On this day: 9 October
Events, births and deaths on 9 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Andrzej Wajda
- Events · conflict in Rakhine State
100 years ago1926
- Births · Danièle Delorme
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1047 · Deaths · Clement II
Events · 18
- 17401740 Batavia massacre — Pogrom of ethnic Chinese in the port city of Batavia (present-day Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies
- 1760Raid on Berlin — 1760 battle during the Seven Years' War
- 1780Great Hurricane of 1780 — Atlantic hurricane in 1780
- 1861Battle of Santa Rosa Island — 1861 battle of the American Civil War
- 1864Battle of Tom's Brook — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 1874Treaty of Bern — International treaty
- 1918Kingdom of Finland — historical unrecognized state
- 1937
- 1950Goyang Geumjeong Cave Massacre — war crime that committed in Korea
- 1966
- 1970Khmer Republic — former country of Asia
- 1983Rangoon bombing — assassination attempt against Chun Doo-hwan, the fifth president of South Korea, in 1983
- 1984Thomas & Friends — British children's television series
- 1986Fox Broadcasting Company — American commercial broadcast television network
- 19951995 Palo Verde, Arizona derailment — train wreck caused by sabotage
- 20062006 North Korean nuclear test — 2006 test detonation of a nuclear weapon in North Korea
- 2016conflict in Rakhine State — armed conflict in western Myanmar
- 20192019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria — 2019 Turkish military offensive in northern Syria
Births · 60
- 1261Denis I of Portugal — King of Portugal
- 1586Leopold V, Archduke of Austria — Archduke of Austria-Tirol, Bishop of Passau and Strasbourg until 1625 (1586-1632)
- 1623Ferdinand Verbiest — Flemish Jesuit missionary in Qing dynasty China (1623–1688)
- 1735Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel — Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- 1757Charles X of France — King of France and Navarre from 1824 to 1830 (1757–1836)
- 1835Camille Saint-Saëns — French composer, organist, conductor and pianist (1835–1921)
- 1852Hermann Emil Fischer — German chemist (1852–1919)
- 1858Mihajlo Pupin — Serbian-American physicist, physical chemist and philanthropist (1858–1935)
- 1859Alfred Dreyfus — French artillery officer (1859–1935)
- 1873Karl Schwarzschild — German physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1873–1916)
- 1879Max von Laue — German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi (1879–1960)
- 1888Nikolai Bukharin — Russian revolutionary and politician (1888–1938)
- 1892Ivo Andrić — Yugoslav novelist (1892–1975)
- 1893Mário de Andrade — Brazilian writer, musicologist and photographer (1893–1945)
- 1898Tawfiq al-Hakim — Egyptian writer (1898-1987)
- 1906Léopold Sédar Senghor — first president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist (1906–2001)
- 1907Jacques Tati — French filmmaker (1907-1982)
- 1907Horst Wessel — SA officer (1907-1930)
- 1908Werner von Haeften — German resistance fighter (1908–1944)
- 1921Tadeusz Różewicz — Polish poet, dramatist and writer (1921–2014)
- 1928Einojuhani Rautavaara — Finnish composer (1928–2016)
- 1933Peter Mansfield — English physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging
- 1935Prince Edward, Duke of Kent — paternal first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; grandson of King George V and Queen Mary and first cousin once removed to King Charles III
- 1936Brian Blessed — British actor (born 1936)
- 1938Heinz Fischer — Austrian politician (SPÖ), 8th president of Austria (born 1938)
Deaths · 60
- 1047(Julian date)Clement II — Head of the Catholic Church from 1046 to 1047
- 1253(Julian date)Robert Grosseteste — English bishop and philosopher
- 1273(Julian date)Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany — Queen consort of Conrad IV of Germany
- 1296(Julian date)Louis III, Duke of Bavaria — Duke of Lower Bavaria
- 1390(Julian date)John I of Castile and Leon — King of Castille and Leon (1358-1390)
- 1555(Julian date)Justus Jonas — German Lutheran reformer
- 1562(Julian date)Gabriele Falloppio — Italian anatomist (1523-1562)
- 1597Ashikaga Yoshiaki — 15th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1568–1573)
- 1690Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton — Illegitimate son of King Charles II and English duke (1663-1690)
- 1793Jean Joseph Marie Amiot — French sinologist and missionary (1718-1793)
- 1797Gaon of Vilnius — Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and Talmudist (1720–1797)
- 1831Ioannis Kapodistrias — Greek statesman and diplomat (1776–1831)
- 1897Jan Heemskerk Azn. — Dutch politician (1818-1897)
- 1900Heinrich von Herzogenberg — Austrian composer and conductor (1843-1900)
- 1924Valery Bryusov — Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian (1873–1924)
- 1924Lin Shu — Chinese writer (1852-1924)
- 1934Alexander I of Yugoslavia — Prince regent of Kingdom of Serbia and later King of Yugoslavia 1921–34
- 1934Louis Barthou — French politician (1862-1934)
- 1937Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine — German aristocrat (1868-1937)
- 1943Pieter Zeeman — Dutch physicist (1865–1943)
- 1953Jimmy Finlayson — Scottish actor (1887–1953)
- 1955Theodor Innitzer — Austrian cardinal and politician (1875–1955)
- 1956Marie Doro — American actress (1882–1956)
- 1958Pius XII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958
- 1959Shirō Ishii — Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist and director of Unit 731 (a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army)
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