Did you know
Enoch L. Johnson's rule encompassed the Roaring Twenties when Atlantic City was at the height of its popularity as a refuge from Prohibition.
Notable Deaths on December 9
1968 — Enoch L. Johnson
American mob boss (born 1883)
December 9 has 112 recorded notable deaths across history, from 638 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
112 source records
638 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on December 9
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1922 Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland. Source
- 1851 The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal. Source
- 1861 American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by Congress. Source
- 1931 The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic. Source
Did you know
Vincent Gardenia was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and again for Moonstruck (1987).
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Thomas was selected by the Broncos in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft.
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Nikki Giovanni won numerous awards, including the Langston Hughes Medal and the NAACP Image Award.
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Mary Leakey discovered the Laetoli footprints, and at the Laetoli site she discovered hominin fossils that were more than 3.
More major people who died on December 9
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1992
Vincent Gardenia
American actor (born 1922)
Vincent Gardenia was an Italian American stage, film and television actor. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and again for Moonstruck (1987).
2021
Demaryius Thomas
American football player (born 1987)
Demaryius Antwon Thomas was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Denver Broncos.
2024
Nikki Giovanni
American poet, writer and activist (born 1943)
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator.
1996
Mary Leakey
English archaeologist and anthropologist (born 1913)
Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape believed to be ancestral to humans.
1971
Ralph Bunche
American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in the Arab–Israeli conflict.
1941
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Russian author, poet, and philosopher (born 1865)
Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky was a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic.
2003
Norm Sloan
American basketball player and coach (born 1926)
Norman Leslie Sloan Jr. was an American college basketball player and coach. Sloan was a native of Indiana and played college basketball and football at North Carolina State University.
1858
Robert Baldwin
Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada West (born 1804)
Robert Baldwin was an Upper Canadian lawyer and politician who with his political partner Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine of Lower Canada, led the first responsible government ministry in the Province of Canada.
1957
Ali İhsan Sâbis
Turkish general (born 1882)
Ali İhsan Pasha was the commander for the Sixth Army of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. After the war he was exiled to Malta by the British occupation forces.
1935
Walter Liggett
American journalist and activist (born 1886)
Walter William Liggett, was an American journalist who worked at several newspapers in New York City, including the New York Times, The Sun, New York Post, and the New York Daily News.
2001
Michael Carver
Baron Carver, English field marshal (born 1915)
Field Marshal Richard Michael Power Carver, Baron Carver, was a senior British Army officer.
1798
Johann Reinhold Forster
German pastor, botanist, and ornithologist (born 1729)
Johann Reinhold Forster was a German Reformed pastor and naturalist.
2021
Speedy Duncan
American football player (born 1942)
Leslie Herbert "Speedy" Duncan was an American professional football player who was a cornerback and return specialist in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL).
2012
Jenni Rivera
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (born 1969)
Dolores Janney "Jenni" Rivera was an American singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, and producer known for her work within the regional Mexican music genre, specifically in the styles of banda, mariachi and…
2013
Eleanor Parker
American actress (born 1922)
Eleanor Jean Parker was an American actress. She was nominated for three Academy Awards for her roles in the films Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), and Interrupted Melody (1955), the first of which won her the…
1982
Marguerite Henry
Australian zoologist (born 1895)
Marguerite Henry was an Australian zoologist known for her research on freshwater crustaceans; she was active in the early 20th century.
1965
Branch Rickey
American baseball player and manager (born 1884)
Wesley Branch Rickey was an American professional baseball catcher, manager, sports executive, and team owner. He was instrumental in breaking the baseball color line by signing black player Jackie Robinson.
748
Nasr ibn Sayyar
Umayyad general and politician (born 663)
Naṣr ibn Sayyār al-Lāythi al-Kināni was an Arab general and the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan in 738–748.
2012
Béla Nagy Abodi
Hungarian painter and academic (born 1918)
Béla Nagy Abodi was a Hungarian painter, and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca.