May 9 is the 129th day of the year (130th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 236 days remain until the end of the year.

Events [ edit ]

Pre-1600 [ edit ]

• 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria . ^[1]
• 1009 – Lombard Revolt : Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy .
• 1386 – England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor , making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
• 1450 – 'Abd al-Latif ( Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
• 1540 – Hernando de Alarcon sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California .

1601?1900 [ edit ]

• 1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch makes his first recorded appearance in England. ^[2]
• 1671 – Thomas Blood , disguised as a clergyman , attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London .
• 1726 – Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap 's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn .
• 1864 – Second Schleswig War : The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland .
• 1865 – American Civil War : Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama .
• 1865 – American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
• 1873 – Der Krach : The Vienna stock exchange crash heralds the Long Depression . ^[3]
• 1877 – Mihail Kog?lniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies , the Declaration of Independence of Romania . The date will become recognised as the Independence Day of Romania.

1901?present [ edit ]

• 1901 – Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne .
• 1915 – World War I : Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
• 1918 – World War I: Germany repels Britain's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend , Belgium.
• 1920 – Polish?Soviet War : The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-?migły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk .
• 1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
• 1927 – The Old Parliament House, Canberra , Australia, officially opens. ^[4]
• 1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5 .
• 1941 – World War II : The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy . On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
• 1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine : The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv ( Khmelnytska oblast . The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus ) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
• 1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II .
• 1948 – Czechoslovakia 's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
• 1950 – Robert Schuman presents the " Schuman Declaration ", considered by some to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
• 1955 – Cold War : West Germany joins NATO .
• 1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle 's Enovid , making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill .
• 1969 – Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in Sao Paulo , by robbing two banks.
• 1974 – Watergate scandal : The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon .
• 1979 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
• 1980 – In Florida , United States, Liberian freighter MV  Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay , making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
• 1980 – In Norco, California , United States, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history . Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
• 1987 – LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Ko?ciuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw , Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
• 1988 – New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens. ^[4]
• 1992 – Armenian forces capture Shusha , marking a major turning point in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War .
• 1992 – Westray Mine disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia , Canada.
• 2001 – In Ghana , 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster . The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
• 2002 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries. ^[5]
• 2018 – The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional , the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election .
• 2020 – The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression . ^[6]
• 2022 – Russo-Ukrainian War : United States President Joe Biden signs the 2022 Lend-Lease Act into law, a rebooted World War II-era policy expediting American equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. ^[7]

Births [ edit ]

Pre-1600 [ edit ]

• 1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo , Japanese sh?gun (d. 1199)
• 1151 – al-Adid , last Fatimid caliph (d. 1171) ^[8]
• 1540 – Maharana Pratap , Indian ruler (d. 1597) ^[9]
• 1555 – Jeronima de la Asuncion , Spanish Catholic nun and founder of the first monastery in Manila (d. 1630) ^[10]
• 1594 – Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg , military leader in the Thirty Years' War (d. 1662)

1601?1900 [ edit ]

• 1617 – Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (d. 1655)
• 1740 – Giovanni Paisiello , Italian composer and educator (probable; ^[11] d. 1816)
• 1746 – Gaspard Monge , French mathematician and engineer (d. 1818) ^[12]
• 1763 – Janos Batsanyi , Hungarian-Austrian poet and author (d. 1845)
• 1800 – John Brown , American activist (d. 1859)
• 1801 – Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood , English politician, founded the town of Fleetwood (d. 1866)
• 1814 – John Brougham , Irish-American actor and playwright (d. 1880)
• 1823 – Frederick Weld , English-New Zealand politician, 6th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1891)
• 1824 – Jacob ben Moses Bachrach , Polish apologist and author (d. 1896)
• 1825 – James Collinson , Victorian painter (d. 1881)
• 1836 – Ferdinand Monoyer , French ophthalmologist, invented the Monoyer chart (d. 1912)
• 1837 – Adam Opel , German engineer, founded the Opel Company (d. 1895)
• 1845 – Gustaf de Laval , Swedish engineer and businessman (d. 1913)
• 1850 – Edward Weston , English-American chemist (d. 1936)
• 1855 – Julius Rontgen , German-Dutch composer (d. 1932)
• 1860 – J. M. Barrie , Scottish novelist and playwright (d. 1937)
• 1866 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale , Indian economist and politician (d. 1915)
• 1870 – Harry Vardon , British golfer (d. 1937)
• 1873 – Anton Cermak , Czech-American captain and politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
• 1874 – Howard Carter , English archaeologist and historian (d. 1939)
• 1882 – George Barker , American painter (d. 1965)
• 1882 – Henry J. Kaiser , American shipbuilder and businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards (d. 1967)
• 1883 – Jose Ortega y Gasset , Spanish philosopher, author, and critic (d. 1955)
• 1884 – Valdemar Psilander , Danish actor (d. 1917)
• 1885 – Gianni Vella , Maltese artist (d. 1977) ^[13]
• 1888 – Francesco Baracca , Italian fighter pilot (d. 1918)
• 1888 – Rolf de Mare , Swedish art collector (d. 1964)
• 1892 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma , last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1989)
• 1893 – William Moulton Marston , American psychologist and author (d. 1947)
• 1894 – Benjamin Graham , British-American economist, professor, and investor (d. 1976) ^[14]
• 1895 – Richard Barthelmess , American actor (d. 1963)
• 1895 – Lucian Blaga , Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)
• 1895 – Frank Foss , American pole vaulter (d. 1989)
• 1896 – Richard Day , Canadian-American art director and set decorator (d. 1972)
• 1900 – Maria Malicka , Polish stage and film actress (d. 1992) ^[15]

1901?present [ edit ]

• 1904 – Conrad Bernier , Canadian-American organist, composer, and educator (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Lili Alvarez , Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist (d. 1998) ^[16]
• 1906 – Eleanor Estes , American librarian, author, and illustrator (d. 1988)
• 1907 – Jackie Grant , Trinidadian cricketer (d. 1978)
• 1907 – Kathryn Kuhlman , American evangelist and author (d. 1976)
• 1907 – Baldur von Schirach , German politician (d. 1974)
• 1909 – Don Messer , Canadian violinist (d. 1973)
• 1909 – Gordon Bunshaft , American architect, designed the Solow Building (d. 1990)
• 1911 – Harry Simeone , American music arranger, conductor, and composer (d. 2005)
• 1912 – Pedro Armendariz , Mexican-American actor (d. 1963)
• 1912 – Per Imerslund , Norwegian-German soldier and author (d. 1943)
• 1912 – Geza Ottlik , Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1990)
• 1914 – Patricia Swift Blalock , American librarian (d.2011) ^[17]
• 1914 – Denham Fouts , American prostitute (d. 1948)
• 1914 – Thanat Khoman , Thai politician and diplomat (d. 2016)
• 1914 – Carlo Maria Giulini , Italian conductor and director (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Hank Snow , American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
• 1916 – William Pene du Bois , American author and illustrator (d. 1993)
• 1917 – Fay Kanin , American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Moisis Michail Bourlas , Greek soldier and educator (d. 2011)
• 1918 – Orville Freeman , American soldier and politician, 16th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Mike Wallace , American journalist, media personality and one-time game show host (d. 2012)
• 1919 – Clifford Chadderton , Canadian soldier and journalist (d. 2013) ^[18]
• 1920 – William Tenn , English-American author and academic (d. 2010) ^[19]
• 1920 – Richard Adams , English novelist (d. 2016)
• 1921 – Daniel Berrigan , American priest, poet, and activist (d. 2016)
• 1921 – Sophie Scholl , German activist (d. 1943)
• 1921 – Mona Van Duyn , American poet and academic (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Johnny Grant , American radio host and producer (d. 2008)
• 1924 – Bulat Okudzhava , Russian singer, poet, and author (d. 1997)
• 1926 – John Middleton Murry, Jr. , English soldier, pilot, and author (d. 2002)
• 1927 – Manfred Eigen , German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
• 1928 – Ralph Goings , American painter (d. 2016)
• 1928 – Pancho Gonzales , American tennis player (d. 1995)
• 1928 – Barbara Ann Scott , Canadian figure skater (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Joan Sims , English actress (d. 2001)
• 1930 – Kalifa Tillisi , Libyan historian and linguist (d. 2010)
• 1931 – Vance D. Brand , American pilot, engineer, and astronaut
• 1932 – Conrad Hunte , Barbadian cricketer (d. 1999)
• 1932 – Geraldine McEwan , English actress (d. 2015) ^[20]
• 1934 – Alan Bennett , English screenwriter, playwright, and novelist
• 1935 – Nokie Edwards , American guitarist (d. 2018)
• 1935 – Roger Hargreaves , English author and illustrator (d. 1988)
• 1936 – Terry Downes , British boxer and former world middle-weight champion (d. 2017)
• 1936 – Albert Finney , English actor (d. 2019)
• 1936 – Glenda Jackson , English actress and politician (d. 2023)
• 1937 – Sonny Curtis , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1937 – Rafael Moneo , Spanish architect, designed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and Valladolid Science Museum
• 1937 – Dave Prater , American singer (d. 1988)
• 1938 – Carroll Cole , American serial killer (d. 1985) ^[21]
• 1938 – Charles Simi? , Serbian-American poet and editor (d. 2023)
• 1939 – Ralph Boston , American long jumper (d. 2023)
• 1939 – Ion ?iriac , Romanian tennis player and manager
• 1939 – Ken Warby , Australian motorboat racer (d. 2023)
• 1939 – Giorgio Zancanaro , Italian baritone
• 1939 – John Ogbu , Nigerian-American anthropologist and professor (d. 2003)
• 1940 – James L. Brooks , American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1941 – Dorothy Hyman , English sprinter
• 1941 – Danny Rapp , American musician (d. 1983)
• 1942 – John Ashcroft , American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General
• 1942 – Tommy Roe , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 – Vince Cable , English economist and politician, former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
• 1943 – Anders Isaksson , Swedish historian and journalist (d. 2009)
• 1943 – Colin Pillinger , English astronomer, chemist, and academic (d. 2014)
• 1944 – Richie Furay , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 – Gamal El-Ghitani , Egyptian journalist and author (d. 2015)
• 1945 – Jupp Heynckes , German footballer and manager
• 1945 – Steve Katz , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1946 – Candice Bergen , American actress and producer
• 1946 – Ay?e Nur Zarakolu , Turkish author and activist (d. 2002)
• 1947 – Yukiya Amano , Japanese diplomat (d. 2019)
• 1948 – Hans Georg Bock , German mathematician, computer scientist, and academic
• 1948 – John Mahaffey , American golfer
• 1948 – Steven W. Mosher , American social scientist and author
• 1948 – Calvin Murphy , American basketball player and radio host
• 1949 – Billy Joel , American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1949 – Richard S. Williamson , American lawyer and diplomat, 17th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (d. 2013)
• 1951 – Alley Mills , American actress
• 1951 – Joy Harjo , American poet, musician, playwright and author, 23rd United States Poet Laureate ^[22]
• 1953 – Bruno Brokken , Belgian high jumper
• 1955 – Meles Zenawi , Prime Minister of Ethiopia (d. 2012)
• 1955 – Anne Sofie von Otter , Swedish soprano and actress
• 1956 – Wendy Crewson , Canadian actress and producer
• 1956 – Jana Wendt , Australian television host
• 1958 – Graham Smith , Canadian swimmer
• 1959 – Andrew Jones , New Zealand cricketer
• 1960 – Tony Gwynn , American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1961 – Sean Altman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 – John Corbett , American actor
• 1962 – Dave Gahan , English singer-songwriter
• 1962 – Paul Heaton , English singer-songwriter
• 1963 – Joe Cirella , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1965 – Ken Nomura , Japanese race car driver and sportscaster
• 1965 – Steve Yzerman , Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1966 – Mark Tinordi , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 – Masahiko Harada , Japanese ski jumper
• 1968 – Graham Harman , American philosopher and academic
• 1968 – Ruth Kelly , British economist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
• 1968 – Marie-Jose Perec , French sprinter ^[23]
• 1968 – Neil Ruddock , English international footballer and television personality ^[24]
• 1970 – Doug Christie , American basketball player
• 1970 – Hao Haidong , Chinese footballer ^[25]
• 1970 – Ghostface Killah , American rapper and actor
• 1971 – Jason Lee , English footballer and manager
• 1971 – Dan Chiasson , American poet and critic
• 1972 – Megumi Odaka , Japanese actress and singer
• 1973 – Tegla Loroupe , Kenyan runner
• 1973 – Leonard Myles-Mills , Ghanaian sprinter
• 1975 – Tamia , Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1975 – Brian Deegan , American motocross rider
• 1977 – Averno , Mexican wrestler
• 1977 – Marek Jankulovski , Czech footballer
• 1977 – Svein Tuft , Canadian cyclist
• 1978 – Leandro Cufre , Argentinian footballer
• 1978 – Aaron Harang , American baseball player ^[26]
• 1979 – Pierre Bouvier , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 – Rosario Dawson , American actress
• 1979 – Andrew W.K. , American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, motivational speaker, and music producer
• 1980 – Grant Hackett , Australian swimmer
• 1980 – Angela Nikodinov , American figure skater
• 1980 – Tony Schmidt , German race car driver
• 1980 – Jo Hyun-jae , South Korean actor
• 1981 – Bill Murphy , American baseball player
• 1981 – Evangelos Tsiolis , Greek footballer
• 1983 – Giacomo Brichetto , Italian footballer
• 1983 – Alan Campbell , British sculler
• 1983 – Christos Marangos , Cypriot footballer
• 1983 – Ryuhei Matsuda , Japanese actor
• 1983 – Gilles Muller , Luxembourgian tennis player
• 1983 – Tyler Lumsden , American baseball player
• 1983 – Leandro Rinaudo , Italian footballer
• 1984 – Prince Fielder , American baseball player
• 1984 – Chase Headley , American baseball player
• 1985 – Jake Long , American football player
• 1985 – Henrique Andrade Silva , Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Scott Bolton , Australian rugby league player
• 1987 – Kevin Gameiro , French footballer
• 1988 – J. R. Fitzpatrick , Canadian racing driver
• 1989 – Ellen White , English footballer
• 1989 – Daniel Rosenfeld , German musician ^[27]
• 1991 – Majlinda Kelmendi , Kosovar judoka
• 1992 – Dan Burn , English footballer ^[28]
• 1995 – Tommy Edman , American baseball player ^[29]
• 1996 – Grace Reid , Scottish diver ^[30]
• 2000 – Trey Lance , American football player ^[31]

Deaths [ edit ]

Pre-1600 [ edit ]

• 480 – Julius Nepos , Western Roman Emperor ^[32]
• 729 – Osric , king of Northumbria
• 893 – Shi Pu , warlord of the Tang Dynasty
• 909 – Adalgar , archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
• 934 – Wang Sitong , Chinese general and governor (b. 892)
• 1280 – Magnus VI of Norway
• 1315 – Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
• 1329 – John Drokensford , Bishop of Bath and Wells
• 1443 – Niccolo Albergati , Italian Cardinal and diplomat (b. 1373)
• 1446 – Mary of Enghien (b. 1368)
• 1590 – Charles de Bourbon French cardinal and pretender to the throne (b. 1523)

1601?1900 [ edit ]

• 1657 – William Bradford , English-American politician, 2nd Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1590)
• 1707 – Dieterich Buxtehude , German-Danish organist and composer (b. 1637)
• 1736 – Diogo de Mendonca Corte-Real , Portuguese judge and politician (b. 1658)
• 1745 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali , Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)
• 1747 – John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair , Scottish field marshal and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (b. 1673)
• 1760 – Nicolaus Zinzendorf , German bishop and saint (b. 1700)
• 1789 – Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval , French general and engineer (b. 1715)
• 1790 – William Clingan , American politician (b. 1721)
• 1791 – Francis Hopkinson , American judge and politician (b. 1737)
• 1805 – Friedrich Schiller , German poet, playwright, and historian (b. 1759)
• 1850 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac , French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
• 1850 – Garlieb Merkel , Estonian author and activist (b. 1769)
• 1861 – Ernst von Lasaulx , German philologist and politician (b. 1805) ^[33]
• 1864 – John Sedgwick , American general and educator (b. 1813)
• 1889 – William S. Harney , American general (b. 1800)

1901?present [ edit ]

• 1906 – Oscar von Gebhardt , German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
• 1911 – Thomas Wentworth Higginson , American abolitionist (b. 1823) ^[34]
• 1914 – C. W. Post , American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 – Francois Faber , Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1915 – Anthony Wilding , New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1918 – George Co?buc , Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson , German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 – John Arthur Jarvis , English swimmer (b. 1872)
• 1935 – Ernst Bresslau , German zoologist (b. 1877)
• 1938 – Thomas B. Thrige , Danish businessman (b. 1866)
• 1942 – Jozef Cebula , Polish priest and saint (b. 1902)
• 1944 – Han Yong-un , Korean poet and social reformer (b. 1879)
• 1949 – Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)
• 1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa , Spanish mathematician and engineer (b. 1883)
• 1957 – Ernest de Silva , Sri Lankan banker and businessman (b. 1887)
• 1957 – Ezio Pinza , Italian actor and singer (b. 1892)
• 1959 – Bhaurao Patil , Indian activist and educator (b. 1887)
• 1965 – Leopold Figl , Austrian engineer and politician, 18th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1902)
• 1968 – Mercedes de Acosta , American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1968 – Harold Gray , American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (b. 1894)
• 1968 – Marion Lorne , American actress (b. 1883)
• 1968 – Finlay Currie , British actor (b. 1878) ^[35]
• 1970 – Walter Reuther , American union leader (b. 1907)
• 1976 – Jens Bjørneboe , Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
• 1976 – Ulrike Meinhof , German militant, co-founded the Red Army Faction (b. 1934)
• 1977 – James Jones , American novelist (b. 1921)
• 1978 – Giuseppe Impastato , Italian journalist and activist (b. 1948)
• 1978 – Aldo Moro , Italian lawyer and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
• 1979 – Cyrus S. Eaton , Canadian-American banker, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1883)
• 1979 – Eddie Jefferson , American singer and lyricist (b. 1918)
• 1980 – Kate Molale , South African activist (b. 1928)
• 1981 – Nelson Algren , American novelist and short story writer (b. 1909)
• 1981 – Rolf Just Nilsen , Norwegian singer and actor (b. 1931) ^[36]
• 1983 – Henry Bachtold , Australian soldier and railway engineer (b. 1891)
• 1985 – Edmond O'Brien , American actor and director (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Tenzing Norgay , Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1914)
• 1987 – Obafemi Awolowo , Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
• 1989 – Keith Whitley , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1954) ^[37]
• 1993 – Penelope Gilliatt , English novelist, short story writer, and critic (b. 1932)
• 1994 – Elias Motsoaledi , South African activist (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Rawya Ateya , Egyptian captain and politician (b. 1926)
• 1997 – Marco Ferreri , Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 1998 – Alice Faye , American actress and singer (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Talat Mahmood , Indian singer and actor (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Russell B. Long , American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov , Chechen cleric and politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic (b. 1951)
• 2004 – Alan King , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Brenda Fassie , South African singer (b. 1964)
• 2007 – Dwight Wilson , Canadian soldier (b. 1901)
• 2008 – Jack Gibson , Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Baptiste Manzini , American football player (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Nuala O'Faolain , Irish journalist and producer (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Pascal Sevran , French singer, television host, and author (b. 1945)
• 2009 – Chuck Daly , American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Lena Horne , American singer, actress, and activist (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Otakar Motejl , Czech lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
• 2011 – Wouter Weylandt , Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)
• 2012 – Bertram Cohler , American psychologist, psychoanalyst, and academic (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Geoffrey Henry , Cook Islander lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Vidal Sassoon , English-American hairdresser and businessman (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Ramon Blanco Rodriguez , Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1952)
• 2013 – George M. Leader , American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Humberto Lugo Gil , Mexican lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of Hidalgo (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Ottavio Missoni , Italian hurdler and fashion designer, founded Missoni (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Giacomo Bini , Italian priest and missionary (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Harlan Mathews , American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy , Indian politician, 12th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Mary Stewart , British author and poet (b. 1916) ^[38]
• 2015 – Edward W. Estlow , American football player and journalist (b. 1920)
• 2015 – Kenan Evren , Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey (b. 1917)
• 2015 – Elizabeth Wilson , American actress (b. 1921)
• 2017 – Robert Miles , a Swiss-born Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ (b. 1969)
• 2018 – Per Kirkeby , Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor (b. 1938)
• 2019 – Freddie Starr , English comedian, impressionist, singer and actor (1943) ^[39]
• 2020 – Little Richard , American singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1932)
• 2022 – John Leo , American a writer and journalist (b. 1935) ^[40]
• 2022 – Rieko Kodama , Japanese game developer (b. 1963) ^[41]

Holidays and observances [ edit ]

• Christian feast day :
  • Beatus of Lungern
  • Beatus of Vendome
  • Christopher ( Eastern Orthodox Church )
  • George Preca
  • Gerontius of Cervia
  • Gregory of Nazianzen ( The Episcopal Church (US) and traditional Roman Catholic calendar )
  • Nicolaus Zinzendorf ( Lutheran )
  • Pachomius the Great
  • Tudy of Landevennec
  • May 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Commemoration of the end of the German occupation of the Channel Islands related observances:
  • Liberation Day , commemorating the end of the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II. ( Guernsey and Jersey ) ^[42]
  • National Day ( Alderney )
• Europe Day , commemorating the Schuman Declaration . ( European Union , Kosovo , Moldova , Ukraine )
• Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany ( Soviet Union , Azerbaijan , Belarus , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Georgia , Israel , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Moldova , Russia , Serbia , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan )
  • Victory and Peace Day , marks the capture of Shusha (1992) in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War , and the end of World War II. ( Armenia )

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to May 9 .

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times : On This Day
• Historical Events on May 9