December 9 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 748 – Nasr ibn Sayyar, Governor of Khurasan (b. 663)
  • 1165 – King Malcolm IV of Scotland (b. 1141)
  • 1437 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
  • 1544 – Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491)
  • 1565 – Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
  • 1603 – William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)
  • 1625 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
  • 1636 – Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)
  • 1641 – Anthony van Dyck, Belgian painter (b. 1599)
  • 1669 – Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)
  • 1674 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman (b. 1609)
  • 1706 – King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
  • 1718 – Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encyclopaedist (b. 1650)
  • 1793 – Gabrielle de Polastron, French aristocrat (b. 1749)
  • 1798 – Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)
  • 1830 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon (b. 1757)
  • 1854 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)
  • 1858 – Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
  • 1887 – Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader
  • 1906 – Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (b. 1849)
  • 1916 – Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
  • 1924 – Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and music teacher (b. 1854)
  • 1930 – Rube Foster, American baseball player (b. 1879)
  • 1932 – Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain, Bangladeshi writer and social worker (b. 1880)
  • 1935 – Walter Liggett, American editor (b. 1886)
  • 1937 – Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
  • 1941 – Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865)
  • 1943 – Georges Dufrénoy, French painter (b. 1870)
  • 1952 – Abe Manley, American baseball team owner (b. 1885)
  • 1955 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885)
  • 1963 – Daniel O. Fagunwa, Nigerian novelist (b. 1903)
  • 1964 – Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (b. 1887)
  • 1965 – Branch Rickey, American baseball executive (b. 1884)
  • 1967 – Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer (b. 1898)
  • 1970 – Artem Mikoyan, Soviet aircraft designer (b. 1905)
  • 1970 – Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician (b. 1893)
  • 1971 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
  • 1971 – Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874)
  • 1972 – Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)
  • 1975 – William A. Wellman, American movie director (b. 1896)
  • 1979 – Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop and televangelist (b. 1895)
  • 1981 – Daniel Faulkner, American police officer (b. 1955)
  • 1982 – Leon Jaworski, American prosecutor (b. 1905)
  • 1984 – Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
  • 1992 – Vincent Gardenia, American actor (b. 1922)
  • 1993 – Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926)
  • 1994 – Garnett Silk, Jamaican singer (b. 1966)
  • 1995 – Toni Cade Bambara, American author (b. 1939)
  • 1995 – Douglas Corrigan, American aviator (b. 1907)
  • 1996 – Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (b. 1956)
  • 1996 – Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
  • 1996 – Alain Poher, French politician (b. 1909)
  • 1996 – Diana Morgan, British playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908)
  • 1998 – Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
  • 1998 – Archie Moore, American boxer (b. 1913)
  • 2001 – Michael Carver, English soldier (b. 1915)
  • 2002 – Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (b. 1966)
  • 2002 – Ian Hornak, American painter and sculptor (b. 1944)
  • 2002 – Stan Rice, American painter and poet (b. 1942)
  • 2003 – Paul Simon, American politician (b. 1928)
  • 2003 – Norm Sloan, American basketball coach (b. 1926)
  • 2004 – David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)
  • 2004 – Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
  • 2005 – György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)
  • 2005 – Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)
  • 2007 – Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (b. 1931)
  • 2007 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and pacifist (b. 1918)
  • 2008 – Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1972)
  • 2008 – Yuri Glazkov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1939)
  • 2009 – Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919)
  • 2010 – Dov Shilansky, Israeli politician (b. 1924)
  • 2010 – James Moody, American musician (b. 1925)
  • 2010 – John du Pont, American scion and criminal (b. 1938)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)

    “This is the 184th Demonstration.
    ...
    What we do is not beautiful
    hurts no one makes no one desperate
    we do not break the panes of safety glass
    stretching between people on the street
    and the deaths they hire.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    “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)