9 October Deaths

October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).

Deaths

680 – Ghislain, Frankish anchorite and saint
892 – Al-Tirmidhi, Persian scholar and hadith compiler (b. 824)
1047 – Pope Clement II
1212 – Philip I of Namur, Marquis of Namur (b. 1175)
1253 – Robert Grosseteste, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1175)
1273 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (b. 1227)
1296 – Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1269)
1390 – John I of Castile (b. 1358)
1555 – Justus Jonas, German academic and reformer (b. 1493)
1562 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1523)
1569 – Vladimir of Staritsa (b. 1533)
1581 – Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1526)
1613 – Henry Constable, English poet (b. 1562)
1619 – Joseph Pardo, Italian rabbi and merchant (b. 1561)
1691 – William Sacheverell, English politician (b. 1638)
1729 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and poet (b. 1654)
1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary and linguist (b. 1718)
1797 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi and scholar (b. 1720)
1806 – Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor (b. 1731)
1808 – John Claiborne, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, Russian-Greek lawyer and politician, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
1873 – George Ormerod, English historian and author (b. 1785)
1897 – Jan Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)
1900 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian author, poet, and critic (b. 1873)
1934 – Louis Barthou, French union leader and politician, 78th Prime Minister of France (b. 1862)
1937 – Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (b. 1868)
1940 – Wilfred Grenfell, English-American physician and missionary (b. 1865)
1941 – Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1945 – Gottlieb Hering, German captain (b. 1887)
1946 – Frank Castleman, American football player, baseball player, and coach (b. 1877)
1947 – Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (b. 1888)
1950 – George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b. 1895)
1953 – James Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
1955 – Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (b. 1875)
1956 – Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
1958 – Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
1959 – Shirō Ishii, Japanese general and biologist (b. 1892)
1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player and engineer (b. 1885)
1967 – Che Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, politician and guerrilla leader (b. 1928)
1967 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1967 – André Maurois, French soldier and author (b. 1885)
1967 – Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness trainer, developed Pilates (b. 1883)
1972 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
1974 – Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (b. 1908)
1975 – Noon Meem Rashid, Pakistani poet (b. 1910)
1976 – Walter Warlimont, German general (b. 1894)
1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)
1982 – Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian and physician (b. 1893)
1985 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian general and politician, 28th President of Brazil (b. 1905)
1987 – Clare Boothe Luce, American author, playwright, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (b. 1903)
1987 – William P. Murphy, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1988 – Felix Wankel, German engineer, invented the Wankel engine (b. 1902)
1989 – Yusuf Atılgan, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1921)
1989 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, British cricketer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
1996 – Walter Kerr, American author, composer, and critic (b. 1913)
1999 – Milt Jackson, American vibraphone player and composer (b. 1923)
1999 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist and scholar (b. 1914)
2000 – David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
2000 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1918)
2001 – Herbert Ross, American director, producer, and choreographer (b. 1927)
2002 – Sopubek Begaliev, Kyrgyzstani economist and politician (b. 1931)
2002 – Charles Guggenheim, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
2003 – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic (b. 1926)
2004 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1930)
2005 – Louis Nye, American actor (b. 1913)
2006 – Danièle Huillet, French filmmaker (b. 1933)
2006 – Paul Hunter, English snooker player (b. 1978)
2006 – Kanshi Ram, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
2007 – Enrico Banducci, American businessman, founded hungry i (b. 1922)
2007 – Carol Bruce, American actress and singer (b. 1919)
2009 – Stuart M. Kaminsky, American author and educator (b. 1934)
2009 – John Daido Loori, American Zen Buddhist monastic and teacher (b. 1931)
2009 – Horst Szymaniak, German footballer (b. 1934)
2010 – Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2011 – Pavel Karelin, Russian ski jumper (b. 1989)
2012 – Kenny Rollins, American basketball player (b. 1923)
2012 – Harris Savides, American cinematographer (b. 1957)
2013 – Solomon Lar, Nigerian educator and politician, 4th Governor of Plateau State (b. 1933)
2013 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian lawyer and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1936)
2013 – Edmund Niziurski, Polish sociologist, lawyer, and author (b. 1925)
2014 – Boris Buzančić, Croatian actor and politician, 47th Mayor of Zagreb (b. 1929)
2014 – Jan Hooks, American actress and comedian (b. 1957)
2014 – Carolyn Kizer, American poet and academic (b. 1925)
2014 – Peter A. Peyser, American soldier and politician (b. 1921)
2014 – Rita Shane, American soprano and educator (b. 1936)
2015 – Ray Duncan, American businessman (b. 1930)
2015 – Geoffrey Howe, Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1926)
2015 – Ravindra Jain, Indian composer and director (b. 1944)
2016 – Andrzej Wajda, a Polish film and theatre director (b. 1926)

Source: wikipedia