What happened on January 9 ?

1282 - Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204)

1283 - Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)

1499 - Johann Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)

1514 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)

1543 - Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)

1562 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)

1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)

1598 - Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553)

1757 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)

1677 - Aernout van der Neer, Dutch cartoonist and painter (b. 1603)

1766 - Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)

1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)

1800 - Jean ÿtienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)

1805 - Noble Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)

1848 - Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)

1858 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)

1873 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)

1876 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)

1877 - Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)

1878 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)

1895 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)

1901 - Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)

1908 - Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)

1908 - Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840)

1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)

1918 - ÿmile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)

1923 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)

1936 - John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)

1939 - Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866)

1939 - Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (b. 1880)

1946 - Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903)

1947 - Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)

1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)

1971 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)

1972 - Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891)

1975 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)

1981 - Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922)

1984 - Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906)

1985 - Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)

1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919)

1987 - Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905)

1990 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)

1992 - Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)

1993 - Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (b. 1904)

1994 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927)

1995 - Peter Cook, British actor. satirist, writer, and comedian (b. 1937)

1995 - Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)

1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)

1997 - Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)

1998 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1918)

2000 - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)

2001 - Maurice Prather, American motion picture and still photographer (b. 1926)

2003 - Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935)

2005 - Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925)

2006 - Andy Caldecott, Australian pilot (b. 1964)

2006 - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)