On this day: 9 May
Events, births and deaths on 9 May. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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1 year ago2025
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10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1931 · Deaths · Albert Abraham Michelson
- 1936 · Births · Glenda Jackson
- 1921 · Births · Sophie Scholl
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 15
- 1386(Julian date)Treaty of Windsor — Anglo-Portuguese agreement to support eachother in international affairs
- 1502(Julian date)Fourth voyage of Christopher Columbus — Spanish maritidition, 1502–1504
- 1864Battle of Heligoland — 1864 battle of the Second War of Schleswig
- 1915Second Battle of Artois — 1915 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
- 1915Battle of Aubers Ridge — 1915 battle during the First World War
- 1918Second Ostend Raid — Royal Navy operation to block Ostend Harbour
- 1944Take Ichi convoy — 1944 Japanese convoy
- 1950Schuman Declaration — speech by Robert Schuman on 9 May 1950 announcing plan to pool markets for German and French coal and steel
- 1977Hotel Polen fire — 1977 fire in Amsterdam
- 1987LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 — 1987 Polish aviation accident
- 2001Accra Sports Stadium disaster — 2001 stadium disaster in Ghana
- 20122012 Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet crash — demonstration flight by the Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi
- 20132013 Guang Da Xing No. 28 incident — fatal shooting incident
- 20182018 Malaysian general election — 14th election of the Dewan Rakyat and state legislative assemblies of Malaysia
- 2022Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 — US Legislation authorising arms transfers to Ukraine
Births · 60
- 1147(Julian date)Minamoto no Yoritomo — 1st shogun of the Kamakura shogunate (1147–1199)
- 1439(Julian date)Pius III — pope of the Catholic Church from 22 September to 18 October 1503
- 1540(Julian date)Pratap Singh — 16th century ruler of Mewar, India
- 1740Giovanni Paisiello — Italian composer of the Classical era (1740-1816)
- 1746Gaspard Monge — French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818)
- 1800John Brown — American abolitionist
- 1837Adam Opel — founder of the German automobile company Adam Opel AG (1837–1895)
- 1845Gustaf de Laval — Swedish engineer (1845-1913)
- 1860J. M. Barrie — Scottish writer and playwright (1860–1937)
- 1866Gopal Krishna Gokhale — Indian political leader and social reformer (1866–1915)
- 1866Elizabeth Magie — American board game designer (1866–1948)
- 1874Howard Carter — British egyptologist (1874–1939)
- 1882Henry J. Kaiser — American industrialist (1882–1967)
- 1883José Ortega y Gasset — Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist (1883–1955)
- 1892Zita of Bourbon-Parma — Empress of Austria from 1916 to 1918
- 1894Benjamin Graham — American economist and investor (1894-1976)
- 1895Richard Barthelmess — American actor (1895–1963)
- 1895Lucian Blaga — Romanian writer (1895–1961)
- 1907Baldur von Schirach — German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1907–1974)
- 1909Gordon Bunshaft — American architect (1909–1990)
- 1912Pedro Armendáriz — Mexican actor (1912-1963)
- 1914Carlo Maria Giulini — Italian conductor (1914–2005)
- 1918Mike Wallace — American journalist, game show host and actor (1918–2012)
- 1921Sophie Scholl — German resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose (1921-1943)
- 1924Bulat Okudzhava — Soviet and Russian writer and singer (1924–1997)
Deaths · 60
- 480(Julian date)Julius Nepos — Roman emperor (430-480)
- 1280(Julian date)Magnus VI of Norway — King of Norway (1238–1280)
- 1315(Julian date)Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy — French noble
- 1443(Julian date)Niccolò Albergati — Catholic cardinal
- 1446Mary of Enghien — Royal Consort of Naples
- 1590Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon — Catholic cardinal (1523–1590)
- 1657William Bradford — English Separatist leader in Leiden, Holland and in Plymouth Colony (1590-1657)
- 1707Dietrich Buxtehude — Danish-German organist and composer (1637–1707)
- 1745Tomaso Antonio Vitali — Italian composer and violinist
- 1760Nicolaus Zinzendorf — German protestant religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church (1700-1760)
- 1789Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval — French general (1715–1789)
- 1791Francis Hopkinson — American politician, judge, and author 1737-1791
- 1805Friedrich Schiller — German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
- 1810Benjamin Lincoln — Continental Army general (1733–1810)
- 1850Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac — French chemist and physicist (1778–1850)
- 1850Garlieb Merkel — Baltic German writer and publicist (1769-1850)
- 1864John Sedgwick — American military officer (1813–1864)
- 1915Anthony Wilding — New Zealand tennis player (1883-1915)
- 1915François Faber — Luxembourgian racing cyclist (1887–1915)
- 1918George Coșbuc — Romanian poet, translator, teacher and journalist (1866-1918)
- 1931Albert Abraham Michelson — American physicist (1852–1931)
- 1933John Arthur Jarvis — British swimmer and water polo player (1872–1933)
- 1949Louis II, Prince of Monaco — prince of Monaco (1870-1949)
- 1957Ezio Pinza — Italian opera singer (1892-1957)
- 1965Leopold Figl — Austrian politician, minister, chancellor (1902–1965)
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