September 9 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1000 – Olaf I of Norway (b. 960)
  • 1087 – William the Conqueror, English king (b. 1028)
  • 1398 – James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
  • 1438 – Edward, King of Portugal (b. 1391)
  • 1487 – Chenghua Emperor of China (b. 1447)
  • 1488 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
  • 1513 – James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
  • 1569 – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter (b. 1525)
  • 1583 – Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer, adventurer, and politician (b. 1539)
  • 1596 – Anna Jagiellon, Polish queen (b. 1523)
  • 1612 – Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
  • 1676 – Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, French army officer, founder of Montreal (b. 1612)
  • 1680 – Henry Marten, English lawyer and politician (b. 1602)
  • 1755 – Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
  • 1806 – William Paterson, American politician and judge, 2nd Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)
  • 1815 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
  • 1834 – James Weddell, English sailor and explorer (b. 1787)
  • 1841 – Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Swiss botanist (b. 1778)
  • 1891 – Jules Grévy, French politician, 4th President of the French Republic (b. 1813)
  • 1898 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
  • 1901 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
  • 1907 – Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
  • 1909 – E. H. Harriman, American businessman (b. 1848)
  • 1910 – Lloyd Wheaton Bowers, American lawyer (b. 1859)
  • 1914 – Carl Goßler, German rower (b. 1885)
  • 1915 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player and businessman, co-founded Spalding (b. 1850)
  • 1934 – Roger Fry, English artist and critic (b. 1866)
  • 1941 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
  • 1943 – Charles McLean Andrews, American historian (b. 1863)
  • 1943 – Carlo Bergamini, Italian admiral (b. 1888)
  • 1945 – Max Ehrmann, American poet (b. 1872)
  • 1945 – Paul Probst, Swiss target shooter (b. 1869)
  • 1955 – Carl Friedberg, German pianist (b. 1872)
  • 1958 – Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer (b. 1886)
  • 1959 – Ramón Fonst, Cuban fencer (b. 1883)
  • 1960 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
  • 1969 – Willy Mairesse, Belgian race car driver (b. 1928)
  • 1975 – John McGiver, American actor (b. 1913)
  • 1976 – Yehezkel Abramsky, Russian rabbi (b. 1886)
  • 1976 – Mao Zedong, Chinese politician (b. 1893)
  • 1978 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
  • 1978 – Jack Warner, Canadian-American film executive (b. 1892)
  • 1979 – Norrie Paramor, English conductor, composer, and producer (b. 1914)
  • 1980 – John Howard Griffin, American journalist and author (b. 1920)
  • 1981 – Robert Askin, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907)
  • 1981 – Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b. 1901)
  • 1984 – Yılmaz Güney, Turkish actor and director (b. 1937)
  • 1985 – Neil Davis, Australian photographer and journalist (b. 1934)
  • 1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
  • 1985 – Antonino Votto, Italian conductor (b. 1896)
  • 1986 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist (b. 1893)
  • 1990 – Nicola Abbagnano, Italian philosopher (b. 1901)
  • 1990 – Doc Cramer, American baseball player (b. 1905)
  • 1990 – Samuel Doe, Liberian politician, 21st President of Liberia (b. 1951)
  • 1990 – Alexander Men, Russian priest (b. 1930)
  • 1992 – Willie Fennell, Australian comedian and actor (b. 1920)
  • 1993 – Helen O'Connell, American singer, actress, and dancer (b. 1920)
  • 1994 – Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)
  • 1996 – Bill Monroe, American singer-songwriter (b. 1911)
  • 1997 – Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (b. 1927)
  • 1997 – John Hackett, Australian-English soldier and author (b. 1910)
  • 1997 – Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
  • 1998 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
  • 1998 – Bill Cratty, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
  • 1999 – Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
  • 1999 – Chan Parker, American author (b. 1925)
  • 1999 – Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
  • 2000 – Julian Critchley, English politician (b. 1930)
  • 2001 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan military officer (b. 1953)
  • 2003 – Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
  • 2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian physicist (b. 1908)
  • 2003 – Don Willesee, Australian politician (b. 1916)
  • 2004 – Ernie Ball, American guitarist and businessman (b. 1930)
  • 2005 – John Wayne Glover, Australian serial killer (b. 1932)
  • 2006 – Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
  • 2006 – Richard Burmer, American composer (b. 1955)
  • 2006 – Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
  • 2006 – Émilie Mondor, Canadian runner (b. 1981)
  • 2006 – William Bernard Ziff, Jr., American businessman (b. 1930)
  • 2007 – Vasyl Kuk, Ukrainian nationalist (b. 1913)
  • 2007 – Hughie Thomasson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Outlaws) (b. 1952)
  • 2008 – Richard Monette, Canadian actor and director (b. 1944)
  • 2008 – Warith Deen Mohammed, American religious leader (b. 1933)
  • 2011 – Daniel Hulet, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1945)
  • 2012 – Abdul Rahman Abu Baka, Malaysian super-centenarian (b. 1907)
  • 2012 – Larry Gibson, American environmentalist (b. 1946)
  • 2012 – Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer and businessman (b. 1921)
  • 2012 – Désiré Letort, French cyclist (b. 1943)
  • 2012 – John McCarthy, Australian footballer (b. 1989)
  • 2012 – Mike Scarry, American football player and coach (b. 1920)
  • 2012 – Ron Taylor, Australian oceanographer (b. 1934)
  • 2012 – Ron Tindall, English footballer (b. 1935)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “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)

    “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)