Famous Deaths on September 1

Czech genealogist and librarian (1920-2015)

Croatian historian (1930-2015)

Television actor (1920–2008)

Hungarian writer, poet, translator (1910–2006)

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1968)

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

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

Polish writer (1930–1998)

Astronomer (1839-1919)

Argentine writer

Peruvian lyricist (1786-1831)

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)

Dutch Golden Age painter (1588-1631)

The third Guru of Sikhism

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)

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