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April 9, 2001 "Willie ""Pops"" Stargell", baseball great/humanitarian, dies at 61 April 9, 2001 Willie Stargell, American Athlete April 9, 2000 Catherine Crook de Camp, writer, The Day of the Dinosaur, dies at 92 April 9, 1998 Tom Cora, American Musician April 9, 1997 Helene Hanff, author, 84 Charing Cross Road, dies at 80 April 9, 1996 James William Rouse, U.S. builder (shopping malls), dies at 81 April 9, 1996 Maisie Fitter, editor/conservationist, dies at 83 April 9, 1996 Richard Thomas Condon, author, dies at 81 April 9, 1996 Sandy Becker, New York City Kiddie TV Show host (Sandy Becker Show), dies at 74 April 9, 1996 James Rouse, American Businessman April 9, 1995 James Bullock, colliery manager, dies at 92 April 9, 1994 Cornelis N "Cor" van Dis Jr, Dutch MP (1971-94), dies at 71 April 9, 1994 Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59 April 9, 1994 Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87 April 9, 1994 Raouf Khayrat, Egyptian general-major, murdered April 9, 1993 Wouter Perquin, journalist/Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 74 April 9, 1992 Gale McGee, senator (Wyoming, 1959-77), dies at 77 April 9, 1992 Ruth Hammond, dies in her sleep at 96 April 9, 1991 Maurice Binder, title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73 April 9, 1988 Brook Benton, singer (Just a Matter of Time), dies at 56 of meningitis April 9, 1988 Dave Prater, rocker (Sam and Dave), dies in a car crash at 50 April 9, 1986 Jean Mogin, Belgian poet, dies at 64 April 9, 1984 Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies April 9, 1982 Robert H G Havemann, German chemist/dissident, dies April 9, 1982 Wilfred Pelletier, symph conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 85 April 9, 1980 Kathleen Burke, dies April 9, 1979 Staats Cotsworth, dies at 71 April 9, 1976 Akio Yashiro, composer, dies at 46 April 9, 1976 Phil Ochs, singer (Draft Dodger Rag), commits suicide at 35 April 9, 1972 James F. Byrnes, American Politician April 9, 1966 Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47), dies at 57 April 9, 1962 Juan Belmonte, famed bullfighter, dies at 70 April 9, 1961 Zog I, [Ahmed Zogu], King of Albania (1925-39), dies at 65 April 9, 1959 Frank Lloyd Wright, U.S. architect (Guggenheim Museum New York), dies at 89 April 9, 1954 Philip Greeley Clapp, composer, dies at 65 April 9, 1951 Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Hadji Aga), dies April 9, 1951 Vilhelm F K Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology, dies at 89 April 9, 1948 Jorge Elecier Gaitan, Colombian politician, murdered April 9, 1947 Konrad Friedrich Noetel, composer, dies at 43 April 9, 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist/antifascist, hanged April 9, 1945 Hans Oster, German major-general/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged April 9, 1945 Hans von Dohnanyi, "July 20th plotter", hanged April 9, 1945 Theodor Haecker, German cultural philosopher (Mensch?), dies at 65 April 9, 1945 Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged April 9, 1944 Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer, dies at 59 April 9, 1940 Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (Outcast Lady, Riptide), dies April 9, 1939 Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer, dies at 89 April 9, 1933 Sigfrid Karg-Elert, composer, dies at 55 April 9, 1931 Paul Antonin Vidal, composer, dies at 67 April 9, 1923 Mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder), dies April 9, 1917 Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I April 9, 1916 Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer, dies at 62 April 9, 1909 Charles Conder, artist, dies April 9, 1909 Francis Marion Crawford, April 9, 1904 Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68), dies at 73 April 9, 1893 Disma Fumagalli, composer, dies at 66 April 9, 1886 Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60 April 9, 1882 D G Rossetti, writer, dies at 53 April 9, 1882 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, English poet/painter, dies at 53 April 9, 1882 Jules Quicherat, French historian/archaeologist (Melanges), dies at 66 April 9, 1879 Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer, dies at 70 April 9, 1865 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32 April 9, 1862 George W. Johnson, U.S. planter/Confederate (gov-Ky), dies at about 50 April 9, 1852 John Howard Payne, actor and playwright (Fair Warning), dies April 9, 1851 Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer, dies at 80 April 9, 1850 William Prout, physician/chemist, dies April 9, 1821 Felix Maximo Lopez, composer, dies at 78 April 9, 1807 John Opie, Engl painter/illustrator: Shakespeare gallery, dies at 45 April 9, 1806 Willem V Batavus, prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at 58 April 9, 1804 Jacques Necker, fiancier/statesman, dies April 9, 1793 Ernestus Weinrauch, composer, dies at 62 April 9, 1765 Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 77 April 9, 1761 William Law, theologian, dies April 9, 1754 Christian von Wolff, German philosopher, dies at 75 April 9, 1747 Lord Lovat, English jacobiet, dies April 9, 1747 Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England April 9, 1693 Roger de Rabutin, French Writer April 9, 1681 Alfonso Marsh, composer, dies at 54 April 9, 1626 Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, statesman, dies April 9, 1557 Michael Agricola, Finnish theologist/church reformer/bishop, dies April 9, 1553 Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), dies at 49 April 9, 1492 Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine statesman, dies April 9, 1483 Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83) dies at 38 April 9, 1024 Benedict VIII, [Theophylactus van Tusculum], Pope (1012-24), dies April 9, 715 Constantine I, Greek/Syrian Pope (708-15), dies |