What happened on March 9 ?

1422 - Jan Zelivsky, Hussite priest (b. 1380)

1440 - St Frances of Rome, Italian nun (b. 1384)

1566 - David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary I of Scotland (b. 1533)

1649 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (b. 1606)

1649 - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (executed) (b. 1590)

1661 - Jules Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1602)

1709 - Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat

1808 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739)

1851 - Hans Christian ÿrsted, Danish physicist (b. 1777)

1897 - Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (b. 1825)

1937 - Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (b. 1864)

1954 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (b. 1912)

1954 - V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874)

1960 - Jack Beattie, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)

1964 - Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)

1971 - Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (b. 1902)

1974 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)

1983 - Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)

1983 - Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

1989 - Robert Mapplethorpe, American artist (b. 1946)

1992 - Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913)

1993 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and writer (b. 1909)

1994 - Charles Bukowski, American writer (b.1920)

1996 - George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)

1997 - The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (b. 1972)

2000 - Ivo Robi?, Croatian singer and songwriter (b 1923)

2003 - Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (b. 1933)

2003 - Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (b. 1946)

2004 - Albert Mol, Dutch actor (b.1917)

2004 - Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)

2005 - István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (b. 1924)

2006 - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (b. 1915)

2006 - Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian programmer, co-founder of Opera Software ASA (b. 1957)