Notable people who died on June 9 include: Nero, Ephrem the Syrian, Spearthrower Owl, Columba, Shahrbaraz.

Notable Deaths on June 9

Q: What is M. F. Husain known for?

M. F. Husain, Indian painter and director (born 1915)

2011 — M. F. Husain

Indian painter and director (born 1915)

June 9 has seen 106 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 68 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · June 9 — Wikipedia

Notable Deaths 106 people 68 – 2025

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In September 2020, his painting titled Voices, auctioned for a record $2.5 million.

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One of the founding members of Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, Husain is associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s

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His early association with the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group used modern technique, and was inspired by the "new" India after the partition of 1947

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Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian painter and film director who painted narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style

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His narrative paintings, executed in a modified Cubist style, can be caustic and funny as well as serious and sombre

Nero

Roman emperor (born 37)

AD 68 (LXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silius Italicus and Trachalus, or the start of the Year of the Four Emperors. The…

Ephrem the Syrian

hymnographer and theologian (born 306)

Ephrem the Syrian, also known as Ephraem the Deacon, Ephrem of Edessa or Aprem of Nisibis was a prominent Christian theologian and writer who is revered as one of the most notable hymnographers of Eastern Christianity.…

373

Spearthrower Owl

Teotihuacan figure active in Mayan Tikal

"Spearthrower Owl" was a Mesoamerican person from the Early Classic period, who is identified in Maya inscriptions and iconography. Mayanist David Stuart has suggested that Spearthrower Owl was a ruler of Teotihuacan at…

439

Columba

Irish missionary and saint (born 521)

Columba or Colmcille was an Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission in what became Scotland. He founded the important abbey on Iona, which became a…

597

Shahrbaraz

king of the Persian Empire

Shahrbaraz was shah (king) of the Sasanian Empire from 27 April 630 to 9 June 630. He usurped the throne from Ardashir III, and was killed by Iranian nobles after forty days. Before usurping the Sasanian throne he was a…

630

Yang Wo

Prince of Hongnong

Yang Wo, courtesy name Chengtian, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Liezu of Yang Wu (楊吳烈祖), was the first independent ruler of the Chinese Yang Wu dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period,…

908

Gebhard of Supplinburg

Saxon count

Gebhard of Supplinburg was a Saxon count in the Eastphalian Harzgau and Nordthüringgau. He was the father of Emperor Lothair II.

1075

Otto I of Olomouc (born 1045)

Otto I, known as Otto the Fair, a member of the Přemyslid dynasty, was Prince of Olomouc in Moravia from 1061 until his death.

1087

Peter des Roches

bishop of Winchester

Peter des Roches was bishop of Winchester in the reigns of King John of England and his son Henry III. He was not an Englishman, but rather a native of the Touraine, in north-central France.

1238

Otto I

Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Otto I of Brunswick-Lüneburg, a member of the House of Welf, was the first duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1235 until his death. He is called Otto the Child to distinguish him from his uncle, Emperor Otto IV.

1252

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Sienese painter (born 1290)

Ambrogio Lorenzetti was an Italian painter of the Sienese school. He was active from approximately 1317 to 1348. He painted The Allegory of Good and Bad Government in the Sala dei Nove in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico. His…

1348

Philippe de Vitry

French composer and poet (born 1291)

Philippe de Vitry was a French composer-poet, bishop and music theorist in the ars nova style of late medieval music. An accomplished, innovative, and influential composer, he was widely acknowledged as a leading…

1361

William Paget

1st Baron Paget, English accountant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1506)

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget of Beaudesert, was an English statesman and accountant who held prominent positions in the service of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I. He was the patriarch of the Paget family, whose…

1563

Jeanne d'Albret

Navarrese queen and Huguenot leader (born 1528)

Jeanne d'Albret, also known as Jeanne III, was Queen of Navarre from 1555 to 1572.

1572

Thomas Radclyffe

3rd Earl of Sussex, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1525)

Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, was Lord Deputy of Ireland during the Tudor period of English history, and a leading courtier during the reign of Elizabeth I.

1583

José de Anchieta

Spanish Jesuit missionary (born 1534)

José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo, SJ was a Spanish missionary to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the first century after its…

1597

Leonard Calvert

Colonial governor of Maryland (born 1606)

Leonard Calvert was an English-born colonial administrator who served as the first proprietary governor of Maryland from 1634 to 1647. He was the second son of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, the first lord…

1647

Thomas Tomkins

Welsh-English composer (born 1572)

Thomas Tomkins was a Welsh-born composer of the late Tudor and early Stuart period. In addition to being one of the prominent members of the English Madrigal School, he was a skilled composer of keyboard and consort…

1656

William Lilly

English astrologer (born 1602)

William Lilly was a seventeenth century English astrologer. He is described as having been a genius at something "that modern mainstream opinion has since decided cannot be done at all" having developed his stature as…

1681

Peregrine Palmer

English politician (born 1605)

Peregrine Palmer was an English politician who sat as MP for Bridgwater on 7 December 1669.

1684

Banda Singh Bahadur

Indian commander (born 1670)

Banda Singh Bahadur was a Sikh military commander of the Khalsa Army. At age 15, he left home to become an ascetic, and was given the name Madho Das Bairagi. He established a monastery at Nānded, on the bank of the…

1716

Jeanne Guyon

French mystic and author (born 1648)

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon was a French mystic, spiritual writer, and lay teacher of prayer whose writings on inward prayer, abandonment to God, and pure love became one of the central subjects of the late…

1717

Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Caribbean-French violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1745)

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George(s) was a French violinist, conductor, composer and soldier of African descent. Moreover, he demonstrated excellence as a fencer, an athlete, and a dancer. His historical…

1799

William Carey

English minister and missionary (born 1761)

William Carey was an English Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Serampore University, the first…

1834

Charles Dickens

English novelist and critic (born 1812)

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed…

1870

Anna Atkins

English botanist and photographer (born 1799)

Anna Atkins was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources say that she was the first woman to create a photograph.

1871

Gérard Paul Deshayes

French geologist and conchologist (born 1795)

Gérard Paul Deshayes was a French geologist and conchologist.

1875

Mike Burke

American baseball player (born 1854)

Michael E. Burke was an American Major League Baseball player who played mainly shortstop for the 1879 Cincinnati Reds of the National League. In 28 games, he had 26 hits in 117 at bats for a .222 batting average,…

1889

William Grant Stairs

Canadian-English captain and explorer (born 1863)

William Grant Stairs was a Canadian-British explorer, soldier, and adventurer who had a leading role in two expeditions during the Scramble for Africa.

1892

Adolf Bötticher

German historian and author (born 1842)

Adolf Bötticher or Adolf Boetticher was a German art historian and conservator.

1901

Sarah Roberts

English woman who was the subject of a vampire legend (born 1872).

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1913

Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (born 1846)

Princess Helena, later Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, was the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

1923

Victoria Woodhull

American activist for women's rights (born 1838)

Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree…

1927

Louis Bennison

American stage and silent film actor (born 1884)

Louis Bennison was an American stage and silent film actor, known for westerns.

1929

Margaret Lawrence

American stage actress (born 1889)

Margaret Whittaker Lawrence was an American stage actress known for her performances on Broadway and other venues.

1929

Alice Gossage

American journalist (born 1861)

Rhoda Alice Gossage was an American newspaper editor, journalist, and activist. Often referred to as the "Mother of Rapid City", she was inducted into the South Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame in 1934 and the South Dakota…

1929

František Erben

Czech gymnast (born 1874)

František Erben was a Czech gymnast, trainer and educator. Erben made his international competitive debut for Bohemia at the 1900 Paris Summer Olympics where he finished in 32nd place.

1942

Adolf Busch

German-Austrian violinist and composer (born 1891)

Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch was a German-Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer.

1952

Ernest Graves Sr.

American football player, coach, and general (born 1880)

Ernest "Pot" Graves was an American football and baseball player, coach, and United States Army officer. He served as the head football coach at the United States Military Academy in 1906 and 1912. Graves retired from…

1953

Chandrashekhar Agashe

Indian industrialist and lawyer (born 1888)

Chandrashekhar Govind Agashe was an Indian industrialist, lawyer, educator, and philanthropist, best remembered as the founder of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. He served as the managing agent of the…

1956

Hans Bergsland

Norwegian fencer (born 1878)

Hans Bergsland was a Norwegian fencer, sports official and businessperson.

1956

Thomas Hicks

Australian tennis player (born 1869)

Thomas Henry Hicks was an Australian tennis player and administrator who managed Australia and New Zealand's participation in early Davis Cup competitions. Hicks was born in Balmain, New South Wales, the first of eight…

1956

Ferdinand Jodl

German general (born 1896)

Ferdinand Alfred Friedrich Jodl was a German general during World War II who commanded the Mountain Corps Norway during the Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive. He was the younger brother of Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations…

1956

Robert Donat

English actor (born 1905)

Friedrich Robert Donat was an English actor. Making his breakthrough film role in Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), today he is best remembered for his roles in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934),…

1958

Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus

German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)

Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel…

1959

Harry S. Hammond

American football player and businessman (born 1884)

Harry Stevens Hammond was an American football player and businessman. He played college football at the University of Michigan from 1904 to 1907. He later had a career in business with the Pressed Steel Car Company and…

1960

Camille Guérin

French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist (born 1872)

Jean-Marie Camille Guérin was a French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist who, together with Albert Calmette, developed the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG), a vaccine for immunization against tuberculosis.

1961

Jacques Villon

French painter (born 1875)

Jacques Villon, also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker.

1963

Max Aitken

1st Baron Beaverbrook, British businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1879)

William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century. His…

1964

Bernard Cronin

Australian author and journalist (born 1884)

Bernard Cronin was an Australian author and journalist. With Gertrude Hart, he founded the Old Derelicts' Club in 1920 which later became the Society of Australian Authors.

1968

Gilberto Parlotti

Italian motorcycle racer (born 1940)

Gilberto Parlotti was an Italian professional motorcycle racer competing in the FIM World Championship between 1969 and 1972. He competed for the Benelli, Derbi, Morbidelli and Tomos factories.

1972

Chuck Bennett

American football player and coach (born 1907)

Charles Henry Bennett was an American football player and coach. He played halfback for the Indiana University football team from 1926 to 1928 and won the 1928 Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy as the most valuable…

1973

John Creasey

English author and politician (born 1908)

John Creasey was an English author known mostly for detective and crime novels but who also wrote science fiction, romance and westerns. He wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms.

1973

Erich von Manstein

German general (born 1887)

Erich von Manstein was a German military officer who served as a Generalfeldmarschall in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was subsequently convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 18 years'…

1973

Miguel Ángel Asturias

Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)

Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to the importance of indigenous cultures,…

1974

Cyclone Taylor

Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (born 1884)

Frederick Wellington "Cyclone" Taylor was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and civil servant. A cover-point and rover, he played professionally from 1906 to 1922, and is acknowledged as one of the first stars…

1979

Allen Ludden

American game show host (born 1917)

Allen Ellsworth Ludden was an American television personality, actor, singer, emcee, and game show host. He hosted various incarnations of the game show Password between 1961 and 1980.

1981

Helen Hardin

American painter (born 1943)

Helen Hardin was a Tewa Native American painter. She started making and selling paintings, participated in the University of Arizona's Southwest Indian Art Project and was featured in Seventeen magazine, all before she…

1984

George Wells Beadle

American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)

George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within…

1989

Claudio Arrau

Chilean-American pianist and educator (born 1903)

Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean and American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann,…

1991

Alexis Smith

Canadian-born American actress (born 1921)

Margaret Alexis Smith was an American actress, pin-up girl and singer. She appeared in several major Hollywood films in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadway in the 1970s, winning a Tony Award in 1972 for the…

1993

Jan Tinbergen

Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)

Jan Tinbergen was a Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of…

1994

Stanley Knowles

American-Canadian academic and politician (born 1908)

Stanley Howard Knowles was a Canadian parliamentarian. Knowles represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre from 1942 to 1958 on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and again from 1962 to 1984…

1997

Lois Mailou Jones

American painter and academic (born 1905)

Lois Mailou Jones was an artist and educator. Her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn…

1998

John Abramovic

American basketball player (born 1919)

John M. Abramovic Jr. was an American professional basketball player. He played in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) for the Pittsburgh Ironmen, St. Louis Bombers and Baltimore Bullets. Abramovic was nicknamed…

2000

Jacob Lawrence

American painter and academic (born 1917)

Jacob Armstead Lawrence was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", an art form popularized in…

2000

Rosey Brown

American football player and coach (born 1932)

Roosevelt Brown Jr. was an American professional football offensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants from 1953 to 1965. He played college football for the Morgan State…

2004

Brian Williamson

Jamaican activist, co-founded J-FLAG (born 1945)

Brian Williamson was a Jamaican gay rights activist who co-founded the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG). He was known for being one of the earliest openly gay men in Jamaican society and one of…

2004

Drafi Deutscher

German singer-songwriter (born 1946)

Drafi Franz Richard Deutscher was a German singer and songwriter of Sinti origin.

2006

Frankie Abernathy

American purse designer, cast-member on The Real World: San Diego (born 1981)

Frankie Jo Abernathy was an American purse designer and reality television personality, known for her time as a cast member on MTV's The Real World: San Diego which was filmed in late 2003 and aired from January to June…

2007

Algis Budrys

Lithuanian-American author and critic (born 1931)

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2008

Suleiman Mousa

Jordanian historian and author (born 1919)

Suleiman Mousa was a Jordanian author and historian born in Al-Rafeed, a small village north of the city of Irbid. He wrote up to fifty books of which most prominent are Biography of Sharif Hussein Bin Ali, Jordan in…

2008

Dick May

American race car driver (born 1930)

Richard Shelton May was an American NASCAR driver who competed in 185 races in the NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup Series between 1967 and 1985.

2009

Ken Brown

British Guitarist who was a member of The Quarrymen (born 1940)

Kenneth Brown was a British guitarist with The Quarrymen, a precursor to The Beatles.

2010

Tomoko Kawakami

Japanese voice actress (born 1970)

Tomoko Kawakami was a Japanese voice actress. She was also known by her pen-name Tomozou (とも蔵), and her Christian name Cecilia . Having graduated from the Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music, she was a member of…

2011

Mike Mitchell

American basketball player (born 1956)

Michael Anthony Mitchell was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), over eleven seasons, from 1978 to 1990.

2011

Régis Clère

French cyclist (born 1956)

Régis Clère was a French professional road bicycle racer.

2012

John Maples

Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (born 1943)

John Cradock Maples, Baron Maples was a British politician and life peer who served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 1989 to 1992 and Shadow Foreign Secretary from 1999 to 2000. He is a former Deputy Chairman…

2012

Ivan Minatti

Slovene poet and translator (born 1924)

Ivan Minatti was a Slovene poet, translator, and editor. He started writing poetry before World War II but principally belongs to the first postwar generation of Slovene poets. He is one of the best representatives of…

2012

Hawk Taylor

American baseball player and coach (born 1939)

Robert Dale "Hawk" Taylor was an American professional baseball player who appeared in 394 games over all or part of 11 Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons as a catcher and outfielder for the Milwaukee Braves, New York…

2012

Abram Wilson

American-English trumpet player and educator (born 1973)

Abram Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist raised in New Orleans and based in London, England, where he also taught music in schools.

2012

Iain Banks

Scottish author (born 1954)

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2013

Bruno Bartoletti

Italian conductor (born 1926)

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2013

John Burke

English rugby player (born 1948)

John Burke was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, and at club level for Normanton, Leeds, Keighley, South Sydney…

2013

Walter Jens

German philologist, historian, and academic (born 1923)

Walter Jens was a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer.

2013

Zdeněk Rotrekl

Czech poet and historian (born 1920)

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2013

Bernard Agré

Ivorian cardinal (born 1926)

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2014

Stuart Long

American boxer and Catholic priest (born 1963)

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2014

Rik Mayall

English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1958)

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2014

Elsie Quarterman

American ecologist and academic (born 1910)

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2014

Alicemarie Huber Stotler

American lawyer and judge (born 1942)

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2014

Gustave Tassell

American fashion designer (born 1926)

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2014

Bob Welch

American baseball player and coach (born 1956)

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2014

Pumpkinhead

American rapper (born 1975)

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Pedro Zerolo

Spanish lawyer and politician (born 1960)

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Adam West

American actor and investor (born 1928)

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2017

Fadil Vokrri

Kosovo Albanian football administrator and player (born 1960)

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Bushwick Bill

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Julee Cruise

American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (born 1956)

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Billy Kametz

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Matt Zimmerman

Canadian actor (born 1934)

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Amir Liaquat Hussain

Pakistani politician, columnist and television host. (born 1971)

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Alain Touraine

French sociologist (born 1925)

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2023

James Lawson

American activist, professor, and minister (born 1928)

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Sly Stone

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