Notable Deaths on May 9th
May 9th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1079 |
Stanislaus, Polish bishop of Kraków, murdered |
1280 |
Magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80), dies at 42 |
1315 |
Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282) |
1443 |
Niccolo d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies |
1446 |
Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples (b. 1368) |
1460 |
Jean Lavite, Atrechts painter, dies |
1474 |
Peter van Hagenbach, Elzasser knight/land guardian, beheaded |
1590 |
Karel "Cardinal" van Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen, dies at 66 |
1657 |
William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies |
1667 |
Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48) |
1688 |
Frederick William, Great Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 68 |
1707 |
Dietrich Buxtehude, German organist/composer, dies at about 69 |
1745 |
Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer, dies at 82 |
1747 |
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673) |
1760 |
Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, Austrian born German religious and social reformer, dies at 59 |
1785 |
Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer, dies at 44 |
1790 |
William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress |
1791 |
Francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53 |
1799 |
Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer, dies at 72 |
1805 |
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, German poet/playwright, dies at 45 |
1805 |
Friedrich Schiller, Don Carlos |
1822 |
Charles Duquesnoy, composer, dies at 62 |
1850 |
Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies |
1853 |
Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer, dies at 73 |
1861 |
Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805) |
1864 |
"Uncle" John Sedgwick, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 50 |
1864 |
Thomas Donnely Doubleday, US Union Col, dies in an accident |
1880 |
Johann Hermann Berens, composer, dies at 54 |
1884 |
Hermanus W Witteveen, theologist, dies at 69 |
1889 |
William S. Harney, U.S. general (b. 1800) |
1900 |
Carit Etlar, The Musketeers |
1905 |
Ernst Pauer, composer, dies at 78 |
1909 |
Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, St. Elmo |
1914 |
C.W. Post, American food manufacturer (b. 1854) |
1915 |
François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1887) |
1916 |
Teppo Raikas, Sylvi |
1918 |
George Coşbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866) |
1920 |
Frank Carter, The Curse of the Great Southwest |
1922 |
Ellen Rindom, Mellem pligt og kærlighed |
1922 |
Henry Weaver, For Valour |
1922 |
M. Miklós Pásztory, The Village Rogue |
1923 |
Wells Hastings, Sleepwalker |
1926 |
Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies |
1926 |
Benjamin B. Odell Jr., Opening of the Pan-American Exposition Showing Vice President Roosevelt Leading the Procession |
1927 |
Tommy Routledge, cricketer (4 Tests for South Africa 1892-96), dies |
1928 |
Constantin Dimitrescu, composer, dies at 81 |
1928 |
Hal Salter, The Law of Nature |
1929 |
Joel Teal, The Ten Thousand Dollar Trail |
1929 |
Frederick Truesdell, No Show for the Chauffeur |
1931 |
A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, US physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78 |
1936 |
Mary Johnston, Jamestown |
1937 |
Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, dies in crash at 43 |
1938 |
Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (b. 1866) |
1939 |
Alice Belcher, Broke in China |
1940 |
Dallas M. Fitzgerald, My Lady of Whims |
1941 |
Jørgen Lund, Han, hun og Hamlet |
1942 |
Graham McNamee, Menace of the Rising Sun |
1943 |
Enrique González Tuñón, Tomorrow I'll Commit Suicide |
1944 |
Ethel Mary Smyth, composer, dies at 86 |
1944 |
Robert Rendel, The Four Feathers |
1945 |
Clem Hill, cricketer (49 Tests for Australia 1896-1912), dies |
1945 |
C.M. 'Slats' Wyrick, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
1947 |
Sebastian Cristillo, The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap |
1947 |
Byron Seawright, Wake Island |
1948 |
Viola Allen, The White Sister |
1948 |
Frank Leigh, Below the Deadline |
1949 |
Louis II, Prince of Monaco, dies |
1949 |
Harold Beaudine, Splash Yourself |
1949 |
Ivan Christy, The Luck of Roaring Camp |
1949 |
Louis Grimaldi, Le couronnement du Prince Louis II de Monaco |
1950 |
Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883) |
1950 |
Ed Pine, The Reckless Moment |
1951 |
Marie Ault, dies at 80 |
1951 |
Victor De Linsky, Wilful Peggy |
1951 |
Harold Schwartz, Never the Twins Shall Meet |
1951 |
Bert Grant, The Dolly Sisters |
1951 |
Marie Ault, The Lodger |
1952 |
Canada Lee, black actor (Lost Boundaries), dies in NYC at 45 |
1952 |
Canada Lee, Lifeboat |
1953 |
Buckleigh Fritz Oxford, The Demon |
1953 |
Ken Lundy, Junior G-Men |
1955 |
Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1858) |
1955 |
M. Coates Webster, I Surrender Dear |
1955 |
Lauritz Olsen, In the Hands of Impostors |
1956 |
Julie Oshins, I'll See You in My Dreams |
1957 |
Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, NY Met Opera), dies |
1957 |
Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glasier, dies at 67 |
1957 |
Ezio Pinza, The Blues Brothers |
1958 |
Bill Goodwin, TV announcer (Burns & Allen), dies at 47 |
1958 |
Joseph E. Davies, Mission to Moscow |
1958 |
Bill Goodwin, Spellbound |
1960 |
Josip Halla, Strast za pustolovinom |
1961 |
Victor Cornelius, Panserbasse |
1965 |
Leopold Figl, premier Austria, dies at 62 |
1965 |
Leopold Figl, |
1966 |
Alfred Mendelsohn, composer, dies at 56 |
1966 |
Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Dukeenbosch, dies |
1967 |
Elmar Berkovich, Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven theater), dies |
1967 |
Philippa Duke Schuyler, composer, dies at 35 |
1968 |
Finlay Currie, dies at 90 |
1968 |
Harold Gray, US comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74 |
1968 |
Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81 |
1968 |
Phil Arnold, actor (Skidoo, Errand Boy, Damn Yankees), dies at 58 |
1968 |
Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893) |
1970 |
Percy Brier, composer, dies at 84 |
1970 |
Walter P Reuther, US worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies |
1970 |
Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (b. 1884) |
1973 |
Owen Brannigan, The Bartered Bride |
1974 |
Lyubomir Pipkov, composer, dies at 69 |
1975 |
Philip Dorn, dies at 73 |
1976 |
Raymond Chevreuille, Belgian composer, dies at 74 |
1976 |
Valentino Bucchi, composer, dies at 59 |
1976 |
Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920) |
1977 |
James Jones, US writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 55 |
1977 |
Walter Kraft, composer, dies at 71 |
1977 |
William Eckhardt, Planet of the Apes |
1978 |
Aldo Moro, 5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by the Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization Red Brigades at 61 |
1979 |
Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American financier, industrialist and steel magnate, dies at 95 |
1979 |
Lan Adomian, composer, dies at 73 |
1979 |
Michel Ardan, Classe Tous Risques |
1979 |
Zoltan Keleman, Le nozze di Figaro |
1980 |
Joseph Breitbach, Das blaue Bidet |
1980 |
Jada, Naughty Dallas |
1980 |
Hugo Someroja, 1968 |
1981 |
C E "Nip" Pellew, cricketer (10 Tests 484 runs at 37), dies |
1981 |
Nelson Algren, US writer (Man with the Golden Arm), dies at 72 |
1981 |
Ralph Allen, English footballer (b. 1906) |
1981 |
Rolf Just Nilsen, Operasjon Løvsprett |
1981 |
Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm |
1981 |
Vivian Gibson, Girls for Sale! |
1981 |
Margaret Lindsay, Jezebel |
1981 |
Fritz Umgelter, As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me |
1981 |
Yevgeni Brusilovsky, The Return of Nathan Becker |
1981 |
Jun Usami, Late Spring |
1982 |
Madeline Willemsen, Rappaccini's Daughter |
1982 |
Petr Svojtka, The Little Mermaid |
1982 |
Nélida Lobato, Scream of the Butterfly |
1982 |
Laura Wood, The Deadly Years |
1983 |
Paul Sherman, Let's Rock |
1983 |
Marjorie Beebe, Hot News Margie |
1983 |
Eugeniusz Bozyk, Awantura o Basie |
1983 |
Julie Lee, Emmanuelle in Soho |
1984 |
Toby Bruce, Wind Across the Everglades |
1984 |
Nudie, Real Life |
1985 |
Reginald Dixon, British theatre organist, dies at 80 |
1985 |
Edmond O'Brien, actor (Moon Pilot, Wild Bunch), dies at 69 |
1985 |
Zelmar Gueñol, Los inocentes |
1985 |
Glenn Kershner, The Strong Man |
1985 |
Edmond O'Brien, The Wild Bunch |
1986 |
Dirk de Vroome, [Red Giant], Limbourg activist, dies at 60 |
1986 |
Herschel Bernardi, actor (Lt Jacoby-Peter Gunn, Arnie), dies at 62 |
1986 |
Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), dies at 71 |
1986 |
Herschel Bernardi, Irma la Douce |
1986 |
Tex Brodus, South Pacific |
1986 |
Margit Pogány, Dorottya |
1986 |
Tenzing Norgay, The Conquest of Everest |
1986 |
Stuart Baker-Bergen, Tightrope |
1986 |
Dino Radojevic, The King's New Clothes |
1987 |
Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78 |
1988 |
Wojciech Turowski, Eva Wants to Sleep |
1989 |
Keith Whitley, country singer (Don't Close Your Eyes), dies at 33 |
1989 |
Paul J Steenbergen, actor (Ciske de Rat), dies at 82 |
1989 |
Heinz Moog, Senso |
1989 |
Timothy Farrell, Glen or Glenda |
1989 |
Tiger Joe Marsh, Escape to Witch Mountain |
1989 |
Fred Halsted, Truck It |
1989 |
Enrique Lucero, The Magnificent Seven |
1989 |
Pierre Danny, Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
1989 |
Keith Whitley, The Blob |
1990 |
Luigi Nono, Ital composer (Intolleranza), dies at 66 |
1990 |
Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate Pres debate, dies at 84 |
1990 |
Robert Shawley, Stalag 17 |
1990 |
Pauline Frederick, Guest Book |
1990 |
Roger Barlow, Even: As You and I |
1991 |
James L Reinsch, media-advisor (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy), dies |
1991 |
Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman III, Whats Up Nurse), dies at 72 |
1991 |
Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies |
1991 |
Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson, Junior Prom |
1991 |
Raymonde Vattier, Circus Angel |
1991 |
John Turner, |
1991 |
Hugo Krzyski, The Deluge |
1992 |
Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident |
1992 |
Tom Melody, 2000 Years Later |
1992 |
Ben Frommer, Scarface |
1992 |
Evelyn Campbell, The Wicked Darling |
1993 |
Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61 |
1993 |
Mary Duncan Sanford, dies at 98 |
1993 |
Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author |
1993 |
Penelope Gilliatt, Sunday Bloody Sunday |
1993 |
Daniel Paredes, Cat People |
1993 |
Maggie Hemingway, The Bridge |
1993 |
Mary Duncan, City Girl |
1993 |
Paul Thompson, Tarzan and the Trappers |
1993 |
Iván Patachich, I'll Go to the Minister |
1994 |
Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924) |
1994 |
Mirjana Mitic, I Even Met Happy Gypsies |
1994 |
Edgard Franco de Sá, A Pantomima da Morte |
1994 |
Annie Albers, Marlene |
1994 |
Paige Crosley Kess, Powel Crosley and the 20th Century |
1995 |
Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, dies at 68 |
1995 |
Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher, dies at 74 |
1995 |
Marshall Royal, jazz Sax/Clarinet, dies at 82 |
1995 |
Percy Mansell, cricketer (355 runs in 13 Tests for S Afr), dies |
1995 |
Jeanne Darville, Sømand i knibe |
1995 |
Marshal Royal, The Color Purple |
1996 |
Carl Fallberg, Bambi |
1996 |
Ebbe Traberg, Spaniernes Spanien |
1996 |
Stanley Kristien, The Young Savages |
1997 |
Marco Ferreri, Italian film director (b. 1928) |
1997 |
Francine Ames, A Thousand and One Nights |
1997 |
Carlos Carella, The Journey |
1997 |
Hoke Howell, Another 48 Hrs. |
1997 |
Mária Takács, Szerelem csütörtök |
1997 |
Paul Zastupnevich, The Towering Inferno |
1997 |
Tom Ponzi, Episode #1.4 |
1997 |
Marco Ferreri, Tales of Ordinary Madness |
1997 |
Kazumi Kawai, Sêrâ-fuku shikijô shiiku |
1998 |
Alice Faye, American actress (Barricade), dies of stomach cancer at 83 |
1998 |
Ludwika Castori, Kalosze szczescia |
1998 |
Talat Mahmood, Devdas |
1998 |
Nat Perrin, Duck Soup |
1998 |
Ray Noble, Game 6 |
1998 |
Lucian Bratu, Tudor |
1998 |
Rommie Loudd, 1960 AFL Championship Game |
1998 |
Alice Faye, Yes Man |
1998 |
Adolfo Waitzman, Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez |
1999 |
Shirley Dinsdale, Judy Splinters |
1999 |
Jürgen Fuchs, The Burning Wall |
1999 |
Ole Søltoft, A Man with a Maid |
1999 |
Gilles Richer, I've Had It |
2000 |
Pita Amor, He Who Died of Love |
2000 |
Bimbulat Vatayev, Khasani-arobakash |
2000 |
Arthur Davis, The Pink Panther Show |
2000 |
William Fairchild, Malta Story |
2000 |
Alberto Basail, Last Images of the Shipwreck |
2001 |
James E. Myers, American songwriter (Rock Around the Clock) and producer (b. 1919) |
2001 |
Saul Elkins, Tarnished Angel |
2001 |
Smokey Yunick, A.J. Foyt |
2001 |
Fons Derre, Vrijdag |
2001 |
Leslie Sands, The Deadly Affair |
2001 |
Hartzell Spence, One Foot in Heaven |
2001 |
Marie Cardinal, Les mots pour le dire |
2002 |
Dan Devine, American football coach (b. 1924) |
2002 |
Dan Devine, Gutsiest Performances |
2002 |
Borislav Sharaliev, Ritzar bez bronya |
2002 |
Suki Stern, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi |
2003 |
Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (b. 1918) |
2003 |
Quentin Dean, In the Heat of the Night |
2003 |
David Hofman, Crowning Glory |
2003 |
Carmen Filpi, Beetlejuice |
2003 |
Nicholas Grippo, You Light Up My Life |
2003 |
Jack Gelber, The Connection |
2003 |
Bernard Spear, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
2003 |
August Sehven, Encounter with the Unknown |
2003 |
Russell Long, Huey Long |
2004 |
Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president (b. 1951) |
2004 |
Alan King, American comedian (b. 1927) |
2004 |
Alan King, Casino |
2004 |
Bill Booth, Raising a Riot |
2004 |
Ritva Ahonen, Gabriel, tule takaisin |
2004 |
Natalya Tkachyova, Ochishcheniye |
2004 |
Tommy Farrell, At War with the Army |
2004 |
Olive Osmond, Side by Side: The True Story of the Osmond Family |
2004 |
Brenda Fassie, Blended |
2005 |
Nasrat Parsa, Afghani singer (b. 1969) |
2005 |
Chris Kreski, WWF Raw |
2005 |
Jackie Averill, Happy Land |
2005 |
Stanley H. Silverman, Another World |
2005 |
Edith Thrane, Ballad of Carl-Henning |
2005 |
Edith Trane, Fangen |
2005 |
Steve Klisanin, The Wild Women of Wongo |
2005 |
Alan Spilkoman, My Stepmother Is an Alien |
2005 |
Martha Montgomery, The Inner Circle |
2006 |
Karl Bette, Body in the Web |
2006 |
Ruth Gay, The Lord of the Rings |
2006 |
Christophe Pollock, Since Otar Left |
2006 |
Harri Hyttinen, Rölli - hirmuisia kertomuksia |
2006 |
Frank H. Boos, Antiques Roadshow |
2006 |
Pietro Garinei, I'm in the Revue |
2007 |
Dwight Wilson, second-to-last Canadian WWI veteran (b. 1901) |
2007 |
Edith Rodriguez, hospital emergency room refused to treat (b. 1964) |
2007 |
Beau Vanden Ecker, A Long Time Ago |
2007 |
Gino Pariani, The Game of Their Lives |
2007 |
Jimmy Hall, Deadly Dozen: Australia |
2007 |
Kerstin Rabe, Svarta skallar och vita nätter |
2007 |
Carla White, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty |
2007 |
Charles Orme, The Omen |
2007 |
Janusz Ossowski, Listy milosne |
2007 |
Rachel Brown, Day 1 |
2007 |
Tarja-Tuulikki Tarsala, Eight Deadly Shots |
2008 |
Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (b. 1929) |
2008 |
Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist (b. 1942) |
2008 |
Slavoljub Plavsic-Zvonce, Pretty Village, Pretty Flame |
2008 |
Robert Veze, Bikini Summer |
2008 |
Oswaldo Calvo, Absence of Malice |
2008 |
Judy Grable, Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling |
2008 |
Pascal Sevran, Episode dated 17 June 2007 |
2008 |
Leyla Gencer, Aida |
2008 |
Adriano Domínguez, The Miracle of Marcelino |
2008 |
Arthur da Távola, Simonal - Ninguém Sabe o Duro que Dei |
2008 |
Nuala O'Faolain, Episode #2.21 |
2009 |
Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (b. 1930) |
2009 |
Maria Bibikov, The Girl on the Bridge |
2009 |
Chuck Daly, The Palestra: Cathedral of Basketball |
2009 |
Stephen Bruton, Crazy Heart |
2009 |
Evgenios Spatharis, O Karagiozis sti hora ton katergareon |
2010 |
Otakar Motejl, Czechoslvakian politician (b. 1932) |
2010 |
Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917) |
2010 |
Craig Kauffman, Yoga/Pilates Workout System |
2010 |
Lena Horne, That's Entertainment! III |
2010 |
Hans Dijkstal, Episode dated 15 October 1999 |
2010 |
Antoni Szubarczyk, Okolice spokojnego morza |
2010 |
Otakar Motejl, Milan Hlavsa a Plastic People of the Universe |
2010 |
Eddie Buzard, Bulldog Courage |
2011 |
Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984) |
2011 |
Lia Lee, Robin de robot |
2011 |
Richard Cowl, Against the Wall |
2011 |
Bill Burrowes, Breakfast of Imbeciles |
2011 |
Kimberly B. Delfin, Pretty Smart |
2011 |
Ruta Staliliunaite, Bogach, bednyak... |
2011 |
Newton Thornburg, Beautiful Kate |
2011 |
Robert Ellsworth, Countdown to Looking Glass |
2011 |
Dolores Fuller, The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood Jr. |
2011 |
Ester Tarcitano, Tangarela, a Tanga de Cristal |
2011 |
Bernard Letrou, The Rape of the Vampire |
2011 |
Ivo Pesák, Zámecký ples |
2011 |
Jeff Gralnick, NBC News Decision 2010 |
2012 |
Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser and businessman, dies from leukemia at 84 |
2012 |
Andrzej Czeczot, Eden |
2012 |
Celso Chavez, Never Get Outta the Boat |
2012 |
Horst Graf, Torn Curtain |
2012 |
Carl Beane, Fever Pitch |
2012 |
Vidal Sassoon, Vidal Sassoon: The Movie |
2012 |
C. David Heymann, Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story |
2012 |
Joyce Redman, Tom Jones |
2013 |
Andrew Simpson, British sailor, dies after a yacht capsize at 36 |
2013 |
Huguette Oligny, The Late Blossom |
2013 |
Andrew Simpson, Episode #15.1 |
2013 |
Cezary Chlebowski, Gazda z Diabelnej |
2013 |
Ottavio Missoni, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel |
2013 |
Peter Sehr, Love the Hard Way |
2013 |
Ron Weaver, Episode #1.5026 |
2013 |
Alfredo Landa, The Holy Innocents |
2013 |
Michael Earl, Back in Fashion |
2013 |
David Campling, The Terminator |
2014 |
Leonid Cherevatenko, Doroga na sech |
2014 |
Joe Wilder, Malcolm X |
2014 |
Donald Tandy, E.S.P. |
2014 |
Mary Stewart, The Moon-Spinners |
2014 |
David Kaufelt, In Love with an Older Woman |
2015 |
Johnny Gimble, Honeysuckle Rose |
2015 |
Kenan Evren, |
2015 |
McNeil Robinson, 9 Variations on a Dance Theme |
2015 |
Ragne Tangen, Pernille og Mr. Nelson |
2015 |
Selma do Coco, Jackson do Pandeiro |
2015 |
María Eugenia Dávila, María Cano |
2015 |
Christopher Wood, The Spy Who Loved Me |
2015 |
Elizabeth Wilson, The Graduate |
2016 |
Footballer Bernardo Ribeiro, 26, dies after playing game in Brazil |
2016 |
Wheel of Fortune and Neighbours creator Reg Grundy dies aged 92 |
2016 |
Tributes paid as former Clyde player Chris Mitchell dies aged 27 |
2018 |
Former California Gov. George Deukmejian Dies at Age 89 |
2018 |
Former WWE Superstar Nick 'Big Bully' Busick Dies at Age 63 |
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