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September 8, 2003 Leni Riefenstahl, director, Triumph of the Will, dies at 101 September 8, 1998 Leonid Kinskey, actor, Casablanca, dies at 95 September 8, 1996 Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, designer artist/writer, dies at 102 September 8, 1995 Eileen Zhang Ailing Chang, writer, dies at 73 September 8, 1995 Olga Ivinskaya, mistress of Boris Pasternak, dies of cancer at 83 September 8, 1995 Safa Khulusi, writer, dies at 78 September 8, 1994 Arthur Rex Alston, British sports commentator, dies at 93 September 8, 1994 Deborah Bear, Engl still photographer (Pasolini/Fellini), dies at 44 September 8, 1994 Dennis Morgan, actor (Cattle Town, Canyon Pass), dies at 83 September 8, 1994 Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies at 70 of cancer September 8, 1994 Michael Peters, choreographer, dies September 8, 1993 Hall Bartlett, U.S. director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70 September 8, 1993 Lorin "Whitey" Harrison, surfer, dies at 80 of a heart attack September 8, 1993 Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88 September 8, 1992 Quentin N Burdick, (Sen-D-ND, 1960-91), dies at 84 September 8, 1991 Alex North, music composer (Spartacus), dies at 80 of cancer September 8, 1991 Brad Davis, U.S., actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire), dies at 41 September 8, 1991 Jan J Lipski, chairman (Polish Socialist Party)/writer, dies September 8, 1991 Jo Budie, Dutch orch leader (KRO), dies September 8, 1984 Rene Bernier, composer, dies at 79 September 8, 1983 Antonin Magne, French bicylist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies September 8, 1983 Willem C "Wim" Kan, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 72 September 8, 1981 Hediki Joekawa, Japans physicist (Nobel 1949) at 74 September 8, 1981 Roy Wilkins, longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80 September 8, 1980 Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist/theory/educator, dies at 84 September 8, 1980 Willard Libby, American Scientist September 8, 1979 Jean Seberg, actress (Breathless, Airport), commits suicide at 40 September 8, 1978 Pancho Vladigerov, composer, dies at 79 September 8, 1977 Zero [Samuel J] Mostel, U.S. actor (Fiddler on the Roof), dies at 62 September 8, 1976 Assen Karastoyanov, composer, dies at 83 September 8, 1976 Joaquin Zamacois Soler, composer, dies at 81 September 8, 1975 John Mylong, actor (Robot Monster), dies at 82 September 8, 1974 Robert Cox, last surviving member of Keystone Kops, dies at 79 September 8, 1969 Bud Collyer, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), dies at 61 September 8, 1965 Dorothy Danridge, actress (Island in the Sun), dies at 41 in Hollywood September 8, 1962 Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84 September 8, 1960 Johan J "Jussi" Bjorling, Swedish epic tenor, dies at 49 September 8, 1956 Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-4.), dies at 84 September 8, 1956 Vital Celen, Flemish writer ('t Pastoorke van Vossendonck), dies at 69 September 8, 1955 John de Young, cardinal and archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69 September 8, 1953 Frederick M. Vinson, American Judge September 8, 1951 Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed September 8, 1951 Maria Montez, actress (Arabian Nights), dies of heart seizure at 33 September 8, 1951 John French Sloan, American Artist September 8, 1949 Richard Strauss, German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 85 September 8, 1944 Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal, hanged at 62 September 8, 1944 Jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63 September 8, 1935 Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Sen Huey Long, shot down September 8, 1935 Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building September 8, 1933 Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st king of Iraq/Syria, dies at 50 September 8, 1917 Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer, dies at 74 September 8, 1914 William E Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, dies at 74 September 8, 1899 Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, composer, dies at 78 September 8, 1895 Adam Opel, German manufacturer (motorcars), dies at 58 September 8, 1894 Hermann von Helmholtz, German Physicist September 8, 1882 Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (surface of Liouville), dies September 8, 1881 W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral, dies at 84 September 8, 1879 Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 58 September 8, 1879 William Morris Hunt, American Artist September 8, 1871 Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57 September 8, 1840 John H van de Palm, theologist/literature/speaker, dies at 77 September 8, 1838 Pietro Rovelli, composer, dies at 45 September 8, 1819 Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer, dies at 56 September 8, 1814 Thomas Spence, English Writer September 8, 1811 Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist, dies at 69 September 8, 1706 Romanus Weichlein, composer, dies at 53 September 8, 1675 Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels, dies at 73 September 8, 1660 Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54 September 8, 1656 Joseph Hall, English Clergyman September 8, 1654 Peter Claver, Spanish saint (baptized 300,000 slaves), dies September 8, 1645 Francisco Gomez Quevedo y Villegas, Spanish author and poet, dies at 64 September 8, 1645 Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish Writer September 8, 1644 Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion), dies September 8, 1637 Robert Fludd, composer, dies at 63 September 8, 1633 Carlo Caraffa, Ital jesuit/religious order founder, dies at about 72 September 8, 1613 Don Carlo Gesauldo, composer, dies September 8, 1560 Amy Robsart, wife of English premier Robert Dudley, dies by accident September 8, 1555 Thomas Villanova, Spanish saint/archbishop of Valencia, dies September 8, 1550 Hans [Johann] Vischer, German count of Johann Cicero, dies September 8, 1100 Clement III, [Wibert van Ravenna], 1st anti-pope (1084-1100), dies September 8, 876 Lodewijk de Duitser, king of East French Republic (833-76), dies at 72 September 8, 780 Leo IV de Chazaar, Byzantine Emperor (775-80), dies September 8, 701 Sergius I, Syrian/Italian Pope (687-701), dies September 8, 394 Arbogast, French general, commits suicide |