Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 9
Births
[edit]- 1640 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
- 1672 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
- 1843 - Bertha von Suttner, (pictured) Austrian novelist and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)
- 1891 - Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d. 1964)
- 1915 - Les Paul, influential American guitarist (d. 2009)
- 1916 - Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense and president of the World Bank (d. 2009)
- 1961 - Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor
- 1963 - Johnny Depp, American actor
- 1978 - Matt Bellamy, British guitarist, keyboard player and vocalist (Muse)
- 1981 - Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress
Deaths
[edit]- AD 68 - Nero, Roman Emperor (b. AD 37)
- 1870 - Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
- 1964 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
- 1974 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)