April 9
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April 9 is the 99th day of the year (100th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 266 days remaining after April 9 until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 1283 – Margaret, Maid of Norway (d. 1290)
- 1336 – Tamerlane, also known as Timur, Turkic conqueror, in Transoxiana (d. 1405)
- 1773 – Étienne Aignan, translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Académie française (d. 1824)
- 1794 – Theobald Boehm, inventor of the modern flute.
- 1802 – Elias Lonnrot, Finnish physician and writer (d. 1884)
- 1806 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer (d. 1859)
- 1821 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet (d. 1867)
- 1830 – Eadweard Muybridge, photographer, motion picture pioneer (d. 1904)
- 1835 – King Leopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)
- 1848 – Helene Lange, German teacher (d. 1930)
- 1865 – Charles Proteus Steinmetz, German-born engineer and mathematician (d. 1923)
- 1865 – Erich Ludendorff, German general in World War I (d. 1937)
- 1867 – Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)
- 1872 – Leon Blum, Prime Minister of France (d. 1950)
- 1888 – Sol Hurok, impresario (d. 1974)
- 1889 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (d. 1985)
- 1897 – John B. Gambling, radio talk-show host (d. 1974)
- 1898 – Paul Robeson, singer, political activist (d. 1976)
- 1898 – Curly Lambeau, American football coach, executive (d. 1965)
- 1903 – Ward Bond, actor (d. 1960)
- 1904 – Sharkey Bonano, jazz musician (d. 1972)
- 1905 – J. William Fulbright, former Senator from Arkansas (d. 1995)
- 1906 – Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
- 1908 – Victor Vasarely, painter (d. 1997)
- 1910 – Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (d. 1998)
- 1912 – Lew Kopelew (Lev Kopelev), author (d. 1997)
- 1917 – Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1918 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (d. 2008)
- 1919 – J. Presper Eckert, inventor of the ENIAC computer
- 1925 – Heinz Nixdorf, industrialist (d. 1985)
- 1926 – Hugh Hefner, editor, publisher
- 1928 – Tom Lehrer, musician and satirist
- 1932 – Carl Perkins, country and rockabilly musician (d. 1998)
- 1932 – Jim Fowler, American naturalist
- 1933 – Jean-Paul Belmondo, actor
- 1935 – Avery Schreiber, actor (d. 2002)
- 1935 – Josef Fritzl, Austrian criminal
- 1937 – Marty Krofft, children's television producer
- 1938 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (d. 2010)
- 1939 – Michael Learned, American actress
- 1942 – Brandon De Wilde, American actor (d. 1972)
- 1945 – Peter Gammons, baseball sportswriter, journalist
- 1953 – Hal Ketchum, American country musician
- 1954 – Dennis Quaid, actor (The Right Stuff, Any Given Sunday, Traffic)
- 1954 – Iain Duncan Smith, United Kingdom MP
- 1957 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (d. 2011)
- 1965 – Jeff Zucker, American television executive
- 1966 – Cynthia Nixon, American actress
- 1971 – Jacques Villeneuve, French-Canadian racing driver
- 1974 – Alexander Pichushkin, Russian serial killer
- 1974 – Jenna Jameson, Porn actress
- 1975 – Robbie Fowler, English footballer (soccer)
- 1977 – Gerard Way, rock band frontman (My Chemical Romance)
- 1978 – Jorge Andrade, Portuguese footballer
- 1978 – Rachel Stevens, English singer
- 1979 – Keshia Knight Pulliam, American actress (Rudy Huxtable, The Cosby Show)
- 1979 – Mario Matt, Austrian skier
- 1980 – Jerko Leko, Croatian footballer
- 1981 – Eric Harris, one of the gunmen at Columbine (d. April 20 1999)
- 1985 – Nichole Arsenault, model
- 1987 – Jesse McCartney, American actor and singer
- 1990 – Kristen Stewart, American actress
- 1998 – Elle Fanning, American actress
- 2000 – Jackie Evancho, American singer
[change] Deaths
- 491 – Zeno, Byzantine Emperor
- 715 – Pope Constantine
- 1024 – Pope Benedict VIII
- 1137 – William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)
- 1483 – King Edward IV of England (b. 1442)
- 1484 – Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. 1473)
- 1553 – François Rabelais, French writer
- 1557 – Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (b. 1510)
- 1626 – Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist (b. 1561)
- 1693 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
- 1739 – Nicolas Saunderson, English scientist and mathematician (b. 1682)
- 1747 – Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief
- 1754 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher (b. 1679)
- 1761 – William Law, English minister (b. 1686)
- 1804 – Jacques Necker, French statesman (b. 1732)
- 1806 – William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic
- 1889 – Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)
- 1917 – James Hope Moulton, English scholar of Classical Greek (b. 1863)
- 1936 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)
- 1940 – Mrs. Patrick Campbell, English actress (b. 1865)
- 1944 – Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1920)
- 1945 – Wilhelm Canaris, German Nazi leader (b. 1887)
- 1945 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (executed) (b. 1906)
- 1948 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903).
- 1959 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)
- 1961 – King Zog of Albania (b. 1895)
- 1963 – Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (b. 1891)
- 1976 – Phil Ochs, American singer (b. 1940)
- 1988 – Brook Benton, American actor (b. 1931)
- 1991 – Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)
- 1996 – Richard Condon, American novelist (b. 1915)
- 1996 – James W. Rouse, American real estate developer, activist, and philanthropist (b. 1914)
- 1997 – Laura Nyro, American singer and songwriter (b. 1947)
- 1999 – Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Niger politician and general (b. 1949)
- 2001 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
- 2002 – Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
- 2005 – Andrea Dworkin, American feminist and writer (b. 1946)
- 2010 – Meinhardt Raabe, American actor (b. 1915)
- 2011 – Sidney Lumet, American film director (b. 1924)
- 2011 – Daniel Catan, Mexican composer (b. 1949)
[change] Events
- 1865 – The American Civil War ends, as Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia.
- 1867 – By a single vote, the United States Senate approves the treaty with Russia for the purchase of Russian America, present-day Alaska.
- 1916 – World War I: Battle of Verdun - German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
- 1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall.
- 1940 – World War II: The Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
- 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
- 1957 – The Suez Canal opens to shipping.
- 1963 – Winston Churchill becomes an honorary US citizen, becoming the first non-American to be given this honour.
- 1967 – The Boeing 737 makes its first flight.
- 1989 – April 9 tragedy: In Tbilisi, in the then-Soviet Republic of Georgia, a peaceful pro-independence demonstration is broken up by the Soviet army, killing 20 people, and injuring hundreds.
- 1991 – The Republic of Georgia, under Zviad Gamsakhurdia, declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 – The British Conservative Party under John Major, wins a fourth term in office in the United Kingdom, defeating Neil Kinnock of the Labour Party.
- 1999 – Niger's President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara is overthrown, and killed at Niamey airport.
- 2003 – Baghdad falls to US forces, as Saddam Hussein's regime crumbles, while a statue of him is torn down in the centre of the city.
- 2005 – Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Their wedding had been postponed from the previous day, for the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
- 2009 – In Tbilisi, 60,000 people gather to protest against the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
- 2011 – Seven people, including the gunman, are killed in a shooting at a mall, in Alphen an den Rijn, in the Netherlands.
