Deaths on 9 May
2000s
Sean Burroughs
2024
American baseball player (1980β2024)
Roger Corman
2024
American film director, producer, and actor (1926β2024)
Rex Murphy
2024
Canadian political commentator (1947β2024)
John Leo
2022
American writer and journalist (1935β2022)
Rieko Kodama
2022
Japanese video game artist and producer (1963β2022)
Little Richard
2020
American musician and songwriter (1932β2020)
Freddie Starr
2019
British comedian and singer (1943β2019)
Per Kirkeby
2018
Danish painter and poet (1938β2018)
Robert Miles
2017
Swiss-Italian record producer (1969β2017)
Edward W. Estlow
2015
American journalist and businessman (1920β2015)
Kenan Evren
2015
7th President of Turkey from 1982 to 1989
Elizabeth Wilson
2015
American actress (1921β2015)
Giacomo Bini
2014
Franciscan priest (1938β2014)
Harlan Mathews
2014
American politician
N. Janardhana Reddy
2014
Indian politician (1935-2014)
Mary Stewart (novelist)
2014
British novelist (1916β2014)
RamΓ³n Blanco (footballer)
2013
Spanish footballer and manager
George M. Leader
2013
American politician
Humberto Lugo Gil
2013
Mexican politician
Ottavio Missoni
2013
Founder of Missoni
Bertram Cohler
2012
American psychologist (1938-2012)
Geoffrey Henry
2012
Cook Island politician and prime minister
Vidal Sassoon
2012
British hairstylist (1928β2012)
Wouter Weylandt
2011
Belgian road bicycle racer
Lena Horne
2010
American singer, actress, dancer and activist (1917β2010)
Otakar Motejl
2010
Czech lawyer and politician (1932β2010)
Chuck Daly
2009
American basketball coach (1930β2009)
Jack Gibson (rugby league)
2008
Australian RL coach and former rugby league footballer
Baptiste Manzini
2008
American football player and coach (1920β2008)
Nuala O'Faolain
2008
Irish journalist and writer (1940β2008)
Pascal Sevran
2008
Musical artist
Dwight Wilson (veteran)
2007
Canadian war veteran (1901β2007)
Akhmad Kadyrov
2004
Chechen militant and revolutionary (1951β2004)
Alan King
2004
American comedian and actor (1927β2004)
Brenda Fassie
2004
South African pop singer (1964β2004)
Russell B. Long
2003
American politician (1918β2003)
1900s
Alice Faye
1998
American actress and singer (1915β1998)
Talat Mahmood
1998
Indian film playback singer
Rawya Ateya
1997
Egyptian politician (1926 β 1997)
Marco Ferreri
1997
Italian film director, screenwriter and actor (1928β1997)
Elias Motsoaledi
1994
South African activist (1924β1994)
Penelope Gilliatt
1993
English writer and film critic (1932β1993)
Keith Whitley
1989
American country singer (1954β1989)
Obafemi Awolowo
1987
Nigerian politician (1909β1987)
Tenzing Norgay
1986
Nepalese-Indian mountaineer (1914β1986)
Edmond O'Brien
1985
American actor (1915β1985)
Henry Bachtold
1983
Nelson Algren
1981
American writer (1909β1981)
Rolf Just Nilsen
1981
Norwegian singer and actor
Kate Molale
1980
South African political activist (1928β1980)
Cyrus S. Eaton
1979
Canadian-American banker, businessman and philanthropist (1883β1979)
Eddie Jefferson
1979
American jazz vocalist and lyricist (1918β1979)
Giuseppe Impastato
1978
Italian political activist
Aldo Moro
1978
Prime Minister of Italy (1963β1968; 1974β1976)
James Jones (author)
1977
American author (1921β1977)
Jens BjΓΈrneboe
1976
Norwegian writer
Ulrike Meinhof
1976
German left-wing militant (1934β1976)
Walter Reuther
1970
American labor union leader and progressive activist (1907β1970)
Mercedes de Acosta
1968
American poet, playwright, and novelist (1892β1968)
Harold Gray
1968
American cartoonist (1894β1968)
Marion Lorne
1968
American actress (1883β1968)
Finlay Currie
1968
Scottish actor (1878β1968)
Leopold Figl
1965
Chancellor of Austria From 1945 to 1953
Bhaurao Patil
1959
Social activist and educator in Maharashtra, India
Ernest de Silva
1957
Ceylonese business magnate, banker, barrister and public figure
Ezio Pinza
1957
Italian opera singer (1892β1957)
Esteban Terradas i Illa
1950
Spanish mathematician, scientist and engineer
Louis II, Prince of Monaco
1949
Prince of Monaco from 1922 to 1949
Han Yong-un
1944
Korean writer (1879β1944)
JΓ³zef Cebula
1942
Polish Roman Catholic priest and martyr
Thomas B. Thrige
1938
Danish entrepreneur, industrialist and businessman
Ernst Bresslau
1935
German zoologist
John Arthur Jarvis
1933
British swimmer
Albert A. Michelson
1931
American experimental physicist (1852β1931)
George CoΘbuc
1918
Romanian poet, translator, teacher and journalist (1866β1918)
François Faber
1915
Luxembourgish racing cyclist
Anthony Wilding
1915
New Zealand tennis player
C. W. Post
1914
American businessman (1854β1914)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
1911
American soldier, minister and author (1823β1911)
Oscar von Gebhardt
1906
German Lutheran theologian (1844-1906)
1800s
William S. Harney
1889
United States Army general (1800β1889)
John Sedgwick
1864
American teacher, military officer, and Union Army general (1813β1864)
Ernst von Lasaulx
1861
German classical philologist, philosopher of history, and politician (1805β1861)
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
1850
French chemist and physicist (1778β1850)
Garlieb Merkel
1850
Baltic German writer and publicist
Friedrich Schiller
1805
German playwright (1759β1805)
Before 1800
Francis Hopkinson
1791
American Founding Father and jurist (1737β1791)
William Clingan
1790
American Founding Father and politician
Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval
1789
French general (1715β1789)
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
1760
German protestant religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
1747
British army officer and diplomat (1673β1747)
Tomaso Antonio Vitali
1745
Italian composer and violinist
Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real
1736
Portuguese diplomat and statesman
Dieterich Buxtehude
1707
Danish-German organist and composer (1637β1707)
William Bradford (governor)
1657
English Separatist leader (1590β1657)
Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon (born 1523)
1590
French cardinal
Mary of Enghien
1446
Countess of Lecce
NiccolΓ² Albergati
1443
Italian Roman Catholic prelate
John Droxford
1329
14th-century Bishop of Bath and Wells and Treasurer of England
Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy
1315
Duke of Burgundy
Magnus the Lawmender
1280
King of Norway from 1263 to 1280
Wang Sitong
934
Jin general
Adalgar
909
Archbishop of Bremen from 888 to 909
Shi Pu
893
Chinese warlord of Tang Dynasty
Osric of Northumbria
729
King of Northumbria
Julius Nepos
480
Western Roman emperor from 474 to 480