Famous Deaths Happened In May - 09

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

1280  On this day in history magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80), dies at 42   

1315  Death of Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282) on May - 09.   

1443  On May - 09 niccolo d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies   

1446  Death of Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples (b. 1368) on this day in history.   

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

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

1590  On this day in history karel "Cardinal" van Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen, dies at 66   

1657  William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies on this day in history.   

1667  Death of Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48) on this day in history.   

1688  On May - 09 frederick William, Great Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 68   

1707  Dietrich Buxtehude, German organist/composer, dies at about 69 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53   

1799  Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

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

1822  On this day in history charles Duquesnoy, composer, dies at 62   

1850  On this day in history louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies   

1853  Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1861  Death of Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805) on this day in history.   

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  Hermanus W Witteveen, theologist, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1889  On this day in history death of william S. Harney, U.S. general (b. 1800)   

1903  On May - 09 rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies   

1905  On May - 09 ernst Pauer, composer, dies at 78   

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

1915  On May - 09 death of françois Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1887)   

1918  Death of George CoÅŸbuc, 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  Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divina Commedia) was born on May - 09.   

1596  On May - 09 birth of abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter   

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

1740  On May - 09 birth of giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville)   

1783  On May - 09 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  On this day in history birth of johannes C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist