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.

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
1075 – Gebhard of Supplinburg, Saxon count
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)
1927 – Victoria Woodhull American activist for women's rights (b. 1838)
1929 – Louis Bennison, American stage and silent film actor (b. 1884)
1929 – Margaret Lawrence, American stage 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)
1956 – Chandrashekhar Agashe, Indian industrialist and lawyer (b. 1888)
1956 – Hans Bergsland, Norwegian fencer (b. 1878)
1956 – Thomas Hicks, Australian tennis player (b. 1869)
1956 – Ferdinand Jodl, German general (b. 1896)
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 – Pedro Zerolo, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1960)
2017 – Adam West, American actor and investor (b. 1928)

Source: wikipedia