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Alec Douglas-Home was the last prime minister to hold office while being a member of the House of Lords, before renouncing his peerage and taking up a seat in the House of Commons for the remainder of his premiership.
Notable Deaths on October 9
1995 — Alec Douglas-Home
British cricketer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1903)
October 9 has 111 recorded notable deaths across history, from 680 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
111 source records
680 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on October 9
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1981 President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France. Source
- 1847 Slavery is abolished in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy. Source
- 1918 The Finnish Parliament elects Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse as King of Finland, but he never accedes to the throne due to Germany's defeat in World War I. Source
- 2016 The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border. Source
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Jan Hooks was best known for her tenure on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, where she was a repertory player from 1986 to 1991.
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Towards this end, Kanshi Ram founded Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Samiti (DS-4), the All India Backwards (SC/ST/OBC) and Minorities Communities Employees' Federation (BAMCEF) in 1971 and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 1984.
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Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon,, known from 1970 to 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, was a British barrister and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1989 to 1990.
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A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast.
More major people who died on October 9
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2014
Jan Hooks
American actress and comedienne (born 1957)
Janet Vivian Hooks was an American actress and comedian. She was best known for her tenure on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, where she was a repertory player from 1986 to 1991.
2006
Kanshi Ram
Indian lawyer and politician (born 1934)
Kanshi Ram, also known as Bahujan Nayak or Manyavar, Sahab Kanshiram was an Indian politician and social reformer who worked for the upliftment and political mobilisation of the Bahujans, the backward or lower caste…
2015
Geoffrey Howe
Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1926)
Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon,, known from 1970 to 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, was a British barrister and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1989 to 1990.
1987
Clare Boothe Luce
American author, playwright, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (born 1903)
Clare Boothe Luce was an American writer, politician, diplomat, and conservative public intellectual. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast.
2015
Ravindra Jain
Indian composer and director (born 1944)
Ravindra Jain was an Indian music composer, lyricist and playback singer. He started his career in the early 1970s by composing for several hit movies, and continued despite his struggle with blindness.
1390
John I of Castile (born 1358)
John I was King of Castile and León from 1379 until 1390. He was the son of Henry II and Juana Manuel of Castile.
1941
Helen Morgan
American singer and actress (born 1900)
Helen Morgan was an American singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in the Chicago club scene in the 1920s.
1253
Robert Grosseteste
English bishop and philosopher (born 1175)
Robert Grosseteste, also known as Robert Greathead or Robert of Lincoln, was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln.
2009
John Daido Loori
American Zen Buddhist monastic and teacher (born 1931)
John Daido Loori was a Zen Buddhist rōshi who served as the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery and was the founder of the Mountains and Rivers Order and CEO of Dharma Communications.
2015
Ray Duncan
American businessman (born 1930)
Raymond Twomey Duncan known as Ray Duncan was an American entrepreneur and vintner.
1946
Frank Castleman
American football player, baseball player, and coach (born 1877)
Frank Riley Castleman was an American football and baseball player, track athlete, and coach in multiple sports. He competed for the United States in the 200 metre hurdles at the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St.
2013
Solomon Lar
Nigerian educator and politician, 4th Governor of Plateau State (born 1933)
Chief (Dr.) Solomon Daushep Lar was a Nigerian politician who has held various offices at the National level for over 50 years. He was a member of the first national parliament when Nigeria gained independence in 1960.
892
Al-Tirmidhi
Persian scholar and hadith compiler (born 824)
Muhammad ibn Isa al-Tirmidhi, often referred to as Imām at-Termezī/Tirmidhī, was an Islamic scholar, and collector of hadith from Termez.
2011
Pavel Karelin
Russian ski jumper (born 1989)
Pavel Vladimirovich Karelin was a Russian ski jumper from Nizhny Novgorod who competed from 2004 until his death in 2011.
2000
Patrick Anthony Porteous
Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1918)
Colonel Patrick Anthony Porteous VC, who as a Scottish captain in the British commandos, received the Victoria Cross – the British Commonwealth's highest award for valour – for leading a bayonet charge against a German…
2024
Ratan Tata
Indian businessman and philanthropist (born 1937)
Ratan Naval Tata was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist.
1613
Henry Constable
English poet (born 1562)
Henry Constable was an English poet, known particularly for Diana, one of the first English sonnet sequences. In 1591 he converted to Catholicism, and lived in exile on the continent for some years.
1976
Walter Warlimont
German general (born 1894)
Walter Warlimont was a German Army staff officer and general during World War II.
2004
Jacques Derrida
Algerian-French philosopher and academic (born 1930)
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he applied in some of his texts, and which he developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure…