Unusual Deaths in 1973
* P�ter v�lyi, finance minister of hungary fell into a blast furnace (some sources say a pit of molten iron) on a visit to a steelworks factory at miskolc.
* Bruce lee, a martial arts actor, is thought to have died by a severe allergic reaction to equagesic. his brain had swollen about 13%. his autopsy was written as "death by misadventure."
People who died on July 09 (various years)
* 2007 - Charles Lane, American actor
* 2006 - Milan Williams, American musician (The Commodores)
* 2005 - Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player
* 2005 - Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater
* 2004 - Isabel Sanford, American actress
* 2004 - Paul Klebnikov, American journalist
* 2004 - Chuck Cadman, Canadian politician
* 2002 - Rod Steiger, American actor
* 2002 - Laurence Janifer, American writer
* 1999 - Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician
* 1996 - Melvin Belli, American attorney
* 1994 - Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1992 - Eric Sevareid, American reporter
* 1985 - Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous
* 1985 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
* 1980 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist
* 1979 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author
* 1974 - Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the United States
* 1972 - Robert Weede, American baritone
* 1967 - Eugen Fischer, Nazi physician
* 1955 - Don Beauman, British racing driver
* 1951 - Harry Heilmann, American Baseball player
* 1949 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born Australian composer
* 1947 - Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish general
* 1938 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist
* 1937 - Oliver Law, first African-American commander of U.S. troops
* 1932 - King C. Gillette, American inventor
* 1927 - John Drew Jr., American actor
* 1903 - Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist
* 1882 - Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero
* 1880 - Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist
* 1856 - James Strang, Mormon splinter group leader
* 1856 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist
* 1855 - Lord Raglan Commander of the British forces during the Crimean War
* 1852 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician
* 1850 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States
* 1850 - Báb, Persian founder of the Bábi Faith
* 1797 - Edmund Burke, British philosopher and statesman
* 1795 - Henry Seymour Conway, British general and statesman
* 1766 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister
* 1747 - Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer
* 1746 - Philip V of Spain
* 1742 - John Oldmixon, English historian
* 1737 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
* 1706 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French Canadian sailor and explorer
* 1654 - Ferdinand IV of Germany
* 1553 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony
* 1386 - Leopold III of Austria
* 1228 - Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
* 518 - Anastasius I, Byzantine Empero
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