April 9 - Deaths

Deaths

• 93 – Yuan An, Minister over the Masses of the Han dynasty
• 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, Prince of Wales (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 philosopher, statesman, and essayist (b. 1561)
• 1654 – Matei Basarab, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1588)
• 1693 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
• 1747 – Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief
• 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, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (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 Modrzejewska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
• 1917 – James Hope Moulton, British scholar of Classical Greek (b. 1863)
• 1922 – Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidoterist (b. 1866)
• 1936 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)
• 1940 – Mrs. Patrick Campbell, British actress (b. 1865)
• 1944 – Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian pilot (b. 1920)
• 1945 – Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (b. 1906)
• 1945 – Georg Elser, failed assassin of Hitler (b. 1903)
• 1945 – Hans Oster, German General, member of the German Resistance (b. 1887)
• 1945 – Hans von Dohnanyi, German jurist, member of the German Resistance (b. 1902)
• 1945 – Karl Sack, German jurist, member of the German Resistance (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, father of the Forward Pass in American football (b. 1877)
• 1953 – C.E.M. Joad, English philosopher and broadcaster (b. 1891)
• 1959 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)
• 1961 – King Zog of Albania (b. 1895)
• 1963 – Eddie Edwards, American jazz tromboner (b. 1891)
• 1970 – Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (b. 1896)
• 1976 – Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer, pianist (b. 1903)
• 1976 – Phil Ochs, American singer (b. 1940)
• 1978 – Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (b. 1883)
• 1980 – Bint al-Huda, Islamic writer (b. 1938)
• 1980 – Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Islamic philosopher and economist (b. 1935)
• 1982 – Wilfrid Pelletier, French Canadian conductor (b. 1896)
• 1988 – Brook Benton, American singer (b. 1931)
• 1988 – David Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave) (b. 1937)
• 1991 – Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)
• 1993 – Joseph B. Soloveitchik, American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1996 – Richard Condon, American novelist (b. 1915)
• 1996 – James W. Rouse, American real estate developer, activist, and philanthropist (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 (b. 1953)
• 1999 – Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Niger politician and general (b. 1949)
• 2001 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
• 2002 – Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
• 2002 – Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Earl Bramblett, American murderer (b. 1942)
• 2005 – Andrea Dworkin, American feminist activist and writer (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player, coach, and official (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film 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 modern pentathlon olimpic champion (1952, Helsinki) (b. 1932)