October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in Leap years). There are 83 days remaining.
Events:
Births:
- 1585 - Heinrich Schütz, composer
- 1757 - Charles X of France
- 1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer
- 1835 - Camille Saint-Saens, French composer (+ 1921)
- 1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (+ 1935)
- 1873 - Charles Walgreen[?], entrepreneur (+ 1939)
- 1886 - Rube Marquard[?], baseball star (+ 1980)
- 1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician
- 1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (+ 1944)
- 1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet
- 1900 - Alastair Sim, actor (+ 1976)
- 1907 - Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (+ 2001)
- 1909 - Jacques Tati, actor (+ 1982)
- 1909 - Frederick Coggan[?], Archbishop of Canterbury (+ 2000)
- 1923 - Fyvush Finkel[?], actor
- 1937 - Brian Blessed[?], actor
- 1940 - John Lennon, British musician, songwriter (+ 1980)
- 1941 - Trent Lott, American politician
- 1944 - John Entwistle, British bassist of The Who (+ 2002)
- 1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae musician (+ 1987)
- 1948 - Jackson Browne, musician
- 1953 - Tony Shalhoub[?], actor
- 1954 - Scott Bakula, American television actor
- 1962 - Tommy Lee, American drummer
- 1969 - P.J. Harvey, musician
- 1970 - Savannah[?], pornographic movie actress (+ 1994)
- 1975 - Sean Lennon, musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Deaths:
- 1253 - Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
- 1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary
- 1806 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer
- 1934 - King Alexander of Yugoslavia[?]
- 1941 - Helen Morgan[?], singer, actress
- 1958 - Pope Pius XII
- 1962 - Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player.
- 1967 - Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader - executed.
- 1972 - Miriam Hopkins, actress
- 1974 - Oskar Schindler, businessman
- 1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian musician
- 1987 - Clare Booth Luce[?], diplomat
- 1991 - Thalmus Rasulala[?], actor
- 1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1996 - Walter Kerr[?], movie critic
- 2000 - David Dukes[?], actor
- 2001 - Dagmar[?], television personality
Holidays:
See Also: January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December
October 8 - October 10 - September 9 - November 9 - more historical anniversaries