On This Day
Thursday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
May 9 1968
Born on This Day
Aleksey Gorshkov🇷🇺
football player · b. 1993
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Andrew W.K.🇺🇸
Singer · b. 1979
Anton Magnis
deceasedentrepreneur · 1862–1944
Days lived
30,111
Benjamin Graham🇬🇧
deceasedInvestor & Author · 1894–1976
Days lived
30,085
Billy Joel🇺🇸
singer-songwriter · b. 1949
Days alive
6,940
Brendon Hackwill🇦🇺
deceasedAustralian rules footballer (1942–1995) · 1942–1995
Days lived
19,444
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Candice Bergen🇺🇸
American actress · b. 1946
Days alive
8,036
Dirk Schlichting🇩🇪
German artist · b. 1965
Days alive
1,096
Don H. Staheli🇺🇸
American Mormon bishop · b. 1949
Days alive
6,940
Douglas Luiz
association football player · b. 1998
Drafi Deutscher🇩🇪
deceasedrapper · 1946–2006
Days lived
21,946
Dragan Tarlać🇬🇷
basketball player · b. 1973
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Ellen White🇬🇧
football player · b. 1989
Ezra Klein🇺🇸
writer · b. 1984
Fred Apke🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1959
Days alive
3,288
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Fritz Heitmann🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1891–1953
Days lived
22,766
Fritz Sennheiser🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1912–2010
Days lived
35,802
Grete Stern🇩🇪
deceasedartist · 1904–1999
Days lived
34,927
Hans Wehrmann🇩🇪
entrepreneur · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Hans Wilhelm Hagen🇩🇪
deceasedGerman art historian and journalist (1907–1969) · 1907–1969
Days lived
22,609
Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman physician (1905–1985) · 1905–1985
Days lived
29,255
Henry J. Kaiser🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican industrialist (1882–1967) · 1882–1967
Days lived
31,152
Hsu Shu-ching
Taiwanese weightlifter · b. 1991
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Ivan Djeparoski🇲🇰
writer · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
János Áder🇭🇺
politician · b. 1959
Days alive
3,288
Joan Sims🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish actress (1930-2001) · 1930–2001
Days lived
25,982
John Corbett🇺🇸
singer-songwriter · b. 1961
Days alive
2,557
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José Ortega y Gasset🇪🇸
deceasedSpanish liberal philosopher and essayist (1883-1955) · 1883–1955
Days lived
26,459
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Kate Richardson-Walsh🇬🇧
field hockey captain for Great Britain and England · b. 1980
Kévin Bérigaud🇫🇷
French footballer · b. 1988
Kevin Peter Hall🇺🇸
deceasedathlete · 1955–1991
Days lived
13,120
Kukka Laakso🇫🇮
Finnish athlete · b. 1979
Manfred Eigen🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1927–2019
Days lived
33,511
Nicolas Ghesquière🇫🇷
French fashion designer · b. 1971
Noah Centineo
Actor · b. 1996
Óscar Montero🇻🇪
Venezuelan baseball player (1978-) · b. 1978
Pancho Gonzales🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican tennis player (1928–1995) · 1928–1995
Days lived
24,526
Paul Heaton🇬🇧
Singer · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
Pierre Desproges🇫🇷
deceasedjournalist · 1939–1988
Days lived
17,877
Prince Fielder🇺🇸
American baseball player · b. 1984
Richard Schumann🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian Esperantist and astronomer (1864–1945) · 1864–1945
Days lived
29,488
Richie Furay🇺🇸
musician · b. 1944
Days alive
8,766
Sophie Scholl
deceasedNotable Trials · 1921–1943
Days lived
7,959
Tyler Lumsden🇺🇸
film director · b. 1983
Ulrich Kienzle🇩🇪
deceasedGerman journalist (1936–2020) · 1936–2020
Days lived
30,658
Vijay Deverakonda🇮🇳
Actor · b. 1989
William Slade🇬🇧
deceasedathlete · 1873–1941
Days lived
24,980
Wim Thoelke🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1927–1995
Days lived
25,038
Zvi Alderoti🇮🇱
deceasedIsraeli politician · 1934–2018
Days lived
30,655
Died on This Day
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Adriaan Paulen🇳🇱
deceasedfootball player · 1902–1985
Days lived
30,160
Alice Faye🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actress and singer (1915–1998) · 1915–1998
Days lived
30,320
Anni Albers🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American textile artist, weaver and graphic designer, student and teacher at the Bauhaus (1899–1994) · 1899–1994
Days lived
34,664
Brenda Fassie🇿🇦
deceasedSouth African pop singer (1964-2004) · 1964–2004
Days lived
14,432
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Chuck Daly🇺🇸
deceasedbasketball player · 1930–2009
Days lived
28,783
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David Cairns🇬🇧
deceasedpolitician · 1966–2011
Days lived
16,346
David Tsimakuridze
deceasedGeorgian wrestler (1925-2006) · 1925–2006
Days lived
29,629
Dennis Nineham🇬🇧
deceasedBritish theologian · 1921–2016
Days lived
34,558
Duke Friedrich, Hereditary Duke of Württemberg🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1961–2018
Days lived
20,796
Franz Etzel🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1902-1970) · 1902–1970
Days lived
24,742
Hans Kammler🇩🇪
deceasedGerman architect, SS general, head of construction and armament projects in the German Reich (1901-1945) · 1901–1945
Days lived
15,962
Heinrich Hannibal🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general · 1889–1971
Days lived
29,755
Leopold Figl🇦🇹
deceasedpolitician · 1902–1965
Days lived
22,865
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Little Richard🇺🇸
deceasedmusician · 1932–2020
Days lived
31,932
Marco Ferreri🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film director, screenwriter and actor (1928—1997) · 1928–1997
Days lived
25,200
Nadja Abd el Farrag🇩🇪
deceasedGerman television personality (1965–2025) · 1965–2025
Days lived
21,980
Odo Marquard🇩🇪
deceasedphilosopher (1928-2015) · 1928–2015
Days lived
31,849
Oskar Hergt🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1869–1967) · 1869–1967
Days lived
35,627
Rudolf Ismayr🇩🇪
deceasedGerman weightlifter (1908-1998) · 1908–1998
Days lived
32,714
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Ulrike Meinhof
deceasedNotable Trials · 1934–1976
Days lived
15,190
Vidal Sassoon🇺🇸
deceasedBritish hairstylist (1928–2012) · 1928–2012
Days lived
30,794
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
42,131
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
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
Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
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
49,802
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
47,975
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,672
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,245
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,687
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,653
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,287
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,731
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,383
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,182
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,696
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,714
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,383
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,735
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,278
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,188
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,165
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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