35 notable people died on January 9, including K. Alex Müller, Emily Greene Balch, James M. Buchanan Jr..
21st Century
9 deaths
K. Alex Müller
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1987)
James M. Buchanan Jr.
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (1986)
Dale T. Mortensen
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2010)
Gordon Smith
inventortool and die maker
Inventor, born 1950
Anatoly Lukyanov
poetpolitician
Russian politician (1930-2019)
FF
František Filip
directorfilm director
Czech director (1930–2021)
FG
Francis Golffing
university teacherwriter
American poet (1910–2012)
KJ
Karel Janovický
composerediting staff
Czech composer (1930–2024)
GW
Gerald Wickremesooriya
composerrecord producer
Sri Lankan composer
20th Century
17 deaths
Emily Greene Balch
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Peace (1946)
Jaques-Louis Reverdin
entomologistlepidopterist
Swiss surgeon (skin graft pioneer), lepidopterist and butterfly researcher (1842-1929)
Hanoch Albeck
Judaic scholarrabbi
Austrian/Israeli Professor of Talmud (1890–1972)
Pier Luigi Nervi
architectcivil engineer
Italian engineer (1891-1979)
Antoni Osuchowski
adult educatorjurist
Polish lawyer
Nils Flyg
journalistnewspaper editor
Swedish politician (1891-1943)
Jüri Uluots
journalistlawyer
Estonian prime minister (1890-1945)
Amilcare Zanella
composerconductor
Italian composer, pianist and conductor (1873–1949)
Amélia Barros
actorartist
Portuguese artist
Peter Theodor Holst
civil servantmilitary officer
Norwegian politician (1843–1908)
PS
Piotr Smoleński
cryptographermathematician
Polish cryptographer
AG
Agnes Gavin
screenwriterwriter
Australian actor and screenwriter (1872–1948)
AS
A. M. Sullivan
barristerjournalist
Irish lawyer (1871–1959)
CS
Cemal Süreya
civil servantpoet
Turkish poet (1931–1990)
BI
Blanca Irurzun
poetteacher
Argentine poet, artist and teacher
OM
Obdulio Morales
composerconductor
Cuban ethnomusicologist and pianist (1910-1981)
Imi Lichtenfeld
amateur wrestlerboxer
Israeli Krav Maga practitioner (1910–1998)
19th Century
1 death
Guillaume Vogels
draftspersonpainter
Belgian painter (1836-1896)
18th Century
2 deaths
Ursula Micaela Morata
nunwriter
Spanish writer (1628-1703)
Thomas Birch
historiantheologian
English historian (1705-1766)
17th Century
3 deaths
Pierre Jean Fabre
alchemistphysician
French doctor and alchemist.
Sor Marcela de San Felix
nunpoet
Spanish writer (1605-1688)
HM
Herman van der Mast
painter
Painter from the Northern Netherlands
16th Century
2 deaths
Johannes Aventinus
historianphilologist
Bavarian Renaissance humanist historian and philologist (1477-1534)
Galeazzo Alessi
architect
Architect
9th Century
1 death
John IX
Catholic priestwriter
Pope
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