Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 9

Births

 * 384 - Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
 * 1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
 * 1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642) (pictured)
 * 1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
 * 1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)
 * 1828 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
 * 1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
 * 1904 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
 * 1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
 * 1986 - Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer

Deaths

 * c.546 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop
 * 1487 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
 * 1569 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
 * 1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
 * 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
 * 1976 - Mao Zedong, Leader of China (b. 1893)
 * 1990 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (b. 1951)
 * 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)