On this day: 9 August
Events, births and deaths on 9 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · NoB
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1919 · Deaths · Ruggero Leoncavallo
- 1927 · Births · Marvin Minsky
- 1931 · Births · Mário Zagallo
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1048 · Deaths · Damasus II
- 1107 · Deaths · Emperor Horikawa
Events · 31
- 48 BCE(Julian date)Battle of Pharsalus — 48 BCE decisive battle of Caesar's Civil War
- 378(Julian date)Battle of Adrianople — 378 battle between Roman Empire and Goths
- 1638Battle of Wittenweiher — 1638 battle of the Thirty Years' War
- 1814Treaty of Fort Jackson — 1814 treaty ending Creek War
- 1842Webster–Ashburton Treaty — 1842 border resolution between U.S. and British North American colonies (now Canada)
- 1862Battle of Cedar Mountain — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- 1877Battle of the Big Hole — 1877 battle of the Nez Perce War
- 1902Coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra — coronation of Edward VII and his wife Alexandra as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions (1902)
- 1934The Blue Lotus — fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin
- 1937
- 1942Quit India Movement — political and social movement in British India during World War II
- 1942Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 — performance held during the Nazi siege of Leningrad in 1942
- 1944Smokey Bear — U.S. Forest Service mascot used to raise awareness about wildfires
- 1945atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — 1945 use of nuclear weapons against Japan in World War II
- 1945Fat Man — American nuclear bomb
- 1945Soviet invasion of Manchuria — 1945 invasion; part of the Soviet–Japanese War of World War II
- 1945atomic bombing of Nagasaki — bombardment of Nagasaki in Japan carried out by the United States using an atomic bomb at the end of the Second World War on 9 August 1945
- 1956Women's March — protest march in South Africa
- 1965Singapore — sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia
- 1970LANSA Flight 502 — 1970 aviation accident in Peru
- 1971Operation Demetrius — 1971 military operation
- 1979YH incident — labor protest in Seoul in 1979
- 1995Aviateca Flight 901 — aviation accident
- 2001Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing — 2001 terror attack in Jerusalem, Israel
- 20062006 transatlantic aircraft plot — Attempted terrorist attack
- 2007Air Moorea Flight 1121 — aircraft crash in 2007
- 2014shooting of Michael Brown — 2014 police killing of a black man in Ferguson, Missouri, United States
- 20142014 Ferguson unrest — aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri
- 2018Dahyan airstrike — airstrike on 9 August 2018 in Dahyan, Yemen
- 2023Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio — assassination of an Ecuadorean presidential candidate
- 2024Voepass Linhas Aéreas Flight 2283 — 2024 aviation accident in Brazil
Births · 60
- 1757Thomas Telford — Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason (1757–1834)
- 1776Amedeo Avogadro — Italian scientist
- 1783Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia — Grand Duchess of Russia (1783-1801)
- 1819William T. G. Morton — United States dental surgeon (1819–1868)
- 1847Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo — Queen consort of Spain from 1870 to 1873
- 1896Jean Piaget — Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896–1980)
- 1899P. L. Travers — Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist (1899–1996)
- 1911William Alfred Fowler — American nuclear physicist (1911-1995)
- 1914Tove Jansson — Finnish children's writer and illustrator (1914–2001)
- 1919Joop den Uyl — Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1919–1987)
- 1922Philip Larkin — English writer, jazz critic and librarian (1922-1985)
- 1927Marvin Minsky — American cognitive scientist (1927-2016)
- 1927Robert Shaw — British actor and writer (1927–1978)
- 1927Daniel Keyes — American author
- 1928Bob Cousy — American basketball player and coach (born 1928)
- 1931Mário Zagallo — Brazilian footballer (1931–2024)
- 1938Leonid Kuchma — Ukrainian businessman and politician, second President of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005
- 1938Rod Laver — Australian tennis player
- 1938Otto Rehhagel — German footballer and manager (born 1938)
- 1939Romano Prodi — Italian politician and economist (born 1939)
- 1939Brito — Brazilian footballer (1939-2026)
- 1941Alfred Aho — Canadian computer scientist
- 1943Ken Norton — American boxer (1943-2013)
- 1944Sam Elliott — American actor (born 1944)
- 1947Roy Hodgson — English football manager
Deaths · 60
- 117(Julian date)Trajan — 13th Roman Emperor (98–117)
- 378(Julian date)Valens — Roman emperor from 364 to 378
- 803Irene of Athens — empress of Byzantine Empire (752-803)
- 833(Julian date)al-Maʾmun — Abbasid caliph (786–833, r. 813–833)
- 1048(Julian date)Damasus II — pope
- 1107(Julian date)Emperor Horikawa — Emperor of Japan
- 1173(Julian date)Najm ad-Din Ayyub — Kurdish soldier and politician, father of Saladin
- 1202(Julian date)Jakuren — Japanese poet
- 1296(Julian date)Hugh, Count of Brienne — Count of Brienne
- 1354(Julian date)Stephen, Duke of Slavonia — Duke of Slavonia, Prince and Regent of Hungary (1332-1354)
- 1420(Julian date)Pierre d'Ailly — French theologian and astrologer (1351–1420)
- 1516Hieronymus Bosch — painters in art (1450–1516)
- 1534(Julian date)Thomas Cajetan — Catholic cardinal
- 1580(Julian date)Patriarch Metrophanes III of Constantinople — Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1853Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński — Polish philosopher
- 1910Huo Yuanjia — Chinese martial artist (1868-1910)
- 1919Ruggero Leoncavallo — Italian composer (1857–1919)
- 1932John Charles Fields — Canadian mathematician (1863–1932)
- 1942Edith Stein — Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
- 1943Chaïm Soutine — Belarusian-French painter (1893–1943)
- 1945Harry Hillman — American athletics competitor (1881–1945)
- 1948Hugo Boss — German fashion designer (1885–1948)
- 1949Edward Thorndike — American psychologist
- 1957Carl Clauberg — German physician and SS officer in concentration camp Auschwitz (1898-1957)
- 1962Hermann Hesse — Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
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