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  • 1950Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and author (born 1886)
  • 1951James W. Gerard, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (born 1867)
  • 1952Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer, and dancer (born 1898)
  • 1956Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (born 1904)
  • 1956 – Lee Jung-seob, North Korean painter (born 1916)
  • 1959Edmund Gwenn, English actor (born 1877)
  • 1959 – Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian (born 1927)
  • 1962Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian composer (born 1898)
  • 1962 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (born 1892)
  • 1966Margaret Sanger, American nurse, educator, and activist (born 1879){{cite web |title=Margaret Sanger {{!}} Biography, Birth Control, & Significance {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Sanger |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=7 March 2022 |language=en}}
  • 1966 – Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-South African journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa (born 1901)
  • 1969Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (born 1892)
  • 1972 – Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre
  • Luttif Afif, Palestinian terrorist (born 1945)
  • David Mark Berger, American-Israeli weightlifter (born 1944)
  • Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-Israeli weightlifter (born 1944)
  • Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling judge (born 1931)
  • Eliezer Halfin, Russian-Israeli wrestler (born 1948)
  • Amitzur Shapira, Russian-Israeli runner and coach (born 1932)
  • Kehat Shorr, Romanian shooting coach (born 1919)
  • Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (born 1954)
  • Andre Spitzer, Romanian-Israeli fencer and coach (born 1945)
  • Yakov Springer, Polish-Israeli wrestler and coach (born 1921)
  • 1974Olga Baclanova, Russian-Swiss actress and ballerina (born 1896)
  • 1974 – Otto Kruger, American actor (born 1885)
  • 1978Max Decugis, French tennis player (born 1882)
  • 1978 – Tom Wilson, American record producer (born 1931)
  • 1978 – Adolf Dassler, German cobbler and entrepreneur, founded Adidas (born 1900){{cite web|url=https://www.adidassler.org/en/life-and-work/chronicle|title=1920–1922: Inventive Spirit and First Shoe Production|work=Chronicle and Biography of Adi & Käthe Dassler|publisher=Adi & Käthe Dassler Memorial Foundation|year=2018|access-date=26 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726103705/https://www.adidassler.org/en/life-and-work/chronicle|archive-date=26 July 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}
  • 1979Ronald Binge, English organist and composer (born 1910)
  • 1982Azra Erhat, Turkish archaeologist, author, and academic (born 1915)
  • 1984Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1914)
  • 1985Franco Ferrara, Italian conductor and composer (born 1911)
  • 1986Blanche Sweet, American actress (born 1896)
  • 1988Leroy Brown, American wrestler (born 1950)
  • 1990Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
  • 1990 – Len Hutton, English cricketer and soldier (born 1916)
  • 1992Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (born 1912)
  • 1994Nicky Hopkins, English pianist (born 1944)
  • 1994 – Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1908)
  • 1997P. H. Newby, English author and broadcaster (born 1918)
  • 1998Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1910)
  • 1998 – Ric Segreto, American-Filipino singer-songwriter, actor, and journalist (born 1952)
  • 1998 – Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (born 1928)
  • 1999Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician, 3rd President of Nauru (born 1938)
  • 2005Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (born 1929)
  • 2000Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (born 1918)
  • 2005 – Eugenia Charles, Dominican lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Dominica (born 1919)
  • 2007Madeleine L'Engle, American author and poet (born 1918)
  • 2007 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (born 1935)
  • 2008Anita Page, American actress (born 1910)
  • 2009Catherine Gaskin, Irish-Australian author (born 1929)
  • 2010Boris Chetkov, Russian painter (born 1926)
  • 2010 – Clive Donner, English director and editor (born 1926)
  • 2011Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (born 1947)
  • 2012Elisabeth Böhm, German architect (born 1921)
  • 2012 – Lawrie Dring, Scottish scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts (born 1931)
  • 2012 – Oscar Rossi, Argentine footballer and manager (born 1930)
  • 2013Ann C. Crispin, American author (born 1950)
  • 2013 – Khin Maung Kyi, Burmese economist and scholar (born 1926)
  • 2013 – Santiago Rosario, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach (born 1939)
  • 2014Odd Bondevik, Norwegian bishop and theologian (born 1941)
  • 2014 – Seth Martin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1933)
  • 2014 – Kira Zvorykina, Belarusian chess player and educator (born 1919)
  • 2015Ralph Milne, Scottish footballer (born 1961)
  • 2015 – Martin Milner, American actor (born 1931)
  • 2017Peter Luck, Australian journalist and television host (born 1944)
  • 2017 – Kate Millett, American feminist author and activist (born 1934){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/obituaries/kate-millett-influential-feminist-writer-is-dead-at-82.html|title=Kate Millett, Ground-Breaking Feminist Writer, Is Dead at 82|first1=Parul|last1=Sehgal|first2=Neil|last2=Genzlinger|newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 6, 2017}}
  • 2018Richard DeVos, American billionaire businessman (born 1926){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/notable-deaths.html|title=Notable Deaths 2018|newspaper=The New York Times Obituaries|date=3 August 2018 |access-date=2018-09-12 }}
  • 2018 – Liz Fraser, English actress (born 1930)
  • 2018 – Burt Reynolds, American actor, director and producer (born 1936){{cite magazine |last1=Natale |first1=Richard |title=Burt Reynolds, Star of 'Deliverance,' 'Smokey and the Bandit,' Dies at 82 |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/burt-reynolds-died-dead-smokey-and-the-bandit-1202930270/ | date=September 6, 2018 |magazine=Variety |access-date=September 6, 2018}}
  • 2019Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (born 1924)
  • 2020Lou Brock, American baseball player (born 1939){{cite web|title=Lou Brock Stats|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brocklo01.shtml|date=2022-10-06|access-date=2022-10-06}}
  • 2021Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (born 1933){{Cite news|last=Lyman|first=Rick|date=2021-09-06|title=Jean-Paul Belmondo, Magnetic Star of the French New Wave, Dies at 88|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/movies/jean-paul-belmondo-dead.html|access-date=2021-09-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907010205/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/movies/jean-paul-belmondo-dead.html|archive-date=2021-09-07|issn=0362-4331}}
  • 2021 – Michael K. Williams, American actor (born 1966){{Cite magazine|author=|date=2021-08-06|title=Stars mourn the death of Michael K. Williams: 'An amazing actor and soul'|url=https://ew.com/tv/michael-k-williams-tributes/|access-date=2021-09-08|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|language=en}}
  • 2024Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Turkish-American activist (born 1998){{Cite web |title=US-Turkish protester killed in West Bank as Israeli forces open fire |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx6771gyqzo |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}
  • 2024 – Rebecca Horn, German visual artist (born 1944){{Cite news |last=Keinath |first=Anja |last2=dpa |date=2024-09-08 |title=Installationskünstlerin: Rebecca Horn ist tot |url=https://www.zeit.de/kultur/kunst/2024-09/rebecca-horn-tot |access-date=2024-09-09 |work=Die Zeit |language=de-DE |issn=0044-2070}}
  • 2024 – Will Jennings, American songwriter (born 1944){{Cite web |last=Piña |first=Christy |date=2024-09-07 |title=Will Jennings, Oscar Winner for "My Heart Will Go On" and "Up Where We Belong," Dies at 80 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/will-jennings-dead-oscar-winner-my-heart-will-go-on-tears-of-heaven-1235994415/ |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}
  • 2024 – Cathy Merrick, Canadian First Nations leader (born 1961/1962){{Cite news |last=Axelrod |first=Gavin |date=September 6, 2024 |title=Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Cathy Merrick remembered as 'a force of strength' as tributes pour in |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/amc-grand-chief-cathy-merrick-collapses-1.7315807 |access-date=September 9, 2024 |work=CBC News}}
  • 2024 – Ron Yeats, Scottish footballer (born 1937){{Cite web |date=2024-09-07 |title=Liverpool FC mourns passing of legendary Ron Yeats - Liverpool FC |url=https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-mourns-passing-legendary-ron-yeats |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=www.liverpoolfc.com |language=en}}

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