9 December Deaths

December 9 is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).

Deaths

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
1048 – Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (b. 973)
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
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)
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)
1932 – Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
1935 – Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
1937 – Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)
1937 – Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
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)
1963 – Perry Miller, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1905)
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)
1970 – Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
1971 – Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1971 – Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor and painter (b. 1874)
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)
1995 – Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (b. 1907)
1996 – Patty Donahue, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
1996 – Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
1996 – Alain Poher, French lawyer and politician, President of France (b. 1909)
1996 – Diana Morgan, Welsh playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1998 – Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1948)
1998 – Archie Moore, American boxer and actor (b. 1913)
2001 – Michael Carver, Baron Carver, English field marshal (b. 1915)
2002 – Mary Hansen, Australian singer and guitarist (b. 1966)
2002 – Ian Hornak, American painter and sculptor (b. 1944)
2002 – Stan Rice, American painter and poet (b. 1942)
2003 – Norm Sloan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
2003 – Paul Simon, American soldier, journalist, and politician, 39th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (b. 1928)
2005 – György Sándor, Hungarian-American pianist and educator (b. 1912)
2005 – Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)
2006 – Georgia Gibbs, American singer (b. 1919)
2007 – Rafael Sperafico, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1981)
2007 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1918)
2008 – Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1972)
2008 – Yury Glazkov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1939)
2009 – Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919)
2010 – James Moody, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer (b. 1925)
2010 – Dov Shilansky, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and politician, 10th Speaker of the Knesset (b. 1924)
2012 – Béla Nagy Abodi, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1918)
2012 – Patrick Moore, English lieutenant, astronomer, and educator (b. 1923)
2012 – Alex Moulton, English engineer and businessman, founded the Moulton Bicycle Company (b. 1920)
2012 – Jenni Rivera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (b. 1969)
2012 – Charles Rosen, American pianist and musicologist (b. 1927)
2012 – Riccardo Schicchi, Italian director and producer, co-founded Diva Futura (b. 1953)
2012 – Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (b. 1921)
2013 – John Gabbert, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (b. 1909)
2013 – Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, Polish pianist and educator (b. 1930)
2013 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (b. 1922)
2013 – John Wilbur, American football player (b. 1943)
2014 – Sacvan Bercovitch, Canadian-American author, critic, and academic (b. 1933)
2014 – Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (b. 1924)
2014 – Jorge María Mejía, Argentinian cardinal (b. 1923)
2014 – Mary Ann Mobley, American model and actress, Miss America 1959 (b. 1937)
2014 – Blagoje Paunović, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1947)
2014 – Jože Toporišič, Slovenian linguist and author (b. 1926)
2015 – Soshana Afroyim, Austrian painter (b. 1927)
2015 – Norman Breslow, American statistician and academic (b. 1941)
2015 – Juvenal Juvêncio, Brazilian lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
2015 – Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (b. 1936)

Source: wikipedia