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Napoleon III was the first elected president, second emperor, and last monarch of France.
Notable Deaths on January 9
1873 — Napoleon III
French politician, 1st President of France (born 1808)
January 9 has 123 recorded notable deaths across history, from 710 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
123 source records
710 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on January 9
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- 2005 The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War. Source
- 1992 The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12. Source
- 1991 Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Source
- 1792 Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed, ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–92. Source
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In the early 1920s, Chamberlain met and encouraged Hitler.
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Zygmunt Bauman resided in England from 1971, where he studied at the London School of Economics and became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, later emeritus.
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Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Latinized as Demetrius Chalcocondyles and found variously as Demetricocondyles, Chalcocondylas or Chalcondyles, was one of the most eminent Greek scholars in the West.
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Tan Chor Jin, also known by his alias Tony Kia, was a Singaporean gang leader known for fatally shooting 41-year-old Lim Hock Soon, his former friend and nightclub owner, using a semi-automatic Beretta .
More major people who died on January 9
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1927
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
English-German philosopher and author (born 1855)
Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a British-German-French philosopher.
2017
Zygmunt Bauman
Polish sociologist (born 1925)
Zygmunt Bauman was a Polish–British sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship.
1511
Demetrios Chalkokondyles
Greek scholar and academic (born 1423)
Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Latinized as Demetrius Chalcocondyles and found variously as Demetricocondyles, Chalcocondylas or Chalcondyles, was one of the most eminent Greek scholars in the West.
2009
Tan Chor Jin
Singaporean murderer and triad leader of Ang Soon Tong (born 1966)
Tan Chor Jin, also known by his alias Tony Kia, was a Singaporean gang leader known for fatally shooting 41-year-old Lim Hock Soon, his former friend and nightclub owner, using a semi-automatic Beretta .22 calibre…
1960
Elsie J. Oxenham
English author and educator (born 1880)
Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley, was an English girls' story writer, who took the name Oxenham as her pseudonym when her first book, Goblin Island, was published in 1907.
1283
Wen Tianxiang
Chinese general and scholar (born 1236)
Wen Tianxiang, noble title Duke of Xin (信國公), was a Chinese statesman, poet and politician in the last years of the Southern Song dynasty.
1939
Johann Strauss III
Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1866)
Johann Maria Eduard Strauss III was an Austrian composer whose father was Eduard Strauss, whose uncles were Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss, and whose grandfather was Johann Strauss I.
2011
Makinti Napanangka
Australian painter (born 1930)
Makinti Napanangka AM was a Pintupi-speaking Indigenous Australian artist from Australia's Western Desert region. She was referred to posthumously as Kumentje.
1990
Cemal Süreya
Turkish poet and journalist (born 1931)
Cemal Süreya, known by his given name as Cemalettin Seber, was a Zaza Kurd Alevi poet, writer, and translator. He was one of the pioneering poets of the İkinci Yeni movement, a modernist movement in Turkish poetry.
2012
Malam Bacai Sanhá
Guinea-Bissau politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1947)
Malam Bacai Sanhá was a Bissau-Guinean politician who was President of Guinea-Bissau from 8 September 2009 until his death on 9 January 2012.
1917
Luther D. Bradley
American cartoonist (born 1853)
Luther Daniels Bradley was an American illustrator and political cartoonist associated with the Chicago Daily News. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale University in 1875.
2022
Bob Saget
American comedian, actor, and television host (born 1956)
Robert Lane Saget was an American stand-up comedian, actor, director, and television host. He portrayed Danny Tanner on the sitcom Full House (1987–1995) and its sequel Fuller House (2016–2020).
1998
Kenichi Fukui
Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
Kenichi Fukui was a Japanese chemist. He became the first person of East Asian ancestry to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry when he won the 1981 prize with Roald Hoffmann, for their independent investigations…
1947
Karl Mannheim
Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (born 1893)
Karl Mannheim was a Hungarian sociologist and a key figure in classical sociology as well as one of the founders of the sociology of knowledge.
2014
Amiri Baraka
American poet, playwright, and academic (born 1934)
Amiri Baraka, previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism.
1529
Wang Yangming
Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar (born 1472)
Wang Shouren, courtesy name Bo'an, art name Yangmingzi, usually referred to as Wang Yangming, was a Chinese statesman, general, and Neo-Confucian philosopher during the Ming dynasty.
1918
Charles-Émile Reynaud
French scientist and educator, invented the Praxinoscope (born 1844)
Charles-Émile Reynaud was a French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope and was responsible for the first projected animated films. His Pantomimes Lumineuses premiered on 28 October 1892 in Paris.
1972
Ted Shawn
American dancer and choreographer (born 1891)
Ted Shawn was an American dancer and choreographer. Considered a pioneer of American modern dance, he created the Denishawn School together with his wife Ruth St. Denis.
1843
William Hedley
English engineer (born 1773)
William Hedley was an English industrial engineer and inventor, born in Newburn, near Newcastle upon Tyne.