Famous people died on December 9

Jenni Rivera  17 

American Musician

Nikki Giovanni  53 

American Poet

David Brudnoy  3 

American Entertainer

Al Unser  5 

American Athlete

Toni Cade Bambara  10 

American Author

John du Pont  1 

 

Mary Ann Mobley  16 

American Actress

William Blum  29 

American Author

Robert Sheckley  163 

American Author

Charles Rosen  71 

American Pianist

Patrick Moore  2 

English Astronomer

Eleanor Parker  3 

American Actress

Clarice Lispector  49 

Brazilian Writer

Jens Risom  1 

 

Mary Leakey  9 

British Scientist

Archie Moore  3 

American Athlete

Max Bill  6 

Swiss Architect

Leon Jaworski  2 

American Public Servant

Henri Peyre  4 

American Linguist

Berenice Abbott  14 

American Photographer

Fulton J. Sheen  80 

American Clergyman

Edith Sitwell  66 

British Poet

Robert Quillen  9 

American Journalist

Branch Rickey  32 

American Athlete

Natsume Soseki  2 

Japanese Novelist

Stephen Phillips  2 

English Poet

Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley  19 

English Judge

James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance  4 

British Judge

Ezra Cornell  14 

American Businessman

Robert Baldwin  2 

Canadian Politician

John P. Gaines  1 

American Politician

Samuel Woodworth  3 

American Author

Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher  1 

 

John Oldham (poet)  3 

 

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon  1 

English Politician

Al-Biruni  16 

Persian Scholar