September 9 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1000 – Olaf I of Norway
• 1087 – King William I of England
• 1398 – King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
• 1487 – Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
• 1488 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
• 1513 – King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
• 1569 – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
• 1596 – Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen (b. 1523)
• 1612 – Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
• 1676 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612)
• 1680 – Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
• 1755 – Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
• 1806 – William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
• 1815 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
• 1841 – A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (b. 1778)
• 1891 – Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
• 1898 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
• 1901 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
• 1907 – Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
• 1909 – Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
• 1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell, first female American Doctor (b.1821)
• 1910 – Lloyd Wheaton Bowers, American solicitor General (b.1859)
• 1915 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
• 1941 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
• 1943 – Charles McLean Andrews, American historian (b. 1863)
• 1960 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
• 1969 – Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
• 1976 – Yehezkel Abramsky, Russian-born rabbi, head of the London Beth Din for 17 years (b. 1886)
• 1976 – Mao Zedong, Chinese communist leader (b. 1893)
• 1978 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
• 1978 – Jack Warner, Canadian-born American film executive (b. 1892)
• 1980 – John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
• 1981 – Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b. 1901)
• 1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1990 – Nicola Abbagnano, Italian philosopher (b. 1901)
• 1990 – Doc Cramer, American baseball player (b. 1905)
• 1990 – Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951)
• 1990 – Alexander Men, Russian priest (b. 1930)
• 1993 – Helen O'Connell, American singer, actress and dancer (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Bill Monroe, American bluegrass singer and composer (b. 1911)
• 1997 – Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (b. 1927)
• 1997 – Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
• 1999 – Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
• 1999 – Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (b. 1925)
• 1999 – Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
• 2000 – Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930)
• 2001 – Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)
• 2003 – Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)
• 2004 – Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)
• 2005 – John Wayne Glover, English serial killer (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (b. 1955)
• 2006 – Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
• 2006 – Émilie Mondor, Canadian olympic athlete (b. 1981)
• 2006 – William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Vasyl Kuk, Ukrainian nationalist, last leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (b. 1913)
• 2007 – Hughie Thomasson, American musician (b. 1952)
• 2008 – Richard Monette, Canadian actor and director (b. 1944)
• 2008 – Warith Deen Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1933)