Anniversaries 9 February

Birth

Ikkyu8

Japanese Buddhist monk 1394–1481

Thomas Paine262

English and American political activist 1737–1809

William Henry Harrison12

American general and politician, 9th President of the Unite… 1773–1841

Farkas Bolyai2

Hungarian mathematician 1775–1856

Edward Carson, Baron Carson10

Irish politician, barrister and judge 1854–1935

Anthony Hope1

English novelist and playwright 1863–1933

George Ade11

American writer, newspaper columnist and playwright 1866–1944

Julius Ruska1

German historian 1867–1949

Natsume Soseki1

Japanese novelist 1867–1916

Amy Lowell9

US writer 1874–1925

Jacques Bainville7

French historian and journalist 1879–1936

Thomas Kettle1

Irish politician 1880–1916

James Stephens8

Irish writer 1882–1950

Alban Berg2

Austrian composer 1885–1935

Mrs Patrick Campbell5

British stage actress 1895–1940

Trường Chinh8

former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam … 1907–1988

Jacques Monod4

French biologist 1910–1976

Kathryn Grayson2

actress from the United States 1922–2010

Brendan Behan14

Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright 1923–1964

André Gorz4

austrian philosopher 1923–2007

John B. Cobb4

American theologian 1925

Charles Perrow71

American sociologist 1925–2019

David Wheeler (computer scientist)2

British computer scientist 1927–2004

Thomas Bernhard15

Austrian writer 1931–1989

Gerhard Richter96

German visual artist, born 1932 1932

Fathi Yakan1

Lebanese Islamic cleric-politician 1933–2009

J.M. Coetzee61

South African writer 1940

Carole King43

Nasa 1942

Mahendra Chaudhry40

Fijian politician 1942

Manuel Castells59

Spanish sociologist (b.1942) 1942

Joseph E. Stiglitz39

American economist and professor, born 1943. 1943

Denis Dutton1

Professor and philosopher 1944–2010

Derryn Hinch4

New Zealand–Australian media personality 1944

Alice Walker91

American author and activist 1944

Steve F. Sapontzis7

1945

Mia Farrow8

American actress, singer, humanitarian and former fashion m… 1945

Joseph Prathan Sridarunsil1

Thai bishop 1946

Jim Webb6

American politician, military officer and author 1946

Rubén González Medina1

Roman Catholic bishop 1949

Rene Balcer22

screenwriter, producer and director 1954

Kevin Warwick6

British robotics and cybernetics researcher 1954

Gordon Strachan7

Scottish footballer and manager 1957

John Ribat1

cardinal 1957

Terry McAuliffe6

American businessman and politician 1957

Filipe Nyusi1

Mozambican politician 1959

Holly Johnson13

British artist 1960

John Kruk1

American baseball player 1961

Brian Greene15

American physicist 1963

Johanna Mikl-Leitner3

Austrian politician (ÖVP), former Member of National Counci… 1964

Neil Cross1

British novelist and scriptwriter 1969

Makoto Shinkai12

Japanese anime director and former graphic designer 1973

Tom Hiddleston15

English actor, producer and musical performer 1981

Death

Nampo Jomyo3

1235–1309

Pierre Polinière1

French physicist 1671–1734

Jules Michelet6

French historian 1798–1874

Dionysios Solomos3

Greek poet 1798–1857

Johan Jongkind5

Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Im… 1819–1891

George Lippard5

Novelist, journalist 1822–1854

Henry John Stephen Smith6

mathematician 1826–1883

Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux1

Anglo-French writer 1857–1944

James Huneker2

American music critic 1857–1921

Elizabeth von Arnim8

Australian writer 1866–1941

Miklós Horthy5

Hungarian Admiral and Regent 1920-1944 1868–1957

Paul Laurence Dunbar5

American author 1872–1906

Jacques Bainville7

French historian and journalist 1879–1936

Leon Rene Yankwich1

United States federal judge 1888–1975

Allen Tate3

American poet, essayist and social commentator 1899–1979

Dennis Gabor4

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography 1900–1979

M. C. Chagla4

Indian politician and judge 1900–1981

J. William Fulbright21

American politician 1905–1995

Helen Schucman4

Clinical Psychologist 1909–1981

Adolf Galland9

German World War II general and fighter pilot 1912–1996

Abd al-Karim Qasim36

Prime Minister of Iraq 1914–1963

Yuri Andropov1

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1914–1984

Baba Amte34

Indian freedom fighter, social worker 1914–2008

Alistair Cameron Crombie8

Australian zoologist, historian of science 1915–1996

Herbert A. Simon58

American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and p… 1916–2001

Robert Anderson2

American playwright, screenwriter, and theater producer 1917–2009

Balasaraswati9

Indian dancer 1918–1984

Leonard Mandel3

German physicist 1927–2001

Osamu Tezuka18

Japanese cartoonist and animator 1928–1989

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon3

younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The … 1930–2002

Shelley Lubben2

author, singer, motivational speaker, and former pornograph… 1968–2019