23 September Deaths

September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 99 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56). It is frequently the day of the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.

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