Deaths on 9 December
2000s
Nikki Giovanni
2024
American poet, writer and activist (1943–2024)
Jovit Baldivino
2022
Filipino singer and actor (1993–2022)
Speedy Duncan
2021
American football player (1942–2021)
Demaryius Thomas
2021
American football player (1987–2021)
Soshana Afroyim
2015
Austrian painter (1927–2015)
Norman Breslow
2015
American statistician and medical researcher
Juvenal Juvêncio
2015
Brazilian lawyer and football manager (1934–2015)
Julio Terrazas Sandoval
2015
Sacvan Bercovitch
2014
Canadian literary and cultural critic
Jane Freilicher
2014
American painter (1924–2014)
Jorge María Mejía
2014
Argentine cardinal
Mary Ann Mobley
2014
American actress (1937–2014)
Blagoje Paunović
2014
Serbian footballer and manager
Jože Toporišič
2014
Hristu Cândroveanu
2013
Aromanian editor, literary critic and writer
John Gabbert
2013
California Court of Appeal justice
Barbara Hesse-Bukowska
2013
Polish pianist (1930–2013)
Eleanor Parker
2013
American actress (1922–2013)
John Wilbur (American football)
2013
American football player (1943–2013)
Béla Nagy Abodi
2012
Hungarian painter and professor
Patrick Moore
2012
English astronomer, broadcaster and writer (1923–2012)
Alex Moulton
2012
English engineer (1920–2012)
Jenni Rivera
2012
American singer (1969–2012)
Charles Rosen
2012
American pianist and writer on music
Riccardo Schicchi
2012
Italian film director
Norman Joseph Woodland
2012
American inventor
James Moody (saxophonist)
2010
American jazz musician (1925–2010)
Dov Shilansky
2010
Israeli politician (1924–2010)
Gene Barry
2009
American actor (1919–2009)
Ibrahim Dossey
2008
Ghanaian footballer
Yuri Glazkov
2008
Soviet Air Force general and cosmonaut (1939–2008)
Rafael Sperafico
2007
Brazilian racing driver (1981–2007)
Gordon Zahn
2007
Peace activist
Georgia Gibbs
2006
American jazz and pop singer (1918–2006)
György Sándor
2005
Hungarian pianist and writer (1912–2005)
Robert Sheckley
2005
American writer
Norm Sloan
2003
American basketball player and coach (1926–2003)
Paul Simon (politician)
2003
American politician (1928–2003)
Mary Hansen
2002
Australian-born guitarist and singer
Ian Hornak
2002
American painter
Stan Rice
2002
American professor, poet and artist (1942–2002)
Michael Carver
2001
British Field Marshal (1915–2001)
1900s
Shaughnessy Cohen
1998
Canadian politician (1948–1998)
Archie Moore
1998
American professional boxer (1913–1998)
Patty Donahue
1996
American singer (1956–1996)
Mary Leakey
1996
British paleoanthropologist (1913–1996)
Alain Poher
1996
French politician (1909–1996)
Diana Morgan (screenwriter)
1996
Welsh playwright and screenwriter (1908–1996)
Toni Cade Bambara
1995
American author, activist, professor (1939–1995)
Douglas Corrigan
1995
American aviator (1907–1995)
Danny Blanchflower
1993
Northern Irish footballer (1926–1993)
Vincent Gardenia
1992
American actor (1920–1992)
Berenice Abbott
1991
American photographer (1898–1991)
Leon Jaworski
1982
American prosecutor (1905–1982)
Marguerite Henry (scientist)
1982
Australian zoologist (1895–1982)
Fulton J. Sheen
1979
American Catholic bishop, televangelist, and venerable
William A. Wellman
1975
American director and actor (1896–1975)
Louella Parsons
1972
American gossip columnist (1881–1972)
Ralph Bunche
1971
American diplomat and political scientist
Sergey Konenkov
1971
Russian and Soviet sculptor
Aeneas Francon Williams
1971
Scottish missionary, chaplain and writer (1886–1971)
Artem Mikoyan
1970
Soviet aircraft designer (1905–1970)
Firoz Khan Noon
1970
Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1957 to 1958
Enoch L. Johnson
1968
American political boss and mobster (1883–1968)
Charles-Léon Hammes
1967
Branch Rickey
1965
American baseball player, manager, and executive (1881–1965)
Edith Sitwell
1964
British poet and critic (1887–1964)
Daniel O. Fagunwa
1963
Nigerian author
Perry Miller
1963
American historian (1905–1963)
Ali İhsan Sâbis
1957
Turkish politician
Yun Ch'iho
1945
Korean politician (1864–1945)
Laird Cregar
1944
American actor (1913–1944)
Georges Dufrénoy
1943
French painter (1870–1943)
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
1941
Russian novelist (1866–1941)
Lilias Armstrong
1937
British phonetician (1882–1937)
Gustaf Dalén
1937
Swedish engineer and inventor (1869–1937)
Walter Liggett
1935
American journalist
Karl Blossfeldt
1932
German photographer and sculptor
Begum Rokeya
1932
Bengali feminist writer and social reformer (1880–1932)
Rube Foster
1930
American baseball player (1879–1930)
Bernard Zweers
1924
Dutch composer and music teacher
Natsume Sōseki
1916
Japanese novelist (1867–1916)
Eva Nansen
1907
Opera singer
Ferdinand Brunetière
1906
French writer and critic (1849–1906)
1800s
Mahmadu Lamine
1887
Tijani marabout
Robert Baldwin
1858
Co-Premier of Province of Canada (1842–1843; 1848–1851)
Almeida Garrett
1854
Portuguese poet, orator, playwright, novelist, journalist, politician (1799–1854)
William Thornhill (British Army officer)
1851
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher
1830
Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy
Before 1800
Johann Reinhold Forster
1798
German naturalist (1729–1798)
Yolande de Polastron
1793
French aristocrat and courtier (1749–1793)
Tarabai
1761
Regent of the Maratha Empire from 1700 to 1708
Vincenzo Coronelli
1718
Italian Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist
Peter II of Portugal
1706
King of Portugal from 1683 to 1706
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
1674
English politician and historian (1609–1674)
Pope Clement IX
1669
Head of the Catholic Church from 1667 to 1669
Anthony van Dyck
1641
Flemish Baroque artist (1599–1641)
Fabian Birkowski
1636
Polish writer and preacher
Ubbo Emmius
1625
German historian and geographer (1547–1625)
William Watson (priest)
1603
English Roman Catholic priest and conspirator
Pope Pius IV
1565
Head of the Catholic Church from 1559 to 1565
Teofilo Folengo
1544
Italian macaronic poet
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
1437
King of Hungary from 1387 to 1437 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1433 to 1437
Bohemond I (archbishop of Trier)
1299
Vaišvilkas
1268
Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1264 to 1267
Richard le Gras
1242
13th-century Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
Malcolm IV of Scotland
1165
King of Alba from 1153 to 1165
Gertrude of Brunswick
1117
German countess (c.1060–1117)
Li Congrong
933
Nasr ibn Sayyar
748
Umayyad governor of Khurasan from 738 to 748
Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah
730
Arab nobleman and general of Hakami
Sergius I of Constantinople
638
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 610 to 638