On this day: 9 February
Events, births and deaths on 9 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Tom Robbins
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Sushil Koirala
- Events · 2016 Bad Aibling train crash
100 years ago1926
- Births · Garret FitzGerald
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1011 · Deaths · Bernard I
- 967 · Deaths · Sayf al-Dawla
- 966 · Deaths · Ono no Michikaze
Events · 23
- 1098(Julian date)Battle of the Lake of Antioch — 1098 battle during the First Crusade
- 1654Capture of Fort Rocher — 1654 battle
- 1799USS Constellation vs L'Insurgente — 1799 naval action between the US and France
- 1849Roman Republic — short-lived state entity declared on February 9, 1849
- 1907Mud March — 1907 demonstration by suffragists in London
- 19131913 Great Meteor Procession — meteor procession in the 1913s
- 1920Svalbard Treaty — treaty recognising Norwegian sovereignty over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard
- 1929assassination of the recruiter Bazin — 1929 shooting of a French labour recruiter in Colonial Vietnam
- 1934Balkan Pact — Balkan international cooperation organization
- 1942Battle of Kranji — 1942 battle
- 1945Black Friday — military operation on 9 February 1945
- 1951
- 19711971 San Fernando earthquake — earthquake
- 1976Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1976) — aviation accident
- 1982Japan Air Lines Flight 350 — deliberate crash of a Douglas DC-8 on February 9, 1982
- 1991Lithuanian independence referendum, 1991 — 1991 referendum in Soviet Lithuania on independence from the USSR
- 19961996 Docklands bombing — London terrorist attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
- 2001Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision — 2001 maritime collision
- 20162016 Bad Aibling train crash — deadly 2016 train collision in Bad Aibling, Bavaria, Germany
- 20182018 Winter Olympics — 23rd edition of Winter Olympics, in Pyeongchang, South Korea
- 202092nd Academy Awards — 2020 American film award ceremony
- 20202020 Salvadoran political crisis — political situation in El Salvador
- 2021second impeachment trial of Donald Trump — second impeachment trial of Donald Trump in the United States Senate
Births · 60
- 1441(Julian date)Ali-Shir Nava'i — Turkic poet and politician (1441–1501)
- 1773William Henry Harrison — president of the United States in 1841 (1773-1841)
- 1781Johann Baptist von Spix — German naturalist (1781-1826)
- 1846Wilhelm Maybach — German engine designer and industrialist (1846–1929)
- 1854Aletta Jacobs — Dutch physician and feminist, editor (1854–1929)
- 1863Anthony Hope — English novelist (1863–1933)
- 1867Natsume Sōseki — Japanese novelist
- 1874Amy Lawrence Lowell — US writer (1874-1925)
- 1885Alban Berg — Austrian composer (1885–1935)
- 1887Vasily Chapayev — Red Army commander (1887–1919)
- 1891Ronald Colman — British actor (1891–1958)
- 1891Pietro Nenni — Italian politician (1891–1980)
- 1902Léon M'ba — Prime Minister (1959–61) and President (1961–67) of Gabon
- 1907Trường Chinh — former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1907–1988)
- 1909Carmen Miranda — Brazilian singer (1909–1955)
- 1909Dean Rusk — United States Secretary of State (1909-1994)
- 1910Jacques Monod — French biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate (1910-1976)
- 1922Kathryn Grayson — American actress and coloratura soprano (1922–2010)
- 1923Brendan Behan — Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright (1923-1964)
- 1926Garret FitzGerald — Irish politician and prime minister (1926–2011)
- 1928Rinus Michels — Dutch footballer and manager (1928–2005)
- 1931Thomas Bernhard — Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
- 1931Josef Masopust — Czech footballer (1931-2015)
- 1932Gerhard Richter — German visual artist (b. 1932)
- 1939Janet Suzman — South African-British actress
Deaths · 60
- 249(Julian date)Cao Shuang — Chinese general and Cao Wei regent (died 249)
- 966(Julian date)Ono no Michikaze — Japanese calligrapher
- 967(Julian date)Sayf al-Dawla — Muslim general
- 1011(Julian date)Bernard I — Duke of Saxony
- 1135(Julian date)Emperor Taizong of Jin — emperor of the Jin Dynasty (1075–1135) (r. 1123-1135)
- 1199Minamoto no Yoritomo — 1st shogun of the Kamakura shogunate (1147–1199)
- 1234(Julian date)Emperor Modi of Jin — emperor of the Jin Dynasty (1115–1234)
- 1234Emperor Aizong of Jin — emperor of the Jin Dynasty (1115–1234)
- 1251(Julian date)Matthias II, Duke of Lorraine — French noble
- 1407(Julian date)William I — Margrave of Meissen
- 1450(Julian date)Agnès Sorel — French Royal mistress (1422-1450)
- 1588Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz — Spanish admiral
- 1600John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania — Protestant Bishop of Cammin and ruling Duke of Pomerania
- 1619Giulio Cesare Vanini — Italian philosopher
- 1670(Julian date)Frederick III of Denmark — King of Denmark and Norway from 1648 to 1670
- 1675Gerrit Dou — Dutch painter (1613-1675)
- 1709François Louis, Prince of Conti — French prince (1664-1709)
- 1803Jean François de Saint-Lambert — French poet, philosopher and military officer
- 1857Dionysios Solomos — Greek poet (1798–1857)
- 1874Jules Michelet — French historian; popularized the historical concept of the Renaissance
- 1881Fyodor Dostoyevsky — Russian novelist (1821–1881)
- 1891Johan Jongkind — Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism (1819-1891)
- 1903Charles Gavan Duffy — Irish nationalist, journalist, poet and Australian politician (1816-1903)
- 1906Paul Laurence Dunbar — American poet, novelist, dramatist
- 1938Axel Paulsen — Norwegian figure skater and speed skater (1855–1938)
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