May 9th Deaths |
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| May 9th, 2008 (May 09 2008) | Death | Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (born in 1929) | |
| May 9th, 2008 (May 09 2008) | Death | Nuala O Faolain, Irish journalist (born in 1942) | |
| May 9th, 2007 (May 09 2007) | Death | Dwight Wilson, second-to-last Canadian WWI veteran (born in 1901) | |
| May 9th, 2007 (May 09 2007) | Death | Edith Rodriguez, hospital emergency room refused to treat (born in 1964) | |
| May 9th, 2005 (May 09 2005) | Death | Nasrat Parsa, Afghani singer (born in 1969) | |
| May 9th, 2004 (May 09 2004) | Death | Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president (born in 1951) | |
| May 9th, 2004 (May 09 2004) | Death | Alan King, American comedian (born in 1927) | |
| May 9th, 2003 (May 09 2003) | Death | Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (born in 1918) | |
| May 9th, 2002 (May 09 2002) | Death | Dan Devine, American football coach (born in 1924) | |
| May 9th, 2001 (May 09 2001) | Death | James E. Myers, American songwriter (Rock Around the Clock) and producer (born in 1919) | |
| May 9th, 1998 (May 09 1998) | Death | Alice Faye, American actress (born in 1915) | |
| May 9th, 1997 (May 09 1997) | Death | Marco Ferreri, Italian film director (born in 1928) | |
| May 9th, 1994 (May 09 1994) | Death | Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (born in 1924) | |
| May 9th, 1993 (May 09 1993) | Death | Jacques Dextraze, French Canadian military officer (born in 1919) | |
| May 9th, 1990 (May 09 1990) | Death | James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1935) | |
| May 9th, 1989 (May 09 1989) | Death | Keith Whitley, American country music singer (born in 1955) | |
| May 9th, 1986 (May 09 1986) | Death | Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa and 1st sherpa to climb Mt. Everest (born in 1914) | |
| May 9th, 1985 (May 09 1985) | Death | Edmond O Brien, American actor (born in 1915) | |
| May 9th, 1981 (May 09 1981) | Death | Ralph Allen, English footballer (born in 1906) | |
| May 9th, 1979 (May 09 1979) | Death | Cyrus Eaton, Canadian-American businessman and industrialist (born in 1883) | |
| May 9th, 1978 (May 09 1978) | Death | Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy (born in 1916) | |
| May 9th, 1977 (May 09 1977) | Death | James Jones, American writer (born in 1921) | |
| May 9th, 1976 (May 09 1976) | Death | Jens Bjorneboe, Norwegian author (born in 1920) | |
| May 9th, 1976 (May 09 1976) | Death | Ulrike Meinhof, German revolutionist (born in 1934) | |
| May 9th, 1970 (May 09 1970) | Death | Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (born in 1884) | |
| May 9th, 1970 (May 09 1970) | Death | Walter Reuther, American labor leader (born in 1907) | |
| May 9th, 1968 (May 09 1968) | Death | Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (born in 1893) | |
| May 9th, 1968 (May 09 1968) | Death | Finlay Currie, British actor (born in 1878) | |
| May 9th, 1968 (May 09 1968) | Death | Marion Lorne, American actress (born in 1885) | |
| May 9th, 1965 (May 09 1965) | Death | Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (born in 1902) | |
| May 9th, 1957 (May 09 1957) | Death | Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (born in 1892) | |
| May 9th, 1955 (May 09 1955) | Death | Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (born in 1858) | William Booth Quotes |
| May 9th, 1950 (May 09 1950) | Death | Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (born in 1883) | |
| May 9th, 1949 (May 09 1949) | Death | Prince Louis II of Monaco (born in 1870) | |
| May 9th, 1938 (May 09 1938) | Death | Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (born in 1866) | |
| May 9th, 1931 (May 09 1931) | Death | Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1852) | Abraham Quotes |
| May 9th, 1918 (May 09 1918) | Death | George Cosbuc, Romanian poet (born in 1866) | |
| May 9th, 1915 (May 09 1915) | Death | Francois Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (born in 1887) | |
| May 9th, 1914 (May 09 1914) | Death | C.W. Post, American food manufacturer (born in 1854) | |
| May 9th, 1889 (May 09 1889) | Death | William S. Harney, U.S. general (born in 1800) | |
| May 9th, 1861 (May 09 1861) | Death | Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (born in 1805) | Philo Quotes |
| May 9th, 1805 (May 09 1805) | Death | Friedrich Schiller, German poet and historian (born in 1759) | |
| May 9th, 1791 (May 09 1791) | Death | Francis Hopkinson, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (born in 1737) | |
| May 9th, 1790 (May 09 1790) | Death | William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress | |
| May 9th, 1789 (May 09 1789) | Death | Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (born in 1715) | |
| May 9th, 1760 (May 09 1760) | Death | Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (born in 1700) | |
| May 9th, 1747 (May 09 1747) | Death | John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (born in 1673) | John Scott Quotes |
| May 9th, 1745 (May 09 1745) | Death | Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer(born in 1663) | |
| May 9th, 1707 (May 09 1707) | Death | Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer | |
| May 9th, 1657 (May 09 1657) | Death | William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony (born in 1590) | William Bradford Quotes |
| May 9th, 1446 (May 09 1446) | Death | Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples (born in 1368) | |
| May 9th, 1315 (May 09 1315) | Death | Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (born in 1282) | |
