September 09:: Historical Deaths

Deaths

• c.546 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop


• 701 - Pope Sergius I


• 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 (fell from a horse) (b. 1433)


• 1513 - King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)


• 1569 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter


• 1596 - Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen


• 1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)


• 1676 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer and founder of Montreal (b. 1612)


• 1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)


• 1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)


• 1806 - William Paterson, Signer of the U.S. Constitution, Governor of New Jersey (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)


• 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)


• 1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)


• 1969 - Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)


• 1976 - Mao Zedong, Founder and first leader of the People's Republic of China (b. 1893)


• 1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)


• 1978 - Jack Warner, Canadian-born film studio founder (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 - Doc Cramer, American baseball player (b. 1905)


• 1990 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (b. 1951)


• 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 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)


• 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, sound designer and electronic musician (b. 1955)


• 2006 - Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)


• 2006 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)


• 2007 - Hughie Thomasson, Noted American musician (b. 1952)