Anniversaries 9 April

Birth

Philippe Néricault Destouches3

French playwright 1680–1754

Camillo Federici4

Italian actor and playwright (1749-1802) 1749–1802

Fisher Ames12

American politician 1758–1808

George Peacock9

Scottish mathematician 1791–1858

Charles Baudelaire133

French poet 1821–1867

Leopold II of Belgium34

King of the Belgians 1835–1909

Erich Ludendorff12

German Army officer and later Nazi leader in Adolf Hitler's… 1865–1937

Charles Proteus Steinmetz7

Mathematician and electrical engineer 1865–1923

Laurence Hope4

English poet 1865–1904

Léon Blum2

French politician 1872–1950

Paul Robeson22

American singer and actor 1898–1976

Ludwig Hohl3

Swiss writer 1904–1980

J. William Fulbright21

American politician 1905–1995

Hugh Gaitskell11

British politician 1906–1963

Leonard Wibberley3

Irish-American author 1915–1983

Johannes Bobrowski1

German author 1917–1965

Linda Goodman1

American astrologer 1925–1995

Hugh Hefner1

American businessman and magazine publisher 1926–2017

Tom Lehrer60

American singer-songwriter and mathematician 1928

Fred Hollows2

New Zealand–Australian ophthalmologist 1929–1993

Jim Fowler2

American zoologist 1930–2019

Nathaniel Branden10

Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer 1930–2014

Fern Michaels2

American writer 1933

Aloysius Pieris4

Sri Lankan Jesuit priest 1934

Valerie Solanas25

American radical feminist and writer. Attempted to assassin… 1936–1988

Viktor Chernomyrdin3

Russian diplomat 1938–2010

Giuseppe Franzelli2

Italian priest 1942

Martin Berkofsky1

American classical pianist 1943–2013

Stefan Szczesny8

German painter and sculptor 1951

Iain Duncan Smith5

British politician 1954

Jairam Ramesh1

Indian politician 1954

Pierre Dartout1

French official 1954

Nigel Slater10

English food writer, journalist and broadcaster 1958

Bernard Jenkin1

British politician 1959

Fred Dekker1

American film director and writer 1959

Marc Jacobs14

American fashion designer 1963

Lambert Wiesing1

German archaeologist, humanities scholar and art historian 1963

Margaret Peterson Haddix15

American author 1964

Cynthia Nixon2

American actress 1966

Alexis Karpouzos54

1967

Sam Harris151

American author, philosopher and neuroscientist 1967

Jenna Jameson5

American entrepreneur, webcam model, and pornographic actre… 1974

Джерард Артур Уэй3

1977

Gerard Way1

American musician and comic book writer 1977

Halyna Hutchins4

Ukrainian-American cinematographer and investigative journa… 1979–2021

Chris Stedman8

American activist 1987

Kristen Stewart4

American actress 1990

Lilia Buckingham1

American actress, author and dancer 2003

Death

William of Ockham13

medieval philosopher and theologian 1285–1349

Francois Rabelais105

major French Renaissance writer 1494–1553

Francis Bacon295

English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and auth… 1561–1626

William Law34

English cleric, nonjuror and theological writer 1686–1761

Sarah Fielding1

British writer 1710–1768

James Saurin1

Bishop of Dromore; Irish Anglican bishop 1759–1842

Stephen Johnson Field3

American politician 1816–1899

Dante Gabriel Rossetti33

English poet, illustrator, painter and translator 1828–1882

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey5

writer 1835–1905

Francis Marion Crawford13

Novelist, short story writer, essayist (1854-1909) 1854–1909

Frank Lloyd Wright99

American architect (1867-1959) 1867–1959

Edward Thomas7

Poet and journalist 1878–1917

W. Douglas P. Hill28

British Indologist 1884–1962

Wilhelm Canaris7

German admiral, head of military intelligence service 1887–1945

Benno Moiseiwitsch3

British musician 1890–1963

Hans Reichenbach41

American philosopher 1891–1953

Mrs Patrick Campbell5

British stage actress 1895–1940

Gordon H. Clark2

American philosopher and Calvinist theologian 1902–1985

Joseph B. Soloveitchik11

American theologian 1903–1993

Dietrich Bonhoeffer161

German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906–1945

Richard E. Cole3

career officer in the United States Air Force and participa… 1915–2019

Helene Hanff10

Screenwriter, writer 1916–1997

George Forsythe5

Stanford University computer scientist 1917–1972

Colin Jordan1

British holocaust denier 1923–2009

Sidney Lumet1

American director, producer and screenwriter 1924–2011

Tony Conrad1

American filmmaker, violinist and composer 1940–2016

Phil Ochs48

American protest singer and songwriter 1940–1976

Andrea Dworkin84

Feminist writer 1946–2005