Famous Deaths for 9th September 2024

1398 – King James I of Cyprus (1382-98), dies at about 64
1573 – Andre de Resende, Portuguese Dominican friar and humanist, dies at 74 or 75
1770 – Georg Dionysius Ehret, German-English botanist and cartoonist, dies at 62
1803 – Armand-Emmanuel Trial, French pianist and comic opera composer, dies at 30
1934 – Roger Fry, English artist and art critic, dies at 67
1959 – Max d’Ollone, French composer and writer (Le Ménestrel), dies at 84
1960 – Jussi Björling, Swedish operatic tenor, dies from cardiomegaly (enlarged heart) complications at 49
2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist, father of the Hydrogen bomb (Manhattan Project), dies at 95
2021 – Timothy Colman, English naval officer and businessman (Colman’s mustard), dies at 91
2021 – Danilo Popivoda, Serbian soccer forward (20 caps Yugoslavia; Olimpija, Eintracht Braunschweig), dies at 74

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