April 9
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[edit] Births
- 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.
- 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, teacher (d. 1930)
- 1865 - Erich Ludendorff, German general in World War I (d. 1937)
- 1867 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)
- 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
- 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)
- 1937 - Marty Krofft, children's television producer
- 1938 - Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician
- 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
- 1965 - Jeff Zucker, American television executive
- 1966 - Cynthia Nixon, American actress
- 1972 - Emir Delalic Zeko, Bosnian designer
- 1974 - Jenna Jameson, Porn Star
- 1975 - Robbie Fowler, football (soccer) striker
- 1977 - Gerard arthur Way, rock band frontman ( My Chemical Romance)
- 1978 - Jorge Andrade, football player
- 1978 - Rachel Stevens, singer
- 1979 - Keshia Knight Pulliam, actress (Rudy Huxtable, The Cosby Show)
- 1981 - Eric Harris, one of the gunmen in the Columbine High School Massacre (d April 20 1999)
- 1985 - Nichole Arsenault, model
[edit] 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, baseball player (b. 1940)
- 2002 - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
- 2005 - Andrea Dworkin, American feminist and writer (b.
