Famous Deaths on October 9

• 1047 Clemens II [Suitger], Pope (1046-47), dies (b. 1005)
• 1253 Robert Grosseteste, English scientist, scholastic philosopher, theologian and Bishop of Lincoln, dies at around 78
• 1273 Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany

• 1326 Reinald I, earl of Gelre/monarch, went insane, dies
• 1390 John I of Castile, King of Castile and León (1379-90), dies after falling off his horse while riding in a fantasia at 32
• 1423 Frederik III of Blankenheim, bishop of Straatsburg/Utrecht, dies
• 1436 Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut / Jacoba of Bavaria, last Wittelsbach ruler of Hainaut and Holland, dauphine of France (1415-17), dies at 35
• 1555 Justus Jonas, German Protestant theologian and reformer, dies at 62
• 1562 Gabriel Fallopius [Fallopio], Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms (Observationes anatomicae), dies at 39
• 1569 Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
• 1646 Baltasar Carlos, son of Spanish King Philip IV, dies of smallpox at 16
• 1688 Claude Perrault, French physician and architect (East Façade of the Louvre; Paris Observatory), dies at 75
• 1691 William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
• 1709 Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England, dies at 68
• 1729 Ritchie [Richard] Blackmore, English physician to William III and writer of epic poetry, dies at 75
• 1747 David Brainerd, American missionary to the Native Americans, dies at 29

• 1769 Marianus Königsperger, German composer, organist, and Benedictine monk, dies at 60
• 1781 Thomas Erskine, 6th earl of Kellie, Scottish composer and musician, dies at 49
• 1793 Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
• 1797 Elijah B Solomon Zalman, rabbi/Gaon of Vilna Latvia, dies at 77
• 1821 Georg Friederich Fuchs, German composer, dies at 68
• 1831 Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek diplomat, first head of state of independent Greece (1828-31) and founding father of modern Greece, assassinated at 55
• 1837 Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
• 1841 Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect, city planner and painter (Altes Museum, Neue Wache), dies at 60
• 1868 Howell Cobb, American politician (U.S. Secretary of Treasury), dies at 53
• 1873 George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian, dies at 87
• 1897 John Heemskerk, Dutch politician (Minister of the Interior 1866-88), dies at 79
• 1900 Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer, dies at 57
• 1906 Joseph Glidden, American inventor (barbed wire) and businessman, dies at 93
• 1907 Romualdo Marenco, Italian composer, chiefly of ballet music (Excelsior), and conductor, dies at 66
• 1912 Millie & Christine McCoy, American Siamese twins born slaves, die at 61
• 1915 Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73

• 1917 Hussein Kamel, Sultan of Egypt (1914-17), dies at 63
• 1918 Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev, Imperial Russian general and WWI Chief of Staff, murdered at 60
• 1918 Raymond Duchamp-Villon, French cubist sculptor (Head of Baudelaire), dies at 41
• 1924 Valery Bryusov, Russian poet, writer, and member of the Russian Symbolist movement, dies at 50
• 1934 Alexander I, Serbian monarch (King of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, 1921–29; King of Yugoslavia, 1929–34), assassinated by a Croatian nationalist at 45
• 1934 J-Louis-F Barthou, French writer, French Premier and Foreign Minister, assassinated by a Croatian nationalist at 72
• 1937 August de Boeck, Flemish composer, dies at 72
• 1937 George August Alexander Alting von Geusau, Dutch Minister of war (1918-20), dies at 73
• 1940 Wilfred Grenfell, British medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador, dies at 75
• 1941 Helen Morgan, American stage and screen actress, and singer (Show Boat), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 41
• 1943 Gerard Wilhelm Kernkamp, Dutch historian and editor (Groene Amsterdammer/Green Amsterdam), dies at 78
• 1943 Jan Dieters, Dutch politician, resistance fighter, and a leading member of Communist Party of the Netherlands, executed by the Nazis at 42
• 1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
• 1943 Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist (Nobel Prize 1902 for Zeeman effect), dies at 78
• 1949 Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky, Russian composer, dies at 70
• 1950 Frank G. Allen, American businessman and politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (1929-31), dies at 76

• 1953 James Finlayson, Scottish-American stage, and silent and “talkie” film actor (Laurel and Hardy films), dies of a heart attack at 66
• 1954 Robert H. Jackson, American lawyer and politician (84th Supreme Court justice 1941-54), dies at 62
• 1955 Alice Joyce, American actress (Song O’ My Heart), dies at 65
• 1955 Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal and archbishop of Vienna, dies at 79
• 1956 Marie Doro, American stage and film actress of the early silent film era (The Heart of Nora Flynn, The White Pearl), dies at 74

• 1960 Howard Glenn, NY Titan, dies of injuries sustain in this day’s game
• 1962 Lulu McConnell, American vaudeville, radio, and television comedienne (It Pays To Be Ignorant), dies at 80
• 1963 Thurlow Lieurance, American composer (By the Waters of Minnetonka; Sad Moon on Falling Leaf), ethnomusicologist (Indigenous peoples), and educator, dies at 85
• 1967 Andre Maurois [Emile Herzog], French writer (Balzac), dies at 82

• 1967 Gordon Allport, American psychologist (personalities), dies at 69
• 1968 Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed
• 1972 Dave Bancroft, American Baseball HOF shortstop (World Series 1921, 22 NY Giants) and manager (Boston Braves), dies at 81
• 1972 Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter (Roman School), dies at 72
• 1972 Miriam Hopkins, actress (Carrie, Barbary Coast), dies at 69
• 1973 Sister Rosetta Tharpe [Nubin], American gospel and R&B singer, songwriter, and electric guitarist (“This Train”; “Down By The Riverside”), dies of a stroke at 58

• 1976 Walter Warlimont, German military officer (WW – 2nd Lieutenant inI; WWII General), and convicted war criminal, dies at 82

• 1978 Pavel Antokolsky, Russian poet and theatre director (Syn), dies at 82
• 1982 Anna Freud, Austrian-English psychoanalyst and daughter of Sigmund Freud, dies at 86
• 1983 Suh Seok-jun, South Korea Deputy Prime Minister, killed (one of 21 victims) in Rangoon bombing at about 45
• 1985 Emílio Garrastazu Médici, 28th President of Brazil (1969-74), dies at 79
• 1987 Clare Boothe Luce, American politician and U.S. ambassador to Italy, dies at 84
• 1987 Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer, dies at 79
• 1988 Cliff Gallup, American guitarist (Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps), dies of a heart attack at 58
• 1988 Edward Chodorov, Broadway playwright and director (Story of Louis Pasteur), dies at 84

• 1988 Jackie Milburn, English soccer striker (13 caps; Newcastle United 353 games), dies from lung cancer at 64
• 1989 Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
• 1990 Richard Murdoch, actor (Lilli Marlene), dies of a heart attack at 83
• 1991 Roy Black, German schlager singer and actor (Kinderarzt Dr Froehlich), dies of heart failure at 43
• 1991 Thalmus Rasulala [Jack Crowder], American actor (Blacula; Roots), dies of a heart attack at 51
• 1992 Per Olof Sundman, Swedish writer and politician, dies at 70
• 1993 C. R. Rangachari, Indian cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies at 77
• 1993 Geert de Vlaeminck, Belgian champion cyclist, dies at 26
• 1994 Fred Lebow, US founder of New York Marathon, dies of cancer
• 1994 James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75
• 1994 Joan Dickson, British cellist and teacher, dies at 72
• 1994 Raich Carter, English soccer forward (13 caps; Sunderland, Derby County, Hull C) and manager (Hull C, Leeds, Mansfield Town, Middlesborough), dies from a stroke at 80

• 1995 John Alfred Scali, American journalist and diplomat, dies at 77
• 1995 Kukrit Pramoj, Thai politician (13th Prime Minister of Thailand) and scholar, dies at 84
• 1995 Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies
• 1995 Patric Walker, American-British astrologer, dies of food poisoning at 64
• 1995 Phillip Oppenheimer, British diamond trader, dies at 83
• 1996 Alan Charles Downes, British founder member of Independent Television News and cameraman, dies at 58
• 1996 Aleksandar Popović, Serbian dramatist (Bela kafa), dies at 66
• 1996 Harvey Vernon [Chet Smith], American actor (Teen Wolf, Jasper-Carter Country), dies at 69
• 1996 Joachim Wohlgemuth, German writer, dies at 64
• 1996 Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician, dies at 83
• 1996 Richard Clarkson, English aeronautical engineer (Hawker Siddeley Trident), dies at 94

• 1998 Beth Bonner, American athlete (WR marathon 1971, 3:01:42; first winner women’s division New York City Marathon 1971), dies in road accident at 46
• 1998 Ian Johnson, Australian cricket spin bowler and captain (45 Tests; 109 wickets), dies at 80
• 1998 Robert Allen [Irvine Theodore Baehr], American actor (The Awful Truth; Crime and Punishment), dies from cancer and collapsed lung at 92
• 1999 Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries, dies at 85
• 1999 Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (Modern Jazz Quartet), pianist, and composer (“Bags Groove”), dies of cancer at 76
• 1999 Morris West, Australian novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman), dies at 83
• 2000 David Dukes, American actor (Beacon Hill, 79 Park Avenue, Winds of War), dies at 55
• 2000 Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross for his conduct during the raid on Dieppe in 1942, dies at 82 [1] [2]
• 2001 Abolhassan Banisadr, Iranian politician, President of Iran (1980-81), and writer (My Turn To Speak), dies in exile at 88
• 2001 Dagmar [Virginia Ruth Egnor], American actress, model, and television personality (Broadway’s Open House), dies at 79
• 2001 Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (Footloose, Steel Magnolias, dies at 74
• 2002 Aileen Wournos, American serial killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)
• 2002 Anwar Hussain, Pakistani cricket batsman (4 Tests, Pakistan’s first Test; Karachi, Mumbai, Sind, Northern India), dies at 82
• 2002 Charles Guggenheim, American film director and producer (b. 1924)
• 2003 Carolyn Heilbrun, American mystery writer (as Amanda Cross), editor (Lady Ottoline’s Album), and academic (Columbia University, 1960-62), tales her own life at 77
• 2005 Billy Myles [Nobles], American R&B songwriter and singer (“(You Were Made for) All My Love”, “Have You Ever Loved A Woman”), dies at 81
• 2005 Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (Curb Your Enthusiasm; The Steve Allen Plymouth Show; The Beverly Hillbillies – Sonny Drysdale”), dies of lung cancer at 92
• 2005 Tom Cheek, American sportscaster (Voice of the Toronto Blue Jays), dies at 66
• 2006 Danièle Huillet, French film director, with Jean-Marie Straub (Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach; Sicilia!), dies of cancer at 70 [1]
• 2006 Kanshi Ram, Indian Dalit leader and politician (President of the Bahujan Samaj Party, 1984- 2003; Member of Parliament, 1991- 2004), dies of a heart attack at 72
• 2006 Paul Hunter, English snooker player (Masters 2001, 02, 04), dies from neuroendocrine tumours at 27
• 2006 Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell, dies at 82
• 2006 Reginald Freeson, British Labour Party politician (Member of Parliament, 1964-87), and editor (Jewish Vanguard, 1987- 2006), dies at 80
• 2007 Carol Bruce [Shirley Levy], American actress (Behind the Eight Ball; WKRP in Cincinnati – “Mother Carlson”), dies of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 87
• 2007 Enrico Banducci, American owner of influential stand-up club Hungry i, dies at 85
• 2007 Kurt Schwaen, German classical composer, and pedagouge, dies at 98
• 2008 Albert Hall, American hammer throw athlete, dies at 74
• 2011 Mark Kingston, English actor (Intimate Contact), dies at 77
• 2011 Pavel Karelin, Russian ski jumper (b. 1989)
• 2012 Harris Savides, American cinematographer, dies from brain cancer at 55
• 2012 Theo Olof, German-Dutch violinist and concert master, dies at 88
• 2013 Mark “Chopper” Read, Australian criminal and crime author (Chopper: From the Inside), dies from liver cancer at 58
• 2013 Stanley Kauffmann, American playwright (Red Handkerchief Man), dies at 97
• 2013 Wilfried Martens, Flemish politician and the 44th Prime Minister of Belgium (1979-92), dies from pancreatic cancer at 77
• 2014 Carolyn Ashley Kizer, American writer, dies from complications of dementia 89
• 2014 Jan Hooks, American comedienne and actress (SNL, 1986-94; Designing Women, 1991-93; 3rd Rock from the Sun, 1996-2000), dies of throat cancer at 57
• 2014 Jocelyn Stevens, British media publisher and executive (Queen magazine), and administrator (Royal College of Art, 1984-92; English Heritage. 1992-2000), dies at 82
• 2015 Geoffrey Howe, British politician (Chancellor and Foreign Secretary under Thatcher), dies at 88
• 2015 Gordon Honeycombe, British broadcaster/author, dies at 79
• 2015 N. Ramani, Indian flutist, dies at 80
• 2015 Richard F. Heck, American chemist who discovered the Heck Reaction (Nobel Prize 2010), dies at 84
• 2016 Aaron Pryor, American welterweight boxing champion, dies of heart disease at 60
• 2016 Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (Ashes & Diamonds, Man of Iron), dies at 90
• 2016 Anthony Grant, British MP (C), dies at 91
• 2017 Hervé Leroux, French fashion designer and founder of Hervé Léger fashion house, dies from a ruptured aneurysm at 60
• 2017 Jean Rochefort, French actor (Man on the Train, The Artist and the Model), dies at 87
• 2017 Vincent La Selva, American conductor (New York Grand Opera Company, 1973-2012), dies at 88 [1]

• 2019 Andrés Gimeno, Spanish tennis player (French Open 1972), dies from cancer at 82
• 2020 Pierre Kezdy, American punk-rock bass player (Naked Raygun), dies of cancer at 58
• 2021 Keitaro Hoshino, Japanese boxer (WBA minimumweight title 2000-01, 02), dies at 52
• 2022 Bruce Pairaudeau, West Indian cricketer (WI opening bat in 13 Tests, 115 on debut), dies at 91
• 2022 Margie Masters, Australian golfer (Western Open runner-up 1966), dies at 87
• 2022 Susan Tolsky, American actress (Madame’s Place; Here Come The Brides), dies at 79
• 2022 Yuriy Dehteryov, Ukrainian soccer goalkeeper (17 caps USSR; Shakhtar Donetsk 321 games), dies at 74
• 2023 Charles “Buck” Trent, American country and bluegrass banjoist, dobro player, and singer (Hee Haw), dies at 85
• 2023 Chuck Feeney, American businessman (Duty Free Shoppers Group) and philanthropist (The Atlantic Philanthropies) who gave away almost his entire $8B fortune, dies at 92
• 2023 Gerhard Grimmer, German cross-country skier (World C’ship gold GDR 50km, 4×10km relay 1974), dies at 80
• 2023 Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and artist (Legion of Super-Heroes, Justice League), dies of a stroke at 70
• 2024 August Pabst Jr., American auto racer (USAC Road Racing C’ship 1959; SCCA National Sports Car C’ship 1960), dies at 90
• 2024 Dieter Burdenski, German soccer goalkeeper (12 caps West Germany; Werder Bremen 479 games), dies at 73
• 2024 Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist, philanthropist, and chair of the Tata Group (1991-2012, 2016-17), dies at 86 [1] [2]

October 9 Highlights