On this day: 9 April
Events, births and deaths on 9 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Kim Shin-jo
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Will Smith
100 years ago1926
- Births · Hugh Hefner
- Births · Harris Wofford
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1096 · Births · Al-Muqtafi
Events · 27
- 1241(Julian date)Battle of Legnica — 1241 battle between Polish and Mongol forces
- 1388(Julian date)Battle of Näfels — 1388 Swiss victory over Austria
- 1454(Julian date)Treaty of Lodi — peace treaty
- 1511(Julian date)Şahkulu Revolt — 1511 uprising against the Ottomans
- 1609Expulsion of the Moriscos — 17th century expulsion of Moriscos from Spain
- 1609Twelve Years' Truce — peace treaty
- 1865Battle of Appomattox Court House — 1865 battle of the American Civil War
- 1917Battle of Vimy Ridge — 1917 World War I battle
- 1917Battle of Arras — 1917 British offensive during the First World War
- 1940Operation Weserübung — 1940 code name for Germany's assault on Denmark and Norway during the Second World War
- 1940German invasion of Denmark — German attack on Denmark on 9 April 1940
- 1942Bataan Death March — forced transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1942
- 19461946 Palestine general strike — 1946 strike by Palestinians
- 1948Deir Yassin massacre — 1948 massacre in Deir Yassin, Palestine
- 1948Bogotazo — massive riots in Bogotá, Colombia
- 1952Japan Air Lines Flight 301 — 1952 aviation accident
- 1989April 9 tragedy — events in Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1989
- 1990Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2254 — mid-air collision
- 19991999 Nigerien coup d'état — military overthrow and assassination of Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara
- 2005wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles — civil wedding of the British heir apparent Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla Parker Bowles in April 2005
- 20062006 Italian general election — 15th election of the Italian Republic Parliament
- 2011Alphen aan den Rijn shopping mall shooting — shooting in an Alphen aan den Rijn shopping mall
- 20132013 Bushehr earthquake — earthquake in Bushehr Province, Iran
- 2013Velika Ivanča shooting — 2013 spree shooting in Mladenovac, Serbia
- 2017Palm Sunday church bombings — Bomb Coptic Churchs in the Nile Delta City of Tanta and Alexandria
- 2021death and funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh — death and funeral proceedings of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- 2021Bago massacre — 2021 massacre in Bago, Myanmar
Births · 60
- 1285(Julian date)Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan — emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (1285-1320)
- 1598Johann Crüger — German hymnwriter
- 1649(Julian date)James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth — English nobleman and soldier (1649–1685)
- 1802Elias Lönnrot — Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802–1884)
- 1806Isambard Kingdom Brunel — British mechanical and civil engineer (1806-1859)
- 1821Charles Baudelaire — French poet and critic (1821–1867)
- 1830Eadweard Muybridge — English-American photographer (1830–1904)
- 1835Leopold II of Belgium — King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 (1835–1909)
- 1865Erich Ludendorff — German general and politician (1865–1937)
- 1865Charles Proteus Steinmetz — Prussian-American mathematician, electrical engineer (1865–1923)
- 1867Chris Watson — Australian politician, third Prime Minister of Australia (1867-1941)
- 1869Élie Cartan — French mathematician (1869–1951)
- 1872Léon Blum — French politician (1872–1950)
- 1895Michel Simon — Swiss French language actor (1895-1975)
- 1898Paul Robeson — American singer, actor, and political activist (1898–1976)
- 1905J. William Fulbright — American politician (1905–1995)
- 1906Victor Vasarely — French-Hungarian painter and printmaker (1906–1997)
- 1918Jørn Utzon — Danish architect (1918–2008)
- 1921Isaac Navon — Israeli politician, 5th President of Israel (1921–2015)
- 1921Mary Jackson — American mathematician and aerospace engineer
- 1926Hugh Hefner — American businessman and magazine publisher (1926–2017)
- 1928Tom Lehrer — American musician (1928–2025)
- 1928Paul Arizin — American basketball player (1928–2006)
- 1931Heisuke Hironaka — Japanese mathematician
- 1932Carl Perkins — American guitarist
Deaths · 60
- 491(Julian date)Zeno — Byzantine Emperor (425–491)
- 715(Julian date)Constantine — pope
- 806(Julian date)Emperor Kanmu — Emperor of Japan
- 1137William X, Duke of Aquitaine — Carolingian Duke
- 1241(Julian date)Henry II the Pious — Grand Duke of Silesia (1192-1241), High Duke of Poland
- 1283(Julian date)Margaret of Scotland — Queen Consort of Norway
- 1483(Julian date)Edward IV of England — King of England from 1461 to 1470 and 1471 to 1483
- 1484(Julian date)Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales — Only legitimate child of Richard III of England
- 1553(Julian date)François Rabelais — 16th-century French writer and humanist (1494–1553)
- 1557Mikael Agricola — Finnish clergyman and de facto founder of literary Finnish (ca 1510-1557)
- 1626(Julian date)Francis Bacon — English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)
- 1693Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy — French writer (1618–1693)
- 1754Christian Wolff — German philosopher (1679–1754)
- 1804Jacques Necker — Genevan minister resident in France, French statesman, and finance minister of Louis XVI (1732-1804)
- 1806William V, Prince of Orange — Prince of Orange, General Stadtholder of the United Provinces (1748-1806)
- 1882Dante Gabriel Rossetti — English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator (1828-1882)
- 1889Michel Eugène Chevreul — French chemist (1786-1889)
- 1904Isabella II of Spain — Queen of Spain from 1833 to 1868
- 1922Patrick Manson — Scottish parasitologist (1844-1922)
- 1936Ferdinand Tönnies — German sociologist, economist and philosopher (1855–1936)
- 1940Mrs. Patrick Campbell — British stage actress (1865–1940)
- 1944Yevgeniya Rudneva — Heroine of the Soviet Union and WWII bomber navigator (1920-1944)
- 1945Dietrich Bonhoeffer — German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)
- 1945Wilhelm Canaris — German admiral, head of military intelligence service (1887–1945)
- 1945Georg Elser — German opponent of Nazism, planned and carried out an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 8 November 1939 (1903–1945)
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