Famous Deaths In December - 09

1165  Malcom IV, king of Scotland (1153-65), dies at 24 on December - 09.  

1292  Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden), dies on this day in history.  

1437  Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

1544  Death of Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491) on December - 09.  

1565  Pius IV, [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian Pope (1559-65), dies at 66 on December - 09.  

1603  On this day in history death of william Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)  

1625  Ubbo Emmius, [van Embden], Frisian humanist/historian, dies at 78 on December - 09.  

1636  On this day in history giovanni B Aleotti, Ital writer/theater architect, dies at about 90  

1640  Death of Pierre Fourier, Roman Catholic saint and French priest (b.1565) on December - 09.  

1641  Anthonie "Antoon" van Dyck, Flemish painter, dies at 42 on this day in history.  

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1669  On December - 09 clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Ital Pope (1667-69), dies  

1674  On December - 09 edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67), dies at 65  

1692  Death of William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist on December - 09.  

1706  On this day in history pedro II, king of Portugal (1683-1706), dies at 58  

1718  Death of Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopaedist (b. 1650) on December - 09.  

1767  On December - 09 benedetto Alfieri, Italian architect (San Giovanni Battista), dies  

1770  Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.  

1793  On this day in history death of gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (b. 1749)  

1798  Death of Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729) on December - 09.  

1814  Jose Angel Lamas, composer, dies at 39 on December - 09.  

1819  On December - 09 death of ann C Coleman, fiancee of pres Buchanan, commits suicide  

1827  Francois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer, dies at 90 on December - 09.  

1830  Death of Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy (b. 1757) on this day in history.  

1854  On this day in history death of almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)  

1858  Death of Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804) on December - 09.  

1887  Death of Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader on this day in history.  

1893  George Elvey, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

1905  Henry Holmes, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1916  On December - 09 p Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economist France), dies at 73  

1924  On December - 09 bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (Gisbertus of Aemstel), dies at 70  

1925  On December - 09 eugene Gigout, composer, dies at 81  

1929  Willis Cuttell, cricketer (two Tests England v S Africa 1899), dies on this day in history.  

1930  On December - 09 jim Slight, cricketer (represented Australia at Oval 1880), dies  

1933  On December - 09 morice Bird, cricketer (scored 280 runs in 10 Tests for England), dies  

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1392  On this day in history birth of peter, Prince/Regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa benfeitoria)  

1447  Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487) was born on this day in history.  

1561  On this day in history birth of edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony  

1569  On December - 09 birth of martinus de Porres, Peru, saint (patron of social justice)  

1571  Adrian A Metius, Dutch mathematician/fort architect was born on December - 09.  

1579  On this day in history birth of martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)  

1579  On this day in history birth of martinus de Porres, Peruvian saint (patron of social justice) (d. 1639)  

1581  Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daughter of Willem of Orange was born on December - 09.