Famous Deaths on September 1

Czech genealogist and librarian (1920-2015)

Television actor (1920–2008)

Hungarian writer, poet, translator (1910–2006)

Croatian historian (1930-2015)

Ecuadorian judge and poet

Gujarati poet (1920-2003)

Armenian composer

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1968)

American Bishop, academic administrator and college president (1870–1944)

Japanese film director (1892–1973)

Swiss photographer and occidentalist

Canadian author, social activist, suffragette & politician (1873-1951)

Polish writer (1930–1998)

Astronomer (1839-1919)

Austrian art historian and archaeologist (1890-1958)

German film director and screenwriter (1872-1936)

Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter

Finnish writer (1910-2000)

SOE agent in World War Two.

Costa Rican composer

Argentine writer

Peruvian lyricist (1786-1831)

U.S. printer, sheriff, editor, librarian, postmaster (1797-1853)

American engineer, professor, geologist, mineralogist, pisciculturist, and fisheries scientist

New Zealand politician (1832-1886)

French astronomer and botanist (1703-1784)

17th/18th-century Anglo-Irish writer, playwright, and politician

French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (1588-1648)

Flemish-born philologist, scholar, and librarian (1560-1627)

Dutch Golden Age painter (1588-1631)

The third Guru of Sikhism

German painter and printmaker (1484–1545)

16th century Spanish painter, sculptor and architect (c.1486-1561)

Italian artist (1418-1503)

Jurisconsult and Judge Advocate General of the Royal Army in the Low Countries

Painter (1510-1590)

French noble (1426-1487)

Italian artist (1420-1492)

King of Hanthawaddy Pegu

King of France from 1226 to 1270 (1214–1270)

Queen of Scotland

Duke of Hungary, Croatia and Nyitra (c.1070–1127)

Vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate

Queen of Egypt from 142 to 131 BC and again from 127 to 116 BC