Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 9

Births

• 1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer (d. 1512)(pictured)
• 1749 - Honore Mirabeau, French writer and politician (d. 1791)
• 1918 - Mickey Spillane, American writer (d. 2006)
• 1934 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut and first man in space (d. 1968)
• 1943 - Bobby Fischer, American chess player (d. 2008)
• 1964 - Juliette Binoche, French actress

Deaths

• 1661 - Jules Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1602)
• 1709 - Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat
• 1888 - William I, German Emperor, (b. 1797)
• 1996 - George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)