March 9 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1202 – King Sverre of Norway
• 1422 – Jan Zelivsky, Hussite priest (b. 1380)
• 1440 – Saint Frances of Rome, Italian nun (b. 1384)
• 1566 – David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1533)
• 1649 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (b. 1606)
• 1649 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (executed) (b. 1590)
• 1661 – Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1602)
• 1709 – Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat (b. 1638)
• 1808 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739)
• 1810 – Ozias Humphrey, English artist (b. 1842)
• 1851 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (b. 1777)
• 1888 – William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
• 1897 – Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (b. 1825)
• 1897 – Jamal-al-Din Afghani, Afghan political activist and Islamic nationalist (b. 1838)
• 1918 – Frank Wedekind, writer (b. 1864)
• 1937 – Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (b. 1864)
• 1945 – Margot Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish holocaust victim (b. 1926)
• 1954 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (b. 1912)
• 1954 – V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874)
• 1960 – Jack Beattie, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)
• 1964 – Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
• 1966 – Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (b. 1924)
• 1969 – Abdul Munim Riad general and chief of staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces (b. 1919)
• 1971 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1975 – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (b. 1888)
• 1983 – Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1983 – Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American artist (b. 1946)
• 1991 – Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (b. 1943)
• 1992 – Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913)
• 1993 – C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and writer (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Bob Crosby, American bandleader and vocalist (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Maurice Purtill, American Big Band drummer (b. 1916)
• 1994 – Charles Bukowski, American writer (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Fernando Rey, Spanish-born actor (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler manager (b. 1928)
• 1996 – George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)
• 1997 – The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (b. 1972)
• 1997 – Jean-Dominique Bauby, French Journalist & Author (b.1952), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• 1999 – Harry Somers, Canadian composer (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Ivo Robić, Croatian singer and songwriter (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (b. 1946)
• 2004 – Albert Mol, Dutch actor (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Dr. Gerald Deskin, Ph.D., clinical child psychologist (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Rust Epique, former Crazy Town guitarist and frontman for the Alternative Rock band, pre)Thing (b. 1968)
• 2005 – Chris LeDoux, American country singer and rodeo competitor (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (b. 1912)
• 2005 – István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler; aka Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (b. 1924)
• 2006 – John Profumo, British cabinet minister (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian programmer, co-founder of Opera Software ASA (b. 1957)
• 2006 – Laura Stoica, Romanian singer, composer and actress (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (b. 1951)
• 2007 – Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, North Carolina politician
• 2010 – Doris Haddock, American political activist (b. 1910)