Deaths on 11 September
2000s
John D. Petersen
2025
American chemist, educator and academic administrator (1947–2025)
Kenneth Cope
2024
British actor (1931–2024)
Alberto Fujimori
2024
President of Peru from 1990 to 2000
Chad McQueen
2024
American actor and race car driver (1960–2024)
Joe Schmidt (American football)
2024
American football player and coach (1932–2024)
Javier MarÃas
2022
Spanish novelist, translator, and columnist (1951–2022)
John W. O'Malley
2022
American academic, Catholic historian, and Jesuit priest (1927–2022)
Joyce Reynolds (classicist)
2022
British classicist (1918–2022)
Abimael Guzmán
2021
Peruvian Maoist terrorist leader (1934–2021)
Toots Hibbert
2020
Jamaican musician (1942–2020)
Agnivesh
2020
Indian Marxist social activist and politician (1939–2020)
B. J. Habibie
2019
President of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999
Alexis Arquette
2016
American actress (1969–2016)
Bob Crewe
2014
American singer-songwriter and record producer (1930–2014)
Antoine Duhamel
2014
French composer (1925–2014)
Donald Sinden
2014
English actor (1923–2014)
Francisco Chavez
2013
Filipino lawyer and former Solicitor General
Albert Jacquard
2013
French biologist (1925–2013)
Andrzej Trybulec
2013
Polish mathematician and computer scientist
Finn Bergesen
2012
Norwegian civil servant and businessperson
Tomas Evjen
2012
Norwegian film creator (1972–2012)
J. Christopher Stevens
2012
American diplomat and lawyer (1960-2012)
Christian Bakkerud
2011
Danish racing driver (1984–2011)
Ralph Gubbins
2011
English footballer
Anjali Gupta
2011
Indian Air Force officer
Andy Whitfield
2011
Welsh actor (1971–2011)
Harold Gould
2010
American actor (1923–2010)
Kevin McCarthy (actor)
2010
American actor (1914–2010)
Jim Carroll
2009
American author and musician (1949–2009)
Pierre Cossette (producer)
2009
Canadian television executive producer and Broadway producer
Larry Gelbart
2009
American comedy writer and playwright (1928–2009)
Yoshito Usui
2009
Japanese manga artist (1958-2009)
Ian Porterfield
2007
British footballer (1946–2007)
Gene Savoy
2007
American explorer and theologian (1927–2007)
Jean Séguy
2007
French sociologist (1925–2007)
Joe Zawinul
2007
Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer (1932–2007)
William Auld
2006
Scottish poet, author, translator (1924–2006)
Joachim Fest
2006
German historian (1926–2006)
Fred Ebb
2004
American lyricist (1928–2004)
David Mann (artist)
2004
American painter
Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria
2004
Greek Patriarch of Alexandria from 1997 to 2004
Anna Lindh
2003
Swedish politician (1957–2003)
John Ritter
2003
American actor (1948–2003)
Kim Hunter
2002
American actress (1922–2002)
Johnny Unitas
2002
American football player (1933–2002)
David Wisniewski
2002
American writer
Alice Stewart Trillin
2001
American educator and writer (1938–2001)
Casualties of the September 11 attacks
2001
Victims of terror attacks in the US
1900s
Belkis Ayón
1999
Cuban visual artist (1967–1999)
Gonzalo RodrÃguez (racing driver)
1999
Uruguayan racing driver (1971–1999)
Dane Clark
1998
American film actor (1912–1998)
Camille Henry
1997
Canadian ice hockey player (1933–1997)
Hannah Weiner
1997
American poet (1928–1997)
Anita Harding
1995
Irish-British neurologist
Luciano Sgrizzi
1994
Italian harpsichordist, organist, pianist and composer (1910–1994)
Jessica Tandy
1994
British actress (1909–1994)
Antoine Izméry
1993
Haitian businessman and activist (died 1993)
Erich Leinsdorf
1993
American conductor (1912–1993)
Mary Jane Reoch
1993
American cyclist
Ernst Herbeck
1991
Myrna Mack
1990
Guatemalan anthropologist
Roger Hargreaves
1988
English author and illustrator (1935–1988)
Lorne Greene
1987
Canadian actor (1915–1987)
Peter Tosh
1987
Jamaican reggae musician (1944–1987)
Mahadevi Varma
1987
Indian writer and poet (1907–1987)
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos
1986
Greek politician
Noel Streatfeild
1986
English author (1895–1986)
William Alwyn
1985
English composer (1905–1985)
Henrietta Barnett (WRAF officer)
1985
Eleanor Dark
1985
Australian novelist
Jerry Voorhis
1984
Democratic politician from California
Brian Lawrance
1983
Australian musician (1909–1983)
Albert Soboul
1982
French historian
Mike Gazella
1978
American baseball player (1895–1978)
Georgi Markov
1978
Bulgarian dissident writer (1929–1978)
1978 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom
1978
Event leading to the last known smallpox death
Ronnie Peterson
1978
Swedish racing driver (1944–1978)
Lois Lenski
1974
American author and illustrator (1893–1974)
Salvador Allende
1973
President of Chile from 1970 to 1973
Neem Karoli Baba
1973
Hindu religious leader (c. 1900–1973)
Nikita Khrushchev
1971
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
René Cogny
1968
Tadeusz Żyliński
1967
Collett E. Woolman
1966
American entrepreneur (1889–1966)
Ralph C. Smedley
1965
Founder of Toastmasters International
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh
1964
Indian writer (1917–1964)
Paul Douglas (actor)
1959
American actor (1907–1959)
Camillien Houde
1958
Canadian politician (1889–1958)
Robert W. Service
1958
British-Canadian poet and writer (1874–1958)
Mary Proctor
1957
British astronomer
Billy Bishop
1956
Canadian aviator and author (1894–1956)
Jan Smuts
1950
South African statesman and military officer (1870–1950)
Henri Rabaud
1949
French conductor, composer and pedagogue (1873–1949)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
1948
Founder and 1st Governor-General of Pakistan (1876–1948)
Christian Rakovsky
1941
Bulgarian-born Soviet diplomat (1873–1941)
Aleksandra Izmailovich
1941
Belarusian socialist revolutionary (1878–1941)
Maria Spiridonova
1941
Russian revolutionary (1884–1941)
Konstantin Korovin
1939
Russian impressionist painter (1861–1939)
Charles Norris (medical examiner)
1935
New York City coroner (1867–1935)
Stanisław Wigura
1932
Polish aircraft designer and aviator (1901-1932)
Franciszek Żwirko
1932
Polish aviator (1895–1932)
Matsunosuke Onoe
1926
Japanese actor
Subramania Bharati
1921
Indian writer, poet, and Independence activist
Quianu Robinson
1919
American politician (1852–1919)
Georges Guynemer
1917
French World War I flying ace
William Sprague IV
1915
American politician
Louis Henri Boussenard
1911
French author (1847–1910)
1800s
Nikoline Harbitz
1898
Norwegian writer (1841–1898)
Francis James Child
1896
American folklorist (1825–1896)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
1888
President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874
Louis Juchault de Lamoricière
1865
French general (1806–1865)
Sylvester Graham
1851
American Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer (1794–1851)
José Núñez de Cáceres
1846
Early Dominican independence leader; 1st and only president of Spanish Haiti (1821–22)
Joseph Nicollet
1843
French geographer, astronomer, and mathematician
David Ricardo
1823
British economist and politician (1772–1823)
Before 1800
Louis Godin
1760
French astronomer
François Couperin
1733
French composer (1668–1733)
Rudolf Jakob Camerarius
1721
German botanist and physician (1665–1721)
Emperor Go-Mizunoo
1680
Emperor of Japan from 1611 to 1629
James Harrington (author)
1677
English political theorist (1611–1677)
Beatrice Cenci
1599
Roman noblewoman (1577–1599)
Vincenza Armani
1569
Italian opera singer
Bonne of Luxembourg
1349
French noblewoman (1315–1349)
Philip of Artois
1298
French nobleman (1269–1298)
Hugh de Cressingham
1297
13th-century English nobleman
Robert Kilwardby
1279
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1272 to 1278
Stephen Hagiochristophorites
1185
Byzantine official (c. 1130 – 1185)
Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem
1161
Crusader ruler from 1131 to 1152
Béla I of Hungary
1063
King of Hungary from 1060 to 1063
Kesta Styppiotes
883