Anniversaries 9 October

Birth

Ambrose Philips8

Anglo-Irish poet and politician 1674–1749

Elizabeth Chase Allen3

American author, journalist, poet 1832–1911

Camille Saint-Saëns1

French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist of the Ro… 1835–1921

Francis Wayland Parker5

Union Army officer 1837–1902

L. P. Jacks26

British educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister 1860–1955

Max von Laue2

German physicist 1879–1960

Victor Klemperer10

Philologist, author of LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii 1881–1960

B. Traven1

German novelist 1890–1969

Ivo Andrič16

novelist, short story writer 1892–1975

Marion Sinclair1

Australian music teacher and songwriter 1896–1988

Henry Calvert Simons1

American economist 1899–1946

Sayyid Qutb12

Egyptian author, educator, Islamic theorist, poet, and poli… 1906–1966

Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone8

British judge, politician, life peer and Cabinet minister 1907–2001

Juan José Cuadros Pérez2

Spanish writer 1926–1990

Jill Ker Conway1

American historian 1934–2018

Don McCullin1

artist 1935

John Pilger22

Australian journalist 1939

John Lennon228

English singer and songwriter 1940–1980

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang1

South African politician 1940–2009

Trent Lott15

United States Senator from Mississippi 1941

Jackson Browne32

American singer-songwriter 1948

Paul LePage13

American businessman, Republican Party politician, and the … 1948

Jim Starlin17

Comic creator 1949

Peter Lipton1

American philosopher 1954–2007

Paul DiLascia44

American software developer 1959–2008

Kees Moeliker1

Dutch biologist 1960

Guillermo del Toro19

Mexican film director 1964

Will Ferguson1

Canadian writer, especially humor about Canada 1964

David Cameron108

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1966

Cintra Wilson1

American writer, performer and cultural critic 1967

Anbumani Ramadoss6

Indian politician 1968

Annika Sörenstam4

Swedish golfer 1970

Steve Burns1

American entertainer 1973

Simon Sinek23

British/American author and motivational speaker 1973

Chris O'Dowd1

Irish actor and comedian (born 1979) 1979

Marie Kondo1

Japanese organizing consultant, author and television show … 1984

Белла Хадид1

American model 1996

Death

Robert Grosseteste22

English bishop and philosopher 1175–1253

Henry Constable2

English poet 1562–1613

Girard Desargues4

French mathematician and engineer 1591–1661

Richard Blackmore6

English poet and physician 1654–1729

Vilna Gaon2

Polish-Lithuanian rabbi; Mitnagdim leader in opposition to … 1720–1797

Benjamin Banneker4

free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author a… 1731–1806

Ioannis Kapodistrias1

Greek politician and diplomat, first Governor of the modern… 1776–1831

Karl Friedrich Schinkel2

Prussian architect, city planner, and painter 1781–1841

Howell Cobb2

American politician 1815–1868

John Cunningham McLennan1

Canadian physicist 1867–1935

Pope Pius XII7

260th Pope of the Catholic Church 1876–1958

Joseph Pilates3

German inventor of pilates 1883–1967

André Maurois202

French writer 1885–1967

Henry Tizard2

British chemist 1885–1959

J. R. Partington38

British chemist 1886–1965

Robert H. Jackson96

American judge 1892–1954

Walter Warlimont8

German general 1894–1976

Jean Giono1

French writer 1895–1970

Anna Freud4

Austrian-British psychoanalyst & essayist 1895–1982

Gordon W. Allport2

American psychologist 1897–1967

Charles Hartshorne23

Philosopher 1897–2000

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood1

English physical chemist 1897–1967

Clare Boothe Luce7

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and ant… 1903–1987

Alec Douglas-Home14

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1903–1995

Oskar Schindler7

German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer 1908–1974

Maurice Allais7

French economist; 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize i… 1911–2010

Morris West36

Australian writer 1916–1999

Carolyn Kizer3

American poet 1925–2014

Carolyn G. Heilbrun3

Academic, novelist 1926–2003

Geoffrey Howe6

British Conservative politician 1926–2015

Ernesto Che Guevara258

Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

Jacques Brel7

Belgian singer-songwriter 1929–1978

Jacques Derrida58

French philosopher (1930-2004) 1930–2004

Penny Lernoux6

American writer and journalist 1940–1989