July 9 - Deaths

Deaths

• 518 – Anastasius I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 430)
• 1228 – Stephen Langton, Englisg clergyman, Archbishop of Canterbury (b.c. 1150)
• 1386 – Leopold III, Duke of Austria (b. 1351)
• 1553 – Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
• 1654 – Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (b. 1633)
• 1706 – Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French-Canadian sailor and explorer (b. 1661)
• 1737 – Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671)
• 1742 – John Oldmixon, English historian (b. 1673)
• 1746 – King Philip V of Spain (b. 1683)
• 1747 – Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (b. 1670)
• 1756 – Pieter Langendijk, Dutch dramatist and poet (b. 1683); other date proposed is July 18 (see)
• 1766 – Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (b. 1720)
• 1771 – Michail Baknanas, Greek trader (birth year unknown)
• 1795 – Henry Seymour Conway, British general and statesman (b. 1721)
• 1797 – Edmund Burke, British philosopher and statesman (b. 1729)
• 1850 – Báb, Persian founder of Bábism (b. 1819)
• 1850 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784)
• 1852 – Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (b. 1794)
• 1855 – FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, British military officer (b. 1788)
• 1856 – Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (b. 1776)
• 1856 – James Strang, American religious figure (b. 1813)
• 1880 – Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
• 1882 – Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero(b. 1848)
• 1903 – Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist (b. 1842)
• 1927 – John Drew Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
• 1932 – King C. Gillette, American inventor (b. 1855)
• 1937 – Oliver Law, American military officer (b. 1899)
• 1938 – Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (b. 1870)
• 1947 – Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish general (b. 1865)
• 1949 – Fritz Hart, English-born Australian composer (b. 1874)
• 1951 – Harry Heilmann, American baseball player (b. 1894)
• 1955 – Don Beauman, British racing driver (b. 1928)
• 1967 – Eugen Fischer, German physician (b. 1874)
• 1972 – Robert Weede, American baritone (b. 1903)
• 1974 – Earl Warren, American jurist (b. 1891)
• 1977 – Alice Paul, American suffragist figure (b. 1885)
• 1979 – Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author (b. 1899)
• 1980 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist (b. 1913)
• 1983 – Keith Wickenden, British politician (b. 1932)
• 1985 – Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
• 1985 – Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish-born American founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
• 1992 – Eric Sevareid, American reporter (b. 1912)
• 1994 – Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
• 1996 – Melvin Belli, American attorney (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician (b. 1944)
• 2000 – Doug Fisher, English actor (b. 1941)
• 2002 – Laurence Janifer, American writer (b. 1933)
• 2002 – Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2004 – Paul Klebnikov, American journalist (b. 1963)
• 2004 – Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Riley Dobi Noel, American convicted murderer (b. 1972)
• 2005 – Chuck Cadman, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Kevin Hagen, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Milan Williams, American keyboardist (The Commodores) (b. 1948)
• 2007 – Charles Lane, American actor (b. 1905)
• 2008 – Séamus Brennan, Irish politician (b. 1948)
• 2010 – Jessica Anderson, Australian novelist (b. 1916)