April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years ). There are 266 days remaining.
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 )
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