On This Day — May 9
4043 noted people were born and 1933 died on May 9 in our archive, including Colin Pillinger, Gaspard Monge and Albert Rohan.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on May 9
Colin Pillinger
1943 – 2014
Gaspard Monge
1746 – 1818
Albert Rohan
1936 – 2019
Barbara Herman
b. 1945
Brent Dalrymple
b. 1937
Christoph Wilhelm von Koch
1737 – 1813
Clive Alderton
b. 1967
Edmond Perrier
1844 – 1921
Frédérique Vidal
b. 1964
Gilbert Ames Bliss
1876 – 1951
Glenda Jackson
1936 – 2023
Gregory Bateson
1904 – 1980
Gustaf de Laval
1845 – 1913
Henry Gilman
1893 – 1986
Ismail Serageldin
b. 1944
J. M. Barrie
1860 – 1937
Joachim Starbatty
b. 1940
José Ortega y Gasset
1883 – 1955
Katie Bouman
b. 1989
Lee Hong-koo
1934 – 2026
Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos
b. 1960
Lucian Blaga
1895 – 1961
Manfred Eigen
1927 – 2019
N. V. Madhusudana
b. 1944
Nikolai Fyodorov
b. 1958
Otto zur Strassen
1869 – 1961
Richard Moore
b. 1963
Sergey Leonov
b. 1983
Sir Ronald Cross, 1st Baronet
1896 – 1968
Stanisław Kulczyński
1895 – 1975
Ulrich Kienzle
1936 – 2020
William Moulton Marston
1893 – 1947
William Watson Goodwin
1831 – 1912
Yukiya Amano
1947 – 2019
Alan Bennett
b. 1934
Albert Ehrensvärd the Younger
1867 – 1940
Alex Karczmar
1917 – 2017
Alexander Coutanche, Baron Coutanche
1892 – 1973
Alexandre Kirillov
b. 1936
Alison Jolly
1937 – 2014
Anatoliy O. Morozov
b. 1939
Andreu Martín
b. 1949
André Gounelle
1933 – 2025
Andy Hopper
b. 1953
Anna Tsivilyova
b. 1972
Annalee Newitz
b. 1969
Anthony Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick
1929 – 2024
Anton von Werner
1843 – 1915
António Bernardo da Costa Cabral, 1st Marquis of Tomar
1803 – 1889
Arend Heyting
1898 – 1980
Avi Mograbi
b. 1956
Baldur von Schirach
1907 – 1974
Bendt Rothe
1921 – 1989
Brian Krzanich
b. 1960
Carl Emil Bardenfleth
1807 – 1857
Charles Cestre
1871 – 1958
Charles Lucas
1803 – 1889
Charles Simic
1938 – 2023
Charles Walter De Vis
1829 – 1915
Christian de Portzamparc
b. 1944
Claudio Pellegrini
b. 1935
Dan Chiasson
b. 1971
Dana Perino
b. 1972
Daniel Berrigan
1921 – 2016
David Gergen
1942 – 2025
David Zilberman
b. 1947
Denis Pushilin
b. 1981
Denis Robert
b. 1958
Dovid Katz
b. 1956
Edd China
b. 1971
Eduardo Montealegre
b. 1955
Elaheh Mohammadi
b. 1987
Ernest Shonekan
1936 – 2022
Ezra Klein
b. 1984
Frank J. Larkin
b. 1955
Frank Parker Day
1881 – 1950
Frederick Knight
1812 – 1897
Frederick Weld
1823 – 1891
Geoff Ryman
b. 1951
George Barker Jeffery
1891 – 1957
George Hooks
b. 1945
Gregory D. Hager
b. 1961
Gundars Daudze
b. 1965
Géza Ottlik
1912 – 1990
Hajime Tamura
1924 – 2014
Hans Georg Bock
b. 1948
Hans-Ulrich Reissig
b. 1949
Harry Arthurs
b. 1935
Henri Cassini
1781 – 1832
Henri Cole
b. 1956
Henri Lagriffoul
1907 – 1981
Hilde Levi
1909 – 2003
Hillel Barzel
1925 – 2022
Howard Carter
1874 – 1939
Igor Ozim
1931 – 2024
Ingemar Lundström
b. 1941
Ionel Haiduc
b. 1937
Ives Gandra da Silva Martins Filho
b. 1959
James Irvine
1877 – 1952
James L. Brooks
b. 1940
James M. Bardeen
1939 – 2022
James S. Fishkin
b. 1948
Jan van Toorn
1932 – 2020
Johannes Singhammer
b. 1953
John Scott Russell
1808 – 1882
John V. Byrne
1928 – 2024
Jorie Graham
b. 1950
Joseph Felsenstein
b. 1942
Joy Harjo
b. 1951
Joy Quigley
b. 1948
János Áder
b. 1959
Kairat Mami
b. 1954
Kamel Morjane
b. 1948
Kara Swisher
b. 1962
Kathleen O'Toole
b. 1954
Kim de l'Horizon
b. 1992
Luuk van Middelaar
b. 1973
Marc Sinden
b. 1954
Marek Cichocki
b. 1966
Marjo van der Knaap
b. 1958
Mark O'Shea
b. 1956
Martin Lewis
b. 1972
Matthew Baillie Begbie
1819 – 1894
Michael A. Padlipsky
1939 – 2011
Michael Levitt
b. 1947
Mike Wallace
1918 – 2012
Mona Van Duyn
1921 – 2004
Márton Nagy
b. 1976
Nicholas Wilson, Lord Wilson of Culworth
b. 1945
Nikolay Orlov
1827 – 1885
Ole Mørk Sandvik
1875 – 1976
Oleg Atkov
b. 1949
Orville Freeman
1918 – 2003
Paul Brasack
1916 – 2013
Pauline Krikke
b. 1961
Peter Merseburger
1928 – 2022
Peter Paul Alexander von Baranoff
1843 – 1924
Peter Planyavsky
b. 1947
Petra Roth
b. 1944
Rafael Moneo
b. 1937
Regina Minudri
1937 – 2021
Richard Adams
1920 – 2016
Richard Barthelmess
1895 – 1963
Richard S. Williamson
1949 – 2013
Robert Carr
1774 – 1841
Robert L. Byer
b. 1942
Roberto Longo
b. 1953
Ruth Kelly
b. 1968
Satsuki Katayama
b. 1959
Scott Pruitt
b. 1968
Sergey Morozov
b. 1973
Sir Malcolm Stewart, 1st Baronet
1872 – 1951
Stefano Mancuso
b. 1965
Stephen Stich
b. 1943
Tatjana Koķe
b. 1955
Theodore Sedgwick
1746 – 1813
Timo Vihavainen
b. 1947
Ulrich Matthes
b. 1959
Valery Zubov
1953 – 2016
Vance D. Brand
b. 1931
Viktor Berestovoy
b. 1948
Vince Cable
b. 1943
Vladimir Bulgak
b. 1941
Volkert Simon Maarten van der Willigen
1822 – 1878
William Pitcairn
1712 – 1791
William Tenn
1920 – 2010
Wojciech Lesnikowski
1938 – 2014
Zhang Qun
1889 – 1990
Àngels Martínez Castells
1948 – 2024
Édouard Jonas
1883 – 1961
Abdulrashid Sadulaev
b. 1996
Adam Opel
1837 – 1895
Adrián Paenza
b. 1949
Albert Finney
1936 – 2019
Albert Kapikian
1930 – 2014
Alessandro Morelli
b. 1977
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
b. 1978
Alex McMillan
1932 – 2024
Alexander III of Antioch
1869 – 1958
Alexander Roosevelt Hottordze
b. 1969
Alexandr Vladimír Hrska
1890 – 1954
Alexey Voyevoda
b. 1980
Anas Osama Mahmoud
b. 1995
Anba Suriel
b. 1963
Andrea Vilaró
b. 1993
Andrew Murray
1828 – 1917
Andrew Nicol
b. 1951
Angelika Winzig
b. 1963
Anil Deshmukh
b. 1950
Anne Sofie von Otter
b. 1955
Antonio Reynoso
b. 1983
Antônio Anastasia
b. 1961
Antônio Luís von Hoonholtz
1837 – 1931
Archduke Heinrich Anton of Austria
1828 – 1891
Arnold W. Jacobsen
1892 – 1970
Audhild Gregoriusdotter Rotevatn
b. 1975
August De Boeck
1865 – 1937
Ayaka Hirahara
b. 1984
Barbara Perry
b. 1963
Barbara Slate
b. 1947
… and 3,843 more
Died on May 9
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
1778 – 1850
Albert Abraham Michelson
1852 – 1931
Aldo Moro
1916 – 1978
Alexandre Lamfalussy
1929 – 2015
Esteban Terradas Illa
1883 – 1950
Georg Ludwig von Maurer
1790 – 1872
Jay Bailey
1944 – 2001
John H Coates
1945 – 2022
Koshirō Oikawa
1883 – 1958
Leopold Figl
1902 – 1965
Monique Cerisier-ben Guiga
1942 – 2021
Philipp Friedrich Gmelin
1721 – 1768
Qian Qichen
1928 – 2017
Robert Ellsworth
1926 – 2011
Robert Pierpont Blake
1886 – 1950
Theo van Boven
1934 – 2026
Yvonne Mokgoro
1950 – 2024
Adam Stanisław Krasiński, Sch. P.
1810 – 1891
Adolphe Goupil
1806 – 1893
Akhmad Kadyrov
1951 – 2004
Anders Johan von Höpken
1712 – 1789
Anni Albers
1899 – 1994
August Grisebach
1814 – 1879
Benjamin Lincoln
1733 – 1810
Bertil Dillner
1923 – 2015
Borys Antonenko-Davydovych
1899 – 1984
Carl Pontus Gahn
1759 – 1825
Charles Welche
1828 – 1902
David Zhvania
1967 – 2022
Denham Henty
1903 – 1978
Durgabai Deshmukh
1909 – 1981
Edgar Humann
1838 – 1914
Edmond O'Brien
1915 – 1985
Edward Alfred Cowper
1819 – 1893
Edward Lunn Young
1920 – 2017
Ernesto de Martino
1908 – 1965
Francis Hopkinson
1737 – 1791
Franz Etzel
1902 – 1970
Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander
1816 – 1881
Gabriel Ramanantsoa
1906 – 1979
George Johnston Allman
1824 – 1904
George W. McIver
1858 – 1947
Gustave Gingras
1918 – 1996
Harry Gordon Johnson
1923 – 1977
Helen Lemmens-Sherrington
1834 – 1906
Herman Bernhard Lundborg
1868 – 1943
Igor Gorynin
1926 – 2015
Ivan Borgman
1849 – 1914
Ivan M. Niven
1915 – 1999
Jacques Bouveresse
1940 – 2021
Jacques-Joseph Champollion
1778 – 1867
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
1673 – 1747
John M. Schiff
1904 – 1987
John Plunkett
1802 – 1869
Joseph Edward Davies
1876 – 1958
Józef Ankwicz
1750 – 1794
Karl-Günther von Hase
1917 – 2021
Kenan Evren
1917 – 2015
Kristina Lugn
1948 – 2020
Larry Polansky
1954 – 2024
Louis II, Prince of Monaco
1870 – 1949
Margaret Lindsay
1910 – 1981
Marye Anne Fox
1947 – 2021
Michael MacKellar
1938 – 2015
Miguel Angel Cárcano
1889 – 1978
Mustafa Nur-Ul Islam
1927 – 2018
Nelson Algren
1909 – 1981
Otto Kerner, Jr.
1908 – 1976
Paul Héroult
1863 – 1914
Per Rudberg
1922 – 2010
Piotr Ożarowski
1725 – 1794
Richard Émile Augustin de Candolle
1868 – 1920
Robert Chambers
1737 – 1803
Robert Main
1808 – 1878
Robert Thomas Wilson
1777 – 1849
Roger Corman
1926 – 2024
Sergey Dorenko
1959 – 2019
Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet
1822 – 1895
Talat Mahmood
1924 – 1998
Thomas Liao
1910 – 1986
Timo Honkela
1962 – 2020
Walther Leisler Kiep
1926 – 2016
Wilferd Madelung
1930 – 2023
William Cabell Bruce
1860 – 1946
Yoshino Shinji
1898 – 1971
Édouard Corniglion-Molinier
1898 – 1963
Abedin Dino
1838 – 1906
Adam Tarnowski
1892 – 1956
Adreian Payne
1991 – 2022
Adriaan Paulen
1902 – 1985
Aksel Airo
1898 – 1985
Albert W. Hawkes
1878 – 1971
Alexandru Rusu
1884 – 1963
Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov
1786 – 1861
Alicia Jurado
1922 – 2011
Almeda Eliza Hitchcock
1863 – 1895
Alvin Sargent
1927 – 2019
Ambortius Lindvig
1855 – 1946
Andi Muhammad Ghalib
1946 – 2016
Andrew H. Hamilton
1834 – 1895
Andrew Simpson
1976 – 2013
Anthony Wilding
1883 – 1915
Antoinette Downing
1904 – 2001
Antonio Ibáñez Freire
1913 – 2003
Arif Malikov
1933 – 2019
Arthur French, 5th Baron de Freyne
1879 – 1915
Arthur Kroeger
1932 – 2008
Artur da Távola
1936 – 2008
Augusto Céspedes Patzi
1904 – 1997
Benjamin Barker Odell Jr.
1854 – 1926
Bhaurao Patil
1887 – 1959
Bill Buntin
1942 – 1968
Bill Posey
1947 – 2026
Bob Duynstee
1920 – 2014
Bohumil Laušman
1903 – 1963
Bratislav Petković
1948 – 2021
Calvin Waller
1937 – 1996
Carl Gottfried Woide
1725 – 1790
Carmen Romano
1926 – 2000
Charles Adermann
1896 – 1979
Charles Ichabod Wright
1828 – 1905
Charles Vyner Brooke
1874 – 1963
Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon
1523 – 1590
Chuck Daly
1930 – 2009
Colin Breed
1947 – 2024
Cyril Clerke Graham
1834 – 1895
Cyrus Stephen Eaton Sr.
1883 – 1979
Daniel O. Hastings
1874 – 1966
David Cairns
1966 – 2011
David Stuart Parker
1919 – 1990
Dhiru Parikh
1933 – 2021
Edmund Landolt
1846 – 1926
Elizabeth Wilson
1921 – 2015
Eugenio Reale
1905 – 1986
Euphemia Steele Innes
1874 – 1955
Evald Rygh
1842 – 1913
Ezio Pinza
1892 – 1957
Federico Gravina
1756 – 1806
Fenimore Chatterton
1860 – 1958
Firoz Dastur
1919 – 2008
François de La Mothe Le Vayer
1588 – 1672
Fred Graham
1928 – 2025
Freya Madeline Stark
1893 – 1993
Friedrich Carl von Gram
1702 – 1782
Friedrich Schiller
1759 – 1805
Fritz Bracht
1899 – 1945
Fritz Lorck
1815 – 1901
George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell
1808 – 1892
George Brown
1818 – 1880
George Coșbuc
1866 – 1918
George Gibbs Dibrell
1822 – 1888
George M. Leader
1918 – 2013
George S. Myers
1881 – 1940
George Zinkhan
1952 – 2009
Georgi Morozov
1867 – 1920
Gerald Talbot
1931 – 2026
Gerardus Frederik Westerman
1807 – 1890
Giacomo Bini
1938 – 2014
Giovanni Prati
1814 – 1884
Giuseppe Basini
1947 – 2025
Gregor Reisch
1467 – 1525
Gregorio S. Araneta
1869 – 1930
Grenville C. Emery
1843 – 1927
Gustave Schlumberger
1844 – 1929
Guy L. Moser
1886 – 1961
Gábor Baross
1848 – 1892
H. James Shea Jr.
1939 – 1970
Hans Dijkstal
1943 – 2010
Hans Kammler
1901 – 1945
Harlan Mathews
1927 – 2014
Harold Roe Bartle
1901 – 1974
Harry Stewart New
1858 – 1937
Harvey Fite
1903 – 1976
Henry Bachtold
1891 – 1983
Henry Morton
1836 – 1902
Henry Richard Abadie
1841 – 1915
Henry T. King, Jr.
1919 – 2009
Huang Tzu
1904 – 1938
Hugo Jury
1887 – 1945
Irma E. Voigt
1882 – 1953
J. Hale Sypher
1837 – 1905
Jacques Dextraze
1919 – 1993
Jaglal Choudhary
1895 – 1975
Jakob Schegk
1511 – 1587
James Dungey
1923 – 2015
James Reese Europe
1880 – 1919
Jean-Jacques de Mesmes
1640 – 1688
Jens Bjørneboe
1920 – 1976
Jerzy Ficowski
1924 – 2006
Jim Hawkes
1934 – 2019
Joan de Sagarra
1938 – 2025
Joe Wilder
1922 – 2014
John Howe, 2nd Baron Chedworth
1714 – 1762
John Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh
1836 – 1919
Johnny McCarthy
1934 – 2020
Jorma Rissanen
1932 – 2020
Joseph Rogniat
1776 – 1840
Josip Šilović
1858 – 1939
José Manuel Caballero
1926 – 2021
José de Santiago Concha
1667 – 1741
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