Anniversaries 9 May

Birth

Maharana Pratap4

Hindu Rajput ruler of Mewar 1540–1597

John Wolcot5

English satirist 1738–1819

John Brown (abolitionist)14

American abolitionist 1800–1859

J. M. Barrie49

Scottish writer 1860–1937

Gopal Krishna Gokhale10

social and political leader during the Indian Independence … 1866–1915

Anton Cermak2

American politician 1873–1933

Howard Carter6

British egyptologist 1874–1939

Henry J. Kaiser2

American industrialist 1882–1967

José Ortega Y Gasset85

Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist 1883–1955

William Moulton Marston21

American psychologist, lawyer, inventor and comic book writ… 1893–1947

Timothy Quill8

Early Dáil member, cooperative organiser, agriculturalist 1901–1960

Gregory Bateson49

English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual … 1904–1980

Eleanor Estes1

American children's writer 1906–1988

Baldur von Schirach19

German Nazi leader convicted of crimes against humanity in … 1907–1974

Richard McKenna16

American writer 1913–1964

Richard Adams23

English novelist best known as the author of Watership Down 1920–2016

Sophie Scholl17

White Rose member 1921–1943

Daniel Berrigan4

American Catholic priest, peace activist, and poet 1921–2016

Mona Van Duyn1

American poet 1921–2004

Leonard Mandel3

German physicist 1927–2001

Michael Wiwchar1

Ukrainian Catholic bishop in the United States and Canada. 1932

Alan Bennett56

English actor, author 1934

Albert Finney6

English actor 1936–2019

Charles Simic14

American poet 1938

Alan Ryan20

British philosopher 1940

James L. Brooks2

American director, producer and screenwriter 1940

John Ashcroft32

American politician 1942

Vince Cable16

British Liberal Democrat politician 1943

Stephen Stich1

American philosopher 1943

Ismail Serageldin1

egyptian academic 1944

Charles Platt1

Author, journalist and computer programmer 1945

George Stack2

Irish Roman Catholic archbishop 1946

Steven W. Mosher3

American social scientist 1948

Kenneth Gärdestad7

Swedish song lyricist, architect and lecturer 1948–2018

Billy Joel103

American singer-songwriter and pianist 1949

Tato Laviera2

Puerto Rican writer 1950–2013

Joy Harjo7

American writer 1951

Mark S. Fox5

Canadian computer scientist and Professor of Industrial Eng… 1952

Philippos Stephanos Thottathil1

Indian bishop 1952

Jeffrey Montgomery25

American LGBT rights activist and public relations executive 1953–2016

Leda Cosmides1

American psychologist 1957

Chuck Russell1

American film director 1958

János Áder1

President of Hungary 1959

Bob Swan1

American business executive 1960

Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi1

1965

Scott Pruitt1

14th and current Administrator of the EPA; former Attorney … 1968

Amber6

Dutch born German singer, songwriter, label owner and execu… 1970

Adam Myerson3

American professional bicycle racer 1972

Dana Perino8

Former White House Press Secretary 1972

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril2

director 1978

Pierre Bouvier2

Canadian musician 1979

Alexey Voyevoda1

bobsledder 1980

Jerome Foster II8

2002

Death

William Bradford7

English Separatist leader in Leiden, Holland and in Plymout… 1590–1657

Friedrich Schiller111

German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright 1759–1805

John Sedgwick1

Union Army general 1813–1864

Frederick Goddard Tuckerman3

American poet 1821–1873

Thomas Wentworth Higginson1

Union United States Army officer 1823–1911

Julius Erasmus Hilgard3

United States engineer 1825–1890

John Heyl Vincent9

American theologian 1832–1920

Paul Gauguin41

French Post-Impressionist artist 1848–1903

Albert A. Michelson5

American physicist 1852–1931

Freya Stark5

British explorer and writer 1893–1993

Roy R. Grinker, Sr.17

American psychiatrist and neurologist 1900–1993

Walter Reuther25

Labor union leader 1907–1970

Nelson Algren30

American novelist, short story writer 1909–1981

William T. Stearn1

British botanist 1911–2001

Lena Horne5

American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer 1917–2010

Kenan Evren5

Turkish general 1917–2015

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.14

American historian 1918–2007

Mahāprajña7

Acharya or the Svetambar Terapanth sect of Jainism 1920–2010

James Jones52

American author 1921–1977

Jack Gibson20

Australian rugby league player and coach 1929–2008

George Maciunas1

Lithuanian artist 1931–1978

Ulrike Meinhof6

German left-wing militant 1934–1976

Christopher Wood (writer)10

English writer 1935–2015

Per Kirkeby14

Danish artist 1938–2018

Nuala O'Faolain1

Irish writer 1940–2008