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Sylvester Stewart, better known by his stage name Sly Stone, was an American musician, songwriter and record producer.
Notable Deaths on June 9
2025 — Sly Stone
American musician and record producer (Sly and the Family Stone)
June 9 has 110 recorded notable deaths across history, from 68 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
110 source records
68 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on June 9
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- 1999 Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty. Source
- 1959 The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. Source
- 1885 Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France. Source
- 1965 Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war. Source
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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.
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Banda became disciple of Guru Gobind Singh and was given a new name, Gurbaksh Singh (as written in Mahan Kosh), after the baptism ceremony.
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Bologne was the first classical composer of African descent to attain widespread acclaim in Western music.
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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.
More major people who died on June 9
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
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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.
1716
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.
1799
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.
1964
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.
2011
M. F. Husain
Indian painter and director (born 1915)
Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian painter and film director who painted narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style.
2014
Bob Welch
American baseball player and coach (born 1956)
Robert Lynn Welch was an American professional baseball starting pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1978–87) and Oakland Athletics (1988–94).
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.
1717
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…
2013
Bruno Bartoletti
Italian conductor (born 1926)
Bruno Bartoletti was an Italian operatic conductor. His active international career lasted from 1953 to 2007, and he specialized in the Italian repertory and contemporary works.
1984
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…
1979
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.
1597
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.
2022
Billy Kametz
American voice actor (born 1987)
Billy P. Kametz was an American voice and stage actor. He was best known for his work dubbing anime and video games. Kametz began his voice acting career in 2016.
2007
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…
2017
Adam West
American actor and investor (born 1928)
William West Anderson, known professionally as Adam West, was an American actor.
2013
Zdeněk Rotrekl
Czech poet and historian (born 1920)
Zdeněk Rotrekl was a Czech Catholic poet, literary historian and writer.
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…
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.
1927
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.