Tyard, French priest and poet (b. 1521)
1675 – Valentin Conrart, French author, founded the Académie française (b. 1603)
1728 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist and philosopher (b. 1655)
1738 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician (b. 1668)
1764 – Robert Dodsley, English poet and playwright (b. 1703)
1773 – Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)
1789 – John Rogers, American lawyer and politician (b. 1723)
1835 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)
1851 – Émilie Gamelin, Canadian nun, founded the Sisters of Providence (b. 1800)
1846 – John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-Australian explorer (b. 1818)
1850 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general and politician (b. 1764)
1870 – Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1803)
1871 – Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1786)
1873 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823)
1877 – Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1811)
1889 – Wilkie Collins, English novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1824)
1900 – William Marsh Rice, American businessman, founded Rice University (b. 1816)
1913 – Donato Álvarez, Argentinian general (b. 1825)
1917 – Werner Voss, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
1929 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1939 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1856)
1940 – Hale Holden, American businessman (b. 1869)
1943 – Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1864)
1944 – Jakob Schaffner, Swiss author and critic (b. 1875)
1950 – Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
1958 – Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher, lawyer, and politician (b. 1876)
1967 – Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman (b. 1879)
1968 – Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (b. 1887)
1971 – James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (b. 1888)
1973 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1974 – Cliff Arquette, American actor and comedian (b. 1905)
1974 – Robbie McIntosh, Scottish drummer (b. 1950)
1978 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (b. 1950)
1979 – Catherine Lacey, English actress (b. 1904)
1981 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor, author, and poet (b. 1899)
1987 – Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director (b. 1927)
1988 – Tibor Sekelj, Hungarian-Serbian explorer and author (b. 1912)
1992 – Ivar Ivask, Estonian poet and scholar (b. 1927)
1992 – Glendon Swarthout, American author and academic (b. 1918)
1992 – James Van Fleet, American general (b. 1892)
1994 – Jerry Barber, American golfer (b. 1916)
1994 – Robert Bloch, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
1994 – Madeleine Renaud, French actress (b. 1900)
1997 – Natalie Savage Carlson, American author (b. 1906)
1998 – Ray Bowden, English footballer (b. 1909)
1998 – Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943)
1999 – Ivan Goff, Australian-American screenwriter and producer (b. 1910)
2000 – Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican baseball player and manager (b. 1947)
2000 – Carl Rowan, American journalist and author (b. 1925)
2000 – Raoul Berger, American attorney and law professor (b. 1901)
2001 – Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (b. 1928)
2003 – Yuri Senkevich, Russian physician and journalist (b. 1937)
2004 – Billy Reay, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
2005 – Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (b. 1933)
2006 – Malcolm Arnold, English trumpet player and composer (b. 1921)
2006 – Etta Baker, American singer and guitarist (b. 1913)
2008 – Peter Leonard, Australian journalist (b. 1942)
2008 – Loren Pope, American journalist and author (b. 1910)
2009 – Paul B. Fay, American sailor and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1918)
2010 – Malcolm Douglas, Australian hunter and television host (b. 1941)
2012 – Henry Champ, Canadian journalist and academic (b. 1937)
2012 – Pavel Grachev, Russian general and politician, 1st Minister of Defence for Russia (b. 1948)
2012 – Roberto Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player and coach (b. 1941)
2012 – Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (b. 1966)
2012 – Sam Sniderman, Canadian businessman, founded Sam the Record Man (b. 1920)
2013 – Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj, Syrian colonel and politician (b. 1925)
2013 – Gil Dozier, American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1934)
2013 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist and immunologist (b. 1907)
2014 – A. W. Davis, American basketball player and coach (b. 1943)
2014 – Irven DeVore, American anthropologist and biologist (b. 1934)
2014 – Don Manoukian, American football player and wrestler (b. 1934)
2014 – Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and referee (b. 1913)
2015 – Dayananda Saraswati, Indian monk and philosopher (b. 1930)

Source: wikipedia