Anniversaries 9 May
Birth
Hindu Rajput ruler of Mewar
1540–1597
English satirist
1738–1819
American abolitionist
1800–1859
Scottish writer
1860–1937
social and political leader during the Indian Independence …
1866–1915
American politician
1873–1933
British egyptologist
1874–1939
American industrialist
1882–1967
Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
1883–1955
American psychologist, lawyer, inventor and comic book writ…
1893–1947
Early Dáil member, cooperative organiser, agriculturalist
1901–1960
English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual …
1904–1980
American children's writer
1906–1988
German Nazi leader convicted of crimes against humanity in …
1907–1974
American writer
1913–1964
English novelist best known as the author of Watership Down
1920–2016
White Rose member
1921–1943
American Catholic priest, peace activist, and poet
1921–2016
German physicist
1927–2001
Ukrainian Catholic bishop in the United States and Canada.
1932
English actor, author
1934
American director, producer and screenwriter
1940
British Liberal Democrat politician
1943
American philosopher
1943
Author, journalist and computer programmer
1945
Irish Roman Catholic archbishop
1946
American social scientist
1948
Swedish song lyricist, architect and lecturer
1948–2018
American singer-songwriter and pianist
1949
Puerto Rican writer
1950–2013
Canadian computer scientist and Professor of Industrial Eng…
1952
American LGBT rights activist and public relations executive
1953–2016
American psychologist
1957
American film director
1958
President of Hungary
1959
American business executive
1960
14th and current Administrator of the EPA; former Attorney …
1968
Dutch born German singer, songwriter, label owner and execu…
1970
American professional bicycle racer
1972
Former White House Press Secretary
1972
Death
English Separatist leader in Leiden, Holland and in Plymout…
1590–1657
German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
1759–1805
Union Army general
1813–1864
Union United States Army officer
1823–1911
United States engineer
1825–1890
American theologian
1832–1920
French Post-Impressionist artist
1848–1903
American physicist
1852–1931
British explorer and writer
1893–1993
American psychiatrist and neurologist
1900–1993
Labor union leader
1907–1970
American novelist, short story writer
1909–1981
British botanist
1911–2001
American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer
1917–2010
Turkish general
1917–2015
American historian
1918–2007
Acharya or the Svetambar Terapanth sect of Jainism
1920–2010
American author
1921–1977
Australian rugby league player and coach
1929–2008
Lithuanian artist
1931–1978
German left-wing militant
1934–1976