Anniversaries 9 February
Birth
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Japanese Buddhist monk
1394–1481
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English and American political activist
1737–1809
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American general and politician, 9th President of the Unite…
1773–1841
![Farkas Bolyai photo]()
Hungarian mathematician
1775–1856
![Edward Carson, Baron Carson photo]()
Irish politician, barrister and judge
1854–1935
![Anthony Hope photo]()
English novelist and playwright
1863–1933
![George Ade photo]()
American writer, newspaper columnist and playwright
1866–1944
![Julius Ruska photo]()
German historian
1867–1949
![Natsume Soseki photo]()
Japanese novelist
1867–1916
![Jacques Bainville photo]()
French historian and journalist
1879–1936
![Thomas Kettle photo]()
Irish politician
1880–1916
![Alban Berg photo]()
Austrian composer
1885–1935
![Mrs Patrick Campbell photo]()
British stage actress
1895–1940
![Trường Chinh photo]()
former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam …
1907–1988
![Jacques Monod photo]()
French biologist
1910–1976
![Kathryn Grayson photo]()
actress from the United States
1922–2010
![Brendan Behan photo]()
Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright
1923–1964
![André Gorz photo]()
austrian philosopher
1923–2007
![Charles Perrow photo]()
American sociologist
1925–2019
![David Wheeler (computer scientist) photo]()
British computer scientist
1927–2004
![Thomas Bernhard photo]()
Austrian writer
1931–1989
![Gerhard Richter photo]()
German visual artist, born 1932
1932
![Fathi Yakan photo]()
Lebanese Islamic cleric-politician
1933–2009
![J.M. Coetzee photo]()
South African writer
1940
![Manuel Castells photo]()
Spanish sociologist (b.1942)
1942
![Joseph E. Stiglitz photo]()
American economist and professor, born 1943.
1943
![Denis Dutton photo]()
Professor and philosopher
1944–2010
![Derryn Hinch photo]()
New Zealand–Australian media personality
1944
![Alice Walker photo]()
American author and activist
1944
![Mia Farrow photo]()
American actress, singer, humanitarian and former fashion m…
1945
![Jim Webb photo]()
American politician, military officer and author
1946
![Rubén González Medina photo]()
Roman Catholic bishop
1949
![Rene Balcer photo]()
screenwriter, producer and director
1954
![Kevin Warwick photo]()
British robotics and cybernetics researcher
1954
![Gordon Strachan photo]()
Scottish footballer and manager
1957
![Terry McAuliffe photo]()
American businessman and politician
1957
![Filipe Nyusi photo]()
Mozambican politician
1959
![John Kruk photo]()
American baseball player
1961
![Johanna Mikl-Leitner photo]()
Austrian politician (ÖVP), former Member of National Counci…
1964
![Neil Cross photo]()
British novelist and scriptwriter
1969
![Makoto Shinkai photo]()
Japanese anime director and former graphic designer
1973
![Tom Hiddleston photo]()
English actor, producer and musical performer
1981
Death
![Pierre Polinière photo]()
French physicist
1671–1734
![Jules Michelet photo]()
French historian
1798–1874
![Johan Jongkind photo]()
Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Im…
1819–1891
![George Lippard photo]()
Novelist, journalist
1822–1854
![Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux photo]()
Anglo-French writer
1857–1944
![James Huneker photo]()
American music critic
1857–1921
![Elizabeth von Arnim photo]()
Australian writer
1866–1941
![Miklós Horthy photo]()
Hungarian Admiral and Regent 1920-1944
1868–1957
![Paul Laurence Dunbar photo]()
American author
1872–1906
![Jacques Bainville photo]()
French historian and journalist
1879–1936
![Leon Rene Yankwich photo]()
United States federal judge
1888–1975
![Allen Tate photo]()
American poet, essayist and social commentator
1899–1979
![Dennis Gabor photo]()
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
1900–1979
![M. C. Chagla photo]()
Indian politician and judge
1900–1981
![J. William Fulbright photo]()
American politician
1905–1995
![Helen Schucman photo]()
Clinical Psychologist
1909–1981
![Adolf Galland photo]()
German World War II general and fighter pilot
1912–1996
![Abd al-Karim Qasim photo]()
Prime Minister of Iraq
1914–1963
![Yuri Andropov photo]()
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1914–1984
![Baba Amte photo]()
Indian freedom fighter, social worker
1914–2008
![Alistair Cameron Crombie photo]()
Australian zoologist, historian of science
1915–1996
![Herbert A. Simon photo]()
American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and p…
1916–2001
![Robert Anderson photo]()
American playwright, screenwriter, and theater producer
1917–2009
![Leonard Mandel photo]()
German physicist
1927–2001
![Osamu Tezuka photo]()
Japanese cartoonist and animator
1928–1989
![Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon photo]()
younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The …
1930–2002
![Shelley Lubben photo]()
author, singer, motivational speaker, and former pornograph…
1968–2019
