January 9 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1150 – Emperor Xizong of Jin is murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état. (b. 1119)
• 1282 – Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204)
• 1283 – Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)
• 1499 – John Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
• 1514 – Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)
• 1543 – Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
• 1562 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)
• 1571 – Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
• 1598 – Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553)
• 1677 – Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
• 1757 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)
• 1757 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688)
• 1766 – Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
• 1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
• 1800 – Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
• 1805 – Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
• 1843 – William Hedley, British industrial engineer (b. 1773)
• 1848 – Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
• 1856 – Neophytus Vamvas, Greek cleric and educator (b. 1770)
• 1858 – Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
• 1873 – Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
• 1876 – Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
• 1877 – Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
• 1878 – King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
• 1895 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)
• 1901 – Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
• 1908 – Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
• 1908 – Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840)
• 1910 – Nathaniel Moore, American golfer (b. 1884)
• 1911 – Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)
• 1911 – Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
• 1918 – Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
• 1923 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
• 1927 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British pro-Aryan anti-semitic writer, son-in-law of Richard Wagner (b. 1855)
• 1931 – Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896)
• 1936 – John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1938 – Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (b. 1880)
• 1939 – Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866)
• 1941 – Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
• 1945 – Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese career officer (b. 1908)
• 1945 – Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)
• 1946 – Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903)
• 1947 – Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
• 1958 – Dick Grant, Canadian athlete (b. 1878)
• 1960 – Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880)
• 1961 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1971 – Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
• 1972 – Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891)
• 1975 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
• 1975 – Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect (b. 1891)
• 1981 – Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
• 1981 – Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922)
• 1984 – Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906)
• 1985 – Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)
• 1987 – Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1990 – Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Steve Brodie, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1992 – Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
• 1994 – Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927)
• 1995 – Peter Cook, British actor and comedian (b. 1937)
• 1995 – Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
• 1997 – Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
• 1997 – Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1918)
• 1998 – Charito Solis, Filipino actress (b. 1935)
• 2000 – Arnold Alexander Hall, British aeronautical engineer, scientist, and industrialist (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Ted Jones, Hydroplane builder/designer (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Maurice Prather, American photographer (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935)
• 2004 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
• 2006 – Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)
• 2007 – Jean-Pierre Vernant, French structuralist historian and anthropologist (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (b. 1923)
• 2008 – Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (b. 1977)
• 2008 – Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b. 1924)
• 2008 – Liam Quinn, Provisional IRA member (b. 1949)
• 2009 – Rob Gauntlett, English adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker (b. 1987)
• 2009 – René Herms, German athlete (b. 1982)
• 2009 – T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Vimcy, Sports writer (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Makinti Napanangka, Indigenous Australian artist (b.c. 1930)
• 2012 – Malam Bacai Sanhá, President of Guinea-Bissau (b.1947)
• 2012 – Pyotr Vasilevsky, Belarusian footballer (b. 1956)
• 2012 – Alex DeCroce, American Republican Party Politician (b. 1936)