Deaths on 9 June
2000s
Sly Stone
2025
American musician (1943–2025)
James Lawson (activist)
2024
American activist (1928–2024)
Alain Touraine
2023
French sociologist (1925–2023)
Julee Cruise
2022
American singer (1956–2022)
Billy Kametz
2022
American voice actor (1987–2022)
Matt Zimmerman (actor)
2022
Canadian actor (1934–2022)
Aamir Liaquat Hussain
2022
Pakistani TV host and politician (1971–2022)
Bushwick Bill
2019
Jamaican-American rapper (1966–2019)
Fadil Vokrri
2018
Albanian football administrator and formerly Yugoslav footballer (1960–2018)
Adam West
2017
American actor (1928–2017)
Pumpkinhead (rapper)
2015
American rapper (1975–2015)
Pedro Zerolo
2015
Spanish lawyer and politician
Bernard Agré
2014
Ivorian Catholic prelate
Stuart Long
2014
American boxer and Catholic priest (1963–2014)
Rik Mayall
2014
English comedian (1958–2014)
Elsie Quarterman
2014
American plant ecologist (1910–2014)
Alicemarie Huber Stotler
2014
American judge
Gustave Tassell
2014
American fashion designer (1926–2014)
Bob Welch (baseball)
2014
American baseball player (1956–2014)
Iain Banks
2013
Scottish writer (1954–2013)
Bruno Bartoletti
2013
Italian operatic conductor (1926-2013)
John Burke (rugby league, born 1948)
2013
GB international rugby league footballer
Walter Jens
2013
German philologist and writer (1923–2013)
Zdeněk Rotrekl
2013
Czech Catholic poet, literary historian and writer
Régis Clère
2012
French cyclist
John Maples
2012
British politician (1943–2012)
Ivan Minatti
2012
Slovene poet, editor, and translator
Hawk Taylor
2012
American baseball player (1939–2012)
Abram Wilson
2012
American jazz musician (1973–2012)
M. F. Husain
2011
Indian artist (1915–2011)
Tomoko Kawakami
2011
Japanese voice actress (1970–2011)
Mike Mitchell (basketball, born 1956)
2011
American basketball player
Ken Brown (musician)
2010
Musical artist (1940-2010)
Dick May
2009
American racing driver
Algis Budrys
2008
Lithuanian-American author, editor, and critic (1931–2008)
Suleiman Mousa
2008
Jordanian historian (1919–2008)
Frankie Abernathy
2007
American reality television personality and purse designer (1981-2007)
Drafi Deutscher
2006
Musical artist
Rosey Brown
2004
American football player (1932–2004)
Brian Williamson
2004
Jamaican gay rights activist (1945–2004)
John Abramovic
2000
American basketball player (1919–2000)
Jacob Lawrence
2000
American painter (1917–2000)
1900s
Lois Mailou Jones
1998
American artist and educator (1905–1998)
Stanley Knowles
1997
Canadian politician (1908–1997)
Jan Tinbergen
1994
Dutch economist and Nobel Laureate (1903–1994)
Alexis Smith
1993
American actress (1921–1993)
Claudio Arrau
1991
Chilean and American pianist (1903–1991)
George Beadle
1989
American geneticist (1903–1989)
Helen Hardin
1984
American painter
Allen Ludden
1981
American radio and television personality (1917–1981)
Cyclone Taylor
1979
Canadian ice hockey player, civil servant (1884–1979)
Miguel Ángel Asturias
1974
Guatemalan writer and poet-diplomat (1899-1974)
Chuck Bennett
1973
American football player and coach (1907–1973)
John Creasey
1973
English writer (1908–1973)
Erich von Manstein
1973
German field marshal (1887–1973)
Gilberto Parlotti
1972
Italian motorcycle racer
Bernard Cronin
1968
Australian author and journalist
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
1964
Anglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, and writer (1879–1964)
Jacques Villon
1963
French painter (1875–1963)
Camille Guérin
1961
French veterinarian and scientist; codeveloped BCG vaccine
Harry S. Hammond
1960
American football player and businessman (1884–1960)
Adolf Windaus
1959
German chemist (1876–1959)
Robert Donat
1958
English actor (1905–1958)
Chandrashekhar Agashe
1956
Indian industrialist (1888–1956)
Hans Bergsland
1956
Norwegian fencer
Thomas Hicks (tennis)
1956
Australian tennis player
Ferdinand Jodl
1956
German general and Knight's Cross recipient
Ernest Graves Sr.
1953
United States Army general
Adolf Busch
1952
German–Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer
František Erben
1942
Czech gymnast (1874–1942)
Louis Bennison
1929
American actor (1884–1929)
Margaret Lawrence (actress)
1929
American actress (1889–1929)
Alice Gossage
1929
American journalist (1861–1929)
Victoria Woodhull
1927
American women's suffrage activist (1838–1927)
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom
1923
British princess, daughter of Queen Victoria (1846–1923)
Sarah Roberts (subject of vampire legend)
1913
Englishwoman said to be a vampire in Peru
Adolf Bötticher
1901
German art historian and conservator
1800s
William Grant Stairs
1892
Canadian-British explorer, soldier, and adventurer
Mike Burke (shortstop)
1889
American baseball player (1854–1889)
Gérard Paul Deshayes
1875
French geologist and conchologist
Anna Atkins
1871
British photographer (1799–1871)
Charles Dickens
1870
English writer and journalist (1812–1870)
William Carey (missionary)
1834
English Baptist missionary and a Particular Baptist minister (1761–1834)
Before 1800
Chevalier de Saint-Georges
1799
French musician (1745–1799)
Jeanne Guyon
1717
French Christian accused of advocating Quietism (1648–1717)
Banda Singh Bahadur
1716
Sikh military commander (1670–1716)
Peregrine Palmer
1684
English politician
William Lilly
1681
English astrologer
Thomas Tomkins
1656
Welsh composer
Leonard Calvert
1647
English-born colonial administrator (1606-1647)
Joseph of Anchieta
1597
Spanish Jesuit saint and missionary
Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex
1583
Lord Deputy of Ireland
Jeanne d'Albret
1572
Queen of Navarre from 1555 to 1572
William Paget, 1st Baron Paget
1563
English statesman (1506–1563)
Philippe de Vitry
1361
French composer, poet and music theorist (1291–1361)
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
1348
Italian painter (1290–1348)
Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1252
German duke (c. 1204–1252)
Peter des Roches
1238
13th-century Bishop of Winchester and Justiciar of England
Otto I of Olomouc
1087
Gebhard of Supplinburg
1075
Saxon count
Yang Wo
908
Prince of Hongnong from 905 to 908
Shahrbaraz
630
Shah of the Sasanian Empire in 630
Columba
597
Irish missionary monk, one of Ireland's three patron saints
Spearthrower Owl
439
Teotihuacan symbol
Ephrem the Syrian
373
Syriac saint, theologian and writer (c. 306 – 373)
AD 68
68
Calendar year