September 15th famous deaths

List of celebrities and famous people who died on September 15th

2019 - 2010

Famous deaths on September 15th for the celebrities who died in the years 2019 - 2010

• Arrow

  Montserratian singer-songwriter (d. 2010)

2009 - 2000

Famous deaths on September 15th for the celebrities who died in the years 2009 - 2000

• Richard Wright

  British keyboardist (Pink Floyd) (Born 1943)

• Sir Jeremy Moore

  British Army commander (Born 1928)

• Brett Somers

  Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2007)

• Oriana Fallaci

  Italian writer, a world-known award-winning journalist whose style is compared to Henry Kissinger. She is known for her many reports that range from economics to coverage of the Vietnam war. Impish and a spitfire, her international reputation borders on reverence.

• Raymond Baxter

  English television host and pilot (d. 2006)

• Pablo Santos

  Mexican actor (Born 1987)

• Sidney Luft

  American film director (Born 1915)

• Walter Stewart

  Canadian journalist and author (d. 2004)

• Jack Brymer

  English clarinetist (Born 1915)

• Josef Hirsal

  Czech novelist (Born 1920)

• Vincent Canby

  American historian and critic (d. 2000)

1999 - 1990

Famous deaths on September 15th for the celebrities who died in the years 1999 - 1990

• Louis Rasminsky

  Canadian economist, governor of the Bank of Canada (Born 1908)

• Hilary Preston

  Editor, dies at 88

• Peter Michael Grayson

  Showman, dies at 70

• Brother Eugene Gerard Salois

  Teacher, dies at 76

• George Scheuer

  Writer / journalist, dies at 80

• Joan Perry Cohn Harvey

  Actress (Hands of a Stranger), dies at 85

• Sam McCluskie

  Trade unionist, dies at 63

• Marguerite Fawdry

  Museum curator, dies at 83

• Michio Watanabe

  Politician, dies at 72

• Michael Joyce

  Stage Manager, dies at 48

• Alain Berdarin

  Founder / owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon, " suicide at 78

• Haywood Frank Henry

  Sax player, dies at 81

• Frits Noske

  Musicologist (Tie Musikwerk), dies at 72

• Herman Meyer

  Germanist (Deutsche Dichtung), dies at 82

• Ethan Allen

  American baseball player (Born 1903)

• Walter B Jones

  (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92), dies at 79

• John Hoyt

  Actor (My Favorite Brunette), dies of lung cancer at 87

• Allan Sobek

  Dancer

• Andre Baruch

  Radio / TV announcer dies at 83

• Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev

  Russian Cosmonaut, dies at 60

• G M J Veldkamp

  Dutch politician (CDA)

1989 - 1980

Famous deaths on September 15th for the celebrities who died in the years 1989 - 1980

• Robert Penn Warren

  American writer (Born 1905)

• Olga Erteszek

  American undergarment designer and lingerie company owner (Born 1916)

• Steven Tuomi

  American murder victim of Jeffrey Dahmer (Born 1963)

• Bob Tadema Sporry

  Author, dies at 75

• Virginia Gregg

  Actress (Little Women), dies at 69

• Cootie Williams

  American jazz trumpeter (Born 1910)

• Willie Bobo

  jazz drummer (Cos), dies at age 49.

• Prince Far I

  Jamaican reggae toaster and record producer

• LeRoy Prinz

  choreographer, dies at age 88.

• Sara Haden

  Actress (A Family Affair), dies at 83

• Rafael Mendez

  Mexican trumpet virtuoso (Born 1906)

• Bill Evans

  US jazz pianist, dies of a bleeding ulcer at 51

1979 - 1970

Famous deaths on September 15th for the celebrities who died in the years 1979 - 1970

• Tommy Leonetti

  American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1979)

• Willy Messerschmitt

  German industrialist, an aircraft engineer and designer who designed his first plane in 1916 and organized his own manufacturing company by 1923. His Messerschmitt was the plane which spear-headed Germany's air attack in WW II. His planes broke world records for speed four times. Post-war, he was fined as a war criminal.

• Robert Cliche

  French Canadian politician and judge (Born 1921)

• Gustaf VI

  Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)

• Victor Jara

  Chilean musician (Born 1941)

• Geoffrey Fisher

  Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1887)

• Ulvi Cemal Erkin

  Composer, dies at 66

1969 - 1960

Famous deaths on September 15th for the celebrities who died in the years 1969 - 1960

• Eva McKenzie

  Sister of Ida Mae / actress (Virtuous Husband), dies at 78

• Hans Haug

  Swiss composer in the primitivist style.

• Steve Brown

  American musician (Born 1890)

• Fred Hillebrand

  Actor (Martin Kane), dies at 69

1959 - 1950

Famous deaths on September 15th for the celebrities who died in the years 1959 - 1950

• Henry Clough-Leiter

  Composer, dies at 82

• Jacques Thibaud

  French musician, a concert violinist, from a noted family, the brother of pianist Joseph Thibaud (born 25 February 1875). Jacques died in an air crash in the Alps on 1 September 1953.

• Jacinto Guerrero

  Composer, dies at 56

• Vojtech Rihovsky

  Composer, dies at 79

1949 - 1940

Famous deaths on September 15th for the celebrities who died in the years 1949 - 1940

• Andre Tardieu

  French statesman (Born 1876)

• Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern

  Austrian composer, dies at 61

• Hans Ulrich Humpert

  Composer, dies at 2

• Jack Singer

  US war reporter (Wasp)

• Dick Ket

  Dutch magic realistic painter, graphic artist and woodcutter, who probably suffered from the born with Tetralogy of Fallot with dextrocardia.

1939 - 1930

Famous deaths on September 15th for the celebrities who died in the years 1939 - 1930

• Thomas Wolfe

  American playwright and novelist who wrote "Look Homeward, Angel," 1929, "The Web and The Rock," 1939 and "You Can't Go Home Again," 1940. Educated at the University of No. Carolina and graduating with an M.A. from Harvard, 1922, he taught English at the New York University from 1924-1930. Wolfe's first novel, "Look Homeward, Angel" was a great success, leading to …

• Clifford Heatherley

  Actress (For Love or Money, Cash), dies at 48

• Bela Anton Szabados

  Composer, dies at 69

• David Vaughan Thomas

  Composer, dies at 61

• Charles Hutchison Gabriel

  Composer, dies at 76

• Milton Sills

  American actor and screenwriter (d. 1930)

1929 - 1920

Famous deaths on September 15th for the celebrities who died in the years 1929 - 1920

• Sara Amsel

  Indon / Dutch actress / Wife of Carel van Hoisted, dies at 58

• Herman Gorter

  Dutch poet, translator, classicist and socialist.

• Rudolf Christoph Eucken

  German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1846)

• Anthony Johnson Showalter

  Composer, dies at 66

• Sayed Darwish

  Egyptian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1923)

• Roman Ungern von Sternberg

  Russian counter-revolutionary (Born 1886)

• Roman von Ungern-Sternberg

  Austrian-Russian general (d. 1921)

1919 - 1910

Famous deaths on September 15th for the celebrities who died in the years 1919 - 1910

• Isidore Edouard Legouix

  Composer, dies at 82

• Ernest Gagnon

  Canadian folklorist, composer and organist (Born 1834)

• Jacobus Herculas de la Rey [Uncle Chose]

  Boer General, dies at 66