On this day in history
February 9
IslamicChristianScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on February 9 this year.
- R. Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (the Kotzker Rebbe)d. 1859 CE
Founder of Kotzk Chasidut, known for pursuit of truth
Trace this life →
- 1441 CEIslamic · born
Ali-Shir Nava'i, the Timurid poet who championed Chagatai Turkic as a language of literature, was born in Herat.
- 1555 CEChristian · died
John Hooper, the Protestant reformer and bishop of Gloucester, was burned at the stake at Gloucester during the Marian persecutions.
- 1910 CEScience · born
Jacques Monod, the French biochemist who with François Jacob explained how genes switch on and off and shared a 1965 Nobel Prize, was born in Paris.