November 9 - Deaths

Deaths

• 748 – Nasr ibn Sayyar, last Umayyad governor of Khurasan (b. 663)
• 959 – Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)
• 1187 – Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
• 1208 – Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
• 1456 – Ulrich II of Celje, last prince of Celje principality (b. 1406)
• 1516 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
• 1623 – William Camden, English historian (b. 1551)
• 1641 – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Spanish Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
• 1699 – Hortense Mancini, Italian mistress of Charles II (b. 1646)
• 1766 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
• 1770 – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1693)
• 1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
• 1809 – Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
• 1848 – Robert Blum, German politician (b. 1810)
• 1881 – Edwin Drake, American oil driller (b. 1819)
• 1888 – Mary Jane Kelly, British victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1863)
• 1911 – Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
• 1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
• 1918 – Peter Lumsden, British general in Indian army (b. 1829)
• 1919 – Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
• 1920 – Saint Nectarios, Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of Pentapolis (b. 1846)
• 1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
• 1937 – Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
• 1938 – Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b. 1889)
• 1940 – Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
• 1940 – Neville Chamberlain, English Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
• 1942 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1944 – Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
• 1951 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887)
• 1952 – Chaim Weizmann, Israeli politician and 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
• 1952 – Philip Murray, American labor leader and 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
• 1953 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
• 1953 – King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud the first monarch of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
• 1957 – Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
• 1968 – Jan Johansson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1931)
• 1970 – Charles de Gaulle, French military commander, politician, President of France (b. 1890)
• 1971 – Maude Fealy, American actor (b. 1883)
• 1977 – Fred Haney, American baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1979 – Frank O'Connor, American actor and representationalist painter (b. 1897)
• 1980 – Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1988 – David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (b. 1924)
• 1988 – John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
• 1991 – Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
• 1996 – Joe Ghiz, Canadian politician (b. 1945)
• 1997 – Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
• 2002 – William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
• 2002 – Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
• 2003 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili littérateur (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
• 2004 – Emlyn Hughes, English Football Player (b. 1947)
• 2005 – K. R. Narayanan, Indian politician and President of India (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Markus Wolf, East German intelligence director (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Ellen Willis, American journalist (b. 1941)