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)