What happened on July 9 ?

518 - Anastasius I, Byzantine Emperor

1228 - Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury

1386 - Duke Leopold III of Austria (killed in battle) (b. 1351)

1553 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)

1654 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (b. 1633)

1737 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671)

1742 - John Oldmixon, English historian (b. 1673)

1746 - King Philip V of Spain (b. 1683)

1747 - Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (b. 1670)

1766 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister and patriot (b. 1720)

1795 - Henry Seymour Conway, British general and statesman (b. 1721)

1797 - Edmund Burke, British philosopher and statesman (b. 1729)

1850 - Báb, Persian founder of the Bábi Faith (b. 1819)

1850 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784)

1856 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (b. 1776)

1856 - James Strang, Mormon splinter group leader (assassinated) (b. 1813)

1880 - Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)

1903 - Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist (b. 1842)

1932 - King C. Gillette, American inventor (b. 1885)

1937 - Oliver Law, first African-American commander of U.S. troops, (killed in battle) (b. 1899)

1938 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (b. 1870)

1947 - Lucjan ?eligowski, Polish general (b. 1865)

1949 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born Australian composer (b. 1874)

1951 - Harry Heilmann, baseball player (b. 1894)

1967 - Fatima Jinnah, Prominent leader of Pakistan Movement and sister of Jinnah (b. 1893)

1974 - Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1891)

1979 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author (b. 1899)

1980 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist (b. 1913)

1985 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)

1985 - Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)

1992 - Eric Sevareid, American reporter (b. 1912)

1994 - Bill Mosienko, professional ice hockey player (b. 1921)

1996 - Melvin Belli, American attorney (b. 1907)

1999 - Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician (b. 1944)

2002 - Laurence Janifer, American writer (b. 1933)

2002 - Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)

2004 - Chuck Cadman, Canadian politician (b. 1948)

2004 - Paul Klebnikov, American journalist (b. 1963)

2004 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917)

2005 - Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (b. 1931)

2005 - Huang Kun, Chinese physicist (b. 1919)