Anniversaries 9 May
Birth
![Maharana Pratap photo]()
Hindu Rajput ruler of Mewar
1540–1597
![John Wolcot photo]()
English satirist
1738–1819
![John Brown (abolitionist) photo]()
American abolitionist
1800–1859
![J. M. Barrie photo]()
Scottish writer
1860–1937
![Gopal Krishna Gokhale photo]()
social and political leader during the Indian Independence …
1866–1915
![Anton Cermak photo]()
American politician
1873–1933
![Howard Carter photo]()
British egyptologist
1874–1939
![Henry J. Kaiser photo]()
American industrialist
1882–1967
![José Ortega Y Gasset photo]()
Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
1883–1955
![William Moulton Marston photo]()
American psychologist, lawyer, inventor and comic book writ…
1893–1947
![Timothy Quill photo]()
Early Dáil member, cooperative organiser, agriculturalist
1901–1960
![Gregory Bateson photo]()
English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual …
1904–1980
![Eleanor Estes photo]()
American children's writer
1906–1988
![Baldur von Schirach photo]()
German Nazi leader convicted of crimes against humanity in …
1907–1974
![Richard McKenna photo]()
American writer
1913–1964
![Richard Adams photo]()
English novelist best known as the author of Watership Down
1920–2016
![Sophie Scholl photo]()
White Rose member
1921–1943
![Daniel Berrigan photo]()
American Catholic priest, peace activist, and poet
1921–2016
![Leonard Mandel photo]()
German physicist
1927–2001
![Michael Wiwchar photo]()
Ukrainian Catholic bishop in the United States and Canada.
1932
![Alan Bennett photo]()
English actor, author
1934
![James L. Brooks photo]()
American director, producer and screenwriter
1940
![Vince Cable photo]()
British Liberal Democrat politician
1943
![Stephen Stich photo]()
American philosopher
1943
![Charles Platt photo]()
Author, journalist and computer programmer
1945
![George Stack photo]()
Irish Roman Catholic archbishop
1946
![Steven W. Mosher photo]()
American social scientist
1948
![Kenneth Gärdestad photo]()
Swedish song lyricist, architect and lecturer
1948–2018
![Billy Joel photo]()
American singer-songwriter and pianist
1949
![Tato Laviera photo]()
Puerto Rican writer
1950–2013
![Mark S. Fox photo]()
Canadian computer scientist and Professor of Industrial Eng…
1952
![Jeffrey Montgomery photo]()
American LGBT rights activist and public relations executive
1953–2016
![Leda Cosmides photo]()
American psychologist
1957
![Chuck Russell photo]()
American film director
1958
![János Áder photo]()
President of Hungary
1959
![Bob Swan photo]()
American business executive
1960
![Scott Pruitt photo]()
14th and current Administrator of the EPA; former Attorney …
1968
![Amber photo]()
Dutch born German singer, songwriter, label owner and execu…
1970
![Adam Myerson photo]()
American professional bicycle racer
1972
![Dana Perino photo]()
Former White House Press Secretary
1972
Death
![William Bradford photo]()
English Separatist leader in Leiden, Holland and in Plymout…
1590–1657
![Friedrich Schiller photo]()
German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
1759–1805
![John Sedgwick photo]()
Union Army general
1813–1864
![Thomas Wentworth Higginson photo]()
Union United States Army officer
1823–1911
![Julius Erasmus Hilgard photo]()
United States engineer
1825–1890
![John Heyl Vincent photo]()
American theologian
1832–1920
![Paul Gauguin photo]()
French Post-Impressionist artist
1848–1903
![Albert A. Michelson photo]()
American physicist
1852–1931
![Freya Stark photo]()
British explorer and writer
1893–1993
![Roy R. Grinker, Sr. photo]()
American psychiatrist and neurologist
1900–1993
![Walter Reuther photo]()
Labor union leader
1907–1970
![Nelson Algren photo]()
American novelist, short story writer
1909–1981
![William T. Stearn photo]()
British botanist
1911–2001
![Lena Horne photo]()
American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer
1917–2010
![Kenan Evren photo]()
Turkish general
1917–2015
![Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. photo]()
American historian
1918–2007
![Mahāprajña photo]()
Acharya or the Svetambar Terapanth sect of Jainism
1920–2010
![James Jones photo]()
American author
1921–1977
![Jack Gibson photo]()
Australian rugby league player and coach
1929–2008
![George Maciunas photo]()
Lithuanian artist
1931–1978
![Ulrike Meinhof photo]()
German left-wing militant
1934–1976
