February 9

Pre-1600

 * 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
 * 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
 * 1098 – A First Crusade army led by Bohemond of Taranto wins a major battle against the Seljuq emir Ridwan of Aleppo during the siege of Antioch
 * 1539 – The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee.
 * 1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.

1601–1900

 * 1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
 * 1654 – The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
 * 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
 * 1778 – Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
 * 1822 – Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola.
 * 1825 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States in a contingent election.
 * 1849 – The new Roman Republic is declared.
 * 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama
 * 1870 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
 * 1889 – US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
 * 1893 – Verdi's last opera, Falstaff premieres at La Scala, Milan.
 * 1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
 * 1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established.

1901–present

 * 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
 * 1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
 * 1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of the Americas, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
 * 1920 – Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
 * 1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
 * 1929 – Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
 * 1932 – Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law.
 * 1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey.
 * 1941 – World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
 * 1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
 * 1943 – World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
 * 1945 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer (P68) sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
 * 1945  – World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
 * 1950 – Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
 * 1951 – Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea.
 * 1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
 * 1961 – The Beatles at The Cavern Club: Lunchtime – The Beatles perform under this name at The Cavern Club for the first time following their return to Liverpool from Hamburg.
 * 1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States.
 * 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.
 * 1971 – The 6.5–6.7 Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.
 * 1971  – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.
 * 1971  – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third human Moon landing.
 * 1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
 * 1976 – Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.
 * 1978 – The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 * 1982 – Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an attempted pilot mass murder-suicide, killing 24 of the 174 people on board.
 * 1986 – Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
 * 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
 * 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people.
 * 1996  – Copernicium is discovered by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.
 * 2001 – The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision takes place, killing nine of the thirty-five people on board the Japanese fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru, leaving the USS Greeneville (SSN-772) with US $2 million in repairs, at Pearl Harbor.
 * 2016 – Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people die and 85 others are injured.
 * 2018 – Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea.
 * 2020 – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has the army soldiers enter the Legislative Assembly to assist in pushing for the approval for a better government security plan, causing a brief political crisis.
 * 2021 – Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins.

Pre-1600

 * 1060 – Honorius II, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1130)
 * 1274 – Louis of Toulouse, French bishop (d. 1297)
 * 1313 – Maria of Portugal, Queen of Castile, Portuguese infanta (d. 1357)
 * 1344 – Meinhard III, count of Tyrol (d. 1363)
 * 1441 – Ali-Shir Nava'i, Turkic poet, linguist, and painter (d. 1501)
 * 1533 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyō (d. 1611)
 * 1579 – Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1639)

1601–1900

 * 1651 – Procopio Cutò, French entrepreneur (d. 1727)
 * 1666 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, Scottish field marshal (d. 1737)
 * 1711 – Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander (d. 1762)
 * 1737 – Thomas Paine, English-American philosopher, author, and activist (d. 1809)
 * 1741 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, German-French composer (d. 1799)
 * 1748 – Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet, English admiral and politician, Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1817)
 * 1763 – Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1830)
 * 1769 – George W. Campbell, Scottish-American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1848)
 * 1773 – William Henry Harrison, American general and politician, 9th President of the United States (d. 1841)
 * 1775 – Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1856)
 * 1781 – Johann Baptist von Spix, German biologist and explorer (d. 1826)
 * 1783 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (d. 1852)
 * 1789 – Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German engineer, invented Gabelsberger shorthand (d. 1849)
 * 1800 – Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (d. 1844)
 * 1814 – Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 28th Governor of New York (d. 1886)
 * 1815 – Federico de Madrazo, Spanish painter (d. 1894)
 * 1830 – Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish emperor (d. 1876)
 * 1834 – Felix Dahn, German lawyer, historian, and author (d. 1912)
 * 1826 – Keelikōlani, Hawaiian royal and governor (d. 1883)
 * 1837 – José Burgos, Filipino priest and revolutionary (d. 1872)
 * 1839 – Silas Adams, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 1896)
 * 1846 – Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (d. 1929)
 * 1846  – Whitaker Wright, English businessman and financier (d. 1904)
 * 1847 – Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh-English clergyman and theologian (d. 1902)
 * 1854 – Aletta Jacobs, Dutch physician and suffrage activist (d. 1929)
 * 1856 – Hara Takashi, Japanese politician, 10th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1921)
 * 1859 – Akiyama Yoshifuru, Japanese general (d. 1930)
 * 1863 – Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (d. 1933)
 * 1864 – Miina Härma, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1941)
 * 1865 – Mrs. Patrick Campbell, English-French actress (d. 1940)
 * 1865  – Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (d. 1949)
 * 1867 – Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (d. 1916)
 * 1871 – Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist and physician (d. 1910)
 * 1874 – Amy Lowell, American poet, critic, and educator (d. 1925)
 * 1876 – Arthur Edward Moore, New Zealand-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (d. 1963)
 * 1878 – Jack Kirwan, Irish international footballer (d. 1959)
 * 1880 – Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1959)
 * 1883 – Jules Berry, French actor and director (d. 1951)
 * 1885 – Alban Berg, Austrian composer and educator (d. 1935)
 * 1885  – Clarence H. Haring, American historian and author (d. 1960)
 * 1889 – Larry Semon, American actor, producer, director and screenwriter (d. 1928)
 * 1891 – Ronald Colman, English-American actor (d. 1958)
 * 1891  – Kristian Krefting, Norwegian footballer and chemical engineer (d. 1964)
 * 1891 – Pietro Nenni, Italian journalist and politician, Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (d. 1980)
 * 1892 – Peggy Wood, American actress (d. 1978)
 * 1893 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1987)
 * 1895 – Hermann Brill, German lawyer and politician, 8th Minister-President of Thuringia (d. 1959)
 * 1896 – Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1982)
 * 1897 – Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian captain and pilot (d. 1935)
 * 1898 – Jūkichi Yagi, Japanese poet and educator (d. 1927)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Brian Donlevy, American actor (d. 1972)
 * 1901  – James Murray, American actor (d. 1936)
 * 1905 – David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, English hurdler and politician (d. 1981)
 * 1906 – André Kostolany, Hungarian-French economist and journalist (d. 1999)
 * 1907 – Trường Chinh, Vietnamese politician, 4th President of Vietnam (d. 1988)
 * 1907  – Dit Clapper, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1978)
 * 1907  – Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (d. 2003)
 * 1909 – Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, Scottish historian (d. 2002)
 * 1909  – Heather Angel, English-American actress (d. 1986)
 * 1909  – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1955)
 * 1909  – Dean Rusk, American colonel and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)
 * 1910 – Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
 * 1911 – William Orlando Darby, American general (d. 1945)
 * 1911  – Esa Pakarinen, Finnish actor and musician (d. 1989)
 * 1912 – Ginette Leclerc, French actress (d. 1992)
 * 1912  – Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (d. 1968)
 * 1914 – Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984)
 * 1916 – Tex Hughson, American baseball player (d. 1993)
 * 1918 – Lloyd Noel Ferguson, American chemist (d. 2011)
 * 1919 – John Abramovic, American basketball player (d. 2000)
 * 1920 – Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby player and coach (d. 2012)
 * 1920  – Enrico Schiavetti, Italian football player (d. 1993)
 * 1922 – Kathryn Grayson, American actress and soprano (d. 2010)
 * 1922  – Jim Laker, English cricketer and broadcaster (d. 1986)
 * 1922  – C. P. Krishnan Nair, Indian businessman, founded The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts (d. 2014)
 * 1922  – Robert E. Ogren, American zoologist (d. 2005)
 * 1923 – Brendan Behan, Irish rebel, poet, and playwright (d. 1964)
 * 1923  – Tonie Nathan, American radio host, producer, and politician (d. 2014)
 * 1925 – John B. Cobb, American philosopher and theologian
 * 1925  – Burkhard Heim, German physicist and academic (d. 2001)
 * 1926 – Garret FitzGerald, Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2011)
 * 1927 – Richard A. Long, American historian and author (d. 2013)
 * 1928 – Frank Frazetta, American painter and illustrator (d. 2010)
 * 1928  – Rinus Michels, Dutch footballer and coach (d. 2005)
 * 1928  – Roger Mudd, American journalist (d. 2021)
 * 1929 – A. R. Antulay, Indian social worker and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2014)
 * 1929  – Clement Meadmore, Australian-American sculptor (d. 2005)
 * 1930 – Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist and author (d. 2003)
 * 1931 – Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1989)
 * 1931  – Josef Masopust, Czech footballer and coach (d. 2015)
 * 1931  – Robert Morris, American sculptor and painter (d. 2018)
 * 1932 – Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player and manager
 * 1932  – Gerhard Richter, German painter and photographer
 * 1935 – Lionel Fanthorpe, English-Welsh priest, journalist, and author
 * 1936 – Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic and politician (d. 2019)
 * 1936  – Clive Swift, English actor and singer-songwriter (d. 2019)
 * 1937 – Clete Boyer, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
 * 1939 – Mahala Andrews, English vertebrae palaeontologist (d. 1997)
 * 1939  – Barry Mann, American pianist, songwriter, and producer
 * 1939  – Janet Suzman, South African-British actress and director
 * 1940 – Brian Bennett, English drummer and songwriter
 * 1940  – J. M. Coetzee, South African-Australian novelist, essayist, and linguist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1941 – Kermit Gosnell, American abortionist and serial killer
 * 1941  – Sheila Kuehl, American actress, lawyer, gay rights activist, and politician
 * 1942 – Carole King, American singer-songwriter and pianist
 * 1943 – Barbara Lewis, American singer-songwriter
 * 1943  – Joe Pesci, American actor
 * 1943  – Joseph Stiglitz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1944 – Derryn Hinch, New Zealand-Australian radio and television host and politician
 * 1944  – Alice Walker, American novelist, short story writer, and poet
 * 1945 – Mia Farrow, American actress, activist, and model
 * 1945  – Yoshinori Ohsumi, Japanese biologist, 2016 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
 * 1945  – Carol Wood, American mathematician and academic
 * 1946 – Bob Eastwood, American golfer
 * 1946  – Vince Papale, American football player and sportscaster
 * 1946  – Jim Webb, American captain and politician, 18th United States Secretary of the Navy
 * 1947 – Carla Del Ponte, Swiss lawyer and diplomat
 * 1947  – Joe Ely, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1947  – Major Harris, American singer (d. 2012)
 * 1947  – Alexis Smirnoff, Canadian-American wrestler and actor (d. 2019)
 * 1948 – Guy Standing, English economist and academic
 * 1949 – Bernard Gallacher, Scottish golfer and journalist
 * 1949  – Judith Light, American actress
 * 1950 – Richard F. Colburn, American sergeant and politician
 * 1951 – David Pomeranz, American singer, musician, and composer
 * 1952 – Danny White, American football player and sportscaster
 * 1953 – Ciarán Hinds, Irish actor
 * 1953  – Ezechiele Ramin, Italian missionary, priest, and martyr (d. 1985)
 * 1953  – Gabriel Rotello, American journalist and author, founded OutWeek
 * 1954 – Jo Duffy, American author
 * 1954  – Chris Gardner, American businessman and philanthropist
 * 1954  – Kevin Warwick, English scientist
 * 1955 – Jerry Beck, American historian and author
 * 1955  – Jimmy Pursey, English singer-songwriter and producer
 * 1955  – Charles Shaughnessy, English actor
 * 1956 – Phil Ford, American basketball player and coach
 * 1956  – Mookie Wilson, American baseball player and coach
 * 1957 – Terry McAuliffe, American businessman and politician, 72nd Governor of Virginia
 * 1957  – Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and manager
 * 1958 – Sandy Lyle, Scottish golfer
 * 1958  – Chris Nilan, American ice hockey player, coach, and radio host
 * 1960 – Holly Johnson, English singer-songwriter and bass player
 * 1960  – David Simon, American journalist, author, screenwriter, and television producer
 * 1960  – Peggy Whitson, American biochemist and astronaut
 * 1961 – John Kruk, American baseball player and sportscaster
 * 1962 – Anik Bissonnette, Canadian ballerina
 * 1963 – Brian Greene, American physicist
 * 1963  – Peter Rowsthorn, Australian comedian and actor
 * 1963  – Travis Tritt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
 * 1964 – Debrah Miceli, Italian-American wrestler and manager
 * 1964  – Dewi Morris, English rugby player
 * 1964  – Ernesto Valverde, Spanish footballer and manager
 * 1965 – Dieter Baumann, German runner
 * 1965  – Julie Warner, American actress
 * 1966 – Harald Eia, Norwegian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
 * 1967 – Gaston Browne, Antiguan and Barbudan Prime Minister
 * 1967  – Venus Lacy, American basketball player
 * 1967  – Todd Pratt, American baseball player and coach
 * 1967  – Dan Shulman, Canadian sportscaster
 * 1968 – Alejandra Guzmán, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
 * 1968  – Derek Strong, American basketball player and race car driver
 * 1968  – Gloria Trevi, Mexican singer and actress
 * 1969 – Jimmy Smith, American football player
 * 1970 – Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
 * 1971 – Sharon Case, American actress and model
 * 1971  – Matt Gogel, American golfer
 * 1971  – Johan Mjällby, Swedish footballer and manager
 * 1972 – Darren Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
 * 1972  – Jason Winston George, American actor and model
 * 1973 – Svetlana Boginskaya, Belarusian gymnast
 * 1973  – Colin Egglesfield, American actor
 * 1973  – Makoto Shinkai, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
 * 1974 – Jordi Cruyff, Dutch footballer and manager
 * 1974  – Brad Maynard, American football player
 * 1974  – Amber Valletta, American model
 * 1974  – John Wallace, American basketball player and coach
 * 1975 – Kurt Asle Arvesen, Norwegian cyclist and coach
 * 1975  – Clinton Grybas, Australian journalist and sportscaster (d. 2008)
 * 1975  – Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican-American baseball player
 * 1976 – Charlie Day, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1977 – A. J. Buckley, Irish-Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
 * 1979 – Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player
 * 1979  – Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
 * 1979  – Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and model
 * 1980 – Angelos Charisteas, Greek footballer
 * 1980  – Margarita Levieva, Russian-American actress
 * 1980  – Manu Raju, American journalist
 * 1981 – Tom Hiddleston, English actor
 * 1981  – John Walker Lindh, American Taliban member
 * 1981  – Daisuke Sekimoto, Japanese wrestler
 * 1981  – The Rev, American musician (d. 2009)
 * 1982 – Domingo Cisma, Spanish footballer
 * 1982  – Jameer Nelson, American basketball player
 * 1982  – Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
 * 1982  – Chris Weale, English footballer and manager
 * 1983 – Mikel Arruabarrena, Spanish footballer
 * 1984 – Maurice Ager, American basketball player, singer, and producer
 * 1984  – Dioner Navarro, Venezuelan baseball player
 * 1984  – Shōhōzan Yūya, Japanese sumo wrestler
 * 1985 – Nigel Dawes, Canadian-Kazakhstani ice hockey player
 * 1985  – David Gallagher, American actor
 * 1987 – Michael B. Jordan, American actor
 * 1987  – Davide Lanzafame, Italian footballer
 * 1987  – Rose Leslie, Scottish actress
 * 1987  – Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
 * 1989 – Maxime Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian skier
 * 1990 – Randall Delgado, Panamanian baseball player
 * 1990  – Tariq Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
 * 1990 – Camille Winbush, American actress
 * 1991 – Helena Kmieć, Polish Roman Catholic missionary (d. 2017)
 * 1991 – Logan Ryan, American football player
 * 1992 – Avan Jogia, Canadian actor
 * 1993 – Wataru Endō, Japanese footballer
 * 1993  – K. J. McDaniels, American basketball player
 * 1993  – Despina Papamichail, Greek tennis player
 * 1993   – Niclas Füllkrug, German footballer
 * 1995 – André Burakovsky, Swedish ice hockey player
 * 1995  – Mario Pašalić, Croatian footballer
 * 1995  – Sheraldo Becker, Surinamese footballer
 * 1996 – Jimmy Bennett, American actor
 * 1996  – Kelli Berglund, American actress
 * 1996  – Chungha, South Korean singer
 * 1996 – Sebastián Driussi, Argentinian footballer
 * 1997 – Jaire Alexander, American football player
 * 1997  – Saquon Barkley, American football player
 * 1997  – Valentini Grammatikopoulou, Greek tennis player
 * 1998 – Cem Bölükbaşı, Turkish racing driver and former sim racer
 * 1998  – Isabella Gomez, Colombian-American actress
 * 2002 – Jalen Green, American basketball player

Pre-1600

 * 966 – Ono no Michikaze, Japanese calligrapher (b. 894)
 * 967 – Sayf al-Dawla, emir of Aleppo (b. 916)
 * 978 – Luitgarde, duchess consort of Normandy
 * 1011 – Bernard I, Duke of Saxony
 * 1014 – Yang Yanzhao, Chinese general
 * 1135 – Tai Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 1075)
 * 1199 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shōgun (b. 1147)
 * 1251 – Matthias II, duke of Lorraine
 * 1407 – William I, margrave of Meissen (b. 1343)
 * 1450 – Agnès Sorel, French mistress of Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
 * 1555 – John Hooper, English bishop and martyr (b. 1495)
 * 1555  – Rowland Taylor, English priest and martyr (b. 1510)
 * 1588 – Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral (b. 1526)
 * 1600 – John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania (b. 1542)

1601–1900

 * 1619 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian physician and philosopher (b. 1585)
 * 1670 – Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)
 * 1675 – Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
 * 1709 – François Louis, Prince of Conti (b. 1664)
 * 1777 – Seth Pomeroy, American general and gunsmith (b. 1706)
 * 1803 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French soldier, poet, and philosopher (b. 1716)
 * 1857 – Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet and translator (b. 1798)
 * 1874 – Jules Michelet, French historian, philosopher, and academic (b. 1798)
 * 1881 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (b. 1821)
 * 1891 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)

1901–present

 * 1903 – Charles Gavan Duffy, Irish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Victoria (b. 1816)
 * 1906 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1872)
 * 1928 – William Gillies, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Queensland (b. 1868)
 * 1930 – Richard With, Norwegian captain and businessman, founded Hurtigruten (b. 1846)
 * 1932 – Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and banker (b. 1869)
 * 1932  – A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi soldier and activist (b. 1904)
 * 1935 – Bob Diry, Austrian-born wrestler and boxer (b. 1884)
 * 1942 – Lauri Kristian Relander, Finnish politician, 2nd President of Finland (b. 1883)
 * 1945 – Ella D. Barrier, American educator (b. 1852)
 * 1950 – Ted Theodore, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Queensland (b. 1884)
 * 1951 – Eddy Duchin, American pianist, bandleader, and actor (b. 1910)
 * 1957 – Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary (b. 1868)
 * 1960 – Alexandre Benois, Russian painter and critic (b. 1870)
 * 1960  – Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1877)
 * 1965 – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologian and educator (b. 1874)
 * 1966 – Sophie Tucker, Russian-born American singer (b. 1884)
 * 1969 – George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor and singer (b. 1885)
 * 1976 – Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908)
 * 1977 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Bureau (b. 1894)
 * 1978 – Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist and coach (b. 1893)
 * 1979 – Allen Tate, American poet and academic (b. 1899)
 * 1980 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1900)
 * 1981 – M. C. Chagla, Indian jurist and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1900)
 * 1981  – Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
 * 1984 – Yuri Andropov, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
 * 1989 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese illustrator, animator, and producer (b. 1928)
 * 1994 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934)
 * 1995 – J. William Fulbright, American lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
 * 1995  – Kalevi Keihänen, Finnish entrepreneur (b. 1924)
 * 1995  – David Wayne, American actor (b. 1914)
 * 1998 – Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
 * 2001 – Herbert A. Simon, American political scientist, economist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
 * 2002 – Isabelle Holland, Swiss-American author (b. 1920)
 * 2002  – Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (b. 1930)
 * 2003 – Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, Japanese-Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
 * 2004 – Claude Ryan, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1925)
 * 2005 – Robert Kearns, American engineer, invented the intermittent windscreen wiper (b. 1927)
 * 2006 – Freddie Laker, English pilot and businessman, founded Laker Airways (b. 1922)
 * 2007 – Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1922)
 * 2007  – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
 * 2008 – Christopher Hyatt, American occultist and author (b. 1943)
 * 2008  – Carm Lino Spiteri, Maltese architect and politician (b. 1932)
 * 2008  – Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian painter, poet, and sculptor (b. 1931)
 * 2009 – Orlando "Cachaíto" López, Cuban bassist and composer (b. 1933)
 * 2010 – Walter Frederick Morrison, American businessman, invented the Frisbee (b. 1920)
 * 2011 – Miltiadis Evert, Greek lawyer and politician, 69th Mayor of Athens (b. 1939)
 * 2012 – O. P. Dutta, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
 * 2012  – John Hick, English philosopher and academic (b. 1922)
 * 2012  – Joe Moretti, Scottish-South African guitarist and songwriter (b. 1938)
 * 2013 – Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (b. 1923)
 * 2013  – Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-American martial artist and trainer (b. 1913)
 * 2013  – Jimmy Smyth, Irish hurler (b. 1931)
 * 2014 – Gabriel Axel, Danish actor, director, and producer (b. 1918)
 * 2014  – Hal Herring, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
 * 2014  – Logan Scott-Bowden, English general (b. 1920)
 * 2015 – Liu Han, Chinese businessman and philanthropist (b. 1965)
 * 2015  – Ed Sabol, American film producer, co-founded NFL Films (b. 1916)
 * 2016 – Sushil Koirala, Nepalese politician, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939)
 * 2016  – Zdravko Tolimir, Bosnian Serb military commander (b. 1948)
 * 2017 – André Salvat, French Army colonel (b. 1920)
 * 2018 – Reg E. Cathey, American actor of stage, film, and television (b. 1958)
 * 2018  – Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic composer (b. 1969)
 * 2018  – John Gavin,  American actor and United States ambassador to Mexico (b. 1931)
 * 2021 – Chick Corea, American jazz composer (b. 1941)
 * 2022 – Johnny Raper, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1939)

Holidays and observances

 * Alto of Altomünster
 * Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich
 * Ansbert of Rouen
 * Apollonia
 * Bracchio
 * Einion the King (Western Orthodoxy)
 * Blessed Leopold of Alpandeire
 * Maron (Maronite Church)
 * Miguel Febres Cordero
 * Nebridius
 * Sabinus of Canosa
 * Teilo (Wales)
 * February 9 is the earliest day on which Clean Monday can fall, while March 15 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of Great Lent. (Eastern Christianity)
 * February 9 is the earliest day on which People's Sunday can fall, while March 15 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday of Lent. (Malta)
 * St. Maroun's Day (public holiday in Lebanon)