Deaths on 22 September
2000s
Roy Clay
2024
American computer scientist (1929–2024)
Fredric Jameson
2024
American academic and literary critic (1934–2024)
Altemio Sanchez
2023
Serial killer and rapist
Hilary Mantel
2022
British writer (1952–2022)
Pal Singh Purewal
2022
Canadian engineer (1931/32–2022)
Neil Brannon
2020
American politician (1940–2020)
Chas Hodges
2018
English musician and singer (1943–2018)
Edna Molewa
2018
South African politician (1957–2018)
Delphine Medjo
2016
Cameroonian politician (1941–2016)
Yogi Berra
2015
American baseball player, manager, and coach (1925–2015)
Fernando Cabrita
2014
Portuguese footballer and manager
Sahana Pradhan
2014
Nepali politician
Erik van der Wurff
2014
Dutch pianist, composer and arranger (1945–2014)
Hans E. Wallman
2014
Swedish entrepreneur, composer, director, author, producer and executive
Gary Brandner
2013
American writer
Jane Connell
2013
American actress and singer (1925–2013)
David H. Hubel
2013
Canadian neurophysiologist (1926–2013)
Álvaro Mutis
2013
Colombian poet, novelist and essayist
Hans Erich Slany
2013
Luciano Vincenzoni
2013
Italian screenwriter (1926–2013)
Hector Abhayavardhana
2012
Sri Lankan Trotskyist theoretician (1919–2012)
Irving Adler
2012
American political activist
Juan H. Cintrón García
2012
Puerto Rican politician
Grigory Frid
2012
Russian composer
Jan Hendrik van den Berg
2012
Dutch psychiatrist
Knut Steen
2011
Norwegian sculptor (1924–2011)
Jackie Burroughs
2010
Canadian actress (1939–2010)
Eddie Fisher
2010
American singer and actor (1928–2010)
Vyacheslav Tsaryov
2010
Russian footballer
Edward Delaney
2009
Irish sculptor
Thomas Dörflein
2008
German zookeeper
Petrus Schaesberg
2008
ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá
2007
Baha'i college professor
Marcel Marceau
2007
French mime artist (1923–2007)
Edward Albert
2006
American actor (1951–2006)
Carla Benschop
2006
Dutch basketball player (1950–2006)
Pete Schoening
2004
American mountaineer
Big Boss Man
2004
American professional wrestler (1963–2004)
Gordon Jump
2003
American actor (1932–2003)
Hugo Young
2003
British journalist
Jan de Hartog
2002
Dutch playwright and novelist (1914–2002)
Isaac Stern
2001
American violinist (1920–2001)
Saburō Sakai
2000
Imperial Japanese Navy WWII fighter pilot (1916–2000)
1900s
George C. Scott
1999
American actor (1927–1999)
Ludmilla Chiriaeff
1996
Latvian-Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher and company director
Dorothy Lamour
1996
American actress and singer (1914–1996)
Leonard Feather
1994
British musician, producer, and writer (1914–1994)
Maurice Abravanel
1993
Ottoman-born American conductor (1903–1993)
Aurelio López
1992
Mexican baseball player (1948–1992)
Ambrose Folorunsho Alli
1989
Nigerian academic and politician
Irving Berlin
1989
American songwriter (1888–1989)
Rais Amrohvi
1988
Pakistani poet (1914–1988)
Hákun Djurhuus
1987
Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1963–1967)
Dan Rowan
1987
American actor (1922–1987)
Harry Warren
1981
American composer and lyricist (1893–1981)
Abul A'la Maududi
1979
South Asian Islamic scholar, Founder of Jamaat-e-Islami (1903–1979)
Paul van Zeeland
1973
Belgian lawyer, economist, Catholic politician and statesman
Adolfo López Mateos
1969
President of Mexico from 1958 to 1964
Marion Davies
1961
American actress (1897–1961)
Soemu Toyoda
1957
Japanese admiral (1885–1957)
Frederick Soddy
1956
English radiochemist (1877–1956)
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
1952
Finnish politician and academic (1865–1952)
Elliott Lewis (politician)
1935
Australian politician
Cecil Chubb
1934
Last private owner of the prehistoric monument Stonehenge (1876–1934)
Sime Silverman
1933
American journalist and newspaper publisher
Alajos Gáspár
1919
John Henry Knight (inventor)
1917
British inventor and automotive pioneer
Alain-Fournier
1914
French author and soldier (1886–1914)
1800s
Solomon L. Spink
1881
American politician
Friedrich Frey-Herosé
1873
Member of the Swiss Federal Council
Vladimir Dal
1872
Russian lexicographer (1801–1872)
Frederick Townsend Ward
1862
American sailor and mercenary (1831–1862)
William Tierney Clark
1852
English civil engineer (1783–1852)
Shaka
1828
King of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 to 1828
Before 1800
John Bartram
1777
American botanist (1699–1777)
Nathan Hale
1776
American Patriot and soldier (1755–1776)
Pope Clement XIV
1774
Head of the Catholic Church from 1769 to 1774
Abu l-Hasan Ali I
1756
Possessor of the Kingdom of Tunis
William Bartram (Pennsylvania politician)
1711
Quaker politician and settler (1674–1711)
Vincenzo Viviani
1703
Italian mathematician and scientist (1662–1703)
Martha Corey
1692
American woman accused of witchcraft
John Biddle (Unitarian)
1662
English Unitarian minister (1615–1662)
Alessandro Allori
1607
Italian painter
Gabriel Spenser
1598
16th-century English actor
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex
1576
English noble and general (1541-1576)
Johannes Agricola
1566
German Protestant Reformer (1494–1566)
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
1554
Spanish explorer of the American southwest
Guru Nanak
1539
Founder and first guru of Sikhism (1469–1539)
Louise of Savoy
1531
Mother of Francis I, Regent of France
Selim I
1520
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520
Philibert I, Duke of Savoy
1482
Duke of Savoy from 1472 to 1482
Peter II, Duke of Brittany
1457
Duke of Brittany from 1450 to 1457
John VII Palaiologos
1408
Byzantine emperor in 1390
Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk
1399
English peer (1366–1399)
Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster
1345
English noble
Dōgen
1253
Japanese Zen buddhist teacher (1200-1253)
Uhtred of Galloway
1174
Scottish ruler (1120–1174)
Otto of Freising
1158
Bishop of Freising from 1138 to 1158
Ouyang Xiu
1072
Chinese poet, historian and statesman (1007–1072)
Wichmann the Younger
967
Saxon noble (c.930–967)
Emperor Zhaozong of Tang
904
Emperor of Tang China from 888 to 904
Pope Felix IV
530
Head of the Catholic Church from 526 to 530
He Jin
189
Han dynasty regent and general (died 189)