What happened on April 9 ?

93 - Yuan An, Minister over the Masses of the Han dynasty

491 - Zeno, Byzantine Emperor

715 - Pope Constantine

1024 - Pope Benedict VIII

1137 - William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)

1483 - King Edward IV of England (b. 1442)

1484 - Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. 1473)

1553 - François Rabelais, French writer

1557 - Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (b. 1510)

1626 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist (b. 1561)

1654 - Matei Basarab, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1588)

1693 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)

1747 - Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief

1754 - Christian Wolff, German philosopher (b. 1679)

1761 - William Law, British minister (b. 1686)

1804 - Jacques Necker, French statesman (b. 1732)

1806 - William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic

1889 - Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)

1909 - Helena Modrzejewska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)

1917 - James Hope Moulton, British scholar of Classical Greek (b. 1863)

1936 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)

1940 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell, British actress (b. 1865)

1944 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (b. 1920)

1945 - Wilhelm Canaris, German Nazi leader (b. 1887)

1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (b. 1906)

1948 - George Carpenter, Australian Salvation Army general (b. 1872)

1948 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903).

1951 - Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (b. 1862)

1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)

1961 - King Zog of Albania (b. 1895)

1963 - Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (b. 1891)

1976 - Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer, pianist (b. 1903)

1976 - Phil Ochs, American singer (b. 1940)

1988 - Brook Benton, American singer (b. 1931)

1991 - Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)

1996 - Richard Condon, American novelist (b. 1915)

1996 - James W. Rouse, American real estate developer, activist, and philanthropist (b. 1914)

1999 - Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Niger politician and general (b. 1949)

2001 - Willie Stargell, baseball player (b. 1940)

2002 - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)

2005 - Andrea Dworkin, American feminist and writer (b. 1946)

2006 - Billy Hitchcock, baseball player, coach, and official (b. 1916)