December 9 - Deaths

Deaths

• 748 – Nasr ibn Sayyar, Governor of Khurasan (b. 663)
• 1165 – King Malcolm IV of Scotland (b. 1141)
• 1437 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
• 1544 – Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491)
• 1565 – Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
• 1603 – William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)
• 1625 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
• 1636 – Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)
• 1641 – Anthony van Dyck, Belgian painter (b. 1599)
• 1669 – Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)
• 1674 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman (b. 1609)
• 1706 – King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
• 1718 – Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encyclopaedist (b. 1650)
• 1793 – Gabrielle de Polastron, French aristocrat (b. 1749)
• 1798 – Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)
• 1830 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon (b. 1757)
• 1854 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)
• 1858 – Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
• 1887 – Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader
• 1906 – Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (b. 1849)
• 1916 – Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
• 1924 – Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and music teacher (b. 1854)
• 1930 – Rube Foster, American baseball player (b. 1879)
• 1932 – Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain, Bangladeshi writer and social worker (b. 1880)
• 1935 – Walter Liggett, American editor (b. 1886)
• 1937 – Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
• 1941 – Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865)
• 1943 – Georges Dufrénoy, French painter (b. 1870)
• 1952 – Abe Manley, American baseball team owner (b. 1885)
• 1955 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885)
• 1963 – Daniel O. Fagunwa, Nigerian novelist (b. 1903)
• 1964 – Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (b. 1887)
• 1965 – Branch Rickey, American baseball executive (b. 1884)
• 1967 – Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer (b. 1898)
• 1970 – Artem Mikoyan, Soviet aircraft designer (b. 1905)
• 1970 – Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician (b. 1893)
• 1971 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
• 1971 – Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874)
• 1972 – Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)
• 1975 – William A. Wellman, American movie director (b. 1896)
• 1979 – Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop and televangelist (b. 1895)
• 1981 – Daniel Faulkner, American police officer (b. 1955)
• 1982 – Leon Jaworski, American prosecutor (b. 1905)
• 1984 – Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
• 1992 – Vincent Gardenia, American actor (b. 1922)
• 1993 – Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• 1994 – Garnett Silk, Jamaican singer (b. 1966)
• 1995 – Toni Cade Bambara, American author (b. 1939)
• 1995 – Douglas Corrigan, American aviator (b. 1907)
• 1996 – Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (b. 1956)
• 1996 – Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
• 1996 – Alain Poher, French politician (b. 1909)
• 1996 – Diana Morgan, British playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1998 – Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
• 1998 – Archie Moore, American boxer (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Michael Carver, English soldier (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (b. 1966)
• 2002 – Ian Hornak, American painter and sculptor (b. 1944)
• 2002 – Stan Rice, American painter and poet (b. 1942)
• 2003 – Paul Simon, American politician (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Norm Sloan, American basketball coach (b. 1926)
• 2004 – David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)
• 2004 – Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
• 2005 – György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and pacifist (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1972)
• 2008 – Yuri Glazkov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1939)
• 2009 – Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Dov Shilansky, Israeli politician (b. 1924)
• 2010 – James Moody, American musician (b. 1925)
• 2010 – John du Pont, American scion and criminal (b. 1938)