Deaths on 23 September
2000s
John Elliott (businessman)
2021
Australian businessman (1941–2021)
Nino Vaccarella
2021
Italian racing driver (1933–2021)
Juliette Gréco
2020
French singer and actress (1927–2020)
Charles K. Kao
2018
Hong Kong electrical engineer (1933–2018)
Gary Kurtz
2018
American film producer (1940–2018)
Jane Fortune
2018
American author, journalist and philanthropist
Dayananda Saraswati (Arsha Vidya)
2015
Hindu monk and teacher (1930–2015)
A. W. Davis
2014
American basketball player and coach (1943–2014)
Irven DeVore
2014
American anthropologist and evolutionary biologist
Don Manoukian
2014
American football player and wrestler (1934–2014)
Al Suomi
2014
American ice hockey player
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj
2013
Syrian Army officer and politician (1925–2013)
Gil Dozier
2013
American lawyer, politician, and felon
Ruth Patrick
2013
American botanist and limnologist (1907-2013)
Henry Champ
2012
Canadian journalist (1937–2012)
Pavel Grachev
2012
Soviet general (1948–2012)
Roberto Rodríguez (baseball)
2012
Venezuelan baseball player (1941–2012)
Corrie Sanders
2012
South African boxer (1966–2012)
Sam Sniderman
2012
Canadian businessman (1920–2012)
Malcolm Douglas (documentary maker)
2010
Australian filmmaker
Paul B. Fay
2009
American politician
Peter Leonard (journalist)
2008
Australian journalist and newsreader
Loren Pope
2008
American journalist (1910–2008)
Malcolm Arnold
2006
English composer (1921–2006)
Etta Baker
2006
American Piedmont blues musician (1913–2006)
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
2005
Puerto Rican independence activist and militant
Billy Reay
2004
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Yuri Senkevich
2003
Ron Hewitt (footballer, born 1928)
2001
Welsh footballer
Aurelio Rodríguez
2000
Mexican baseball player (1947–2000)
Carl Rowan
2000
American diplomat and journalist (1925–2000)
Raoul Berger
2000
American legal scholar
1900s
Ivan Goff
1999
Australian screenwriter (1910–1999)
Ray Bowden
1998
English footballer
Mary Frann
1998
American actress (1943–1998)
Natalie Savage Carlson
1997
American writer
Jerry Barber
1994
American professional golfer (1916–1994)
Robert Bloch
1994
American fiction writer (1917–1994)
Madeleine Renaud
1994
French actress (1900–1994)
Ivar Ivask
1992
Estonian poet and literary scholar (1927-1992)
Glendon Swarthout
1992
American writer (1918–1992)
James Van Fleet
1992
US Army general (1892–1992)
Tibor Sekelj
1988
Hungarian author and explorer (1912–1988)
Bob Fosse
1987
American choreographer, dancer, and director (1927–1987)
Chief Dan George
1981
Chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, actor (1899–1981)
Jim Fouché
1980
President of South Africa from 1968 to 1975
Catherine Lacey
1979
English actress (1904–1979)
Lyman Bostock
1978
American baseball player (1950–1978)
Cliff Arquette
1974
American actor and comedian (1905–1974)
Robbie McIntosh (drummer)
1974
Scottish drummer (1950-1974)
Pablo Neruda
1973
Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician (1904–1973)
James Waddell Alexander II
1971
American mathematician (1888–1971)
Padre Pio
1968
20th-century Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic (1887–1968)
Stanislaus Zbyszko
1967
Polish strongman and professional wrestler (1880-1967)
Jacob Nicol
1958
Canadian politician (1876-1958)
Siegfried Bettmann
1951
German industrialist bicycle, motorcycle and car manufacturer
Sam Barry
1950
American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach (1892–1950)
Jakob Schaffner
1944
Swiss novelist
Elinor Glyn
1943
British novelist and scriptwriter (1864–1943)
Hale Holden
1940
American railroad executive
Sigmund Freud
1939
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
Francisco León de la Barra
1939
President of Mexico in 1911
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
1929
Austrian-born chemist (1865–1929)
Werner Voss
1917
German flying ace in WWI (1897–1917)
Donato Álvarez
1913
Former Army General of Argentina
William Marsh Rice
1900
American businessman and philanthropist (1816–1900)
1800s
Emmanuel Benner
1896
French painter
Wilkie Collins
1889
English novelist and playwright (1824–1889)
Urbain Le Verrier
1877
French astronomer and mathematician (1811–1877)
Jean Chacornac
1873
French astronomer (1823–1873)
Louis-Joseph Papineau
1871
Lower Canada politician, lawyer, and seigneur
Prosper Mérimée
1870
French writer, archaeologist and historian (1803–1870)
Émilie Gamelin
1851
Canadian social worker and Catholic sister (1800–1851)
José Gervasio Artigas
1850
Uruguayan military leader during the War for Independence
John Ainsworth Horrocks
1846
Australian explorer
Vincenzo Bellini
1835
Italian opera composer (1801–1835)
Before 1800
John Rogers (Continental Congress)
1789
American Founding Father, lawyer, and judge (1723–1789)
Johan Ernst Gunnerus
1773
Robert Dodsley
1764
English publisher and writer (1703–1764)
Herman Boerhaave
1738
Dutch botanist, chemist, humanist, and physician (1668–1738)
Christian Thomasius
1728
German jurist and philosopher (1655–1728)
Valentin Conrart
1675
French author
Pontus de Tyard
1605
French poet and priest
Azai Hisamasa
1573
Daimyo of the Sengoku period
John Jewel
1571
English clergyman (1522–1571)
Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg
1535
Queen of Sweden from 1531 to 1535
Beatrice of Naples
1508
Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia
Charles, Prince of Viana
1461
Claimed king of Navarre from 1441 to 1461
Adolph I, Duke of Cleves
1448
German nobleman
John I, Duke of Lorraine
1390
Duke of Lorraine from 1346 to 1390
Dan I of Wallachia
1386
Voivode of Wallachia
Beatrice of Provence
1267
Countess of Provence and Forcalquier (c.1229–1267)
Wenceslaus I of Bohemia
1253
King of Bohemia from 1230 to 1253
Snorri Sturluson
1241
Icelandic historian, poet and politician (1179–1241)
Robert IV of Sablé
1193
Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1191 to 1192
Al-Mutanabbi
965
Arab poet (c. 915 – 965)
Ælfwald I of Northumbria
788
Northumbrian king from 779 to 788