April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). There are 266 days remaining.
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Events
up to 19th century
20th century
1900s-1960s
1980s-1990s
21st century
Births
up to 19th century
- 1773 - Étienne Aignan, translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Académie française (d. 1824)
- 1794 - Theobald Boehm, inventor of the modern flute.
- 1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer (d. 1859)
- 1821 - Charles Baudelaire, lyricist (d. 1867)
- 1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, photographer, motion picture pioneer (d. 1904)
- 1835 - King Leopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)
- 1848 - Helene Lange, teacher (d. 1930)
- 1867 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)
- 1897 - John B. Gambling, radio talk-show host (d. 1974)
- 1898 - Paul Robeson, singer, political activist (d. 1976)
20th century
1900s-1960s
- 1903 - Ward Bond, actor (d. 1960)
- 1904 - Sharkey Bonano, jazz musician (d. 1972)
- 1905 - J. William Fulbright, former Senator from Arkansas (d. 1995)
- 1906 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
- 1908 - Victor Vasarely, painter (d. 1997)
- 1912 - Lew Kopelew (Lev Kopelev), author (d. 1997)
- 1919 - J. Presper Eckert, inventor of the ENIAC computer
- 1925 - Heinz Nixdorf, industrialist (d. 1985)
- 1926 - Hugh Hefner, editor, publisher
- 1928 - Tom Lehrer, musician and satirist
- 1932 - Carl Perkins, country and rockabilly musician (d. 1998)
- 1933 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, actor
- 1935 - Avery Schreiber, actor (d. 2002)
- 1945 - Peter Gammons, baseball sportswriter, journalist
- 1954 - Dennis Quaid, actor (The Right Stuff, Any Given Sunday, Traffic)
- 1954 - Iain Duncan Smith, United Kingdom MP
- 1957 - Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer
- 1965 - Jeff Zucker, American television executive
1970s-1980s
Deaths
- 491 - Zeno, Byzantine emperor
- 1024 - Pope Benedict VIII
- 1137 - William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)
- 1553 - François Rabelais, writer (b. c. 1493)
- 1557 - Mikael Agricola, de facto founder of written Finnish (b. 1510)
- 1626 - Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, essayist (b. 1561)
- 1804 - Jacques Necker, French statesman, finance minister of Louis XVI (b. 1732)
- 1889 - Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)
- 1940 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell, actress (b. 1865)
- 1944 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Soviet World War II heroine, killed by Nazis
- 1945 - Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr (b. 1887)
- 1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian and martyr, hanged at Flossenburg concentration camp (b. 1906)
- 1948 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903).
- 1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (b. 1867)
- 1963 - Eddie Edwards, jazz musician (b. 1891)
- 1976 - Phil Ochs, singer (b. 1940)
- 1991 - Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)
- 2002 - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
Holidays and observances
April 8 - April 10 - March 9 - May 9 -- listing of all days
af:04-09
bg:9 април
ca:9 d'abril
cy:9 Ebrill
da:9. april
de:9. April
et:9. aprill
es:9 de abril
eo:9-a de aprilo
fr:9 avril
fy:9 april
gl:9 de abril
ko:4월 9일
hr:9. travnja
io:9 di aprilo
is:9. apríl
it:9 aprile
he:9 באפריל
lt:Balandžio 9
lb:9. Abrëll
hu:Április 9
nl:9 april
ja:4月9日
no:9. april
oc:9 d'abril
pl:9 kwietnia
pt:9 de Abril
ro:9 aprilie
ru:9 апреляsa:९ एप्रिल
sl:9. april
fi:9. huhtikuuta
sv:9 april
vi:9 tháng 4
tr:9 Nisan
uk:9 квітня
zh:4月9日
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