17 notable people died on August 9, including Cecil Powell, Sisowath of Cambodia, Louis III of France.
21st Century
4 deaths
Sergei Kovalev
biophysicisthuman rights defender
Russian politician (1930–2021)
Ivan I. Krasko
actorfilm actor
Soviet and Russian theater and film actor
Franca Valeri
film actorplaywright
Italian actress (1920-2020)
Mahmoud Farshchian
architectural designerart educator
Iranian artist
20th Century
4 deaths
Cecil Powell
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1950)
King of Cambodia from 1904 to 1927
Manuel Cepeda Vargas
journalistlawyer
Colombian politician, revolucionario Marxista (1930-1994)
Lance McCaskill
academicbotanical collector
New Zealand agricultural instructor, lecturer, conservationist, and writer (1900–1985)
19th Century
1 death
Anders Sparrman
botanical collectorbotanist
Swedish naturalist (1748-1820)
17th Century
4 deaths
Jakob Balde
poetuniversity teacher
German scholar (1604-1668)
Friedrich Spee
pedagoguepoet
Jesuit, author of Cautio Criminalis
Antonio Mira de Amescua
playwrightpoet
Spanish dramatist
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Dionisio Lazzari
architectsculptor
Italian artist (1617-1689)
16th Century
1 death
Andreas Angelus
chroniclerhistorian
Pastor, teacher, chronicler of the Mark Brandenburg (1561-1598)
11th Century
1 death
Almanzor
military commandermilitary personnel
Arab Andalusian military leader and statesman (c.938-1002)
9th Century
1 death
Louis III of France
monarch
King of France
7th Century
1 death
Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad
military leaderwali
Umayyad general and governor (died 686)
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