In deaths:
| May 9th 1799 | | Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer, dies at 72
| | May 9th 1805 | | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet/playwright, dies at 45
| | May 9th 1805 | | Friedrich Schiller, writer, dies at 45
| | May 9th 1822 | | Charles Duquesnoy, composer, dies at 62
| | May 9th 1850 | | Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies
| | May 9th 1853 | | Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer, dies at 73
| | May 9th 1864 | | Thomas Donnely Doubleday, US Union Col, dies in an accident
| | May 9th 1864 | | "Uncle" John Sedgwick, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 50
| | May 9th 1880 | | Johann Hermann Berens, composer, dies at 54
| | May 9th 1884 | | Hermanus W Witteveen, theologist, dies at 69
| | May 9th 1903 | | Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies
| | May 9th 1905 | | Ernst Pauer, composer, dies at 78
| | May 9th 1926 | | Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies
| | May 9th 1927 | | Tommy Routledge, cricketer (4 Tests for S Africa 1892-96), dies
| | May 9th 1928 | | Constantin Dimitrescu, composer, dies at 81
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