9 February
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)
- 1700 - Daniel Bernoulli, mathematician
- 1748 - Luther Martin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1769 - Susette Gontard, girl-friend of poet Friedrich Hölderlin (d. 1802)
- 1773 - William Henry Harrison, President of the United States (d. 1841)
- 1830 - Abd-ul-Aziz, future Ottoman sultan (d. 1876)
- 1834 - Felix Dahn, author (d. 1912)
- 1846 - Wilhelm Maybach, designer of engines and cars, industrialist (d. 1929)
- 1874 - Amy Lowell, poet (d. 1925)
- 1885 - Alban Berg, composer (d. 1935)
- 1885 - Anita Ree, painter (d. 1933))
- 1891 - Ronald Colman, actor (d. 1958)
- 1895 - Hermann Brill, politician (d. 1959)
- 1909 - Carmen Miranda, actress, singer (d. 1995)
- 1909 - Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)
- 1910 - Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 (d. 1976)
- 1911 or 1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress, ecdesiast (d. 1970)
- 1914 - Ernest Tubb, country music singer (d. 1984)
- 1922 - Kathryn Grayson, actress
- 1923 - Brendan Behan, author (d. 1964)
- 1928 - Frank Frazetta, illustrator
- 1928 - Roger Mudd, journalist
- 1932 - Gerhard Richter, painter and graphic artist
- 1940 - J. M. Coetzee, author
- 1942 - Carole King, singer, composer
- 1943 - Joe Pesci, actor
- 1944 - Alice Walker, writer
- 1945 - Mia Farrow, actress
- 1961 - John Kruk, baseball player, commentator
- 1963 - Travis Tritt, country music singer
- 1966 - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
- 1976 - Vladimir Guerrero, Major League Baseball All-Star
- 1977 - Shakira, Colombian pop singer
- 1979 - Mena Suvari, actress
- 1979 - David Gray, English snooker player
- 1980 - Zhang Ziyi, actress
- 1981 - John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban
Deaths
- 1555 - Rev. Dr. Rowland Taylor, pastor, martyred under Bloody Mary I (b. 1510)
- 1881 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author (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)
- 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)
- 2002 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances
February 8 - February 10 - January 9 - March 9 -- listing of all days
