Famous Deaths for 1st September 2025

1715 – Louis XIV, King of France (1643-1715), known as “The Sun King”, had longest reign of any European monarch, dies at 76
1780 – Reynier de Klerk, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1778-80), dies at 69
1925 – Donald Petrie, Scottish botanist and educator noted for his work in New Zealand, dies at 78
1961 – Eero Saarinen, Finnish-American architect (Dulles Airport (Virginia); Gateway Arch (St. Louis, Missouri); IBM Building (Rochester, Minnesota); MIT Chapel (Cambridge, Massachusetts)), dies while undergoing surgery for a brain tumor at 51
1984 – Howland Chamberlin, American actor (Force of Evil, Pickup), dies at 73
1986 – Murray Hamilton, American character actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Anatomy of a Murder), dies of lung cancer at 63
2007 – Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)
2010 – Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (b. 1928)
2012 – Smarck Michel, Haitian Prime Minister (1994-95), dies from a brain tumour
2022 – Earnie Shavers, American boxer (2 x world heavyweight c’ship challenger – Muhammad Ali 1977, Larry Holmes 1979), dies at 78

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