Famous Deaths for 9th February 2022

1199 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese founder of bakufu and 1st shogun, dies at 51 (b. 1147)
1567 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, King consort of Mary, Queen of Scots, murdered at 21 in the orchard of Kirk o’ Field in Edinburgh
1824 – Anna Katharina Emmerick, Roman Catholic Augustinian Canoness Regular of Windesheim, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist, dies at 49
1846 – Henry Gally Knight, architect/writer, dies
1977 – Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92
1996 – Gerald Savory, British actor playwright and TV producer (Heart of the Matter), dies at 86
2015 – Ed Sabol, American filmmaker (NFL Films), dies at 98
2015 – Marvin David Levy, American composer (Mourning Becomes Electra), dies at 82
2018 – Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic theatre, dance, and film score composer (The Theory of Everything), dies form a combination of cocaine and prescription medication at 48
2020 – Mirella Freni, Italian lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at 84

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