Famous Deaths on 9 Feb

Famous Deaths on 9 Feb

1011 - Bernard I, Duke of Saxony
1199 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)
1450 - Agnès Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
1555 - Rowland Taylor, English pastor (executed) (b. 1510)
1619 - Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
1640 - Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1612)
1675 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
1709 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (b. 1664)
1751 - Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
1752 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (b. 1722)
1777 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)
1782 - Joseph Aloysius Assemani, Syrian orientalist (b. 1710)
1803 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716)
1857 - Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798)
1874 - Jules Michelet, French historian (b. 1798)
1881 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821)
1891 - Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)
1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet (b. 1872)
1940 - Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)
1951 - Eddy Duchin, American musician (b. 1910)
1957 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral (b. 1868)
1960 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (b. 1870)
1960 - ErnÅ' Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1877)
1966 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-born actress (b. 1884)
1969 - Gabby Hayes, American actor (b. 1885)
1973 - Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (b. 1883)
1973 - Max Yasgur, American farmer (Woodstock Festival) (b. 1919)
1976 - Percy Faith, Canadian musician (b. 1908)
1977 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1894)
1978 - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (b. 1893)
1978 - Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer (b. 1935)
1979 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1980 - Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (b. 1900)
1981 - Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1925)
1984 - Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician (b. 1914)
1989 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (b. 1928)
1991 - James Cleveland, American gospel singer (b. 1931)
1994 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1934)
1995 - J. William Fulbright, American politician (b. 1905)
1995 - David Wayne, American actor (b. 1914)
1997 - Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) (b. 1945)
1999 - Bryan Mosley, British actor (b. 1931)
2001 - Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
2002 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (b. 1937)
2004 - Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper director and politician (b. 1925)
2006 - Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
2006 - Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932)
2007 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
2007 - Hank Bauer, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2008 - Christopher Hyatt Occultist,Philosopher and Author.
2008 - Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian avant-garde painter, poet and sculptor. (b. 1931)
2008 - Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal, the eleventh Mindrolling Trichen, Tibetan Buddhist lama of the Nyingma school (b. 1930)
2008 - Scott Halpin, a one time drummer of The Who.