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May 9

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Eurovision Song Contest 2017

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1860

J. M. Barrie

Died aged 77

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Minamoto no Yoritomo

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1147 · 879 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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1439 · 587 yrs

Pius III

Pope Pius III (Italian: Pio III, Latin: Pius Tertius; 9 May 1439 – 18 October 1503), born Francesco Todeschini, then Francesco Todeschini-Piccolomini, was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 22 September 1503 to his death.

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ReligionDied aged 64

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1746 · 280 yrs

Gaspard Monge

Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse (French:; 9 May 1746 – 28 July 1818) was a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry, (the mathematical basis of) technical drawing, and the father of differential geometry.

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ScienceDied aged 72

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1800 · 226 yrs

John Brown

John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the American Civil War. An evangelical Christian of strong religious convictions, Brown was profoundly influenced by the Puritan faith of his upbringing.

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PoliticsDied aged 59

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1860 · 166 yrs

J. M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a British novelist and playwright. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays.

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LiteratureDied aged 77

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1874 · 152 yrs

Howard Carter

Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became known for discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 64

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1883 · 143 yrs

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset ( or-TAY-gə; Spanish:; 9 May 1883 – 18 October 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship.

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1907 · 119 yrs

Baldur von Schirach

Baldur Benedikt von Schirach (German pronunciation:; 9 May 1907 – 8 August 1974) was a German politician who was the leader (Reichsjugendführer) of the Hitler Youth from 1931 to 1940. From 1940 to 1945, he was the Gauleiter (district leader) and Reichsstatthalter (Reich governor) of Vienna.

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PoliticsWould be 119

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1920 · 106 yrs

Richard Adams

Richard George Adams (10 May 1920 – 24 December 2016) was an English novelist. He is best known for his debut novel Watership Down which achieved international acclaim.

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1921 · 105 yrs

Sophie Scholl

Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.

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1924 · 102 yrs

Bulat Okudzhava

Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (Russian: Була́т Ша́лвович Окуджа́ва; Georgian: ბულატ ოკუჯავა; Armenian: Բուլատ Օկուջավա; May 9, 1924 – June 12, 1997) was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter of Georgian-Armenian ancestry.

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1927 · 99 yrs

Manfred Eigen

Manfred Eigen (German pronunciation:; 9 May 1927 – 6 February 2019) was a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions.

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1805 · 221 yrs

Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German:, short:; 10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered to be one of Germany's most important classical playwrights.

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LiteratureDied aged 45

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1850 · 176 yrs

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850) was a French chemist and physicist.

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ScienceDied aged 71

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1931 · 95 yrs

Albert Abraham Michelson

Albert Abraham Michelson (December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was an American experimental physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1907, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the first American to win the Nobel Prize in a science.

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ScienceDied aged 78

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1976 · 50 yrs

Ulrike Meinhof

Ulrike Marie Meinhof (German pronunciation:; 7 October 1934 – 9 May 1976) was a German left-wing militant, journalist, author and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the "Baader-Meinhof gang". She is the reputed author of The Urban Guerilla Concept (1971).

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1978 · 48 yrs

Aldo Moro

Aldo Moro (Italian:; 23 September 1916 – 9 May 1978) was an Italian statesman and prominent member of Christian Democracy (DC) and its centre-left wing. He served as prime minister of Italy for five terms from December 1963 to June 1968 and from November 1974 to July 1976.

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1978 · 48 yrs

Peppino Impastato

Giuseppe "Peppino" Impastato (Italian pronunciation:; 5 January 1948 – 9 May 1978), was an Italian political activist who opposed the Mafia, which ordered his murder in 1978.

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1986 · 40 yrs

Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay (Sherpa: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས tendzin norgyé; May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer.

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ExplorationWould be 112

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2004 · 22 yrs

Akhmad Kadyrov

Akhmat-Khadzhi Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov (23 August 1951 – 9 May 2004) was a Russian politician and revolutionary who served as Chief Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the 1990s during and after the First Chechen War.

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2010 · 16 yrs

Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, dancer and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years and covered film, television and theater.

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MusicWould be 109

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2015 · 11 yrs

Kenan Evren

Ahmet Kenan Evren (17 July 1917 – 9 May 2015) was a Turkish military officer who served as the 7th president of Turkey from 1982 to 1989. He assumed the post by leading the 1980 military coup.

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PoliticsWould be 109

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2020 · 6 yrs

Little Richard

Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020), better known by his stage name Little Richard, was an American singer, pianist and songwriter. He was an influential figure in popular music and culture for seven decades.

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Events5

1950 · 76 yrs

Schuman Declaration

The Schuman Declaration, or Schuman Plan, was a proposal to place French and West German production of coal and steel under a single authority that later became the European Coal and Steel Community, made by the French foreign minister, Robert Schuman, on 9 May 1950 (now celebrated in the EU as Europe Day), the day…

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Politics

2010 · 16 yrs

2010 Spanish Grand Prix

The 2010 Spanish Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Telefónica 2010) was the fifth round of the 2010 Formula One season. It was held on 9 May 2010 at the Circuit de Catalunya.

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Sports

2017 · 9 yrs

Eurovision Song Contest 2017

The Eurovision Song Contest 2017 was the 62nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It consisted of two semi-finals on 9 and 11 May and a final on 13 May 2017, held at the International Exhibition Centre in Kyiv, Ukraine, and presented by Oleksandr Skichko, Volodymyr Ostapchuk, and Timur Miroshnychenko.

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Culture

2017 · 9 yrs

2017 South Korean presidential election

An early presidential election was held in South Korea on 9 May 2017. The elections were conducted in a single round, on a first-past-the-post basis.

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Politics

2023 · 3 yrs

Eurovision Song Contest 2023

The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 was the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.

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