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March 9

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Revolutions of 1989

37 years ago

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1934

Yuri Gagarin

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Famous births32

1454 · 572 yrs

Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci (9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence after whom the Americas are named. Vespucci participated in at least two voyages of the Age of Discovery between 1497 and 1504, first on behalf of Spain (1499–1500) and then for Portugal (1501–1502).

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ExplorationDied aged 57

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1568 · 458 yrs

Aloysius Gonzaga

Aloysius de Gonzaga, SJ (Italian: Luigi Gonzaga; 9 March 1568 – 21 June 1591) was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus. While still a student at the Roman College, he died as a result of caring for the victims of a serious epidemic.

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RoyaltyDied aged 23

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1749 · 277 yrs

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (French:; 9 March 1749 – 2 April 1791), known simply as Mirabeau, was a French writer, orator, and statesman, and a prominent figure of the early stages of the French Revolution.

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LiteratureDied aged 42

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1814 · 212 yrs

Taras Shevchenko

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Тарас Григорович Шевченко, Ukrainian pronunciation:; Russian: Тарас Григорьевич Шевченко, romanized: Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer.

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LiteratureDied aged 46

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1859 · 167 yrs

Peter Altenberg

Peter Altenberg (9 March 1859 – 8 January 1919) was a writer and poet from Vienna, Austria. He played a key role in the genesis of early modernism in the city.

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LiteratureDied aged 59

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1890 · 136 yrs

Vyacheslav Molotov

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov (né Skryabin; 9 March 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary. He was one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet government during the rule of his close ally, Joseph Stalin.

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1892 · 134 yrs

Mátyás Rákosi

Mátyás Rákosi (né Rosenfeld; 9 March 1892 – 5 February 1971) was a Hungarian communist politician who was the de facto leader of Hungary from 1948 to 1956.

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RoyaltyWould be 134

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1907 · 119 yrs

Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade (Romanian:; 13 March 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago.

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LiteratureWould be 119

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1910 · 116 yrs

Samuel Barber

Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the mid-20th century.

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MusicWould be 116

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1923 · 103 yrs

Walter Kohn

Walter Kohn (German pronunciation:; March 9, 1923 – April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist. He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998.

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ScienceWould be 103

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1926 · 100 yrs

Irene Papas

Irene Papas or Pappas (Greek: Ειρήνη Παππά, romanized: Eiríni Pappá, IPA:; born Eirini Lelekou; 3 September 1929 – 14 September 2022) was a Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years.

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MusicWould be 100

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1929 · 97 yrs

Zillur Rahman

Mohammed Zillur Rahman (9 March 1929 – 20 March 2013) was a Bangladeshi politician who served as President of Bangladesh from 2009 until his death in 2013. He was also a senior presidium member of the Awami League.

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Famous deaths15

1661 · 365 yrs

Cardinal Mazarin

Jules Mazarin (born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino or Mazarini; 14 July 1602 – 9 March 1661), from 1641 known as Cardinal Mazarin, was an Italian Catholic prelate, diplomat and politician who served as the chief minister to the Kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 to his death. He was made a cardinal in 1641.

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ReligionDied aged 58

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1847 · 179 yrs

Mary Anning

Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist. She became known internationally for her discoveries in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset, South West England.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 47

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1851 · 175 yrs

Hans Christian Ørsted

Hans Christian Ørsted (Danish:; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851), sometimes transliterated as Oersted ( UR-sted), was a Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. This phenomenon is known as Oersted's law.

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ScienceDied aged 73

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1888 · 138 yrs

Wilhelm I

Wilhelm I (also known in English as William I; German: Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888) was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his death in 1888. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the first head of state of a united Germany.

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RoyaltyDied aged 90

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1895 · 131 yrs

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (Austrian German:; 27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name, invented by his contemporary, the Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing.

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LiteratureDied aged 60

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1918 · 108 yrs

Frank Wedekind

Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (July 24, 1864 – March 9, 1918) was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the development of epic theatre.

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LiteratureDied aged 53

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1948 · 78 yrs

Edgar de Wahl

Edgar von Wahl (Interlingue: Edgar de Wahl; born Edgar Alexis Robert von Wahl; 23 August 1867 – 9 March 1948) was a Baltic German mathematics and physics teacher who lived in Tallinn, Estonia.

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ScholarshipDied aged 80

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1952 · 74 yrs

A. Kollontaĭ

Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (Russian: Александра Михайловна Коллонтай; née Domontovich; 31 March 1872 – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Marxist theoretician.

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ActivismDied aged 79

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1981 · 45 yrs

Max Delbrück

Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück (German:; September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981) was a German–American biophysicist who participated in launching the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s.

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ScienceWould be 120

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1983 · 43 yrs

Ulf von Euler

Ulf Svante von Euler (7 February 1905 – 9 March 1983) was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for his work on neurotransmitters.

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ScienceWould be 121

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1988 · 38 yrs

Kurt Georg Kiesinger

Kurt Georg Kiesinger (German:; 6 April 1904 – 9 March 1988) was a German politician and lawyer who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1 December 1966 to 21 October 1969.

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PoliticsWould be 122

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1992 · 34 yrs

Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin (16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician who founded the political parties Herut and Likud and served as prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983.

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PoliticsWould be 113

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Events5

1989 · 37 yrs

Revolutions of 1989

The revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, or Autumn of Nations, were a wave of liberal democratic movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world (this wave is sometimes referred to as the "Autumn of Nations", in…

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Politics

2012 · 14 yrs

2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships

The 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was the 14th edition of the global-level indoor track and field competition and was held between March 9–11, 2012 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Sports

2015 · 11 yrs

Villa Castelli helicopter collision

On 9 March 2015, two Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil helicopters collided mid-air near Villa Castelli, Argentina, killing all ten people on board both aircraft. The helicopters had just departed together from the same spot and collided during the initial climb-out.

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History

2018 · 8 yrs

2018 Winter Paralympics

The 2018 Winter Paralympics (Korean: 2018년 동계 패럴림픽; RR: 2018nyeon Donggye Paereollimpik), the 12th Paralympic Winter Games, and also more generally known as the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, were an international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic…

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Sports

2022 · 4 yrs

Mariupol hospital airstrike

On 9 March 2022, the Russian Air Force bombed Maternity Hospital No. 3, a hospital complex functioning both as a children's hospital and maternity ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, killing at least four people and injuring at least sixteen, and leading to at least one stillbirth.

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