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| May 9th, 2007 (May 09 2007) | Death | Dwight Wilson, second-to-last Canadian WWI veteran (born in 1901) | |
| May 9th, 2007 (May 09 2007) | Death | Edith Rodriguez, hospital emergency room refused to treat (born in 1964) | |
| May 9th, 1997 (May 09 1997) | Death | Marco Ferreri, Italian film director (born in 1928) | |
| May 9th, 1987 (May 09 1987) | Event | A Polish LOT Ilyushin IL-62M "Tadeusz Kosciuszko" (SP-LBG) crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people. | |
| May 9th, 1977 (May 09 1977) | Birth | Choi Jeong-yoon, South Korean actress | |
| May 9th, 1977 (May 09 1977) | Birth | Maggie Dixon, Women s college basketball coach (died in 2006) | |
| May 9th, 1977 (May 09 1977) | Birth | Inigo Landaluze, Spanish cyclist | |
| May 9th, 1977 (May 09 1977) | Death | James Jones, American writer (born in 1921) | |
| May 9th, 1957 (May 09 1957) | Death | Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (born in 1892) | |
| May 9th, 1937 (May 09 1937) | Birth | Jose Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect | |
| May 9th, 1937 (May 09 1937) | Birth | David Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave) (died in 1988) | |
| May 9th, 1927 (May 09 1927) | Event | The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra. | |
| May 9th, 1927 (May 09 1927) | Birth | Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| May 9th, 1907 (May 09 1907) | Birth | Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (died in 1974) | Baldur von Schirach Quotes |
| May 9th, 1907 (May 09 1907) | Birth | Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (died in 1976) | |
| May 9th, 1907 (May 09 1907) | Birth | Fred Warngard, Swedish athlete (died in 1950) | |
| May 9th, 1887 (May 09 1887) | Event | Buffalo Bill Cody s Wild West Show opens in London. | |
| May 9th, 1887 (May 09 1887) | Birth | Sir Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan Philanthropist (died in 1957) | |
| May 9th, 1877 (May 09 1877) | Event | Mihail Kogalniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania. | |
| May 9th, 1837 (May 09 1837) | Birth | Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (died in 1895) | |
| May 9th, 1747 (May 09 1747) | Death | John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (born in 1673) | John Scott Quotes |
| May 9th, 1707 (May 09 1707) | Death | Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer | |
| May 9th, 1657 (May 09 1657) | Death | William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony (born in 1590) | William Bradford Quotes |
| May 9th, 1457 (May 09 1457) | Event | Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail. | |
| May 9th, 1147 (May 09 1147) | Birth | Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (died in 1199) | |
