What happened on September 9 ?

1000 - Olaf I of Norway

1087 - King William I of England

1398 - King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)

1487 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)

1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (fell from a horse) (b. 1433)

1513 - King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)

1569 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter

1596 - Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen

1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)

1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)

1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)

1806 - William Paterson, Signer of the U.S. Constitution, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)

1815 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)

1841 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (b. 1778)

1891 - Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)

1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)

1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)

1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)

1915 - Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)

1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)

1976 - Mao Zedong, President of China(b. 1893)

1978 - Jack Warner, Canadian-born film studio founder (b. 1892)

1980 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)

1981 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b. 1901)

1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)

1990 - Doc Cramer, baseball player (b. 1905)

1990 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia

1993 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920)

1997 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)

1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, baseball player (b. 1946)

2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader

2003 - Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)

2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)

2004 - Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)

2005 - John Wayne Glover, English North Shore Granny Murderer (b. 1932)