August 9 - Deaths

Deaths

• 117 – Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53)
• 378 – Valens, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 328)
• 803 – Irene of Athens, Byzantine Empress (b. 752)
• 1048 – Pope Damasus II (birth year unknown)
• 1107 – Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
• 1173 – Najm ad-Din Ayyub, Kurdish soldier and politician, father of Saladin (birth year unknown)
• 1250 – King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
• 1534 – Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470)
• 1601 – Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
• 1634 – William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
• 1720 – Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
• 1744 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
• 1816 – Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771)
• 1837 – Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
• 1886 – Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
• 1910 – Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist (b. 1868)
• 1919 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
• 1942 – Edith Stein, German philosopher and nun (executed) (b. 1891)
• 1945 – Harry Hillman, American runner (b. 1881)
• 1945 – Robert Hampton Gray, last Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
• 1946 – Bert Vogler, South African cricketer (b. 1876)
• 1949 – Edward Thorndike, American psychologist (b. 1874)
• 1957 – Carl Clauberg, German Nazi doctor (b. 1898)
• 1962 – Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss writer, Nobel Laureate (b. 1877)
• 1967 – Joe Orton, English writer (b. 1933)
• 1969 – Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1903)
• 1969 – Abigail Folger, American heiress (murdered) (b. 1943)
• 1969 – Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (murdered) (b. 1936)
• 1969 – Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)
• 1969 – Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (b. 1943)
• 1969 – Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (b. 1951)
• 1974 – Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
• 1975 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
• 1979 – Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (b. 1903)
• 1979 – Raymond Washington, American gang leader, founder the Crips (b. 1953)
• 1980 – Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (b. 1906)
• 1985 – Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1927)
• 1988 – Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
• 1988 – Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
• 1990 – Joe Mercer, English footballer (b. 1914)
• 1992 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer (b. 1938)
• 1995 – Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
• 1996 – Sir Frank Whittle, British engineer and inventor of the jet engine (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (b. 1910)
• 2000 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born American economist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Nicholas Markowitz, American teenager kidnapped and murdered by Jesse James Hollywood (b. 1984)
• 2002 – Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953)
• 2002 – Peter Neville, British anarchist, sociologist and peace activist (birth year unknown)
• 2003 – Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)
• 2003 – Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946)
• 2003 – Jacques Deray, French film director (b. 1929)
• 2003 – Chester Ludgin, American baritone (b. 1925)
• 2004 – Robert Lecourt, French politician, President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1908)
• 2004 – Tony Mottola, American guitarist (b. 1918)
• 2004 – David Raksin, American film composer (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
• 2005 – Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)
• 2006 – James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Philip E. High, science fiction author (b. 1914)
• 2007 – Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer and photojournalist (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Bernie Mac, American comedian (b. 1957)
• 2008 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and writer (b. 1941)
• 2010 – Ted Stevens, American politician (b. 1923)