April 9 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 585 BC– Emperor Jimmu, Japanese Emperor
  • 93 – Yuan An, Chinese statesman
  • 436 – Tan Daoji, Chinese statesman
  • 491 – Zeno, Byzantine Emperor
  • 715 – Pope Constantine
  • 1024 – Pope Benedict VIII
  • 1137 – William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)
  • 1305 – Lord Borchard de Herle, English diplomat (b. 1268)
  • 1483 – King Edward IV of England (b. 1442)
  • 1484 – Edward of Middleham (b. 1473)
  • 1492 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesmen (b. 1449)
  • 1553 – François Rabelais, French writer
  • 1557 – Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (b. c. 1510)
  • 1626 – Sir Francis Bacon, English statesman (b. 1561)
  • 1654 – Matei Basarab, Wallachian Voivode Prince (b. 1588)
  • 1693 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
  • 1747 – Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish peer
  • 1754 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher (b. 1679)
  • 1761 – William Law, British minister (b. 1686)
  • 1804 – Jacques Necker, French statesman (b. 1732)
  • 1806 – William V of Orange (b. 1748)
  • 1872 – Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (b. 1794)
  • 1876 – Charles Goodyear, American politician (b. 1804)
  • 1889 – Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)
  • 1909 – Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
  • 1915 – Raymond Whittindale, British rugby player (b. 1883)
  • 1917 – James Hope Moulton, British scholar (b. 1863)
  • 1922 – Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidoterist (b. 1866)
  • 1926 – Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. c. 1857)
  • 1936 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)
  • 1940 – Mrs. Patrick Campbell, British actress (b. 1865)
  • 1944 – Yevgeniya Rudneva, Russian pilot (b. 1920)
  • 1945 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian, German resistance figure (b. 1906)
  • 1945 – Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral, German resistance figure (b. 1887)
  • 1945 – Hans von Dohnanyi, German jurist, German resistance figure (b. 1902)
  • 1945 – Georg Elser, German carpenter, German resistance figure (b. 1903)
  • 1945 – Hans Oster, German German Army general and deputy, German resistance figure (b. 1887)
  • 1945 – Karl Sack, German German jurist, German resistance figure (b. 1896)
  • 1948 – George Carpenter, Australian Salvation Army general (b. 1872)
  • 1948 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
  • 1951 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (b. 1862)
  • 1953 – Eddie Cochems, American football player and coach (b. 1877)
  • 1953 – C.E.M. Joad, English philosopher and broadcaster (b. 1891)
  • 1959 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)
  • 1961 – King Zog I of Albania (b. 1895)
  • 1963 – Eddie Edwards, American jazz musician (Original Dixieland Jass Band) (b. 1891)
  • 1971 – Paulette Noizeux, French actress (b. 1887)
  • 1970 – Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (b. 1896)
  • 1976 – Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer, pianist (b. 1903)
  • 1976 – Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
  • 1978 – Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (b. 1883)
  • 1980 – Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Iraqi Shia cleric and philosopher (b. 1935)
  • 1982 – Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian conductor (b. 1896)
  • 1988 – Brook Benton, American singer and songwriter (b. 1931)
  • 1988 – Hans Berndt, German footballer (b. 1913)
  • 1988 – David Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave) (b. 1937)
  • 1991 – Martin Hannett, English record producer (b. 1948)
  • 1993 – Joseph B. Soloveitchik, American rabbi (b. 1903)
  • 1996 – Richard Condon, American novelist (b. 1915)
  • 1996 – James W. Rouse, American real estate developer (b. 1914)
  • 1997 – Helene Hanff, American writer (b. 1916)
  • 1997 – Mae Boren Axton, American singer and songwriter (b. 1914)
  • 1998 – Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (Skeleton Crew, Curlew, and Third Person (b. 1953)
  • 1999 – Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Nigerien politician and general (b. 1949)
  • 2001 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
  • 2002 – Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
  • 2002 – Pat Flaherty, American race car driver (b. 1926)
  • 2003 – Jerry Bittle, American cartoonist (b. 1949)
  • 2003 – Earl Bramblett, American murderer (b. 1942)
  • 2005 – Andrea Dworkin, American activist and writer (b. 1946)
  • 2006 – Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player and coach (b. 1916)
  • 2006 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and director (b. 1924)
  • 2007 – Egon Bondy, Czech philosopher and writer (b. 1930)
  • 2009 – Nick Adenhart, American baseball player (b. 1986)
  • 2010 – Zoltán Varga, Hungarian footballer (b. 1945)
  • 2010 – Aladár Kovácsi, Hungarian athlete (b. 1932)
  • 2011 – Sidney Lumet, American director (b. 1924)
  • 2011 – Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri, Bahraini journalist and blogger (b. 1971)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)