Famous Deaths on this Day in History for Tuesday 9th September 2014 546 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop 1000 - Olaf I of Norway 1087 - William I, The Conqueror, King of England/Duke of Normandy, dies 1398 - King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334) 1438 - Eduard [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/writer, dies 1487 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447) 1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433) 1513 - James IV, King of Scots (1488-1513), dies in battle at 40 1573 - Andre de Resende, Portuguese dominican/humanist, dies 1596 - Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen 1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570) 1676 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612) 1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602) 1683 - Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded 1713 - Giovanni A di Bartlommeo Viscardi, Swiss architect, dies 1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694) 1770 - Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist, dies at 73 1770 - Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist, dies at 62 1803 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer, dies at 32 1806 - William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745) 1810 - Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, dies at 78 1815 - John Singleton Copley, British painter, dies at 77 1817 - Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58 1832 - Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer, dies at 39 1841 - Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 63 1866 - Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czech poet/translator, dies at 65 1876 - American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle 1878 - Jacobo Ficher, composer, dies at 18 1888 - John van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71 1891 - Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813) 1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842) 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36 1901 - Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne dies 1902 - Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, gov of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53 1907 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840) 1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848) 1913 - Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician, dies 1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850) 1926 - David Lobo, Dutch actor, dies in railway accident 1926 - Greta Lobo-Braakensiek, Dutch actress in railway accident 1931 - Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist dies at 86 1939 - S M Tretjakow, writer, dies at 47 [or Aug 9] 1941 - Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist, dies at 85 1946 - Mynona, writer, dies at 74 1948 - James Baskett, dies 1951 - Cecil Gray, composer, dies at 56 1951 - Gibson Gowland, actor (Greed), dies at 74 1952 - Joseph Allen Sr, dies 1954 - Alfred Gradstein, composer, dies at 49 1957 - Ettore Pozzoli, composer, dies at 84 1958 - Charles Macartney, cricket (35 Tests 1907-26, 2131 runs 45 wkts), dies 1959 - Max d Ollone, composer, dies at 84 1959 - ONeil Gordon Collie Smith, WI cricket all-rounder, dies in car crash 1960 - Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer, dies at 75 1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911) 1962 - Pat Rooney, vaudevillian (Night club), dies at 82 1963 - Ernst Kantorowicz, German/US historian, dies at 68 1963 - Jan Schouten, Dutch founder (illegal Trouw)/chairman (ARP), dies 1964 - Charles ONeill, composer, dies at 82 1965 - Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer, dies at 90 1966 - Antonio Massana, composer, dies at 76 1966 - Leon de Smet, Flemish painter, dies at 85 1966 - Nestor Paiva, actor (3 Stooges in Orbit), dies of cancer at 61 1967 - Helen Flint, actress (Sea Devils), dies after being hit by a car at 69 1969 - Cecil Dixon, cricketer (S Afr 1913-14, dismissed Hobbs twice), dies 1969 - Katherine Singleton, actress/Miss Universe (1926), dies at 65 1969 - Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928) 1971 - Billy Gilbert, US actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday), dies at 76 1973 - Samuel N Behrman, US stage/screenwriter (Quo Vardis), dies at 80 1974 - Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov, composer, dies at 55 1975 - Ethel Griffies, actress (Billy Liar, Birds), dies at 97 1975 - John McGiver, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show), dies at 61 1975 - Minta Durfee, actress (Keystone Comedies, Mickey), dies at 85 Chinese Communist Revolutionary Mao ZedongChinese Communist Revolutionary Mao Zedong (1976) 1976 - Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary & Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1949-76), dies of a heart attack at 82 1977 - John Breeden, actor (Madame Racketeer, Salute), dies at 73 1978 - Jack L Warner, US movie production (Warner Bros), dies at 86) 1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892) 1979 - Solon Michaelides, composer, dies at 73 1980 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920) 1981 - Phiroz Edulji Palia, cricket (2 Tests for India, 29 runs & 0-13), dies 1982 - Frederic Dannay, [Ellery Queen], US, detective writer, dies at 76 1984 - Walter Kaufmann, composer, dies at 77 1984 - Yilmaz Gueney, director (Yol, Arkadas, Baba, Agit), dies at 47 1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) 1987 - Gerrit John Heijn, senior executive (Ahold), kidnapped/murdered 1989 - Tim Hovey, actor (Slim Carter, Man Afraid), dies of a drug overdose 1990 - Rimantas Antanas Stankiavichus, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46 1990 - Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951) 1991 - Edwin M McMillan, US, chemist (neptunium, plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies 1991 - John Lawrence, doctor, dies 1991 - Joop H Zwart, Spanish fighter/publicist (Black Widow), dies 1991 - Paul Michael Lombardi, actor, dies of AIDS at 31 1993 - David Tendlar, animator (Betty Boop), dies 1993 - Helen OConnell, singer (Green Eyes), dies of cancer at 74 1994 - Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85 1994 - Patrick ONeal, US actor (King Rat, Night of the Iguana), dies at 66 1995 - Ida Carroll, musician, dies at 89 1996 - Bill Monroe, bluegrass vocalist (created bluegrass music), dies at 84 1996 - Edward Greenall, businessman/sportsman, dies at 67 1996 - Jack Pepys, immunologist, dies at 82 1996 - Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor, dies at 66 1996 - William Smith Monroe, bluegrass musician, dies at 84 1997 - Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator, dies at 48 1997 - Richie Ashburn, HOF baseball player (Phillies, Mets), dies at 70 1998 - Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1951) 1999 - Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946) 1999 - Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922) 1999 - Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (b. 1925) 2000 - Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930) 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953) 2003 - Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936) Father of the H-bomb Edward TellerFather of the H-bomb Edward Teller (2003) 2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist, dies at 95 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 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930) 2006 - Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979) 2007 - Hughie Thomasson, American musician (b. 1952) 2008 - Warith Deen Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1933) 2012 - Ron Taylor, Australian shark expert and cinematographer, dies from myeloid leukemia at 78 2012 - Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer, dies from kidney failure at 90
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