9 June Deaths

June 9 is the 160th day of the year (161st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 205 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).

Deaths

AD 68 – Nero, Roman emperor (b. 37)
373 – Ephrem the Syrian, Turkish hymnographer and theologian (b. 306)
597 – Columba, Irish missionary and saint (b. 521)
630 – Shahrbaraz, king of the Persian Empire
889 – Aimoin, Frankish monk and archivist
908 – Yang Wo, Prince of Hongnong
1087 – Otto I of Olomouc (b. 1045)
1238 – Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester
1252 – Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1348 – Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (b. 1290)
1361 – Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet (b. 1291)
1563 – William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English accountant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1506)
1572 – Jeanne d'Albret, Navarrese queen and Huguenot leader (b. 1528)
1583 – Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1525)
1597 – José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1534)
1647 – Leonard Calvert, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1606)
1656 – Thomas Tomkins, Welsh-English composer (b. 1572)
1716 – Banda Singh Bahadur, Indian commander (b. 1670)
1717 – Jeanne Guyon, French mystic and author (b. 1648)
1834 – William Carey, English minister and missionary (b. 1761)
1870 – Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (b. 1812)
1875 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and conchologist (b. 1795)
1889 – Mike Burke, American baseball player (b. 1854)
1892 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (b. 1863)
1901 – Adolf Bötticher, German historian and author (b. 1842)
1923 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (b. 1846)
1929 – Louis Bennison, American actor (b. 1883)
1929 – Margaret Lawrence, American actress (b. 1889)
1942 – František Erben, Czech gymnast (b. 1874)
1952 – Adolf Busch, German-Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1891)
1953 – Ernest Graves, Sr., American football player, coach, and general (b. 1880)
1958 – Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
1959 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1960 – Harry S. Hammond, American football player and businessman (b. 1884)
1961 – Camille Guérin, French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1872)
1963 – Jacques Villon, French painter (b.1875)
1964 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, British businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1879)
1968 – Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
1972 – Gilberto Parlotti, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1940)
1973 – Chuck Bennett, American football player and coach (b. 1907)
1973 – John Creasey, English author and politician (b. 1908)
1973 – Erich von Manstein, German general (b. 1887)
1974 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1979 – Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (b. 1884)
1981 – Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
1984 – Helen Hardin, American painter (b. 1943)
1989 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1991 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-American pianist and educator (b. 1903)
1993 – Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1921)
1994 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1997 – Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (b. 1908)
1998 – Lois Mailou Jones, American painter and academic (b. 1905)
2000 – John Abramovic, American basketball player (b. 1919)
2000 – Jacob Lawrence, American painter and academic (b. 1917)
2004 – Rosey Brown, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
2004 – Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist, co-founded J-FLAG (b. 1945)
2006 – Drafi Deutscher, German singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2007 – Frankie Abernathy, American purse designer, cast-member on The Real World: San Diego (b. 1981)
2008 – Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American author and critic (b. 1931)
2008 – Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian and author (b. 1919)
2009 – Dick May, American race car driver (b. 1930)
2011 – M. F. Husain, Indian painter and director (b. 1915)
2011 – Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (b. 1970)
2011 – Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (b. 1956)
2012 – Régis Clère, French cyclist (b. 1956)
2012 – John Maples, Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (b. 1943)
2012 – Ivan Minatti, Slovene poet and translator (b. 1924)
2012 – Hawk Taylor, American baseball player and coach (b. 1939)
2012 – Abram Wilson, American-English trumpet player and educator (b. 1973)
2013 – Iain Banks, Scottish author (b. 1954)
2013 – Bruno Bartoletti, Italian conductor (b. 1926)
2013 – John Burke, English rugby player (b. 1948)
2013 – Walter Jens, German philologist, historian, and academic (b. 1923)
2013 – Zdeněk Rotrekl, Czech poet and historian (b. 1920)
2014 – Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal (b. 1926)
2014 – Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1958)
2014 – Elsie Quarterman, American ecologist and academic (b. 1910)
2014 – Alicemarie Huber Stotler, American lawyer and judge (b. 1942)
2014 – Gustave Tassell, American fashion designer (b. 1926)
2014 – Bob Welch, American baseball player and coach (b. 1956)
2015 – Pumpkinhead, American rapper (b. 1975)
2015 – Igor Kostin, Romanian-Ukrainian photographer and engineer (b. 1936)
2015 – Pedro Zerolo, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1960)

Source: wikipedia