Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 9

Births

 * 1336 - Tamerlane (Timur), Central Asian, Turkic conqueror (d. 1405)
 * 1821 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet (d. 1867) (pictured)
 * 1835 - King Léopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)
 * 1889 - Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (d. 1985)
 * 1954 - Dennis Quaid, American actor

Deaths

 * 491 - Zeno, Byzantine Emperor
 * 1626 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist (b. 1561)
 * 1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)