Died on Monday, 9th June – Famous Deaths

09/06/2025

Sly Stone, American musician and record producer (Sly and the Family Stone)

Sylvester Stewart, better known by his stage name Sly Stone, was an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He was the frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of psychedelic soul and funk with his pioneering fusion of soul, rock, psychedelia, and gospel in the 1960s and 1970s. AllMusic stated that "James Brown may have invented funk, but Sly Stone perfected it," and credited him with "creating a series of euphoric yet politically charged records that proved a massive influence on artists of all musical and cultural backgrounds". Crawdaddy! has credited him as the founder of the "progressive soul" movement.

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09/06/2024

James Lawson, American activist, professor, and minister (born 1928)

James Morris Lawson Jr. was an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was expelled from Vanderbilt University for his civil rights activism in 1960, and later served as a pastor in Los Angeles for 25 years.

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09/06/2023

Alain Touraine, French sociologist (born 1925)

Alain Touraine was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. Touraine was an important figure in the founding of French sociology of work after World War II and later became a sociologist of social movements, particularly the May 68 student movement in France and the Solidarity trade-union movement in communist Poland.

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09/06/2022

Julee Cruise, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (born 1956)

Julee Ann Cruise was an American singer and actress, known for her collaborations with composer Angelo Badalamenti and filmmaker David Lynch in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She released four albums beginning with 1989's Floating into the Night.

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Billy Kametz, American voice actor (born 1987)

Billy P. Kametz was an American voice and stage actor. He was best known for his work dubbing anime and video games. Kametz began his voice acting career in 2016. He provided the English voices for Josuke Higashikata in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, Takuto Maruki in Persona 5 Royal, Naofumi Iwatani in The Rising of the Shield Hero, Colt in Brawl Stars, and Ferdinand von Aegir in the Fire Emblem series. Kametz died from colorectal cancer at the age of 35.

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Matt Zimmerman, Canadian actor (born 1934)

Matthew Zimmerman was a Canadian actor. He was the voice of Alan Tracy in the 1960s television series Thunderbirds and sequel films Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbird 6.

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Amir Liaquat Hussain, Pakistani politician, columnist and television host. (born 1971)

Aamir Liaquat Hussain was a Pakistani politician, columnist and television host. Hussain was a top ranking TV anchor and was listed three times in The 500 influential Muslims worldwide, and was among 100 popular personalities of Pakistan. He was criticized on media numerous times due to his controversial comments about superstars. He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 to June 2022.

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09/06/2019

Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (born 1966)

Richard William Stephen Shaw, better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill, was a Jamaican rapper. He was a member of the Texas hip hop group Geto Boys, a group he originally joined as a breakdancer in 1986 as Little Billy. He went on to become one third of the most popular incarnation of the group, alongside Willie D and Scarface.

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09/06/2018

Fadil Vokrri, Kosovo Albanian football administrator and player (born 1960)

Fadil Avdullah Vokrri was a Kosovan football administrator and former Yugoslav professional football player. He served as president of the Football Federation of Kosovo from 16 February 2008 until his death in 2018.

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09/06/2017

Adam West, American actor and investor (born 1928)

William West Anderson, known professionally as Adam West, was an American actor. He portrayed Batman in the 1960s ABC series of the same name and its 1966 theatrical feature film, reprising the role in various media until 2017. Having made his film debut in the 1950s, West starred opposite Chuck Connors in Geronimo (1962) and The Three Stooges in The Outlaws Is Coming (1965). He also appeared in the science fiction film Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964).

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09/06/2015

Pumpkinhead, American rapper (born 1975)

Robert Alan Diaz known by his stage name Pumpkinhead or P.H., was an American rapper and hip hop artist. He grew up in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn, New York with his mother and younger sister.

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Pedro Zerolo, Spanish lawyer and politician (born 1960)

Pedro González Zerolo was a Spanish-Venezuelan lawyer, politician and a town councillor of the city of Madrid, and a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the PSOE where he held the position of Secretary for Social Movements and Relations with NGOs. He was also a trustee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank.

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09/06/2014

Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal (born 1926)

Bernard Agré was an Ivorian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Abidjan from 1994 to 2006. He was made a cardinal in 2001.

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Stuart Long, American boxer and Catholic priest (born 1963)

Stuart Ignatius Long was an American boxer and Catholic priest who developed a rare progressive muscle disorder. He was portrayed by Mark Wahlberg in the 2022 biopic Father Stu.

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Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1958)

Richard Michael Mayall was an English comedian, actor and writer. He formed a close partnership with Adrian Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University, and was a pioneer of alternative comedy in the 1980s.

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Elsie Quarterman, American ecologist and academic (born 1910)

Elsie Quarterman was a prominent plant ecologist. She was a professor emerita at Vanderbilt University.

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Alicemarie Huber Stotler, American lawyer and judge (born 1942)

Alicemarie Huber Stotler was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

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Gustave Tassell, American fashion designer (born 1926)

Gustave Tassell was an American fashion designer and Coty Award winner.

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Bob Welch, American baseball player and coach (born 1956)

Robert Lynn Welch was an American professional baseball starting pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1978–87) and Oakland Athletics (1988–94). Prior to his professional career, he attended Eastern Michigan University, where he played college baseball for the Hurons baseball team. He helped lead the Hurons, coached by Ron Oestrike, to the 1976 College World Series, losing to Arizona in the championship game. He also played for the U.S. national collegiate team in 1976.

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09/06/2013

Iain Banks, Scottish author (born 1954)

Iain Menzies Banks was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. His books have been adapted for theatre, radio, and television. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

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Bruno Bartoletti, Italian conductor (born 1926)

Bruno Bartoletti was an Italian operatic conductor. His active international career lasted from 1953 to 2007, and he specialized in the Italian repertory and contemporary works. He was particularly noted for his 51-year association with Lyric Opera of Chicago, as co-artistic director, artistic director, principal conductor, and artistic director emeritus. He also served as Artistic Director of both the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (1965–1973) and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (1985–1991), and as principal conductor of the Danish Royal Opera (1957–1960), in addition to frequent work as a guest conductor at various major opera houses.

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John Burke, English rugby player (born 1948)

John Burke was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, and at club level for Normanton, Leeds, Keighley, South Sydney Rabbitohs, Castleford and Wakefield Trinity, as a prop.

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Walter Jens, German philologist, historian, and academic (born 1923)

Walter Jens was a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer.

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Zdeněk Rotrekl, Czech poet and historian (born 1920)

Zdeněk Rotrekl was a Czech Catholic poet, literary historian and writer. He was severely persecuted for his work and Roman Catholic beliefs during Czechoslovakia's Communist era from 1948 to 1989, including thirteen years in prison. The Communist government also banned his work for more than forty years. The Prague Daily Monitor has called him "one of the most distinguished personalities of the Catholic stream in Czech poetry of the latter half of the 20th century."

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09/06/2012

Régis Clère, French cyclist (born 1956)

Régis Clère was a French professional road bicycle racer.

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John Maples, Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (born 1943)

John Cradock Maples, Baron Maples was a British politician and life peer who served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 1989 to 1992 and Shadow Foreign Secretary from 1999 to 2000. He is a former Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham West from 1983 to 1992 and Stratford-upon-Avon from 1997 to 2010.

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Ivan Minatti, Slovene poet and translator (born 1924)

Ivan Minatti was a Slovene poet, translator, and editor. He started writing poetry before World War II but principally belongs to the first postwar generation of Slovene poets. He is one of the best representatives of Slovene Intimism.

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Hawk Taylor, American baseball player and coach (born 1939)

Robert Dale "Hawk" Taylor was an American professional baseball player who appeared in 394 games over all or part of 11 Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons as a catcher and outfielder for the Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets (1964–67), California Angels (1967) and Kansas City Royals (1969–70). Born in Metropolis, Illinois, he threw and batted right-handed, and was listed as 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and 187 pounds (85 kg).

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Abram Wilson, American-English trumpet player and educator (born 1973)

Abram Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist raised in New Orleans and based in London, England, where he also taught music in schools.

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09/06/2011

M. F. Husain, Indian painter and director (born 1915)

Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian painter and film director who painted narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. One of the founding members of Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, Husain is associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. His early association with the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group used modern technique, and was inspired by the "new" India after the partition of 1947. His narrative paintings, executed in a modified Cubist style, can be caustic and funny as well as serious and sombre. His themes—sometimes treated in series—included topics as diverse as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the British Raj, and motifs of Indian urban and rural life. In September 2020, his painting titled Voices, auctioned for a record $2.5 million.

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Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (born 1970)

Tomoko Kawakami was a Japanese voice actress. She was also known by her pen-name Tomozou (とも蔵), and her Christian name Cecilia . Having graduated from the Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music, she was a member of Production Baobab.

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Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (born 1956)

Michael Anthony Mitchell was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), over eleven seasons, from 1978 to 1990.

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09/06/2010

Ken Brown, British Guitarist who was a member of The Quarrymen (born 1940)

Kenneth Brown was a British guitarist with The Quarrymen, a precursor to The Beatles.

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09/06/2009

Dick May, American race car driver (born 1930)

Richard Shelton May was an American NASCAR driver who competed in 185 races in the NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup Series between 1967 and 1985.

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09/06/2008

Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American author and critic (born 1931)

Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor and critic. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome in collaboration with Jerome Bixby, John A. Sentry, William Scarff and Paul Janvier. In the 1990s he was the publisher and editor of the science fiction magazine Tomorrow Speculative Fiction.

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Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian and author (born 1919)

Suleiman Mousa was a Jordanian author and historian born in Al-Rafeed, a small village north of the city of Irbid. He wrote up to fifty books of which most prominent are Biography of Sharif Hussein Bin Ali, Jordan in the 1948 War, Great Arab Revolt, History of Jordan in the 20th century, and was the first and only Arab author to write about Lawrence of Arabia and show the Arab perspective.

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09/06/2007

Frankie Abernathy, American purse designer, cast-member on The Real World: San Diego (born 1981)

Frankie Jo Abernathy was an American purse designer and reality television personality, known for her time as a cast member on MTV's The Real World: San Diego which was filmed in late 2003 and aired from January to June 2004. Hailing from Kansas City, Abernathy was the elder daughter of Abbie Hunter and Joe Abernathy. She had a younger sister named Mamie, and a stepfather, Perry Hunter. She attended Blue Springs High School in Blue Springs, Missouri.

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09/06/2006

Drafi Deutscher, German singer-songwriter (born 1946)

Drafi Franz Richard Deutscher was a German singer and songwriter of Sinti origin.

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09/06/2004

Rosey Brown, American football player and coach (born 1932)

Roosevelt Brown Jr. was an American professional football offensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants from 1953 to 1965. He played college football for the Morgan State Bears and was selected by the Giants in the 27th round of the 1953 NFL draft.

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Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist, co-founded J-FLAG (born 1945)

Brian Williamson was a Jamaican gay rights activist who co-founded the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG). He was known for being one of the earliest openly gay men in Jamaican society and one of its best known gay rights activists.

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09/06/2000

John Abramovic, American basketball player (born 1919)

John M. Abramovic Jr. was an American professional basketball player. He played in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) for the Pittsburgh Ironmen, St. Louis Bombers and Baltimore Bullets. Abramovic was nicknamed "Brooms" and worked in his family's broom manufacturing business after his playing retirement.

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Jacob Lawrence, American painter and academic (born 1917)

Jacob Armstead Lawrence was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", an art form popularized in Europe which drew great inspiration from West African and Meso-American art. For his compositions, Lawrence found inspiration in everyday life in Harlem. He brought the African-American experience to life using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid colors. He also taught and spent 16 years as a professor at the University of Washington.

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09/06/1998

Lois Mailou Jones, American painter and academic (born 1905)

Lois Mailou Jones was an artist and educator. Her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection. Jones is often associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

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09/06/1997

Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (born 1908)

Stanley Howard Knowles was a Canadian parliamentarian. Knowles represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre from 1942 to 1958 on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and again from 1962 to 1984 representing the CCF's successor, the New Democratic Party (NDP).

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09/06/1994

Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)

Jan Tinbergen was a Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of econometrics.

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09/06/1993

Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress (born 1921)

Margaret Alexis Smith was an American actress, pin-up girl and singer. She appeared in several major Hollywood films in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadway in the 1970s, winning a Tony Award in 1972 for the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical Follies.

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09/06/1991

Claudio Arrau, Chilean-American pianist and educator (born 1903)

Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean and American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.

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09/06/1989

George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)

George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. He served as the 7th president of the University of Chicago from 1961 to 1968.

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09/06/1984

Helen Hardin, American painter (born 1943)

Helen Hardin was a Tewa Native American painter. She started making and selling paintings, participated in the University of Arizona's Southwest Indian Art Project and was featured in Seventeen magazine, all before she was 18 years of age. Creating art was a means of spiritual expression that developed from her Roman Catholic upbringing and Native American heritage. She created contemporary works of art with geometric patterns based upon Native American symbols and motifs, like corn, katsinas, and chiefs. In 1976 she was featured in the PBS American Indian artists series.

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09/06/1981

Allen Ludden, American game show host (born 1917)

Allen Ellsworth Ludden was an American television personality, actor, singer, emcee, and game show host. He hosted various incarnations of the game show Password between 1961 and 1980.

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09/06/1979

Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (born 1884)

Frederick Wellington "Cyclone" Taylor was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and civil servant. A cover-point and rover, he played professionally from 1906 to 1922, and is acknowledged as one of the first stars of the professional era of hockey. Taylor was recognized as one of the fastest skaters and most prolific scorers, winning five scoring championships in the PCHA. He won the Stanley Cup twice, with Ottawa in 1909 and Vancouver in 1915, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947.

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09/06/1974

Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)

Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala.

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09/06/1973

Chuck Bennett, American football player and coach (born 1907)

Charles Henry Bennett was an American football player and coach. He played halfback for the Indiana University football team from 1926 to 1928 and won the 1928 Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy as the most valuable player in the Big Ten Conference. He also played professional football for the Portsmouth Spartans from 1930 to 1931 and for the Chicago Cardinals in 1933. After retiring as a football player, Bennett was a high school coach and athletic director from 1934 to 1966.

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John Creasey, English author and politician (born 1908)

John Creasey was an English author known mostly for detective and crime novels but who also wrote science fiction, romance and westerns. He wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms.

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Erich von Manstein, German general (born 1887)

Erich von Manstein was a German military officer who served as a Generalfeldmarschall in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was subsequently convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment.

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09/06/1972

Gilberto Parlotti, Italian motorcycle racer (born 1940)

Gilberto Parlotti was an Italian professional motorcycle racer competing in the FIM World Championship between 1969 and 1972. He competed for the Benelli, Derbi, Morbidelli and Tomos factories.

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09/06/1968

Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (born 1884)

Bernard Cronin was an Australian author and journalist. With Gertrude Hart, he founded the Old Derelicts' Club in 1920 which later became the Society of Australian Authors.

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09/06/1964

Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, British businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1879)

William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century. His base of power was the largest circulation newspaper in the world, the Daily Express, which appealed to the conservative working class with intensely patriotic news and editorials. During the Second World War, he played a major role in mobilising industrial resources as Winston Churchill's Minister of Aircraft Production.

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09/06/1963

Jacques Villon, French painter (born 1875)

Jacques Villon, also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker.

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09/06/1961

Camille Guérin, French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist (born 1872)

Jean-Marie Camille Guérin was a French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist who, together with Albert Calmette, developed the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG), a vaccine for immunization against tuberculosis.

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09/06/1960

Harry S. Hammond, American football player and businessman (born 1884)

Harry Stevens Hammond was an American football player and businessman. He played college football at the University of Michigan from 1904 to 1907. He later had a career in business with the Pressed Steel Car Company and the National Tube Co.

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09/06/1959

Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)

Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939.

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09/06/1958

Robert Donat, English actor (born 1905)

Friedrich Robert Donat was an English actor. Making his breakthrough film role in Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), today he is best remembered for his roles in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934), Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor as the gentle English schoolmaster Mr. Chips.

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09/06/1956

Chandrashekhar Agashe, Indian industrialist and lawyer (born 1888)

Chandrashekhar Govind Agashe was an Indian industrialist, lawyer, educator, and philanthropist, best remembered as the founder of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. He served as the managing agent of the company from its inception in 1934 till his death in 1956.

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Hans Bergsland, Norwegian fencer (born 1878)

Hans Bergsland was a Norwegian fencer, sports official and businessperson.

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Thomas Hicks, Australian tennis player (born 1869)

Thomas Henry Hicks was an Australian tennis player and administrator who managed Australia and New Zealand's participation in early Davis Cup competitions. Hicks was born in Balmain, New South Wales, the first of eight children and four sons of Henry Hicks and Emily Garrett. He was the older brother of Ernest Hicks. Living in Stanmore, Hicks was educated at Newington College commencing in 1885 aged sixteen. Hicks was the Honorary Secretary of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia/Australia from 1904 until 1926.

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Ferdinand Jodl, German general (born 1896)

Ferdinand Alfred Friedrich Jodl was a German general during World War II who commanded the Mountain Corps Norway during the Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive. He was the younger brother of Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff of the OKW. He was the nephew of philosopher and psychologist Friedrich Jodl at the University of Vienna.

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09/06/1953

Ernest Graves Sr., American football player, coach, and general (born 1880)

Ernest "Pot" Graves was an American football and baseball player, coach, and United States Army officer. He served as the head football coach at the United States Military Academy in 1906 and 1912. Graves retired from the Army with the rank of brigadier general.

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09/06/1952

Adolf Busch, German-Austrian violinist and composer (born 1891)

Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch was a German-Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer.

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09/06/1942

František Erben, Czech gymnast (born 1874)

František Erben was a Czech gymnast, trainer and educator. Erben made his international competitive debut for Bohemia at the 1900 Paris Summer Olympics where he finished in 32nd place.

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09/06/1929

Louis Bennison, American stage and silent film actor (born 1884)

Louis Bennison was an American stage and silent film actor, known for westerns.

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Margaret Lawrence, American stage actress (born 1889)

Margaret Whittaker Lawrence was an American stage actress known for her performances on Broadway and other venues.

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Alice Gossage, American journalist (born 1861)

Rhoda Alice Gossage was an American newspaper editor, journalist, and activist. Often referred to as the "Mother of Rapid City", she was inducted into the South Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame in 1934 and the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 1978. She was one of, if not the, first newspaperwomen in South Dakota.

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09/06/1927

Victoria Woodhull, American activist for women's rights (born 1838)

Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because according to the Constitution she would have been too young to be president if elected.

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09/06/1923

Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (born 1846)

Princess Helena, later Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, was the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

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09/06/1913

Sarah Roberts, English woman who was the subject of a vampire legend (born 1872).

Sarah Ellen Roberts was an Englishwoman who died and was buried in Pisco, Peru. After her death, a legend evolved that she was a vampire and bride of Dracula. On 9 June 1993, the 80th anniversary of her death, locals in Pisco feared she would come back to life and take her revenge.

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09/06/1901

Adolf Bötticher, German historian and author (born 1842)

Adolf Bötticher or Adolf Boetticher was a German art historian and conservator.

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09/06/1892

William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (born 1863)

William Grant Stairs was a Canadian-British explorer, soldier, and adventurer who had a leading role in two expeditions during the Scramble for Africa.

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09/06/1889

Mike Burke, American baseball player (born 1854)

Michael E. Burke was an American Major League Baseball player who played mainly shortstop for the 1879 Cincinnati Reds of the National League. In 28 games, he had 26 hits in 117 at bats for a .222 batting average, scored 13 Runs, and hit three doubles. He died at the age of 34 or 35 in Albany, New York, and is interred at St. Agnes Cemetery in Menands, New York.

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09/06/1875

Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and conchologist (born 1795)

Gérard Paul Deshayes was a French geologist and conchologist.

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09/06/1871

Anna Atkins, English botanist and photographer (born 1799)

Anna Atkins was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources say that she was the first woman to create a photograph.

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09/06/1870

Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (born 1812)

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.

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09/06/1834

William Carey, English minister and missionary (born 1761)

William Carey was an English Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Serampore University, the first degree-awarding university in India and cofounded the Serampore Mission Press.

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09/06/1799

Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Caribbean-French violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1745)

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George(s) was a French violinist, conductor, composer and soldier of African descent. Moreover, he demonstrated excellence as a fencer, an athlete, and an accomplished dancer. His historical significance lies partly in his distinctive background as a biracial free man of colour. Bologne was the first classical composer of African descent to attain widespread acclaim in European music. He composed an array of violin concertos, string quartets, sinfonia concertantes, violin duets, sonatas, two symphonies, and an assortment of stage works, notably opéra comique.

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09/06/1717

Jeanne Guyon, French mystic and author (born 1648)

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon was a French Christian accused of advocating Quietism, which was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church. Madame Guyon was imprisoned from 1695 to 1703 after publishing the book A Short and Very Easy Method of Prayer.

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09/06/1716

Banda Singh Bahadur, Indian commander (born 1670)

Banda Singh Bahadur was a Sikh military commander of the Khalsa Army. At age 15, he left home to become an ascetic, and was given the name Madho Das Bairagi. He established a monastery at Nānded, on the bank of the river Godāvarī. In 1707, Guru Gobind Singh accepted an invitation to meet Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah I in southern India, he visited Banda Singh Bahadur in 1708. Banda became disciple of Guru Gobind Singh and was given a new name, Gurbaksh Singh (as written in Mahan Kosh), after the baptism ceremony. He is popularly known as Banda Singh Bahadur. He was given five arrows by the Guru as a blessing for the battles ahead. He came to Khanda, Sonipat and assembled a fighting force and led the struggle against the Mughal Empire.

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09/06/1684

Peregrine Palmer, English politician (born 1605)

Peregrine Palmer was an English politician who sat as MP for Bridgwater on 7 December 1669.

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09/06/1681

William Lilly, English astrologer (born 1602)

William Lilly was a seventeenth century English astrologer. He is described as having been a genius at something "that modern mainstream opinion has since decided cannot be done at all" having developed his stature as the most important astrologer in England through his social and political connections as well as going on to have an indelible impact on the future course of Western astrological tradition.

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09/06/1656

Thomas Tomkins, Welsh-English composer (born 1572)

Thomas Tomkins was a Welsh-born composer of the late Tudor and early Stuart period. In addition to being one of the prominent members of the English Madrigal School, he was a skilled composer of keyboard and consort music, and the last member of the English virginalist school.

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09/06/1647

Leonard Calvert, Colonial governor of Maryland (born 1606)

Leonard Calvert was an English-born colonial administrator who served as the first proprietary governor of Maryland from 1634 to 1647. He was the second son of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, the first lord proprietor of the Province of Maryland. His elder brother Cecil, who inherited the colony and the title upon the death of their father in 1632, appointed Leonard as governor of Maryland in his absence.

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09/06/1597

José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (born 1534)

José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo, SJ was a Spanish missionary to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the first century after its European discovery, Anchieta was one of the founders of São Paulo in 1554 and of Rio de Janeiro in 1565. He is the first playwright, the first grammarian and the first poet born in the Canary Islands, and is considered the father of Brazilian literature.

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09/06/1583

Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1525)

Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, was Lord Deputy of Ireland during the Tudor period of English history, and a leading courtier during the reign of Elizabeth I.

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09/06/1572

Jeanne d'Albret, Navarrese queen and Huguenot leader (born 1528)

Jeanne d'Albret, also known as Jeanne III, was Queen of Navarre from 1555 to 1572.

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09/06/1563

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English accountant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1506)

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget of Beaudesert, was an English statesman and accountant who held prominent positions in the service of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I. He was the patriarch of the Paget family, whose descendants were created Earl of Uxbridge (1714) and Marquess of Anglesey (1815).

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09/06/1361

Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet (born 1291)

Philippe de Vitry was a French composer-poet, bishop and music theorist in the ars nova style of late medieval music. An accomplished, innovative, and influential composer, he was widely acknowledged as a leading musician of his day; the early Renaissance scholar Petrarch wrote a glowing tribute, calling him: "... the keenest and most ardent seeker of truth, so great a philosopher of our age." The important music treatise Ars nova notandi (1322) is usually attributed to Vitry.

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09/06/1348

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (born 1290)

Ambrogio Lorenzetti was an Italian painter of the Sienese school. He was active from approximately 1317 to 1348. He painted The Allegory of Good and Bad Government in the Sala dei Nove in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico. His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti.

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09/06/1252

Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Otto I of Brunswick-Lüneburg, a member of the House of Welf, was the first duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1235 until his death. He is called Otto the Child to distinguish him from his uncle, Emperor Otto IV.

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09/06/1238

Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester

Peter des Roches was bishop of Winchester in the reigns of King John of England and his son Henry III. He was not an Englishman, but rather a native of the Touraine, in north-central France.

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09/06/1087

Otto I of Olomouc (born 1045)

Otto I, known as Otto the Fair, a member of the Přemyslid dynasty, was Prince of Olomouc in Moravia from 1061 until his death.

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09/06/1075

Gebhard of Supplinburg, Saxon count

Gebhard of Supplinburg was a Saxon count in the Eastphalian Harzgau and Nordthüringgau. He was the father of Emperor Lothair II.

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09/06/0908

Yang Wo, Prince of Hongnong

Yang Wo, courtesy name Chengtian, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Liezu of Yang Wu (楊吳烈祖), was the first independent ruler of the Chinese Yang Wu dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, reigning as the Commandery Prince of Hongnong.

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09/06/0630

Shahrbaraz, king of the Persian Empire

Shahrbaraz was shah (king) of the Sasanian Empire from 27 April 630 to 9 June 630. He usurped the throne from Ardashir III, and was killed by Iranian nobles after forty days. Before usurping the Sasanian throne he was a spahbed (general) under Khosrow II (590–628). He is furthermore noted for his important role during the climactic Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628, and the events that followed afterwards.

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09/06/0597

Columba, Irish missionary and saint (born 521)

Columba or Colmcille was an Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission. He founded the important abbey on Iona, which became a dominant religious and political institution in the region for centuries. He is the patron saint of Derry and one of the patron saints of Ireland along with Patrick and Brigid. He was venerated by both the Gaels of Dál Riata and the Picts, and is remembered today as one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.

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09/06/0439

Spearthrower Owl, Teotihuacan figure active in Mayan Tikal

"Spearthrower Owl" was a Mesoamerican person from the Early Classic period, who is identified in Maya inscriptions and iconography. Mayanist David Stuart has suggested that Spearthrower Owl was a ruler of Teotihuacan at the start of the height of its influence across Mesoamerica in the 4th and 5th century, and that he was responsible for an intense period of Teotihuacan presence in the Maya area, including the conquest of Tikal in 378 CE.

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09/06/0373

Ephrem the Syrian, hymnographer and theologian (born 306)

Ephrem the Syrian, also known as Ephraem the Deacon, Ephrem of Edessa or Aprem of Nisibis was a prominent Christian theologian and writer who is revered as one of the most notable hymnographers of Eastern Christianity. He was born in Nisibis, served as a deacon and later lived in Edessa.

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09/06/0068

Nero, Roman emperor (born 37)

AD 68 (LXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silius Italicus and Trachalus, or the start of the Year of the Four Emperors. The denomination AD 68 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. These are now used throughout the world.

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