Famous Deaths for 25th September 2026

1086 – William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
1791 – William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
1870 – Robert Cooper Grier, American jurist, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1846-70), dies at 76
1944 – Leo Justinus Kauffmann, Alsatian composer, dies at 43
1979 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (Me tulemme taas, Rion yö), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 64
1980 – Lewis Milestone [Leib Milstein], Moldovan-American Academy Award-winning film director (All Quiet on the Western Front; Of Mice and Men; Ocean’s 11), dies at 84
1987 – Mary Astor, American Academy Award-winning actress (The Great Lie; Meet Me In St Louis; The Maltese Falcon), dies of emphysema at 81
1998 – Russell Smith, American composer, dies at 71
2022 – Rafael Chimishkyan, Georgian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR 60kg 1952; World C’ship gold 60kg 1954, 55), dies at 93
2023 – David McCallum, Scottish-American actor (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. – “Ilyla Kuryakin”; NCIS), dies at 90

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