May 9

2024 Calendar

May 9 is the 129th day of the year (130th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 236 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1280 – King Magnus VI of Norway (b. 1238)
1315 – Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
1707 – Dietrich Buxtehude, German composer (b. 1637)
1745 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)
1760 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
1791 - Francis Hopkinson, American judge and politician (b. 1737)
1805 – Friedrich Schiller, German writer (b. 1759)
1836 - Caleb P. Bennett, Governor of Delaware (b. 1758)
1850 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
1850 - Garlieb Merkel, Baltic German writer and activist (b. 1769)
1861 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805)
1864 - John Sedgwick, American general (b. 1813)
1889 - William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)

1901 – 2000

1909 - Margarete Steiff, German founder of the Steiff toy company (b. 1847)
1915 - Tony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player (b. 1883)
1915 - Francois Faber, Luxembourg-French cyclist (b. 1887)
1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist (b. 1852)
1942 - Jozef Cebula, Polish priest (b. 1902)
1949 – Prince Louis II of Monaco (b. 1870)
1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist and engineer (b. 1883)
1955 - Kate Booth, English Salvation Army officer (b. 1858)
1957 - Enzo Pinza, Italian opera singer (b. 1892)
1959 - Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and social activist (b. 1887)
1964 - Rico Lebrun, Italian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1900)
1965 – Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (b. 1902)
1968 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright and costume designer (b. 1893)
1968 - Harold Gray, American cartoonist (b. 1894)
1970 – Walter Reuther, American labor leader (b. 1907)
1976 – Ulrike Meinhof, member of the Red Army Faction (b. 1934)
1978 - Giuseppe Impastato, Italian political activist (b. 1948)
1978 – Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
1986 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountain climber (b. 1914)
1987 - Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian politician (b. 1909)
1989 - Keith Whitley, American singer, guitarist and producer (b. 1955)
1997 – Marco Ferreri, Italian movie director (b. 1928)
1997 - Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician (b. 1926)
1998 – Alice Faye, American actress (b. 1915)

From 2001

2001 – Nikos Sampson, 2nd President of Cyprus (b. 1935)
2001 – James E. Myers, American songwriter and producer (b. 1919)
2003 - Russell B. Long, American politician (b. 1918)
2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (b. 1951)
2009 – Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (b. 1930)
2010 – Acharya Mahapragya, Indian religious leader (Jainism) (b. 1920)
2010 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
2011 – Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)
2011 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, former acting President of Bolivia (b. 1921)
2012 – Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser (b. 1928)
2012 - Geoffrey Henry, former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1940)
2013 - George M. Leader, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1918)
2013 - Andrew Simpson, British sailor (b. 1976)
2013 - Ottavio Missoni, Italian fashion designer and hurdler (b. 1921)
2013 - Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (b. 1933)
2014 - Harlan Mathews, American politician (b. 1926)
2014 - Joe Wilder, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer (b. 1922)
2014 - Jules Mutebusi, Congolese militant (b. 1960)
2014 - Jorge Zavala, Ecuadorean politician (b. 1921)
2014 - Mel Patton, American sprinter (b. 1924)
2015 - Michael MacKellar, Australian politician (b. 1938)
2015 - Lo Wing-lok, Hong Kong politician (b. 1954)
2015 - Igor Gorynin, Russian metallurgist (b. 1926)
2015 - Kenan Evren, 7th President of Turkey (b. 1917)
2015 - Johnny Gimble, American country musician (b. 1926)
2015 - Odo Marquard, German philosopher (b. 1928)
2015 - Ragne Tangen, Norwegian television presenter (b. 1927)
2015 - Elizabeth Wilson, American actress (b. 1921)
2016 - Gareth Gwenlan, British television producer (b. 1937)
2016 - Walther Leisler Kiep, German politician (b. 1926)
2016 - Karl Maramorosch, American virologist and plant pathologist (b. 1915)
2016 - John Warr, English cricketer (b. 1927)
2017 - Christopher Boykin, American entertainer and musician (b. 1972)
2017 - Robert Miles, Italian musician and record producer (b. 1969)
2017 - Arthur Moulin, French politician (b. 1924)
2017 - Michael Parks, American actor (b. 1940)
2017 - Qian Qichen, Chinese diplomat (b. 1928)
2017 - Wilburn K. Ross, American World War II veteran (b. 1922)
2017 - Edward Lunn Young, American politician (b. 1920)
2018 - Poldine Carlo, American writer (b. 1920)
2018 - Delphine Gibson, American supercentenarian (b. 1903)
2018 - Mustafa Nurul Islam, Bangladeshi academic (b. 1927)
2018 - Per Kirkeby, Danish artist (b. 1938)
2018 - Scott Hutchison, Scottish singer and musician (Frightened Rabbit) (b. 1981)
2019 - Abul Khayr Alonto, Filipino politician, lawyer and businessman (b. 1945)
2019 - Sergey Dorenko, Russian journalist and news presenter (b. 1959)
2019 - Jim Hawkes, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2019 - Arif Malikov, Soviet-Azerbaijani composer (b. 1933)
2019 - Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (b. 1927)
2019 - Freddie Starr, English comedian (b. 1943)
2019 - Yuan Boahua, Chinese politician (b. 1916)

Births

1901 – 1925

1904 - Gregory Bateson, English-American anthropologist, biologist and philosopher (d. 1980)
1906 - Eleanor Estes, American writer (d. 1988)
1907 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
1910 – Barbara Woodhouse, Irish-born animal trainer (d. 1988)
1912 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
1914 – Hank Snow, Canadian-born country musician (d. 1999)
1914 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian musician and conductor (d. 2005)
1918 – Mike Wallace, American journalist (d. 2012)
1918 – Orville Freeman, American politician, 29th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2003)
1920 – Richard Adams, British writer (d. 2016)
1920 – William Tenn, writer (d. 2010)
1921 - Daniel Berrigan, American Jesuit priest, activist and poet (d. 2016)
1921 – Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter with White Rose in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
1924 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian poet, writer, novelist and musician (d. 1997)

1926 – 1950

1927 – Wim Thoelke, show master (d. 1995)
1927 – Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist (d. 2019)
1928 – Colin Chapman, engineer, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982)
1928 – Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)
1928 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (d. 2012)
1928 - Ralph Goings, American artist (d. 2016)
1929 – Kay Dotrice, English actress (d. 2007)
1930 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
1932 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress (d. 2015)
1932 - Javier Ambrois, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1975)
1934 – Alan Bennett, English writer and playwright
1935 – Roger Hargreaves, English writer (The Mr. Men) (d. 1988)
1935 - Nokie Edwards, American guitarist and actor (d. 2018)
1936 – Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
1936 – Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)
1937 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
1938 - Charles Simic, Yugoslavian-born poet
1939 – Ralph Boston, American athlete
1940 – James L. Brooks, American producer and writer
1942 – John Ashcroft, former United States Attorney General
1943 – Vince Cable, British politician
1943 - Colin Pillinger, British planetary scientist (d. 2014)
1943 - Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist and historian (d. 2009)
1944 – Richie Furay, American musician ("Poco", "Buffalo Springfield")
1944 - Petra Roth, former Mayor of Frankfurt am Main
1945 – Jupp Heynckes, German footballer
1945 - Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian writer and journalist (d. 2015)
1945 - Steve Katz, American guitarist, songwriter and producer
1946 – Candice Bergen, American actress
1946 – Drafi Deutscher, German musician (d. 2006)
1947 - Michael Levitt, South African-born biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
1948 - Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician
1949 – Billy Joel, American musician
1949 – Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger (d. 1999)
1950 - Tom Petersson, American bass guitar player (Cheap Trick)
1950 - Marcheline Bertrand, American actress (d. 2007)
1950 – Luciano Spinosi, Italian footballer
1950 - Matthew Kelly, British actor and television presenter

1951 – 1975

1951 - Alley Mills, American actress
1954 - Nicholas Crane, English geographer and journalist
1954 - Marc Sinden, English actor, director and producer
1955 – Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
1955 - Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991)
1957 - Fulvio Cullovati, Italian footballer
1959 - Janos Ader, President of Hungary
1960 - Tony Gwynn, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1962 – John Corbett, American actor
1962 - Gary Hume, English artist
1962 - Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter and musician
1962 - Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter and musician
1964 – Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and DJ
1964 – David Gahan, Singer for Depeche Mode
1965 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Marie-José Perec, French athlete
1968 - Masahiko Harada, Japanese ski jumper
1968 – Ruth Kelly, British politician
1969 - Amber, Dutch-German singer, songwriter and producer
1969 - Hudson Leick, American actress
1970 - David Cawthorne Haines, Scottish aid worker (d. 2014)
1970 – Ghostface Killah, American rapper
1970 – Doug Christie, American basketball player
1971 – Paul McGuigan, British musician (Oasis)
1971 - Don Hutchison, English-Scottish footballer
1972 - Dana Perino, American journalist and politician, 27th White House Press Secretary
1975 - Tamia, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer and actress
1975 - Clint Diamantopoulos, Canadian actor

From 1976

1977 - Marek Jankulovski, Czech footballer
1978 - Leandro Cufré, Argentine footballer
1979 - Rosario Dawson, American actress
1979 – Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1980 – Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
1980 - Sara Widén, Swedish opera singer (d. 2014)
1981 – Evangelos Tsiolis, Greek footballer
1982 – Kim Jung-woo, South Korean footballer
1982 – Rachel Boston, American actress
1983 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
1983 - Alan Campbell, Northern Irish rower
1983 - Gilles Müller, Luxembourgish tennis player
1983 - Leandro Rinaudo, Italian footballer
1984 – Prince Fielder, American baseball player
1985 – Audrina Patridge, American actress and television personality
1986 - Grace Gummer, American actress
1989 - Ellen White, English footballer
1991 - Stasia Rage, Latvian figure skater
1992 - Chris Gutierrez, American-Filipino actor
1993 - Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese actor, singer and dancer
1993 - Laura Muir, Scottish athlete
1997 - Zane Huett, American actor
2016 - Alfie Evans, British infant in parental rights case (d. 2018)

Deaths

Holidays

Victory and Peace Day in Armenia, the capture of Shushi in the Karabakh War and the end of Great Patriotic War.
Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany (former Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
Independence Day (Romania)
Liberation Day (Channel Islands)