On this day: 9 June
Events, births and deaths on 9 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Frederick Forsyth
- Deaths · Sly Stone
- Deaths · Pik-Sen Lim
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Happy Rockefeller
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1016 · Births · Deokjong
- 1087 · Deaths · Otto I of Olomouc
Events · 24
- 721(Julian date)Battle of Toulouse — 721 battle
- 746(Julian date)Abbasid Revolution — overthrow of the Umayyad Caliphate by the Abbasids in 750
- 1772Gaspée affair — event in Rhode Island preceding the American Revolution
- 1798Battle of Arklow — 1798 second battle of Arklow
- 1846Hamilton — city in Ontario, Canada
- 1861Règlement Organique — series of international conventions (1860-1864) between the Ottoman Empire and the European Powers
- 1862Battle of Port Republic — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- 1863Battle of Brandy Station — 1863 American Civil War battle in the Gettysburg Campaign
- 1885Treaty of Tientsin — treaty
- 1898Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory — unequal treaty signed between Qing dynasty and the United Kingdom in 1898
- 19231923 Bulgarian coup d'état — coup d'état
- 1928Academia Sinica — national academy of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
- 1934Donald Duck — Disney cartoon character
- 1944Tulle murders — German mass killing in France, 1944
- 1948International Council on Archives — non-governmental organization
- 1965Battle of Dong Xoai — battle of the Vietnam War in 1965
- 1982Operation Mole Cricket 19 — 1982 Israeli Air Force SEAD campaign
- 1995Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 — 1995 aviation incident involving a Dash-8
- 1999Kumanovo Agreement — agreement that concluded the Kosovo war
- 20062006 FIFA World Cup — 18th FIFA World Cup, held in Germany
- 20082008 Beni Amrane bombings — 2008 train bombings in Beni Amrane, Boumerdès Province, Algeria
- 2009Pearl Continental hotel bombing — suicide attack in Pakistan
- 2018Tokaido Shinkansen stabbings — 2018 stabbing in Japan
- 2019
Births · 60
- 1424Blanche II of Navarre — princess of the House of Aragon and queen pretendent of Navarre
- 1595Władysław IV Vasa — King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1595-1648)
- 1640Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor — Holy Roman Emperor (1658-1705), King of Hungary and Croatia and King of Bohemia (lived 1640-1705)
- 1661Feodor III of Russia — Tsar of Russia (1676–1682)
- 1672Peter the Great — Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725
- 1781George Stephenson — English civil and mechanical engineer and the "Father of Railways" (1781-1848)
- 1810Otto Nicolai — German composer and conductor (1810-1849)
- 1812Johann Gottfried Galle — German astronomer (1812-1910)
- 1836Elizabeth Garrett Anderson — English physician and feminist (1836-1917)
- 1843Bertha von Suttner — Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
- 1849Michael Ancher — Danish artist (1849-1927)
- 1865Carl Nielsen — Danish composer
- 1875Henry Hallett Dale — English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (1875–1968)
- 1885John Edensor Littlewood — English mathematician (1885–1977)
- 1891Cole Porter — American composer and songwriter (1891–1964)
- 1898Luigi Fagioli — Italian racecar driver
- 1910Robert Cummings — American actor (1910–1990)
- 1915Les Paul — American jazz guitarist, country guitarist, songwriter and inventor (1915–2009)
- 1916Robert McNamara — American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
- 1916Jurij Brězan — Sorbian writer (1916-2006)
- 1917Eric Hobsbawm — British academic historian and Marxist historiographer (1917–2012)
- 1930Barbara — French recording artist; singer-songwriter (1930–1997)
- 1930Jordi Pujol — Spanish politician
- 1933Don Young — American politician (1933–2022)
- 1934Jackie Wilson — American singer (1934–1984)
Deaths · 60
- 68(Julian date)Nero — fifth and last Roman Emperor of Julio-Claudian dynasty (54–68)
- 373(Julian date)Ephrem the Syrian — Syriac saint, theologian and writer (c. 306 – 373)
- 597(Julian date)Columba — 6th‑century Gaelic Irish missionary monk, Christian saint, pioneer of Celtic Christianity in Scotland and “Apostle of the Picts”
- 630(Julian date)Shahrbaraz — general and temporary ruler of the Sassanid Empire (629)
- 1252(Julian date)Otto the Child — German duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- 1348Ambrogio Lorenzetti — Italian painter (1290-1348)
- 1361(Julian date)Philippe de Vitry — French composer, music theorist and poet
- 1572Jeanne d'Albret — Queen of Navarre from 1555 to 1572 (1528-1572)
- 1597Joseph of Anchieta — Spanish Jesuit missionary (1534-1597)
- 1656Thomas Tomkins — Welsh composer
- 1681(Julian date)William Lilly — English astrologer (1602–1681)
- 1701Philippe I, Duke of Orléans — French prince (1640-1701)
- 1716Veer Banda Bairagi — Great military commander (1670-1716)
- 1717Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon — French Roman Catholic mystic (1648-1717)
- 1834William Carey — English Baptist missionary and Particular Baptist minister (1761-1834)
- 1863Dost Mohammad Khan — first Emir of Afghanistan (1823-1863)
- 1870Charles Dickens — English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
- 1871Anna Atkins — English botanist and photographer (1799-1871)
- 1911Carry Nation — American temperance advocate (1846–1911)
- 1923Princess Helena of the United Kingdom — Member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1846–1923)
- 1923Takeo Arishima — Japanese writer (1878-1923)
- 1927Victoria Woodhull — American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)
- 1952Adolf Busch — German violinist and composer
- 1956Chandrashekhar Agashe — Indian industrialist and entrepreneur (1888–1956)
- 1958Robert Donat — English actor (1905–1958)
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