Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 9
Births
[edit]- 1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer (d. 1512)(pictured)
- 1749 - Honore Mirabeau, French writer and politician (d. 1791)
- 1918 - Mickey Spillane, American writer (d. 2006)
- 1934 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut and first man in space (d. 1968)
- 1943 - Bobby Fischer, American chess player (d. 2008)
- 1964 - Juliette Binoche, French actress
Deaths
[edit]- 1661 - Jules Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1602)
- 1709 - Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat
- 1888 - William I, German Emperor, (b. 1797)
- 1996 - George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)