What happened on February 9 ?

1199 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)

1450 - Agnès Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France (b. 1421)

1555 - Rowland Taylor, English pastor (executed) (b. 1510)

1619 - Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)

1640 - Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1612)

1675 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)

1709 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (b. 1664)

1751 - Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)

1752 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (b. 1722)

1777 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)

1782 - Joseph Aloysius Assemani, Syrian orientalist (b. 1710)

1803 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716)

1881 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821)

1891 - Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)

1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet (b. 1872)

1940 - Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)

1951 - Eddy Duchin, American musician (b. 1910)

1957 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (b. 1868)

1960 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (b. 1870)

1966 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-born actress and singer (b. 1884)

1969 - Gabby Hayes, American actor (b. 1885)

1976 - Percy Faith, Canadian musician and composer (b. 1908)

1979 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)

1981 - Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley and the Comets) (b. 1925)

1984 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914)

1989 - Osamu Tezuka, the godfather of Japanese manga (b. 1928)

1994 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1934)

1995 - J. William Fulbright, U.S. Senator (b. 1905)

1999 - Bryan Mosley, British actor (b. 1931)

2001 - Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)

2002 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)

2006 - Freddie Laker, British Airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)