On This Day
Tuesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
April 9 1968
Born on This Day
A. J. Ellis🇺🇸
Major League Baseball catcher in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization · b. 1981
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Albert Hammond, Jr.🇺🇸
American rock musician · b. 1980
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Andre de Kruijff🇳🇱
deceasedfootball player · 1895–1964
Days lived
25,436
Blaise Matuidi🇫🇷
football player · b. 1987
Bruce Robertson🇳🇿
deceasedNew Zealand rugby union player · 1952–2023
Days lived
25,965
Carl Amery🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1922–2005
Days lived
30,361
Carlos Lemos🇧🇷
Brazilian martial artist · b. 1978
Charles Holroyd🇬🇧
deceasedBritish artist (1861-1917) · 1861–1917
Days lived
20,675
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Chris Watson🇨🇱
deceasedpolitician · 1867–1941
Days lived
27,251
Clueso🇩🇪
rapper · b. 1980
Doctor P🇬🇧
rapper · b. 1986
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Dominik Meffert🇩🇪
German tennis player · b. 1981
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Eberhard Zangger🇩🇪
German geoarchaeologist and communications consultant · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Elena Lashmanova🇷🇺
Russian race walker · b. 1992
Elias Gabriel Galvan
American bishop · b. 1938
Days alive
10,958
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Elle Fanning
actor · b. 1998
Erich Ludendorff🇺🇸
deceasedwriter · 1865–1937
Days lived
26,552
Erwin Glock🇩🇪
deceasedGerman sports shooter · 1925–1993
Days lived
24,918
Franziska Baumann🇨🇭
Swiss musician (born 1965) · b. 1965
Days alive
1,096
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Gerard Way🇺🇸
singer-songwriter · b. 1977
Graham Reid🇦🇺
Australian field hockey player · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Grant McLeod🇳🇿
New Zealand field hockey player · b. 1959
Days alive
3,288
Gregory Goodwin Pincus🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican biochemist (1903–1967) · 1903–1967
Days lived
23,511
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Hans Jeschonnek🇵🇱
deceasedmilitary person · 1899–1943
Days lived
16,201
Heinz Nixdorf🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1925–1986
Days lived
22,257
Henry Tonks🇬🇧
deceasedBritish artist (1862-1937) · 1862–1937
Days lived
27,302
Henry Winterfeld🇺🇸
deceasedGerman writer and artist (1901–1990) · 1901–1990
Days lived
32,435
Horia Demian🇷🇴
deceasedRomanian basketball player · 1942–1989
Days lived
17,166
Hugo Liepmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman neurologist and psychiatrist (1863–1925) · 1863–1925
Days lived
22,652
Isaac Hempstead-Wright
actor · b. 1999
Jay Baruchel🇨🇦
Canadian actor · b. 1982
Jean-Paul Belmondo🇫🇷
deceasedFilm producer · 1933–2021
Days lived
32,292
Jeff Turner🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
Jenna Jameson🇺🇸
entrepreneur · b. 1974
Jesse McCartney🇺🇸
American singer and actor · b. 1987
Jimmy Wargh🇫🇮
Finnish association football player · b. 1976
John Yapp🇬🇧
Welsh rugby union player · b. 1983
Josef Mayer🇦🇹
deceasedCzech member of Czech council and manager (1877-1938) · 1877–1938
Days lived
22,302
Karina Kraushaar🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1971-2015) · 1971–2015
Days lived
16,036
Kristen Stewart🇺🇸
American actress · b. 1990
Léon Blum🇫🇷
deceasedpolitician · 1872–1950
Days lived
28,478
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Lil Nas X
rapper · b. 1999
Ludwig Stiegler🇩🇪
German politician · b. 1944
Days alive
8,766
Marc Jacobs🇺🇸
Fashion Designer · b. 1963
Days alive
1,827
Martin Margiela🇧🇪
Belgian fashion designer (born 1957) · b. 1957
Days alive
4,018
Olivier Sorlin🇫🇷
French football midfielder · b. 1979
Oskar Marmorek
deceasedAustria-Hungarian architect and Zionist (1863-1905/9) · 1863–1905
Days lived
15,307
Paddy Barnes🇬🇧
boxer · b. 1987
Rico Gulda🇦🇹
rapper · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Robert Zubrin🇺🇸
scientist · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
Sergei Lebedev🇷🇺
military person · b. 1948
Days alive
7,305
Theodor Koch-Grunberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman ethnologist (1872-1924) · 1872–1924
Days lived
19,174
Tim Bendzko🇩🇪
singer · b. 1985
Valerie Solanas🇺🇸
deceasedwriter · 1936–1988
Days lived
19,009
Viviane Brunieri🇧🇷
former Brazilian model and porn star · b. 1976
Died on This Day
Adolf Wagner🇩🇪
deceasedGerman weightlifter · 1911–1984
Days lived
26,585
Botho Graef🇩🇪
deceasedGerman art historian and archaeologist (1857–1917) · 1857–1917
Days lived
21,728
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Dieter Kottysch🇩🇪
deceasedGerman boxer (1943-2017) · 1943–2017
Days lived
26,947
Dimitrie-Doru Todericiu🇫🇷
deceasedscience historian and writer (1921–2008) · 1921–2008
Days lived
31,676
Eduard Pulvermann🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1882–1944
Days lived
22,499
Ferdinand Tönnies🇩🇪
deceasedphilosopher · 1855–1936
Days lived
29,477
Frank Lloyd Wright🇺🇸
deceasedwriter · 1867–1959
Days lived
33,542
Hisashi Inoue🇯🇵
deceasedwriter · 1934–2010
Days lived
27,538
Judith Reisman🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1935–2021
Days lived
31,410
Michael Degen🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Israeli actor (1928–2022) · 1928–2022
Days lived
34,402
Pamela Wedekind🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1906-1986) · 1906–1986
Days lived
28,973
Paul Leder🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor and film director (1926-1996) · 1926–1996
Days lived
25,583
Pim Lier🇳🇱
deceasedpolitician · 1918–2015
Days lived
35,325
Russell Knipp🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican weightlifter (1942–2006) · 1942–2006
Days lived
23,334
Shrimad Rajchandra
deceasedphilosopher · 1867–1901
Days lived
12,202
Sidney Lumet🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican director, producer and screenwriter (1924–2011) · 1924–2011
Days lived
31,699
Siegfried Rundel🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1940–2009
Days lived
25,184
Vilgot Sjöman🇸🇪
deceasedSwedish writer and film director (1924-2006) · 1924–2006
Days lived
29,713
William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn🇬🇧
deceasedBritish baron (1856-1936) · 1856–1936
Days lived
29,029
Zao Wou-Ki🇫🇷
deceasedartist · 1920–2013
Days lived
34,036
Zog I of Albania
deceasedpolitician · 1895–1961
Days lived
23,924
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,101
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,772
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,945
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,642
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,215
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,657
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,623
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,257
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,701
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,353
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,152
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,666
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,684
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,353
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,705
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,248
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,158
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,135
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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