History of Today in India – 09 March

Explore the history of today 09 March in India, including important events, famous personalities, and milestones for UPSC SSC,Banking & PSC exams.

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📜 Important Events on 09 March in World History

• 09 Mar 2023: A shooting in the Alsterdorf quarter of Hamburg, Germany, kills eight people and injures another eight. Read more
• 09 Mar 2020: Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy, announces in a televised address and signs the decree imposing the first nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in the world. Read more
• 09 Mar 2015: Two Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil helicopters collide in mid-air over Villa Castelli, Argentina, killing all 10 people on board both aircraft, including French athletes Florence Arthaud, Camille Muffat and Alexis Vastine, as well as producers and guests for the French TV show Dropped. Read more
• 09 Mar 2012: A truce between the Salvadoran government and gangs in the country goes into effect when 30 gang leaders are transferred to lower security prisons. Read more
• 09 Mar 2011: Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights. Read more
• 09 Mar 2000: Nupedia, a multi-language online encyclopedia, is launched. Read more
• 09 Mar 1997: Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day. Read more
• 09 Mar 1987: Chrysler announces its acquisition of American Motors Corporation. Read more
• 09 Mar 1978: President Soeharto inaugurates Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java. Read more
• 09 Mar 1977: The Hanafi Siege: In a 39-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings. Read more
• 09 Mar 1976: Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the deadliest cable car accident in history. Read more
• 09 Mar 1974: The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars. Read more
• 09 Mar 1967: Trans World Airlines Flight 553 crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio, following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26 people. Read more
• 09 Mar 1961: Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight. Read more
• 09 Mar 1960: Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis. Read more
• 09 Mar 1959: The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York. Read more
• 09 Mar 1957: The 8.6 Mw  Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami. Read more
• 09 Mar 1956: Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy. Read more
• 09 Mar 1954: McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly. Read more
• 09 Mar 1946: Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more. Read more
• 09 Mar 1945: World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power. Read more
• 09 Mar 1945: World War II: Allied forces carry out firebombing over Tokyo, destroying most of the capital and killing over 100,000 civilians. Read more
• 09 Mar 1944: World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia. Read more
• 09 Mar 1942: World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrenders to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese complete their Dutch East Indies campaign. Read more
• 09 Mar 1933: Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies. Read more
• 09 Mar 1916: Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico. Read more
• 09 Mar 1908: Inter Milan is founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan. Read more
• 09 Mar 1883: Demonstration of 9 March 1883 : Parisian anarchists, unemployed and carpenters narrowly miss the Presidential palace during a violent protest; first use of the black flag as a symbol of anarchism by Louise Michel. Read more
• 09 Mar 1862: American Civil War: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (rebuilt from the engines and lower hull of the USS Merrimack) fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships. Read more
• 09 Mar 1847: Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz. Read more
• 09 Mar 1842: Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers. Read more
• 09 Mar 1842: The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush. Read more
• 09 Mar 1841: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally. Read more
• 09 Mar 1815: Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine. Read more
• 09 Mar 1811: Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí. Read more

🎂 Important Births on 09 March in World History

• 09 Mar 2003: Sunisa Lee, American gymnast Sunisa Phabsomphou Lee is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2020 Olympic all-around gold medalist and uneven bars bronze medalist and the 2024 Olympic all-around and uneven bars bronze medalist. She was the 2019 World Championship silver medalist on the floor and bronze medalist on uneven bars. Lee was a part of the "Golden Girls" that won gold at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She was also a member of the teams that won gold at the 2019 World Championships and silver at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She is also a two-time U.S. national champion on the uneven bars. In NCAA Gymnastics, she competed for the Auburn Tigers gymnastics team, winning a SEC title on uneven bars and an NCAA championship on balance beam. She is the third female gymnast to win NCAA, World, and Olympic championship titles, after Kyla Ross and Madison Kocian. Read more
• 09 Mar 2002: Usman Garuba, Spanish basketball player Destiny Usman Garuba Alari is a Spanish professional basketball player for Real Madrid of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. Listed at 2.03 m, he plays at both the power forward and center positions. Read more
• 09 Mar 2001: Jeon Somi, South Korean-Canadian singer Ennik Somi Douma, known professionally by her Korean name Jeon Somi (Korean: 전소미), is a South Korean and Canadian singer. Born in Canada to a South Korean mother and a Dutch-Canadian father, she moved to South Korea as an infant. She quickly achieved domestic fame as the first-place winner of the survival reality show Produce 101 and a member of the show's eleven-piece project girl group I.O.I. Following the conclusion of I.O.I's group activities, Jeon signed with YG Entertainment's subsidiary, The Black Label. She made her debut as a solo artist on June 13, 2019, with the single "Birthday". In 2021, she released her first studio album XOXO, which included the top-ten single "Dumb Dumb". She achieved her first top-five single in South Korea with "Fast Forward" in 2023. Read more
• 09 Mar 2000: Khaby Lame, Senegalese-Italian social media personality Khabane Serigne "Khaby" Lame is a Senegalese and Italian influencer. He is known for his TikTok videos, in which he silently mocks overly complicated "life hack" and other situational videos. As of 2026, he is the most-followed user on TikTok. In 2022, he was listed in Fortune's 40 Under 40 and Forbes' 30 Under 30. He also served as a juror on the 2023 edition of the television show Italia's Got Talent. Read more
• 09 Mar 1999: Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, Finnish ice hockey player Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, known colloquially as UPL, is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the second round, 54th overall, by the Sabres in the 2017 NHL entry draft. Read more
• 09 Mar 1998: Najee Harris, American football running back Najee Mzee Harris is an American professional football running back for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide and was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round of the 2021 NFL draft. Read more
• 09 Mar 1997: Nadeo Argawinata, Indonesian footballer Nadeo Argawinata, also known as Nadeo Winata, is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Super League club Borneo Samarinda and the Indonesia national team. Read more
• 09 Mar 1997: Chika, American rapper Jane Chika Oranika, known mononymously as Chika, is an American rapper. She first garnered attention on social media before signing to Warner Records in 2019. The following year, she was included in XXL's 2020 Freshman Class and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. In July 2023 she released her album Samson: The Album, which was met with high praise from various music publications and critics alike. Read more
• 09 Mar 1995: Cierra Ramirez, American actress and singer Cierra Alexa Ramirez is an American actress and singer. She is best known for playing Mariana Adams Foster in the Freeform television series The Fosters and reprising her role in the spin-off series Good Trouble, which she also co-executive produced with co-star Maia Mitchell. Her accolades include an ALMA Award and a GLAAD Media Award nomination. Read more
• 09 Mar 1994: Morgan Rielly, Canadian ice hockey player Morgan Frederick Rielly is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman and alternate captain for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Maple Leafs in the first round, fifth overall, of the 2012 NHL entry draft. Before being drafted, Rielly played with the Moose Jaw Warriors of the Western Hockey League (WHL). He has represented Canada internationally on several occasions, most notably at the 2016 World Championship, where he won a gold medal. Read more
• 09 Mar 1993: George Baldock, Greek footballer (died 2024) George Henry Ivor Baldock was an English-Greek professional footballer who played as a right-back or right wing-back. Born in England, he represented Greece at the international level. Read more
• 09 Mar 1993: Miikka Salomäki, Finnish ice hockey player Miikka Salomäki is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward currently playing with SaiPa of the Finnish Liiga. Read more
• 09 Mar 1993: Suga, South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer Min Yoon-gi, known professionally by his stage names Suga and Agust D, is a South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer. He debuted as a member of the South Korean boy band BTS in June 2013 under Big Hit Entertainment. His first solo mixtape, Agust D, was released in 2016 and re-released in 2018 to digital download and streaming platforms, reaching number three on Billboard's World Albums Chart. In 2020, he released his second solo mixtape, D-2; it peaked at number 11 on the US Billboard 200, number seven on the UK Albums Chart, and number two on Australia's ARIA Album Chart. Read more
• 09 Mar 1991: Jooyoung, South Korean singer-songwriter Kim Joo-young, better known as Jooyoung, is a South Korean singer-songwriter. He debuted in 2010 and has released several singles and two extended plays, From Me To You (2012) and Fountain (2018). Read more
• 09 Mar 1990: Daley Blind, Dutch footballer Daley Blind is a Dutch professional footballer who plays for La Liga club Girona. A versatile player, he has been deployed as a left-back, centre-back, and defensive midfielder. He is the son of former Ajax defender and former Netherlands national team manager Danny Blind. Read more
• 09 Mar 1990: YG, American rapper Keenon Dequan Ray Jackson, better known by his stage name YG, is an American rapper. He released his debut mixtape 4Fingaz in 2008, and its follow-up, The Real 4Fingaz, the following year. The latter gained recognition for its local hit song "Toot It and Boot It", which entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 67 and received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings in October 2009, which entered joint-venture with Atlanta-based rapper Jeezy's record label, CTE World, in 2013. Read more
• 09 Mar 1989: Taeyeon, South Korean singer Kim Tae-yeon, known mononymously as Taeyeon, is a South Korean singer. She debuted as a member of girl group Girls' Generation in August 2007, which went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea and one of the most widely known K-pop groups worldwide. She has since participated in other SM Entertainment projects, including Girls' Generation-TTS, SM the Ballad, Girls' Generation-Oh!GG, and the supergroup Got the Beat. Read more
• 09 Mar 1987: Daniel Hudson, American baseball player Daniel Claiborne Hudson is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 16 seasons of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2009 to 2024. Hudson was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the fifth round of the 2008 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut for the White Sox in 2009 and has also played for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Dodgers, Toronto Blue Jays, Washington Nationals, and San Diego Padres. Hudson was on the mound at the end of Game 7 of the 2019 World Series to clinch the Nationals' first championship. In his final season, he won his second World Series in 2024 with the Dodgers. Read more
• 09 Mar 1987: Bow Wow, American rapper and actor Shad Gregory Moss, better known by his stage name Bow Wow, is an American rapper and actor. His career began upon being discovered by rapper Snoop Dogg in 1993 at the age of six; five years later, he signed with record producer Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings, an imprint of Columbia Records. As Lil' Bow Wow, his debut studio album, Beware of Dog (2000), was released at the age of 13, and followed by his second album, Doggy Bag (2001). Both commercial successes, the albums peaked at numbers 8 and 11 on the Billboard 200, respectively. Read more
• 09 Mar 1986: Bryan Bickell, Canadian ice hockey player Bryan Bickell is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played for the Chicago Blackhawks and the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2013 and 2015, and played in four early playoff games during the team's run to the 2010 Stanley Cup championship. Bickell spent nearly 10 years with the Blackhawks organization before being traded to the Hurricanes before the 2016–17 season. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis later that year and retired from playing at the end of the season. Read more
• 09 Mar 1986: Damien Brunner, Swiss ice hockey player Damien Brunner is a Swiss former professional ice hockey forward who last played for EHC Biel of the National League (NL). He has also played in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings and the New Jersey Devils. Read more
• 09 Mar 1986: Colin Greening, Canadian ice hockey player Colin Peter Greening is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. He played for the Ottawa Senators and the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was originally drafted by the Senators in the seventh round, 204th overall, in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. Read more
• 09 Mar 1986: Brittany Snow, American actress and producer Brittany Anne Snow is an American actress. She gained recognition for her role in the CBS soap opera Guiding Light (1998–2001), for which she won a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress and was nominated for two other Young Artist Awards and a Soap Opera Digest Award. She then starred in the NBC drama series American Dreams (2002–2005), for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award and three Teen Choice Awards. Read more
• 09 Mar 1985: Brent Burns, Canadian ice hockey player Brent Burns is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). Drafted as a right wing at the 2003 NHL entry draft by the Minnesota Wild, he was converted into a defenceman upon turning professional. Burns is known as a dynamic offensive player, and though he mostly plays defence, he has been utilized as a forward on several occasions during his career. Read more
• 09 Mar 1985: Jesse Litsch, American baseball player Jesse Allen Litsch is an American former professional baseball pitcher. After working as a batboy for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, he was drafted in the 24th round by the Toronto Blue Jays in 2004, and played from 2007 to 2011, when his career was cut short by injuries. In March 2016, Litsch became the pitching coach for the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. Read more
• 09 Mar 1985: Pastor Maldonado, Venezuelan race car driver Pastor Rafael Maldonado Motta is a Venezuelan former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 2011 to 2015. Maldonado won the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix with Williams. Read more
• 09 Mar 1985: Parthiv Patel, Indian cricketer Parthiv Ajay Patel is a former Indian professional cricketer, wicketkeeper-batsman, who played for the Indian national cricket team. He is a left-handed batsman and played for Gujarat in domestic cricket. Having lost a finger at the age of 6, he initially found it hard to keep wickets, but after enough practice, he got used to it. When Patel played for the Indian team in 2002, he became the youngest wicket-keeper to represent a country in Tests. He was a part of the Indian squad which won the 2016 Asia Cup. Read more
• 09 Mar 1984: Abdoulay Konko, French footballer Abdoulay Konko is a French football coach and former player who played as a right-back. He is a youth coach at Genoa. Read more
• 09 Mar 1984: Julia Mancuso, American skier Julia Marie Mancuso is an American retired World Cup alpine ski racer. She won the gold medal in giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and was the silver medalist in both downhill and combined in 2010, and the bronze medalist in the combined in 2014. She has also won five medals at the World Championships and seven races in regular World Cup competition. Mancuso's four Olympic medals are tied for the most ever for a female American alpine skier with Mikaela Shiffrin. Read more
• 09 Mar 1983: Clint Dempsey, American soccer player Clinton Drew Dempsey is an American former professional soccer player who is a sports analyst on the television program Soccer on CBS Sports. He played as a forward and midfielder for Premier League clubs Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur and in Major League Soccer for clubs New England Revolution and Seattle Sounders FC. Often debated as the greatest American player of all time, he is one of the most successful American players in Europe, and is tied with Landon Donovan for the record of most international goals scored by an American player (57). Read more
• 09 Mar 1983: Wayne Simien, American basketball player Wayne Anthony Simien Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He was a member of the Miami Heat when they won the 2006 NBA championship. Simien played in college at the University of Kansas, where he was a consensus first-team All-American his senior year in 2005. Read more
• 09 Mar 1982: Ryan Bayley, Australian cyclist Ryan Neville Bayley OAM is an Australian professional track cyclist and double Olympic gold medallist. Read more
• 09 Mar 1982: Érika de Souza, Brazilian basketball player Érika Cristina de Souza is a Brazilian professional basketball player for BC Castors Braine of the EuroLeague. Read more
• 09 Mar 1982: Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, Croatian tennis player Mirjana Lučić-Baroni is a Croatian former professional tennis player. She enjoyed a meteoric rise on the WTA Tour in the late 1990s, during which she set various "youngest-ever" records. She captured the women's doubles title at the 1998 Australian Open when she was 15 years old, partnered with Martina Hingis. She also won the first ever professional tournament she entered, the 1997 Croatian Ladies Open, and defended it the following year at age 16, making her the youngest player in history to successfully defend a title. She then reached the semifinals of the 1999 Wimbledon Championships, beating world No. 4 Monica Seles and eighth seed Nathalie Tauziat, the previous year's finalist, before she lost to Steffi Graf in three sets. Read more
• 09 Mar 1981: Antonio Bryant, American football player Antonio Bryant is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers, earning consensus All-American honors and winning the Fred Biletnikoff Award. Bryant was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the second round of the 2002 NFL draft, and also played professionally for the Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL. Read more
• 09 Mar 1981: Chad Gilbert, American musician, songwriter, and producer Chad Everett Gilbert is an American guitarist, record producer, and songwriter. He is a founding member of the punk rock band New Found Glory, for whom he plays lead guitar and sings backing vocals. He was also the lead vocalist for the band's now-defunct side-project International Superheroes of Hardcore. Additionally, he was the vocalist for the hardcore punk band Shai Hulud from 1995 to 1998 and 2012 to 2013. Read more
• 09 Mar 1981: Clay Rapada, American baseball player Clayton Anthony Rapada is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and Cleveland Indians. Read more
• 09 Mar 1980: Matt Barnes, American basketball player Matt Kelly Barnes is an American former professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted in the second round of the 2002 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies and won an NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors in his final season in the league in 2017. Barnes is currently a basketball analyst for ESPN as well as NBC Sports California for Sacramento Kings games. Read more
• 09 Mar 1980: Chingy, American rapper Howard Earl Bailey Jr., better known by his stage name Chingy, is an American rapper. He toured as an opening act with fellow St. Louis rapper Nelly in 2002, and signed with Georgia-based rapper Ludacris' record label, Disturbing tha Peace (DTP), that same year. Released in a joint-venture with Capitol Records, his 2003 debut single, "Right Thurr" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. Read more
• 09 Mar 1980: Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor Matthew Gray Gubler is an American actor, best known for his role as criminal profiler Dr. Spencer Reid in the CBS television show Criminal Minds, for which he also directed several episodes. Gubler has appeared in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 500 Days of Summer, Life After Beth, Suburban Gothic, and Newness. He was also the voice of Simon in Alvin and the Chipmunks and its three sequels. Read more
• 09 Mar 1979: Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada is an American actor. Recognized for his versatility, he has been credited with breaking stereotypes about Latino characters in Hollywood. He was named the best actor of his generation by Vanity Fair in 2017 and one of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century by The New York Times in 2020. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2016, he featured on Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Read more
• 09 Mar 1979: Jordan Klepper, American comedian Jordan Klepper is an American comedian. He began his career as a member of The Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade. From 2014 to 2017, he was a correspondent on The Daily Show. He started his own satirical program, The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, which was canceled in 2018. He then starred in the 2019 docuseries Klepper, before returning to The Daily Show later that year as a contributor, and eventually a rotating host. He often appears on a segment entitled "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse." Read more
• 09 Mar 1978: Chris Phillips, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman Chris Phillips is a Canadian businessman and former professional ice hockey player. Phillips was a member of the Ottawa Senators for his entire NHL career, which began with the 1997–98 season and ended with the 2015–16 season. He was regarded as a stay-at-home defenceman. The Senators drafted him first overall in the 1996 NHL entry draft. Phillips retired in 2016 after spending a season on the injured list. Phillips played 1,179 games with Ottawa in the regular season, making him the longest-serving player in Senators franchise history. In addition, he played in 114 playoff games. His number was retired by the team in 2019. Read more
• 09 Mar 1977: Radek Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player Radek Dvořák is a Czech former professional ice hockey right winger. Dvořák was drafted in the first round of the 1995 NHL entry draft, tenth overall, by the Florida Panthers. A veteran of 1,260 NHL games, Radek has played for the Panthers, New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers, St. Louis Blues, Atlanta Thrashers, Dallas Stars, Anaheim Ducks and the Carolina Hurricanes. Read more
• 09 Mar 1977: Mark Tookey, Australian rugby league player Mark Tookey is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990 and 2000s. He played as a prop in Australia for the South Queensland Crushers and the Parramatta Eels as well as the New Zealand Warriors. Tookey then played in the Super League for the Castleford Tigers and the Harlequins RL. Read more
• 09 Mar 1975: Adonal Foyle, Vincentian-American basketball player Adonal David Foyle is a Vincentian-American former professional basketball center. He was selected by the Golden State Warriors with the eighth overall selection of the 1997 NBA draft. Foyle played ten seasons with the Warriors until the team bought out his contract on August 13, 2007. At the time, he had been Golden State's longest-tenured player. He then played two seasons with the Orlando Magic and part of the 2008–09 season with the Memphis Grizzlies, sat out the next season due to knee surgery, and retired. As of 2018, Foyle does Warriors post-game commentary for ABC 7 in San Francisco. Read more
• 09 Mar 1975: Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentine footballer Juan Sebastián Verón is an Argentine former professional footballer and current chairman of Estudiantes de La Plata, where he had served as Director of Sports. In 2004, Verón was included in the FIFA 100 list of the 125 greatest living footballers, selected by Pelé as part of FIFA's centenary celebrations. Verón has both Argentine and Italian citizenship. His nickname is "La Brujita", a nod to his father Juan Ramón who was known as "La Bruja" and was also a championship winning player with Estudiantes. Read more
• 09 Mar 1974: Mark Harrity, Australian cricketer Mark Andrew Harrity is an Australian former cricketer. He was born in Semaphore, a suburb of Adelaide. He was a very fast bowler but saw his career repeatedly interrupted by injury. Read more
• 09 Mar 1973: Aaron Boone, American baseball player and manager Aaron John Boone is an American professional baseball manager and former infielder who is the manager of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for 13 seasons from 1997 to 2009. As a player, Boone is most recognized for his 2003 campaign with the Yankees, during which he hit the winning walk-off home run of the 2003 American League Championship Series. Read more
• 09 Mar 1973: Liam Griffin, English race car driver Liam Griffin is a British racing driver and businessman. He is the son of John Griffin and was CEO of minicab company Addison Lee for 10 years before carrying out a management buyout with the private equity firm Carlyle. He is currently the Vice Chairman of Addison Lee. Read more
• 09 Mar 1972: Jodey Arrington, American politician Jodey Cook Arrington is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 19th congressional district since 2017. The district includes a large slice of West Texas, centered around Lubbock and Abilene. He is a member of the Republican Party. Read more
• 09 Mar 1972: Jean Louisa Kelly, American actress and singer Jean Louisa Kelly is an American actress. After making her film debut as Tia Russell in Uncle Buck (1989) alongside John Candy, she appeared in a wide range of other films including The Fantasticks (2000) and Mr. Holland's Opus (1995). From 2000 to 2006, she portrayed Kim Warner on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear. Read more
• 09 Mar 1972: Kerr Smith, American actor Kerr Smith is an American actor. He began his career with a recurring role as Ryder Hughes on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns (1996–1997). Smith had his breakout with a main role as Jack McPhee on the WB teen drama television series Dawson's Creek (1998–2003). Read more
• 09 Mar 1971: Emmanuel Lewis, American actor Emmanuel Lewis is a retired American actor, best known for playing the title character in the sitcom Webster. He was one of American television's biggest stars in the mid-1980s. Read more
• 09 Mar 1970: Naveen Jindal, Indian businessman and politician Naveen Jindal is an Indian industrialist, politician, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Jindal Steel and the founding chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University. He represents the Kurukshetra constituency in the 18th Lok Sabha as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He previously served as a Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2014 representing the Indian National Congress. Read more
• 09 Mar 1970: Martin Johnson, English rugby player and coach Martin Osborne Johnson CBE is an English retired rugby union player and coach. He played for and captained England, the British Lions and Leicester in a career spanning 16 seasons. He captained England to victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup, and is regarded as one of the greatest locks ever to have played, and one of England's greatest ever players. Read more
• 09 Mar 1970: Shannon Leto, American musician and songwriter Shannon Leto is an American musician best known as the drummer of rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. He co-founded the group in 1998 in Los Angeles, California, with his younger brother Jared. Their debut album, 30 Seconds to Mars (2002), was released to positive reviews but only to limited success. The band achieved worldwide fame with the release of their second album A Beautiful Lie (2005). Their following releases, This Is War (2009) and Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013), received further critical and commercial success. As of September 2014, the band has sold over 15 million albums worldwide. Read more
• 09 Mar 1969: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, American basketball player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf is an American former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for nine years with the Denver Nuggets, Sacramento Kings and Vancouver Grizzlies. Read more
• 09 Mar 1969: Kimberly Guilfoyle, American lawyer and journalist Kimberly Guilfoyle is an American diplomat, media personality, and former prosecutor who has served as the United States ambassador to Greece since 2025. She served as an advisor and led the fundraising division of the Trump 2020 presidential campaign. Read more
• 09 Mar 1968: Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer Youri Raffi Djorkaeff is a French former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or forward. Throughout his club career, he played for teams in France, Italy, Germany, England, and the United States. Read more
• 09 Mar 1966: Brendan Canty, American drummer and songwriter Brendan John Canty is an American musician, composer, producer and filmmaker, best known as the drummer for the band Fugazi. Read more
• 09 Mar 1966: Tony Lockett, Australian footballer Anthony Howard Lockett is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club and Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). Nicknamed "Plugger", he played as a full-forward and holds the VFL/AFL record for career goals, scoring 1,360 goals in total. Read more
• 09 Mar 1965: Brian Bosworth, American football player and actor Brian Keith Bosworth is an American actor and former professional football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for three seasons with the Seattle Seahawks. Nicknamed "the Boz", he played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners, earning two Dick Butkus Awards and winning the 1986 Orange Bowl. Bosworth was selected by the Seahawks in the first round of the 1987 NFL supplemental draft, but his professional career was cut short by injury. After retiring as a player, Bosworth pursued an acting career. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2015. Read more
• 09 Mar 1965: Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican baseball player Benito Santiago Rivera is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball player. He played for 20 seasons as a catcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1986 to 2005, most prominently as a member of the San Diego Padres where he was a four-time Silver Slugger Award winner as well as a three-time Gold Glove Award winner. The five-time All-Star was considered the premier catcher in the National League (NL) during his tenure with the Padres. In 2015, Santiago was inducted into the San Diego Padres Hall of Fame. Read more
• 09 Mar 1964: Juliette Binoche, French actress Juliette Binoche is a French actress. She has appeared in more than 60 films, particularly in French and English, and has been the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Volpi Cup and a César Award. Read more
• 09 Mar 1964: Phil Housley, American ice hockey player and coach Phillip Francis Housley is an American professional ice hockey coach and former defenseman in the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously served as assistant coach for the Arizona Coyotes of the NHL from 2019 to 2022, and assistant coach of the New York Rangers from 2023 to 2025. Housley was the head coach of the NHL's Buffalo Sabres from 2017 until 2019. Read more
• 09 Mar 1963: Ivan Henjak, Croatian-Australian rugby league player and coach Ivan Henjak is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach. A New South Wales Country representative half back, Henjak played his club football in the NSWRL premiership, with the St. George Dragons, Canberra Raiders, and Western Suburbs Magpies, and later in England with Hull FC. Read more
• 09 Mar 1963: Terry Mulholland, American baseball player Terence John Mulholland is an American former professional baseball pitcher. His Major League Baseball (MLB) career spanned 20 seasons, 1986 and 1988 to 2006. He threw left-handed and batted right-handed. Read more
• 09 Mar 1963: Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian director and screenwriter (died 2021) Jean-Marc Vallée was a Canadian filmmaker, film editor, and screenwriter. After studying film at the Université de Montréal, Vallée went on to make a number of critically acclaimed short films, including Stéréotypes (1991), Les Fleurs magiques (1995), and Les Mots magiques (1998). Read more
• 09 Mar 1962: Jan Furtok, Polish football player and manager (died 2024) Jan Furtok was a Polish professional footballer who played as a striker. Regarded as the greatest player in GKS Katowice's history, he is the club's all-time best goalscorer. Read more
• 09 Mar 1961: Rick Steiner, American wrestler Robert Rechsteiner is an American professional wrestler and politician, better known by the ring name Rick Steiner. Read more
• 09 Mar 1961: Darrell Walker, American basketball player and coach Darrell Walker is an American college basketball coach and retired professional player. He was most recently head men's coach at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Walker played in National Basketball Association (NBA) for 10 seasons, winning an NBA championship with the Chicago Bulls in 1993. He played college basketball for Westark Community College and the Arkansas Razorbacks. Read more
• 09 Mar 1960: Finn Carter, American actress Elizabeth Fearn "Finn" Carter is an American former actress. She is best known for her role in the 1990 film Tremors. Read more
• 09 Mar 1960: Željko Obradović, Serbian basketball player and coach Želimir "Željko" Obradović is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former professional player who was most recently the head coach for Partizan of the Basketball League of Serbia (KLS), the ABA League and the EuroLeague. Read more
• 09 Mar 1959: Tom Amandes, American actor Thomas Amandes is an American actor. He is known for his role as Eliot Ness in the 1990s television series The Untouchables; he also played Geena Davis' boyfriend in The Long Kiss Goodnight, and Abraham Lincoln in the 2013 film Saving Lincoln. He later had a costarring role as Dr. Harold Abbott on The WB series Everwood. Read more
• 09 Mar 1959: Takaaki Kajita, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Takaaki Kajita is a Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamioka Observatory – Kamiokande and its successor, Super-Kamiokande. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Canadian physicist Arthur B. McDonald. On 1 October 2020, he became the president of the Science Council of Japan. Read more
• 09 Mar 1959: Lonny Price, American actor, director, and screenwriter Lonny Price is an American director, actor, and writer, primarily in theatre. He is best known for his New York directing work, including Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, Company, and Sondheim! The Birthday Concert. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his creation of the role of Charley Kringas in the Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along, Neil Kellerman in Dirty Dancing, and Ronnie Crawford in The Muppets Take Manhattan. Read more
• 09 Mar 1958: Linda Fiorentino, American actress Clorinda "Linda" Fiorentino is an American actress. Fiorentino made her screen debut with a leading role in the 1985 coming-of-age drama film Vision Quest, followed that same year with another lead role in the action film Gotcha! and an appearance in the Martin Scorsese film After Hours. Noted for her "raven hair, intense gaze and low voice", Fiorentino was placed No. 66 on the 1995 edition of Empire's list of the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History by a reader's poll. Read more
• 09 Mar 1958: Paul MacLean, Canadian ice hockey player and coach Paul A. MacLean is a French-born Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is the former assistant coach of the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs, and former head coach of the NHL's Ottawa Senators, winning the 2013 Jack Adams Award as the NHL's Coach of the Year. He also served as an assistant coach for the Anaheim Ducks until his departure from the team on June 1, 2017. He played 11 seasons in the NHL with the St. Louis Blues, Detroit Red Wings and the original Winnipeg Jets. Read more
• 09 Mar 1956: Mark Dantonio, American football player and coach Mark Justin Dantonio is an American college football coach and former player. His most recent head coaching position was at Michigan State University, a position he had held from 2007 to 2019. Read more
• 09 Mar 1956: Shashi Tharoor, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs Shashi Tharoor is an Indian author, public intellectual, former diplomat, bureaucrat and statesman. A member of the Indian National Congress, he has represented Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in the Lok Sabha since 2009. He was formerly an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and ran for the office of Secretary-General in 2006, coming second. Read more
• 09 Mar 1956: David Willetts, English academic and politician David Lindsay Willetts, Baron Willetts, is a British politician and life peer. From 1992 to 2015, he was the Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Havant in Hampshire. He served as Minister of State for Universities and Science from 2010 until July 2014 and became a member of the House of Lords in 2015. He was appointed chair of the UK Space Agency's board in April 2022 and chair of the Regulatory Innovation Office in April 2025. He is president of the Resolution Foundation. Read more
• 09 Mar 1955: Teo Fabi, Italian race car driver Teodorico "Teo" Fabi is an Italian former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1982 to 1987. In sportscar racing, Fabi won the World Sportscar Championship in 1991 with Jaguar. Read more
• 09 Mar 1955: Józef Pinior, Polish academic and politician Józef Pinior is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Lower Silesian Voivodship & Opole Voivodship with the Social Democracy of Poland, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development. Read more
• 09 Mar 1954: Carlos Ghosn, Brazilian-Lebanese-French business executive Carlos Ghosn is a businessman and former automotive executive. He was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Michelin North America, chairman and CEO of Renault, chairman of AvtoVAZ, chairman and CEO of Nissan, and chairman of Mitsubishi Motors. Read more
• 09 Mar 1954: Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer, Irish republican politician, and hunger striker (died 1981) Robert Gerard Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to plan the 1976 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing in Dunmurry, which was followed by a gun battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Sands was arrested while trying to escape and sentenced to 14 years for firearms possession. Read more
• 09 Mar 1954: Jock Taylor, Scottish motorcycle racer (died 1982) John Robert "Jock" Taylor was a Scottish World Champion motorcycle sidecar racer. Read more
• 09 Mar 1952: Bill Beaumont, English rugby player and manager Sir William Blackledge Beaumont is an English former rugby union player, and was captain of the England national team, earning 34 caps. His greatest moment as captain was the unexpected 1980 Grand Slam win. He played as a lock. Read more
• 09 Mar 1951: Helen Zille, South African journalist, politician and Premier of the Western Cape Otta Helene Maree, known as Helen Zille, is a South African politician. She has served as the Chairperson of the Federal Council of the Democratic Alliance since 20 October 2019. From 2009 until 2019, she was the Premier of the Western Cape province for two five-year terms, and a member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament. She served as Federal Leader of the Democratic Alliance from 2007 to 2015 and as Mayor of Cape Town from 2006 to 2009. Read more
• 09 Mar 1950: Doug Ault, American baseball player and manager (died 2004) Douglas Reagan Ault was an American professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter who played for the Texas Rangers (1976) and Toronto Blue Jays. He is best known for hitting the first two home runs in Blue Jays history, in the team's first Major League Baseball (MLB) game on April 7, 1977, a 9–5 Toronto win against the Chicago White Sox. Read more
• 09 Mar 1950: Andy North, American golfer Andrew Stewart North is an American professional golfer who had three wins on the PGA Tour, including the U.S. Open twice. Since 1992, he has served as a golf analyst for ESPN. Read more
• 09 Mar 1950: Howard Shelley, English pianist and conductor

  Howard Gordon Shelley is a British pianist and conductor. He was educated at Highgate School and the Royal College of Music. He was married to fellow pianist Hilary Macnamara with whom he performed and recorded in a two-piano partnership until her death in 2021. Read more

• 09 Mar 1949: Neil Hamilton, Welsh lawyer and politician Mostyn Neil Hamilton is a British politician and former barrister who was leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2020 to 2024. He was the Conservative member of parliament (MP) for Tatton from 1983 to 1997 and a UKIP Member of the Senedd (MS) for Mid and West Wales from 2016 to 2021. Read more
• 09 Mar 1949: Tapani Kansa, Finnish singer (died 2025) Aarne Tapani Kansa was a Finnish singer. Read more
• 09 Mar 1948: Emma Bonino, Italian politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino is an Italian politician. She was a senator for Rome between 2008 and 2013, and again between 2018 and 2022. She also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2014. Previously, she was a Member of the European Parliament and a member of the Chamber of Deputies. She served in the government of Italy as Minister of International Trade from 2006 to 2008. She was European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection in the Santer Commission (1995–1999). Read more
• 09 Mar 1948: Eric Fischl, American painter and sculptor Eric Fischl is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman and educator. He is known for his paintings depicting American suburbia from the 1970s and 1980s. Read more
• 09 Mar 1948: Jeffrey Osborne, American singer and drummer Jeffrey Linton Osborne is an American singer-songwriter, musician and lyricist. He is the former drummer and lead singer of the American R&B/soul group L.T.D., with whom he began his musical career in 1970. In 2024, Osborne was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame. Read more
• 09 Mar 1947: Keri Hulme, New Zealand author and poet (died 2021) Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme was a New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer. She also wrote under the pen name Kai Tainui. Her novel The Bone People won the Booker Prize in 1985; she was the first New Zealander to win the award, and also the first writer to win the prize for a debut novel. Hulme's writing explores themes of isolation, postcolonial and multicultural identity, and Māori, Celtic, and Norse mythology. Read more
• 09 Mar 1946: Alexandra Bastedo, English actress (died 2014) Alexandra Lendon Bastedo was a British actress, best known for her role as the secret agent Sharron Macready in the 1968 British espionage/science fiction adventure series The Champions. Bastedo was a vegetarian and animal welfare advocate, and wrote a number of books on both subjects. Read more
• 09 Mar 1946: Bernd Hölzenbein, German footballer and scout (died 2024) Bernd Hölzenbein was a German professional footballer who played as a striker or winger. He played for Eintracht Frankfurt from 1967 to 1981 and is the club's all-time Bundesliga top scorer, having tallied 160 goals in 420 league matches. At the international level, Hölzenbein was a member of the West German team that won the World Cup in 1974. He was fouled in the final against the Netherlands, which led to the Germans' equalizing penalty. Read more
• 09 Mar 1946: Warren Skaaren, American screenwriter and producer (died 1990) Warren Skaaren was an American screenwriter and film producer. Read more
• 09 Mar 1945: Robert Calvert, English singer-songwriter and playwright (died 1988) Robert Newton Calvert was a South African-British writer, poet, and musician. He is principally known for his role as lyricist, performance poet and lead vocalist of the space rock band Hawkwind. Read more
• 09 Mar 1945: Dennis Rader, American serial killer Dennis Lynn Rader, better known by his pseudonym BTK, is an American serial killer and mass murderer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, Rader typically targeted women. His victims were often attacked in their homes and then bound, sometimes with objects from their homes, and either suffocated with a plastic bag or manually strangled with a ligature. Read more
• 09 Mar 1945: Robin Trower, English guitarist and vocalist Robin Leonard Trower is an English rock guitarist and producer who achieved success with Procol Harum from 1967 until 1971 and as the bandleader of his own power trio known as the Robin Trower Band. Read more
• 09 Mar 1944: Lee Irvine, South African cricketer Brian Lee Irvine is a former cricketer who played four Tests for South Africa in 1969–70 in the last Test series played by South Africa before official sporting links were broken over the apartheid policy. Read more
• 09 Mar 1943: Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (died 2008) Robert James Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won with an 11–0 score, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. Qualifying for the 1972 World Championship, Fischer swept matches with Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen by 6–0 scores. After winning another qualifying match against Tigran Petrosian, Fischer won the title match against Boris Spassky of the USSR, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Publicized as a Cold War confrontation between the US and USSR, the match attracted more worldwide interest than any chess championship before or since. Read more
• 09 Mar 1943: Charles Gibson, American journalist Charles deWolf Gibson is an American broadcast television anchor, journalist, and podcaster. Gibson was a host of Good Morning America from 1987 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2006, and the anchor of ABC World News from 2006 to 2009. Read more
• 09 Mar 1942: John Cale, Welsh musician, composer, singer, songwriter and record producer John Davies Cale is a Welsh singer, musician, composer, record producer and arranger. He is a founding member of the influential American rock band the Velvet Underground, with whom he recorded two studio albums. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various styles of rock and avant-garde music. Read more
• 09 Mar 1942: Ion Caramitru, Romanian actor and artistic director (died 2021) Ion Horia Leonida Caramitru was a Romanian stage and film actor, stage director, and political figure. He was Minister of Culture between 1996 and 2000, in the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) cabinets of Victor Ciorbea, Gavril Dejeu, Radu Vasile, Alexandru Athanasiu, and Mugur Isărescu. He was married to actress Micaela Caracaș and had three sons: Ștefan, Andrei, and Matei Caramitru. He was a relevant figure of the Aromanian community of Romania. Read more
• 09 Mar 1942: Mark Lindsay, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer Mark Lindsay is an American musician, best known as the lead singer of the rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders. Read more
• 09 Mar 1941: Jim Colbert, American golfer James Joseph Colbert is an American professional golfer. Read more
• 09 Mar 1941: Ernesto Miranda, American criminal (died 1976) Ernesto Arturo Miranda was an American laborer whose criminal conviction was set aside in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona, which ruled that criminal suspects must be informed of their right against self-incrimination and their right to consult with an attorney before being questioned by police. This warning is known as a Miranda warning. Miranda had been convicted of kidnapping, rape, and armed robbery charges based on his confession under police interrogation. Read more
• 09 Mar 1941: Trish Van Devere, American actress Trish Van Devere is a retired American actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the film One Is a Lonely Number (1972), and won a Genie Award for the film The Changeling (1980). She is the widow of actor George C. Scott, with whom she appeared in multiple films. Read more
• 09 Mar 1941: Malcolm Smith, Canadian-American motorcycle racer (died 2024)
  Malcolm Smith was a Canadian-American off-road racer. He was born on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada, and died in Riverside, California. Read more
• 09 Mar 1940: Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (died 1994) Raúl Rafael Carlos Juliá y Arcelay was a Puerto Rican actor and humanitarian. He was best known for his intense and varied roles on stage and screen. He started his career in the Public Theater before transitioning to film. He received numerous accolades including a Drama Desk Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and nominations for four Tony Awards. In 2017, The Daily Telegraph named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. Read more
• 09 Mar 1939: Malcolm Bricklin, American businessman, founded Bricklin and Yugo Malcolm N. Bricklin is an American businessman, widely known for an unorthodox career spanning more than six decades with numerous prominent failures and successes — primarily manufacturing or importing automobiles to the United States, ultimately starting over thirty companies throughout the course of his business career. Read more
• 09 Mar 1937: Bernard Landry, Canadian lawyer, politician and Premier of Quebec (died 2018) Bernard Landry was a Canadian politician who served as the 28th premier of Quebec from 2001 to 2003. A member of the Parti Québécois (PQ), he led the party from 2001 to 2005, also serving as the leader of the Opposition from 2003 to 2005. Read more
• 09 Mar 1937: Harry Neale, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster Harold Watson Neale is a Canadian retired NCAA, NHL and WHA coach and general manager, and ice hockey broadcaster. Read more
• 09 Mar 1937: Brian Redman, English race car driver Brian Herman Thomas Redman is a British retired racing driver. Read more
• 09 Mar 1936: Mickey Gilley, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2022) Mickey Leroy Gilley was an American country music singer, businessman, actor, and musician. Read more
• 09 Mar 1936: Marty Ingels, American actor and comedian (died 2015) Martin Ingerman, known professionally as Marty Ingels, was an American actor, comedian, comedy sketch writer, and theatrical agent, who is best known as the co-star of the 1960s television series I'm Dickens, He's Fenster. Read more
• 09 Mar 1935: Andrew Viterbi, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Qualcomm Inc. Andrew James Viterbi is an American electrical engineer and businessman who co-founded Qualcomm Inc. and invented the Viterbi algorithm. He is the Presidential Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, which was named in his honor in 2004 in recognition of his $52 million gift. Read more
• 09 Mar 1934: Yuri Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and cosmonaut, first human in space (died 1968) Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first person to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961, with his flight taking 108 minutes. By achieving this major milestone for the Soviet Union amidst the Space Race, he became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including his country's highest distinction: Hero of the Soviet Union. Read more
• 09 Mar 1934: Joyce Van Patten, American actress Joyce Van Patten is an American film and stage actress. She is best known for her roles in films like The Bad News Bears (1976), St. Elmo's Fire (1985), and as Gloria Noonan in Grown Ups (2010). Read more
• 09 Mar 1933: Lloyd Price, American R&B singer-songwriter (died 2021) Lloyd Price was an American R&B and rock and roll singer known as "Mr. Personality" after his 1959 million-selling hit, "Personality". His first recording, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy", was a hit for Specialty Records in 1952. He continued to release records, but none were as popular until several years later, when he refined the New Orleans beat and achieved a series of national hits. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Read more
• 09 Mar 1933: David Weatherall, English physician, geneticist, and academic (died 2018) Sir David John Weatherall was a British physician and researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine. Read more
• 09 Mar 1933: Artt Frank, American jazz drummer and biographer (died 2024) Artt Frank was an American jazz drummer specializing in the bebop, hard bop, and cool jazz styles. He is best known for having toured with trumpet player Chet Baker during much of his career. Read more
• 09 Mar 1932: Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter and academic (died 2014) Qayyum Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi painter. Along with Zainul Abedin, Quamrul Hassan and Safiuddin Ahmed, he is considered as a first generation artist of Bangladesh. He was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 1984 and the Independence Day Award in 2014 by the Government of Bangladesh. Read more
• 09 Mar 1932: Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologer and actor (died 2019) Walter Mercado Salinas, also known by his stage name Shanti Ananda, was a Puerto Rican astrologer, actor, dancer, and writer, best known as a television personality for his shows as an astrologer. His astrological prediction shows began airing in Puerto Rico, eventually spreading to Latin America and the United States. Walter became known as a cultural phenomenon in the Hispanic community. Read more
• 09 Mar 1931: Jackie Healy-Rae, Irish politician (died 2014) John Patrick Healy, known as Jackie Healy-Rae, was an Irish Independent politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry South constituency from 1997 to 2011. Read more
• 09 Mar 1930: Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer (died 2015) Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. His pioneering works often abandoned the harmony-based composition, tonality, chord changes, and fixed rhythm found in earlier jazz idioms. Instead, Coleman emphasized an experimental approach to improvisation rooted in ensemble playing and blues phrasing. Thom Jurek of AllMusic called him "one of the most beloved and polarizing figures in jazz history", noting that while "now celebrated as a fearless innovator and a genius, he was initially regarded by peers and critics as rebellious, disruptive, and even a fraud." Read more
• 09 Mar 1929: Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese lawyer, politician and President of Guyana (died 2002) Hugh Desmond Hoyte was a Guyanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Guyana from 1984 to 1985 and President of Guyana from 1985 until 1992. Read more
• 09 Mar 1929: Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 19th President of Bangladesh (died 2013) Mohammed Zillur Rahman 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. He is the third president of Bangladesh to die in office and the first to die of natural causes, as both Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Ziaur Rahman were assassinated. Read more
• 09 Mar 1928: Gerald Bull, Canadian-American engineer and academic (died 1990) Gerald Vincent Bull was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq. Read more
• 09 Mar 1928: Keely Smith, American singer and actress (died 2017) Dorothy Jacqueline Keely, professionally known as Keely Smith, was an American jazz and popular music singer, who performed and recorded extensively in the 1950s with then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the 1960s as a solo artist. Read more
• 09 Mar 1927: Jackie Jensen, American baseball player (died 1982) Jack Eugene Jensen was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for three American League (AL) teams from 1950 to 1961, most notably the Boston Red Sox. He was named the AL's Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 1958 after hitting 35 home runs and leading the league with 122 runs batted in (RBIs); he also led the league in RBIs two other years, and in triples and stolen bases once each. Respected for his throwing arm, he won a Gold Glove Award and led the AL in assists and double plays twice each. He retired in his early thirties as major-league baseball expanded westward, due to an intense fear of flying. After being a two-sport star in college, Jensen was the first person to play in the Rose Bowl, the World Series, and the MLB All-Star Game. Read more
• 09 Mar 1926: Joe Franklin, American radio and television host (died 2015) Joe Franklin, born Joseph Fortgang, was an American radio and television host personality, author and actor from New York City. Franklin is noted for having the first talk show and inventing the format. His television series debuted in January 1951 on WJZ-TV, moving to WOR-TV in 1962, remaining there until 1993, one of the longest running uninterrupted careers in broadcasting history. Read more
• 09 Mar 1923: James L. Buckley, American lawyer, judge, and politician (died 2023) James Lane Buckley was an American politician, jurist, diplomat, and author. Buckley served in the United States Senate as a member of the Conservative Party of New York State, held multiple positions within the Reagan administration, and served as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was a brother of prominent conservative author and commentator William F. Buckley Jr. Read more
• 09 Mar 1923: André Courrèges, French fashion designer (died 2016) André Courrèges was a French fashion designer. He was particularly known for his streamlined 1960s designs influenced by modernism and futurism, exploiting modern technology and new fabrics. Courrèges defined the go-go boot and along with Mary Quant, is one of the designers credited with inventing the miniskirt. He founded the Courrèges fashion house alongside his wife Coqueline Courrèges. Read more
• 09 Mar 1923: Walter Kohn, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016) Walter Kohn was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist.
  He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to understanding the electronic properties of materials. In particular, Kohn played the leading role in the development of density functional theory, which made it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density. This computational simplification led to more accurate calculations on complex systems as well as many new insights, and it has become an essential tool for materials science, condensed-phase physics, and the chemical physics of atoms and molecules. Read more
• 09 Mar 1922: Ian Turbott, New Zealand-Australian former diplomat and university administrator (died 2016) Sir Ian Graham Turbott was a New Zealand-Australian diplomat and university administrator. Read more
• 09 Mar 1921: Carl Betz, American actor (died 1978) Carl Lawrence Betz was an American stage, film, and television actor. He appeared in a variety of television series, including the CBS soap opera Love of Life; he is best remembered for playing Donna Reed's television husband, Dr. Alex Stone, from 1958 to 1966 in the ABC sitcom The Donna Reed Show. Then between 1967 and 1969, Betz played defense attorney Clinton Judd in ABC's courtroom drama Judd, for the Defense, winning an Emmy Award in 1969 for his work on that series. Read more
• 09 Mar 1920: Franjo Mihalić, Croatian-Serbian runner and coach (died 2015) Franjo Mihalić was a Yugoslav and Croatian long-distance runner best known for his 1958 win at the Boston Marathon and his marathon silver medal in the 1956 Summer Olympics. Mihalić competed mostly in marathons, road races and cross country races, distinguishing himself by winning many top-level international competitions in the 1950s and setting a combined 25 Croatian and later Yugoslavian national records in long-distance track events between 5000 m and 25 km. In 1957, he became the inaugural winner of the Golden Badge, the award for the best sportsperson of Yugoslavia awarded by the daily Sport. He is regarded as the most accomplished male athlete in the history of Croatian, Serbian and Yugoslav track and field. Read more
• 09 Mar 1918: George Lincoln Rockwell, American sailor and politician, founded the American Nazi Party (died 1967) George Lincoln Rockwell was an American neo-Nazi activist who founded the American Nazi Party (ANP) and became one of the most notorious white supremacists in the United States until his assassination in 1967. Rockwell coined the expression White Power, which was also the title of his posthumously published political manifesto. Read more
• 09 Mar 1918: Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (died 2006) Frank Morrison Spillane, better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, called the "king of pulp fiction". He was best-known for stories featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. Read more
• 09 Mar 1915: Johnnie Johnson, English air marshal and pilot (died 2001) Air Vice Marshal James Edgar Johnson,, DL, nicknamed "Johnnie", was an English Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot and flying ace who flew and fought during the Second World War. Read more
• 09 Mar 1911: Clara Rockmore, American classical violin prodigy and theremin player (died 1998) Clara Reisenberg Rockmore was a Litvak classical violin prodigy and a virtuoso performer of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument. She was the sister of pianist Nadia Reisenberg. Read more
• 09 Mar 1910: Samuel Barber, American pianist and composer (died 1981) Samuel Osmond Barber II was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the mid-20th century. Principally influenced by nine years' composition studies with Rosario Scalero at the Curtis Institute and more than 25 years' study with his uncle, the composer Sidney Homer, Barber's music usually eschewed the experimental trends of musical modernism in favor of traditional 19th-century harmonic language and formal structure embracing lyricism and emotional expression. However, he adopted elements of modernism after 1940 in some of his compositions, such as an increased use of dissonance and chromaticism in the Cello Concerto (1945) and Medea's Dance of Vengeance (1955); and the use of tonal ambiguity and a narrow use of serialism in his Piano Sonata (1949), Prayers of Kierkegaard (1954), and Nocturne (1959). Read more
• 09 Mar 1904: Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American soldier and engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (died 2002) Paul Wilbur Klipsch was an American engineer and high fidelity audio pioneer, known for developing a high-efficiency folded horn loudspeaker. Unsatisfied with the sound quality of phonographs and early speaker systems, Klipsch used scientific principles to develop a corner horn speaker that sounded more lifelike than its predecessors. Read more
• 09 Mar 1902: Will Geer, American actor (died 1978) Will Geer was an American actor, musician, and social activist who was active in labor organizing and communist movements in New York City and Southern California in the 1930s and 1940s. In California, he befriended rising singer Woody Guthrie. They both lived in New York City for a time in the 1940s. He was blacklisted in the 1950s by Hollywood after refusing, in testimony before Congress, to name persons who had joined the Communist Party USA. Read more
• 09 Mar 1892: Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian politician (died 1971) Mátyás Rákosi was a Hungarian communist politician who was the de facto leader of Hungary from 1948 to 1956. He served first as General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party from 1945 to 1948 and then as General Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party from 1948 to 1956. Read more
• 09 Mar 1892: Vita Sackville-West, English author, poet, and gardener (died 1962) Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer. Read more
• 09 Mar 1891: José P. Laurel, Filipino lawyer, politician and President of the Philippines (died 1959) José Paciano Laurel y García was a Filipino politician, lawyer, and judge, who served as the President of the Second Philippine Republic from 1943 to 1945, which was a Japanese ally during World War II. Read more
• 09 Mar 1890: Rupert Balfe, Australian footballer and lieutenant (died 1915) Joseph Rupert Balfe was an Australian rules footballer and soldier who was killed during the landing at Anzac Cove. Read more
• 09 Mar 1890: Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1986) Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary. He was one of Joseph Stalin's closest allies and one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet government during his rule. In addition to serving as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars from 1930 to 1941, he held office as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and again from 1953 to 1956. Read more
• 09 Mar 1887: Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and physician (died 1976) Fritz Gottlieb Karl Lenz was a German geneticist, member of the Nazi Party, and influential specialist in eugenics in Nazi Germany. Read more
• 09 Mar 1863: Mary Harris Armor, American suffragist (died 1950) Mary Elizabeth Harris Armor was an American temperance leader. She was the Georgia state president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and is often credited for the passing of prohibition legislature in Georgia. Read more
• 09 Mar 1856: Eddie Foy, Sr., American actor and dancer (died 1928) Edwin Fitzgerald, known professionally as Eddie Foy and Eddie Foy Sr., was an American actor, comedian, dancer and vaudevillian. Read more
• 09 Mar 1850: Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (died 1925) Sir William Hamo Thornycroft was an English sculptor, responsible for some of London's best-known statues, including the statue of Oliver Cromwell outside the Palace of Westminster. He was a keen student of classical sculpture and was one of the youngest artists to be elected to the Royal Academy, in 1882, the same year the bronze cast of Teucer was purchased for the British nation under the auspices of the Chantrey Bequest. Read more
• 09 Mar 1847: Martin Pierre Marsick, Belgian violinist, composer, and educator (died 1924) Martin Pierre Marsick (1847–1924), was a Belgian violinist, organist, singer, composer and teacher. Marsick was the owner of the Marsick Stradivarius. Read more
• 09 Mar 1824: Amasa Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, founded Stanford University (died 1893) Amasa Leland Stanford was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from Watervliet, New York. He served as the eighth governor of California from 1862 to 1863 and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1885 until his death in 1893. Stanford and his wife Jane founded Stanford University, named after their late son. Read more
• 09 Mar 1820: Samuel Blatchford, American lawyer and jurist (died 1893) Samuel M. Blatchford was an American attorney and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from April 3, 1882, until his death in 1893. Read more
• 09 Mar 1815: David Davis, American jurist and politician (died 1886) David Davis was an American politician and jurist who was a U.S. senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860 Republican National Convention, engineering Lincoln's successful nomination for president by that party. Read more
• 09 Mar 1814: Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and playwright (died 1861) Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He wrote poetry in Ukrainian and prose in Russian. Read more
• 09 Mar 1806: Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (died 1872) Edwin Forrest was a nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor. His feud with the British actor William Macready was the cause of the deadly Astor Place Riot of 1849. Read more

🕊️ Important Deaths on 09 March in World History

• 09 Mar 2023: Chaim Topol, Israeli actor (born 1935) Chaim Topol, mononymously known as Topol, was an Israeli actor and singer. He is best known for his portrayal of Tevye, the lead character in the stage musical Fiddler on the Roof. Topol estimated that he played Tevye more than 3,500 times on stage from 1967 through 2009, and he also portrayed the character in the 1971 film adaptation of the play. Read more
• 09 Mar 2021: James Levine, American conductor and pianist (born 1943) James Lawrence Levine was an American conductor and pianist. He was music director of the Metropolitan Opera from 1976 to 2016, and wielded the baton for 2577 Met performances. At the end of his career, his reputation was tarnished by allegations of sexual misconduct. Levine denied the claims, but the Met found them credible enough to fire him in 2018. Read more
• 09 Mar 2021: Roger Mudd, American journalist (born 1928) Roger Harrison Mudd was an American broadcast journalist who was a correspondent and anchor for CBS News and NBC News. He also worked as the primary anchor for the History Channel. Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor for CBS Evening News, co-anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News, and host of the NBC-TV's Meet the Press and American Almanac TV programs. Mudd was a recipient of a Peabody Award, a Joan Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting, and five Emmy Awards. Read more
• 09 Mar 2020: John Bathersby, Australian Catholic bishop (born 1936) John Alexius Bathersby was an Australian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the sixth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Brisbane, serving from 1991 until his retirement in 2011. Bathersby was conferred with the title Emeritus Archbishop of Brisbane. Read more
• 09 Mar 2018: Jo Min-ki, Korean actor (born 1965) Jo Min-ki was a South Korean actor. He is best known for his roles in the television series Love and Ambition, East of Eden, Queen Seondeok, and Flames of Desire. He was also a noted photographer and published two books and held solo exhibitions,. In addition since 2010 he was an assistant professor at Cheongju University. Read more
• 09 Mar 2017: Howard Hodgkin, British painter (born 1932) Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction. Read more
• 09 Mar 2016: Robert Horton, American actor (born 1924) Mead Howard "Robert" Horton Jr. was an American actor and singer. He is known for playing Flint McCullough in Wagon Train (1957–1962). Read more
• 09 Mar 2016: Clyde Lovellette, American basketball player and coach (born 1929) Clyde Edward Lovellette was an American professional basketball player. Lovellette was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988. He was the first basketball player in history to achieve the Triple Crown – playing on an NCAA championship team, Olympics gold medal basketball team, and NBA championship squad. Read more
• 09 Mar 2015: James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, Northern Irish soldier and politician (born 1920) James Henry Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, KBE, PC, often known as Jim Molyneaux, was a unionist politician from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 1979 to 1995, and as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Antrim from 1970 to 1983, and later Lagan Valley from 1983 to 1997. An Orangeman, he was also Sovereign Grand Master of the Royal Black Institution from 1971 to 1995, and a leading member of the Conservative Monday Club. Read more
• 09 Mar 2013: Max Jakobson, Finnish journalist and diplomat (born 1923) Max Jakobson was a Finnish diplomat and journalist of Finnish-Jewish descent. Jakobson was an instrumental figure in shaping Finland's policy of neutrality during the Cold War. Read more
• 09 Mar 2013: Merton Simpson, American painter and art collector (born 1928) Merton Daniel Simpson was an American abstract expressionist painter and African and tribal art collector and dealer. Read more
• 09 Mar 2011: David S. Broder, American journalist and academic (born 1929) David Salzer Broder was an American journalist, writing for The Washington Post for over 40 years. He was also an author, television news show pundit, and university lecturer. Read more
• 09 Mar 2010: Willie Davis, American baseball player and manager (born 1940) William Henry Davis was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball and the Nippon Professional Baseball league as a center fielder from 1960 through 1979, most prominently as an integral member of the Los Angeles Dodgers teams that won three National League pennants and two World Series titles between 1963 and 1966. Read more
• 09 Mar 2010: Doris Haddock, American activist and politician (born 1910) Doris "Granny D" Haddock was an American political activist from New Hampshire. Haddock achieved national fame when, between the ages of 88 and 90, starting on January 1, 1999, and culminating on February 29, 2000, she walked over 3,200 miles (5,100 km) across the continental United States to advocate for campaign finance reform. In 2004, she ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Judd Gregg in the U.S. Senate election in New Hampshire. At age 94 at the time, Haddock was the oldest congressional candidate in U.S. history. Read more
• 09 Mar 2010: Wilfy Rebimbus, Indian singer (born 1942) Wilfred Gerald "Wilfy" Rebimbus was an Indian singer-songwriter, lyricist and playwright known for his Konkani and Tulu language compositions. He has been nicknamed the Konkan Kogul meaning cuckoo (songbird) of the Konkan. Read more
• 09 Mar 2010: Henry Wittenberg, American wrestler (born 1918) Henry Wittenberg was an American New York police officer, coach, competitor and Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling. He won two Olympic medals in freestyle wrestling, becoming the first American wrestler since 1908 to achieve this feat. After Army service in the early 1940s, he served with commendations as a New York City Police Officer until around 1954, worked as an instructor and college wrestling coach at Yeshiva and then City College of New York from 1967 to 1979, competed in, coached, and helped to organize the Maccabiah Games, and served as an American Olympic coach in 1968 at Mexico City. Read more
• 09 Mar 2007: Brad Delp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1951) Bradley Edward Delp was an American singer and musician who was the original lead vocalist and frontman of the American rock band Boston. A Massachusetts native, Delp began collaborating with leader Tom Scholz in 1970, and was the band's longtime lead singer across various stints from 1975 until his suicide in 2007. Delp is best known for his lead vocals on the albums Boston (1976), Don't Look Back (1978) and Third Stage (1986). He performed in every Boston concert tour prior to his death. Delp was known for his "unique and soulful singing and the vocal range of his 'golden' voice". ILoveClassicRock.com described Delp's tenor voice as "flawless" and "effortless", and ranked Delp third on its list of the
  Top 10 male classic rock vocalists. Read more
• 09 Mar 2007: Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1921) David Glen Harmon was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman who played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1942 to 1951. He was born in Holland, Manitoba and died in Mississauga, Ontario. Read more
• 09 Mar 2006: Tom Fox, American activist (born 1951) Thomas William Fox was an American Quaker peace activist, affiliated with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Iraq. He was kidnapped by Islamists on November 26, 2005, in Baghdad along with three other CPT activists, leading to the 2005–2006 Christian Peacemaker hostage crisis. His body was found on March 9, 2006. Read more
• 09 Mar 2006: Anna Moffo, American soprano (born 1932) Anna Moffo was an American opera singer, television personality, and actress. One of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation, she possessed a warm and radiant voice of considerable range and agility. Noted for her physical beauty, she was nicknamed "La Bellissima". Read more
• 09 Mar 2006: John Profumo, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for War (born 1915) John Dennis Profumo was a British politician whose career ended in 1963 after a sexual relationship with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler in 1961. The scandal, which became known as the Profumo affair, led to his resignation from the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan. Read more
• 09 Mar 2004: John Mayer, Indian composer (born 1930) John Henry Basil Mayer was an Indian composer known primarily for his fusions of jazz with Indian music in the British-based group Indo-Jazz Fusions with the Jamaican-born saxophonist Joe Harriott. Read more
• 09 Mar 2003: Stan Brakhage, American director and cinematographer (born 1933) James Stanley Brakhage was an American experimental filmmaker. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film. Read more
• 09 Mar 2003: Bernard Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician, President of Nauru (born 1946) Bernard Annen Auwen Dowiyogo was a Nauruan politician who served as President of Nauru on seven separate occasions. During this time, he also served as a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Ubenide. Read more
• 09 Mar 2000: Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (born 1908) Jean Coulthard, was a Canadian composer and music educator. She was one of a trio of women composers who dominated Western Canadian music in the twentieth century: Coulthard, Barbara Pentland, and Violet Archer. All three died within weeks of each other in 2000. Her works might be loosely termed "prematurely neo-Romantic," as the orthodox serialists who dominated academic musical life in North America during the 1950s and 1960s had little use for her. Read more
• 09 Mar 1999: Harry Somers, Canadian pianist and composer (born 1925) Harry Stewart Somers, CC was a contemporary Canadian composer. Read more
• 09 Mar 1999: George Singh, Belizean jurist and Chief Justice of Belize (born 1937) George Bawa Singh was a Belizean judge who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1998 and as a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court from 1991 to 1998. He previously served as Solicitor General and Director of Public Prosecutions. Read more
• 09 Mar 1997: Jean-Dominique Bauby, French journalist and author (born 1952) Jean-Dominique Bauby was a French journalist, author and editor of the French fashion magazine Elle. Read more
• 09 Mar 1997: Terry Nation, Welsh author and screenwriter (born 1930) Terence Joseph Nation was a Welsh screenwriter and novelist. Especially known for his work in British television science fiction, he created the Daleks and Davros for Doctor Who, as well as the series Survivors and Blake's 7. Read more
• 09 Mar 1997: The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper, songwriter, and actor (born 1972) Christopher George Latore Wallace, better known by his stage names the Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, was an American rapper and songwriter. Rooted in the East Coast hip-hop and gangsta rap traditions, he is widely considered one of the greatest rappers of all time. Wallace became known for his distinctive, laidback lyrical delivery, offsetting his lyrics' often grim content. His music was semi-autobiographical, telling of hardship and criminality but also of debauchery and celebration. Read more
• 09 Mar 1996: George Burns, American comedian, actor, and writer (born 1896) George Burns was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer, and one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film, and television. His arched eyebrow and cigar-smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks. He and his wife Gracie Allen appeared on radio, television and film as the comedy duo Burns and Allen. Read more
• 09 Mar 1995: Edward Bernays, Austrian-American propagandist (born 1891) Edward Louis Bernays was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". While credited with advancing the profession of public relations, his techniques have been criticized for manipulating public opinion, often in ways that undermined individual autonomy and democratic values. Read more
• 09 Mar 1994: Charles Bukowski, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (born 1920) Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. Bukowski's work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. Read more
• 09 Mar 1994: Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler, referee, and manager (born 1928) Eddie Creatchman was a Canadian professional wrestling manager. He was known as Eddie "The Brain" Creatchman, manager of wrestlers such as The Sheik and Steve Strong. Read more
• 09 Mar 1994: Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (born 1917) Fernando Casado Arambillet, best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, international actor best known for his roles in the films of surrealist director Luis Buñuel and as the drug lord Alain Charnier in The French Connection (1971) and French Connection II (1975), he appeared in more than 150 films over half a century. Read more
• 09 Mar 1993: C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (born 1909) Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law (1957), in which Parkinson named the satirical Law stating that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" after himself. The Law came to be taken seriously and led to his being regarded as an important scholar in public administration and management. Read more
• 09 Mar 1992: Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli soldier, politician and Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913) Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician who founded Herut and Likud and served as prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983. Read more
• 09 Mar 1991: Jim Hardin, American baseball player (born 1943) James Warren Hardin was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1967 through 1972, most notably as a member of the Baltimore Orioles dynasty that won three consecutive American League pennants from 1969 to 1971, and won the World Series in 1970. He also played for the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Braves. Read more
• 09 Mar 1989: Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (born 1946) Robert Michael Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images. His most controversial works documented and examined the gay male BDSM subculture of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Read more
• 09 Mar 1988: Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (born 1904) Kurt Georg Kiesinger was a German politician and lawyer who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1 December 1966 to 21 October 1969. Before he became chancellor, he served as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg from 1958 to 1966 and as President of the Bundesrat from 1962 to 1963. He was chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1967 to 1971. Read more
• 09 Mar 1983: Faye Emerson, American actress (born 1917) Faye Margaret Emerson was an American film and stage actress and television interviewer who gained fame as a film actress in the 1940s before transitioning to television in the 1950s and hosting her own talk show. Read more
• 09 Mar 1983: Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905) Ulf Svante von Euler was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for his work on neurotransmitters. Read more
• 09 Mar 1974: Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915) Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. was an American pharmacologist and biochemist born in Burlingame, Kansas. Sutherland won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1971 "for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones", especially epinephrine, via second messengers, namely cyclic adenosine monophosphate, or cyclic AMP. Read more
• 09 Mar 1974: Harry Womack, American singer (born 1945) Harris "Harry" Womack was an American singer and musician, most notable for his tenure as a member of the family R&B quintet The Valentinos. Read more
• 09 Mar 1971: Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Pope (born 1902) Pope Cyril VI was the 116th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark from 10 May 1959 until his death in 1971. Read more
• 09 Mar 1969: Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (born 1919) Abdul Munim Riad was an Egyptian military officer and the Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces from 1967 to 1969. He commanded the Jordanian Armed Forces during the 1967 Six-Day War and later led the Egyptian forces in the War of Attrition, where he and several of his aides were killed in action in 1969. His death on 9 March is observed as Egyptian Martyrs' Day. Read more
• 09 Mar 1964: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (born 1870) Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (popularly known as the Lion of Africa, was a general in the Imperial German Army and the commander of its forces in the German East Africa campaign. For four years, with a force of about 14,000, he held in check a much larger force of 300,000 British, Indian, Belgian, and Portuguese troops. He is known for never being defeated or captured in battle. Read more
• 09 Mar 1955: Miroslava Stern (Miroslava), Czech-Mexican actress (born 1925) Miroslava Šternová, known mononymously as Miroslava, was a Mexican actress. Read more
• 09 Mar 1954: Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (born 1874) Vagn Walfrid Ekman was a Swedish oceanographer. Read more
• 09 Mar 1943: Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (born 1878) Otto Freundlich was a German painter and sculptor of Jewish origin. One of the first generation of abstract artists, Freundlich deeply admired cubism and spent much of his life in France. He was murdered at the Majdanek concentration camp during the Holocaust. Read more
• 09 Mar 1937: Paul Elmer More, American journalist and critic (born 1864) Paul Elmer More was an American journalist, critic, essayist and Christian apologist. Read more
• 09 Mar 1926: Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual leader, founded Reiki (born 1865) Mikao Usui was the father of a form of energy medicine and spiritual practice known as Reiki, used as an alternative therapy for the treatment of physical, emotional, and mental diseases. According to the inscription on his memorial stone, Usui taught Reiki to over 2,000 people during his lifetime. Eleven of these students continued their training to reach the Shinpiden level, a level equivalent to the Western third degree, or Master level. Read more
• 09 Mar 1925: Willard Metcalf, American painter and academic (born 1858) Willard Leroy Metcalf was an American painter born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended Académie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent as a landscape painter. He was one of the Ten American Painters who in 1897 seceded from the Society of American Artists. For some years he was an instructor in the Women's Art School, Cooper Union, New York, and in the Art Students League, New York. In 1893 he became a member of the American Watercolor Society, New York. Generally associated with American Impressionism, he is also remembered for his New England landscapes and involvement with the Old Lyme Art Colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut and his influential years at the Cornish Art Colony. Read more
• 09 Mar 1918: Frank Wedekind, German author and playwright (born 1864) Benjamin Franklin Wedekind was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes, is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the development of epic theatre. Read more
• 09 Mar 1897: Sondre Norheim, Norwegian-American skier (born 1825) Sondre Norheim, born Sondre Auverson, was a Norwegian skier and pioneer of modern skiing. Sondre Norheim is known as the father of Telemark skiing.

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• 09 Mar 1895: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian journalist and author (born 1836) Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch 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. Masoch did not approve of this use of his name. Read more
• 09 Mar 1888: William I, German Emperor (born 1797) Wilhelm I 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. He was regent of Prussia from 1858 to 1861 for his elder brother, King Frederick William IV. During the reign of his grandson Wilhelm II, he was known as Emperor Wilhelm the Great. Read more
• 09 Mar 1876: Louise Colet, French poet (born 1810) Louise Colet, born Louise Revoil de Servannes, was a French poet and writer. Read more
• 09 Mar 1851: Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist, discovered electromagnetism and the element aluminium (born 1777) Hans Christian Ørsted, sometimes transliterated as Oersted, was a Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. This phenomenon is known as Oersted's law. He also discovered aluminium, a chemical element. Read more
• 09 Mar 1847: Mary Anning, English paleontologist (born 1799) Mary Anning 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, Southwest England. Anning's findings contributed to changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth. Read more
• 09 Mar 1831: Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger, German author and playwright (born 1752) Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger was a German dramatist and novelist. His play Sturm und Drang (1776) gave its name to the Sturm und Drang artistic epoch. He was a childhood friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and is often closely associated with Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. Klinger worked as a playwright for the Seylersche Schauspiel-Gesellschaft for two years, but eventually left the Kingdom of Prussia to become a General in the Imperial Russian Army. Read more
• 09 Mar 1825: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet, author, and critic (born 1743) Anna Laetitia Barbauld was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature. A prominent member of the Blue Stockings Society and a "woman of letters" who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career that spanned more than half a century. Read more
• 09 Mar 1810: Ozias Humphry, English painter and academic (born 1742) Ozias Humphry was an English painter who specialised in portrait painting, including portrait miniatures. Humphry was elected to the Royal Academy in 1791, and in 1792 he was appointed Portrait Painter in Crayons to the King. Read more
• 09 Mar 1808: Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (born 1739) Joseph Bonomi the Elder was an Italian architect and draughtsman who spent most of his career in England where he became a successful designer of country houses. Bonomi was Robert Adam’s leading draughtsman. Read more

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