September 9

2024 Calendar

September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 113 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

701 – Pope Sergius I
1000 – Olaf I of Norway (b. 963)
1087 – King William I of England (b. 1028)
1398 – King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
1438 – King Edward of Portugal (b. 1391)
1487 – Chenghua, Chinese Emperor (b. 1447)
1488 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
1513 – King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
1569 – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
1583 – Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer (b. 1539)
1596 – Anna Jagiellon, Queen of Poland (b. 1523)
1612 – Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese daimyo (b. 1570)
1676 – Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, French army officer, founder of Montreal (b. 1612)
1806 – William Paterson, 2nd Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)
1815 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
1834 – James Weddell, British sailor (b. 1787)
1891 – Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
1898 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)

1901 – 2000

1901 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (b. 1821)
1915 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods maker (b. 1850)
1939 – U Ottama, Burmese national hero
1941 – Hans Spemann, German doctor and zoologist, won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
1960 – Jussi Björling, Swedish opera singer (b. 1911)
1976 – Mao Zedong, political leader (People's Republic of China) (b. 1893)
1978 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
1978 – Jack Warner, American Hollywood studio founder (b. 1892)
1980 – John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
1981 – Robert Askin, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907)
1981 – Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist (b. 1901)
1983 – Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (b. 1901)
1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist (b. 1910)
1985 – Antonio Votto, Italian conductor (b. 1896)
1986 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian classical pianist (b. 1893)
1990 – Nicola Abbagnano, Italian philosopher (b. 1901)
1990 – Samuel K. Doe, Liberian military officer and President of Liberia (b. 1951)
1990 – Doc Cramer, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1905)
1993 – Helen O'Connell, singer (b. 1920)
1997 – Burgess Meredith, actor (b. 1907)
1998 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (b. 1943)
1999 – Jim "Catfish" Hunter, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1946)
2000 – Veerasamy Ringadoo, first President of Mauritius (b. 1920)

From 2001

2001 – Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghan military leader (b. 1953)
2003 – Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist (b. 1908)
2007 – Hughie Thomasson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952)
2008 – Nouhak Phoumsavanh, President of Laos (b. 1910)
2010 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (b. 1935)
2013 – Alberto Bevilacqua, Italian writer, poet and journalist (b. 1934)
2014 – Graham Joyce, British writer (b. 1954)
2014 – Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (b. 1930)
2014 – Bob Suter, American ice hockey player (b. 1957)
2014 – Howell Evans, Welsh actor (b. 1928)
2014 – Denny Miller, American actor (b. 1934)
2015 – Einar H. Ingman, Jr., American soldier (b. 1929)
2017 – Frank Aarebrot, Norwegian political scientist (b. 1947)
2017 – Michael Friedman, American composer and songwriter (b. 1975)
2017 – Oscar E. Huber, American politician (b. 1917)
2017 – Pierre Pilote, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
2018 – Frank Andersson, Swedish professional wrestler (b. 1956)
2018 – Johannes Geldenhuys, South African military commander (b. 1935)
2018 – Beat Richner, Swiss paediatrician and cellist (b. 1947)
2018 – Daniel Küblböck, German singer (b. 1985) (presumed drowned)
2018 – Mr. Catra, Brazilian rapper (b. 1968)
2018 – Javier Usabiaga Arroyo, Mexican businessman and politician (b. 1939)

Births

1901 – 1950

1901 – Lev Shubnikov, Russian physicist (d. 1937)
1902 – Fred Tootell, American athlete (d. 1964)
1903 – Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)
1904 – Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
1905 – Joseph E. Levine, American movie producer (d. 1987)
1906 – Harri Larva, Finnish runner (d. 1980)
1906 – James Quinn, American athlete (d. 2004)
1908 – Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)
1908 – Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese admiral (d. 1945)
1911 – John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)
1918 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, former President of Italy (d. 2012)
1919 – Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (d. 1998)
1920 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and physicist (d. 1993)
1922 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German physicist (d. 2017)
1922 – Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian geneticist
1923 – Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist (d. 2008)
1923 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (d. 2011)
1924 – Rik van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
1924 – Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
1926 – Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian theologian and writer
1930 – Francis Carroll, Australian archbishop
1931 – Margaret Tyzack, British actress (d. 2011)
1932 – Sylvia Miles, American actress
1934 – Nicholas Liverpool, former President of Dominica (d. 2015)
1935 – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
1939 – Reuven Rivlin, 10th President of Israel
1941 – Otis Redding, American musician (d. 1967)
1941 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (d. 2011)
1945 – Richard Divall, Australian conductor and musicologist (d. 2017)
1945 – Alphonso Jackson, American politician
1946 – Doug Ingle, American musician (Iron Butterfly)
1946 – Jim Keays, Australian musician (d. 2014)
1947 – Freddy Weller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 – John Curry, British figure skater (d. 1994)
1949 – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, 6th President of Indonesia

1951 – 1975

1951 – Alexander Downer, Australian politician
1951 – Tom Wopat, American actor, singer and director
1952 – David A. Stewart, British musician (Eurythmics)
1953 – Alisher Usmanov, Uzbek-Russian business magnate
1955 – John Kricfalusi, Canadian voice actor, animator, director and screenwriter
1956 – Anatoly Artsebarsky, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut
1957 – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist and educator
1959 – Tom Foley, American baseball player and coach
1959 – Eric Serra, French composer
1960 – Hugh Grant, English actor
1960 – Bob Hartley, Canadian ice hockey coach
1961 – Matjaz Kek, Slovenian football coach
1962 – Liza Marklund, Swedish writer
1963 – Chris Coons, American politician
1963 – Roberto Donadoni, Italian footballer
1964 – Mike Ashley, English billionaire entrepreneur
1964 – John Hughes, Scottish football manager
1966 – Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
1967 – Akshay Kumar, Indian actor
1967 – Hana Andronikova, Czech writer (d. 2011)
1968 – Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistani politician (d. 2011)
1968 – Julia Sawalha, English actress
1969 – Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model
1971 – Eric Stonestreet, American actor
1971 – Henry Thomas, American actor, singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 – Goran Visnjic, Croatian actor
1974 – Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer, composer and musician
1974 – Gok Wan, English fashion consultant, writer and television host
1975 – Michael Bublé, Canadian singer

From 1976

1976 – Chace Ambrose, American actor and screenwriter
1976 – Jerry Newman, American composer and conductor
1976 – Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
1977 – Fatih Tekke, Turkish footballer
1977 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
1978 – Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
1980 – Michelle Williams, American actress
1980 – Todd Coffey, American baseball player
1980 – Vaclav Drobny, Czech footballer (d. 2012)
1982 – Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
1982 – Graham Onions, English cricketer
1983 – Kim Jung-hwa, South Korean actress and model
1984 – Andrey Silnov, Russian athlete
1984 – Brad Guzan, American footballer
1985 – Luka Modric, Croatian footballer
1987 – Alex Song, Cameroonian footballer
1987 – Andrea Petkovic, German tennis player
1988 – Shizuka Nakamura, Japanese model and actress
1990 – Haley Reinhart, American singer-songwriter
1991 – Kelsey Chow, American actress
1991 – Oscar, Brazilian footballer
1993 – Ryohei Kato, Japanese gymnast
2000 – Victoria de Marichalar y Borbon, Spanish royal

Deaths

Observances

Admission Day (California)
Independence Day (Tajikistan)
National Day of North Korea
Children's Day (Costa Rica)
Human Rights Day (Colombia)