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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 9th of February 0474 | EVENT | Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. |
| 9th of February 1555 | EVENT | Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake. |
| 9th of February 1621 | EVENT | Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation. |
| 9th of February 1775 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion. |
| 9th of February 1788 | EVENT | The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp. |
| 9th of February 1825 | EVENT | After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States. |
| 9th of February 1849 | EVENT | New Roman Republic established |
| 9th of February 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama. |
| 9th of February 1870 | EVENT | The U.S. Weather Bureau is established. |
| 9th of February 1885 | EVENT | The first Japanese government-approved immigrants arrive in Hawaii. |
| 9th of February 1889 | EVENT | The United States Department of Agriculture is established as a Cabinet-level agency. |
| 9th of February 1895 | EVENT | William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball. |
| 9th of February 1900 | EVENT | The Davis Cup competition is established. |
| 9th of February 1904 | EVENT | Russo : Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes. |
| 9th of February 1913 | EVENT | A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. |
| 9th of February 1920 | EVENT | Under the terms of the Spitsbergen Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized. |
| 9th of February 1922 | EVENT | Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
| 9th of February 1934 | EVENT | The Balkan Entente is formed. |
| 9th of February 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war. |
| 9th of February 1942 | EVENT | Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources. |
| 9th of February 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. |
| 9th of February 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic : HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat. |
| 9th of February 1945 | EVENT | World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in F?rdefjorden, Norway. |
| 9th of February 1950 | EVENT | Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. |
| 9th of February 1959 | EVENT | The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR. |
| 9th of February 1964 | EVENT | The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers. |
| 9th of February 1965 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam. |
| 9th of February 1969 | EVENT | First test flight of the Boeing 747. |
| 9th of February 1971 | EVENT | The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California. |
| 9th of February 1971 | EVENT | Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. |
| 9th of February 1971 | EVENT | Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing. |
| 9th of February 1973 | EVENT | Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India. |
| 9th of February 1975 | EVENT | The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth. |
| 9th of February 1991 | EVENT | Voters in Lithuania vote for independence. |
| 9th of February 1995 | EVENT | Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks. |
| 9th of February 1996 | EVENT | The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18 month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf. |
| 9th of February 2001 | EVENT | The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School. |
| 9th of February 1533 | BIRTHDAY | Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611) |
| 9th of February 1645 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Aegidius Bach, German violist (d. 1716) |
| 9th of February 1666 | BIRTHDAY | George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (d. 1737) |
| 9th of February 1737 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Paine, English radical liberal philosopher, American revolutionary (d. 1809) |
| 9th of February 1747 | BIRTHDAY | John Thomas Duckworth, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1817) |
| 9th of February 1748 | BIRTHDAY | Luther Martin, American patriot (d. 1826) |
| 9th of February 1756 | BIRTHDAY | Karel Blazej Kopriva, Czech composer (d. 1785) |
| 9th of February 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1830) |
| 9th of February 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Susette Gontard, the beloved of the poet Friedrich Holderlin (d. 1802) |
| 9th of February 1773 | BIRTHDAY | William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (d. 1841) |
| 9th of February 1775 | BIRTHDAY | Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1856) |
| 9th of February 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist (d. 1826) |
| 9th of February 1783 | BIRTHDAY | Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852) |
| 9th of February 1789 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849) |
| 9th of February 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (d. 1844) |
| 9th of February 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Jones Tilden, 28th Governor of New York (d. 1886) |
| 9th of February 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Abd-ul-Aziz, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876) |
| 9th of February 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Dahn, German author (d. 1912) |
| 9th of February 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (d. 1896) |
| 9th of February 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Maybach, German automotive designer (d. 1929) |
| 9th of February 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (d. 1904) |
| 9th of February 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (d. 1949) |
| 9th of February 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Mrs. Patrick Campbell, British actress (d. 1940) |
| 9th of February 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Natsume Soseki, Japanese novelist. (d. 1916) |
| 9th of February 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Lowell, American poet (d. 1925) |
| 9th of February 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Lipot Fejer, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1959) |
| 9th of February 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Alban Berg, Austrian composer (d. 1935) |
| 9th of February 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Colman, English actor (d. 1958) |
| 9th of February 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Peggy Wood, American actress (d. 1978) |
| 9th of February 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer, politician and Prime Minister (d. 1987) |
| 9th of February 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959) |
| 9th of February 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian pilot (d. 1935) |
| 9th of February 1901 | BIRTHDAY | James Murray, American actor (d. 1936) |
| 9th of February 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Donlevy, Irish actor (d. 1972) |
| 9th of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's leader (d. 1999) |
| 9th of February 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Kostolany, stock market expert and speculator (d. 1999) |
| 9th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Harald Genzmer, German composer (d. 2007) |
| 9th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Angel, British actress (d. 1986) |
| 9th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Rusk, 54th United States Secretary of State (d. 1994) |
| 9th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Miranda, Brazilian actress (d. 1955) |
| 9th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Monod, French biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976) |
| 9th of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | William Darby, American World War II Army officer (d. 1945) |
| 9th of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (d. 1968) |
| 9th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (d. 1986) |
| 9th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Tubb, American singer (d. 1984) |
| 9th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Justice, American Disney animator |
| 9th of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Lennard Pearce, English actor (d. 1984) |
| 9th of February 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Tex Hughson, American baseball player (d. 1993) |
| 9th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Kathryn Grayson, American actress (d. 2010) |
| 9th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Laker, English cricketer (d. 1986) |
| 9th of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Behan, Irish author (d. 1964) |
| 9th of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Burkhard Heim, German physicist (d. 2001) |
| 9th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Garret FitzGerald, 7th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland |
| 9th of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Frazetta, American illustrator (d. 2010) |
| 9th of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Rinus Michels, Dutch football coach (d. 2005) |
| 9th of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Mudd, American journalist |
| 9th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Clement Meadmore, Australian-born sculptor (d. 2005) |
| 9th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 2003) |
| 9th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist (d. 1989) |
| 9th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Josef Masopust, Czech footballer |
| 9th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player |
| 9th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Gerhard Richter, German painter |
| 9th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (d. 2003) |
| 9th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | John Ziegler, former NHL Commissioner |
| 9th of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Rev. Lionel Fanthorpe, British pastor, entertainer, journalist, writer and paranormal investigator |
| 9th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country singer |
| 9th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Clive Swift, British actor |
| 9th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Clete Boyer, American baseball player (d. 2007) |
| 9th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Mann, American singer |
| 9th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Suzman, South African actress |
| 9th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Bennett, British musician (The Shadows) |
| 9th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | J. M. Coetzee, South African author, Nobel laureate |
| 9th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Sheila Kuehl, American actress |
| 9th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Carole King, American singer |
| 9th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jonny Nilsson, Swedish speedskater |
| 9th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Pesci, American actor |
| 9th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Lewis, American singer and songwriter |
| 9th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate |
| 9th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Derryn Hinch, Australian media personality |
| 9th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Walker, American writer |
| 9th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Lenorman, French singer |
| 9th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Mia Farrow, American actress |
| 9th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Neeson, Northern Irish politician |
| 9th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Webb, United States Senator from Virginia |
| 9th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Eamon Duffy, Irish academic, Cambridge University |
| 9th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Papale, American football player |
| 9th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Reinhard Adler, German footballer |
| 9th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Carla Del Ponte, Swiss UN prosecutor |
| 9th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Ely, American musician |
| 9th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Lamarche, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 9th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Major Harris, American singer |
| 9th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Light, American actress |
| 9th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Richard F. Colburn, American politician |
| 9th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Danny White, American football player |
| 9th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mookie Wilson, American baseball player |
| 9th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ciaran Hinds, Northern Irish actor |
| 9th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Father Ezechiele Ramin MCCJ, Italian Comboni missionary priest and martyr (d. 1985) |
| 9th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Rotello, American television documentary producer |
| 9th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Jo Duffy, American comic book writer and editor |
| 9th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Warwick, cyborg scientist |
| 9th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Gardner, American entrepreneur |
| 9th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jim J. Bullock, American actor |
| 9th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Shaughnessy, British actor |
| 9th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Strachan, Scottish football player and manager |
| 9th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Nilan, hockey player |
| 9th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Cyrille Regis, English former footballer |
| 9th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Peggy Whitson, NASA astronaut |
| 9th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Holly Johnson, British singer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) |
| 9th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | John Kruk, American baseball player |
| 9th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jussi Lampi, Finnish musician and actor |
| 9th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Anik Bissonnette, French-Canadian ballet dancer (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens) |
| 9th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Greene, American physicist |
| 9th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Travis Tritt, American singer |
| 9th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Warner, American actress |
| 9th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Malkov, Russian speedskater |
| 9th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Harald Eia, Norwegian TV personality and comedian |
| 9th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete |
| 9th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Pratt, American baseball player |
| 9th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Rahul Roy, Indian actor |
| 9th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Alejandra Guzman, Mexican singer |
| 9th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Scharpling, American radio-host |
| 9th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Smith, American football player |
| 9th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Eagle, American sportscaster |
| 9th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Krister Linder, Swedish musician |
| 9th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer |
| 9th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sharon Case, American actress |
| 9th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Mjallby, Swedish footballer |
| 9th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Crispin Freeman, American voice actor |
| 9th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Winston George, American actor |
| 9th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Ferguson, Scottish footballer |
| 9th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Norbert Rozsa, Hungarian swimmer |
| 9th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Svetlana Boginskaya, Soviet gymnast |
| 9th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Egglesfield, American actor |
| 9th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Maynard, American football player |
| 9th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Amber Valletta, American model |
| 9th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Erra Fazira, Malaysian actress and beauty queen |
| 9th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | John Wallace, American basketball player |
| 9th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Asle Arvesen, Norwegian cyclist |
| 9th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Chistiakov, Russian-born Australian athlete |
| 9th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican baseball player |
| 9th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Clinton Grybas, Australian football commentator (d. 2008) |
| 9th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Korakakis, Greek footballer |
| 9th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Day, American actor |
| 9th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Airton Dare, Brazilian racing driver |
| 9th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | David Gray, English snooker player |
| 9th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater |
| 9th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player |
| 9th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress |
| 9th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Shelly Martinez, American wrestler |
| 9th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Angelos Charisteas, Greek footballer |
| 9th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Camathias, Swiss racing driver |
| 9th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | John Walker Lindh, American Taliban fighter |
| 9th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | The Rev, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold) (d. 2009) |
| 9th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jameer Nelson, American basketball player |
| 9th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer |
| 9th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Weale, English footballer |
| 9th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mikel Arruabarrena, Spanish footballer |
| 9th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Han Kyung, Chinese pop artist/Korean singer Super Junior |
| 9th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Dioner Navarro, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 9th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | David Gallagher, American actor |
| 9th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Melvin, American actress |
| 9th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Raiyah bint Al Hussein, of Jordan |
| 9th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete |
| 9th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Joe O'Cearuill, Irish footballer |
| 9th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Lotte Friis, Danish swimmer |
| 9th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Gia Farrell, American singer |
| 9th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Wu Chia-ching, Taiwanese pool player |
| 9th of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Camille Winbush, American actress |
| 9th of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Tyson Houseman, Canadian actor |
| 9th of February 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Bennett, American actor |
| 9th of February 1011 | DEATH | Bernard I, Duke of Saxony |
| 9th of February 1199 | DEATH | Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (Born 1147) |
| 9th of February 1450 | DEATH | Agnes Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France (Born 1421) |
| 9th of February 1555 | DEATH | Rowland Taylor, English pastor (executed) (Born 1510) |
| 9th of February 1619 | DEATH | Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (Born 1585) |
| 9th of February 1675 | DEATH | Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (Born 1613) |
| 9th of February 1709 | DEATH | Francois Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (Born 1664) |
| 9th of February 1751 | DEATH | Henri Francois d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (Born 1668) |
| 9th of February 1752 | DEATH | Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (Born 1722) |
| 9th of February 1777 | DEATH | Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (Born 1706) |
| 9th of February 1782 | DEATH | Joseph Aloysius Assemani, Lebanese orientalist (Born 1710) |
| 9th of February 1803 | DEATH | Jean Francois de Saint-Lambert, French poet (Born 1716) |
| 9th of February 1857 | DEATH | Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (Born 1798) |
| 9th of February 1874 | DEATH | Jules Michelet, French historian (Born 1798) |
| 9th of February 1881 | DEATH | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (Born 1821) |
| 9th of February 1891 | DEATH | Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (Born 1819) |
| 9th of February 1906 | DEATH | Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet (Born 1872) |
| 9th of February 1930 | DEATH | Richard With, Norwegian businessman, politician and captain, founder of Hurtigruten (Born 1846) |
| 9th of February 1932 | DEATH | A.K. Golam Jilani, a Bangladeshi who was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement. (Born 1904) |
| 9th of February 1951 | DEATH | Eddy Duchin, American musician (Born 1910) |
| 9th of February 1957 | DEATH | Miklos Horthy, Hungarian admiral (Born 1868) |
| 9th of February 1960 | DEATH | Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (Born 1870) |
| 9th of February 1960 | DEATH | Erno Dohnanyi, Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer (Born 1877) |
| 9th of February 1966 | DEATH | Sophie Tucker, Russian-born actress (Born 1884) |
| 9th of February 1969 | DEATH | Gabby Hayes, American actor (Born 1885) |
| 9th of February 1973 | DEATH | Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (Born 1883) |
| 9th of February 1973 | DEATH | Max Yasgur, American farmer (Woodstock Festival) (Born 1919) |
| 9th of February 1976 | DEATH | Percy Faith, Canadian musician (Born 1908) |
| 9th of February 1977 | DEATH | Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aircraft designer (Born 1894) |
| 9th of February 1978 | DEATH | Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer (Born 1935) |
| 9th of February 1978 | DEATH | Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (Born 1893) |
| 9th of February 1979 | DEATH | Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1900) |
| 9th of February 1980 | DEATH | Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (Born 1900) |
| 9th of February 1981 | DEATH | Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (Born 1925) |
| 9th of February 1984 | DEATH | Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician (Born 1914) |
| 9th of February 1989 | DEATH | Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (Born 1928) |
| 9th of February 1991 | DEATH | James Cleveland, American gospel singer (Born 1931) |
| 9th of February 1994 | DEATH | Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (Born 1934) |
| 9th of February 1995 | DEATH | J. William Fulbright, American politician (Born 1905) |
| 9th of February 1995 | DEATH | David Wayne, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 9th of February 1997 | DEATH | Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) (Born 1945) |
| 9th of February 1997 | DEATH | Barry Evans, British actor (Born 1943) |
| 9th of February 1999 | DEATH | Bryan Mosley, British actor (Born 1931) |
| 9th of February 2001 | DEATH | Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (Born 1916) |
| 9th of February 2002 | DEATH | Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (Born 1930) |
| 9th of February 2002 | DEATH | Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (Born 1937) |
| 9th of February 2004 | DEATH | Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper director and politician (Born 1925) |
| 9th of February 2005 | DEATH | Tyrone Davis, American soul singer (Born 1938) |
| 9th of February 2005 | DEATH | Robert Kearns, Inventor of the intermittent wiper (Born 1927) |
| 9th of February 2006 | DEATH | Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (Born 1922) |
| 9th of February 2006 | DEATH | Nadira, Indian actress (Born 1932) |
| 9th of February 2007 | DEATH | Hank Bauer, American baseball player (Born 1922) |
| 9th of February 2007 | DEATH | Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (Born 1934) |
| 9th of February 2008 | DEATH | Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian avant-garde painter, poet and sculptor. (Born 1931) |
| 9th of February 2008 | DEATH | Christopher Hyatt Occultist,Philosopher and Author. (Born 1943) |
| 9th of February 2008 | DEATH | Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal, the eleventh Mindrolling Trichen, Tibetan Buddhist lama of the Nyingma school (Born 1930) |
| 9th of February 2008 | DEATH | Scot Halpin, American musician, temporary drummer for The Who (Born 1954) |
| 9th of February 2009 | DEATH | Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 17 years (Born 1970) |
| 9th of February 2010 | DEATH | Phil Harris, American fisherman from Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch (Born 1956) |
| 9th of February 2010 | DEATH | Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor (Born 1920) |