9 October Deaths

October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

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 – Alexander I of Yugoslavia, King of Yugoslavia also known as Alexander the Unifier (b. 1888)
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)
1969 – Don Hoak, American baseball player (b. 1928)
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)
2003 – Carl Fontana, American jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
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 – Sammi Kane Kraft, American actress (b. 1992)
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 – Srihari, Indian Actor
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, Polish film and theatre director (b. 1926)
2017 – Jean Rochefort, French actor[1] (b. 1930)

Source: wikipedia