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February 9

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2018 Winter Olympics

8 years ago

Born this day

1773

William Henry Harrison

Died aged 68

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827th

Minamoto no Yoritomo

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Famous births30

1441 · 585 yrs

Ali-Shir Nava'i

Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī (Chagatai: نظام الدین علی شیر نوایی) was a Timurid poet, writer, statesman, linguist, Hanafi Maturidi mystic and painter who was the greatest representative of Chagatai literature.

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LiteratureDied aged 59

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1737 · 289 yrs

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain, February 9, 1737 – June 8, 1809; ) was an English-born American Founding Father, inventor, political philosopher, and statesman.

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PhilosophyDied aged 72

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1773 · 253 yrs

William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the ninth president of the United States from March to April 1841. He died 31 days into his term, making him the shortest serving president and the first president to die in office.

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PoliticsDied aged 68

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1867 · 159 yrs

Natsume Sōseki

Natsume Sōseki (Japanese: 夏目漱石; born Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目金之助); 9 February 1867 – 9 December 1916) was a Japanese novelist, poet, and scholar. He is considered one of the greatest writers in modern Japanese history and is often called the first modern novelist of Japan.

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LiteratureDied aged 49

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1885 · 141 yrs

Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( BAIRG; Austrian German:; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique.

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1909 · 117 yrs

Carmen Miranda

Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha (9 February 1909 – 5 August 1955), known professionally as Carmen Miranda (Portuguese pronunciation:), was a Portuguese-born Brazilian singer, dancer, and actress. Nicknamed "the Brazilian Bombshell," she was known for her signature fruit hat outfits that she wore in her American films.

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1910 · 116 yrs

Jacques Monod

Jacques Lucien Monod (French:; 9 February 1910 – 31 May 1976) was a French biochemist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with François Jacob and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis" Monod and Jacob became famous for their work on the E.

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1931 · 95 yrs

Thomas Bernhard

Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (German:; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era.

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LiteratureWould be 95

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1932 · 94 yrs

Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter (German:; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, photographs and glass pieces.

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ArtAge 94

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1940 · 86 yrs

J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language.

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LiteratureAge 86

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1942 · 84 yrs

Carole King

Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician renowned for her extensive contributions to popular music.

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MusicAge 84

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1943 · 83 yrs

Joe Pesci

Joseph Frank Pesci ( PESH-ee Italian:; born February 9, 1943) is an American actor and singer.

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FilmAge 83

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Famous deaths14

1199 · 827 yrs

Minamoto no Yoritomo

Minamoto no Yoritomo (源頼朝; Japanese pronunciation:, May 9, 1147 – February 9, 1199) was a samurai, daimyo and the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate, ruling from 1192 until 1199, also the first shogun in the history of Japan to hold de-facto power over Japan.

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PoliticsDied aged 51

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1670 · 356 yrs

Frederick III of Denmark

Frederick III (Danish: Frederik; 18 March 1609 – 9 February 1670) was King of Denmark and Norway from 1648 until his death in 1670.

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RoyaltyDied aged 60

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1874 · 152 yrs

Jules Michelet

Jules Michelet (French:; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian and writer, best known for his multi-volume work Histoire de France (History of France), which chronicles the history of France from its earliest origins to the French Revolution.

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ScholarshipDied aged 75

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1881 · 145 yrs

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881) was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces.

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LiteratureDied aged 59

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1957 · 69 yrs

Miklós Horthy

Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957) was a Hungarian admiral and statesman who was the regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar period and most of World War II, from 1 March 1920 to 15 October 1944.

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PoliticsDied aged 88

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1963 · 63 yrs

Abd al-Karim Qasim

Abdul Karim Qasim Mohammed Bakr Al-Qaraghuli Al-Zubaidi (Arabic: عبد الكريم قاسم ʿAbd al-Karīm Qāsim; 21 November 1914 – 9 February 1963) was an Iraqi military officer and statesman who served as the Prime Minister and de facto leader of Iraq from 1958 until his overthrow in 1963.

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1981 · 45 yrs

Bill Haley

William John Clifton Haley (July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was an American rock and roll musician.

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1984 · 42 yrs

Yuri Andropov

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (15 June 1914 – 9 February 1984) was a Soviet politician who served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from late 1982 until his death in 1984. He previously served as the chairman of the KGB from 1967 until 1982.

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1989 · 37 yrs

Osamu Tezuka

Osamu Tezuka (手塚治虫, born 手塚治, Tezuka Osamu, (1928-11-03)3 November 1928 – 9 February 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist and animator.

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1991 · 35 yrs

Daigoro Kondo

Daigoro Kondo (近藤台五郎, Kondo Daigoro; June 1, 1907 – February 9, 1991) was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

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1994 · 32 yrs

Howard Temin

Howard Martin Temin (December 10, 1934 – February 9, 1994) was an American geneticist and virologist. He discovered reverse transcriptase in the 1970s at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore.

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2001 · 25 yrs

Herbert Simon

Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American scholar whose work influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology.

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Events5

1801 · 225 yrs

Treaty of Lunéville

The Treaty of Lunéville (or Peace of Lunéville) was signed in the Treaty House of Lunéville on 9 February 1801. The signatory parties were the French Republic and Emperor Francis II, who signed on his own behalf as ruler of the hereditary domains of the House of Austria and on behalf of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Politics

1920 · 106 yrs

Svalbard Treaty

The Svalbard Treaty (originally the Spitsbergen Treaty) recognises the sovereignty of Norway over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, at the time called Spitsbergen. The exercise of sovereignty is, however, subject to certain stipulations, and not all Norwegian law applies.

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Politics

2016 · 10 yrs

2016 Bad Aibling train crash

On 9 February 2016, two Meridian-branded passenger trains collided head-on at Bad Aibling, Germany. Of approximately 150 people on board the two trains, 12 people died and 85 others were injured, 24 critically.

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Disaster

2018 · 8 yrs

2018 Winter Olympics

The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (Korean: 제23회 동계 올림픽) and also known as PyeongChang 2018 (평창2018), was an international winter multi-sport event held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang County, South Korea, with the opening rounds for certain events held on 8 February, a…

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Sports

2020 · 6 yrs

92nd Academy Awards

The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 2019 and took place on February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m.

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