June 9 - Deaths

Deaths

• 62 – Claudia Octavia, wife of Roman Emperor Nero (b. 40)
• 68 – Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37)
• 373 – Ephrem the Syrian, Syriac Christian hymnodist (b. 306)
• 597 – St. Columba, Irish Christian missionary (b. 521)
• 630 – Shahrbaraz, King of Persia
• 1361 – Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
• 1563 – William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
• 1572 – Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
• 1583 – Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• 1656 – Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
• 1716 – Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (b. 1670)
• 1717 – Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
• 1799 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, African-French swordsman, soldier of fortune and composer, known as the "black Mozart" (b. 1745)
• 1834 – William Carey, English minister and missionary (b. 1761)
• 1870 – Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
• 1875 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
• 1892 – Yoshitoshi, Japanese Ukiyo-e artist (b. 1839)
• 1892 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
• 1912 – Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer (b. 1852)
• 1923 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1846)
• 1946 – Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII], King of Thailand (b. 1925)
• 1952 – Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
• 1958 – Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
• 1959 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
• 1961 – Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
• 1964 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
• 1968 – Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
• 1973 – Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
• 1974 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
• 1979 – Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
• 1981 – Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
• 1989 – Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
• 1989 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1991 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Thomas Ammann, Swiss art dealer and collector (b. 1950)
• 1993 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
• 1994 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
• 2007 – Frankie Abernathy, American reality TV personality (b. 1981)
• 2008 – Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Algis Budrys, American writer (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Dick May, Former NASCAR racecar driver (b. 1930)