Discover the most famous people who died on March 9. The list includes people like The Notorious B.I.G., Charles Bukowski, Hans Christian Ørsted, George Burns, Menachem Begin. Famous personalities featured on this list, include poets, actors, playwrights and soldiers and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United States, Germany, United Kingdom & Italy and many more countries.
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Birthdate: May 21, 1972
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died: 1997
The Notorious B.I.G. was a rapper and songwriter and is considered one of the best ever. His debut album Ready to Die in 1994 was critically acclaimed. He was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles in September 1996. His album Life After Death was released two weeks after his death.
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George Burns(Actor and ComediAn Known for His Trademark Arched Eyebrow and Cigar-Smoke Punctuation)
Birthdate: January 20, 1896
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Died: 1996
George Burns was an American actor, comedian, singer, and writer. Characterized by his cigar-smoke punctuation and arched eyebrow, which remained relevant for more than 75 years, Burns was one of the few entertainers to have achieved an equal amount of success in film, television, vaudeville, and radio. He has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Charles Bukowski(Poet and Author Known for His Work “Mockingbird Wish Me Luck,” and “Love Is a Dog from Hell”)
Birthdate: August 16, 1920
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Andernach, Germany
Died: 1994
German-American poet and short story writer ,Charles Bukowski, addressed the ordinary lives of poor Americans in most of his works. Since his death, he has been the subject of many critical books and articles. His stories have inspired several films like Tales of Ordinary Madness, Crazy Love, and Factotum.
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Robert Mapplethorpe(American Photographer Best Known for His Black-And-White Photographs)
Birthdate: November 4, 1946
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Floral Park, New York, United States
Died: 1989
Best known for his black and white photographs, Robert Mapplethorpe chose homoerotic themes to express himself. His male nudes reflected the gay BDSM subculture of New York. His works also included flowers, still lifes, and portraits of celebrities. The gay photographer-artist eventually died of aids.
Birthdate: October 2, 1948
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Biloxi, Mississippi, United States
Died: 2005
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Wilhelm I(King)
Birthdate: March 22, 1797
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: 1888
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Brad Delp(Singer-songwriter)
Birthdate: June 12, 1951
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Peabody, Massachusetts, United States
Died: 2007
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Matthew Henson(African American Explorer Who Accompanied Robert E. Peary on Most of His Expeditions)
Birthdate: August 8, 1866
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Nanjemoy, Maryland, United States
Died: 1955
Orphaned, Matthew Henson began his journey as a cabin boy at age 12 and was later hired by Robert E. Peary as an attendant for his expeditions. He, along with Peary and 4 Inuit, were the first men to set foot on North Pole. The African-American explorer later won a Congressional Medal.
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Margot Frank(Second World War victim)
Birthdate: February 16, 1926
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
Died: 1945
Birthdate: August 14, 1777
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Rudkøbing
Died: 1851
Hans Christian Ørsted was a Danish chemist and physicist. He was the first person to discover that electric currents can be used to create magnetic fields. His discovery was the first relationship found between magnetism and electricity. Oersted, the unit of the auxiliary magnetic field H, is named in his honor.
Birthdate: August 16, 1913
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Brest
Died: 1992
Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. In this position, he signed a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979, for which he and Egyptian politician Anwar Sadat shared the Nobel Prize for Peace. He implemented several reforms to improve the socio-economic condition of Israeli citizens and improve the general quality of life.
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Bob Crosby(Singer)
Birthdate: August 23, 1913
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Spokane, Washington, United States
Died: 1993
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Fernando Rey(Cannes Award-Winning Actor, Remembered for His Roles in the Films of Director Luis Buñuel)
Birthdate: September 20, 1917
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: A Coruña, Spain
Died: 1994
Initially aspiring to be an architect, Fernando Rey later soared to fame as a legendary actor in Spanish films. Starting his career as a movie extra, he later became a regular in the films of director Luis Buñuel. The Cannes Award-winning Spanish actor is best known for films such as The French Connection.
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Paul Kalanithi(American Neurosurgeon Known for His Memoir 'When Breath Becomes Air')
Birthdate: April 1, 1977
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: New York, United States
Died: 2015
Indian-American neurosurgeon and author Paul Kalanithi was a brilliant student, who initially studied both English literature and human biology at Stanford and later studied medicine at Yale. He died of metastatic lung cancer but not before penning the memoir When Breath Becomes Air, a New York Times bestseller, released posthumously.
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Carrie Chapman Catt(American Women's Suffrage Leader Who Successfully Campaigned for Passing of the ‘Nineteenth Amendment’)
Birthdate: January 9, 1859
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Ripon
Died: 1947
American women's suffrage-leader Carrie Chapman Catt served as president of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and founded the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (later International Alliance of Women) and League of Women Voters. She is best-known for leading the NAWSA, organising the Winning Plan and playing a pivotal role in passing of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Glenn Davis(American football player)
Birthdate: December 26, 1924
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Claremont, California, United States
Died: 2005
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Tom Ballard(Mountaineer)
Birthdate: October 16, 1988
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Belper, Derbyshire, England
Died: 2019
Birthdate: May 21, 1799
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
Died: 1847
English paleontologist Mary Anning is best known for the fossil collections she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds. She made major contributions to studies related to prehistoric life and the history of the Earth. As a woman in 19th-century Britain, she could not fully participate in the scientific community despite her brilliance. She gained fame after her death.
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Isela Vega(Mexican Actress, Singer-Songwriter and Filmmaker)
Birthdate: November 5, 1939
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Hermosillo, Mexico
Died: 2021
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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch(Austrian Nobleman, Writer and Journalist Known for His Romantic Stories of Galician Life)
Birthdate: January 27, 1836
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Lviv, Ukraine
Died: 1895
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch lent his name to the term masochism, a form of sexual deviation. Best known for his novel Venus in Furs, one of his rare books that have been translated in English, he depicted Galician romance and fantasies. He spent his final years in a mental asylum.
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Harry Seidler(Architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia)
Birthdate: June 25, 1923
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: 2006
Harry Seidler was an Australian architect who designed over 180 buildings throughout his illustrious career that spanned almost 58 years. He won several architectural awards and honors, including Sir John Sulman Medal, The Wilkinson Award, and Civic Design Award. Harry Seidler is widely regarded as one of the most renowned exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia.
Birthdate: September 4, 1906
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: 1981
Nobel Prize-winning biologist Max Delbrück is remembered for his pioneering research on bacteriophages, which are viruses that infect bacteria, as part of the Phage Group, along with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey. The German-born scientist was a Nazi refugee who later settled in the U.S.
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Frei Otto(Architect)
Birthdate: May 31, 1925
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Chemnitz, Germany
Died: 2015
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Antoine Destutt de Tracy(Philosopher)
Birthdate: July 20, 1754
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: 1836
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John Gutfreund(Businessman)
Birthdate: September 14, 1929
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Scarsdale, New York, United States
Died: 2016
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Bobby Locke(One of the Greatest Golfers of All Time)
Birthdate: November 20, 1917
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Germiston, South Africa
Died: 1987
South African golfer Bobby Locke had many wins in his kitty, including 15 PGA Tour events and four Open Championships. After winning his first tournament at 14, he served in the air force during World War II. He also penned the book Bobby Locke on Golf.
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Clyde Lovellette(Basketball Player)
Birthdate: September 7, 1929
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Petersburg, Indiana, United States
Died: 2016
Height: 6'9" (206 cm)
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Stan Brakhage(Filmmaker)
Birthdate: January 14, 1933
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Died: 2003
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Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein(Noblewoman, Journalist)
Birthdate: February 8, 1819
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Monastyryshche, Ukraine
Died: 1887
Birthdate: July 12, 1812
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Shaki, Azerbaijan
Died: 1878
Iranian Azerbaijani author and philosopher Mirza Fatali Akhundov was the first literary critic and realist writer from his country. He developed the Azerbaijani alphabets and script. The 19th-century author is also remembered as the pioneer of atheism and nationalism in his country. He also criticized Islam and other religions.
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Devika Rani(Actress)
Birthdate: March 30, 1908
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Visakhapatnam, British India
Died: 1994
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Irene Worth(Actress)
Birthdate: June 23, 1916
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Fairbury, Nebraska, United States
Died: 2002
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Peter Bergman(American satirist)
Birthdate: November 29, 1939
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio, United Sates
Died: 2012
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Veronica Wedgwood(Historian)
Birthdate: July 20, 1910
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Stocksfield, England
Died: 1997
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Anna Moffo(One of the Most Prominent and Popular Lyric-Coloratura Sopranos of Her Generation)
Birthdate: June 27, 1932
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: 2006
Anna Moffo was an American actress, television personality, and opera singer. One of the most prominent and popular lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation, Moffo possessed a radiant and warm voice of considerable range. Apart from achieving popularity in the USA, Anna Moffo also became famous in countries like Germany and Italy.
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Emperor Jing of Han(Emperor)
Birthdate: 0188 AD
Birthplace: Taiyuan, China
Died: 0141
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Pierre Dupont de l'Etang(French General)
Birthdate: July 4, 1765
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Chabanais, France
Died: 1840
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Artyom Borovik(Journalist)
Birthdate: September 13, 1960
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: 2000
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Lawrence E. Spivak(Publisher)
Birthdate: June 11, 1900
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died: 1994
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Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg(Queen)
Birthdate: June 28, 1796
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: 1881
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William S. Clark(Professor)
Birthdate: July 31, 1826
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Ashfield, Massachusetts, United States
Died: 1886
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Clara Westhoff(Sculptor)
Birthdate: September 21, 1878
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Bremen, Germany
Died: 1954
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Olga Chekhova(Biographer, Film actor, Writer, Actor)
Birthdate: April 26, 1897
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Gyumri, Armenia
Died: 1980
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John Armstrong Sr.(Former brigadier general in the Continental Army, major general in the Pennsylvania Militia during the Revolutionary War)
Birthdate: October 13, 1717
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Brookeborough, Fermanagh, Ireland
Died: 1795
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Roy Brown(Canadian Flying Ace )
Birthdate: December 23, 1893
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Carleton Place
Died: 1944
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Florence Arthaud(Sailor)
Birthdate: October 28, 1957
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Died: 2015
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Jane Freeman(Actress)
Birthdate: June 12, 1935
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Brentford, Middlesex, England
Died: 2017
Height: 5'8" (173 cm)
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Frank Wedekind(German Playwright)
Birthdate: July 24, 1864
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Hanover
Died: 1918
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Gus Giordano(Choreographer)
Birthdate: July 10, 1923
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Died: 2008
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Derek Jones(Mayor of Gaborone 1966 - 1968)
Birthdate: May 17, 1927
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: England
Died: 2013
