Famous Deaths for 9th September 2026

1596 – Anna Jagiellon, Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania (1575-87), dies at 72
1841 – Augustin Pyrame de Candolle, Swiss botanist, established a plant classification system and coined the term taxonomy, dies at 63
1959 – Max d’Ollone, French composer and writer (Le Ménestrel), dies at 84
1979 – Wilbur Ware, American jazz double bassist (Riverside Records; Thelonious Monk; Sonny Rollins), included in photographer Art Kane’s photo “A Great Day In Harlem”, dies of emphysema at 56
1981 – Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist, dies at 80
1994 – Patrick O’Neal, American actor (Under Siege; The Stepford Wives; King Rat; Night of the Iguana), dies at 66
1996 – Jack Pepys, South African British immunologist (allergy and allergic diseases), dies at 82
1998 – Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer, dies of liver cancer at 47
2006 – Richard Burmer, American composer and musician, dies at 50
2008 – Warith Deen Muhammad, American Muslim leader and theologian (American Society of Muslims), dies at 74

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