Deaths on 9 January
2000s
Black Bart (wrestler)
2025
American professional wrestler (1948–2025)
Rashid Khan (musician)
2024
Indian classical musician (1968–2024)
Séamus Begley
2023
Irish musical artist (1949–2023)
Bob Saget
2022
American comedian and actor (1956–2022)
Maria Ewing
2022
American opera singer (1950–2022)
John Reilly (actor, born 1934)
2021
American actor (1934–2021)
Verna Bloom
2019
American actress (1938–2019)
Paul Koslo
2019
German-Canadian actor (1944–2019)
Kato Ottio
2018
PNG international rugby league footballer (1994–2018)
Zygmunt Bauman
2017
Polish sociologist and philosopher (1925–2017)
John Harvard (politician)
2016
Canadian politician (1938–2016)
Angus Scrimm
2016
American actor, author, and journalist
Michel Jeury
2015
French writer (1934–2015)
Józef Oleksy
2015
46th Prime Minister of Poland from 1995 to 1996
Abdul Rahman Ya'kub
2015
Malaysian politician (1928–2015), Governor of Sarawak
Roy Tarpley
2015
American basketball player (1964–2015)
Amiri Baraka
2014
African-American writer (1934–2014)
Josep Maria Castellet
2014
Spanish writer and poet (1926–2014)
Paul du Toit
2014
Dale T. Mortensen
2014
American economist
Brigitte Askonas
2013
British immunologist (1923–2013)
James M. Buchanan
2013
American economist and Nobel Laureate (1919–2013)
Robert L. Rock
2013
American politician
John Wise (Canadian politician)
2013
Canadian politician (1935–2013)
Brian Curvis
2012
Welsh boxer
Augusto Gansser-Biaggi
2012
Swiss geologist (1910–2012)
William G. Roll
2012
American psychologist (1926–2012)
Malam Bacai Sanhá
2012
President of Guinea-Bissau from 2009 to 2012
László Szekeres
2012
Makinti Napanangka
2011
Indigenous Australian artist from the Western Desert region (c. 1930 – 2011)
Rob Gauntlett
2009
British adventurer
T. Llew Jones
2009
Welsh children's writer
Tan Chor Jin
2009
Executed Singaporean gang member for murder
Johnny Grant (radio personality)
2008
American television producer (1923–2008)
John Harvey-Jones
2008
English businessman (1924–2008)
Elmer Symons
2007
South African motorcycle racer (1977–2007)
Jean-Pierre Vernant
2007
French historian and anthropologist (1914–2007)
Andy Caldecott
2006
Off road motorcycle racer from South Australia (1964 – 2006)
W. Cleon Skousen
2006
American law enforcement officer and author (1913–2006)
Norberto Bobbio
2004
Italian legal scholar (1909–2004)
Will McDonough
2003
American sportswriter (1935–2003)
Maurice Prather
2001
American film director
Arnold Alexander Hall
2000
English aeronautical engineer, scientist and industrialist (1915–2000)
Nigel Tranter
2000
Scottish writer
1900s
Kenichi Fukui
1998
Japanese chemist (1918–1998)
Imi Lichtenfeld
1998
Hungarian-born Israeli martial artist
Edward Osóbka-Morawski
1997
Polish activist and politician (1909–1997)
Jesse White (actor)
1997
American actor (1917–1997)
Walter M. Miller Jr.
1996
American writer
Abdullah al-Qasemi
1996
Saudi Arabian writer and intellectual
Souphanouvong
1995
Laotian politician (1909–1995)
Peter Cook
1995
British comedian, actor, satirist (1937–1995)
Paul Hasluck
1993
Australian politician (1905–1993)
Steve Brodie (actor)
1992
American actor (1919–1992)
Bill Naughton
1992
Irish-British playwright and author
Spud Chandler
1990
American baseball player (1907–1990)
Cemal Süreya
1990
Kurdish poet, writer, and translator
Peter L. Rypdal
1988
Musical artist
Arthur Lake (actor)
1987
American actor (1905–87)
Robert Mayer (philanthropist)
1985
German-born British philanthropist and businessman (1879–1985)
Bob Dyer
1984
American-born vaudeville entertainer, radio personality and quiz show host
Kazimierz Serocki
1981
Polish composer
Pier Luigi Nervi
1979
Italian architect and engineer
Pierre Fresnay
1975
French actor (1897–1975)
Pyotr Novikov
1975
Soviet mathematician (1901–1975)
Ted Shawn
1972
American dancer (1891–1972)
Elmer Flick
1971
American baseball player (1876–1971)
Halide Edib Adıvar
1964
Turkish novelist, teacher, and a nationalist and feminist intellectual (1884-1964)
Emily Greene Balch
1961
American economist, academic, and Nobel Laureate
Elsie J. Oxenham
1960
English writer (1880–1960)
Karl Mannheim
1947
Hungarian sociologist (1893–1947)
Countee Cullen
1946
American author (1903–1946)
Shigekazu Shimazaki
1945
Jüri Uluots
1945
Estonian politician (1890–1945)
Osman Cemal Kaygılı
1945
Turkish writer and journalist
Dimitrios Golemis
1941
Greek middle-distance runner
Johann Strauss III
1939
Austrian composer (1866-1939)
John Gilbert (actor)
1936
American actor and film director (1897–1936)
Wayne Munn
1931
American professional wrestler and football player (1896–1931)
Edward Bok
1930
Dutch-born American editor and writer (1863–1930)
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
1927
British-German racialist philosopher (1855–1927)
Ponnambalam Arunachalam
1924
Ceylonese civil servant (1853–1924)
Katherine Mansfield
1923
New Zealand author (1888–1923)
Émile Reynaud
1918
French inventor (1844–1918)
Luther D. Bradley
1917
American cartoonist (1853–1917)
Edwin Arthur Jones
1911
American composer (1853–1911)
Edvard Rusjan
1911
Slovenian aviation pioneer
Wilhelm Busch
1908
German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter (1832–1908)
Abraham Goldfaden
1908
Russian-born Jewish poet and playwright (1840–1908)
Richard Copley Christie
1901
British philanthropist (1830–1901)
1800s
Aaron Lufkin Dennison
1895
American watchmaker and businessman (1812–1895)
Victor Emmanuel II
1878
King of Italy from 1861 to 1878
Samuel Gridley Howe
1876
American educator and abolitionist (1801–1876)
Napoleon III
1873
Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870
Anson Jones
1858
Texian politician
Neophytos Vamvas
1856
Greek cleric and philologist (1770–1856)
Caroline Herschel
1848
German-British astronomer (1750–1848)
William Hedley
1843
British inventor and industrial engineer (1779-1843)
Adrien-Marie Legendre
1833
French mathematician (1752–1833)
Noble Wimberly Jones
1805
American politician
Jean-Étienne Championnet
1800
French Army officer (1762–1800)
Before 1800
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
1799
Italian mathematician and philanthropist (1718–1799)
Thomas Birch
1766
English historian (1705–1766)
Antonio de Benavides
1762
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
1757
French writer and philosopher of the enlightenment (1657–1757)
Alix Le Clerc
1622
French founder of religious order (1576–1622)
Leonard Holliday
1612
Jasper Heywood
1598
English Jesuit priest (1535–1598)
Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon
1571
French soldier, knight, and explorer (1510–1571)
Amago Haruhisa
1561
Japanese warlord
Guillaume du Bellay
1543
French diplomat and general
Johannes Aventinus
1534
Bavarian Renaissance humanist historian and philologist (1477-1534)
Wang Yangming
1529
Chinese philosopher and general (1472–1529)
Anne of Brittany
1514
Queen of France (1491–1498; 1499–1514) and Duchess of Brittany (1488–1514)
Demetrios Chalkokondyles
1511
Greek scholar (1423–1511)
John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg
1499
Elector of Brandenburg from 1486 to 1499
William Neville, Earl of Kent
1463
15th-century English nobleman and soldier
Adam Moleyns
1450
15th-century Bishop of Chichester
Giulia della Rena
1367
Wen Tianxiang
1283
Chinese poet and politician
Abu Uthman Sa'id ibn Hakam al-Qurashi
1282
Emperor Xizong of Jin
1150
Emperor of Jin from 1135 to 1150
Adrian of Canterbury
710
8th-century Berber abbot of St Augustine's, Canterbury and saint