Famous Deaths for 29th September 2025

855 – Lotharius I, Romanian-French emperor (signed Treaty of Verdun), dies
1902 – William McGonagall, Scottish-Irish poet infamous as an extremely bad poet and considered the worst in British history (The Tay Bridge Disaster, The Famous Tay Whale), dies at 77
1951 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach and administrator (first coach US men’s national team), dies at 86
1973 – W. H. Auden [Wystan Hugh Auden], British-American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (The Age of Anxiety; Funeral Blues), dies of heart failure at 66
1995 – Gerd Bucerius, German lawyer, newspaper publisher (Die Zeit, 1946-95), and politician, dies at 89
2002 – Edmund Trebus, British hoader, (A Life of Grime), dies at 83
2006 – Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, Canadian Catholic Archbishop of Quebec, dies at 94
2010 – Georges Charpak, Polish-French physicist who invented and developed subatomic particle detectors (Nobel 1992), dies at 86
2020 – Doyle Royal, American collegiate soccer coach (NCAA C’ship 1968; University of Maryland 1946-73) and tennis coach (U of Maryland 1954-80), dies at 101
2021 – Heiko Salzwedel, German cycling coach (est. Australian Institute of Sport Road Cycling/MTB program; German, Danish, British Cycling), dies at 64

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