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February 9
February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 325 days remaining, 326 in leap years.
Events
Births
- 1409 - Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453)
- 1533 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyo and samurai (d. 1611)
- 1700 - Daniel Bernoulli, mathematician
- 1748 - Luther Martin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1773 - William Henry Harrison, President of the United States (d. 1841)
- 1800 - Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (d. 1844)
- 1830 - Abd-ul-Aziz, Ottoman sultan (d. 1876)
- 1834 - Felix Dahn, author (d. 1912)
- 1846 - Wilhelm Maybach, automotive designer and industrialist (d. 1929)
- 1865 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell, nee Beatrice Stella Tanner, British actress (d. 1940)
- 1874 - Amy Lowell, poet (d. 1925)
- 1885 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer (d. 1935)
- 1885 - Anita Ree , painter (d. 1933)
- 1891 - Ronald Colman, actor (d. 1958)
- 1895 - Hermann Brill, politician (d. 1959)
- 1897 - Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, pioneering aviator (d. 1935)
- 1901 - Brian Donlevy, Irish actor (d. 1972)
- 1902 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's leader during Germany's Third Reich (d. 1999)
- 1909 - Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)
- 1909 - Carmen Miranda, actress, singer (d. 1995)
- 1910 - Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976)
- 1911 or 1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress (d. 1970)
- 1914 - Ernest Tubb, country music singer (d. 1984)
- 1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, American dancer, actress (d. 1970)
- 1914 - Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (d. 1986)
- 1916 - Tex Hughson, Major League Baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1922 - Kathryn Grayson, actress
- 1923 - Brendan Behan, author (d. 1964)
- 1928 - Frank Frazetta, illustrator
- 1928 - Roger Mudd, journalist
- 1930 - Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 2003)
- 1932 - Gerhard Richter, painter and graphic artist
- 1936 - Clive Swift, British actor
- 1940 - J. M. Coetzee, author
- 1941 - Sheila Kuehl, American actress, politician
- 1942 - Carole King, American singer, composer
- 1943 - Joe Pesci, actor
- 1944 - Alice Walker, writer
- 1945 - Mia Farrow, American actress
- 1949 - Judith Light, American actress
- 1952 - Mookie Wilson, Major League Baseball player
- 1955 - Charles Shaughnessy, British actor
- 1955 - Jm J. Bullock , American actor and comedian
- 1960 - Holly Johnson, British singer (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
- 1961 - John Kruk, baseball player and commentator
- 1963 - Brian Greene, string theorist
- 1963 - Travis Tritt, country music singer
- 1966 - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
- 1976 - Vladimir Guerrero, Major League Baseball player
- 1979 - Mena Suvari, actress
- 1979 - David Gray, English snooker player
- 1979 - Zhang Ziyi, actress
- 1981 - John Walker Lindh, American Taliban fighter
- 1985 - David Gallagher, American actor
- 1990 - Camille Winbush , American actress
Deaths
- 1199 - Minamoto no Yoritomo Japanese shogun (b. 1147)
- 1555 - Rev. Dr. Rowland Taylor, pastor (executed) (b. 1510)
- 1881 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821)
- 1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet (b. 1872)
- 1951 - Eddy Duchin, musician (b. 1910)
- 1957 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and longtime Regent (b. 1868)
- 1966 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-American actress and singer
- 1969 - Gabby Hayes, actor
- 1976 - Percy Faith, musician, composer
- 1981 - Bill Haley, musician (Bill Haley and the Comets) (b. 1925)
- 1984 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914)
- 1993 - Frederick (Fred) Cossom Hollows, ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
- 1994 - Bud Wilkinson , American football coach
- 1995 - J. William Fulbright, U.S. Senator
- 1995 - David Wayne , American actor
- 2002 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances
External links
February 8 - February 10 - January 9 - March 9 -- listing of all days
Last updated: 10-12-2005 17:54:47
Last updated: 01-04-2007 01:18:57
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