Famous Deaths In May - 09

1079  Death of Stanislaus, Polish bishop of Cracow, murdered on May - 09.   

1280  Magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80), dies at 42 on May - 09.   

1315  Death of Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282) on this day in history.   

1443  On this day in history niccolo d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies   

1446  On May - 09 death of mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples (b. 1368)   

1460  Jean Lavite, Atrechts painter, dies on May - 09.   

1474  Death of Peter van Hagenbach, Elzasser knight/land guardian, beheaded on this day in history.   

1590  On May - 09 karel "Cardinal" van Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen, dies at 66   

1657  On May - 09 william Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies   

1667  Death of Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48) on May - 09.   

1688  Frederick William, Great Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 68 on May - 09.   

1707  Dietrich Buxtehude, German organist/composer, dies at about 69 on May - 09.   

1745  On this day in history tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer, dies at 82   

1747  Death of John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673) on May - 09.   

1760  On May - 09 nikolaus Ludwig und Pottendorf, Austrian composer, dies at 59   

1785  On this day in history franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer, dies at 44   

1790  On May - 09 death of william Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress   

1791  On May - 09 francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53   

1799  On this day in history claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer, dies at 72   

1805  Friedrich Schiller, writer, dies at 45 on this day in history.   

1822  Charles Duquesnoy, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1850  Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies on this day in history.   

1853  On May - 09 johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer, dies at 73   

1861  Death of Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805) on May - 09.   

1864  On May - 09 "Uncle" John Sedgwick, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 50   

1880  On this day in history johann Hermann Berens, composer, dies at 54   

1884  On May - 09 hermanus W Witteveen, theologist, dies at 69   

1889  Death of William S. Harney, U.S. general (b. 1800) on May - 09.   

1903  Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies on May - 09.   

1905  On this day in history ernst Pauer, composer, dies at 78   

1914  On May - 09 death of c.W. Post, American food manufacturer (b. 1854)   

1915  Death of François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1887) on May - 09.   

1918  On this day in history death of george CoÅŸbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866)   

1926  Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies on May - 09.   

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1147  Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199) was born on May - 09.   

1265  On May - 09 birth of dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divina Commedia)   

1596  Abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter was born on May - 09.   

1738  John Pindar, [Peter], physician/poet was born on May - 09.   

1740  Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville) was born on this day in history.   

1783  On this day in history birth of alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader   

1785  On this day in history birth of james Pollard Espy, Penns, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms)   

1793  Johannes C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist was born on this day in history.