Deaths on 1 September
2000s
Joe Bugner
2025
British-Australian boxer and actor (1950–2025)
Linda Deutsch
2024
American journalist (1943–2024)
Jimmy Buffett
2023
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
Barbara Ehrenreich
2022
American writer and journalist (1941–2022)
Yang Yongsong
2022
Chinese military officer (1919–2022)
Erick Morillo
2020
American DJ (1971–2020)
Randy Weston
2018
American jazz pianist and composer (1926–2018)
Gurgen Dalibaltayan
2015
Armenian military commander (1926–2015)
Dean Jones (actor)
2015
American actor (1931–2015)
Richard G. Hewlett
2015
American historian
Ben Kuroki
2015
United States Army Air Forces soldier
Ahmed Abdi Godane
2014
First leader of Al-Shabaab (2008–2014)
Roger McKee
2014
American baseball player (1926-2014)
Joseph Shivers
2014
American textile chemist (1920–2014)
Ignacio Eizaguirre
2013
Spanish football player and manager
Gordon Steege
2013
Royal Australian Air Force fighter pilot
Margaret Mary Vojtko
2013
American linguist, educator, polyglot, and labor unionist
Ken Wallis
2013
British aviator, inventor & engineer (1916–2013)
Sean Bergin
2012
Musical artist
Hal David
2012
American lyricist (1921–2012)
Smarck Michel
2012
Haitian politician (1937–2012)
William Petzäll
2012
Swedish politician (1988–2012)
Arnaldo Putzu
2012
Italian artist (1927–2012)
Wakanohana Kanji I
2010
Japanese sumo wrestler
Thomas J. Bata
2008
Czech-born Canadian businessman
Jerry Reed
2008
American country singer, guitarist, songwriter and actor (1937–2008)
Roy McKenzie
2007
New Zealand horse breeder
György Faludy
2006
Hungarian poet (1910–2006)
Warren Mitofsky
2006
American political pollster
Bob O'Connor (mayor)
2006
American politician (1944–2006)
Kyffin Williams
2006
Welsh painter (1918–2006)
R. L. Burnside
2005
American blues musician (1926–2005)
Ahmed Kuftaro
2004
Grand Mufti of Syria (1915–2004)
Alastair Morton
2004
Chief Executive of Eurotunnel (1938-2004)
Rand Brooks
2003
American actor (1918–2003)
Terry Frost
2003
English artist (1915–2003)
1900s
W. Richard Stevens
1999
American writer (1951–1999)
Józef Krupiński
1998
Polish poet (1930–1998)
Cary Middlecoff
1998
American professional golfer (1921–1998)
Osman F. Seden
1998
Turkish film director and screenwriter (1924–1998)
Zoltán Czibor
1997
Hungarian footballer (1929–1997)
Otl Aicher
1991
German graphic designer and typographer
Edwin O. Reischauer
1990
American diplomat, educator, and professor (1910–1990)
A. Bartlett Giamatti
1989
American baseball commissioner and academic administrator (1938–1989)
Kazimierz Deyna
1989
Polish footballer (1947-1989)
Tadeusz Sendzimir
1989
Polish engineer and inventor (1894–1989)
Luis Walter Alvarez
1988
American physicist, inventor and professor (1911–1988)
Murray Hamilton
1986
American actor (1923–1986)
Stefan Bellof
1985
German racing driver (1957–1985)
Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset
1984
Duchess of Parma (1898–1984)
Henry M. Jackson
1983
American politician (1912–1983)
Larry McDonald
1983
American politician (1935–1983)
Haskell Curry
1982
American mathematician (1900-1982)
Władysław Gomułka
1982
Leader of Poland (1947–1948; 1956–1970)
Isabel Cristina
1982
Brazilian Blessed and martyr
Ann Harding
1981
American actress (1902–1981)
Albert Speer
1981
German architect (1905–1981)
Ethel Waters
1977
American vocalist and actress (1896–1977)
Gerd Neggo
1974
Estonian music educator, choreographer and dancer
Alan Brown (British Army officer)
1971
British Army officer (1909–1971)
François Mauriac
1970
French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist (1885-1970)
Drew Pearson (journalist)
1969
American journalist (1897–1969)
Siegfried Sassoon
1967
English war poet and writer (1886–1967)
Nellie McClung
1951
Canadian author, activist, suffragist and politician (1873–1951)
Frederick Russell Burnham
1947
American scout and adventurer (1861–1947)
Charles Atangana
1943
Paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bane ethnic groups
Peeter Põld
1930
Estonian pedagogic scientist and politician
Noe Khomeriki
1924
Georgian politician
Samu Pecz
1922
Hungarian architect (1854–1922)
Martha (passenger pigeon)
1914
Last known passenger pigeon
1800s
Ferenc Gyulay
1868
Hungarian noble
Izidor Guzmics
1839
Hungarian theologian
William Clark
1838
American explorer and territorial governor (1770–1838)
Before 1800
François Girardon
1715
French sculptor (1628–1715)
Louis XIV
1715
King of France from 1643 to 1715
Cornelis de Man
1706
Dutch painter (1621–1706)
Henry More
1687
English philosopher (1614–1687)
Leoline Jenkins
1685
Welsh Politician
Jan Brueghel the Younger
1678
Flemish painter (1601–1678)
Marin Mersenne
1648
French polymath (1588–1648)
Francis Windebank
1646
English politician (1582–1646)
Étienne Pasquier
1615
French lawyer and man of letters (1529-1615)
Cornelis de Houtman
1599
Dutch explorer (1565–1599)
Guru Ram Das
1581
Fourth Sikh guru from 1574 to 1581
Jacques Cartier
1557
French maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg
1480
Count of Württemberg (1413–1480)
William de Ros, 6th Baron Ros
1414
English nobleman (c. 1370 �� 1414)
Philip, Duke of Orléans
1376
French prince (1336–1375)
Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria
1339
13th-century Bavarian nobleman
Foulques de Villaret
1327
25th Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
Kujō Yoritsune
1256
Military ruler of Japan from 1226 to 1244
Otto I (bishop of Utrecht)
1215
Dutch bishop
Dulce of Aragon
1198
Queen of Portugal from 1185 to 1198
Pope Adrian IV
1159
Head of the Catholic Church from 1154 to 1159
Eusebius of Angers
1081
Bishop of Angers (died 1081)
Muhammad al-Bukhari
870
Islamic hadith scholar (810–870)