Notable Deaths on November 9

117 people 959 – 2024

November 9 has seen 117 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 959 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Emlyn Hughes

2004 — Emlyn Hughes

English footballer and manager (born 1947)

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Added to these domestic honours were two European Cups, including Liverpool's first in 1977; and two UEFA Cup titles

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Hughes won the Football Writers' Player of the Year in 1977

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He started his career at Blackpool in 1964 before moving to Liverpool in 1967

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He made 665 appearances for Liverpool and captained the side to three league titles and an FA Cup victory in the 1970s

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Hughes completed a full set of English football domestic honours by winning the League Cup with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1980


Constantine VII
Byzantine emperor (born 905)
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus was the fourth Byzantine emperor of the Macedonian dynasty, reigning from 6 June 913 to 9 November 959. He was the son of Emperor Leo VI and his fourth wife, Zoe Karbonopsina, and the…
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959
Oldřich
Duke of Bohemia (born c. 975)
Oldřich I, a member of the Přemyslid dynasty, was Duke of Bohemia from 1012 to 1033 and briefly again in 1034. His accession to the Bohemian throne marked the start of a phase of stability after a long period of…
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1034
Emperor Gaozong of Song (born 1107)
Emperor Gaozong of Song, personal name Zhao Gou, courtesy name Deji, was the tenth emperor of the Chinese Song dynasty and the first of the Southern Song dynasty, ruling between 1127 and 1162 and retaining power as…
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1187
Sancha of Castile
Queen of Aragon (born 1154)
Sancha of Castile was the only surviving child of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile by his second wife, Richeza of Poland. Alfonso VII had also given the same name, Sancha, to his daughter by his first wife,…
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1208
Sanchia of Provence
queen consort of Germany
Sanchia of Provence was Queen of the Romans from 1257 until her death in 1261 as the wife of King Richard.
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1261
Siger of Brabant
Dutch philosopher (born 1240)
Siger of Brabant was a 13th-century philosopher from the southern Low Countries who was an important proponent of Averroism.
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1284
English statesman (born 1230)
Sir Roger de Northwode held the posts of Warden of the Cinque Ports and Baron of the Exchequer.
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1286
Otto III
Duke of Bavaria (born 1261)
Otto III, a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was the Duke of Lower Bavaria from 1290 to 1312 and the King of Hungary and Croatia between 1305 and 1307. His reign in Hungary was disputed by Charles Robert of the…
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1312
Walter Langton
bishop of Lichfield and treasurer of England (born 1243)
Walter Langton of Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire, was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and King's Treasurer. The life of Langton was strongly influenced by his uncle William Langton, Archbishop of York-elect, by…
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1321
Ulrich II
Count of Celje (born 1406)
Ulrich II, or Ulrich of Celje, was the last Princely Count of Celje. At the time of his death, he was captain general and de facto regent of Hungary, ban (governor) of Slavonia, Croatia and Dalmatia and feudal lord of…
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1456
Jami
Persian poet (born 1414)
Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī, also known as Mawlanā Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān or Abd-Al-Rahmān Nur-Al-Din Muhammad Dashti, or simply as Jami or Djāmī and in Turkey as Molla Cami, was a Persian Sunni poet who is known…
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1492
English translator, poet, and dramatist (born 1556)
George Peele was an English translator, poet, and dramatist, who is most noted for his supposed, but not universally accepted, collaboration with William Shakespeare on the play Titus Andronicus. Many anonymous…
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1596
William Camden
English historian and topographer (born 1551)
William Camden was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland that relates landscape,…
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1623
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (born 1610)
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand was a Spanish and Portuguese prince, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Cardinal of the Holy Catholic Church, Archduke of Austria, Archbishop of Toledo (1619–1641), and a general during the…
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1641
Aert van der Neer
Dutch painter (born 1603)
Aert van der Neer, or Aernout or Artus, was a landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, who specialized in small night scenes lit only by moonlight and fires, and snowy winter landscapes, both often looking down a…
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1677
imperial general (born 1651)
Enea Silvio Piccolomini was a Sienese nobleman whose lineage included two popes, and who served in the Habsburg army of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. He is known for leading a campaign against the Ottomans in Bosnia,…
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1689
Peter Mews
English Royalist theologian and bishop (born 1619)
Peter Mews was an English Royalist theologian and bishop. He was a captain captured at Naseby and he later had discussions in Scotland for the Royalist cause. Later made a bishop he would report on non-conformist…
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1706
British Member of Parliament (born 1684)
Oley Douglas was a British Member of Parliament.
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1719
Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer
Dutch composer and diplomat (born 1692)
Unico Wilhelm, Count van Wassenaer Obdam was a Dutch nobleman who was a diplomat as well as a composer. He reorganized the Bailiwick of Utrecht of the Teutonic Order. His most important surviving compositions are the…
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1766
John Campbell
4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish general and politician (born 1693)
General John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, KT, PC was a British Army officer and Whig politician who represented Buteshire, Elgin Burghs and Dunbartonshire in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1713 and 1761.
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1770
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Who died on November 9?

Emlyn Hughes — English footballer (1947–2004)

FeaturedEmlyn Hughes
Death year2004
Known forHe started his career at Blackpool in 1964 before moving to Liverpool in 1967
Deaths on this date117 (959 – 2024)

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