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September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253th in leap years).
There are 113 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1585 - Cardinal
Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, French statesman. (d. 1642)
- 1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
- 1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)
- 1824 - Anton Bruckner,
Austrian musician (d. 1896)
- 1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War
and Peace) (d. 1910)
- 1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
- 1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d.
1987)
- 1890 - Colonel Harland
Sanders, fast food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
- 1894 - Arthur Freed, songwriter and film producer
(d. 1973)
- 1898 - Frankie Frisch,
baseball player
- 1899 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1984)
- 1899 - Billy Rose, composer (d. 1966)
- 1903 - Phyllis Whitney,
mystery writer
- 1905 - Joseph Levine, film producer
- 1911 - John Gorton, nineteenth
Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)
- 1918 - Jimmy Snyder, bookmaker, sports commentator
- 1923 - Daniel
Carleton Gajdusek, Virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate in 1976
- 1924 - Jane Greer, actress
- 1925 - Cliff Robertson,
Academy Award-winning actor.
- 1928 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, jazz musician (d. 1975)
- 1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
- 1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican world champion boxer
- 1941 - Peter Bonetti, British soccer
goalkeeper
- 1941 - Otis Redding, singer
and songwriter (d. 1967)
- 1941 - Dennis Ritchie, computer scientist
- 1946 - Billy Preston, musician
- 1949 - Joe Theismann, American football star, sports
commentator.
- 1951 - Tom Wopat, actor and singer.
- 1951 - Michael Keaton, actor
- 1952 - Dave Stewart, musician,
Eurythmics
- 1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor (Nine Months, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary)
- 1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger
- 1966 - Adam Sandler American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Happy Gilmore, 50 First Dates)
- 1970 - Macy Gray, singer
Deaths
- 701 - Pope Sergius I
- 1000 - Olaf I of
Norway
- 1087 - king William I
of England
- 1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany,
from a fall from a horse
- 1513 - king James IV
of Scotland
- 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter
- 1909 - Edward Henry
Harriman, railroad entrepreneur
- 1915 - Albert Spalding,
American baseball player
and sporting goods manufacturer
- 1976 - Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist leader
- 1978 - Jack Warner, Hollywood
studio founder
- 1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco,
American actress
- 1990 - Samuel Doe, Liberian president
- 1997 - Burgess Meredith,
actor
- 1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter,
Baseball Hall of Famer
- 2001 - Ahmed Shah
Massoud, Afghan military leader
- 2003 - Edward Teller, American physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb"
Holidays and observances
September 8 - September
10 - August 9 - October 9 -
listing of all days
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