Famous Deaths In May - 09

1079  On this day in history death of stanislaus, Polish bishop of Cracow, murdered  

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

1315  On this day in history death of hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)  

1443  Niccolo d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies on this day in history.  

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

1460  On this day in history jean Lavite, Atrechts painter, dies  

1474  On May - 09 death of peter van Hagenbach, Elzasser knight/land guardian, beheaded  

1590  Karel "Cardinal" van Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen, dies at 66 on May - 09.  

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

1667  On May - 09 death of marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48)  

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

1707  On May - 09 dietrich Buxtehude, German organist/composer, dies at about 69  

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 May - 09 franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer, dies at 44  

1790  Death of William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress on this day in history.  

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

1799  Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer, dies at 72 on May - 09.  

1805  Friedrich Schiller, writer, dies at 45 on May - 09.  

1822  On May - 09 charles Duquesnoy, composer, dies at 62  

1850  On May - 09 louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies  

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

1861  On this day in history death of peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805)  

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 this day in history.  

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

1914  On this day in history death of c.W. Post, American food manufacturer (b. 1854)  

1915  Death of François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1887) on this day in history.  

1918  Death of George Coşbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866) on May - 09.  

1926  On May - 09 joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies  

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

1265  On this day in history birth of dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divina Commedia)  

1596  On this day in history birth of abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter  

1738  On May - 09 birth of john Pindar, [Peter], physician/poet  

1740  Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville) was born on May - 09.  

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

1785  On May - 09 birth of james Pollard Espy, Penns, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms)  

1793  On May - 09 birth of johannes C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist