26 September Deaths

September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Deaths

800 – Berowulf, bishop of Würzburg
862 – Musa ibn Musa ibn Qasi, Muslim military leader (b. c. 790)
1241 – Fujiwara no Teika, Japanese poet
1290 – Margaret, Maid of Norway Queen of Scotland (b. 1283)
1313 – Gottfried von Hagenau, Alsatian theologian, medical doctor, and poet
1327 – Cecco d'Ascoli, Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet (b. 1257)
1328 – Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar and philosopher of Harran (b. 1263)
1345 – William II, Count of Hainaut
1371 – Jovan Uglješa, Serbian despot
1413 – Stephen III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1337)
1417 – Francesco Zabarella, Italian cardinal (b. 1360)
1468 – Juan de Torquemada, Spanish cardinal and theologian (b. 1388)
1536 – Didier de Saint-Jaille, 46th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller
1588 – Amias Paulet, Governor of Jersey (b. 1532)
1600 – Claude Le Jeune, French composer (b. 1530)
1620 – Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)
1623 – Charles Grey, 7th Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire (b. 1540)
1626 – Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese daimyō (b. 1554)
1716 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1666)
1764 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish monk and scholar (b. 1676)
1800 – William Billings, American composer and educator (b. 1746)
1802 – Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician and physicist (b. 1754)
1820 – Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (b. 1734)
1868 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
1877 – Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)
1902 – Levi Strauss, German-American businessman, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (b. 1829)
1904 – Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese author and academic (b. 1850)
1904 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1848)
1922 – Charles Wade, Australian politician, 17th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1863)
1935 – Andy Adams, American author (b. 1859)
1935 – Iván Persa, Slovene-Hungarian priest and author (b. 1861)
1937 – Bessie Smith, American singer and actress (b. 1894)
1945 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1881)
1946 – William Strunk, Jr., American author and educator (b. 1869)
1947 – Hugh Lofting, English-American author and poet (b. 1886)
1951 – Hans Cloos, German geologist and academic (b. 1885)
1952 – George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet (b. 1863)
1953 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter and educator (b. 1895)
1954 – Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868)
1957 – Arthur Powell Davies, American minister and author (b. 1902)
1959 – S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1899)
1959 – Leslie Morshead, Australian general (b. 1889)
1959 – Teodor Ussisoo, Estonian furniture designer and educator (b. 1878)
1965 – James Fitzmaurice, Irish soldier and pilot (b. 1898)
1968 – Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin, Polish-Israeli neurologist and physician (b. 1902)
1968 – Daniel Johnson, Sr., Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Premier of Quebec (b. 1915)
1968 – Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist (b. 1918)
1972 – Charles Correll, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1890)
1973 – Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author (b. 1891)
1973 – Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1923)
1973 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress and singer (b. 1908)
1976 – Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1977 – Uday Shankar, Indian dancer and choreographer (b. 1900)
1978 – Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
1979 – Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (b. 1910)
1982 – Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
1984 – Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
1984 – John Facenda, American sportscaster (b. 1913)
1987 – Ramang, Indonesian footballer and manager (b. 1928)
1987 – Herbert Tichy, Austrian geologist, journalist, and mountaineer (b. 1912)
1988 – Branko Zebec, Yugoslav football player and coach (b. 1929)
1989 – Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Indian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1920)
1990 – Hiram Abas, Turkish intelligence officer (b. 1932)
1990 – Alberto Moravia, Italian author and critic (b. 1907)
1991 – Billy Vaughn, American singer and bandleader (b. 1919)
1995 – Kalju Pitksaar, Estonian chess player (b. 1931)
1996 – Nicu Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
1998 – Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)
1999 – Oseola McCarty, American philanthropist (b. 1908)
2000 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
2000 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1937)
2003 – Shawn Lane, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1963)
2003 – Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
2004 – Marianna Komlos, Canadian bodybuilder, model, and wrestler (b. 1969)
2005 – Helen Cresswell, English author and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2006 – Byron Nelson, American golfer and coach (b. 1912)
2006 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American wartime propaganda broadcaster (b. 1916)
2007 – Bill Wirtz, American businessman (b. 1929)
2008 – Marc Moulin, Belgian keyboard player, producer, and journalist (b. 1942)
2008 – Paul Newman, American actor, director, producer, and businessman (b. 1925)
2010 – Terry Newton, English rugby player (b. 1978)
2010 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (b. 1910)
2011 – Bob Cassilly, American sculptor, founded the City Museum (b. 1949)
2012 – M'el Dowd, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
2012 – Sylvia Fedoruk, Canadian physicist and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (b. 1927)
2012 – Eugene Genovese, American historian and author (b. 1930)
2012 – Sam Steiger, American journalist and politician (b. 1929)
2013 – Azizan Abdul Razak, Malaysian politician, 10th Menteri Besar of Kedah (b. 1944)
2013 – Seánie Duggan, Irish hurler (b. 1922)
2013 – Mario Montez, Puerto Rican-American actor (b. 1935)
2013 – Sos Sargsyan, Armenian actor and director (b. 1929)
2014 – Jim Boeke, American football player and coach (b. 1938)
2014 – Sam Hall, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
2014 – Gerald Neugebauer, American astronomer and physicist (b. 1932)
2014 – Tamir Sapir, Georgian-American businessman (b. 1946)
2015 – Eudóxia Maria Froehlich, Brazilian zoologist (b. 1928)
2015 – Sidney Phillips, American soldier, physician, and author (b. 1924)
2015 – Ana Seneviratne, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (b. 1927)

Source: wikipedia