Doppelgängers (5) | Birthdays (4) | Events (4) | Passed (4)
May 9, 2026
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5 Doppelgängers Today
I track 9,188 doppelgängers out of 21,283 people in my custom software, specializing in look alikes who were born in the same week in history. Similar looking public figures are always born within a few days of each other. This is a phenommenon seen across all of documented history.
Born on the same day in 1830
Born on May 9, 1830 (1830 - 1903) Harriet LaneActed as first lady of the United States during the administration of her uncle, lifelong bachelor President James Buchanan, from 1857 to 1861 |
Born on May 9, 1830 Jane Crawford JenkinsCountess of Lovelace Jane Crawford Jenkins King-Noel |
Born within 6 days in 1918
Born on May 15, 1918 (1918 - 2009) Joseph WisemanCanadian-American theatre, film, and television actor who starred as the villain Julius No in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, in 1962 |
Born on May 9, 1918 (1918 - 2012) Mike WallaceAmerican journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality. He interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his seven-decade career |
Born within 3 days in 1845
Born on May 12, 1845 (1845 - 1924) Gabriel FauréFrench composer, organist, pianist and teacher. |
Born on May 9, 1845 Gustaf de LavalSwedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and centrifugal separation machinery for dairy |
Born within 5 days in 1936
Born on May 4, 1936 Eleanor CoppolaAmerican documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer |
Born on May 9, 1936 Glenda JacksonEnglish actress and politician |
4 Birthdays Today
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Harriet Lane
acted as first lady of the United States during the administration of her uncle, lifelong bachelor President James Buchanan, from 1857 to 1861
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Howard Carter
British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings
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J. M. Barrie
Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan
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John Brown
American abolitionist leader who was eventually captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry preceding the American Civil War.
4 Events
On This Day
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Texas Ranger episode with Trump
It happened on May 9, 1958
Featuring: Lawrence Dobkin.
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The film Soylent Green is released
It happened on May 9, 1973
Featuring: Charlton Heston, Harry Harrison, Richard Fleischer.
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Edison's 1½ inch system of Kinetoscope is first demonstrated in public, at the Brooklyn Institute
It happened on May 9, 1893
The Kinetoscope is the moment the public eye became a machine.
On May 9, 1893, Edison’s 1½ inch Kinetoscope system was publicly demonstrated at the Brooklyn Institute, and this is one of those delicious little hinges in history where the future arri
Featuring: American inventor Thomas Edison declared radio broadcasting to be a commercial failure, Thomas Edison.
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.
It happened on May 9, 1887
Featuring up to 750 performers, The Buffalo Bill Wild West Show rode into London to impress Queen Victoria.
Featuring: Buffalo Bill.
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4 People Who
Passed On This Day
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Nudie Cohn
Ukrainian-American tailor who designed decorative rhinestone-covered suits, known popularly as "Nudie Suits", and other elaborate outfits for some of the most famous celebrities of his era
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Harry Baals
Republican mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, from 1934 to 1947, and from 1951 until his death in 1954.
Harry Baals: the only mayor whose name made every ribbon-cutting ceremony sound like a prank
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Tenzing Norgay
Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who was one of the first two people known to certainly reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953
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