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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 9th of May 0328 | EVENT | Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria. |
| 9th of May 1092 | EVENT | Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated. |
| 9th of May 1450 | EVENT | 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated. |
| 9th of May 1671 | EVENT | Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. |
| 9th of May 1726 | EVENT | Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn. |
| 9th of May 1864 | EVENT | Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland. |
| 9th of May 1868 | EVENT | The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded. |
| 9th of May 1873 | EVENT | Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression. |
| 9th of May 1874 | EVENT | The first horse-drawn bus makes its debut in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes. |
| 9th of May 1877 | EVENT | Mihail Kogalniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania. |
| 9th of May 1877 | EVENT | A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan. |
| 9th of May 1887 | EVENT | Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London. |
| 9th of May 1901 | EVENT | Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne. |
| 9th of May 1904 | EVENT | The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h). |
| 9th of May 1911 | EVENT | The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books. |
| 9th of May 1915 | EVENT | World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces. |
| 9th of May 1920 | EVENT | Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Smig?y celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk. |
| 9th of May 1926 | EVENT | Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary seems to indicate that this did not happen). |
| 9th of May 1927 | EVENT | The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra. |
| 9th of May 1936 | EVENT | Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5. |
| 9th of May 1937 | EVENT | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy took to the airwaves becoming an overnight radio sensation. |
| 9th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder. |
| 9th of May 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. |
| 9th of May 1942 | EVENT | Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported. |
| 9th of May 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jurgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. |
| 9th of May 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation. |
| 9th of May 1946 | EVENT | King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II. |
| 9th of May 1949 | EVENT | Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco. |
| 9th of May 1950 | EVENT | L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health is released. |
| 9th of May 1950 | EVENT | Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union. |
| 9th of May 1955 | EVENT | Cold War: West Germany joins NATO. |
| 9th of May 1955 | EVENT | Sam and Friends debuts on a local United States television channel, marking the first television appearance of both Jim Henson and what would become Kermit the Frog and The Muppets. |
| 9th of May 1960 | EVENT | The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill. |
| 9th of May 1961 | EVENT | Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings. |
| 9th of May 1964 | EVENT | Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed. |
| 9th of May 1969 | EVENT | Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in Sao Paulo, by robbing two banks. |
| 9th of May 1970 | EVENT | Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House. |
| 9th of May 1974 | EVENT | Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon. |
| 9th of May 1980 | EVENT | In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase. |
| 9th of May 1980 | EVENT | In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die. |
| 9th of May 1987 | EVENT | A Polish LOT Ilyushin IL-62M "Tadeusz Kosciuszko" (SP-LBG) crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people. |
| 9th of May 1992 | EVENT | Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War. |
| 9th of May 2001 | EVENT | In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee. |
| 9th of May 2002 | EVENT | The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries. |
| 9th of May 2002 | EVENT | In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130. |
| 9th of May 2004 | EVENT | Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed by a land mine under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya. |
| 9th of May 2006 | EVENT | Estonia ratifies the European Constitution. |
| 9th of May 1147 | BIRTHDAY | Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199) |
| 9th of May 1741 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816) |
| 9th of May 1800 | BIRTHDAY | John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859) |
| 9th of May 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English Member of Parliament and developer (d. 1866) |
| 9th of May 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895) |
| 9th of May 1860 | BIRTHDAY | J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937) |
| 9th of May 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Leader of Indian Independence Movement (d. 1915) |
| 9th of May 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933) |
| 9th of May 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939) |
| 9th of May 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Henry J. Kaiser, American shipbuilder (d. 1967) |
| 9th of May 1882 | BIRTHDAY | George Barker, American painter (d. 1965) |
| 9th of May 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955) |
| 9th of May 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Biddle, United States Attorney General (d. 1968) |
| 9th of May 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Rolf de Mare, Swedish art collector and museum director (d. 1964) |
| 9th of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989) |
| 9th of May 1893 | BIRTHDAY | William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman) (d. 1947) |
| 9th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963) |
| 9th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961) |
| 9th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974) |
| 9th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (d. 1976) |
| 9th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Warngard, Swedish athlete (d. 1950) |
| 9th of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (d. 2007) |
| 9th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Don Messer, Canadian country musician (d. 1973) |
| 9th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Armendariz, Mexican actor (d. 1963) |
| 9th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Geza Ottlik, Hungarian writer (d. 1990) |
| 9th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Per Imerslund, Norwegian writer (d. 1943) |
| 9th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Denham Fouts, American male prostitute and socialite (d. 1948) |
| 9th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian musician and conductor (d. 2005) |
| 9th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Snow, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1999) |
| 9th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003) |
| 9th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Wallace, American journalist |
| 9th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Moisis Michail Bourlas, Greek member of the World War II resistance (d. 2011) |
| 9th of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur English, English actor and comedian (d. 1995) |
| 9th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Adams, English author |
| 9th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | William Tenn, American author (d. 2010) |
| 9th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Berrigan, American peace activist |
| 9th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943) |
| 9th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004) |
| 9th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (d. 2008) |
| 9th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (d. 1997) |
| 9th of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| 9th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995) |
| 9th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Goings, American painter |
| 9th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater |
| 9th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Kay Dotrice, British actress (d. 2007) |
| 9th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Sims, British actress (d. 2001) |
| 9th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan writer and linguist |
| 9th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Vance Brand, American astronaut |
| 9th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Geraldine McEwan, English actress |
| 9th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Steele, English romance novelist |
| 9th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Bennett, British author |
| 9th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Nokie Edwards, American guitarist (The Ventures) |
| 9th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Hargreaves, English children's author (Mr. Men) (d. 1988) |
| 9th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Finney, British actor |
| 9th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician |
| 9th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect |
| 9th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Curtis, American singer, songwriter, guitarist |
| 9th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | David Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave) (d. 1988) |
| 9th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Simic, Yugoslavian-born poet, 15th Poet Laureate of the United States |
| 9th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Boston, American athlete |
| 9th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Desproges, French humorist (d. 1988) |
| 9th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ion Tiriac, Romanian tennis manager |
| 9th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | James L. Brooks, American film producer and writer |
| 9th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Birrell, British bass guitarist |
| 9th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Roe, American singer and songwriter |
| 9th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General |
| 9th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Cable, British politician |
| 9th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (d. 2009) |
| 9th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Laurence Owen, American figure skater (d. 1961) |
| 9th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Richie Furay, American musician (Poco and Buffalo Springfield) |
| 9th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Katz, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears) |
| 9th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Candice Bergen, American actress |
| 9th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Clint Holmes, English-born American singer and songwriter |
| 9th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician |
| 9th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Calvin Murphy, American basketball player |
| 9th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Joel, American musician |
| 9th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Petersson, American bass guitarist (Cheap Trick) |
| 9th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Alley Mills, American actress |
| 9th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Hill, American actress |
| 9th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Brokken, Belgian high jumper |
| 9th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Dutton, American violist |
| 9th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991) |
| 9th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano |
| 9th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress |
| 9th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Gwynn, American baseball player |
| 9th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Altman, American singer (Rockapella) |
| 9th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Gahan, English singer (Depeche Mode) |
| 9th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | John Corbett, American actor |
| 9th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Heaton, English singer/songwriter (Beautiful South) |
| 9th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Sanja Dolezal, Croatian singer (Novi fosili) |
| 9th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Janu Tornell, American model and Survivor contestant |
| 9th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 9th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Nomura, Japanese racing driver |
| 9th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | David Benoit, American basketball player |
| 9th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-Jose Perec, French athlete |
| 9th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Amber, Dutch musician |
| 9th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Hudson Leick, American actress |
| 9th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Christie, American basketball player |
| 9th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ghostface Killah, American rapper |
| 9th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Paul McGuigan, English bassist (Oasis) |
| 9th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Perino, former White House press secretary |
| 9th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Daniela Silivas, Romanian gymnast and Olympic Champion |
| 9th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and artist |
| 9th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Ann, American Pornographic Actress |
| 9th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Chu Sang-mi, South Korean actress |
| 9th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Dylan Lauren,American businesswoman & daughter of fashion designer Ralph Lauren |
| 9th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Deegan, freestyle motocross innovator |
| 9th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Diamantopoulos, Canadian actor |
| 9th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Lane Kiffin, American football coach |
| 9th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tamia, Canadian singer |
| 9th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Christos Marangos, Greek-Cypriot footballer |
| 9th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Choi Jeong-yoon, South Korean actress |
| 9th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Inigo Landaluze, Spanish cyclist |
| 9th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (d. 2006) |
| 9th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Leandro Damian Cufre, Argentine footballer |
| 9th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Harang, American baseball player |
| 9th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Santiago Dellape, Argentine-born Italian rugby player |
| 9th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Dionysis Boukouvalas, Greek composer, pianist and musicologist |
| 9th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rosario Dawson, American actress |
| 9th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (Simple Plan) |
| 9th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Morris, American singer-songwriter |
| 9th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew W.K., American musician |
| 9th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Webb, American baseball player |
| 9th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Nikodinov, American figure skater |
| 9th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Hyeon-jae, South Korean actor |
| 9th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Schmidt, German racing driver |
| 9th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer |
| 9th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Murphy, American baseball player |
| 9th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Evangelos Tsiolis, Greek footballer |
| 9th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Yu Yokoyama, Japanese actor and singer |
| 9th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Boston, American actress |
| 9th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler Lumsden, American baseball player |
| 9th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor |
| 9th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Muller, Luxembourgian tennis player |
| 9th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Fielder, American baseball player |
| 9th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Henrique, Brazilian soccer player |
| 9th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Long, American football player |
| 9th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Audrina Patridge, American actress |
| 9th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | John Ryan Fitzpatrick, Canadian race truck driver |
| 9th of May 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Gutierrez, Filipino actor |
| 9th of May 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese actor and singer |
| 9th of May 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Zane Huett, American actor |
| 9th of May 1315 | DEATH | Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (Born 1282) |
| 9th of May 1446 | DEATH | Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples (Born 1368) |
| 9th of May 1657 | DEATH | William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony (Born 1590) |
| 9th of May 1707 | DEATH | Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer |
| 9th of May 1745 | DEATH | Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer(Born 1663) |
| 9th of May 1747 | DEATH | John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (Born 1673) |
| 9th of May 1760 | DEATH | Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (Born 1700) |
| 9th of May 1789 | DEATH | Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (Born 1715) |
| 9th of May 1790 | DEATH | William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress |
| 9th of May 1791 | DEATH | Francis Hopkinson, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (Born 1737) |
| 9th of May 1805 | DEATH | Friedrich Schiller, German poet and historian (Born 1759) |
| 9th of May 1861 | DEATH | Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (Born 1805) |
| 9th of May 1889 | DEATH | William S. Harney, U.S. general (Born 1800) |
| 9th of May 1914 | DEATH | C.W. Post, American food manufacturer (Born 1854) |
| 9th of May 1915 | DEATH | Francois Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (Born 1887) |
| 9th of May 1918 | DEATH | George Cosbuc, Romanian poet (Born 1866) |
| 9th of May 1931 | DEATH | Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1852) |
| 9th of May 1938 | DEATH | Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (Born 1866) |
| 9th of May 1949 | DEATH | Prince Louis II of Monaco (Born 1870) |
| 9th of May 1950 | DEATH | Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (Born 1883) |
| 9th of May 1955 | DEATH | Kate Booth, oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (Born 1858) |
| 9th of May 1957 | DEATH | Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (Born 1892) |
| 9th of May 1957 | DEATH | Sir Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan Philanthropist (Born 1887) |
| 9th of May 1965 | DEATH | Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (Born 1902) |
| 9th of May 1968 | DEATH | Finlay Currie, British actor (Born 1878) |
| 9th of May 1968 | DEATH | Marion Lorne, American actress (Born 1885) |
| 9th of May 1968 | DEATH | Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (Born 1893) |
| 9th of May 1970 | DEATH | Walter Reuther, American labor leader (Born 1907) |
| 9th of May 1970 | DEATH | Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (Born 1884) |
| 9th of May 1976 | DEATH | Jens Bj?rneboe, Norwegian author (Born 1920) |
| 9th of May 1976 | DEATH | Ulrike Meinhof, German communist militant (Born 1934) |
| 9th of May 1977 | DEATH | James Jones, American writer (Born 1921) |
| 9th of May 1978 | DEATH | Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy: 1963-1968, 1974-1976 (Born 1916) |
| 9th of May 1979 | DEATH | Cyrus Eaton, Canadian-American businessman and industrialist (Born 1883) |
| 9th of May 1981 | DEATH | Ralph Allen, English footballer (Born 1906) |
| 9th of May 1985 | DEATH | Edmond O'Brien, American actor (Born 1915) |
| 9th of May 1986 | DEATH | Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa and 1st sherpa to climb Mt. Everest (Born 1914) |
| 9th of May 1989 | DEATH | Keith Whitley, American country music singer (Born 1955) |
| 9th of May 1993 | DEATH | Jacques Dextraze, French Canadian military officer (Born 1919) |
| 9th of May 1994 | DEATH | Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (Born 1924) |
| 9th of May 1997 | DEATH | Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (Born 1926) |
| 9th of May 1997 | DEATH | Marco Ferreri, Italian film director (Born 1928) |
| 9th of May 1998 | DEATH | Alice Faye, American actress (Born 1915) |
| 9th of May 1998 | DEATH | Rommie Loudd, former American football player, coach, and executive (Born 1933) |
| 9th of May 1998 | DEATH | Talat Mahmood, Indian singer (Born 1924) |
| 9th of May 2000 | DEATH | Arthur Davis, American animator (Born 1905) |
| 9th of May 2001 | DEATH | James E. Myers, American songwriter (Rock Around the Clock) and producer (Born 1919) |
| 9th of May 2002 | DEATH | Dan Devine, American football coach (Born 1924) |
| 9th of May 2003 | DEATH | Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (Born 1918) |
| 9th of May 2004 | DEATH | Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president (Born 1951) |
| 9th of May 2004 | DEATH | Alan King, American comedian (Born 1927) |
| 9th of May 2005 | DEATH | Nasrat Parsa, Afghani singer (Born 1969) |
| 9th of May 2007 | DEATH | Edith Rodriguez, woman refused emergency room treatment for gastrointestinal perforation (Born 1964) |
| 9th of May 2007 | DEATH | Dwight Wilson, second-to-last Canadian World War I veteran (Born 1901) |
| 9th of May 2008 | DEATH | Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist (Born 1942) |
| 9th of May 2008 | DEATH | Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (Born 1929) |
| 9th of May 2009 | DEATH | Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (Born 1930) |
| 9th of May 2009 | DEATH | Evgenios Spatharis, Greek shadow theatre artist (Born 1924) |
| 9th of May 2010 | DEATH | Lena Horne, American singer and actress (Born 1917) |
| 9th of May 2010 | DEATH | Otakar Motejl, Czechoslvakian politician (Born 1932) |
| 9th of May 2011 | DEATH | Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (Born 1984) |