Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?
Here is a list who died on date 9 December today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for December 9
Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on December 9
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| 638 | Sergius I of Constantinople |
| 730 | Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah, Arab general |
| 748 | Nasr ibn Sayyar, Umayyad general and politician (b. 663) |
| 933 | Li Congrong, prince of Later Tang |
| 1117 | Gertrude of Brunswick, Markgräfin of Meißen |
| 1165 | Malcolm IV of Scotland (b. 1141) |
| 1242 | Richard le Gras, Lord Keeper of England and Abbot of Evesham |
| 1268 | Vaišvilkas, Prince of Black Ruthenia, Grand Duke of Lithuania |
| 1299 | Bohemond I, Archbishop of Trier |
| 1437 | Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368) |
| 1544 | Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491) |
| 1565 | Pope Pius IV (b. 1499) |
| 1603 | William Watson, English priest (b. 1559) |
| 1625 | Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547) |
| 1636 | Fabian Birkowski, Polish preacher and author (b. 1566) |
| 1641 | Anthony van Dyck, Belgian-English painter and illustrator (b. 1599) |
| 1669 | Pope Clement IX (b. 1600) |
| 1674 | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1609) |
| 1706 | Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648) |
| 1718 | Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian monk and cartographer (b. 1650) |
| 1761 | Tarabai, Queen of Chatrapati Rajaram (b. 1675) |
| 1793 | Yolande de Polastron, French-Austrian educator (b. 1749) |
| 1798 | Johann Reinhold Forster, German pastor, botanist, and ornithologist (b. 1729) |
| 1830 | Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (b. 1757) |
| 1854 | Almeida Garrett, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1799) |
| 1858 | Robert Baldwin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada West (b. 1804) |
| 1887 | Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese religious leader |
| 1906 | Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849) |
| 1916 | Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (b. 1867) |
| 1924 | Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator (b. 1854) |
| 1930 | Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879) |
| 1932 | Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865) |
| 1935 | Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886) |
| 1937 | Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882) |
| 1941 | Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865) |
| 1943 | Georges Dufrénoy, French painter (b. 1870) |
| 1944 | Laird Cregar, American actor (b. 1913) |
| 1945 | Yun Chi-ho, South Korean activist and politician (b. 1864) |
| 1957 | Ali İhsan Sâbis, Turkish general (b. 1882) |
| 1963 | Daniel O. Fagunwa, Nigerian author and educator (b. 1903) |
| 1964 | Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (b. 1887) |
| 1965 | Branch Rickey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1884) |
| 1967 | Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge, 3rd President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1898) |
| 1968 | Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (b. 1883) |
| 1970 | Artem Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mikoyan Company (b. 1905) |
| 1971 | Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) |
| 1972 | Louella Parsons, American writer and columnist (b. 1881) |
| 1975 | William A. Wellman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1896) |
| 1979 | Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (b. 1895) |
| 1982 | Leon Jaworski, American lawyer and politician (b. 1905) |
| 1991 | Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898) |
| 1992 | Vincent Gardenia, American actor (b. 1922) |
| 1993 | Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926) |
| 1995 | Toni Cade Bambara, American author and academic (b. 1939) |
| 1996 | Patty Donahue, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956) |
| 1998 | Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1948) |
| 2001 | Michael Carver, Baron Carver, English field marshal (b. 1915) |
| 2002 | Mary Hansen, Australian singer and guitarist (b. 1966) |
| 2003 | Norm Sloan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926) |
| 2005 | György Sándor, Hungarian-American pianist and educator (b. 1912) |
| 2006 | Georgia Gibbs, American singer (b. 1919) |
| 2007 | Rafael Sperafico, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1981) |
| 2008 | Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1972) |
| 2009 | Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919) |
| 2010 | James Moody, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer (b. 1925) |
| 2012 | Béla Nagy Abodi, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1918) |
| 2013 | John Gabbert, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (b. 1909) |
| 2014 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Canadian-American author, critic, and academic (b. 1933) |
| 2015 | Soshana Afroyim, Austrian painter (b. 1927) |
| 2021 | Speedy Duncan, American football player (b. 1942) |
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