February 9
February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 325 days remaining until the end of the year (326 in leap years).
Events
Up to 1900
- 967 - Sayf al-Dawla, Emir of Aleppo (b. 916)
- 1011 - Bernard I, Duke of Savoy
- 1199 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)
- 1450 - Agnes Sorel, mistress to Charles VIII of France (b. 1421)
- 1555 - John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester
- 1619 - Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
- 1675 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
- 1751 – Henri Francois d'Agesseau, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
- 1777 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)
- 1782 – Johann Aloysius Assemani, Lebanese orientalist (b. 1710)
- 1803 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716)
- 1857 – Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet (b. 1798)
- 1881 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821)
- 1889 – Peter Lalor, leader of the miners at the Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (b. 1827)
- 1891 - Johan Barthold Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)
- 1894 - Maxime Du Camp, French writer (b. 1822)
1901 – 2000
- 1905 - Adolph Menzel, German painter (b. 1815)
- 1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet (b. 1872)
- 1930 – Richard With, Norwegian businessman (b. 1846)
- 1936 - Caroline Furness, American astronomer (b. 1869)
- 1936 - Jacques Bainville, French historian and journalist (b. 1879)
- 1942 - Lauri Kristian Relander, 2nd President of Finland (b. 1883)
- 1948 - Karl Valentin, German comedian, writer and movie producer (b. 1882)
- 1957 – Miklos Horthy, Hungarian admiral (b. 1868)
- 1960 – Erno Dohnanyi, Hungarian composer (b. 1877)
- 1964 - Ary Barroso, Brazilian composer and singer (b. 1903)
- 1966 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-American actress and singer (b. 1884)
- 1973 - Max Yasgur, American farmer, owned the site of the Woodstock Festival (b. 1919)
- 1975 - Pierre Dac, French activist (b. 1893)
- 1977 - Alia al-Hussein, Queen Consort of Jordan (b. 1948)
- 1977 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1894)
- 1979 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-born British physicist (b. 1900)
- 1981 – Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1925)
- 1984 – Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914)
- 1989 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (b. 1928)
- 1991 - Daigoro Kondo, Japanese footballer (b. 1907)
- 1994 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (b. 1934)
- 1997 - Barry Evans, British actor (b. 1943)
- 1998 - Maurice Schumann, French politician (b. 1911)
From 2001
- 2001 – Herbert Simon, American economist (b. 1916)
- 2002 – Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
- 2002 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (b. 1937)
- 2005 - Robert Kearns, American engineer (b. 1927)
- 2007 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
- 2007 - Alejandro Finisterre, Spanish inventor of table football (b. 1919)
- 2009 – Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in right-to-die case (b. 1970)
- 2010 – Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor (b. 1920)
- 2014 - Marius, giraffe controversially put to sleep at Copenhagen Zoo (b. 2012)
- 2014 - Gabriel Axel, Danish movie director and actor (b. 1918)
- 2014 - Ranjit Bhatia, Indian runner (b. 1936)
- 2014 - Serafin R. Cuevas, Filipino lawyer (b. 1928)
- 2015 - Jorge Sassi, Argentine actor (b. 1950)
- 2016 - Sushil Koirala, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939)
- 2016 - André van den Heuvel, Dutch actor, director and singer (b. 1927)
- 2016 - Sibghattullah Mojaddedi, President of Afghanistan (b. 1926)
- 2017 - Serge Baguet, Belgian cyclist (b. 1969)
- 2017 - Packy, American-held elephant (b. 1962)
- 2017 - André Salvat, French colonel (b. 1920)
- 2017 - Radu Gabrea, Romanian film director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
- 2018 - Johann Johannsson, Icelandic film score composer (b. 1969)
- 2018 - Reg E. Cathey, American actor (b. 1958)
- 2018 - Jim Garrett, American football player (b. 1930)
- 2018 - Alfonso Lacadena, Spanish academic (b. 1964)
- 2018 - Craig MacGregor, American musician (b. 1949)
- 2018 - Liam Miller, Irish footballer (b. 1981)
- 2018 - Wally Moon, American baseball player (b. 1930)
- 2018 - Anne Treisman, English-American psychologist (b. 1935)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1902 – Leon M'ba, 1st President of Gabon (d. 1967)
- 1907 - Truong Chinh, 4th President of Vietnam (d. 1988)
- 1909 – Robert Velter, French comic artist (d. 1991)
- 1909 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress (d. 1955)
- 1909 – Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)
- 1910 – Jacques Monod, French biochemist (d. 1976)
- 1910 - Elbert N. Carvel, Governor of Delaware (d. 2005)
- 1912 - Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1968)
- 1912 - Ginette Leclerc, French actress (d. 1992)
- 1914 - Ernest Tubb, American singer (d. 1984)
- 1920 - Edward Joseph McManus, American politician and jurist (d. 2017)
- 1922 – Kathryn Grayson, American singer and actress (d. 2010)
- 1923 – Brendan Behan, Irish writer and activist (d. 1964)
- 1923 - Tonie Nathan, American political figure (d. 2014)
- 1925 – Burkhard Heim, German physicist (d. 2001)
- 1926 – Garret FitzGerald, Irish politician and Taoiseach (d. 2011)
- 1927 - David Wheeler, British computer scientist
- 1928 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (d. 2010)
- 1928 - Herman Pieter de Boer, Dutch writer, poet and journalist (d. 2014)
- 1928 – Rinus Michels, Dutch footballer and coach (d. 2005)
- 1928 - Roger Mudd, American journalist
- 1929 - A. R. Antulay, Indian politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2014)
- 1931 - Josef Masopust, Czech footballer (d. 2015)
- 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist (d. 1989)
- 1932 – Gerhard Richter, German artist
- 1932 - Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player and manager
- 1933 - Arthur A. Neu, American politician (d. 2015)
- 1936 – Clive Swift, British actor
- 1936 – Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country music singer (d. 2013)
- 1937 – Hildegard Behrens, German operatic soprano (d. 2009)
- 1939 – Janet Suzman, South African actress
- 1940 – J. M. Coetzee, South African-born Australian Nobel Prize-winning writer
- 1940 – Brian Bennett, British musician (The Shadows)
- 1940 - Enrique Olivera, Argentine politician (d. 2014)
- 1941 - Sheila Kuehl, American actress, activist and politician
- 1942 – Carole King, American singer
- 1943 - Ryland Davies, Welsh operatic tenor
- 1943 – Joe Pesci, American actor
- 1943 – Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist
- 1944 - Alice Walker, American writer
- 1945 – Mia Farrow, American actress
- 1945 - Yoshinori Ohsumi, Japanese cell biologist
- 1946 - Jim Webb, United States Senator from Virginia
- 1947 – Carla Del Ponte, Swiss UN prosecutor
- 1948 - David Hayman, Scottish actor
- 1948 - Guy Standing, English economist
- 1949 – Judith Light, American actress
- 1949 - Bernard Gallacher, Scottish golfer
- 1950 - James Luna, American performance artist (d. 2018)
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - Jay Inslee, 23rd Governor of Washington
- 1953 – Ciaran Hinds, Northern Irish actor
- 1954 - Mary Jo Duffy, American comic book writer and editor
- 1955 - Charles Shaughnessy, British actor
- 1957 - Terry McAuliffe, 72nd Governor of Virginia
- 1957 - Ruy Ramos, Brazilian-Japanese footballer
- 1957 – Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1958 – Sandy Lyle, Scottish golfer
- 1958 - Cyrille Regis, English footballer (d. 2018)
- 1959 – Ali Bongo Ondimba, 3rd President of Gabon
- 1960 – Holly Johnson, English singer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
- 1960 - Peggy Whitson, American biochemist and astronaut
- 1961 – Jussi Lampi, Finnish musician and actor
- 1963 – Brian Greene, American physicist
- 1963 - Travis Titt, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1965 - Dieter Baumann, German athlete
- 1965 - Christian Schenk, German athlete
- 1965 - Igor Malkov, Russian speed skater
- 1965 - Julie Warner, American actress
- 1966 - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
- 1966 - Harald Eia, Norwegian actor and comedian
- 1968 - Alejandra Guzman, Mexican singer and actress
- 1970 – Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer
- 1971 – Johan Mjallby, Swedish footballer
- 1972 – Darren Ferguson, Scottish footballer
- 1973 - Makoto Shinkai, Japanese director, writer, artist and graphic designer
- 1974 - Amber Valletta, American model and actress
- 1974 - Jordi Cruyff, Dutch footballer
- 1974 - Erra Frazira, Malaysian actress and singer
From 1976
- 1978 - A. J. Buckley, Irish-Canadian actor, director and screenwriter
- 1979 – Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress
- 1979 - Akinora Iwamura, Japanese baseball player
- 1979 – David Gray, British snooker player
- 1980 – Angelos Charisteas, Greek footballer
- 1981 – John Walker Lindh, American Taliban fighter
- 1981 – The Rev, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold) (d. 2009)
- 1981 - Tom Hiddleston, English actor
- 1982 – Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer
- 1984 - Han Geng, Chinese singer, actor and dancer
- 1985 - David Gallagher, American actor
- 1986 – Princess Rajyah bint Al Hussein of Jordan
- 1986 - Stina Lykke Petersen, Danish footballer
- 1987 – Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
- 1987 - Rose Leslie, Scottish actress
- 1987 - Michael B. Jordan, American actor
- 1988 – Lotte Friis, Danish swimmer
- 1989 – Shunta Takahashi, Japanese footballer
- 1989 - Gia Farrell, American singer
- 1990 – Camille Winbush, American actress
- 1992 - Avan Jogia, Canadian actor, singer and dancer
- 1993 - Parimarjan Negi, Indian chess player
- 1993 - Wataru Endo, Japanese footballer
- 1996 - Jimmy Bennett, American actor and singer
- 1996 - Kelli Berglund, American actress
- 2001 - Erraid Davies, Scottish swimmer
Deaths
Holidays and Observances
- St. Maroun's Day (Lebanon)