Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 9
Births edit
- 384 - Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
- 1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
- 1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642) (pictured)
- 1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
- 1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)
- 1828 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
- 1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
- 1904 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
- 1986 - Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
Deaths edit
- c.546 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop
- 1487 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
- 1569 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
- 1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
- 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
- 1976 - Mao Zedong, Leader of China (b. 1893)
- 1990 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (b. 1951)
- 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)