July 9

July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 175 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 455 – The Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• 491 – Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theoderic the Great in Ad Pinetam. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but in the end Theodoric forces Odoacer back into Ravenna.
• 660 – Battle of Hwangsanbeol: Korean forces under general Kim Yu-shin of Silla defeat the army of Baekje at Nonsan (South Korea).
• 869 – A magnitude 8.6 M_s earthquake and subsequent tsunami strikes the area around Sendai in the northern part of Honshu, Japan.
• 1357 – Emperor Charles IV assists in laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.
• 1386 – The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its territory by soundly defeating the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.
• 1540 – King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
• 1572 – Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs in the Dutch town of Gorkum.
• 1609 – Bohemia is granted freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II.
• 1701 – War of the Spanish Succession: Austrians defeat France in the Battle of Carpi.
• 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: French victory in the Battle of Melle allows them to capture Ghent in the days after.
• 1755 – French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition: British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat by French and Native American forces.
• 1776 – George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York, New York, for the first time.
• 1789 – In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
• 1790 – Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund: In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
• 1793 – The Act Against Slavery is passed in Upper Canada and the importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
• 1807 – The Treaties of Tilsit are signed by Napoleon I of France and Alexander I of Russia.
• 1810 – Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
• 1811 – Explorer David Thompson posts a sign at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers (in modern Washington state, US), claiming the land for the United Kingdom.
• 1815 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord becomes the first Prime Minister of France.
• 1816 – Argentina declares independence from Spain.
• 1821 – Four hundred seventy prominent Cypriots including Archbishop Kyprianos are executed in response to Cypriot aid to the Greek War of Independence
• 1850 – U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies; Vice President Millard Fillmore, becomes President upon Taylor's death.
• 1850 – Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Port Hudson ends.
• 1864 – Thomas Briggs, was murdered, the first killing on a British train
• 1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
• 1875 – Outbreak of the Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman rule, which would last until 1878 and have far-reaching implications throughout the Balkans.
• 1877 – The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
• 1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
• 1900 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives Royal Assent to an Act creating Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
• 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
• 1903 – Future Soviet leader Joseph Stalin is exiled to Siberia for three years.
• 1918 – Great Train Wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
• 1922 – Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
• 1932 – The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution.
• 1937 – The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
• 1943 – World War II: Operation Husky: Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
• 1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy: British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.
• 1944 – World War II: Battle of Saipan: American forces take Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
• 1944 – World War II: Battle of Tali-Ihantala: Finland wins the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into a defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive.
• 1955 – The Russell–Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London, England, United Kingdom.
• 1958 – Lituya Bay is hit by a megatsunami. The wave is recorded at 30 to 91 meters high, the largest in recorded history.
• 1961 – Turkish voters approve the Turkish Constitution of 1961 in a referendum.
• 1962 – The Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test is conducted by the United States.
• 1962 – Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
• 1972 – The Troubles: In Belfast, British Army snipers shoot five civilians dead in the Springhill Massacre.
• 1979 – A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by the famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
• 1981 – Donkey Kong, a video game created by Nintendo, is released. The game marks the debut of Nintendo's future mascot, Mario.
• 1982 – Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
• 1986 – The Parliament of New Zealand passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
• 1993 – The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act leading to the 1999 creation of Nunavut, dividing the Northwest Territories into arctic (Inuit) and sub-arctic (Dene) lands based on a plebiscite.
• 1995 – The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
• 1999 – Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
• 2006 – At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
• 2011 – South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
• 2014 – A gunman kills six people including four children near Spring, Texas.

Births

• 1511 – Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1571)
• 1577 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English-American soldier and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1618)
• 1578 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
• 1654 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
• 1686 – Philip Livingston, American merchant and politician (d. 1749)
• 1689 – Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist and playwright (d. 1773)
• 1721 – Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet and author (d. 1781)
• 1753 – William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English admiral and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825)
• 1764 – Ann Radcliffe, English author and poet (d. 1823)
• 1775 – Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (d. 1818)
• 1786 – Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France (d. 1787)
• 1800 – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (d. 1885)
• 1808 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and colonel (d. 1887)
• 1819 – Elias Howe, American inventor, invented the sewing machine (d. 1867)
• 1825 – A. C. Gibbs, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Oregon (d. 1886)
• 1828 – Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (d. 1913)
• 1834 – Jan Neruda, Czech journalist and poet (d. 1891)
• 1836 – Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (d. 1904)
• 1848 – Robert I, Duke of Parma (d. 1907)
• 1853 – William Turner Dannat, American painter (d. 1929)
• 1858 – Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and linguist (d. 1942)
• 1867 – Georges Lecomte, French author and playwright (d. 1958)
• 1878 – Eduard Sõrmus, Estonian violinist (d. 1940)
• 1879 – Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and parasitologist (d. 1934)
• 1879 – Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1936)
• 1887 – James Ormsbee Chapin, American-Canadian painter and illustrator (d. 1975)
• 1887 – Saturnino Herrán, Mexican painter (d. 1918)
• 1887 – Samuel Eliot Morison, American admiral and historian (d. 1976)
• 1889 – Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (d. 1964)
• 1893 – George Geary, English cricketer and coach (d. 1981)
• 1896 – Maria Gomes Valentim, Brazilian super-centenarian (d. 2011)
• 1901 – Barbara Cartland, English author and singer (d. 2000)
• 1902 – Peter Acland, English soldier (d. 1993)
• 1905 – Clarence Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 1984)
• 1907 – Eddie Dean, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
• 1908 – Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani philosopher and scholar (d. 1973)
• 1908 – Minor White, American photographer, critic, and educator (d. 1976)
• 1909 – Basil Wolverton, American author and illustrator (d. 1978)
• 1911 – Mervyn Peake, English author and illustrator (d. 1968)
• 1911 – John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist and author (d. 2008)
• 1914 – Willi Stoph, German engineer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of East Germany (d. 1999)
• 1915 – David Diamond, American composer and educator (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Lee Embree, American sergeant and photographer (d. 2008)
• 1916 – Dean Goffin, New Zealand composer (d. 1984)
• 1916 – Edward Heath, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
• 1918 – Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Jarl Wahlström, Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1999)
• 1921 – David C. Jones, American general (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Pierre Cochereau, French organist and composer (d. 1984)
• 1924 – Leonard Pennario, American pianist and composer (d. 2008)
• 1925 – Guru Dutt, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 1964)
• 1925 – Charles E. Wicks, American engineer, author, and academic (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Murphy Anderson, American illustrator (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Ben Roy Mottelson, American-Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1927 – Ed Ames, American singer and actor (Ames Brothers)
• 1927 – Susan Cabot, American actress (d. 1986)
• 1927 – Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and politician
• 1928 – Federico Bahamontes, Spanish cyclist
• 1928 – Vince Edwards, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1996)
• 1929 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Jesse McReynolds, American singer and mandolin player (Jim & Jesse)
• 1929 – Hassan II of Morocco (d. 1999)
• 1930 – K. Balachander, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Buddy Bregman, American composer and conductor
• 1930 – Janice Lourie, American computer scientist and graphic artist
• 1930 – Roy McLean, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Haynes Johnson, American journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Donald Rumsfeld, American captain and politician, 13th United States Secretary of Defense
• 1932 – Amitzur Shapira, Israeli sprinter and long jumper (d. 1972)
• 1933 – Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist, author, and academic (d. 2015)
• 1934 – Michael Graves, American architect, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (d. 2015)
• 1935 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Finance (d. 2005)
• 1935 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentinian singer and activist (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Michael Williams, English actor (d. 2001)
• 1936 – June Jordan, American poet and educator (d. 2002)
• 1936 – Richard Wilson, Scottish actor and director
• 1936 – David Zinman, American violinist and conductor
• 1937 – David Hockney, English painter and photographer
• 1938 – Brian Dennehy, American actor, director, and producer
• 1938 – Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1985)
• 1940 – David B. Frohnmayer, American lawyer and politician, 12th Oregon Attorney General (d. 2015)
• 1940 – Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American psychoanalyst and theorist (d. 2010)
• 1941 – Mac MacLeod, English musician
• 1942 – David Chidgey, Baron Chidgey, English engineer and politician
• 1942 – Richard Roundtree, American actor
• 1942 – Edy Williams, American actress
• 1943 – John Casper, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1943 – Soledad Miranda, Spanish actress (d. 1970)
• 1944 – Judith M. Brown, Indian-English historian and academic
• 1944 – John Cunniff, American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2002)
• 1945 – Dean Koontz, American author and screenwriter
• 1945 – Root Boy Slim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
• 1946 – Natasha Pyne, English actress
• 1946 – Bon Scott, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (AC/DC, Fraternity, The Valentines, and The Spektors) (d. 1980)
• 1947 – Haruomi Hosono, Japanese singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Yellow Magic Orchestra and Happy End)
• 1947 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Dirty Mac, and The Riot Squad) (d. 2008)
• 1947 – O. J. Simpson, American football player and actor
• 1947 – Patrick Wormald, English historian (d. 2004)
• 1948 – Hassan Wirajuda, Indonesian lawyer and politician, 15th Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1950 – Amal ibn Idris al-Alami, Moroccan physician and neurosurgeon
• 1950 – Gwen Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1999)
• 1950 – Adriano Panatta, Italian tennis player and sailor
• 1950 – Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian engineer and politician, 4th President of Ukraine
• 1951 – Chris Cooper, American actor
• 1951 – Māris Gailis, Latvian politician, businessman, and former Prime Minister of Latvia
• 1952 – John Tesh, American pianist, composer, and radio and television host
• 1953 – Margie Gillis, Canadian dancer and choreographer
• 1953 – Thomas Ligotti, American author
• 1954 – Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician (d. 2012)
• 1954 – Kevin O'Leary, Canadian journalist and businessman
• 1955 – Steve Coppell, English footballer and manager
• 1955 – Lindsey Graham, American colonel, lawyer, and politician
• 1955 – Fred Norris, American radio host and actor
• 1955 – Jimmy Smits, American actor and producer
• 1955 – Willie Wilson, American baseball player and manager
• 1956 – Tom Hanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1956 – Michael Lederer, American author, poet, and playwright
• 1957 – Marc Almond, English singer-songwriter (Marc and the Mambas, Soft Cell, and The Immaculate Consumptive)
• 1957 – Tim Kring, American screenwriter and producer
• 1957 – Kelly McGillis, American actress
• 1957 – Paul Merton, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Jim Paxson, American basketball player and manager
• 1958 – Jeannie Pepper, American porn actress
• 1959 – Jim Kerr, Scottish singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Simple Minds)
• 1959 – Kevin Nash, American wrestler and actor
• 1959 – Clive Stafford Smith, English lawyer and author
• 1960 – Yūko Asano, Japanese actress and singer
• 1960 – Wally Fullerton Smith, Australian rugby player
• 1960 – Marc Mero, American wrestler and boxer
• 1960 – Eduardo Montes-Bradley, Argentinian journalist, photographer, and author
• 1961 – Raymond Cruz, American actor
• 1962 – Jordan Belfort, American businessman
• 1963 – John Mark Ainsley, English tenor and actor
• 1963 – Klaus Theiss, German footballer
• 1964 – Courtney Love, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (Hole, Pagan Babies, Sugar Babydoll, and Babes in Toyland)
• 1964 – Gianluca Vialli, Italian footballer and coach
• 1965 – Frank Bello, American bass player (Anthrax and Helmet)
• 1965 – Thomas Jahn, German director and screenwriter
• 1965 – Jason Rhoades, American sculptor (d. 2006)
• 1966 – Pamela Adlon, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Gayle Blakeney, Australian actress and singer
• 1966 – Gillian Blakeney, Australian actress and singer
• 1966 – Zheng Cao, Chinese-American soprano and actress (d. 2013)
• 1966 – Marco Pennette, American screenwriter and producer
• 1967 – Gunnar Axén, Swedish politician
• 1967 – Mark Stoops, American football player and coach
• 1968 – Paolo Di Canio, Italian footballer and manager
• 1968 – Lars Gyllenhaal, Swedish historian and author
• 1969 – Nicklas Barker, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Anekdoten)
• 1969 – Jason Kearton, Australian footballer and coach
• 1969 – Mark Lui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and producer (Dry)
• 1970 – Trent Green, American football player and sportscaster
• 1970 – Masami Tsuda, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1971 – Marc Andreessen, American software developer, co-founded Netscape
• 1971 – Scott Grimes, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1972 – Ara Babajian, American drummer and songwriter (The Slackers, Leftöver Crack, and Star Fucking Hipsters)
• 1973 – Kelly Holcomb, American football player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Enrique Murciano, American actor and producer
• 1974 – Dani Behr, English singer and actress (Faith Hope & Charity)
• 1974 – Siân Berry, English environmentalist and politician
• 1974 – Ian Bradshaw, Barbadian cricketer
• 1974 – Gary Kelly, Irish footballer
• 1974 – Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Japanese actor and singer (SMAP)
• 1974 – Nikola Šarčević, Swedish singer-songwriter and bass player (Millencolin)
• 1975 – Shelton Benjamin, American wrestler
• 1975 – Isaac Brock, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Modest Mouse and Ugly Casanova)
• 1975 – Robert Koenig, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1975 – Nathaniel Marston, American actor and producer (d. 2015)
• 1975 – Craig Quinnell, Welsh rugby player
• 1975 – Jack White, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, and The Go)
• 1976 – Thomas Cichon, Polish-German footballer and manager
• 1976 – Yekaterina Guseva, Russian actress
• 1976 – Revo Jõgisalu, Estonian rapper (Toe Tag) (d. 2011)
• 1976 – Fred Savage, American actor, director, and producer
• 1976 – Radike Samo, Fijian-Australian rugby player
• 1976 – Jochem Uytdehaage, Dutch speed skater
• 1977 – Jun Hori, Japanese journalist and host
• 1978 – Kara Goucher, American runner
• 1978 – Mark Medlock, German singer
• 1978 – Linda Park, South Korean-American actress
• 1978 – Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer
• 1979 – Ella Koon, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1981 – Lee Chun-soo, South Korean footballer
• 1981 – Kimveer Gill, Canadian murderer, committed the Dawson College shooting (d. 2006)
• 1981 – Michael Norgrove, Zambian-English boxer (d. 2013)
• 1981 – Emily West, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1982 – Ashly DelGrosso, American dancer
• 1982 – Alecko Eskandarian, American soccer player and manager
• 1982 – Toby Kebbell, English actor
• 1982 – Maggie Ma, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer
• 1982 – Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese race car driver
• 1982 – Tomokazu Yoshida, Japanese actor
• 1983 – Lucia Micarelli, American violinist and actress
• 1984 – Chris Campoli, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Gianni Fabiano, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Jacob Hoggard, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hedley)
• 1984 – Ave Pajo, Estonian footballer
• 1984 – Piia Suomalainen, Finnish tennis player
• 1984 – LA Tenorio, Filipino basketball player
• 1985 – Kat Alano, Filipino-English actress
• 1985 – Lee Hee-ah, South Korean pianist
• 1985 – Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer
• 1985 – Ashley Young, English footballer
• 1986 – Sébastien Bassong, Cameroonian footballer
• 1986 – Dominic Cervi, American soccer player
• 1986 – Simon Dumont, American skier
• 1986 – Severo Meza, Mexican footballer
• 1986 – Genevieve Morton, South African model
• 1986 – Kiely Williams, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (3LW and The Cheetah Girls)
• 1987 – Gert Jõeäär, Estonian cyclist
• 1987 – Amanda Knox, Exonerated American accused murderer
• 1987 – Rebecca Sugar, American animator, composer, and screenwriter
• 1988 – Raul Rusescu, Romanian footballer
• 1988 – Nana Suzuki, Japanese model
• 1990 – Earl Bamber, New Zealand race car driver
• 1990 – Fábio Pereira da Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1990 – Sosuke Ikematsu, Japanese actor
• 1990 – Rafael, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 – Mitchel Musso, American actor and singer
• 1991 – Riley Reid, American porn actress
• 1992 – Douglas Booth, English actor
• 1993 – DeAndre Yedlin, American footballer
• 1993 – Jake Vargas, Filipino singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1995 – Georgie Henley, English actress

Deaths

• 518 – Anastasius I Dicorus, Byzantine emperor (b. 430)
• 1228 – Stephen Langton, English cardinal and theologian (b. 1150)
• 1386 – Leopold III, Duke of Austria (b. 1351)
• 1553 – Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
• 1654 – Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (b. 1633)
• 1706 – Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Canadian captain and explorer (b. 1661)
• 1737 – Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671)
• 1742 – John Oldmixon, English historian, poet, and playwright (b. 1673)
• 1746 – Philip V of Spain (b. 1683)
• 1747 – Giovanni Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (b. 1670)
• 1766 – Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (b. 1720)
• 1771 – Michael Paknanas, Greek gardener and martyr (b. 1753)
• 1795 – Henry Seymour Conway, English general and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (b. 1721)
• 1797 – Edmund Burke, Irish-English philosopher, academic, and politician (b. 1729)
• 1850 – Báb, Persian religious leader, founded Bábism (b. 1819)
• 1850 – Zachary Taylor, American general and politician, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784)
• 1852 – Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1794)
• 1856 – Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1776)
• 1856 – James Strang, American religious leader and politician (b. 1813)
• 1880 – Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
• 1882 – Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean captain (b. 1848)
• 1903 – Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist and photographer (b. 1842)
• 1927 – John Drew, Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
• 1932 – King Camp Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company (b. 1855)
• 1937 – Oliver Law, American commander (b. 1899)
• 1938 – Benjamin N. Cardozo, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1870)
• 1947 – Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish-Lithuanian general and politician (b. 1865)
• 1949 – Fritz Hart, English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1874)
• 1951 – Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1894)
• 1955 – Don Beauman, English race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1959 – Ferenc Talányi, Slovene journalist and painter (b. 1883)
• 1967 – Eugen Fischer, German physician and academic (b. 1874)
• 1967 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani dentist and politician (b. 1893)
• 1970 – Sigrid Holmquist, Swedish actress (b. 1899)
• 1971 – Karl Ast, Estonian author and politician (b. 1886)
• 1972 – Robert Weede, American opera singer (b. 1903)
• 1974 – Earl Warren, American jurist and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1891)
• 1977 – Alice Paul, American activist (b. 1885)
• 1979 – Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author (b. 1899)
• 1980 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet, playwright, and composer (b. 1913)
• 1985 – Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
• 1985 – Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish-American activist, founded Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Patriarch Nicholas VI of Alexandria (b. 1915)
• 1992 – Kelvin Coe, Australian ballet dancer (b. 1946)
• 1992 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (b. 1912)
• 1993 – Metin Altıok, Turkish poet and educator (b. 1940)
• 1994 – Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
• 1996 – Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician, 56th Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1944)
• 2000 – Doug Fisher, English actor (b. 1941)
• 2002 – Mayo Kaan, American bodybuilder (b. 1914)
• 2002 – Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2004 – Paul Klebnikov, American journalist and historian (b. 1963)
• 2004 – Jean Lefebvre, French-Moroccan actor (b. 1919)
• 2004 – Riley Dobi Noel, American murderer (b. 1972)
• 2004 – Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Chuck Cadman, Canadian engineer and politician (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Yevgeny Grishin, Russian speed skater (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Kevin Hagen, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Milan Williams, American keyboard player and producer (Commodores) (b. 1948)
• 2007 – Charles Lane, American actor and singer (b. 1905)
• 2008 – Séamus Brennan, Irish accountant and politician, Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (b. 1948)
• 2010 – Jessica Anderson, Australian author and playwright (b. 1916)
• 2011 – Würzel, English guitarist (Motörhead) (b. 1949)
• 2011 – Don Ackerman, American basketball player (b. 1930)
• 2011 – Facundo Cabral, Argentinian singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Shin Jae-chul, South Korean-American martial artist (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Chick King, American baseball player (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Terepai Maoate, Cook Islander physician and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Eugênio Sales, Brazilian cardinal (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Markus Büchel, Liechtensteiner politician, 9th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (b. 1959)
• 2013 – Andrew Nori, Solomon lawyer and politician (b. 1952)
• 2013 – Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (b. 1954)
• 2013 – Barbara Robinson, American author and poet (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Toshi Seeger, American activist, co-founded the Clearwater Festival (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Lorenzo Álvarez Florentín, Paraguayan violinist and composer (b. 1926)
• 2014 – David Azrieli, Polish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Eileen Ford, American businesswoman, co-founded Ford Models (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Don Lenhardt, American baseball player and coach (b. 1922)
• 2014 – John Spinks, English guitarist and songwriter (The Outfield) (b. 1954)
• 2015 – Christian Audigier, French fashion designer (b. 1958)
• 2015 – Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian economist and politician, Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1940)
• 2015 – Jim Bede, American aircraft designer (b. 1933)
• 2015 – David M. Raup, American paleontologist and academic (b. 1933)
• 2015 – Tahsin Şahinkaya, Turkish general (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

• Arbor Day (Cambodia)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Agilulfus of Cologne
  • Amandina of Schakkebroek (one of Martyrs of Southern Hunan)
  • Blessed Marija Petković
  • Everilda
  • Gregorio Grassi (one of Martyrs of Shanxi)
  • Martyr Saints of China
  • Martyrs of Gorkum
  • Our Lady of Itatí
  • Our Lady of Peace, Octave of the Visitation
  • Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá
  • Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus
  • Veronica Giuliani
  • July 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Constitution Day (Australia)
• Constitution Day (Palau)
• Constitutionalist Revolution Day (São Paulo)
• Day of the Employees of the Diplomatic Service (Azerbaijan)
• Independence Day, celebrates the declaration of independence of the United Provinces of South America by the Congress of Tucumán in 1816. (Argentina)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of (South Sudan) from Sudan in 2011.
• Martyrdom of the Báb (Bahá'í Faith)
• Nunavut Day (Nunavut)

Places

• July 9 Avenue

External links

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• BBC: On This Day
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