Historical Deaths Today: 09 October

Deaths

• 1047 - Pope Clement II (b. 1005)


• 1253 - Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop


• 1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany


• 1390 - King John I of Castile (b. 1358)


• 1555 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)


• 1562 - Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523)


• 1569 - Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)


• 1597 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)


• 1691 - William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)


• 1709 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)


• 1729 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)


• 1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)


• 1797 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720)


• 1806 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731)


• 1831 - John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)


• 1873 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)


• 1924 - Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)


• 1934 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b. 1888)


• 1934 - Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862)


• 1940 - Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).


• 1941 - Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)


• 1943 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)


• 1950 - George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)


• 1955 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1875)


• 1956 - Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)


• 1958 - Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (b. 1876)


• 1962 - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)


• 1967 - Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)


• 1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)


• 1967 - André Maurois, French author (b. 1885)


• 1968 - Pierre Mulele, Congolese revolutionary (b. 1929)


• 1972 - Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)


• 1974 - Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)


• 1976 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)


• 1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1929)


• 1985 - Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)


• 1987 - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)


• 1987 - Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)


• 1987 - William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)


• 1989 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)


• 1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903))


• 1996 - Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)


• 1999 - Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)


• 1999 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)


• 2000 - David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)


• 2000 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)


• 2001 - Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)


• 2001 - Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)


• 2002 - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)


• 2002 - Aileen Wournos, American Serial Killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)


• 2005 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)


• 2006 - Paul Hunter, professional snooker player (b. 1978)


• 2006 - Raymond Noorda, co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)


• 2007 - Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922)