February 9

Events

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.
*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.
* 1788 – The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
* 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: 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.
*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 manned 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 began.

Births

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)
* 1834 – Felix Dahn, German lawyer, historian, and author (d. 1912)
*1826 – Keʻelikōlani, 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)
* 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 – 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 – Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (d. 1968)
* 1912 – Ginette Leclerc, French actress (d. 1992)
* 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)
* 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 international cricketer and broadcaster; holder of world record for most wickets taken in a match (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 – Clive Swift, English actor and singer-songwriter (d. 2019)
*1937 – Clete Boyer, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
* 1938 – Ron Logan, Disney theatrical producer and professor
*1939 – Mahala Andrews, British 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 soul/R&B 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 former fashion model
* 1945 – Yoshinori Ohsumi, Japanese cell 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 R&B 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 cybernetics scientist
* 1955 – Jerry Beck, American historian and author
* 1955 – Jimmy Pursey, English singer-songwriter and producer
* 1955 – Charles Shaughnessy, English actor
* 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 – Alejandro Ávila, Mexican telenovela actor
* 1964 – Ernesto Valverde, Spanish footballer and manager
*1965 – Dieter Baumann, German runner
* 1966 – Harald Eia, Norwegian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
*1967 – Todd Pratt, American baseball player and coach
* 1967 – Dan Shulman, Canadian sportscaster
* 1967 – Gaston Browne, Antiguan and Barbudan Prime Minister
*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 – Matt Gogel, American golfer
* 1971 – Johan Mjällby, Swedish footballer and manager
* 1972 – Darren Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
*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
* 1978 – A. J. Buckley, Irish-Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
* 1979 – Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player
* 1979 – Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
* 1980 – Angelos Charisteas, Greek footballer
* 1980 – Margarita Levieva, Russian-American actress
* 1980 – Manu Raju, American journalist
*1981 – Tom Hiddleston, English actor, producer, and musical performer
* 1981 – Daisuke Sekimoto, Japanese wrestler
*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 – Shōhōzan Yūya, Japanese sumo wrestler
* 1985 – David Gallagher, American actor
* 1987 – Michael B. Jordan, American actor
* 1987 – Davide Lanzafame, Italian footballer
* 1987 – Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
* 1989 – Maxime Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian skier
* 1990 – Tariq Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
*1992 – Kyle Feldt, Australian rugby league player
* 1992 – Avan Jogia, Canadian actor
*1993 – Despina Papamichail, Greek tennis player
*1995 – André Burakovsky, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1995 – Mario Pašalić, Croatian footballer
*1996 – Chungha, South Korean singer
*1997 – Valentini Grammatikopoulou, Greek tennis player
*1998 – Cem Bölükbaşı, Turkish racing driver and former sim racer
*1999 – Shonte Seale, Barbadian netball player

Deaths

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)
* 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 Company (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)Nuorteva, Kristiina
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* 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 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 (hurler), 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
*Beatification, Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich
*Ansbert of Rouen
*Saint Apollonia, Apollonia
*Bracchio
*Einion Frenin, Einion the King (Western Orthodoxy)
*Beatification, Blessed Leopold of Alpandeire
*Maron (Maronite Church)
*Miguel Febres Cordero
*Nebridius
*Sabinus of Canosa
*Saint Teilo, 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)
*Public holidays in Lebanon, St. Maroun's Day (public holiday in Lebanon)

References

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External links

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