October 9
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Art and culture
Births
- 1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
- 1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
- 1906 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
- 1908 - Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982)
- 1940 - John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
- 1944 - Nona Hendryx, American singer (LaBelle)
- 1947 - France Gall, French singer
- 1964 - Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
Deaths
- 1047 - Pope Clement II (b. 1005)
- 1253 - Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
- 1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
- 1390 - King John I of Castile (b. 1358)
- 1555 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
- 1562 - Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and inventor of the condom. (b. 1523)
- 1569 - Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
- 1597 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
- 1691 - William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
- 1709 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
- 1729 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
- 1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
- 1797 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720)
- 1806 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731)
- 1831 - John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
- 1873 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
- 1924 - Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
- 1934 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b. 1888)
- 1934 - Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862)
- 1940 - Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
- 1941 - Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
- 1943 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
- 1950 - George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
- 1955 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1875)
- 1956 - Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
- 1958 - Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
- 1962 - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
- 1967 - Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)
- 1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- 1967 - André Maurois, French author (b. 1885)
- 1968 - Pierre Mulele, Congolese revolutionary (b. 1929)
- 1972 - Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
- 1974 - Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
- 1976 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)
- 1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1929)
- 1985 - Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
- 1987 - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
- 1987 - Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
- 1987 - William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
- 1989 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
- 1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
- 1996 - Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)
- 1999 - Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
- 1999 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)
- 2000 - David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
- 2000 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
- 2001 - Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
- 2001 - Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)
- 2002 - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
- 2005 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
- 2006 - Paul Hunter, professional snooker player (b. 1978)
- 2006 - Raymond Noorda, co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)
Notes
- Jacques Tati
- Jean Paulhan
- Jacques Brel
- Johannes Theodor Baargeld
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel
- Manuel Ortiz de Zárate
- Anthony Earnshaw
- Che Guevara
- Nona Hendryx
- Alfred Dreyfus
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Straub-Huillet
- Veikko Ennala
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