Anniversaries 9 February
Birth
Japanese Buddhist monk
1394–1481
English and American political activist
1737–1809
American general and politician, 9th President of the Unite…
1773–1841
Hungarian mathematician
1775–1856
Irish politician, barrister and judge
1854–1935
English novelist and playwright
1863–1933
American writer, newspaper columnist and playwright
1866–1944
German historian
1867–1949
Japanese novelist
1867–1916
French historian and journalist
1879–1936
Irish politician
1880–1916
Austrian composer
1885–1935
British stage actress
1895–1940
former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam …
1907–1988
French biologist
1910–1976
actress from the United States
1922–2010
Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright
1923–1964
austrian philosopher
1923–2007
American sociologist
1925–2019
British computer scientist
1927–2004
Austrian writer
1931–1989
German visual artist, born 1932
1932
Lebanese Islamic cleric-politician
1933–2009
South African writer
1940
Spanish sociologist (b.1942)
1942
American economist and professor, born 1943.
1943
Professor and philosopher
1944–2010
New Zealand–Australian media personality
1944
American author and activist
1944
American actress, singer, humanitarian and former fashion m…
1945
American politician, military officer and author
1946
Roman Catholic bishop
1949
screenwriter, producer and director
1954
British robotics and cybernetics researcher
1954
Scottish footballer and manager
1957
American businessman and politician
1957
Mozambican politician
1959
American baseball player
1961
Austrian politician (ÖVP), former Member of National Counci…
1964
British novelist and scriptwriter
1969
Japanese anime director and former graphic designer
1973
English actor, producer and musical performer
1981
Death
French physicist
1671–1734
French historian
1798–1874
Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Im…
1819–1891
Novelist, journalist
1822–1854
Anglo-French writer
1857–1944
American music critic
1857–1921
Australian writer
1866–1941
Hungarian Admiral and Regent 1920-1944
1868–1957
American author
1872–1906
French historian and journalist
1879–1936
United States federal judge
1888–1975
American poet, essayist and social commentator
1899–1979
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
1900–1979
Indian politician and judge
1900–1981
American politician
1905–1995
Clinical Psychologist
1909–1981
German World War II general and fighter pilot
1912–1996
Prime Minister of Iraq
1914–1963
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1914–1984
Indian freedom fighter, social worker
1914–2008
Australian zoologist, historian of science
1915–1996
American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and p…
1916–2001
American playwright, screenwriter, and theater producer
1917–2009
German physicist
1927–2001
Japanese cartoonist and animator
1928–1989
younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The …
1930–2002
author, singer, motivational speaker, and former pornograph…
1968–2019