Notable people who died on April 9 include: Jimmu, Tan Daoji, Zeno, Maslama ibn Mukhallad al-Ansari, Constantine.

Notable Deaths on April 9

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April 9 has seen 116 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 585 BC – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 116 people 585 BC – 2025

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Jimmu

emperor of Japan (born 711 BC)

Emperor Jimmu was the legendary first emperor of Japan according to the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki. His ascension is traditionally dated as 660 BC. In Japanese mythology, he was a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu,…

-585

Tan Daoji

Chinese general and politician

Tan Daoji was a high-level general of the Chinese Liu Song dynasty. He was one of the most respected generals during the Southern and Northern Dynasties era. Because of this, however, he was feared by Emperor Wen and…

436

Zeno

emperor of the Byzantine Empire (born 425)

Zeno was Eastern Roman emperor from 474 to 475 and again from 476 to 491. His reign was plagued by domestic revolts and religious dissension, but was more successful on the foreign front. He is credited with further…

491

Maslama ibn Mukhallad al-Ansari

Egyptian politician, Governor of Egypt (born 616)

Maslama ibn Mukhallad ibn Samit al-Ansari was one of the companions of the Prophet and active in Egypt in the decades after its conquest by the Muslims.

682

Constantine

pope of the Catholic Church (born 664)

Pope Constantine was the bishop of Rome from 25 March 708 to his death on 9 April 715. One of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy, the defining moment of his pontificate was his 710/711 visit to Constantinople, where…

715

Benedict VIII

pope of the Catholic Church (born 980)

Pope Benedict VIII was bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 18 May 1012 until 1024. He was born Theophylact of Tusculum to the noble family of the counts of Tusculum. Unusually for a medieval pope, he had…

1024

William X

duke of Aquitaine (born 1099)

William X, called the Saint, was Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, and Count of Poitou from 1126 to 1137.

1137

Henry II

High Duke of Poland (born 1196)

Henry II the Pious was Duke of Silesia and High Duke of Poland as well as Duke of South-Greater Poland from 1238 until his death. Between 1238 and 1239 he also served as regent of Sandomierz and Opole–Racibórz. He was…

1241

Margaret of Scotland

queen of Norway (born 1261)

Margaret of Scotland was Queen of Norway as the wife of King Eric II. She is sometimes known as the Maid of Scotland to distinguish her from her daughter, Margaret, Maid of Norway, who succeeded to the throne of…

1283

Walter Stewart

6th High Steward of Scotland, Scottish nobleman (ca. 1296)

Walter Stewart was the 6th Hereditary High Steward of Scotland and was the father of King Robert II of Scotland, the first Stewart monarch.

1327

Edward IV

king of England (born 1442)

Edward IV was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until he died in 1483. A member of the House of York, he was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil…

1483

Edward of Middleheim

prince of Wales (born 1473)

Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, was the son and heir apparent of King Richard III of England by his wife Anne Neville. He was Richard's only legitimate child and died aged seven or ten.

1484

Alqas Mirza

Safavid prince (born 1516)

Abu'l Ghazi Sultan Alqas Mirza, better known as Alqas Mirza, was a Safavid prince and the second surviving son of king (shah) Ismail I. In early 1546, with Ottoman help, he staged a revolt against his brother Tahmasp I,…

1550

François Rabelais

French monk and scholar (born 1494)

François Rabelais was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholar, he attracted opposition from both Protestant theologian John Calvin…

1553

Mikael Agricola

Finnish priest and scholar (born 1510)

Mikael Agricola was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman who became the de facto founder of literary Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden, including Finland, which was a Swedish territory at…

1557

Jean Quintin

French priest, knight and writer (born 1500)

Jean Quintin or Quentin was a French priest, knight of the Order of St John and writer. His writings include Insulae Melitae Descriptio (1536), the earliest known detailed description of the Maltese Islands, which also…

1561

Francis Bacon

English jurist and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (born 1561)

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued for the importance of natural philosophy,…

1626

Matei Basarab

Romanian prince (born 1588)

Matei Basarab was the voivode (prince) of Wallachia from 1632 to 1654.

1654

Roger de Rabutin

Comte de Bussy, French author (born 1618)

Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, commonly known as Bussy-Rabutin, was a French memoirist. He was the cousin and frequent correspondent of Madame de Sévigné.

1693

Simon Fraser

11th Lord Lovat, Scottish soldier and politician (born 1667)

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, was a Scottish landowner and head of Clan Fraser of Lovat. Convicted of high treason for his role in the Jacobite rising of 1745, he was the last man in Britain to be executed by beheading.

1747

Christian Wolff

German philosopher and academic (born 1679)

Christian Wolff was a German philosopher. Wolff is characterized as one of the most eminent German philosophers between Leibniz and Kant. His life work spanned almost every scholarly subject of his time, displayed and…

1754

William Law

English priest and theologian (born 1686)

William Law was a Church of England priest who lost his position at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, when his conscience would not allow him to take the required oath of allegiance to the first Hanoverian monarch, King…

1761

Sarah Fielding

English author (born 1710)

Sarah Fielding was an English writer and sister of the playwright, novelist and magistrate Henry Fielding. She wrote The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (1749), thought to be the first novel in English aimed…

1768

Jacques Necker

Swiss-French politician, Chief Minister to the French Monarch (born 1732)

Jacques Necker was a Genevan banker, financier and statesman who served as finance minister of France for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent. Necker was a constitutional…

1804

William V

stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (born 1748)

William V was Prince of Orange and the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. He went into exile to London in 1795.

1806

Erastus Corning

American businessman and politician (born 1794)

Erastus Corning was an American businessman and politician from Albany, New York. A Democrat, he was most notable for his service as mayor of Albany from 1834 to 1837, in the New York State Senate from 1842 to 1845, and…

1872

Charles Goodyear

American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1804)

Charles Goodyear was a banker, attorney, and politician from New York. He was most notable for his service as a United States representative from 1845 to 1847 and 1865 to 1867.

1876

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

English poet and painter (born 1828)

Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John…

1882

Michel Eugène Chevreul

French chemist and academic (born 1786)

Michel Eugène Chevreul was a French chemist whose work contributed to significant developments in science, medicine, and art. Chevreul's early work with animal fats revolutionized soap and candle manufacturing and led…

1889

Isabella II

Spanish queen (born 1830)

Isabella II was Queen of Spain from 1833 until her deposition in 1868. She is the only queen regnant in the history of unified Spain.

1904

Helena Modjeska

Polish-American actress (born 1840)

Helena Modrzejewska, known professionally in the United States as Helena Modjeska, was a Polish-American actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles. She was also a philanthropist and a socialite.

1909

Raymond Whittindale

English rugby player (born 1883)

Raymond Whittindale was a British rugby union player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the British rugby union team, which won the silver medal.

1915

James Hope Moulton

English philologist and scholar (born 1863)

The Reverend James Hope Moulton was a British non-conformist divine. He was also a philologist and made a special study of Zoroastrianism.

1917

Hans Fruhstorfer

German entomologist and explorer (born 1866)

Hans Fruhstorfer was a German explorer, insect and shell trader and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He collected and described new species of exotic butterflies, especially in Adalbert Seitz's…

1922

Zip the Pinhead

American freak show performer (born 1857)

William Henry Johnson, known as Zip the Pinhead, was an American freak show performer known for his tapered head.

1926

Ferdinand Tönnies

German sociologist and philosopher (born 1855)

Ferdinand Tönnies was a German sociologist, economist, and philosopher. He was a significant contributor to sociological theory and field studies, best known for distinguishing between two types of social groups,…

1936

Mrs Patrick Campbell

English actress (born 1865)

Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner, better known by her stage name Mrs Patrick Campbell or Mrs Pat, was an English stage actress, best known for appearing in plays by Shakespeare, Shaw and Barrie. These included Shaw's…

1940

Yevgeniya Rudneva

Ukrainian lieutenant and pilot (born 1920)

Yevgeniya Maksimovna Rudneva was the head navigator of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment posthumously awarded Hero of the Soviet Union. Prior to World War II she was an astronomer, the head of the Solar Department…

1944

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

German pastor and theologian (born 1906)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have…

1945

Wilhelm Canaris

German admiral (born 1887)

Wilhelm Franz Canaris was a German admiral and the chief of the Abwehr from 1935 to 1944. Initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, Canaris turned against Hitler and committed acts of both passive and…

1945

Johann Georg Elser

German carpenter (born 1903)

Johann Georg Elser was a German carpenter who planned and carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders on 8 November 1939 at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich. Elser…

1945

Hans Oster

German general (born 1887)

Hans Paul Oster was a German general in the Wehrmacht and a leading figure in the military resistance to Adolf Hitler. As deputy head of the counter‑espionage bureau in the Abwehr, he used his position to support and…

1945

Karl Sack

German lawyer and jurist (born 1896)

Karl Sack was a German jurist and member of the resistance movement during World War II.

1945

Hans von Dohnányi

Austrian-German lawyer and jurist (born 1902)

Hans von Dohnanyi was a German jurist. He used his position in the Abwehr to help Jews escape Germany, worked with German resistance against the Nazi régime, and after the failed 20 July Plot, he was accused of being…

1945

George Carpenter

Australian 5th General of The Salvation Army (born 1872)

George Lyndon Carpenter was an Australian writer who was the fifth General of The Salvation Army from 1939 to 1946.

1948

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán

Colombian lawyer and politician, 16th Colombian Minister of National Education (born 1903)

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala was a Colombian politician and statesman who was the leader of the Liberal Party. A nationalist, he served as the mayor of Bogotá from 1936–37, the national Education Minister from 1940–41,…

1948

Vilhelm Bjerknes

Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (born 1862)

Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes was a Norwegian geophysicist and meteorologist with essential contributions to the foundation of the modern practice of weather forecasting. He formulated the primitive equations that are…

1951

Eddie Cochems

American football player and coach (born 1877)

Edward Bulwer Cochems was an American football player and coach. He played football for the University of Wisconsin from 1898 to 1901 and was the head football coach at North Dakota Agricultural College—now known as…

1953

C. E. M. Joad

English philosopher and television host (born 1891)

Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad was an English philosopher, author, teacher and broadcasting personality. He appeared on The Brains Trust, a BBC Radio wartime discussion programme. He popularised philosophy and became a…

1953

Hans Reichenbach

German philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1891)

Hans Reichenbach was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He founded the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie in Berlin in 1928, also known as the "Berlin Circle". Carl…

1953

Frank Lloyd Wright

American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (born 1867)

Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the…

1959

Zog I of Albania (born 1895)

Zog I was an Albanian statesman and aristocrat who served as the leader of Albania from 1922 to 1939. At age 27, he first served as Albania's youngest ever prime minister (1922–1924), then as president (1925–1928), and…

1961

Eddie Edwards

American trombonist (born 1891)

Edwin Branford Edwards was an early jazz trombonist who was a member of the Original Dixieland Jass Band.

1963

Xul Solar

Argentinian painter and sculptor (born 1887)

Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari, an Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, and inventor of imaginary languages.

1963

Gustaf Tenggren

Swedish-American illustrator and animator (born 1896)

Gustaf Adolf Tenggren was a Swedish illustrator and animator. He is known for his Arthur Rackham-influenced fairy-tale style and use of silhouetted figures with caricatured faces. Tenggren was a chief illustrator for…

1970

Dagmar Nordstrom

American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1903)

Dagmar Nordstrom was an American composer, pianist and singer. She performed together with her sister Siggie as a cabaret singing duo known as The Nordstrom Sisters.

1976

Phil Ochs

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1940)

Philip David Ochs was an American songwriter, protest singer, and political activist. Ochs was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, and political commentary. He wrote about 200 songs in the 1960s and 1970s and…

1976

Renato Petronio

Italian rower (born 1891)

Renato Petronio was an Italian rowing coxswain who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

1976

Clough Williams-Ellis

English-Welsh architect, designed Portmeirion (born 1883)

Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, CBE, MC was a Welsh architect known chiefly as the creator of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in North Wales. He became a major figure in the development of Welsh architecture in…

1978

Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr

Iraqi cleric and philosopher (born 1935)

Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, also known as al-Shahid al-Khamis, was an Iraqi Islamic scholar, philosopher, and the ideological founder of the Islamic Dawa Party. He was the father-in-law to Muqtada al-Sadr, a cousin of…

1980

Wilfrid Pelletier

Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1896)

Joseph Louis Wilfrid Pelletier, was a Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and arts administrator. He was instrumental in establishing the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, serving as the orchestra's first artistic…

1982

Brook Benton

American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1931)

Benjamin Franklin Peay, known professionally as Brook Benton, was an American singer and songwriter whose music spanned rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music genres in the 1950s and 1960s, with hits such as…

1988

Hans Berndt

German footballer (born 1913)

Hans "Hanne" Berndt was a German footballer who played for Tennis Borussia Berlin and VfB Königsberg. He was also capped three times for the Germany national team, scoring two goals.

1988

Dave Prater

American singer (born 1937)

David Prater Jr. was an American Southern soul and rhythm & blues singer and musician, who was the deeper baritone/tenor vocalist of the soul vocal duo Sam & Dave from 1961 until his death in 1988. He is a member of the…

1988

Forrest Towns

American hurdler and coach (born 1914)

Forrest Grady "Spec" Towns was an American track and field athlete and coach. He was the 1936 Olympic champion in the 110 m hurdles and broke the world record in that event three times.

1991

Joseph B. Soloveitchik

American rabbi and philosopher (born 1903)

Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a scion of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty.

1993

Richard Condon

American author and publicist (born 1915)

Richard Thomas Condon was an American political novelist. Though his works were satire, they were generally transformed into thrillers or semi-thrillers in other media, such as cinema. All 26 books were written in…

1996

Mae Boren Axton

American singer-songwriter (born 1914)

Mae Boren Axton was an American singer-songwriter. She was known in the music industry as the "Queen Mother of Nashville". She co-wrote the Elvis Presley hit single "Heartbreak Hotel" with Tommy Durden. She worked with…

1997

Helene Hanff

American author and screenwriter (born 1916)

Helene Hanff was an American writer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is best known as the author of the book 84, Charing Cross Road, which became the basis for a stage play, television play, and film of the same…

1997

Tom Cora

American cellist and composer (born 1953)

Thomas Henry Corra, better known as Tom Cora, was an American cellist and composer, best known for his improvisational performances in the field of experimental jazz and rock. He recorded with John Zorn, Butch Morris,…

1998

Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara

Nigerien general and politician, President of Niger (born 1949)

General Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was a Nigerien military officer and diplomat who ruled Niger from 1996 until his assassination in 1999. He seized and lost power in military coups.

1999

Tony Cliff

Trotskyist activist and founder of the Socialist Workers Party (born 1917)

Tony Cliff was a Trotskyist activist. Born to a Jewish family in Ottoman Palestine, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1947 and by the end of the 1950s had assumed the pen name of Tony Cliff. A founding member of the…

2000

Willie Stargell

American baseball player and coach (born 1940)

Wilver Dornell Stargell, nicknamed "Pops" later in his career, was an American professional baseball left fielder and first baseman who spent all of his 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1962–1982) with the…

2001

Pat Flaherty

American race car driver (born 1926)

George Francis "Pat" Flaherty was an American racing driver who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1956.

2002

Leopold Vietoris

Austrian soldier, mathematician, and academic (born 1891)

Leopold Vietoris was an Austrian mathematician, World War I veteran and supercentenarian. He was born in Radkersburg and died in Innsbruck.

2002

Jerry Bittle

American cartoonist (born 1949)

Jerry Bittle was a cartoonist who drew the comic strips Geech and Shirley and Son.

2003

Billy Hitchcock

American baseball player, coach, manager (born 1916)

William Clyde Hitchcock was an American professional baseball infielder, coach, manager and scout. In Major League Baseball (MLB), he was primarily a third baseman, second baseman and shortstop who appeared in 703 games…

2006

Vilgot Sjöman

Swedish director and screenwriter (born 1924)

David Harald Vilgot Sjöman was a Swedish writer and film director. His films deal with controversial issues of social class, morality, and sexual taboos, combining the emotionally tortured characters of Ingmar Bergman…

2006

Egon Bondy

Czech philosopher and poet (born 1930)

Egon Bondy, born Zbyněk Fišer, was a Czech writer, with prolific and distinctive output in poetry, prose and philosophy, one of the leading personalities of the Prague underground within Communist Czechoslovakia. From…

2007

Dorrit Hoffleit

American astronomer and academic (born 1907)

Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit was an American senior research astronomer at Yale University. She is best known for her work in variable stars, astrometry, spectroscopy, meteors, and the Bright Star Catalog. She is also known…

2007

Nick Adenhart

American baseball player (born 1986)

Nicholas James Adenhart was an American right-handed baseball starting pitcher who played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. In just four career games, Adenhart…

2009

Zoltán Varga

Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1945)

Zoltán Varga was a Hungarian footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He was an Olympic gold medalist at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He played for Ferencvárosi TC when they won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in…

2010

Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri

Bahraini journalist (born 1971)

Zakariya Rashid Hassan Al-Ashiri, also spelled Al Asheri and Aushayri,, was a forty-year-old Bahraini blogger and journalist, worked as an editor and writer for a local blog news website in Al Dair, Bahrain. He was…

2011

Sidney Lumet

American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1924)

Sidney Arthur Lumet was an American film director. Lumet started his career in theatre before moving to directing television in 1950, and then directing films from 1957, where he gained a reputation for making realistic…

2011

Malcolm Thomas

Welsh rugby player and cricketer (born 1929)

Malcolm Campbell Thomas was a Welsh and British Lions international rugby union player. A centre, he played club rugby for Newport. He won 27 caps for Wales and was selected to play in the British Lions on two tours of…

2012

Boris Parygin

Soviet philosopher, psychologist, and author (born 1930)

Boris Dmitrievitch Parygin was a Soviet and Russian philosopher, sociologist and one of the founders of social psychology and member of a wide range of international academies. Parygin was a specialist in a sphere of…

2012

David Hayes

American sculptor and painter (born 1931)

David Vincent Hayes was an American sculptor.

2013

Greg McCrary

American football player (born 1952)

Gregory Alonza McCrary was an American professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Atlanta Falcons, Washington Redskins, and the San Diego Chargers. He played college…

2013

Mordechai Mishani

Israeli lawyer and politician (born 1945)

Mordechai "Motti" Mishani was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for One Israel and Gesher between 2001 and 2003.

2013

McCandlish Phillips

American journalist and author (born 1927)

John McCandlish Phillips Jr. was an American journalist and author on religious subjects. He worked at The New York Times from 1952 to 1973. McCandlish was most well known for writing a story for the Times which…

2013

Paolo Soleri

Italian-American architect, designed the Cosanti (born 1919)

Paolo Soleri was an Italian architect and urban planner. He established the educational Cosanti Foundation and Arcosanti. Soleri was a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National…

2013

Gil Askey

American trumpet player, composer, and producer (born 1925)

Gilbert Askey was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, producer and musical director who was born in Austin, Texas, and emigrated to Australia in 1988.

2014

Chris Banks

American football player (born 1973)

Warren Christopher Banks was an American professional football guard in the National Football League (NFL). Drafted out of the University of Kansas by the Broncos with the 226th overall pick in the seventh round of the…

2014

Rory Ellinger

American lawyer and politician (born 1941)

Rory Vincent Ellinger was an American lawyer and politician. Ellinger was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He served as the Representative for Pagedale, University City, and Wellston in St. Louis County in the Missouri…

2014

Norman Girvan

Jamaican economist, academic, and politician (born 1941)

Norman Paul Girvan was a Jamaican professor, Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States between 2000 and 2004. He was born in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica. He died aged 72 in Cuba on 9 April 2014, after…

2014

Aelay Narendra

Indian politician (born 1946)

Ale Narendra was an Indian politician who was a member of the 13th and 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Medak Lok Sabha in 1999 and Medak in 2004. He was 3 time MLA from Himayatnagar Constituency in 1983,…

2014

A. N. R. Robinson

Trinbagonian politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (born 1926)

Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson, was a Trinidad and Tobago politician who served as the third President of Trinidad and Tobago from 1997 to 2003 and the third Prime Minister from 1986 to 1991. He is known for his…

2014

Svetlana Velmar-Janković

Serbian author (born 1933)

Svetlana Velmar-Janković was a Serbian novelist, essayist, chronicler of Belgrade, and first female laureate of the Isidora Sekulić Award. She was considered to be one of the most important Serbian female authors of her…

2014

Paul Almond

Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1931)

Paul Almond was a Canadian television and motion picture screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist. He is most known for being the director of the first film in the Up series.

2015

Margaret Rule

British marine archaeologist (born 1928)

Margaret Helen Rule was a British archaeologist. She is most notable for her involvement with the project that excavated and raised the Tudor warship Mary Rose in 1982.

2015

Nina Companeez

French director and screenwriter (born 1937)

Nina Companeez was a French screenwriter and film director. Nina Companeez was the younger daughter of Russian Jewish émigré screenwriter Jacques Companéez and younger sister of contralto Irène Companeez. She was the…

2015

Alexander Dalgarno

English physicist and academic (born 1928)

Alexander Dalgarno FRS was a British physicist who was a Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University.

2015

Ivan Doig

American journalist and author (born 1939)

Ivan Doig was an American author and novelist, widely known for his sixteen fiction and non-fiction books set mostly in his native Montana, celebrating the landscape and people of the post-war American West.

2015

Tsien Tsuen-hsuin

Chinese-American academic (born 1909)

Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, also known as T.H. Tsien, was a Chinese-American bibliographer, librarian, and sinologist who served as a professor of Chinese literature and library science at the University of Chicago Graduate…

2015

Duane Clarridge

American spy (born 1932)

Duane Ramsdell "Dewey" Clarridge was an American senior operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and supervisor for more than 30 years. At various points, he had been stationed in Nepal, India,…

2016

Will Smith

American football player (born 1981)

William Raymond Smith III was an American professional football defensive end who played in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes and was selected by the New Orleans…

2016

John Clarke

New Zealand-Australian comedian, writer, and satirist (born 1948)

John Morrison Clarke was a New Zealand comedian, writer and satirist who lived and worked in Australia from the late 1970s. He was a highly regarded actor and writer whose work appeared on the Australian Broadcasting…

2017

Charles Van Doren

American writer and editor (born 1926)

Charles Lincoln Van Doren was an American writer and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s. In 1959, he testified before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct…

2019

Prince Philip

Duke of Edinburgh (born 1921)

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II and served as consort of the British monarch from her accession on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, making him the longest-serving royal…

2021

DMX

American rapper and actor (born 1970)

Earl Simmons, known professionally as DMX, was an American rapper, songwriter, and actor. His accolades included an American Music Award, a Billboard Music Award, and six Grammy Award nominations. Regarded as an…

2021

Ian Gibson

British scientist and Labour Party politician (born 1938)

Ian Gibson was a British Labour politician and scientist who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich North from 1997 to 2009.

2021

Ramsey Clark

American lawyer (born 1927)

William Ramsey Clark was an American lawyer, activist, and federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Presidents John…

2021

Dwayne Haskins

American football player (born 1997)

Dwayne Haskins Jr. was an American professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for three seasons. He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, setting Big Ten Conference…

2022

Karl Berger

German-American jazz pianist (born 1935)

Karl Hans Berger was a German-American jazz pianist, vibraphonist, composer, and educator. He was a leading figure in jazz improvisation from the 1960s when he settled in the United States for life. He founded the…

2023

Ray Shero

American ice hockey player and executive (born 1962)

Rejean "Ray" Shero was an American ice hockey executive in the National Hockey League (NHL) who served as the general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins and New Jersey Devils franchises from 2006 to 2020.

2025

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UNIVAC 1 — April 9, 1951

1st commercial computer UNIVAC 1 launched in Philadelphia in 1951, revolutionizing data processing completely

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Nikki Grahame — English television personality (1982–2021)

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Death year2021

Known forShe was a contestant on the seventh series of the reality show Big Brother in 2006, which she finished in fifth place

Deaths on this date116 (585 BC – 2025)

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Burmese military and security forces commit the Bago massacre, during which at least 82 civilians are killed. Wikipedia →

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Soyuz MS-18 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying three members of the Expedition 64 crew to the International Space Station. Wikipedia →

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Soyuz MS-16 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the Expedition 62/63 crew to the International Space Station. Wikipedia →

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