June 9 - Deaths

Deaths

• 68 – Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37)
• 373 – Ephrem the Syrian, Syriac hymnographer and theologian (b. 306)
• 439 – Spearthrower Owl, Teotihuacan ruler
• 597 – Columba, Irish missionary and saint (b. 521)
• 630 – Shahrbaraz, Persian general and king
• 1361 – Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
• 1563 – William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman and accountant (b. 1506)
• 1572 – Jeanne d'Albret, Navarrese queen (b. 1528)
• 1583 – Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex (b. 1525)
• 1656 – Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
• 1716 – Banda Singh Bahadur, Sikh military commander (b. 1670)
• 1717 – Jeanne Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
• 1799 – Chevalier de Saint-George, African-French composer, conductor, violinist, and swordsman (b. 1745)
• 1834 – William Carey, English minister and missionary (b. 1761)
• 1870 – Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
• 1875 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
• 1892 – Yoshitoshi, Japanese artist (b. 1839)
• 1892 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English explorer and soldier (b. 1863)
• 1923 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (b. 1846)
• 1942 – František Erben, Bohemian gymnast (b. 1874)
• 1946 – Ananda Mahidol, Thai king (b. 1925)
• 1952 – Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
• 1958 – Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
• 1959 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1961 – Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
• 1964 – Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-English businessman, writer, and politician (b. 1879)
• 1968 – Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
• 1973 – John Creasey, English novelist (b. 1908)
• 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, American game show host (b. 1917)
• 1989 – Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
• 1989 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1991 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-American pianist (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Thomas Ammann, Swiss art dealer (b. 1950)
• 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 – John Abramovic, American basketball player (b. 1919)
• 2000 – Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Georges Pichard, French writer and illustrator (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist, co-founded J-FLAG (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Drafi Deutscher, German singer and composer (b. 1946)
• 2007 – Frankie Abernathy, American purse designer, castmember on The Real World: San Diego (b. 1981)
• 2008 – Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Algis Budrys, American author, editor, and critic (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Dick May, American race car driver (b. 1930)
• 2011 – M. F. Husain, Indian painter (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Régis Clère, French cyclist (b. 1956)
• 2012 – Masahisa Fukase, Japanese photographer (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Patrick Morgan Mahoney, Canadian politician, lawyer, and businessman (b. 1929)
• 2012 – John Maples, Baron Maples, English politician (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Ivan Minatti, Slovene poet, translator, and editor (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Charles E. M. Pearce, New Zealand mathematician and educator (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Georges Sarri, Greek author and actress (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Hawk Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Abram Wilson, American singer and trumpeter (b. 1973)