Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In September - 08

1853  On this day in history death of frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)   

1871  Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57 on September - 08.   

1879  On this day in history nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 58   

1881  W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral, dies at 84 on September - 08.   

1882  On this day in history joseph Liouville, French mathematician (surface of Liouville), dies   

1894  Death of Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821) on September - 08.   

1895  Adam Opel, German manufacturer (motorcars), dies at 58 on this day in history.   

1899  On September - 08 vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, composer, dies at 78   

1914  On this day in history william E Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, dies at 74   

1917  Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer, dies at 74 on September - 08.   

1933  Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st king of Iraq/Syria, dies at 50 on this day in history.   

1935  Death of Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Sen Huey Long, shot down on September - 08.   

1944  On this day in history jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63   

1948  Death of Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876) on September - 08.   

1949  Richard Strauss, German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 85 on September - 08.   

1951  Death of Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed on September - 08.   

1955  John de Young, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69 on September - 08.   

1956  Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-4.), dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1962  Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1965  Dorothy Danridge, actress (Island in the Sun), dies at 41 in Hollywood on September - 08.   

1969  On September - 08 bud Collyer, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), dies at 61   

1970  On this day in history death of percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven, (b. 1894)   

1974  Robert Cox, last surviving member of Keystone Kops, dies at 79 on September - 08.   

1975  John Mylong, actor (Robot Monster), dies at 82 on September - 08.   

1976  On this day in history assen Karastoyanov, composer, dies at 83   

1977  On September - 08 zero [Samuel J] Mostel, US actor (Fiddler on the Roof), dies at 62   

1978  On this day in history pancho Vladigerov, composer, dies at 79   

1979  Death of Jean Seberg, actress (Breathless, Airport), commits suicide at 40 on September - 08.   

1980  Bruce Dooland, cricketer (prolific leggie for Notts), dies on September - 08.   

1981  On September - 08 death of hediki Joekawa, Japans physicist (Nobel 1949) at 74   

1983  Antonin Magne, French bicylist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies on September - 08.   

1984  On September - 08 frank Lowson, cricketer (England opener 1951-55), dies   

1985  On this day in history death of john Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)   

1991  On this day in history alex North, music composer (Spartacus), dies at 80 of cancer   

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0801  Ansgar, German Catholic archbishop (d. 865) was born on this day in history.   

0828  On this day in history birth of ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)   

1157  On September - 08 birth of richard I, [Richard the Lion Hearted], King of England (1189-99)   

1207  Sancho II, king of Portugal was born on this day in history.   

1271  On September - 08 birth of charles Martel d'Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (d. 1295)   

1380  On this day in history birth of bernardinus of Siena, Italian saint   

1474  On this day in history birth of ludovico Ariosto, Italy, poet (Orlando Furioso)   

1515  On this day in history birth of alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (d. 1585)