Famous Deaths on 9 Nov

Famous Deaths on 9 Nov

1187 - Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1208 - Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
1504 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1623 - William Camden, English historian (b. 1551)
1641 - Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
1699 - Hortense Mancini, mistress of Charles II, King of England (b. 1646)
1766 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
1770 - John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
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, Father of the oil industry, drilled the first oil well.
1888 - Mary Jane Kelly, last known Jack the Ripper victim.
1911 - Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
1919 - Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
1924 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
1937 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
1938 - Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Muslim poet (b.1877)
1938 - Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.1889)
1940 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
1940 - Neville Chamberlain, 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 - Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
1952 - Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
1953 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
1953 - Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King 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, President of France (b. 1890)
1971 - Maude Fealy, American actor (b. 1881)
1977 - Fred Haney, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1980 - Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
1988 - Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
1988 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
1991 - Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
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 - Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
2002 - William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
2003 - Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
2003 - Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
2003 - Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937)
2004 - Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
2005 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921)
2006 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 - Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director (b. 1923)
959 - Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)