Famous Deaths on 9 Jun

Famous Deaths on 9 Jun

1361 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
1563 - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
1572 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
1583 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1656 - Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
1716 - Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed)
1717 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
1834 - William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761)
1870 - Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
1892 - Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist
1892 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
1912 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writter (b. 1852)
1946 - Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b. 1925)
1952 - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
1958 - Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
1959 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
1961 - Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
1964 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
1973 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
1974 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1979 - Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
1981 - Allen Ludden, TV game show host (b. 1917)
1989 - Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
1989 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
1991 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
1993 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
1994 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1997 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
2000 - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
2004 - Brian Williamson, Jamaican Gay Activist (b. 1945)
2004 - Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
2006 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
2007 - Frankie Abernathy, Former The Real World: San Diego castmate (b. 1981)
2008 - Algis Budrys, American writer (b. 1931)
373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist
597 - St. Columba, Christian missionary (b. 521)
62 - Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40)
630 - King Shahrbaraz of Persia
68 - Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37)

Famous Deaths on 8 Jun

Famous Deaths on 8 Jun

1042 - Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (b. 1018)
1376 - Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
1383 - Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338)
1384 - Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
1476 - George Neville, English archbishop and statesman
1505 - Hongzhi, Emperor of China (b. 1470)
1611 - Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
1612 - Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (b. 1562)
1621 - Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
1628 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
1714 - Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (b. 1630)
1716 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
1727 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (b. 1663)
1768 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German classical scholar and archaeologist (b. 1717)
1771 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b. 1716)
1795 - King Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
1809 - Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer (b. 1737)
1835 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
1845 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
1857 - Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (b. 1803)
1874 - Cochise, Apache leader
1876 - George Sand, French author (b. 1804)
1885 - Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal (b. 1799)
1924 - George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1886)
1924 - Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1902)
1929 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b. 1861)
1945 - Karl Hanke, Nazi official (b. 1903)
1951 - Eugène Fiset, French Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
1956 - Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
1965 - Edmondo Rossoni, Italian fascist (b. 1884)
1966 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
1969 - Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
1970 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
1972 - Jimmy Rushing, American blues singer (b. 1903?)
1980 - Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
1982 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
1984 - Gordon Jacob, English composer (b. 1895)
1993 - Root Boy Slim, American entertainer (b. 1945)
1998 - Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
1998 - Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
2000 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (b. 1948)
2003 - Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
2004 - Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
2006 - Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
2006 - Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (b. 1919)
2007 - Kenny Olsson, Swedish speedway racer (b. 1977)
2007 - Richard Rorty, American postanalytic, pragmatic philosopher (b. 1931)
2008 - Šaban Bajramović, Serbian Romani musician (b. 1936)
218 - Macrinus, Roman Emperor
632 - Muhammad, Prophet of Islam (b. 570)